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a circle at haji ali. fewer flyovers. a newspaper
called the daily, another called the bulletin.
Bombay busybee in mid-day not the afternoon d&c. 3
(3250 members) rupee cab rides. 15 paisa bus tickets. trolley
style double decker buses. lots of ambassador
cabs. manual indicators at railway stations.
bus coupons as legal tender. ugly metal carts
selling 'machine ka thanda paani' for 10 paise.
bhel not wada pav as the signature snack of
the city. greater bombay as the official name
of the city. peach melba at jaihind cold drink
house at nana chowk. strand cinema. roxy
where you had go outside in the interval. and
opera house of course. B&W tv's as status
symbols. needing a license for a tv or radio.
when 'close down' was the last item on the
days tv listings sometimes as early as 10.45.
watching movies on DD all day when the
elections were covered. waiting for
doordarshan to START transmitting at 5.45 on
other days. 28 foot ganesh idols, one even
dancing on a massive prudential cup. ganesh
idols drinking milk. the infamous 'stone man'
who killed pavement sleepers. paddle boats at
Salil 'victoria garden'. bournvita quiz contest on
'medium wave' radio, no FM. energee at 80
paise. chocolate bars called plus. a snack
called pronto. irani restaurants on almost
every street corner. when every house had
one of those stupid glass birds with feathers
on their bum, drinking from a glass filled with
red liquid. glass toys sold on the street. the
baloonwallah as a cheap source of thoroughly
entertaining toys. cotton carders twanging
their contraption on the road. siddhivinayak
as a quaint little temple. pune being a 4-6
hour drive away. when 'asiad' buses were
described as 'luxury'. when u could call free
from a public phone by shouting into the
earpiece. cops in navy blue uniforms.. with
shorts! a stupid flag collecting contest from
topaz bubble gum which nobody ate but all
kids bought. another ridiculous 'contest' that
never existed, collecting number plates of
maruti cars. any of these match with your
memories? any to add?
Whoa. 8/5/2004 7:49 AM
U have lived in Bombay.
Mohit
8/5/2004 10:12 PM
I remember the Bournvita Quiz contest on
radio with Ameen Sayani - I should - I took
part in it ...followed by "Ravivar ke rang,
Diamond comics ke sang"
Milind
And also the stone man... one of his killings
occured on the pavement outside my
building...
yep 8/6/2004 2:19 AM
remember that... chunnu padhta diamond delete
comix, munni padhti diamond comix,
mazedaar hai diamond comix! horrible show.
but listened nevertheless. c'mon guys wot
ELSE was but is no more a part of bombay?
Salil
8/6/2004 3:02 AM
Taking the radio thread fwd, on MW, I
remember these typical people requesting for
songs. "Hamare jawano ke liye," and around
40 odd people (with vague names) requesting
for the same song. There was Ameen Sayani
and Cibaca Geetmala. (Binaca too but I was
too young that time I think.)
Then there was Magic Lamp on DD which I

used to watch as a kid. And those regional
shows. And Superhit Muqabala which changed
everything. 12 years ago.
How can I forget, 'hello hello hello – inspector

(Hello Inspector)' and 'Ek Shunya Shunya
(100)' on DD – I learnt my broken Marathi
here only!!!
There are these ads on radio which I still

remember –
Ruchi 1) Competition success review, CSR padhte
jaaiye, safalta ki seediya chadte jaaiye,
competition success review!
2) jeevdaya netra-prabha netra-prabha!
3) tv ad: jab mein chota ladka tha, badi

sharat karta tha, meri chori pakdi jaati!!
I suppose these are generic for the country.

About the city, my memories are pretty much
the same. As everyone else.
Restaurants mein I remember Dasprakash

which was a favourite, Woodlands.
Shit, how can i forget Yankee Doodle. I still

sorely miss that place. One used to get the
BESTEST sundeas there. Yummy. And the
swing there. I dont like Intercontinental. Eew.
Another thing I REALLY miss about the city is

the double decker 123. Thats a tragedy. Even
when my 66 is a single decker, I feel bad. Like
I do with the 122. :(
Aur kya, abhi yaad nahin aa raha. But this

feeling we all have here is intense man.
Bonding over the city. Yeh hai spirit.
Btw, this is my favourite community!!
Everytime I feel low, I read all the posts
here!! :)
Jai Orkut, Jai Bambai.
Will write in when I think of more!
Cheers.
Contests..and games.. 8/6/2004 3:14 AM
Speaking of contests that we entered as kids I
remember these VERY clearly.
One was collecting those things from under

Gold Spot (YUM YUM..BVO zindabad!) caps
and sticking them into this Jungle Book comic
(each cap had a different Jungle Book
character on it). Don't remember what the
prize was...all I remember was thanks to the
HUGE numbers of Gold Spots my sis and me
drank and the caps we collected and traded,
we had like 5 copies of the Jungle Book comic
by the end....
The second one was collecting cricketer's

names under ThumsUp caps (YUM YUM
ThumsUP!!)..I think it was for the 1987 World
Vikram Cup maybe? And I think the prize was a
cricket bat with all the cricketer's autographs
or something...
And the coolest thing was EVERY kid in the

neighborhood got together every evening to
compare our progress...yes, thanks to the fact
that no one had computers, most of us had no
TVs...all us kids played in the building
compounds EVERY evening..chor-police,
dabba-ispice(sp?), kabaddi, kho-kho, hide n
seek, L-O-N-D-O-N...
I don't see any kids playing downstairs

nowadays..sad no?
Contests 8/6/2004 3:18 AM
Oh ya, there was this another contest.
The Cadbury's contest thingie. Remember.

Collecting points from wrappers. Getting
different things. Camera, false teeth, etc etc.
Wow.
Ruchi I still have the brochure at home. Will check it

up and post it online. If anyone wants, I could
scan it too!!
wow... 8/6/2004 3:55 AM
thas mo like it. see? we all saw th same stuff delete
at the same times. hey vikram, the thums up
contest was in 1984, rite after the world cup
wen WI thrashed us well and good.
autographed mini bats were the top level
prize, there were also mini balls, bottle
openers, mini thums up bottles and my
favorite. the flicker books. i had ALL of them,
sandeep patils lofted drive, gavaskars straight
drive, richards' cover drive, lloyds sweep, 2 of
kapil- one batting one bowling. u cud flick
them both ways, the other side had them
drinkin thums up and givin a thums up. din
speak to my kid bro for weeks wen he threw
them in a fit of anger.
strange, even i don remember wot the grand
prize fo gold spot was, but my cupboard
smelled like gold spot from all the cap liners
and the albums.
wow.. that product was marketed well. did u
know that cricket highlights were INVENTED
for thums up? at this very moment, i sit 10
feet away from where thums up got it's name.
Salil the cabin where my boss now sits, was the
venue for a long argument between ramesh
chauhan, head of parle, and ravi gupta, head
of trikaya advertising. trikaya fought and
fought for the name thums up while ramesh
chauhan was insistent on calling the product
bisca for some strange reason.
but this is a nostalgia thread an im rambling
again. so to bring it back on track, does
anyone remember a product CALLED bisca?
yes mr chauhan finally did use the name 4 his
shortlived brand of cup noodles. and does
anyone remember a product called big bite?
also shortlived and from parle, but it was
quite nice i thot, the ads sed "dontcha feel like
a big bite now?" hey hey hey.. i'm on a roll...
that also reminded me of appella, the
refreshing return to nature. this thread is
definitely taking an advertising slant......
8/6/2004 9:10 AM
I remember the Thums Up and Gold Spot
contests - I had all the flickers as well as a
ball with Roget Binny's and bat with Sunil
Milind
Gavaskar's autograph... And as for the Gold
Spot contest, I did end up with the entire
Jungle book story in comic form...the first
prize was a trip to Disneyland...
Also does anyone remember another couple of

short lived colas named Rush and Do It???
One thing I miss is the trailer buses... sort of

like the double decker buses, but with a
detachable driver's cabin... I remember it
used to have a deck which had a low height...
and when I was a kid, that was the only type
of bus in which I could touch the roof and also
pull the bell rope...which I did a few times
And yes, I remember Bisca... we used to call

it "bas kya"...
8/6/2004 9:18 AM
And Frooti and it's lesser known cousin
Appy....
Gosh, it really takes me back to childhood

talking about all these things....
Vikram
We should rename this thread the 80's
thread.....
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i remember! 8/6/2004 6:17 PM
the one i clearly remember is the goldspot contest - also does
anyone remember the nestle contest? you had eat chocolates
and send them in for false cameras and other things?
Bombay
(3250 members) i remember frooti and how yucky appy tasted
Poonam wow this takes me back....
thing is i cant diffrentiate b/w what was and what is - i havent

been to bombay for a looooooooooong time since i moved to
phoriegn
ahhhhhhh - i miss it and miss the parle biscuit aroma when the
train passed through!
Frooti 8/6/2004 6:20 PM
Vikram
Frooti still exists! They sell that nectar in plastic bottles now!I
also found some Indian stores in US which import it!And Appy
Pea Jay is back with a sexy packaging!!
Nostalgic ! 8/6/2004 9:44 PM
ppl! this thread is so making me nostalgic!
and making me want to live in the past!
I remember it all, from gold spot contest to thumbs up flickers.
From TV land, I still remember the sannata on all the mumbai

roads when "RamayaNa" serial started, and then "Mahabharat"
Also, "Aao maare sathe" and "Phul khile hai gulshan gulshan"
and the "Saptahikee"
and yes, the "Chhayageet" and "Chitrahar"s
And who cud forget "Spiderman", "He-man", and the Jap kid
blabbering Common "Giant robot" !
Ashish
Also, although i was a kid, i remember drawing those Ashiad
"Appu" playing all d games in tiny square (82 or 84?)
I also remember kids noting down all Maruti car plate number
when Maruti first rolled out on roads... dont remember the
number, but it was a rumor that if u hv say x number of correct
plate numbers, then they will give u a maruti free.
More later as i remember it!

8/6/2004 11:08 PM
http://www.vishalpatel.com/features/giantrobot/giantrobot.htm
Check this out!
Courtsey: Vishal Patel

Ruchi
fusen gum 8/6/2004 11:36 PM
hey i can still remember the taste of fusen gum - and those
wierd tatoos
Poonam i loved giant robot!
and fraggle rock

Daze of Our Lives! 8/7/2004 1:05 AM
Giant Robot and Fraggle Rock! Anyone for Fireball XL5?
Salil, remember those products because of the 'different' (in

those days) packaging they came in.
Mohit And the political landscape was mucho different wasn't it? Daily
shut down. Wonder where Rajiv Bajaj is?
Wow! Literally, the daze of our lives!

8/7/2004 4:04 AM
I thought you wanted old recollections, not this modern stuff.
;)
I remember:
* Riding on double-decker trams and watching the driver turn

the crank - one at each end, so reversing the tram meant going
to the other end and driving it from there.
* Kala ghoda (King George V, not Shivaji)
* Rupees, annas and pies (OK, I was 5 then) but the 4 & 8
anna coins stayed in circulation with the Naye Paise for some
years.
* A pavli was a 4 anna coin aka 25 paise. (OK, OK, if there are
any really old chaps here, I know that a pavli was originally a
quarter anna!) In the early 1960s it bought you a decent feed
of bhel on the street. A one naya paisa coin might buy a
dubious no-name sweet, but its main purpose was to help
make up 6 paise, i.e. the old one anna. When inflation arrived,
they made a 3-paisa coin!
* When the only new cars were a Fiat 1100 (later Premier),
Standard Herald or an Ambassador and each year's
improvements were to the lights or the dashboard instruments.
* The period between the departure of Coke and the arrival of

Ash Thums Up and Campa Cola. Circa 1968.
* When the Gateway of India was pristine and not surrounded

by barbed wire and you could shout inside to hear the echo.
When the naval docks could not be seen from the Gateway.
* When any given food specialty had only one shop that could
make it.
* When the only disco in town was Slipped Disc at Colaba.
* When the bands played at Band Stand near the Oval.
* When people could spell Pedder Road and Nepean Sea Road
correctly because the signs still showed those names. Now they
have morphed.
* When Villa Theresa was also a boys school and didn't have
the tall building on the tennis court which also had a mango
tree.
* When the only sign of Shivaji was at his park.
* Parisian Dairy, which was famous for its Peach Melba. Later it
became Talk of the Town.
8/7/2004 5:58 AM
Ash, come to think of it, even I remember hollering under the
arch of the Gateway of India and marvelling at the echo.
Mohit
The 5 paise coins! Now we have the 5 rupee coins. And Asterix
and Tintins that cost about 25 bucks.
i love wher this is goin 8/7/2004 9:00 AM
hey milind, rite about th trip to disneyland. wrong on quite a delete
few others im afraid. rush was an orange drink. part of a ploy
by mcdowells to launch a bunch of soft drinks in order to
prepare for surrogate advertisin. the cola was called thril, the
lemon drink was tripp... go around to worli naka there's one
guy who still hasn't removed his tripp signboard. Do it, was the
lo-cal cola from parle: Do it for the taste alone, do it leaves yo
waist alone, do it, do it, do it! u jus hav 2 do it, coz do it is lo
cal! so hel-lo pal, do it is lo cal.. i wish my short term memory
was as good. btw, trailer buses u mentioned were wot i
meant in the first meg in the thread by trolley style buses.
 Ash, i dunno if u checked th other thread, i was born
in th same hospital as u. in 73 tho. speakin of trams, i was at
cafe military a year ago, this place that has great parsi food an
cheap beer, and this old parsi guy has had too much to drink so
Salil he asks the waiter if he will see him off to the TRAM station...
hehhehehe. and kala ghoda is where i work, an i dunno the
amount of times i've had to explain to cabbies why it's called
kala ghoda. and the gateway, if everyone else loves it so much
why cant we get rid of that travesty of it so close? can u
imagine they actually built a public loo rite there, AND its a
bloody replica of the gateway? and ruchi thx a mil fo
the giant robot link. duz anyone want the title trax of fireball
xl5 and fraggle rock? mail me. if you guys r so into
bombay nostalgia i strongly recommend readin salman
rushdie's midnight's children. wild. totally love it.
8/7/2004 9:46 AM
And I am not in this conversation ?????
What is This ?
Kombdee ka Pees.
Nishant
Gharme Jaake Masala Pees
Gaadi ka number Char Sau Bees.



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8/7/2004 11:27 AM
AiAiYo!
Ash!!
Bombay Vikram
Kalaghoda is Edward VII not George V..(*still* not
(3250 members) Shivaji)
The original Kalaghoda statue is now in the Victoria

Gardens (Or Veermata Jijabai Udyan if you so
prefer)...the statue of Shivaji that replaced it is
now the one in front of the Gateway of India...
Re: The Gateway of India..the square in front of

the Gateway which is now covered by a garden and
a statue was originally intended by the architect to
be a public plaza...aparently our urge to rename
institutions and monuments also includes our urge
to destroy whatever originality was present.
How many years before the Gateway is renamed?

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Dwar?
Daze again... 8/7/2004 2:11 PM
@Vik: Victoria Gardens, yes! That was the name!
The garden in front of the Gateway of India does
host public performances- a very rare occurence
though. Last I remember was a series of classical
concerts. The taxi blast prolly has the
administration a little jittery there.
Btw, does anyone remember Sunday mornings

spent watching Star Trek and Cosmos? Wow! I'm
Mohit still a Trekkie and Cosmos fan! The Asiad? The
Champions of Champions- the days when Shastri
was not heckled? Coolie (the movie and the
news around it)?
And aah... only the Bombay Gang would

know..."Missing Missing Missing"!
8/7/2004 5:25 PM
Energee.
Sundance Cafe.
Hollywood movies in Eros, Regal & Sterling.
Sabudana Wada and Batata Wada under the Bridge
in Dadar (east?).
Giant trees along the road in Dadar.
Razz Rhino and Sheetal Again.
Sizzlers at Yokos.
Sitting on the top deck of 90 ltd. or 8 ltd. with your
boyfriend, goofing off from work for the afternoon,
in the Monsoon.
Classical concerts at Nehru Center.
Sat I remember Bisca, they'd made an "Upma" flavor.
All the kids hated it! And Big Bite too! I loved that.
And how can we forget the dosas and idlis on the
street? And the perus and timepass chana and
singdanas and bhuttas. And street Chinese stalls
which had a token Nepali guy for the Chinese
ambiance.
Bon Jovi concert and Deep Purple concert.

Amchee mateeeee, amchee manaasa.
Fireball XL5 - Ok Venus? Ok Steve!
Ghaseetaram, Saroj, Geeta Bhavan, Grand Central

(Paneer Chilly, so good!) in Chembur. And all those
Pubs in Bandra, and the sidey Beer Bars where you
could get cheap daru.
8/7/2004 10:49 PM
Hey Mira, the batata wada at Dadar= Sri Krishna.
Near the school, between kabutar khana and Plaza.
Mohit
8/7/2004 11:27 PM
I wish I was a space man.
The fastest guy alive.
I'd fly you round the universe,
In Fireball XL-5.
Way out in space together,
Compass of the sky,
My heart would be a fireball,
A fireball,
Everytime I gazed into your starry eyes.
Nishant We'd take the path to Jupiter,

And maybe very soon.
We'd cruise along the Milky Way,
And land upon the moon.
To our wonderland of stardust,
We'll zoom our way to Mars,
My heart would be a fireball,
A fireball,
If you would be my Venus of the stars.
8/7/2004 11:30 PM
And Vaishali, and the Chinese street stalls near
Ambedkar Garden in Chembur. And that awesome
bhelpuri wala next to the station.
Lets add 92 ltd and 6 ltd to that list of buses from

Chembur to town.
Nishant Did anyone attend the free all-night Indian

classical concerts at Shivaji Park ? And then walk
to the Dadar beach in the night, empty beautiful
nights. And some awesome icecream at Seven-
Eleven, King's Circle. They have so many flavours,
yaar.
trump cards! 8/8/2004 1:27 AM
first it started with the wwf wrestlers, then it went
on to cars, aeroplanes.
i still remember, yokozuna was the heaviest, andre

the giant the tallest, hulk hogan was number one
and hitman hart was number two
(OMkAr) by the time the fad had reached it's high and kids
were not playing cricket or gotya [marbles]
anymore, and sitting anyplace they could and
playing trump cards, people had trump cards for
almost anything and everything that had statistics
that could be compared...
yesterday i was in a mall, and saw these 4 kids

playing some game that reminded me of
trumpcards, they had these anime characters on
them and they were playing, i gave them a
superior look and moved on, been there, done
that...
8/8/2004 2:03 AM
And I have to add here about Rang Bhavan. Those
were the best days of my life....
:(
It IS a change now na.

Shee.
Ruchi
(esp for any Xavierite!)
80's TV rules!! 8/8/2004 2:07 AM
My dad made me watch Doordarshan (when we
ONLY had the one channel) every evening to learn
Marathi....We started with Baatmya, then just
before Saaptahiki (on the weekends) there was
this Aapan hyana pahilat ka? thing.
And my mom would become all sad when they
showed children's pictures....
Then again, Marathi serials were way superior to

the Hindi ones at the time (other than Buniyaad
and Hum Log and Nukkad). Hello Inspector (Hello
Hello Hello Hello Insspecctoorr!) and Ek Shunya
Shunya (withthe really cool gross out murders)
were my favorites.
Then on the Hindi comedy front we had Yeh Jo Hai

Zindagi and Idhar Udhar (what was the one with
Kiron Kher and a bunch of folks trying to steal her
necklace? Arif Zakaria was on that one)..not to
forget Karamchand...
Vikram On the horror front, we had (on TV before
someone starts quoting all the hajaar Ramsay
movies that came out in the 80's..Purana Mandir,
Saamri etc) Qile ka rahasya..
On the drama front, we had Tamas (which remains

my favorite thing I have ever seen on Indian TV to
date) at 11 pm because it was considered too
violent for kids to watch. I'd sneak up and watch it
and then have nightmares for the rest of the week.
Prannoy Roy and the World this week made me

feel so international (WAY before all the 24 hour
news channels and the Internet).
We had Saturday school and Thursdays off till

1990..so we'd all get together adn talk about what
we saw on Friday on the World this week.
And my favorites, Chitrahaar for new movie songs
on Wednesday, Chaayageet on Friday night with
old songs and Rangoli on Sunday mornings for
everything else..
I'm writing all this as I'm watching Friends on TV

and find that I'd change everything we have now
for waht we had then...
Fireball XL5 8/8/2004 2:20 AM
Nishant..sniff sniff...I'm so nostalgic...
I totally remember that song..also the song from

Fraggle Rock..(Let the music play! Down at Fraggle
Rock!).
I can also hum (after about 18 years now) the

theme song for Danger Bay (the show set in the
Canadian Rockies about this family that rescued
Vikram campers etc.) and the theme for Degrassi
High...(another Canadian show) on Sunday
mornings..
Anyone remember Escape to Kythera? It was on

the Summer specials that we had every year in the
vacations...right after Fairy Tale Theater.



arbitrary n random
8/8/2004 6:15 AM
Marathi murder mysteries really ruled! Yeah i
remember Ek Shunya Shunya.
And Bharat Ek Khoj? and there was one more

Bombay
serial in the afternoon on Sunday (the last
(3250 members)
serial before TV ended for the morning) that
was historical and had great stuff about
ancient india. I still call these serials. People
don't know what that is in the US.
Sat
Anyone remember "Sirf Chaar Din"? Murder
was really well done on Bombay Doordarshan.
Do you remember Saptaheeki? I heard that

the theme music for this program was an
adaptation from some Deep Purple song.
And then there was "Bhikaji Rao Karodpati"
and "Swami" and "Chimanrao". Though i had
Marathi in my school, its amazing how much i
learnt through sheer absorption.
Next time i'll go to SriKrishna, cannot forget

the Sabudana Wadas. Love the prasad at
Siddhivinayak, thouhg would get pissed off
with the dress guidelines (esp. for women)
posted (graphically, that too) in the temple.
Some more 80s TV 8/8/2004 9:08 AM
Those that ruled then:
Chitrahaar - Wednesday 8 pm (the only show

at that time which used to show songs frm the
movie to be released the friday after that)
Chhayageet - Thursday 8 pm (for old
numbers)
Buniyaad, Khandaan, Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi
(brilliant show that), Hum Log (all on various
Amit days at 9 pm)..
Hindi movies on Saturday and Sunday
evenings.
Plus many many more :)
Boy, DD rocked then :)))

8/8/2004 9:35 AM
GOTYA!!!!
I remember seeing Joy Ghanekar (the lead

star) in Vile Parle (where else!!) and yelling
out accross a very crowded market..GOTYA!!
Vikram
P.S. He was with his mom buying
vegetables....
8/8/2004 10:00 AM
Wow.
This is an awesome thread and I have

checked it a million times for additions in the
past few days!
Thanks Salil.
So in addition, remember Gul Gulshan

Gulfam?
There was also this serial which I cant

Ruchi remember the name of..[help needed]...
It was based in Hyderabad and had a royal

lady, with an assitant, that Dipika chick [I
think] and Kanwaljeet as the bratty nawaab.
To add, I also thought about the Channa

wala's and bhutta wala's who are missing
from Marine Drive. Sucks.
You have to go near Asoka Hall to get them
now.
8/8/2004 10:13 AM
Gul Gulshan Gulfam was the one with the
houseboats in Kashmir right? With Pareekshit
Sahni?
Remember Phool Khile hai Gulshan Gulshan?

With Tabassum? Whatever happened to her? I
prefer her interviewing style so much more
compared to Simi Garewal's wishy washy, soft
Vikram focus ass licking of celebrities..
PS. The bhutta waalas moved to Carter

Road...I just had one there about 2 hours ago
in the pouring rain..Yum! (Mohit! Say it with
me..Bandra Rocks!!)
Qile ka Rahasya... 8/8/2004 2:30 PM
What was the rahasya, anyway??
Wagle ki duniya, Rajni.
There was one loser serial called "Ek do teen

char". 4 boys trying to solve mysteries. So
one has a sister who's helping her mom in the
kitchen, and wants to join the boys in their
mystery-solving and asks, main bhi chaloon?
so the brother tells her, nahin tu jaake aloo
cheel. man, what a prick. i distinctly
Sat remember this scene.
Dhinchak music autorickshaws. Early FM

radio. There was one auto guy in Chembur
who'd change the music depending on the
fare. I remember when i'd get on with my
friends, he'd put on FM radio that played
western pop. talk about taking care of the
customer. only in Bombay.
8/8/2004 7:37 PM
kaooo.
raadhikaa.
Natya sangeet on DD. "sorry for the

interruption" - "Vyatyay".
There would sometimes be flies in the studio
and land on the news readers.
Ruchi this is for you... ;)

Sat Remember those Films Division
documentaries? there was one in marathi
about Leprosy. so sad. and one about the
"Tree of Unity", and the one in which people
are throwing kachra out of their windows and
this guy gets pissed and in the end he kicks
the kachra back into the people's houses.
Bombay monopoli game!! 8/8/2004 9:23 PM
ppl !
This thread wants me to live in the past!
I dont know whether u used to play the

Marathi monopoli game ... the places where
all from mumbai...
like... Crowaford Market, Nal-bazar, flora

fountain, Marin lines, churchgate, vile parle,
andheri etc.
And the white ones were BEST ("pay ur

electricity bill Rs 150")
Ashish
I might still have that game board and the
money.. which we stick to the card board. I
just might... but i'm not sure..
Anyone remembers that???
Do they sell the same game even now???
We used to play it like buch of crazy kids,

which we were ;)
8/8/2004 9:27 PM
The name of the game was "Wyaapaar" ( not
so synonymous to monopoli but... )
Ashish
sorry, but this one HAS to be in marathi.
8/9/2004 12:05 AM delete
easiest way to pick up a fight in college was to
say :
"arre, shaniwari tujhya ghari aalelo, tu

nhawtas, baba zhoplele, ani aai gotya baghat
Salil hoti"
seen it work.



arbitrary n random
8/9/2004 12:11 AM
Other serials I remember..
Munshi Premchand ki amar kahaniyaan...

Sukanya (Teri kahani hai niraali....)
Mullah Nasruddin (with Zohra Sehgal..who
Bombay was and still is fabu)
(3250 members) Dada Dadi ki kahaniyan
Vikram Betaal (I went through 3 years of
torture in school with people singing the
theme song when I walked by)
Fauji (I say chaps!!..I still say that a lot!)
Neenv (I totally wanted to go to boarding
school when I saw that serial)
Udaan
OK and there was this funny serial with this

housing society that all had kids at the same
Vikram time but al the kids got exchanged at birth...
Funnily, the Punju parents got the Tamilian

kid (who true to ishtyle, was as Tam as one
can get) and the Gujju parents got the Bong
kids..stuff like that..
Anyone remember the name of the show?
@Salil...LOL! I remember that statement

too...and still remember having to explain it
to this really dim Gujju friend (who didn't
speak any Marathi..or English for that
matter..). We managed the translation allright
but then she flummoxed us with "But vhat eej
balls?"
ok then... back to totally arbitrary n
random 8/9/2004 2:58 AM delete
here goes... a drink called ovaltine.
escalators(!) on the chowpatty footover
bridge. guys with 'bioscopes'at chowpatty,
soon replaced by guys with little disney
cartoon viewers, honest. strange yellow
plastic web-like markings embedded into the
street, they looked like plastic shuttlecocks,
flattened into the tarmac, can anyone
remember/explain these? the overpowering
stench of horsedung near grant road station,
which would suddenly disappear as you
walked past merwan's bakery baking fab
Salil mawa cakes. people on the road selling a
strange gadget to light up primus stoves.
silver foil wrapped handbombs at diwali before
the ban was imposed on them. when
everyone tried to walk talk and dress like
amitabh. 'pepsi cola' that was neither pepsi
nor cola. yeah... non bombayites, figure that
one out. a very weird toy with NO purpose,
just two balls at the end of 2 rotating arms,
swivelling on a stick, sold at every traffic
signal. little bags of assorted plastic animals.
a 'whistle' with two chirping bird chicks on
balloon rubber. the opening sound and light
show of the festival of france. the 'skylab'
scare. gotta cut this one short, work beckons,
hope u can add/react.
8/9/2004 3:01 AM
Mungerilal ke haseen sapne deserves a
mention here.
Malgudi days anyone?
The World This Week? (Has this been
mentioned before?)
(Also Aavo Maari Saathe: special program for
Gujjus)
I want to add all those national integration

documentaries which were made.
Mile Sur Mera Tumhara. So So So So rocked.
In memory of that, some students from MIT

Ruchi have made this video which is fantastic.
(Vishal introduced me to it. Thanks)
Link: http://web.media.mit.edu/~ash/
Courtsey: Orkut community of Mile Sur. Its
fantastic. Check it out guys. This link I got
from there.
ps, I feel like writing a papar on this thread

now!!
8/9/2004 3:41 AM
Salil,
Your post reminds me...
I have 2 copies of a magazine. Super hero

types.
Guess who the super hero is.....?
Ruchi Amitabh Bacchan!!!!
Its wild!!! :D :D :D
(I should go home and look it up!)
:) 8/9/2004 4:03 AM
i had the first one or two of those comics too, delete
they were ridiculous. amitabh bachchan as
Supremo, spouting harivanshrai's poems like
son machhri... rescuing 'gotham' who looked
too much like ian botham. of coz i remember.
Salil mite even hav em lyin around somewhere.
8/9/2004 6:16 AM
OK Salil..
Back to random and arbit memories..
Frankies on Linking Road (The original Tibbs

Vikram shop not the hajaar imitations around)
Sea Rock hotel in Bandra (when that was the
coolest place to be in the burbs..unless you
were a noveau riche type in which case
youwent to Sun n'Sand in Juhu)
Bandstand with the broken down sea wall
Zig Zag Road on Pali Hill with all the filmstar
sightings
Playing cricket with Aamir Khan around the
time QSQT came out (yup! I did it!!)
Being able to sing the jingles to Limca (lime n'
Lemony Limca) and Liril (La
lalalalalalala..lalalala.lalalaalal)
Going to the neighbours house to watch TV
(LOL)
Going to Andorra and Hearsch when no one
but the neighborhood Macs knew what they
were..
When a Mac meant a Bandra Cat and not a
burger
When a Cat meant a Catholic and not a pet
When every movie had Iftekaar as a police
inspector (sorry..totally random comment)
Waking up to the sound of the muezzin from
the Bandra station mosque (as opposed to
traffic right now...)
Durga Pujo at the ground next to Patwardhan
Park and mom talking about how the Bongs
eat meat in front of the Goddess! Shame
shame...LOL!
NO Jogger's park OR Patwardhan park (and
still remarkably slim people..)
Anyway, these seem to be more of my

memories...and they're all of Bandra..Cause
I've been a lifelong Bandra boy ;-)
more randomness 8/9/2004 8:34 AM
arre, how come nobody remembers chutney
sandwiches? softies in dadar. Croissants etc. -
chocolate croissant, mushroom masala
croissant. Fashion street. Irish coffee at
Prithvi theater. there was this conductor on a
bus on a chembur colony route bus. if he
finished issuing tickets to everyone and there
wasn;t too much rush, he'd actually talk to
each and every passenger on the bus, in
hindi, english or marathi, on whatever subject
that suited that passenger. amazing public
relations! Frankies on Linking road. The
stench of Mankhurd, with dirty men doing tatti
Sat
on the street. pathetic! stone throwing
incidents on local trains.
1983, india winning the prudential cup and

people celebrating like crazy. HSC results and
Ruparel college always having toppers.
Aggarwal classes and Tiwari classes.
"Aisa Bhi hota hai" - with this bubbly girl,

"Udaan", then there was this serial with Girish
Karnad and Farida Jalal and these kids. there
was another one on sundays with Shekhar
Suman. and another serial with Ashutosh
Gowarikar who i thought was quite hot. and
Milind Soman.
Halo Shampoo ad and the girl in it with a

blunt cut. Rasna ads in the summer. Ah
summer. vacation. play carrom all day with
the building kids.
"Jaane Bhi do yaaron", "Utsav".

8/9/2004 11:32 AM
Adding on,
Anando chutney sandwiches at Chowpatty.

And Masala Milk.
Kulfi wala's.
The sugarcane sellers with the dim lamp with
them.
Sudarshan's dosa's at Malabar Hill.
Deepak's classes were happening too!!
Ruchi A mouthful of sky.

Tandoori Nights.
Osheen.
And one of my best friends was the first

Rasna girl. Ankita. "I love you Rasna."
:)
circus anyone? 8/9/2004 4:20 PM
circus w/ young shahrukh khan and that serial
-- stone boy with the kid turning into stone for
some reason
running home at 5 on sundays to watch

spiderman
snuggleing w/ ur sis and watching 'qile ka

rahasya'
Poonam and yes i remember that serial w/ ashok

kumar as the head doctor (i think) and the
kids all interchanged w/ diff families
also 'paramveer' this was after 'ek shunya

shunya' had gone off the air
also good old mahabharat and chanakya

circus anyone? 8/9/2004 4:20 PM
circus w/ young shahrukh khan and that serial
-- stone boy with the kid turning into stone for
some reason
Poonam
running home at 5 on sundays to watch
spiderman
snuggling w/ ur sis and watching 'qile ka
rahasya'
and yes i remember that serial w/ ashok

kumar as the head doctor (i think) and the
kids all interchanged w/ diff families
also 'paramveer' this was after 'ek shunya

shunya' had gone off the air
also good old mahabharat and chanakya



arbitrary n random
8/9/2004 7:35 PM
yeah, i'm no shahrukh fan.. but circus and
fauji were good.
At random,
Bombay
"KadakLaxmi" on the streets, the exploits of
(3250 members)
"dombaris" .. the one where they used to
hang a child at one end of the bamboo pole
and lift the other end on their foreheads and
balance the pole, also the walk on the tight
rope.
damaroo wala/wali, and the sound when the
seller of the damaroo used to play that
damroo.
The ppl who used to carry that big cotton
Ashish knitting harpoon type machine over thier
shoulders making that "twang twang" sound..
picture frame walas.. who used to carry those
still camera type apperatus .. u cover ur head
and peep into them to see the pictures..
Making sand forts n mountains on Dadar
Chawpati.. hvnt been there recently.. wonder
whether there is any dadar chawpati left... or
if it does, to parents take their kids there. i
will hv to check it out when i go there next.
Subah !!! The serial... 8/9/2004 7:47 PM
ppl ppl ppl
dont know anyone mentioned this.. pardon

me if anyone has..
u gotta remember this serial.. "Subah"

on drug addiction / abuse..
I thot it was a well made one... somehow the

Ashish govt cut it off the air...
i remember the title song went like..

"Aur ek subah ko kar salaam... subah ko kar
salam"
8/9/2004 11:34 PM
Subah title track was one of my favorites...
composed and sung by none other than R.D.
Burman himself!!!
Ay Zamaane tere saamne aa gaye

Milind Aaj ke daur ke naujawaan aa gaye
Leke tere dar par Suraj
Leke Subah aa gaye ab to
Subah ko kar salaam....
8/9/2004 11:39 PM
Lijjat Papad with this giant rabbit !!
Chai coffee ke sang khaye..kharram

khurram..khurram kharram..
Mehmaanon ko khush kar jaye..khaaram
khurram
Vikram Mazedaar lazzatdar, sat swad mein Lijjat Lijjat
Papad!
(Rabbit says: Lijjat Papad!!)

8/9/2004 11:52 PM
Yeh zameen ye aasmaan
hamara kal, hamara aaj
buland Bharat ki buland tasveer
Hamari Mumbai
Milind
(Sigghhhh....I'm sooo nostalgic now!)
loose sweets 8/10/2004 1:29 AM
lot of these are still available i know.. bulls delete
eyes, jeera goli, churan in plastic packets and
in paper tubes. a really weird, tastless 'papad'
in different colors for 5 paise, chalky 'extra
strong mints', a sweet we used to but only coz
it had gizmo in it, a piece of blotting paper,
and a piece of photo paper, u put both
together and placed them on your tongue and
in a few seconds a photograph wud appear
Salil (must have been toxic for all you know),
mints on a looped piece of string you could
play with, little shiny wrapped sweets on
elastic you could boing around, a guy sold
pink and white sticky stuff from a bamboo
stick, he would make watches and birds from
it, phantom cigarettes, chini mini or tini mini..
colorful sugar coated saunf in plastic soft
drink bottles which became salt cellars once
exhausted. hard 'chikki' from a mound that
was anything but chikki, a disc shaped sweet
with a hole in the middle u could whistle thru,
a lollipop whistle on a thick red stick, chup-a-
chups, aam papad, a nice octagonal chunk of
chocolate encasing a nut, aptly called 'nut
sweet', parle kismi, smith's mints, NP minti,
fresh'n'up chewing gum, a candy with a
bubblegum centre from nutrine, nutrine twin
treats, fonda chocolates (fab) and chocrack,
double decker, combo, rollo, plus (yum), of
course imli, boras, raw mango and bimli not
sweets, still.. yeah i put some dentist's kids
thru college alrite.
And I didn't mind... 8/10/2004 8:08 AM
supporting the sweets/ chocolates industry/
sector of the country either.
Mohit
8/10/2004 9:14 AM
Phantom cigarettes......ahhhhhhhh!!! Now
that brngs back memories!!!!!
Milind
8/10/2004 9:27 AM
awla supari for 10 paise.
melodeeee toffee.
pepsi cola in plastic tubes. (i believe this was
a corruption of "popsicle") people falling ill
after eating these things since they were
made from bad water. then there was milk
Sat pepsi.
usal pao, misal pao.
uncle chips(?) amazing flavored potato chips.
8/10/2004 10:20 AM
Melodee hai chocolatee!
Mohit



arbitrary n random
2 Rs 8/10/2004 10:37 AM
2Rs for bhel for ur neighbourhood bhelwala
2Rs Samosa or batatawada
Poonam or
Bombay 5Rs sandwich from mithibai sandwichwala

(3250 members) more serials 8/11/2004 4:14 PM
'Chunuati'..and its successor 'Campus'
'Invisible man' on DD2
also I hated it whn they used to cancel these
childrens's programs for some stupid National
Integrity stuff...Once I turned on the TV in
time for Invisible Man and was shocked to see
a very visible Sardar screaming his head off
over some Punjabi song....no offense anyone
but it pissed me off then!
Pea Jay Russian cartoon films..Disney TV on
SUnday...He-Man, Spiderman.
Super-Six (does anyone remember that damn
series?)
Ek Shunya Shunya rocked..it made Shivaji
Satam the permanent cop in all serials
henceforward!
8/12/2004 12:41 AM
I just remembered Baigan Raja.
So cute! :)
Ruchi
jeeyo jeeyo jeeyo mere baingan raja
8/12/2004 1:08 AM delete
yeah, but wot WAS it. a play or something on
khel khilone? anyways, a few more random
ones... metal meccano sets, long b4 lego,
'dinky'cars or matchbox if someone came
from abroad, long b4 hotwheels. 'crazy' guns
from shakti toys, long before leo mattel,
buggin my parents for a 'hot foot racer' and
gettin so disappointed wen i finally got it. gold
cup cricket with little ball bearings, of all
things. miniature magnetic chessboards,
Salil rubiks cubes, and after the whole cube craze,
rubiks cylinder and rubik's snake. plastic
helicopters that really soared, and airplanes u
shot from a pistol-like launcher. wearing a frill
fronted shirt and not knowing one day, u wud
look back and feel stupid. bell bottoms. and
'matching' clothes... yuck.
8/12/2004 8:10 AM
Table cricket - ahhh...now that was bliss...
I did the unthinkable... got a friend to get me

a table cricket set when he came from India...
Milind and now we have an absolute blast!! Table
cricket in the US is the perfect way to make
new friends ... now if only I didn't keep
running out of ball bearings!!!
Mannnnn... 8/12/2004 8:17 AM
I hereby anoint this thread, 'The God of All
Threads'.
And table cricket... Milind, that would make

for a great time with darts thrown in!!
Mohit
Btw, I remember the prudential cup final, live.
Very very wierd.
8/12/2004 11:01 PM
Remember He-man and his lesson for the day
after every show? And that no matter what
good prevailed over evil? Mwahahaha!
Irshad
Back in the 80s, Linking Road had a green
cover! :(
8/12/2004 11:04 PM
Salil, something struck me in your first post.
Rs. 3 cab rides! Boy that HAS to be aeons
ago.
My earliest memory of cab fare was a Rs. 5

one. Sometime in 88 or thereabouts. Even
Irshad when I started going to college in 96, rick
rides were Rs. 6. It's really gone haywire from
there.
:) 8/13/2004 3:02 AM
thx guys, for all those msgs appreciating this delete
thread, but mohit... "god of all threads?"
naaaah...
irshad, 3rupee cab rides were in the 70's. by
'88 if im not mistaken, the minimum fare ws
already 7 bucks. thas th year i started college.
ash, talk of the town no longer exists, now it's
'not jus jazz by the bay'. the name also
Salil reminded me of 'top in town raincoats'
anybody remember those? and wen all
compass boxes were camlin (ok, some omega
glory) and all satchels were DM Pakitwala?
8/13/2004 4:21 PM
...and all umbrellas were Stag (Hiran chhap
chaatas)
...and all bread loaves were either Britannia or

Wib's
Milind ...ice cream meant Vadilal, Kwality or Joy
...picnic meant a visit to Aarey Milk Colony or

Hanging Gardens



arbitrary n random
bread loaves.... 8/14/2004 6:49 AM
hmm.. passing or visiting my aunt in worli delete
meant a detour to city bakery which had the
most amazing bread. i don't actually
Bombay remember it, but they say polson's butter was
(3250 members) the best ever.
vadilal icecreams were a relatively late
entrant.. wen i was a kid it was joy/quality or
a brand called volga. kwality is pretty good at
wallopin th competition- they were soon the
only ones left. i remember a brand called
creata came out in the eighties and soon after
the launch there was a jaundice epidemic. this
got linked to the ice cream coz it was made in
gujarat, where the epidemic had started.
brand died very quickly.
i remember bein forced to drink milk, (which i
HATE) wen we went to aarey milk colony for a
school picnic. also remember watchin the
bottlin plant of roger's on clare road, on my
way to school everyday. roger's made great
Salil ice cream soda, they still around but not the
same anymore, dukes made a cola that you
would never see anywhere else but at a parsi
wedding, where of course it was ignored in
favor of that ghastly raspberry soda. one o my
fave drinks as a kid was frolic, made by
dipy's... they had great ads too. based on the
lucky luke comix. doubt anyone here
remembers dipy-dee, dipy doo, dippy dum
dum, dipy dee dippy doo, dipy yum yum
yum!!!
has anyone ever had 'sekonjbin' sherbet in an

irani restaurant? if the waiter duzn't
understand, ask for 'chicken (pronounced
chikan)sherbet'... SERIOUSLY!
hey the end went like this... 8/14/2004 7:29
AM
dippy's sqaushes are very yum yum yum
Sat
8/14/2004 11:45 AM
Talking of drinks...does neone remember the
ones which had marbles for caps and u press
the marble into the bottle to pop it up? i
Richa always remember calling it "kanche" wali
drink...dunno if there was ne other name for
it. i remember britannia selling one plastic
animal with each of their bread packets.all of
us kids used to compare who had the most.
does neone know of nectar colony in bandra?
there used to b this abs fantastic bhelwala rite
outside it...although i have had bhel a zillion
times...the bhel and sev puri he made is the
best i have ever had...
8/15/2004 3:08 AM
That was one super-nostalgic thread... Thanks
Salil for starting it...!
>>Richa: That's 'goli' soda you're talking

about... U'd probably still get it at Juhu
beach...
Okie, here's my random two-bits...
- When the auto meter said '1.00' you actually

had to pay only 1 Rupee...!
- Friendly-neighbourhood bhelwalas with their
mobile cane stand on which they propped up
their paraphernalia and made you spicy-
chatpata bhel... Long before wada paav...!
- Star Trek/ Cosmos/ Fireball XL5/ Giant
Robot, and of course Terra Hawks, though
that came much later on DD2...
- Making little 'Star Trek Walkie Talkies' with
discarded matchbox covers and the ubiquitous
rubber-band...
- Yes Salil, black and white TVs were status
symbols... I remember the furore in our
colony when we got our first black and white
Sahil set just before the 1980 Olympics...
- The twanging of cotton carders doing their
neighbourhood rounds..
- Big Bite... The first, albeit short-lived, of the
styrofoam invaders...!
- For anyone who's lived in Andheri... The
Ambar-Oscar-Minor multiplex where the
monstrosity called Shopper's Stop now
stands... I remember weekend outings with
my father to go watch the latest Bond
movies...!
- The Cake Shop of The Taj... long before it
became La Pattiserie...! And the cheese
straws there...
- Saayba, at Bandra, used to be a tad less
posh, maybe even a little decrepit looking...
But brilliant sea food, nonetheless...
- Milk would be delivered to one's doorstep in
re-usable glass bottles with shiny foil caps...!
Oh I cld go on and on...

8/15/2004 3:25 AM
I totally remember that Roger's soda Salil.
And my favorite part about the Bawa
Vikram weddings we went to at Albless Baug was the
raspberry soda!! And the food..and the
caterers (Godiwalla?) walking about giving
people their card..
PS Albless Baug was named after this Parsi

philanthropist who was surnamed Albless
because of his habit of walking around wishing
people "God Bless".
I wonder how the Readymoney's got their
name....
8/15/2004 4:19 AM
once me just wandered into this *really* old
chai-cake shop opposite to METRO.
an old parsi uncle was the owner-cashier and

he was distributing sweets to little kids around
:)
man, that was anwesome place.. can any one

Varun help me out with the name of the place?
AFAIR, there are quite a few popular OLD
bakeries in that area!
man, bbay is nostalgia personified!! :)

picnic spots 8/16/2004 2:20 PM
Speaking of picnic spots, mine all time
favorite was Taraporwalla aquarium. It was
closed down afterwards to make a new one,
Pea Jay any news about that guys??
some games 8/16/2004 10:06 PM
ok, so some maybe played all over the world, delete
but the names are mostly unique to bombay:
oppingo-battingo- saying the applicable word
whenever you stood up/sat down or get
punched by your mate. simla-similar, but this
time you got punched if you swore. kattoos
(very popular on my school bus) one guy puts
his head down, anyone else in the group
knuckles him on his head and he has to guess
who. violent games ruled eh? then don't
forget aaba-doobi- basically hitting your
playmates with the ball. this was like the
second part of 'lagori'-seven tiles.. and also
like a slightly disciplined version called 'kings'.
'french cricket' anyone? do they even play
Salil that in france? don think so. hey vikram, thot
u wud know.. 'i-spice'is a corruption of 'i spy'
the call in hide and seek.
sahil, u really brought back a unique one. the

star trek communicators made from
matchboxes. i was rather good with my hands
so i had made an elaborate masterpiece
covered in graph paper and foil, and even a
little screen inside with spock's pic pasted
from a star trek ad from the back of a comic. i
started getting requests for custom made
communicators from other kids in school.
-----P.S.-----
had intended to, but forgotten this one, and
vikram's post right after this reminded me.
the dot on your palm was called 'jolly'and it
was an independent game, not part of
oppingo. u always had to have a 'jolly' on your
palm, or your opponent could punch you, or
claim a treat, usually an eclair.
8/16/2004 11:31 PM
Nice games Salil...I played them all...
How about Chor Police? We played that all the

time..and saakli (sp?)...lots of running around
aimlessly type games. Our neighborhood
never got around to the rules-waala games
like cricket or football. We also played a
version of hide n seek called Dabba Ispice
(LOL! I spy!).
As far as I know, you could get out of getting

punched during hoppingo-battingo if you drew
Vikram a dot on your palm (where did that nonsense
come from?).
And what the hell is up with Birthday bumps?

I always wwent home after my birthday at
school with a terrible backache! Speaking of
borthdays, how did you like to dress up
differently from all the other kids in uniform at
school and then distibute candies to the other
kids in your class? The baniya dukaans even
sold special *birthday* packs of sweets.
boss is not in and i got some time..
8/18/2004 11:59 PM delete
lesseee..... what else do i remember? actually
had started this thread one day when i was
appalled how crappy my short term memory
has become. this is good excercise!
'this is nitin. he is six. he lives in nasik.' that

was the first chapter of my first bal bharti. the
second was about leena, nitin's sister, the
third about his friends, hasan and dick. then
when they come to bombay, it really became
intersting. mario miranda's illustration
brought the gateway, and juhu beach alive.
the kids sight the INS Vikrant from one of
Salil those telescopes at the gateway. new then,
but lying close by now in the shadow of being
scrapped. remember how my 'community
living' book said bombay's population was 60
lakhs. we've come a long way. in the third
standard the geography textbook was called
'our greater bombay'. wonder if its still called
that.
mira did you mention geeta bhavan? thats

another place i wud never eat at. jus like
those vada pavs in the other thread.
i'd wait for my school bus right outside geeta
bhavan, and watch the food bein brought in
each morning on OPEN handcarts from the
kitchen in a lane next to minerva theatre.
also, they had an underground storage tank
for drinking water, and the hatch was never
fully closed and being a low lying area
flooding was common in the monsoons. it's a
wonder people din get food poisonin all the
time out there.
minerva theatre was so close to home, and

sholay ran there for about 9 years or so.. six
years as the main show and then 3 more as
the matinee. so anytime we had houseguests
from outta town i was forced to watch the
movie. had it comin outta my years so bad i
actually DREAMT the whole movie once, only
realising i was dreamin wen amitabh gets shot
a little too much towards the end and the
blood was all different colors. c'mon, i musta
been 6 at the time..



arbitrary n random
Reviving... 8/20/2004 11:17 PM
I remember the standard 1 text book too...
There was a chap called Jal whose dad took all

Bombay the kids out to Chowpatty to ride the camel,
(3250 members) and the camel ride cost them just one rupee...
Irshad awesome. Inflation was never a worry back
then
OMG 8/21/2004 8:16 AM
salil and vikram, omg. hoppingo-batingo,
jolly. this is f'ing amazing. you have made me
reach depths of my memory that have lain
dormant for so long.
what about rounders? and "statue"? and 5-

Sat
stones. that was "girl game". we used to play
teen-patti and carrom sooo much and also
bluff (challenge). Was it Rushdie who talked
about "ice-pice"?
and (with apologies to the gujrati community

here) - shu che, saru che, danda leke maru
che.
i remember reading xeroxed chapters of

"satanic verses" that my friend's big brother
would send from the states. and i bought
midnight's children and zen and the art of
moto... on the street for 30 bucks.
My two paisa's worth 8/21/2004 8:20 AM
Forgive me if some of these have been posted
already... I vaguely remember:
* "Different Strokes" on TV with CampaCola
adverts.
* Trading tattered Tinkles (who's da
Alliteration-Ace???) and Archies.
* An ice-cream brand called JOY.
* Envying boys who wore police inspector
outfits to school on their birthdays.
* Playing "jolly" and "statue" and "hops,
bats".
* A kick-ass serial called GIANT ROBOT - Go
Johnny Sokko!!!
Dylan * Boasting about meeting the guy who played
the pandu in NUKKAD.
* When my neighbour bought the first VCR in
the whole building!!! 3 movies a day during
the May holidays, I swear! And every show, a
house-full.
* Watching my first movie in a cinema.. a
boring movie called "Beautiful People".
Damn, I'm old.

8/21/2004 8:51 AM
hey irshad, if u remember jal, the most delete
obscure of the lot, u shudn't b complimenting
me on my memory. and i DO remember
camels, really on chowpatty, girgaum not juhu
where they did remain for longer.
mira, the 'rounders' u speak of.. is it like

baseball or did i miss something in my
childhood after all? and yes, the 'su che saaru
che' episode in midnight's children is one of
my favourites too.if u like the book so much,
u WILL re-read it i'm sure, but next time
remember to follow it up immediately with
Salil 'the moor's last sigh'. the 2 books blend
beautifully.
and dylan, u not that old.. beautiful ppl came

out wen i was old enuff to not find it boring. it
was probably the first 'tax free' movie i saw.
the first movie i remember seeing was enter
the dragon, wen my dad managed to convince
the manager i was too young to understand
anything in an 'A' movie anyway. freaked me
out how much i remembered wen i saw it
again the first time after that. but damn, i
wish i cud do something about my short term
memory... wot WAS i gonna write next??
movies 8/21/2004 9:45 AM
beautiful ppl was my fav also 'chota chetan'
Poonam
8/21/2004 9:51 AM
The first Hindi movie I saw (remember
seeing) in a theatre (Gaiety-Galaxy-Gemini)
was Masoom...and the first English movie at
Regal was "The Gods must be crazy"...
You know, sometimes I can quote the entire

1st. standard Balbharti..right from "This is
Nitin...to his sister Leena..to his friend Hassan
onwards". Sometimes. A little vodka might be
involved.
We used to play rounders in table tennis (on

my building tank...which we called tankee..).
Vikram We also used to rent bicycles (St. Theresa's
bike shop in Bandra..It's still there..I saw it
today) for 2Rs per hour and ride from our
road, up over Zig-Zag Road in Pali Hill and
then all the way down to Carter and
Bandstand and come back over Turner.
And when I say we, I mean all the kids I gre

up with (It seems the mmid-late 70's were
this very fertile period in Bandra history). We
were almost 40-50 kids the same age in 5-6
buildings. Today we have 3.
8/21/2004 10:31 AM
A-B-C-D-E-F-G
Come on Leena play with me
H-I-J-K-L-M-N
Leena's birthday she is ten
O-P-Q-R-S-T-U
Milind (oops....don't remember what comes next...
but do remember that this used to be a lesson
in Std I english...
8/21/2004 10:32 AM
Also a poem whihc was in the Std I/II
Balbharati:
Algy met a bear
The bear met Algy
Milind The bear grew bulgy
The bulge was Algy
O-P-Q-R-S-T-U? 8/21/2004 10:45 AM
Damn, this will keep me awake all night..I
forget this bit..
V-W-X-Y-Z
Vikram Come on Leena, straight to bed.
(Very suggestive lyrics dontcha think? Play
with me, straight to bed etc etc)
Was CBSE educated, but... 8/21/2004 6:10 PM
could not resist this flash of inspiration.
O-P-Q-R-S-T-U
birthday suit, she looks so cute
U-V-W-X-Y-Z
Sat
Come on Leena, straight to bed.
(almost Beatles, wot? ok ok, sorry ;))



arbitrary n random
Got it!!! 8/22/2004 2:06 AM
O-P-Q-R-S-T-U
Leena's dress is new and blue
Milind
Bombay Vikram, you can sleep easy now
(3250 members) beautiful people and awesome memories
8/22/2004 3:46 PM
You guys are phenoms of sorts.. The perverse
Leena poetry does come back but no way
would I remember it up myself!!!
And I have this urge to watch Beautiful People

with all of the folks coming out in support of
the movie.. I'll look it up at the library..
Dylan
We didn't call it rounders but we had
something called "Round Toss" while playing
hand tennis (why, on the terrace, of course)..
is this the same as rounders?
well.. 8/22/2004 5:25 PM
rounders was a kind of baseball with the 4
bases, but there was no bat. you had to
bounce a rubber/tennis ball thrice and hit it
and run aroudn the bases. you know what's
interesting is that a friend of mine who's
Kenyan told me that they played the same
Sat
game in Kenya.
Poison-Medicine? Goldspot?
Is this the best f***ing thread or what!!
8/22/2004 9:28 PM
Thanks guys for reminding me those good 'ol
days!
My two paise worth contribution (excuse me if

some are repeated):
- Vikram Aur Betal. Dada Dadi Ki Kahaniyan

(or was it nana nani?) and Simhasan Battesi
(or something like that). then came
spiderman cartoon. dinsney hour and he-man
on Sunday mornings. ramayan and
mahabharat when nitish bharadwaj was
considered a real hero!
- remember the ram and shyam poppins ads
Abhijit at the back ot tinkle comics?
- playing dabba ice-paice, son-sakhli, tipi-tipi-
tip-top which colour do you want, statue,
vish-amrut and many more.
- watching amchi maati amchi manasa (i still
remember the whole song!)
- there was a radio show on jokes which went
something like this: hassi mazzak ke paal
santogen ke sang.
- eating garam butta (kanis) with nimbu and
masala on marine drive when it's raining
heavily.
will keep posting as i remember more stuff.

aah what the hell... 8/22/2004 9:31 PM
thought i might as well post the amchi mati
amchi manasa song here...
hee kali aaee

dhana dhanya deyi
Abhijit zodate manachi naati
amchi mati... amachi manasa
yemteevee yenjoy!
rounders 8/22/2004 9:47 PM
vikram, mira.. yup u have the rite idea, the delete
rounders i am talkin of was something like
that, but i never got to play it. i read about
rounders in 'target' magazine. and in spite of
tryin to sell the idea to my frenz, it never took
off coz none of us had ever really played it.
speakin of target magazine, was it part of

Salil anyone else's childhood here? it was a mag
published by living media out of delhi, but it
was certainly one of the best children's mags
around. ajit's world, detective moochwala,
gardhab das... ring a bell?
8/22/2004 10:05 PM
Of course I remember Target and Gardhab
Das, the singing donkey!
Abhijit
Target... 8/22/2004 11:08 PM
I never liked it after it changed to Teens
Today (was it?)... Gardhab das rocked.
Does anyone remember Tegrat, and that they

Irshad thought it'd be cool if his name spelt Target
backwards. Mwahaha!
Target, Tinkle, ChandaMama 8/22/2004
11:17 PM
Any of these still being published?
I have *loads* of Targets and Tinkles safely

archived back at home :-)
Varun
8/22/2004 11:46 PM
OMG..Detective Moochwalla and Pooch! They
totally rocked. I loved Target and the stories
of kids in Delhi..
Warning! Sacrilege alert!
I remember every time my dad bought us a

Target how my sister and me would bug him
to move to Delhi so we could live those cool
Vikram Delhi Public School lives...
I'm glad he ignored us!!
(I have the Target diary circa 1987! lying in

my drawer..I guess I need to chuck it out at
some point..)



arbitrary n random
Ruffles, Uncle Chipps anyone? 8/22/2004
11:59 PM
There was this scheme of collecting stickers in
Uncle Chipps.
Bombay
Also Maggi wrapper schemes were awesome.
(3250 members)
The games (especially Law of the Jungle)
were very innovative, I must say.
Varun
IIRC, there was a Dairy Milk scheme also in
which you would get 1 Dairy Milk free in
return of 5 Dairy Milk wrappers. Once me and
bro went to the shop with 17 wrappers. 15
wrappers = 3 chocolates = 3 more wrappers.
so 3 + 2 wrappers = 1 more chocolate. and i
was the happiest kid at that moment!! :)
Maggi...bah! 8/23/2004 2:03 AM
I sent 5 wrappers to them twice...and I didn't
get membership to the Maggi Club. I was the
only uncool kid in school.
Irshad What a sad state of affairs!

8/23/2004 3:31 AM
*sigh*
Ruchi
8/23/2004 4:49 AM
the first money i ever made was 51 bucks on delete
the early bird prize in that cadbury's contest
ruchi mentioned earlier. or maybe it was one
b4 that. remember a pretty cheque with a
picture of a sunflower on it. mom taught me
how to make a deposit at the syndicate bank
opp minerva theatre..
and did any of you have a contest in school

where you had to collect money for the blind
and give the proceedings in with a matchbox
filled with as many individual things as u cud?
a guy in my school had filled up about 200
things in his, and wen i handed my sand filled
matchbox and sed it was 300,000 (who's
counting)individual grains of sand my
teachers were not amused...
remember bein really pissed off wid my stupid

uncle who drank from my 'lil thrils' miniature
bottles of thril cola a year before thums up
Salil came up wid the same thing. insanity runs in
my family, you'd think.
and ever wonder why all orange drink ads

featured amusement parks? campa orange,
gold spot and rush. ALL of them, think hard.
ever eaten 'sholay' supari?
and how old were you when the craze for

'roos' shoes was all over? i was in the 7th,
and spent an entire evening near grant road
station looking for a pair that looked the least
fake. they were sneakers with a little velcro
pocket on the side. wen ppl got bored of
them, the guys who made em started
stamping the 'hara' logo on them. i remember
this lady who used to sell 'phoren' products in
my colony sayin "haara ka sooo hai,
dikhaoon?"
Roos shoes..! 8/23/2004 6:06 AM
Hahah, that was one of the biggest crazes
ever! I was in the 3rd standard in boarding
school and suddenly once after holidays every
kid had those cool shoes with the velcro
pocket in the side... Some of them would
actually stuff their pocket money, a grand Rs.
10 a month in 1988, in those pockets,
because they'd wear it all the time and make
sure nobody would ever steal it. Of course,
the shoes themselves started to get stolen by
Irshad other kids... crazy
I pestered my dad the next time to buy me

the stuff, he refused. I even asked all the
firang uncles and aunts if they could send me
those, needless to say I didn't get them. I had
to make do with my Corona canvas shoes.
Forgot about the NAB... 8/23/2004 7:00 AM
yea Salil, everyone was forced in the Interact
club to have the matchbox competition to
become matchbox maharaja...courtesy of the
NAB. Somehow, the school would never
donate all of the money that the students
contributed ever!
Irshad I listed just 120 things because the list wasn't

bigger than that. Some smart alecs attached
paper and put more than 200 items.
Althought I'd give you a prize for creativity!
while on this reminiscing trip... 8/23/2004
7:20 AM
Check out my friends website...he's got a
whole lot of stuff from the 80s.
http://www.vishalpatel.com/
Irshad
Reallllllly funny if I may say so myself!
8/23/2004 8:44 PM
"and ever wonder why all orange drink ads
featured amusement parks? campa orange,
gold spot and rush. ALL of them, think hard."
now that's a verrry interesting question.

hmmm. i do remember the ads you talk about
on the last page of amar chitra kathas and
phantom comics. need some blue sky thinking
here. ok here's my guess. the owner of the
company that made the campa group of
Sat drinks, and later Goldspot was actually a
smuggler whose name was Mr.Narang. BTW,
an interesting tidbit - Mr.Narang had an
atrocious sense of dress that was a leftover
from the gaudy 70s and loved saffron suits
and green shirts. He was involved in some
shady business deals with another business
tycoon (Agent Orange, who also happened to
own amusement parks), for a chemical with a
secret formula that was used to lend these
drinks their toxic orange color and distinctive
taste (you might remember goldspot's taste
changed after a few years: this was just after
the chemicals were busted and Mr.Narang was
badly injured after a fight scene with Amitabh
on the docks). So where do the amusement
parks and the ads figure? Oh, that's how
Mr.Narang sent code messages to Agent
Orange - through the innocuous ads, to give
him the exact location for delivery on the
Amusement park grounds. The clowns in the
ads mark the spot.
Some say Mr.Narang is still alive today and

has moved to the US, where he has patented
his secret formula and they use it in Fanta.
ok i give up, man! what's the answer?

8/23/2004 8:55 PM
you hit the nail on the head mira... delete
u know too much about this, so now we have

to kill you. :D
Salil
my first bucks 8/23/2004 9:35 PM
a cool 100 rupees cheque drawn in favor of
my name by DoorDarshan!!
IIRC, I was in 7th then, so that makes it 1990
or 91.
yup I was on TV :-p
Varun some sidey Knowledge program. but bunking

school on a tuesday for a shoot was profitable
nonetheless.



arbitrary n random
8/23/2004 11:01 PM
@Varun I grew up on the chandamama
stories...my dad has a lifetime subscription for
Richa it, hve it all archived since 1981
@Salil target was my all time favorite..too bad
they had to convert it into teen something.
growing up.. 8/23/2004 11:04 PM
who can forget the summer holiday
homeworks? :))
Bombay some hajjaaar fun and some a real pain in the

(3250 members) a$$
SCHOOLTIME:-
we used to have sports day! a fun and frolic
Varun day basically with wierd games along with the
usual athletics
wheel barrow races and ropeskipping races
were my favorite!
kay zhala!!! 8/24/2004 9:11 AM
hi this is an awesome thread, yeah DD in
those days rocked with hello hello inspector
and ek shunya shunya!!! also 'rau' was an
awesome serial...hey how can we guys forget
this ad about some kids tonic (i forgot the
name): "kay zhala??? bal radat hota....." and
Ameya we kids would always follow that up with "don
dhapate dyayla saag tila...tu lahan astana
mee hee tula tech dyayche"!!!!!
8/24/2004 10:36 AM
i made Rs.300 at a college fest when i won
the western vocals contest. the money went
towards xeroxing a text book.
Sat
Furthermore 8/24/2004 12:07 PM
This thread is indeed making me remember
things which I never would have!
@Ameya, that 'tonic' was Gripe Water. I am
sure everyone who is posting on this thread
has had it atleast once. It was a patent
medicine for babie's tummyache or
something, but all it was just an extract of the
Gripe plant. What I remember is the Ad where
4 generations of women give the same advice
to each other. I.e mom-mother-in law-her
mother in law-her mother in law!was a pretty
cool ad.
Does anyone remember Indrajaal comics,
Phantom, Mandrake, Flash Gordon, and most
Pea Jay
favorite short comic-strip Henry.This is before
Diamond comics brought the rights for
Phantom. I still have abt 500 Indrajaal comics
bound safely with twine!
Thanks for reminding me Chandamama,
'Chandoba' as it was for me. I LOVED the
serial stories, and the mag had some of the
BEST illustrations I have ever seen. I had
scanned one cover and used it as a desktop
background for a long time.Dunno where that
file is now.
8/24/2004 10:36 PM
oi Pranav.. what exactly is a 'gripe plant'? delete
Woodwards gripe water is called that coz it
soothes gripes, or abdominal cramps in
babies.
on my way to work, i remembered another

hilarious sight, still visible on rare occasions
Salil and in some 1st class compartments... the
'safari' suit.... hahaha... ridiculous. especially
when teamed up with a tin of pan parag in
one hand...
Safaris.... 8/24/2004 10:46 PM
Damn, they still exist dime a dozen. I had to
spend a week at Mantralaya - torture.
Having said that I was quite impressed, the

so-called "bureaucracy" was actually quite
alert. I never had to wait for more than 10-15
minutes to meet any secretary, and all
correspondence between the PA and me
Irshad happened quickly.
But, the safari suits and pan chewing babus

are really nauseating, not to mention the gold
pen they keep in the top pocket!
DD 8/24/2004 11:15 PM
Indradhanush:-
Time travel, indian ishtyle :)
Stone Boy:-
It was shot at Mauritius, right?
Varun Aasmaan se gira.. (movie):-

*ing Raghubir Yadav as the alien!!
loved the movie.. I was in 5th then, I guess.
8/25/2004 4:20 AM
Does anyone remember Sigma? That
"awesome" program on DD about the Indians
in space and their adventures? haha!
Indradhanush truly stretched it, time travel

Irshad through a video game? i mean... come ON!
But we all bought it :D
Sigma... 8/25/2004 8:53 AM
had Milin Soman in it right? yeah i thought he
was pretty hot when he first started appearing
in the media.
some safari suit wallas were in the police force

i thought, in slightly higher posts. Do you
remember that ad for some tea, was it
lipton?, some kadak chaha. it had this
Sat
mustachioed machoman and his wife wearing
jasmine in her hair. the guy is a policeman. to
me he embodied Bombay Police.
Anyone into Inspector Ghote?




arbitrary n random
8/25/2004 10:28 PM
no mira, milin soman was in captain vyom.. delete
much more recent. sigma was right on the
heels of star trek, it was a stupid serial from
delhi and every episode seemed to end with
Bombay
"captain.. spaceship ka oxygen khatam ho
(3250 members)
raha hai!!" and everyone gasping about. oh
Salil crap!
the tea you mentioned was lipton tiger tea.

how old were you.. 8/25/2004 11:03 PM
..when you travelled in a double decker for
the first time?
Varun
delhi serials... 8/25/2004 11:46 PM
were so bad, na? i remember one really
random serial called PC 1008 with kanwaljeet
as the PC. the song went PCPCPCPC1008. i
never quite got what they were trying to get
at in the serial. hey do you remember this
wierd cartoon called gayab aaya? i don't
Sat remember the title song, but remember being
very pissed off with it because it had this pre-
pubescent voice in it that irritated me to no
end.
8/25/2004 11:58 PM
Dont even get me started on with buses. I
used to travel with my mom all the time.
Used to love going and buying the ticket. Ma
used to give me the change and I remember
reconfirming the destination 2-3 times before
actually mustering up the courage to say the
same to the conductor.
Ruchi Then, school days, when I needed to go

somewhere. I used to be so scared inspite of
proper instructions on how to go anywhere.
From opera house to Churchgate, Regal, chira
bazaar, napeansea road... I started going by
these routes. Had bought a bus directory as
well.
Once, I took a 122 to Regal only to realize

that it went to Ballard Pier (it comes back
from Regal) and then I got lost. I was so
scared!!! :)
Some of my favourite bus routes are:

66, 122, 85, 92 ltd, 123 (double decker i
miss), 83, 86, 28, oh god, the list will go on!!
Maybe we should start another thread on

buses.
8/26/2004 12:00 AM
remember the cartoon-Jungle Book...And of
course its song"chaddi pahan ke phool khila
Deepa hai".
@Ruchi 8/26/2004 12:23 AM
There was a bus directory ??? Wow !!
Anish
Gayab aaya 8/26/2004 12:40 AM
Gayab aya gayab aya
idharse aya udharse aya
kisi ko hasaane aya kisiko sataane aya
sataane aya sataane aya
Milind Gayab aya gayab aya Gayab aya gayab aya
paaaaaaa paa paa
- couldnt resist this
8/26/2004 12:52 AM
I remember the bus directory... it had
information about all the bus routes.. as well
as some interesting titbits about the
routes....here are a few...
Bus Route No. 166 - plies on roads

interconnecting maximum Hospitals
Bus Route No. 320, 22ltd., 25ltd. - These

Milind routes have an outstanding feature of
connecting two largest water reservoirs of the
city.
Bus Route No. 9 - A network of large number

of school and colleges is interwoven by this
route
8/26/2004 12:55 AM
i remember the issue of target magazine delete
where they bid farewell to one of their best
illustrators- suddhasatwa basu, or suddha as
his byline went. he was moving on to bigger
things they said, developing an animated
Salil serial called, yep.. gaayab aaya.
strange how this thread keeps goin back to
television. so tell me, who remembers 'haas
parihaas' with baban prabhu and yakub
saeed? does anyone remember a marathi
teleplay called 'kalpanecha khel' i used to get
shit scared wen i saw that. as many times as
hey showed it. and i used to love a serial with
paintal in it called 'laddusingh taxiwala'.
ruchi the bus thread is up.. and i used to

travel a lot with my mom too, and she hated
double deckers as much as i loved them, so i
used to pretend that single deckers, or for
that matter riding on the lower deck made me
sick. yup, i'm devious.
8/28/2004 4:08 PM
wow this thread is so cool, its great reading
about everything, and i miss bombay so
much, i remember everything, chandamama,
tinkle, vikram bethal, all the tv serials, those
marathi comedy theater plays, the busses, the
trains, but folks the thing i miss the most is
the bhel puri from the stalls at the
beaches..no where else other than mumbai u
can get that taste!! there is a cafe in sion near
to SIES college, they used to make the best
shav puri!!



arbitrary n random
8/28/2004 5:09 PM
Swathi, are you talking about Guru Kripa?
Milind
Bombay 8/28/2004 5:19 PM
(3250 members) yes i think thats what its called.
fireball and fraggle rock theme songs

8/29/2004 7:38 AM delete
hey guys, since these seem to be in demand
and i can't possibly attach and reattach these
files to email messages which mostly bounce..
Salil download them here

there's also he-man and the masters of the
universe in case you want it.
Do YOU remember? 8/30/2004 1:51 AM
ok, so it's been a quiet weekend, so i thot i'd delete
re-read the entire thread. actually puttin out a
quiz now, based on stuff u guys have
contributed...
1)Who sang the title theme for "hello

inspector"?
2)Which was the first soft drink to fall into the

BVO controversy?
3)What did you get with every tub of Bisca? i

mean what did they officially call it?
4)Who was the first poster girl for Frooti?
5)Which parsi gentleman hosted 'Aavo maari

saathe' for years in its early days?
Salil
6)What was the shape of the 3 paisa coin?
7) The first televised WWF match on prime

sports (in india) was between____and ___?
8)Yes, mira, what WAS the rahasya in "qile ka

rahasya"?
9)Amitabh Bachchan was Supremo under

which comic label?
10)What was the name of the 'bubbly' hostess

of aisa bhi hota hai?
8/30/2004 2:00 AM
2. Limca.
have absolutely no clue about the rest and

dont plan to trawl the entire thread to find
Irshad answers ;)
8/30/2004 2:29 AM
trawling the thread won't help irshad... the delete
questions are based on previous posts but the
answers aren't on the thread..
the one u answered is abso correcto.

Salil
Answers... 8/30/2004 10:54 AM
1)Who sang the title theme for "hello
inspector"?
ANS-> Suresh Wadkar and Annette
2)Which was the first soft drink to fall into the

Milind BVO controversy?
ANS-> Limca
3)What did you get with every tub of Bisca? i
mean what did they officially call it?
ANS-> Wasn't it the "Foon"??? The
combination of Fork and spoon?

ANS-> No idea...

ANS-> I can see the guy in my mind's eye -
but can't name him... don't think I ever knew
his name...

ANS-> Was there a 3 paisa coin ever?

ANS-> Hulk Hogan and the Undertaker???

rahasya"?
ANS-> Hmmm..are you fishing for the
"suppsoed rahasya" - the ghost of the girl who
falls off the tower - or the "actual rahasya" -
the drug smuggling outfit?

which comic label?
ANS-> Indrajal comics???
10)What was the name of the 'bubbly' hostess

of aisa bhi hota hai
ANS-> Monika Lal
8/30/2004 11:39 AM
4. Pooja Bedi?
6. Hexagonal
Vikram
not bad, not bad... 8/30/2004 9:40 PM
i think we've got almost all of em now... delete
vikram, wrong about pooja bedi, right about
the hexagonal shape of the 3 paise coin...
as for you milind...
1)Suresh Wadkar sang the paramveer title

track, hello inspector was just annette lobo,
so i guess we can take that as correct.
2)Limca is right, i wonder how they put oil in

Salil a soft drink and we can't tell?
3)"Foon" is dead right, i was expecting ppl to

say 'spork' as we know it. but foon is wot
bisca preferred calling it.

we still waiting for this one...

and this one...

ANS-> Was there a 3 paisa coin ever?
---now you know there was.

ANS-> Hulk Hogan and the Undertaker???
nopes. try again?

rahasya"?
ANS-> i was looking for the real rahasya of
course, close... but it was NOT a drug
smuggling outfit.

which comic label?
ANS-> Indrajal comics???
no way! indrajal had bahadur as their sole

indian character.
10)monica lal is correct too.

the rahasya of q(k)ile ka rahasya 8/31/2004
4:49 AM
they were a family watching a video, if that is
the answer that you are looking for @ salil
Varun



arbitrary n random
8/31/2004 5:17 AM
The main Parsi comedian for years was Adi
Marzban. Tarabai Hall was (I think) his
stomping ground.
3 paise coin and others:

http://www.igmint.org/hist.htm
Bombay
(3250 members) The Irani restaurant near Metro is Kyani. It
was still there a year ago. My favourite snack
there as a kid was a "maska bun" - a sweet
bun with sultanas in it and topped with yellow
Polson's Butter (better tasting than the white
Amul).
Kalaghoda - yes, it was Eddie the 7th. I sit

corrected.
Earliest double decker buses were there in the

1940s if not earlier. The big innovation in the
70s was the articulated double decker, which
couldn't handle the sharp turn at Portuguese
Church in Girgaum and often toppled over.
Another treat used to be "jelly custard" at

Satkar on the corner of A Road (all the Udipi
dishes were also great).
I really miss seeing the constant parade of

street pedlars:
* The knife sharpener

Ash
* The Kabuliwalla (Pathan selling dried fruits
until the 1965 war)
* The kandabatatawalla
* The grinding stone sharpener
* The mattress destuffer
* The jaripuranawalla
* The ration rice exchanger (0.5 measure of

basmati)
* The flour grinder
* The red chili powder grinder team of 4

women
* The kulfiwalla
* The cone icecreamwalla
* The sarbat-golawalla
* The chikkiwalla
* The narialwalla
* The bhelpuriwalla
* The panipuriwalla
* The sandwichwalla
* The chanawalla
* The ganderiwalla
I don't think any other city had such a range

of goodies...
help me figure this out... 8/31/2004 5:29 AM
OK i admit a bit off the original topic but help
me figure this out...
In the movie Angoor, with double roles of

Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma, there is a
song, which in the film was performed by
Deepti Naval inside an auditorium. Whenever
I see that bit in the movie, I always get Deja
Vu. Which audi is it? I am damn sure I have
Varun been there for some Dandiya show (hint:
might be in a gujarati community) but I can't
seem to recollect where and when?
So please help me recollect the name and
location of the hall.
8/31/2004 5:36 AM
Shanmukhananda Hall? The one that burnt
down?
@Ash: What is the ration rice walla? I know

Vikram all the rest but I'm not quite sure what the
rationricewalla did....
8/31/2004 7:20 AM
to add to Ash's list..
Kalhaiwala : thats wot we call in marathi..

the person who used to glorify (kalhai)
vessels with aluminium/steel or something..
he used to come with his little machines which
he used to place in the ground, start them
and then used to just touch vessels with this
aluminium/steel stick and then used a cotton
to spread it. I remeber this procedure used to
create a lot of smoke of weird smell. we kids
used to love watching the whole thing.
Ashish
Dombaris : The street circus ppl..
I never saw then recently..wonder whether
that art dissappeared in thin air... they used
to do all sorts of things for 5 paisa..
fugewala : balloon wala

They used to make a peculiar sound scrubbing
their hands over balloons to sound thier
arrival... the sound i heard in "Main hoon na"
song (Shahrukh Sushmita one... yeah.. that
hot song) and i was so sure that, the sound
has to be from the balloon ;) wonder if it
was..
We kids used to dance on that sound (it was
very near to scratching nails on blackboard)
8/31/2004 8:09 AM
also the Rat Poison Man.
Sat
Answers 8/31/2004 4:17 PM
The rahasya in Kile ka rahasya was an illegal
printing press for 'Jaali Note'
The first WWF match, didnt it have Macho
Man Randy Savage? vs Tiger ALi Khan, I
Pea Jay think.
Enlighten me.
8/31/2004 9:37 PM
hey, we almost got them all covered... delete
yup ash, adi marzban it was, that hosted aavo

mari saathe.
pranav, the 1st televised match was tatanka

v/s papa shango.... NOW you remember! but
right about the rahasya though.
and since nobody gets these last two, i may

Salil as well give it out... the first poster girl for
frooti was malavika tiwari. wearing a weird
fusion costume and sitting next to a tokree of
mangoes.
and the label amitabh bachchan appeared for

as supremo was 'star' comics.
9/1/2004 2:26 AM
Papa Shango...that guy who claimed he was a
magician, and Tatanka the native Indian who
had his war cry! Papa Shango didn't feature in
the WWF cards though...Yea I remember both
of those, but didn't know they fought the first
match televised on Prime sports.
Irshad
Thanks salil, you've made everyone dig deep
into their brains for some amazing long lost
memories!
papa shango 9/1/2004 10:12 AM
I think he was on the WWF cards, atleast on
the set which I had. Anyways, we friends used
to update our card collection every month or
so. One of my friends had a photographic
memory so he could remember wrestler stats
Pea Jay
as soon as they were displayed on TV, then
we would get stickers and make our own
cards.
Nowadays, I dont even update my
supposedly-all-important lab notebook that
often!
9/1/2004 11:59 AM
Malavika Tiwari... There's a name from the
past... The pretty girl with the dimpled chin
and frazzled hair... Wonder what happened to
her...
Sahil



arbitrary n random
@Sahil 9/1/2004 6:35 PM
You dont wanna know how Malvika Tiwari
looks now!Cant believe what age does to
people. Still, if you are curious, do a google
Bombay image search. her image sites are too many
Pea Jay
(3250 members) to give here
random is back.. 9/3/2004 12:24 AM
'small taxi-same fare' written on modified delete
premier cabs. punching your mate whenever
you spotted a red mail van, saying "mail-1-2-
3-i'm not playing". other kids played a non
violent form of the same game, clapping 3
times whenever they saw a mail van. logic
was that the mail van would bring good news
with your annual report card.
i HAD to try out every new product that came

out. another trait in my family which my
brother is still custodian of. so when my dad
brought a new toothpaste called macleans,
and along with it the new relaunched tube of
Salil brylcreem, i mistakenly brushed my teeth
with the brylcreem...
walking from bombay central to tardeo to play

video games at 'dizzyland'.
when fire, octopus and parachute were the

only nintendo games available. just before the
rage caught on and there was mayhem in the
classroom. however the one that started it all
was shuttle voyage.. not from nintendo. just
like space invaders was the sole game on
ataris before others came in. i know it was
pong that stated it internationally, but i'm
talking bombay.
i had earlier recommended salman rushdie's

midnight's children for a cool bombay
nostalgia trip. another unmissable one is the
busybee book from penguin, i think.
ruchi... you'd mentioned yankee doodle. do

you remember their 2 headed cones? and the
time when kwality was innovating like mad,
coming out with sundaes, flora, topocon and
push up? push ups were the funniest, u had a
cup and a stick, and could push the bottom
upwards to revela the icecream. and flora was
a work of art.. elaborate flower shaped
sundaes...
9/3/2004 4:57 AM
I remember those sundaes. It was here that I
started my love affair with ice-creams. Never
liked them before. My favourite one used to
be the Tropical Paradise, I think. Simply
heaven.
And we should also not forget Vadilal. I've

eaten my first kala-khatta ice-candy there.
Was so yummy. And also, on that note, how
can I ever forget the kala-khatta sherbet
outside VT (and NOT CST)... thats the one
thing which is older than my parents and still
going strong.
Also the Croissants Etc craze which hit

everyone at the same time. I remember, it
used to be such a dating ground with us
kids... hehehe.
About the mail van thingie, we used to cross

Ruchi our fingers and could uncross them only when
we saw a black car.
Did anyone ever count the numbers on a bus

ticket, find out the corresponding alphabets
and figure out which person from the opposite
sex of the name from that alphabet liked you?
:)
In the novel scene, a couple of things which

bring out some flavour of the city.
One is Tales from Firozsha Baag, Rohinton
Mistry. Another one is Dangerlok, Eunice
D'souza. Random Indian literature. I havent
read the Busybee book as yet.
Should pick it up soon...

:)
hmm... 9/3/2004 6:37 AM
From what I've read, the book that describes
bombay best is "Bombay MeriJaan", co edited
by Naresh Fernandes and Jerry Pinto...a
collection of short stories about the city.
Some of the best stories are those translated

from marathi which talk about the mills - the
disruptive powerloom and Datta Samant - and
the shivsena movement through the 60s, how
they managed to get all the left leaning mill
workers to 'fight' for their rights. Phenomenal
stuff, i preferred those stories to Rushdie and
naipaul extracts...Rushdie though is easily the
best authority ever to have written about
Mumbai.
Irshad Digressing, I think everyone should read
'Poisoned Bread', a collection of stories by
dalit writers. Amazing. Further digressing,
having an office in what used to be a mill
makes me realise what different worlds we
live in. My life has begun to revolve around
the 3 o clock shift, when the bhajiwalas and
the lunch carts make a beeline for century
mills and bombay dyeing, and all the workers
squatting, drinking tea and having their bidis.
The mills and the mill workers to me are more
symbolic of mumbai than totos, or bhutta at
carters.
9/3/2004 11:09 AM
On this note I have to mention that I've done
a summer school at Xaviers which was on the
history of Bombay. Awesome stuff. They got
all these authorities to talk to us, about how
the city was and is, and mainly the history of
settlements in this city.
Thus we had covered three main settlements.

1) Industrial settlements
2) Community settlements
3) Slums / unplanned settlements
And I had personally done a project on the

Ruchi industrial settlements, taking into account the
BDD chawls at Worli.
BDD stands for Bombay Development
Directorate and some say that these were
meant for jails before. Thus the windows in
the one room flats are high up with bars on
them.
Man!
Awesome learning there.
9/3/2004 11:15 AM
I like Sharda Dwivedi's book on Bombay..it's
my favourite coffee tablebook..great great
pics of the city...
Vikram
Especially of the *actual* Fort, Church Gate
etc...
@Ruchi 9/3/2004 11:19 AM
Wow, thats awesome I Love history.
Do you know if there is any course offered on
Colonial era Bombay, i.e. from Portugese
colonies to Independance. I am deeply
interested in that era, maybe something to do
with the buildings.
Pea Jay Please let me know when, where the course
is, if there is one, so I can plan my next visit
to Bombay accordingly.
Thanks
wwf stuff... 9/5/2004 5:52 AM
My younger bro and I would turn our bed and
often the floor into a wrestling ring. We'd each
choose our teams of wrestlers and could put
on any of these avatars. I bullied him into
taking all the bad guys. My team: The
Undertaker (my all time fav), Tatanka, El
Matador and The Natural Disasters
Dylan (Earthquake and Typhoon?). His team: The
Nasty Boys, Papa Shango, Mr. Perfect, The
Hitman Brett Hart (Hey, I had to give the guy
something)...
aa bell mujhe maar 9/6/2004 2:19 AM
there was this funny serial on DD-2 (i think).
it used to come in the afternoons at 3:30pm
on weekdays and had amol palekar in lead
role. anyone remembers this?
my school ended at 3:30pm and i used to
Amyn rush home to catch the last 10-15 mins :-)
jus remembered a total gem... 9/9/2004 5:29
AM delete
anyone remember those plastic fighting dolls?
more than the dolls it was funny to spot the
guy who sold them secretly wiggling his
finger....
Salil



arbitrary n random
9/9/2004 2:30 PM
I miss the madaris and their performing monkeys
Ab Johnny Mithun ki tarah disco dance karega
Milind
9/12/2004 3:56 AM
Amyn, you've brought up a real gem...! Aa Bail
Mujhe Maar was indeed hilarious... It's surprising
Bombay how some of the beter programs recede into some
(3250 members) forgotten corner of your mind and other, less
enjoyable programs stay clear and vivid...!
Sahil
9/16/2004 1:21 AM
Someone put a bullet through my head..
I woke up this morning humming the theme song

from "Bawaji ka BiScope" starring Ashok Kumar...
Vikram
And now the stupid song won't go out of my head!!
9/16/2004 2:45 AM
Damn, you come outta jail and you do this!
Hey, that jail bit reminded me of Monopoly...and

those 'get out of jail free' cards. I used to get em
Irshad
and sell em off for 25, so that guys who got into jail
didn't pay 50 and I made a 100% profit. lol!
@ Old Times ............. 9/17/2004 9:18 AM
Old is Gold ...........
i remember those serials :-
Hum Log , Buniyaad , ek shoonya shoonya ,

paramveer , Chitrahaar/Chaayageet ,
Man, those dayz ppl used to really luv soaps/serials

.....
Movies were normally seen in Theatres ...
Shankar Wat else :-
Mumbai was Bombay ---- of course .....
Hence , CST was VT .......
& so on ...........
Shankar.
toffee 9/17/2004 5:37 PM
Guys, do any of you remember that toffee in '80s,
which was shaped like a cube of 1 cm side
(roughly), had a buttery taste and was flavored as
different dry-fruits. It had a gold wrapper with a pic
of the particular dry-fruit it was supposed to taste
Pea Jay
like. I cannot remember its name, and would be
glad if you Pros can help me with that
more on serials .............. 9/17/2004 10:02 PM
Who can forget :-
epics --- Ramayan [Ramanand Sagar]& Mahabharat

[BR Chopra] !!
Also,those dayz ppl weren't as glued to the Idiot

Box as kids do today .......
i dont think ppl saw FRIENDS , BAYWATCH, The

Shankar Bold & The Beautiful ...... coz those days ppl
weren't having Cable TV ...
Wat Else ?? ---- add on .........
Shankar.
@Pranav 9/18/2004 1:18 AM
Are you talking of AA Sweets (Anant & Athavale)
kaju toffee ?
Milind
ahhh 9/20/2004 8:39 AM
also fusen gum which used to have that tatoo
thing, double gum with gums of two different
colours...also saw this ad by cadbury's in worli
saying " Completing 50 yrs of calling chocolate
CADBURY S" ..so true..i used to travel in BEST
buses with a 1 Re tkt(costly then) and it now costs
Mangesh me 11 Rs...would like to add that Bombay then had
so many irani rest where you could go and have
brun pao..yummy!!..now you can hardly see any
revival 9/30/2004 8:02 PM
this is one of my favourite threads on orkut, so i
thought i'd post one and bring it to the fore again..
random "i remembers":
gumboots, sporting encounters (Sat times), paper-

pellets slung by finger-mounted, rubber-band
catapults, "tikli" guns at diwali, tying a "maanja"
length (during kite season) to a chappal or stone
Dylan and engaging your opponent in a game of whose
"maanja" holds... was there a name for this?, 5-
paisa coins, a cheesy movie called Mard that was
once my favourite, autograph books in std 10,
carrom games on rainy days...


arbitrary n random
9/30/2004 9:20 PM
Damn you Dylan for making me remeber this silly
song!! It's gonna be in my head all day now..
Mard Taangewaala, main hoon mard taangewaala

Bombay
Mujhe dushman kya marega, mera dost
(3250 members)
Vikram ooperwaala..
(Full disclosure: This was also my favourite movie

at one point in my very very misguided childhood..)
omg.... 9/30/2004 10:29 PM
i'm sorry but you are completely hilarious, Vikram.
there is another song that comes to mind, but
won't state it here, for the sake of PCness (my
sense of "humor" is getting a bit too unPC
nowadays). so will stick to other earworm-worthy
jingles.
how about... gimme gimme gimme, vijaya butter.

on my toast gimme the most...on idli dosa, even
samosa...makki di roti, sarson da saag, wah ki
swaad...
or ab main bilkul boodha hun, goli khaake jeeta

Sat
hoon, lekin aaj bhi ghar ke andarrrrrrrr roshni deta
bajaj.
and Neena Gupta with "Murg mussallam, tameto

juice, matar pulao, maakidaal, kheeeemmaaaaa,
dum aloo....har vyanjan swadisht banaye, minton
mein jhatpat pakaye, hawkins, hawkins, hawkins
pressure cooker."
ok gotta go, i think i'm going nuts now.

@Mira (and everyone) 9/30/2004 11:24 PM
Mira, you mentioned part of the Bajaj bulbs ad...
Can you (or anyone) recite the entire ad ??? - I
Milind can
@milind 9/30/2004 11:58 PM
I think it went something like
jab mein chhota bachcha tha, badi shararat karta
tha, meri chori padki jaati, ab mein bilkul bhooda
hoon etc.
Btw u have a phenomenal memory for these things
Richa ..it funny though, my roommates and I were just
thinking talking abt old ads a while back and this
one came up. Do you remember the complan ad?
wot abt rasna?
10/1/2004 3:33 AM
What about the Amul chocolate ads?!
I am too old blah blah, too young to be a yadda

yadda...But I think you're just right for amul
Irshad chocolates.
Amul Chocolates - a gift for someone you love!
Damn, the days when ad agencies made ads not to

win awards. Salil would agree I'm sure!
Edit: They had these really corny ads in Amar

chitra katha...callig them "Sweet Toot delights from
Amul" and had the chocolates all on a train.
Or was that nestle?! Someone with a better

memory..help!
10/1/2004 4:26 AM
Yeh hai badta baccha, dekho kaise kuud lagaye,
Yeh hai badta baccha, kapda chhota hota jaye...
I'm a Complan Boy!

I'm a Complan Girl!
Vikram
(For the record, I was a Boost Boy...thanks to Kapil
Dev's "Boost is the secret of MY energy"!)
back by popular demand... 10/1/2004 5:42 AM
jab main chotta baccha tha, badi shararat karta
tha, meri chori pakdi jaatiiiiii, jab roshni deta bajaj.
kya rangeen jawani thi, ik raja aur ik rani thi, raja

rani ghar ke andarrrrrr,aur roshni deta bajaj.
ab main bilkul boodha hoon, goli khaake jeeta

Sat hoon, lekin aaj bhi ghar ke andarrr, roshni deta
bajaj.
FYI, the Presidential debates are very interesting

right now in my part of the world, yaar.
Hammm.... 10/1/2004 7:20 AM
Hammmm....7.25 Boriwali fast....Cutting Chai at
the Thela.....Rain in the train....Worli Seaface in the
night....Velocity on the Friday night....Girgaon
Paresh Chaupati at Ganesh Visarjan....Marine Drive in the
evening....Wadapaw.....and on....and on....
10/1/2004 11:11 AM
The Topaz flag collection, where we collected the
flags of the countries. And how no matter how
many candies you bought, you could never find the
Mauritania Flag.
Aur woh pacchis paisey ka "sorat" jo local bhaniya

ke paas milta tha.
And did someone mention the firebrand lady

Raj "Rajni"? Or "Faster Feni"? Or the serial hosted by
Kamleshwar on Thursdays. Anyone remember the
name?
And those annoying "Rukawat ke liye khed hain"

signs on TV.
When my mom used to wake us up, not because it
was 6:30 in the watch, but because she just heard
the "Deccan Queen" pass by.
How proud we were, that Rohan Kanhai, and Allwyn

Kallicharan were Indians.
How we used to tell the barber, "Setting" style

chahiye. Those long sideburns, and the hair
completely covering the ears.
And <making a gun out of my fingers>, you all

"STATUE".
10/1/2004 11:07 AM
Thanks vikram!!
Richa



arbitrary n random
hey! 10/1/2004 12:39 PM
Get your filthy wadapaws off of me!
Bombay Sat
(3250 members) LOng time no post 10/1/2004 1:13 PM
Since I have to run off in a few mins, here is a
package reply to all the new posts so far:
1. Vikram, thank you so much (sarcastic) for

replacing the Allah ke Bande song from my head
with this 'Mard' song. FYI I was caught by my mom
trying to carve 'Mard' on my chest with a kitchen
knife! HOw misguided is that!
2. Milind, I am not talking about AA brother's
Kajubarfi. They still have it though.
Pea Jay 3. SInce I was a BOurnvita boy:
"Tan ki Shakti Man ki Shakti Bournvita"
4. God bless the soul of Late Shafi Inamdar (MDH

Masala ad with Nina Gupta)
5. ANother corny and hilarious ad of Prestige

Pressure Pan:
'Fek do ye Kadhai, ...ye (something else)
Le aao prestige pressure pan
Fry kare, deep fry kare..."
ANyways, my favorite scene in the ad was Father,

Son and MOther-in-Law sitting at dinner table and
staring at the flying utensils coming from the
kitchen. I found the ad completely natural back
then, but after some years, thinking of it starts
giving me a laughing fit!
@Irshad 10/1/2004 10:45 PM
Are you talking about ads which were a picture and
you had to count how many logo's were hidden?
Well that was for Maggi and used to be on
Chandamama.
Pea Jay By the way, does anyone remember the fortnightly
'Champak'? All these years and they still publish it.
@pranav... 10/1/2004 11:30 PM
Nope, this was just a cheesy ad that Amul used to
have in Amar Chitra Katha...Other cheesy ads in
the ACKs were "The adventures of Gems Bond", no
prizes for guessing what his secret weapon was.
Ram and Shyam and their Poppins
adventures...somehow they had color co-ordinated
teeshirts in those ads.
Irshad
I do remember the Maggi contests, they were great
fun! But I somehow never made it to the Maggi
club, dunno why. Must've been the only shmuck
who didnt!
@Irshad 10/2/2004 12:10 AM
Neither did I! The bastards took my goodies away
and never replied a thing!
Pea Jay
And celebrity Ads 10/2/2004 7:20 AM
I dont remember any cricket or film stars appearing
in Ads on TV, unlike today. Imagine Dharmendra or
Rajesh Khanna adverstising for Rim Jhim, or "Taste
Raj the thunder" Thumsup. The only one I remember is
Sunil Gavaskar for Dinesh. Anyone else?
10/2/2004 8:07 AM
Take the world in your stride... Dinesh!
(The firang was so cute, angry and all).
The Egypt ad was not so cute.
I also remember Sridevi in the Seema tubelight ad

wearing some blue thing with lots of frills, walking
Ruchi down from stairs and dancing. Wearing lots of
lipstick obv.
10/2/2004 8:10 AM
This reminds me.. let me make the US people zara
jealous now!
I have the ring tones of Lifebuoy, Titan, Nescafe on

my phone currently.
Ruchi
Used to have the Batmaya one and the Malgudi
Days one too!
10/2/2004 9:44 AM
I would love to have the Malgudi days one. And the
jingle from the Bacardi Ad. Humming .. Nothing is
as nice as finding paradise, and sipping on Bacardi
Rum !!
Talking of cell phones reminds me of how we had to

do with the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited of
old. How we had to grease the hands of the
Raj linesman, and their Diwali Bakshish. That probably
still happens.
And anyone remember LalitaJi, and her "Ravi

Beta"? Surf ki kharid daari mein hi samajhdaari
hain.
celeb ads 10/2/2004 6:36 PM
Kapil Dev-Palmolive ka Jawab nahin
Dilip Vengsarkar-SOme stupid soap called VIgil
Pea Jay



arbitrary n random
10/3/2004 12:48 PM
my bro and i would sing this '87 Reliance
World Cup ad, I think (the I think was
insurance against Salil pointing out that my
memory is crappy again.. he's totally right
Bombay
though) "The world is coming down, the flags
(3250 members)
are up, who's gonna be number one, who's
Dylan gonna take home that Cup.."
I've got more to that if anyone's interested..

And Bharat Ek Khoj 10/3/2004 1:40 PM
Woh tha hirany garbh srishti se pehle
vidyamaan
Wohi tho saare bhoot jaat ka swami mahaan
Jo hai astitvmaan dharti aasmaan dhaaran
kar
Raj
Aisey kis devta ki upasna kare hum avi dekar
Jis ke bal par tejomay hai ambar

Prithvi hari bhari sthaphit sthir
Swarg aur sooraj bhi sthir
Aise kis devta ki upasna kare hum avi dekar
And I've got more to that, if anyone's

interested.
cool! 10/3/2004 3:03 PM
LOL, my god, that's so cool, Ruchi. Batamya,
that's priceless. what would alos be cool
would be the Doordarshan intro music that
would come on every time tv started in the
evening. (no, not the uni-frequency drone
that accompanied the colored bands, but the
music with the rotating comet type things
that ended with the DD logo.) here in the US
Sat we are quite backward when it comes to
cellphone and general technology usage.
hardly anybody uses SMS here.
Raj, definitely interested, please post the rest

of the Bharat ek Khoj poem. thx!
10/3/2004 4:26 PM
I agree with the how the US of A is backwards
in terms of cell phone technology. Strangely,
India seems to be going backwards, I hear,
especially with Reliance making use of CDMA
technology like in the US, instead of GSM.
And I guess people dont use SMS coz of all
the unlimited call times one gets. Better to
leave a voice mail, rather than learn the ins
and outs of shortcut keys and SMS
abbreviations.
And do not complain about me filling up the

page. Here goes "Bharat Ek Khoj"
Srishtee se pehle saty nahin thaa, asaty bhi

nahin tha
Antariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhi nahin tha
chipaa thaa kyaa kahaan, kisne dekhaa tha
us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan tha
Raj
Shrishtee kaa kaun hain karta
Kartaa hain yeh vaa akarta
Oonche aasmaan mein rehtaa
Sadaa adhyaksh banaa rehta
Wohi sach much mein jaantaa, Yaa nahin bhi
jaantaa
Hain kisi ko nahin pataa, Nahin pataa
Woh tha hiranya garbh srishti se pehle

vidyamaan
Wohi to saare bhoot jaat ka swami mahaan
Jo hai astitvamaan dharti aasmaan dhaaran
kar
Aise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Jis ke bal par tejomay hai ambar

Prithvi hari bhari sthapit sthir
Swarg aour sooraj bhi sthir
Aisey kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi
dekar
Garbh mein apne agni dhaaran kar paida kar

Vyapa tha jal idhar udhar neeche upar
Jagaa chuke vo ka ekameva pran bankar
Aise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Om ! Srishti Nirmaata swarg rachayta purvaj

rakhsa kar
Satya dharma palak atul jal niyamak raksha
kar
Phaili hain dishayen bahu jaisi uski sab mein
sab par
Aisi hi devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Aisi hi devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
amazing... 10/4/2004 4:44 AM
here i am in a an internet cafe in amsterdam delete
so bloody glad i started this thread'. guys, got
little to contribute as my euros run out... but
its great to read at least fo now..
Salil
Bharat ek khoj 10/4/2004 6:43 AM
Hey isnt tht the translation of the "hymn of
creation" from the rigveda
Amit
@Raj 10/4/2004 3:53 PM
Awesome, man..Thanks for the Bharat Ek
Khoj title...
Actually, if you remember the very first

Episode, the entire episode was in Verse...
and it was a continuation of this very verse...
Milind from the Rigveda...
ZEE TV USA shows Bharat Ek Khoj weekly,

and I never waited for any show in the US as
I did for that first episode
@Mira & Ruchi 10/4/2004 3:56 PM
USA cellphones suck.. but get a GSM phone
here and then you can really go wild... I have
been converting MP3s to ringtones and I have
so many self created ones... in fact I have the
All India Radio signature tune as one of my
ringtones.
Milind Mira, I also have the Doordarshan signature
tune.. as well as the Marathi "baatmya"
theme - unfortunately all on tape.. one of
these days I really need to get those into
digital format!
10/4/2004 5:34 PM
Thanks Raj that was really mind-blowing.
Does anyone remember the title song for
Chanakya?
Also there was a patriotic song in one of the
Chanakya episodes:
Ham Kare Rashtra aaraadhan Ham kare
raashtra aaraadhan.
Tan se man se dhan se

Pea Jay Tan-man-dhan-jeevan se
Apne haste shaishav se

apne khilte yaovan se
ham kare rashtra ka archan
Does anyone remember the complete verse?

Hiranyagarbha Sookta 10/4/2004 9:46 PM
The Bharat Ek Khoj song is from two famous
RV verses, Nasadiya Sookta and
Hiranyagarbha Sookta. Both of them are
agnostic hymns, as opposed to the
Purushasookta, but now the Hiranyagarbha
Sookta is considered to be a prayer to the
Sun. I disagree, but let's not digress.
RV 10:121
Hiranyagarbha Sookta RV 121
I know the sookta in sanskRut, though, not in

Hindi.
hiraNyagarbha samavartataagre bhootasya

jaata patireka aaseet.
sadaadhaara pRuthivi dhyaamutemaa kasmai
devaaya haviSha vidhema.
and so on...
(OMkAr)
the meaning can be found here
Someone spoke about the creation hymn.

That is the Purushasookta RV 10:90.
It's highly controversial because it talks about

the creation of the four castes.
The sasnkrit version is here and the English

translation, here.
The Nasadiya Sookta is RV 10:129

English
Nasadiya Sookta RV 10:129
The thing is, the Hiranyagarbha sookta in

Bharat ek Khoj has been chanted exactly the
same way as I was taught it, though in Hindi.
The translator must have been some really
smart guy.
I take no credit for the English translations,

and no responsibility for your actions after
reading them. Do not flame me.



arbitrary n random
Which Veda is this from? 10/5/2004 6:41 AM
Since we are talking sanskrit, tell me which veda is
this from?
Bombay Aye balike, twam katham kathisyasi

(3250 members) Aye balakah, aham kim kathisyamh
Shrinvasi
Shrunha
Raj
Kim twam khandaalaa agchasyasi
Aham kim kurwasyami khandaalayeh
gamisyami, bhramisyami, nryuthyami, gaayami,
maja
karishma, kim karishyami?
nice one! 10/5/2004 9:51 AM
Esta canción es del "Ghulam" cinematográfico. el
chico y la chica son "Aamir" y la "Rani". Ellos van a
"Khandala". ¿Soy correcto?
Sat
onkar 10/5/2004 12:14 PM
The Purushasookta doesnt really glorify the caste
system. It explains the importance of each caste
by comparing it to human bodily organs
Pea Jay
@Mira 10/5/2004 2:00 PM
Señora Sí Querida. Usted tiene absolutamente
razón
Raj
English, please 10/5/2004 3:37 PM
Sprechen Sie Englisch, Bitte.
Pea Jay
Sorry 10/5/2004 4:34 PM
The sanskrit shlok is the song "Aati kya
Khandaala"
Raj
10/5/2004 11:18 PM
"i remember.. warning: totally arbitrary n random"
I cannot even crib. I have been warned it would be

arbitrary and random...
Ruchi
10/5/2004 11:32 PM
Kya pakarai sablog! :)

Nishant
Sahi ekdum !
Doordarshan tune mp3 10/6/2004 1:54 AM
Please please please, can i have it? Please?
Please?
Hell, I haven't seen anyone beg this badly even for

(OMkAr) a gmail account!
purushasookta 10/6/2004 2:00 AM
Raj,
It's from the RV, dashama mandala. the dashama

mandala has some really kickass sooktas. however
my favourite is the second mandala, which has
most of the brahmanaspati sookta, my favourite of
them all.
Pranav,
I never said it celebrated the caste system. But it

uses a metaphor for the creation of the brahmins.
'brahmanosya mukhamasit' = the brahmin was his
(OMkAr) mouth.
while for the shudras, it says, 'padbhyaam shudro
ajayata' = the shudras were born from his [two]
feet.
it could be argued that the brahmin was purusha's

mouth even before the purushamedha was
performed, which makes it controversial.
anyway, lets end this here.


arbitrary n random
i remember.. 10/6/2004 6:58 AM
* Going late in school. and prayer
Guru brahma guru vishnu guru devo maheshwara
Guru sakshat par brahma tasmayee sri guru dev
Bombay namah
(3250 members)
Nilesh Yakunde tu shar har dhavala..
Ya veena var dand mandit kara..
Ya shwet padmasana..
random 10/6/2004 6:59 AM
* The teacher's day, rahi day and friendship day
celebration in school
* Starting XII classes right in XIth class
* daily going to VJTI and roaming around in b;bay
for complete One month of stay order on
engineering admission
* Run for domicile certificate since some friend say
it will be needed
* Sitting on the belapur station for one to two
Nilesh hours waiting for Andheri Belapur local
* Coming only by lift from MGM to belapur, if some
girl is there with you..
* Attaining all the inter-collage functions Horizon,
Chemsplash and what not.. forgot the names of
some..
* Going to vidyalankar classes on friend's I-card
* Copying another's project for B.Tech project
when TV was not 24 hrs 10/6/2004 7:21 AM
Remember when TV was not 24 hrs ???
Doordarshan used to start at around 5 pm or so...

initially the screen was of 7 vertical bands of the
rainbow colors.. then that tune with the DD logo
forming in the background... then the announcer
Amit announcing
"Doordarshan Mumbai chya sandhyakalchya sabhet

aaple swaagat aahe... aajche karyakram.."
The Old TV Shows 10/6/2004 8:09 AM
But, I remember that Sundays were an exception.
Used to start at like 8:00 AM. As kids, we used to
watch "Show Theme", "Star Trek", "Different
Strokes", "Kahan Gaye Woh Log", "Dada Dadi Ki
Kahaniyan", "Bawaji Ka Biscope", "Aisa Bhi Hota
Hain" on Sunday Mornings.
Raj Some othe shows on weekdays that I remember:

Swami, Singhasan Bateesi, Fauji, Vikram Aur
Betaal, Ados Pados, Yes Prime Minister, Tasveer ka
Dusra Rukh, Udaan, Street Hawk, Knight Rider,
Katha Saagar, Tamas, Whats the good word, Bante
Bigadte, Old Fox, Subah, Life Line, and those
TeleMatches, Mister Yogi. I still remember that
funny line from Mister Yogi. [I could understand the
joke back then [:D] ]
Yogi Introducing himself to a PYT: "Y.I. Yogi".

PYT: "Thats your problem"
Wow !!! I remember so many of them. Jeetendra

was not kidding. These memory tablets do work
[For those who remember that ad ].
10/6/2004 8:17 AM
@ Raj... 30+!!!
:-)
And I remember the music of dada dadi ki

kahaniya.
Ruchi Have I/anyone else mentioned Potli Baba Ki? That
was the cutest thing ever!
Ruchi... 10/6/2004 12:25 PM
dada dadi ki kahaniyaaaaannn...
sadiyon yaad raheeee...
bhoola nahin koi bachpan me suni...
Sat why do i remember all this? did i suffer some brain

trauma in the 80's?
@Mira 10/6/2004 2:00 PM
You and me both
How about the classic from Vikram aaur Vetaal:

Vikram, bhag jaa...mera peecha chod de. Main tere
Milind bas mein aane wala nahi hoon... jisne tujhe mere
peeche bheja hai woh maha dhurt hai... ha ha ha
ha
10/6/2004 2:02 PM
Had the most terrific experience yesterday... While
browsing about in the local public library, I found
treasure!! - Video cassettes of Fireball XL5 and
Milind Giant Robot !!!! Did I have a fun night out!!!
"yere yere pausa.. 10/6/2004 6:11 PM
ya do remember potli baba ki, there's also "yere
yere pausa tula deto paisa...paisa jala khota paus
aala mota.." does anyone remember that, i dont
know the whole thing, just the begining.
And do you remember this? 10/7/2004 8:59 AM
And do you remember this animated song?
Didi, yeh anek kya hota hain?

Anek, anek yaaney bahut saare
Jaise....
Suraj ek, Chanda ek, Taare anek.
Raj
Didi, Taaron ko anek kyon kehte hain?
nahi, nahi, phir se suno
Suraj ek, Chanda ek, Taare anek.
Ek gilhari,Ek aur gilhari

Ek ek ek karke, ho gayen ab anek gilhariyaan
Ek titali, Anek titaliyaan
Cannot help a smirk at myself, remembering this


topic: i remember.. warning: totally arbitrary

n random
yere yere pausa... 10/7/2004 11:38 AM
yere yere pausa
tula deto paisa
paisa zhala khota
Bombay paus ala motha
(3250 members)
yega yega saree
Milind mazhe madka bharee
sar aali dhavun
madke gele wahun
@Milind 10/7/2004 1:11 PM

Great. Now how about "Ring-a-Ring O Roses"?
Raj
here you go Raj! 10/7/2004 4:41 PM
let the nostalgia juices flow!
http://www.rajiv.com/india/humor/anek.aspx
http://www.geology.ohio-
state.edu/~bhattiprolu/personal/nostalgia/
*hops on one leg*
Satish
Thanks Satish 10/8/2004 11:01 AM
That did bring back some memories. And jogging back, Does
Anyone remember the Pepsi Ad? The full one with Remo and
Juhi "Are you ready for the magic?"
The other Pepsi one with Aamir, Mahima and of course,

Sanju a.k.a Ash. No one can forget that.
Raj
The Thrill One - Hum, Tum aur Thrill. Chaahe Mera Dil.
Yeh Bechaara kaam ke bhoj kaa maara. Isey chahiye

Sinkara.
The Lehar 7up Fido Dido
Yeh Captain Cook Aate waalon ne thoy Naak mein dum kar
rakha hain.
The Onida Ones - Neighbours Envy, Owners pride. (This one

also made it to our College Toilet Graffiti )
Marlex Pressure Cooker - Khaana Jaldi Pakaaye, Kaise Seeti

Bajaaye
Prestige - Jo Biwi Se Kare Pyaar, Woh Prestige se Kaise kare

Inkaar
Hawkins - Hawkins Ki Seeti Baji, Khusbhoo hi Khusboo Udi
Nirma Detergent tikiya, Iske jaag ne jaadu kar diyan
Bacchon, Yeh hain hamare daaton ki banawat.

Raju, Tumhare daath thoy motiyon jaise chamak rahe hain?
Aur Masterji, aapke daath?
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they

weren't so crazy about the first time around. - Author
Unknown
10/8/2004 12:31 PM
bhool na jaana..ECE bulb lana
khujli karne wale, b-tex lagaale
bally sagoo's churaliya
awake on the wild side with nonie
headbangers ball with danny mcgill
gnr appetite for destruction tape covers through the window

display
parikrama's 100th
jason bourne
jonathan livingstone seagull

Satz
chota chetan
supremo's comics
space, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the

starship enterprise. On a mission to visit stange new worlds,
to seek out new planets and new civilizations. to boldly go
where no man has gone before.
i am adam, prince of eternia and a defender of the secret of

castle greyskull. this is Krenjure, my fearless friend. fabulous
secret powers were revealed to me the day i held aloft my
magic sword and said:
10/8/2004 12:38 PM
BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL
I HAVE THE
POWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Satz
Headbangers Ball !! 10/8/2004 12:56 PM
Oh Yeah !!! And I was a regular of The MTV Rewind show
with Danny. And then there were Nonie, and David Wu, and
Alessandra. Those were the days when MTV played only
English tracks. Those were also the times, when every other
VJ did not attempt to be funny. Just kept it simple.The good
Raj
old days when MTV was not indianized, and did not have
Bollywood movie clips after every 2 minute song. And Indian
pop did not mean plagiarized remixed songs.
kya bhailog, 10/9/2004 8:31 PM
kya chalrailay? aur kuch yaad nikalneko lag raha tha aur yeh
thread ko jinda bhi rakhneka hai. So, here goes - Tender
Coconut ice cream from Naturals, Ganga Jamna Saraswati at
Chembur Station, Chinese Bhelpuri and American Chopsuey
and Jain Pav Bhaji, Spring Masala Dosa at Krishna on Sion-
Sat Trombay rd.., and Ethnic Pizza at Dominoes(?) opp.
akbarallys in chembur - the pizza topping was the masala
you get inside the masala dosa, how cool is that?
And the SeaFood 10/10/2004 7:10 AM
... at Mahesh Lunch Home. Awesome!!!! Typical Manglorean
fare. Prawn Gassi, the Pomfret Curry. Been more than 5
years since I last went there. And missing Bade Miyan ke Egg
Parathas and kababs, and the bun maska paav's and kheema
Raj paav at Light of Iran, the rasam vadas at Cafe Madras, the
solcurry's at the Malvani restaurants after a heavy meal.
Bliss!!!!
10/11/2004 2:46 AM
Mumbai without flyovers
without multiplexes
the Abyss playing at Sterling
the day i visited Rhythm House for the first time and went
absolute bonkers
getting drenched by the waves and the rains at worli seaface
spending days at crosswords at breach candy and finishing

books without buying any.
Satz
discovering smoker's corner at Fort(really cheap books here)
walking across south mumbai...fort to churchgate to regal

and back to fort.
fashion street
the biggest vada pavs at worli

Independence Rock at Rang Bhavan (curses to those
neanderthals who shut it down)



arbitrary n random
@ Raj 10/11/2004 7:38 PM
Gajalee at Vile Parle, great, great seafood.
Anyone know Goa Bhavan? Its actually a flat near

Bombay Juhu Scheme, run by an Aunty and Uncle. Great
(3250 members) food yaar, che, kya hai yaar ! You go and ring the
bell, and sit in the ghar ka table. There is a slightly
bevda guy who comes and gives you water. Then
the Uncle or the Aunty comes and gives you the
food.
Nishant
Reminded me of a superb Konkani place in Poona,
near Deccan, it was on the first floor, similar to the
Goa Bhavan joint. But nothing like Goa Bhavan, for
the smell. (Also in Poona, Sujata Cold Drink House'
fabulous Mastana - a milk shake thing which was
totally, totally BLOWN!)
Kya kar diya yaar!

10/11/2004 7:40 PM
Oh ya. I think I wrote this on another thread.
What is This?
Kombdee Ka peese
Ghar Me Jaake Masala Pees
Nishant Gaadi ka number Char Sau Bees.
(Edited - I wrote this one in early on this thread. :)

)
may i add... 10/12/2004 4:46 AM
I was'nt too much into the telly as a kid.
Doordarshan was the only channel then. Weekends,
especially Sundays were when I used to watch
stuff.
Anand I vividly recall this program called TURNING POINT

hosted by Girish Karnad... Sundays... 4:00 to 4:30
p.m. if my memory serves me right
My dad is a diehard fan of Carnatic music fan. His
domination of the TV was
between 11:00 and 11:30 a.m. on Sundays "THE
SPIRIT OF UNITY CONCERT"
Others I can recall include the morning cartoon

slots of Tom and Jerry
Guinness Book of World Records hosted by some

Robert Frost(9:00 A.M. Sundays)
Summer vacations were spent watching the telly

every morning 9:30 to 1:00 P.M. odd
(Here it was CHARLIE CHAPLIN, LAUREL HARDY,
and yes... this one called INVISIBLE MAN)
Other serials: Chandrakanta, Reporter, Junoon,

Shanti, Udaan(Kavita Kapoor thingie)
Hey, this one called BYOMKESH BAKSHI was my

favourite. Don't recall the slots though (Friday
nights I think)
Also this one called SANGHARSH (Padminin Kutti),

FAUJI(Shah Rukh Khan)
Every Sunday afternoon one regional film on DD.

Sunday evenings were filled with sounds of Ghazals
(Jagjit Singh et al)
I remember going ga-ga over the "Hawa Hawa"
song by Mehdi Hassan of Pakistan.
All this was before DD came out with SUPERHIT

MUQABLA and other countdown shows to increase
their weekend viewership.
(A total makeover from Chhayageet, Chitrahaar
stuff)
Hawa Hawa was by Hasan Jahangir 10/12/2004
6:26 AM
Hawa Hawa Ey Hawa
Khushboo Lutade
Kahan Khuli Hai Khuli

Dil Ko Bata De
Ab Uska Pata De!

Zara Mujhko Bata De!
Mai Usse Miloonga!
Ik Baar Mila De!
Nishant
Yaar Milade
Dildaar Milaade
Yaar Milade
Dildaar Milade
(Tanana-tana!)
(Tanana-tana!)
Phir Kisike chehreka rang khil gaya
Bichda Hua Aaj Koi Usko Mil Gaya
(Tanana tana!)(Tudum-tudum)
(Tanana tana!)
Phir Kisike chehreka rang khil gaya

Bichda Hua Aaj Koi Usko Mil Gaya
Kaise Mil Gaya!

Dildar Mil Gaya!
Maine usse dhoond liya saara zamana!
Hawa Hawa Ey Hawa...

dudes and dudettes 10/12/2004 12:42 PM
anybody here remember Giant Robot and Fireball
XL5 on DD?
ok..how about Satyajit Ray presents...remember

that alien spacecraft landing and giving a teleporter
to the geography teacher in a village?
or how about Der Fahnder, Shoestring and the Old

Fox. the detective series the dudes on DD used to
show. that was i believe german
teleserials...ok..and how about those ...whaddya
call em...them german games..yea TELE-MATCH!
and the Didi's comedy show..

Satz
that was hilarious...woo hoo!
then the UGC programme that was mostly boring,

sometimes educational..at about noon everyday.
and i remember drinking loads of goldspot and

campa cola...
just awesome man!

@Nishant 10/12/2004 3:19 PM
Gajalee sea food was awesome. They opened one
in MIDC, Andheri too. And does anyone remember
that small home like restaurant, outside the Kalina
Raj campus. We could not help licking our fingers.
Awesome food.
@Raj... 10/13/2004 12:29 AM
err, you must've been at Kalina ages ago man!
there's no small home type restaurant there
anymore. there's one called Walk-Inn, and there's
two others called Sai Kripa and Sainath I think.
Irshad
The students won't be able to afford that though!
@satyajit 10/13/2004 4:19 AM
i agree man
that detective series on dd was awesome... the
german guys were real cool i loved it... and so were
Freebird the german games.. that thing where towns
compete against each other .. and who can forget
didi's comedy show... that guy got hit so many
times it was not ecen funny after a while...
and of course i was a giant robot fan....
such fine things ur post made me recall...ahhh the

good ol days...
10/13/2004 6:29 AM
Telematch!
Eins
Zwei
Drei
Vier (cool!)
Funf
Nishant Sechs
Sieben (this was very cool !)
Acht
Neun
(and then whatever it was for Start!)
:)
10/13/2004 6:38 AM
Salil - in that superb first post which began this
thread, you mention Busybee in Mid-Day. I
remember Busybee in The Evening News.
Also Afternoon D&C's very controversial front page

which went "NO NEWS"..."IS GOOD NEWS
Nishant BECAUSE NESTLE CHOCOLATES ARE HERE" or
something like that.
Also the Illustrated Weekly's brilliant covers, during

Meham, Mandal and Devi Lal.



arbitrary n random
10/13/2004 8:58 AM
Hey Nishant.. u not older than *I* am... in my delete
days it was the middaythat carried busybee...
and its funny how the readers of the ADC
made it such a big deal coz the times got
away with something similar in the same
Bombay week.
(3250 members) of course no visit to the barber shop (yes i
used to get haircuts once) was complete
without readingg the entire illustrated weekly
(2 issues at a time), i remember being totally
shocked by the issue on the bhagalpur
blindings. and reading for the first time about
phoolan devi.
and u corrected anand jus in time about
hassan jehangir and not mehdi hassan.. man,
mehdi hassan wud not be amused.
but then anand, u not too great with names...
robert frost is turning in his grave at bein
credited for hostin guiness world records. that
was david frost.. another great david..
attenborough i mean is the only voice i see fit
to describe the goings on in 'the living planet.'
and whoever sed satyajit ray presents.... that
show was indelible coz it scared the hell outta
me with one episode with amol palekar and
shriram lagoo... about the portrait painter
who only paints dead ppl... and about school
prayers, who can forget the secular version
most schools had which went like :
Salil "eternal God
creator of all
i firlmly believe that i am now
in your presence
i adore
your divine majesty
and i ask of you
to enlighten my soul
that i may never
in my thoughts
words or deeds
offend against
your holy law.
the other one with which we ended school was

:
we give you thanks almighty God, for all the

benefits
you have given us today. Oh my God (help
complete please...)
and thx to whoever brought up that ek aur

anek cartoon... that along with 'tree of unity'
and the garbage one are my all time faves.
10/13/2004 11:10 AM
Talking of Films Division cartoons - my
favourite one was Swimmy- about a small fish
who goes out into the ocean and then teams
Milind up with other small fish to form a big fish
which scares the shit out of bigger fish
10/13/2004 5:24 PM
So ya, I just went through the Whole Thread -
1. The 4th chapter in Balbharati had Nitin's

father from Panaji, who was really cool for
some reason. I dont even remember Jal, but
kucch tho deep memory me kuch tho chalrai.
And Community Living and Moral Science -
really Orwellian subjects yaar. All the roads
and trees and buildings were so perfect, like
nothing could ever go wrong here. BTW,
American Suburbia is verrry Community
Living. In CL tho kuch bhi karke you had to
get good marks. Also in school, "Who said to
whom" in History, what was up with that ?
2. I remember all those games. Opps- Batts

was a very good excuse for us to line-maro
girls (coming now from an avowed feminist. :)
) Jolly, yes, kya pakau game tha yaar - and
ek dum jor se we used to give Guccha.
3. The matchboxes reminded me of those sofa

set mathboxes we used to make in school.
And Craft and Marble Paper. Some kids used
Nishant
to make really cool sofa sets yaar. Mast
ekdum. Also,we had charts na, with pictures
of animals, plants, different foods, boys and
girls being clean, healthy and thoughtful to
elders, the handicapped, freedom struggle
leaders, so many different ones yaar. I found
those charts compiled as an "Indian Art"
compendium at the Museum of Modern Art's
shop in NYC and also at the MFA in Boston.
Sold at around $50, I think.
4. LOL - ROFL @ Ameya -

Our version was "Kaana Khali vaajav tyala"
from the Gripe water ad. LOL!
5. Satya, I remember Inspector Gote, dont

remember what it was. Please refresh our
memories, thanks.
6. Varun, is kadaklaxmi the dude who used to

whip himself and make that very painful
noise. It used to scare the s*** out of me.
10/13/2004 5:24 PM
7. Old TV stuff - Shwetambara,Santakukdi,
Kilbil, Narrotam Puri and Anupam Gulati in
World of Sport, Bhakti Barve in Saptahikee,
Nishant
Gher Bethan (Gujju, no ? wasnt there a
Marathi version), Charcha (how rivetting is
that?), Telematch of course, Whats the Good
Word with Sabira Merchant, New Years
Special with Usha Uthup and a Ronnie
Screwwala type Bawa, The News (Rini Simon,
Gitanjali Aiyar, Luku Sanyal, Minu,Sasikumar,
Siddharth Kak, Suneet Tandon - my parents
used to be damn kicked with the Mallu
newsreaders), Loved the Brit Brown Sahib
accents of the News Readers.Shafi Inamdaar,
Satheesh Shah and Swaroop Sampat in Yeh
Jo Hai Zindagi. With Saptahiki, we used to
watch the programmes that week, and light
up when they used to show a scene which had
already appeared in Saptahiki. "Yeh Ayela
Hai.Yeh Ayela Hai." We had the only TV in the
building, so everyone used to come to our
very very tiny house to watch the Hindi Film
on Sunday and the Marathi Film on Saturday.
Nilu Phule, drunken and lecherous was so
cool.
We had one of the first VCRs when we moved

to Chembur.
The only movie in the whole colony was
Tohfa.
For one year, One year.
"Aah, ooh, lolita!" OMG, Jeetendra.
Trying to trace the faces of Karachi singers

and old-school bureaucrats after "Close
Down". I remember being very dissapointed
when "Close Down" happened, just after
National Programme of Music and Dance.
8. Double Decker Chocolate!, Joy Ice Cream, I

have an invented memory ke I can still get it
at a restaurant in Dadar Circle (I know, I
know bridge ban gaya).Brittania Coconut
Crunchies (Jala Agha, no ? Ek Naariyal Pedh
Se Tuta, Girte Hi woh beech se toota.)
9. The themed Chayageets were awesome.

Every year during Ganpati - Amjad Khan went
"Dev Ho Deva, Ganpati Deva...Tumse Badhkar
Kaun...swami tumse badhkar kaun".
10/13/2004 5:25 PM
10. Eh, I also won the Boost ka cricket bat
with Kapil's autograph, 3rd prize during the
Reliance cup, okkkkkkk? :) And Irshad, I had
2 memberships to the Maggi club, made me
feel special, that was the only mail I used to
get. Sorry they couldnt find a place for you. :)
Nishant
11. And Irani restaurants of course, I heard
Bastani closed down, the brun maska and the
kheema paav. Brittania and Co at Ballard Pier
still rules, Berry Pulao is still mind-blowing
and they had a dessert which was awesome,
dont remember what it was.
12. @ Vikram, isnt Shanmukhananda Hall

back in action ? I remember my parents
dragging me to Mallu programs every year,
the smell of the mullapoo (mogra flowers),
while doing anything traditional. Right up
there with all those forgotten smells of our
past. Like the dettol/phenyl that greets us at
Sahar airport, the same phenyl that used to
hypnotize us in school toilets.
13. Havaldars in blue uniforms ! :)
14. For Bombay nostalgia, its Busybee

anytime !
15. Dylan, Sporting Encounters in Saturday

Times, yes! Really funny, and its counterpart
in building get-togethers - fish pond?? And
Mukul Sharma's Mindsport. I knew one guy
who used to solve those puzzles seriously.
Merko tho pahla problem hi samajh me nahi
aata tha, yaar.
16. Mango Ripe, Mango Ripe, Naya Hai Rasna

Mango Ripe, Koi Samay Ho, Koi Din, Rasna
Mango Ripe Ka din. (Lyrics could be
corrected?)
10/13/2004 5:25 PM
17. Also Fryums, and Kwality Bun, this was
another sticker ka contest, I was in 4th
standard, and used to study in the same
school my mother still teaches in. All the other
staff members would make sure they gave me
the stickers that they got. I remember having
finally finished it, dont remember what I got
for it.
18. Saat Saal ke Boodhe Ya Saatth Saal Ke

javan. Chyawanprash ?
19. And that ad with Jayant Kripalani and the

little girl," Aur phir bhediye ne .... se kaha..."
Nishant
and she clears her throat. "Gale me khich
khich, gale me khich khich kya karooooon.
Vicks ki golee lo, khich khich door karo. :)
20. I found Champak and Chandamama,

bound copies at the New York Public Library,
not for circulation one summer afternoon. You
can imagine what I went through at the time.
21. @ Raj, That was "Y.I. Patel" "Thats your

problem". Mohan Gokhale, may he rest in
peace.
22. The serial with Girish Karnad and the kids
and Farida Jalal - Sara Jahan Hamara.
23. Hey, and Siddharth Basu's Quiz Time !

REC, Rourkela, IIT, Bombay and St Xavier's
Calcutta.
24. And the films division short films - there

was one where this lady, I presume Queen
Victoria, standing atop CST station screams
"Stop!" at the loud, noisy traffic. Then of
course, The Tree of Unity, the triangular guys
talk and wail in gibberish. Really cool film. The
Chipko movement, wasnt there an FD film for
that? There was one stop-clock film of a thali
full of food, dont remember the funda of that
film.
25. Still with games - Lagory, anyone ?

Putting seven stones one on top of each
other, hitting it with a ball, and then running
away. Again, one of those boys versus girls
type games that used to be unadulterated
fun.
26. And Narottam Puri used to give such

faltoo prizes in Sports Quiz. And so much
tamasha yaar asking anyone who put their
hands up. That format is quite faltoo yaar.
@Salil 10/13/2004 7:04 PM
I used to live miles away from you (Kalyan
actually, but that still seemed miles away in
those days) and my school prayers were very
similar to the one's you have mentioned:
To begin the day:
Infinite god,
Lord and master of our hearts
we believe that we are
in thy prescence
(forgot the rest)
End-of-day
Pea Jay
Almighty and merciful god
we offer thee our prayers
begging thee to supply
what is wanting
so that we may rise
to thy throne
in order of sweetness
(ofcourse, we were too excited to recite the
last 2 lines)
@Nishant 10/13/2004 8:39 PM
Champak and Chandamama at the New
York Public Library. Under which section?
Raj
10/13/2004 9:28 PM
Its only at the NYPL on 5th and 40th, not the
Mid-Manhattan Library, the other big one
which you always see in the movies. Its in
Humanities/ Asian Studies section on the
Nishant
second floor. Plus some bound Amar Chitra
Kathas, of course.
tohfa tohfa tohfa tohfa.... 10/13/2004 9:33 PM
laya laya laya laya...
RRROOTTTFFFLL!!! remember the pots and

the amply endowed aunties on the beach? I
also love the Naag/Naagin movies - "main teri
dushman, dushman tu mera: main naagan tu
sapeeraaa" and Sridevi's blue eyes?
Inspector Ghote was this character from these

mystery novels. One was adapted into film by
Merchant-Ivory, i believe - the Perfect Murder
with Naseeruddin Shah as Ghote.
Milind - I found Swimmy in my library when i

was in grad school. It was actually a Soviet
story book that was adapted into the
documentary.
yes, the kachra cartoon was hilarious. i

remember the thali, i thought it had
Sat
something to do with hunger and food and
that sort of thing. there was another one on
kachra where the kid asks in the end - "yeh jo
chod diya, iska kya karen?" (unintended pun
there if u caught it, sorry if that sounds
offensive to some, i don;t know how else to
spell it!)
dont recollect if i posted this earlier, but

remember the Leprosy documentary in
Marathi? man that was so sad. and this must
have been from the 70s or something, but
does anyone remember the news
documentaries they would show before
screening a movie in movie theaters? wow,
now i'm *really* surprising myself with my
memory.


arbitrary n random
docs before mov 10/13/2004 9:36 PM
YEAH I remember those...made you feel guilty
enjoying the movie while people outside theartres
suffer as they show in the documentary. Finesse
Bombay Pea Jay was never a Films Division traits!
(3250 members) SALIL! 10/13/2004 9:43 PM
The remainder of the prayer we used to say in
school assembly:
We give thee thanks

Almighty God
For all the benefits
You have given us today
Oh My God, I love thee
With my whole heart
and above all things
I'm heartly sorry
Vikram for having offended thee
(forgot the rest...Us agnostics don't pray!)
MIra/Satya: If you remember Tohfa, How about

Justice Chowdhry? Or any of those innumerable
Jeetendra (or as my Sindhi friends at school called
him ..Jitenndarrr) / Jaya Prada (Prada? Damn, I
knew there was a reason I liked her..)
flicks..Locket, Sangam, etc.
10/13/2004 11:08 PM
@Nishant, der se jaage, magar jaage sahi!
Swimi... she was one orange fish and all the other
fishes were black.. and when they all become one
fish, swimi becomes the eye. So cool it was!
And in my school, at the end of the day we had,

school is over for to-day,
done our work and done our play,
at the end we come to say,
Ruchi thank-you heavenly father. amen!
(we used to say this with so much jazz)
I miss my school assemblies. Piano's, hymns,

hymnal (which I still have since 13 years now) and
the choir. wow.
10/13/2004 11:25 PM
Though everything has been said here, still read
this.
Ruchi
10/13/2004 11:51 PM
And the FD docs would mostly be about ministers
travelling to Tashkent, generally some East
European city, Indira Gandhi dancing with a group
Nishant
of women. What did we actually gain, if it was
meant for us, the children of India at the time, if it
was supposed to influence us? Not a rhetorical
question.
I strongly believe that our generation has remained

largely drug-free because of the vigorous DD
campaigns in the 80s. Those skeletons (remember
the ad with the skeletons playing electric guitars),
and ashes, sweaty, smoking dying men were
enough to freak us out. Plus Subah, Chunauti and
Campus did the same.
10/14/2004 3:12 AM
salil you've created a monster ...!
This has to be one of the most awesome threads on

orkut...atleast among the groups that I am on.
Have dug deep into the recesses of my memory
and remembered things long forgotten. Seriously,
Irshad had this not happened I wouldn't have had much to
say to my kids (as and when they happen), and
they'd prolly think I was a boring dude...(whos to
say I'm not anyway:D)
10/14/2004 3:55 AM
Ok, the Balbharati textbook covers. That optical
illusion on the cover was very jhataak, man. The
two kids, boy and girl are reading Balbharati, inside
which the two of them are reading Balbharati,
inside which the two of them are reading
Nishant Balbharati, inside which...
Used to be really freaky man, when I started

thinking about it suddenly one day.
10/14/2004 5:40 AM
i remember the day when bread used to cost 2
bucks a pack..
and the melody jingle....melody hai choc-latee
oooh and those burgers before mcdonalds came to

town. and gotee soda.
and my school trip to aarey milk colony and the

prince of wales museum and having sandwiches in
tiffin boxes in Jijamata udyaan
nazia hassan's disco deewane and funky town by

lipps inc.
Satz
and a monte carlo ad that made nothing's gonna
change my love for you..so famous that i got so
sick of that *&%#@d up song
and amitabh going disco dandiya..or wazzit disco-

bhangra in ganga jamuna saraswati...
and of course mithun da walking on a bullet (from a

gun) to cross a cliff...
hoo boy.
and the cartoons by films division..yea one called

the tree of life..with those folks dancing around the
tree..and one guy being hit on the head..and going
AAAOOOOOOO OOOOAAOAOOOA
D se hota hai Dance... 10/14/2004 8:41 AM
Vikram - yes of course Justice Choudhary! So
there's this deaf-mute girl who's someone's
daughter. and some guys are playing golf and one
of them probably a bad guy says - "arre yeh to
gungi hai". To which the girl starts bawling for
absolutely no reason other than the obvious being
stated.
...I se hota hai Item, S se hota hai Singer, C se

Sat hota hai Chorus, O se Orchestra....
I met a musician here from Russia recently and he

starts singing - "Jimmy Jimmy...Aaja Aaja". So
hilarioussss!!! Such deep Indo-Soviet Roots and
such deep seated trauma in our minds from
Mithunda.
10/14/2004 9:24 AM
For anyone who might be interested, every last
Friday of the month, DJ Rekha hosts Bollywood
Disco Night here in NYC. They are in transition now,
for many months they used to be at Blur, last
month they were at Cielo.
Here's what they play -
Begin with 80s Disco -
Disco Dancer
Jab Chaaye
Jimmy Jimmy
Maango Maango Maango
about 15-20 minutes from that period.
Then thoda 60s/70s

Nishant
Jaane Jaan (Randhir Kapoor/Jaya Bhaduri)
Aaja Aaja
RD types
Jaano Meri Jaan
Nisha Ah Ha Ha
about 15-20 minutes from this time.
Then new stuff
Maheeve
Its the Time to Disco
Koi Kahe
Legai Legai
(about 30-40 mins)
Then after that, only Amitabh
Ke Pag Ghungroo
Jahan Teri Yeh Nazar Hai.
Jumma Chumma De De
Mere Angne Me
Rang Barse
(This list is really long.)
They play the entire song, without remix, from

beginning to end.
The crowd is very mixed, white, black, desi,

"asian".
Many people sing along with the songs, yes,

everyone.
11 pm to 4/5 ish - non-stop.
:)



arbitrary n random
NIshant 10/14/2004 10:50 AM
..about the Balbharti text-book cover, I thought I
was the only kid who thought about the optical
illusion you mentioned. I didnt mention that to
Bombay anyone back them because it freaked me out too!
(3250 members) Pea Jay Some maths textbook had the same trick
Man I had forgotten about that!
yep, 10/14/2004 11:01 AM
heard about DJ Rekha. Gotta check the scene next
time i'm in NY.
When RD Burman passed away, we would have

tributes going on in the backbenches in college (of
course, where else can i be found if not in the
Sat
backbenches). The prof would teach, but for us it
was more important to recollect all the hot favorites
right there in the class.
Bombay Hindi (Bhindi?) 10/14/2004 11:10 AM
I had a really serious Hindi teacher in 10 std. So
imagine the teacher's consternation when this girl
in my class writes this ekvachan-bahuvachan:
Sat ladki - ladkilog
10/14/2004 11:17 AM
For those who want to relive the "glory Days of
Films Division", visit http://www.filmsdivision.org/
and go through their video archives. I found the
Ek-anek video there, but no luck sof ar finding
Swimmy/Tree of unity. Did find a hilarious cartoon
Milind of the monkey chopping off the king's nose to drive
off a fly - had forgotten that. But it does have all
the news reels they showed before movies in the
theaters.
ding dong ding, 10/14/2004 12:22 PM
ding dong ding dong ding dong,
ding dong ding,
ding dong ding dong ding dong.
Sat
slow day at work.
10/14/2004 12:53 PM
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
Banana phone
Banana phone
I've got this feeling

so appealing
for us to get together and sing - SING!

Banana phone
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding
Donana phone
It grows in bunches
I've got my hunches
Its the best
beats the rest
Mihir cellular modular
interactivodular

Banana phone
Ping pong ping pong ping pong ping
Ponana phone
Its no baloney
It aint a phony
My cellular
Bananular phone
Don't need quarters

don't need dimes
to call a friend of mine
dont need computer or tv
to have a real good time
I'll call for pizza
I'll call my cat
I'll call the whitehouse, have a chat
I'll place a call around the world
Operator get me beijing jing jing jing
Guess i am having an even slower day !!

10/14/2004 4:19 PM
* Aapan Yanna Paahilat Ka ?
* Oh ya, Salil, we played French Cricket, and I

Nishant
know we still play it.
Totally unrelated topic 10/14/2004 8:10 PM
Vikram Joshi... dude the S.Es at VESIt are STILL
passing some of your work as their own at Hard
Sell competitions...
Rohan
OMG!! 10/14/2004 11:28 PM
I'm still famous at VESIT!!! Yes indeed, my batch
came up with the most memorable VESIT Hardsells
ever!
(I met someone from Nair Medical a couple of years

ago who recognized me from a hardsell I was
Vikram in...unbelievable!)
Well, you made my day..time for me to go check

out the old alma mater wot say?
@Nishant,Salil THANX 10/15/2004 2:53 AM
thanx for the correction guys. About the Mehdi
Hassan... Hassan Jahangir thing. I am indeed bad
with with ol'names, I see. And the Guinness Book
being hosted by Robert(my apologies.. David)
Anand Frost. Wonder how I could get the name messed
up!
Thanx anywayz



arbitrary n random
10/15/2004 4:35 AM
earlier this week i found myself at a party on delete
the eiffel tower of all places..
it was thrown by a tea company that was
launching 2 new indian teas called fakir and
somethin else...
Bombay theme for the night was bollywood!!!

(3250 members)
cocktails with tea were served in fab coloured
versions of cutting chai glasses.
Salil and entertainment for the evening was

"Pascal of Bollywood" (google him he's funny)
this hilarious frenchman who sang hindi songs
(badly)and kept me in splits till i cud take it
no more.. shall upload some lo quality clips
from my fone cam later so u know wot i
mean.
Did you ever do this? 10/15/2004 10:29 AM
I used to look at every Rupee Note that
passed through my hand, to see if the
currency number ended with 786. Back then,
we believed it to be a lucky number. I
remember, I had a 10 rupee note ending with
that number. Never left my wallet.
I just found out last night why it was

Raj
considered so, and probably how it all started.
Was watching "Deewar". "The Bachchan"
wears a badge number 786, which is
supposed to be lucky, because it is the
numerological equivalent of the Arabic letters
that spell Bismillah.
10/15/2004 3:41 PM
Ash, we need to hear from you. Tell us more.
Nishant Kotachiwadi, anyone ? :)

10/15/2004 5:08 PM
(Orkut has been buggy a lot - keep getting
errors)
Kalhaiwala - It is tinning, but I'd hate to look

too closely at the mixture, as I am sure it was
lead plus tin and the powder was a flux to
clean the surface. Yes, I can almost smell the
stuff.
Which reminds me of the TambaPittalwala. He

used to sell brass and copper pans and pots.
Ash
Dombari - yes - we used to call him Ambaji
for some reason, or am I getting confused.
Anyway, Ambaji was a muscleman with a
whip and he used to whip himself while
twirling around. Actually, the whip cracks
because it breaks the sound barrier and isn't
really hitting the man, but just coiling around.
Perhaps Dombariwale were the acrobats who
put up a tightrope on the bamboo poles?
The radio farmaish names were rumoured to

be fake, or else the same listeners had
nothing better to do than hear their names on
the air. I remember "Jhoomri Talaiya se
Zuleikha Begum" - bless her soul, for she was
a regular requester. I remember wondering
where the hell was Jhoomri Talaiya. There
was never any "Bambai se xxx".
On Wednesday nights at 8 pm, Ameen Sayani

(he had married a Jew named Aviva - quite
radical at the time - except I had no idea who
Jews were) introduced "Binaca Geetmala" on
Radio Ceylon. He would play all the hits and
the last song was always by KL Saigal. I used
to wonder how he managed to fly to Colombo
to announce those songs. Never figured it out
at the time. ;)
The music from Radio Ceylon was always

more interesting and modern than the crap
from All India Radio. Crap was too harsh a
word - for AIR played a full variety of music
including classical. Even the Western pop stuff
was better on Radio Ceylon but it was just one
day a week.
LPs used to cost exactly Rs 36 for a long time.

Can't recall the name of the only store
opposite Kalaghoda where we could buy them.
Ash 10/15/2004 5:39 PM
I think the flux was ammonium chloride. I had
talked to my prof about how the entire kalhai
process works, but forgot about it now.
And about radio farmaish, I once heard the
name of a person from my town, whom I
remotely knew, but this incident was probably
years after you listened to it, so probably
someone called Vividh Bharti's bluff.
Pea Jay
In the 90s there was a TV show which
featured Ameen Sayani wherein he talked
about his radio career. Does any of you
memory-master's remember that show? It
was just a few episodes.
10/15/2004 5:56 PM
My third and final attempt for today to post
through the 404s.
RationRiceWala - Rationing was always

present until I left in 1973 - some things
would come off the ration and some stayed.
Ash Often the rice exchanger was the same as the
JariPuranaWala (usually a wali). We would
feed the semi-polished ration rice to the
servants or swap it for whiter-than-white
Basmati. No wonder the servants were
healthy!
I remember as kids we would sing the street-

Marathi/Hindi version of eenie-meenee-miney-
mo, catch a nigger by his toe etc. It was
something like:
Eena mina myna mo

Catch and leke baat lo...
I forgot the rest.
I remember renting comics for 75 paise/ Re1

and scrounging around for cheap 2nd hand
ones at recycled newspaper shops. Not much
earlier, you could buy a US comic for 75
paise. Boy, did I envy the Yank kids who could
buy the Daisy BB guns that were advertised
on the back pages.
10/15/2004 6:18 PM
Havaldars in blue uniforms - yes. My parents
used to talk about the uniforms before
independence and there are pix somewhere
on the web. They had a flat, yellow topi kinda
like the Peshwa days. So they were called
Ash "bhuri batli, piLu booch" in Gujarati (blue
bottle, yellow stopper).
@pranav... 10/16/2004 12:01 AM
Don't know about a few, but Ameen Sayani
was one of Shekhar Suman's early guest on
Movers and Shakers, and so was the other
radio dude...(damn whats his name, the guy
that went "main samay hoon"...)
Irshad
OK I need help now!
10/16/2004 2:04 AM
Harish Bhimani.
Nishant Havaldars in blue uniforms and half - pant.

10/16/2004 2:41 AM
thanks Nishant, that kept me gnawing for the
better part of the day!
Irshad



arbitrary n random
10/16/2004 4:49 AM
@ash, the store opp kala ghoda is rhythm delete
house, and you'll find me there on a lot of
saturday evenings, especially the first couple
of saturdays in the month.
Bombay
(3250 members)
irshad, harish bhimani was earlier a
newsreader on dd bombay. these days he
does VO for ads and produces radio spots.
altho the FM channels have taken to doin the
production themselves now. ameen sayani too
was a veteran in this field. Ruchi i jus
remembered, the 'fauji bhaiyyo ke liye'
program was called "Jaimala'. Jhumri Talaiyya
is indeed the highest request area for AIR
even now i suspect. As for bombay there was
Salil always Jangoo and Cyrus Siganporia and the
5 star listeners club. You cud hear their
requests and messages on every show on
radio. i think they still have some presence on
107.1 fm.
and good old DD is still the same... half an

hour ago there was a womans voice
overlapping the cricket commentary telling all
the guys in the studio to get some sleep coz
they all had bags under their eyes.
10/16/2004 4:57 AM
I remember Baatmya and how there would be
flies in the studio and the (very pretty green-
eyed) newsreader would just wave her hand
over her head while not missing a beat (a
page? they always held a sheaf of papers..)..
And of course, my first crush..Komal

G.B.Singh on DD news (then she started
Vikram doing the Republic day parade broadcast in
English).
And Salma Sultana in Hindi news on DD with

her rose strategically placed in her hair right
over the left shoulder and saying *Konks Eye*
instead of *Congress I*....
10/16/2004 7:04 AM
And those DD presenters. The most popular
one was Sadhana Srivastav, she was kinda
cute. And that woman who was Manju Singh's
sister. Manju Singh used to have that kids
show in Hindi - Khel Khilone ? and of course
Nishant
Magic Lamp. Also Tabassum in Phool Khile Hai
Gulshan Gulshan, Aaj Ki Shaam Kishore Ke
Naam, that was Tabassum at
Shanmukhananda Hall, at one of those Babla
Kanchan type shows. :)
Rhythm House keeps rocking. Rrrright?

I remember..... 10/16/2004 9:01 AM
Ek, Ek, Ek, Ek titli....anek titiliyaan not so
much for the message of unity but for the
voice which was naisal and it was repeated so
often on tv, it's embedded in my mind til
today!!! The song not the message, indeed!
Not exactly 80s... 10/16/2004 3:01 PM
but does anyone remember ...
"the man.....the machine.......Street Hawk"
ps. sorry if someone already posted this one.

Priyang
10/17/2004 11:43 AM
@ Priyanq
man that was an awesome series. i soooo

used to look forward to seeing it.
and an awesome bike it was too.
u remember indradhanush and there was that

Satz other series..with the space station on an
asteroid and funny aliens. some space station
sigma or sumthing
cheers
hahahhhaaaaahhaa 10/17/2004 12:06 PM
salil, now you're kidding!! really, there was a
lady saying that in the DD studio? that's too
funny!
hey what about Henry Bloemfield (sp?) the

Sat
cricket commentator who'd obsess over the
cricket-watching ladies' earrings?
Street hawk 10/17/2004 1:29 PM
Now thats opened a door in my memory-
warehouse. I even recorded the starting music
of the series. That was also a very short lived
serial.
Among the Russian shows, my mom used to
Pea Jay love the Nadia series, that one was short-lived
too. I still have it somewhere recorded in
India
10/17/2004 1:39 PM
anyone remember the puppet series ...
potlibaba ki or something ??? and one which
had a puppet parrot and stuff .... i can picture
Mihir the characters but just cant remember the
names :( :(
Pepsi Cola! 10/18/2004 4:40 PM
Chotu waala for 25ps and bada waala 50p (:O
soooo expensive)..then came the hygienic
Onjus.. kuchbhi! who cares about THAT!



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10/18/2004 6:14 PM
Potli Baba ki - wasn't that the puppet show
about Alibaba and the 40 thieves??? Loved
that one!
Milind
Bombay 10/18/2004 6:56 PM
(3250 members) onjus? Dont remember that, but remember
OJO with the gaudy fluoroscent color ads
Pea Jay
10/18/2004 11:02 PM
yea, onjus was a far more recent thing. In
fact it still exists, its been renamed something
else though. Have a vague recollection of
Ojo... damn, blame it on all the doobies I had
while I was in college.
Does anybody remember 'Slurp' from the mid

Irshad 80s? This really awesome slushy thing that
was sold at a very few places. I used to collect
the plastic dabba it would come in cuz it was
almost foreign...!
10/19/2004 12:05 AM
yeah irshad, i remember slurp all right. in the delete
little plastic cones with some inventive
toppings too.. used to walk all the way to
imperial cinema from navjeevan as a kid
during the summer hols.. to buy comix, and a
Slurp on the way back felt real good on a may
afternoon... funny how that last sentence
reads, eh?
guys onjus was a few years ago. in fact the
guy who worked on the first ad campaign as
Salil his first campaign is sitting right next to me
right now. it was basically orange juice
whereas OJO was a branded 'pepsicola' from
some idiot tryin to scare mommies that the
roadside ones their kids were having were
unhygenic.
I am shocked... 10/19/2004 1:28 AM
Irshad and me were hanging out on Linking
Road yesterday and the chana-sing waala
charged us 5 Rs for a small packet!!
WTF? I remember the small one costing 25p

Vikram (then again, I also remember the 25p coin..)
(and BTW, the shoe shops along Linking Rd?

Well, turns out they're 2 storied...)
10/19/2004 2:41 AM
Vik, inflation has caught up everywhere man!
Even sheng-chana, that quintessential
Bambaiya timepass snack is more expensive
than Parle-G. Dayum. Bandstand and Linking
road are expensive for sheng-chana, the
interiors are cheaper.
Irshad
If you're strolling linking road at the
nighttime, say 2 or 3 am, the ciggies cost 1
Rupee more than the day time. Next day its
back to normal rate. I knew inflation's cylical
and all that, but such rapid cyles?!
10/19/2004 3:22 AM
the chana on dadar station is still one
rupee.....
Nilesh
10/19/2004 3:33 AM
Vik, you forgot me?????
And Pranav, apart from the Nadia series, does

anyone remember Osheen? I used to love it.
Especially when she cut that customers hair
short and she was upset initially but everyone
loved it so she came later to thank her.
Ruchi
Also, now this thread is so long, I have no
clue if it has been posted earlier!
10/19/2004 4:12 AM
Ok, one more, The RAINS!!!! now that i know
is totally non-random and non-arbit.. but does
anyone remember that pic that used to
appear in TOI/mid-day every year? 2 guys in
a boat...on kings circle of all places?! Now tell
Urvi me, why would anyone take a boat out to
kings circle?? I prefer taxis if you ask me...
number 300!! 10/19/2004 4:45 AM
couldn't resist. delete
btw.. i thot u were off smokes, irshad?
so back to more random thoughts...
i remember...
Salil really tall cut outs of amitabh, shashi and

shatrughan on minerva theatre wen 'shaan'
came out.
an entire mughal garden, with fountains and
caged birds with a hema malini statue sitting
on a swing on the long balcony outside
maratha mandir wen razia sultan came out.
mad magazines in great condition at 5 bucks

near churchgate station.
spending all your money on really sucky 3D

comix jus coz 3D was so in jus after 'chhota
chetan' came out.
wen the 19 yr old girl upstairs threw huuge

tantrums coz she wanted desperately to
marry sunjay dutt wen 'rocky' (not starring
stallone) came out and every kid your age and
above thought tina munim was REALLY hot...
(y don these ppl disappear from public view
after?)
when it cost 10 bucks to rent most movies on

VHS but michael jackson's thriller video cost
30 bucks to rent. and mr.india and
shahenshah (on 2 cassettes each) rented at
50 bucks... for HALF a day wen they came
out.
when u thought computers were really tough

to use, actually u dinno WHY they were used,
and wondered wot the whole point about
learning BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN was...
hell, a digital watch (electronic watch as it
was then called)
was the height of hi-tec then.
when you would give anything to have sea

monkeys, joy buzzers, joke gum and all those
other goodies u saw in those ads in archie
comix.



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well done salil... ! 10/19/2004 4:49 AM
First triple hundred thread on the Bombay
community. With the promise of more to come
hopefully...
Irshad So we meet at Mondy's to celebrate, wot?

Whee!! 10/19/2004 11:51 AM
Bombay So I think Salil deserves a pat on the back!
(3250 members) *claps her hand in wild applause*
Everyone who has posted here deserves an

applause as well. Bravo.
And at Mondy's I cannot dance.. we should stick to

Ruchi Sports Bar where you can show off your pool skills
Irshad, and I can dance to all the retro!
(Whatsay all you firangs, want to fly down for this
event?... Satya, Raj and the others)
Akash Shetty 10/19/2004 11:55 AM
I have a question here...
Will the moderator of this community please stand

up!
Youve given me some of my best online moments
here...
Ruchi
Mr Akash Shetty... kidhar ho aap?!
10/19/2004 1:15 PM
Are you guys trying to drive me insane with
jealousy, discussing your get togethers and parties
and meetings this way, ekdum khullam khulla in
Milind public!!!
10/19/2004 6:53 PM
Dekh na yaar ye log bhi...
Ruchi I REALLY wish I could fly to meet you guys.
Maybe we firang Bombayites can plan something
Pea Jay here...What say, Milind?
@Salil 10/19/2004 7:00 PM
Digital wathces remind me...there were some which
had a calculator function..was thought really cool
having all those number buttons on the watch.
@Ruchi
I do remeber Osheen,not for the story but for the
beutiful scenaries of Japan. There was a debate in
Pea Jay
my class as to whether the girl playing Osheen was
slightly cross-eyed or not.I dont remember finally
resolving it.
You guys make me sick !!! 10/19/2004 7:53 PM
I mean, homesick Isn't Mondy's the cafe palace
near Colaba Causeway?
And this has really been a wonderful thread. Going

Raj back in time, with all you like-minded folks, was
wonderful. "Koi louta de mere, beethey huey din". I
tip my hat to all the contributors here.
So, some more memories:
Bade shaher ki ek gali mein basa hua hain Nukkad,

Nukkad ke saare baashinde taqdiron ke bakkad,
Alag alag taqdeer hai inki, alag alag hai boli,
Apne apne dhandhe, sabki apni apni toli
Ajab tamasha hain ye nagri khud mein haste gaate
hain
Chahe kisi ke naam se tum inko pukaro, yeh saare
hain bakkad
10/19/2004 11:25 PM
ABCDEFG
G mein se nikla Gandhiji
Gandhi ji ne khayaa peeeruuu
peru mein se nikla neeeehruuu
[...... anyone remember the rest of it?
the shorter version i remember continues like
Priyang this...]
nehru ne khayaa paan
jai jai hindustan
10/20/2004 2:39 AM
ABCDEFG
G mein se nikla Gandhiji
Gandhi ji ne khayaa peru
peru mein se nikla nehru
Nehru ne khaya paan
paan se nikla Pran
Pran ne piya lemon
Ruchi lemon se nikli Helen
Helen ne kiya dance
ek thapad advance!!
Oh Boy!!! I remember two 10/20/2004 5:43 AM

ABCDEFG
G se nikla Gandhiji
Gandhiji me khaaya Peru
Peru se nikla Nehru
Nehru ne khaaya kaakdi
Bhaiya ka shendy vaakdi
Or
Raj
Nehru ne maara Hataudi
Hataudi ne nikla Pataudi
Pataudi me maara sixer
Sixer ne nikla boxer
Boxer ne maara fight
<friends name> ka chaddi tight


arbitrary n random
10/20/2004 3:21 PM
ok u guys make me really homesick i want to
back to bombay but also back to that time
when all the school "picnics" were at aarey
milk colony or vihar lake or the fav drink was
Bombay
always energy not coke or pepsi shit
(3250 members)
or u could hang out after school having 25c

pepsi and the really good ones cost 50c which
were made of milk or something like that
Poonam
does anyone remember bhelwala walking in

ur nieghbourhood or even the guy with the
sugar cane
i dont know if they still do havent been back

for a while
10/20/2004 5:03 PM
Eh Picnic songs... I remember bits and pieces
only...please help me finish them. Raj,
Ruchi...you guys seem to get there very
quickly, I am relying on you guys.
Parlez Vous -
Of all the animals in the zoo

Parlez Vous!

Parlez Vous!

The monkey kissed the kangaroo
Inky Pinky Parlez Vous!
(Yeh inky pinky kidhar se aaya?)

Nishant
I know this one is longer, with a whole bunch
of masala thrown in...:)
Galyat Saakli Sonyachi -
Galyat Saakli Sonyachi

Hi Pori Konachi
Galyat Saakli Sonyachi
Hi Pori Konachi
All of them seem to have the same tune now.

:)
Darling Open the door

Why are you angry sooo?
@Poonam 10/20/2004 7:06 PM
If I may be bold enough to make a correction
"or u could hang out after school having 25c

pepsi and the really good ones cost 50c which
were made of milk or something like that"
Pea Jay
I think you meant 25p and 50p...I would not
imagine those selling for a quarter and a half-
dollar
First One 10/20/2004 7:14 PM
Galyaan saakli sonyachi
Hi Pori konaachi
Aai's bhi bewdi, Ni baapus bi bewda

Hi saadhi pori konachi..
Raj Aai's bhi kaali, Ni baapus bhi kaala

Hi Gori pori konaachi
Aai's bhi khadki, Ni baapus bhi kadka

Hi Jaadi pori Konaachi
Second One 10/20/2004 7:25 PM
Darling Open The door
Why are you angry so?
I will take you to Bandra

And show you my Sandra
Raj I will take you to Dadar

and show you my mother
I know more of it, but cannot remember any

more of the clean lyrics.
10/20/2004 9:19 PM
Thanks Raj ! Keep it rocking ! Mera bhi usi me
thoda fut gaya. Dont remember the clean
lyrics. :)
Once I made pepsi cola at home with Rasna.

Orange Flavor in a little plastic tube, and
Nishant closed the tube by burning it on the gas. My
mom was damn irritated with me.
It turned out fine. That was of course, my last

attempt.
i ReMeMbEr....... 10/20/2004 9:44 PM
Rbered Fraggle Rock n how much i njoied it....
There was Fire ball XL5
Yeh jo hai Jindagi---with the hilarious acts of

Her
Highness Swaroop Sampat and Shafi Inamdaar, later
on Satish Shah
Cartoon Strips on sunday's
Rangoli on sunday Morning
Sat evng movies on DD
Those Phantom Cigarretes---Rber sweet sticks

with red tips
Interfood---Wafers with cream packed in pink

wrappers
Extra Strong peppermint
Indrajaal Comics
DD pgms ---Sundar Majhe Ghar, KilBil(nt the

Kill BILL...ha ha), Swayamsidhaa of Priya
Tendulkar, Swami, Gajraa, Shabdaanchyaa
Palikadle--much awaited pgm in our house,
Saptahiki-i rber, we did nt hav tv at tht time
so i used to go to my frnds place to watch it...
---------some more to come....this is like a

journey through the old familiar lanes
10/20/2004 10:26 PM
I'll take you to Agra and lift up your ghagra
(Oh come on! Someone had to go there!)
After years of going to the Zoo (Victoria

Gardens when I was in school..Veermata
Jijabai Udyan Prani Sangrahalaya
now..Generic "Rani Baug" to all the bawas
and bus conductors), we started going to
"Picnic Spot" which depending on the school
was either at Vihar Lake, Aarey Milk colony or
Borivili National park.
I ALWAYS traded my idlis for some Punjabi

kids parathas (I could never have enough
paratha..explains my love for Cream Centre).
Vikram
I also made my own pepsis at home..and
sealed them on the gas! Also, when "crafts"
projects were due the next morning and I
began them at 11 pm at night before, and
NEVER had any gum ..(what was that flavour
again? I remember the smell but don't
remember the brand..), my mom would help
me make gum with Atta (flour not Mohammed
the 9-11 terrorist) and water...or leftover rice.
(Anyone remember the origami books that

came out when we were younger with their
own craft papaer? I made so many cranes and
turtles..)
i ReMeMbEr.... 10/20/2004 10:32 PM
In the morning, in the morning, in the
morning by the sea.....
Old man Donald had a farm eyaa eyaa oh

and on this farm he had some ducks eyaa
eyaa oh
Quack quack here and a quack quack there
here quack there quack, everywhere quack
quack
Old Man.....
n this string would go on n on n on

Her
Highness Oranges and Lemon.....
We used to play Kapchi with the broken

pieces of saucers/china clay, khamba
khamba, land n water, Thappa
Hw cn i frgt 'Bhatukli cha Khel'.....i jst dnt c

kids playing this games animore....
10/20/2004 11:26 PM
vik do u mean fevigum? that was the only one delete
i remember which was strawberry scented
and had a little cartoon bee as its mascot.
i grew up with joker gum, a white paste in a

red box. teachers used camel gum, which was
applied with a plastic brush in the cap and my
dad would never let me touch the fevicol in
Salil his studio. and don't even dream about the
stikfast.. later on in the jj school of applied art
i discovered rubber solution. and the
pyromania that goes with it...



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Bombay i ReMeMbEr 10/21/2004 1:06 AM
(3250 members) Double decker choclates
Melody choclates ka contest
Jungle books stickers on the insides of Goldspot

billas
Cricket team member photos on the insides of
Thums-Up billas
Her
Highness Thrill, Do-It
---------many more still

10/21/2004 1:25 AM
used to purchase a chocalate "Luv-Kush" just
because it has some lottery kinda stuff.. cricket ball
and other instant prices..
Nilesh
Joker gum and other memories 10/21/2004 9:15
AM
Thats it, Joker gum, there were many legends to
what it really was and how it was made. Had an
awful smell!
Fevicol had the most creative ads on TV.
.... stuff like Charlie Chaplin candies which

everyone collected to get a piece of paper inside,
which was part of a charlie chaplain picture. You
had to make a complete pic to get some goodies.
Pea Jay
....the Charlie Chaplain window sticker craze which
came for a very shortg time?
..... those tiny, raised-up'radium' stickers which

glowed in the dark and which ppl stuck on their
watch dials?
Sahi Hain!!! 10/21/2004 11:32 AM
Joker Gum tak pahuch gaye aap log. What next?
Toothpastes. I started off with using Rock Salt.
Then, I used Bandar Chaap Kaala Danth Manjan
Until I heard Everready scream "Gimme Red". So, I
shifted to "Daanton ki karey hifaazat, Moti saa
chamkaye, Dabur Lal Danth Manjan se, Mukhda
Khil Khil Jaaye". Then, it was "Ayurvedic Jadi
Bootiyon se bana sampurna swadeshi Vicco
Vajradanti".
Raj
Talking of Old Ads, here's a quiz. Which product
was this for?
Kal Bhi, Aaj Bhi, Kal Bhi, Aaj Bhi

In Yaadon ka safar thoy ruke na kabhi
Kal Bhi, Aaj Bhi, Kal Bhi, Aaj Bhi
Kuch Rishtey badalte nahin hain kabhi
minor technicality... 10/21/2004 1:11 PM
Raj, the line is actully:
Kal bhi, aaj bhi, aaj bhi, kal bhi
(aren't i annoying?!)
Sat
Bajaj scooter, no? sorry all u desis in des, slight
advantage here, i'm awake right now (though
barely, its quite hard to stay awake at work.)
@Satya 10/21/2004 1:23 PM
Thanks for the correction. But you are wrong. Its
not the Bajaj Ad.
Any more takers?

Raj
Bye, Bye, Bye (Thats a hint)
chaayla! 10/21/2004 4:07 PM
Raj yaar, i thought i was 1st and i'd get laddu-
pedas. ok, still some more time before the people
in bombay wake up... how about "Bhartiya Jeevan
Sat Beema Nigam"?
Wapas Galti kiya rey!! 10/21/2004 4:35 PM
Wrong again. Last try. You fail once again, and
your personal physician will prescribe you some
Raj memory pills
10/21/2004 5:31 PM
Merko maloom hai yaar...pak gaya mai. Isnt it a
kind of spoof of the Bajaj ad ?
Nishant
I guess 10/21/2004 5:36 PM
VIP luggage?
Pea Jay



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Bombay
(3453 members) My guess 10/21/2004 5:39 PM
..thats it, has to be VIP luggage.
I vaguely remember the scenario, girl going to
sasuraal after marriage, etc.
Pea Jay
@Pranav 10/21/2004 5:54 PM
Yup. VIP luggage. That was the one. The hint
provided "Bye Bye Bye" is what they use in
their new ads.
And heres one more, for those interested. This

should be easy. The dance (or was it a jiggle)
Raj
was what made it all the more memorable.
Kuch Khaas Hain, Zindagi Mein

Kuch Baat hain, Hum Sabhi Mein.
@Raj 10/21/2004 6:22 PM
Damn easy..but I'll give someone else the
chance.
Meanwhile guess this one:
'Betaa, sweater pehno'

Pea Jay
You will reward yourself with a good laugh if
you get this right!!
10/21/2004 7:08 PM
@Raj, Cadbury's dairy Milk.
The next one, I dont know.
Nishant Which one was this, I forgot ?
"Dadaji, Badminton?"
dadaji badminton 10/21/2004 7:07 PM
I think Zandu balm or some other pain relief
balm
Think about my question.
HInt: fairly recent, scenario: train.
Pea Jay
Answer tomorrow
Goodnight Y'all
'Betaa, sweater pehno' & 'Dadaji,
Badminton?' 10/21/2004 9:39 PM
1st wala - Polo - the mint with the hole (easy)
2nd - Nahi beta pehle Dabur Chyavanprash.
with the bald dadaji in white shorts and
tshirt.. quite quaint.
Used to wait for sundays for the Disney

Mickey mouse crap. even remember the
doordarshan anchor who used to announce
Anish the programmes. Hey anyone remembers
when Binaca became Cibaca etc etc and you
had Forhans and arbit toothpastes... Also
Gateway didn't have a fence. Guess it was
really "the age of innocence" compared to
today.
10/22/2004 1:08 AM
nice one raj, kal bhi aaj bhi does sound delete
deceptively like bajaj... tv was flooded wid
emotional ads like those then.. should rename
the thread to "mujhe yaad hai woh sabkuchh,
sabkuchh mujhe yaad hai" can u tell which
jingle THAT was? rest goes something like
"mitti ki khushboo, yaaron ka milna, honthon
pe khatte meethe kaee swaad hai, sabkuchh
mujhe yaad hai" mohit, irshad, vikram..(or
whoever else wants to come) beer's on me if
u get that one...
anish, right about the polo, a good fren of

mine did the voice for 'beta sweater pehno'
and everyone still makes her say it.
wrong about the bald dadajee though. it was

shriram lagoo who never did go bald.
and of course i remember binaca turning to

cibaca, they used to sponsor contests in my
school and the trophies had to be changed.
anyone remember these?

Salil
"i'm uncle monty, but they call me 'naughty'
i gave up pinching poories, i gave up tall
stories and i returned to nature.."
"we're all in it together

for the fun of it, for the taste of it
_________ _________ ________ has the
flavor of fun."
(can't remember th whole thing but this next

one was funny)
"ek tha raja... jahan kahin bhi sair ko jaata,
kism kism ke joote lata..."
(not a jingle, but try an remember this..)

"shantaa, shantaa... aaargh... crash!...
splash!!... glub... it still works!!"
enuff now, as it is wasting a public holiday at

work, shud get my butt movin..
Salil 10/22/2004 10:27 AM
These are ones I can get without too much
thought...
We are in it together
for the fun of it, for the taste of it
Campa, Orange flavour, has the flavour of fun
Milind Thats the flavour of fun!!
And the Cherry Blossom Boot polish one:

Ek Tha raja
Jahan kahin bhi sair ko jaata, kism kism ke
joote laata
Mahal atari akkas bakks jooton se bhar gaya
thasathas
Lekin - itne daami joote, itni jaldi taain taain
phiss
Raja gusse se gurraya - Mere pyare joote
bachao, jhatpat koi upaay batao
Warna sab sar dhad se door
Vidushak adab se aagey badha
Huzoor, gustakhi maaf, upaay hai ekdum saaf
Jooton par Cherry lagayen, chamak phirse
wapas aaye
Aire gaire polish bakwas jooton ka kare
satyanaash
Cherry kare jooton ki maalish, Cherry se
karen joote polish
Chamak dhamak jo banti rahe to jooton ki bhi
umar bade
Khush Raja ne phir kiya ailaan
Bacche buddhe naari nar
Cherry lagaye jooton par
Chamak aur ho dum se bharpoor, Cherry,
Jooton ki shaan!!!
Wow! Milind and Salil 10/22/2004 10:42 AM
That was something !!! Cant help a chuckle.
Its all crystal clear to me now, and can
remember it vividly. Was it not Guffi Paintal in
the joker attire?
Talking of friends, the guy in the other

cadbury ad, the one who runs after the bus
and hurls the chocs, is a friend of mine. I
Raj think that jingle was a bit different. "Kya
swaad hain, Zindagi mein". And did you know
that all those cadbury jingles was the first
break for Shankar Mahadevan ??
"Yeh Kambakth Tamatar ka saas"

"This saas is different, Boss"
@raj 10/22/2004 11:14 AM
pankaj kapoor and javed jaffrey! or was it
Ravi Baswani? Maggi sauces?
karamchand! pankaj kapoor is hot IMO.
there was this movie - Raakh with Aamir Khan

Sat
and him. released about the same time as the
fluff QSQT. after i think. what a difference!
wonder where i could see this movie again?


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10/22/2004 11:23 AM
ek naariya ped se tuta...Jalal Aga? coconut
crunchees.
Bombay
(3453 members)
and there was this sad ad for Sasa Detergent Tikiya
with these sad 80s aunties, sad versions of Reena
Roy (Disco Staaation, Disco) Ok now the song has
started playing in my head with the visuals and the
green chamki clothes (one shoulder dresses) and
the disco ball.
washing powder nirma

Sat doodh si safedi
nirma se aaye
rangeen kapde bhi khil khil jaye
sab ki pasand nirma.
NIRMA!
you'd be lying if you said,

you didn't just hear this jingle in your head ;)!
10/22/2004 12:03 PM
If Nirma is there, why should this fall behind...
Hipolin, Hipolin washing powder Hipolin

Mail ka dushman tagda, chamkaye har kapda
Hipolin, Hipolin washing powder Hipolin
Hipolin!!!
Milind
Raj, it wasn't Gufi Paintal - just plain, simple Paintal
in that Cherry Blossom ad... but he did a
magnificient job!
10/22/2004 12:12 PM
AND the perennial, long lived radio jingle:
Yeh dher se kapde, main kaise dhoun

Accha sabun kaunsa laaoon
Kapdon ko jo ujala banaye
Umar badhaye, Chamak la de...
Milind Koi bata de, mujhe yeh koyi bata de..
And then the male voiceover:

Dhantak ka Double D sabun. Kapdon ko rangeen
aur ujala banakar kapdon ki umar badhaye!
jingles 10/22/2004 1:12 PM
Now my head is spinning with them:
NIRMA detergent tikiya

iske zaag ne jaadu kar diyaa
paani me rehke bhi ye kam gale
NIRMA kapde dhoye aur jyaada chale
NIRMA detergent tikiya
Pea Jay
and Sangeeta Bijlaani saying:
'Ab aap samjhe ke ye tikiyaa maine kyoon li?'
to which the answer was:
'Azaruddin ke kapde dhone ke liye!!'
@satya 10/22/2004 3:04 PM
I think the Sasa detergent tikiya ad went something
like this....
Sasa detergent tikiya laao,

Sasa detergent tikiya laao,
____ ke kapdo ko ujala banao,
der tak chale,
bahot kam gale,
kimat munasif,
paise bhi bachao,
Priyang Sasa detergent tikiya laao!!
ok i thought i remembered it when I started writing

this. But after writing 2 lines, memory ne 'dagaa' de
diya. I am sure one of you (i put my money on
Milind) remembers it better than i do.
how about this one 10/22/2004 5:34 PM
..kay zale??
baal radat hot....
woodworth (i am not sure of the name) gripe water
de tyala..
Anil
tu lahan asta na me hi tula hech det hote....
Its Woodwords Gripe Water 10/22/2004 6:06 PM
@Satya, the coconut crunches one.
Ek naariyal ped se toota,
Ghirtey hi woh beech se toota
something something use banakar
Anyone remember this one?
Some more:
Maccharon ko jissey lagta hain dar, Woh hain
Casper
Woh chemical jis mein dugna asar, Woh hain Casper
Raj Shaam se lekar subah tak jale, Woh hain Casper
Jismein ek nahin, do conductor, Woh hain Casper
Meri Jaan, Meri Jaan, Murgi ke Ande

Khaana Meri Jaan, Meri Jaan, Murgi ke ande
Omlet Khilaaon, fried Khilaoon, Boiled Khilaoon
Khilaoon Murgi ke Ande hi Ande
Khaana Meri Jaan, Meri Jaan, Murgi ke ande
Sunday ho ya Monday, Roz khaaye Ande
10/22/2004 9:35 PM
Jalal Agha! Hmm, famous for his line "Ek se mera
kyahoga".
And I really liked the coconut biscuits.
Mohit And wasn't there a tubelite ad in B/w in the 80s...

dang, this one will give me sleepless nights.
@mohit 10/22/2004 9:44 PM
Surya tubes, surya bulbs?
Sylvania Lakshman?
Sat
10/22/2004 9:40 PM
Lakshman Sylvania it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mohit



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RAAAJJJJ 10/22/2004 9:52 PM
what do you think about this?
Bombay this guy in this above link says this ad is for Godrej.
(3453 members)
now i vaguely remember an ad for Godrej Almirahs.
it starts out B&W with the almirah, and there's a
Sat
kid, then the kid grows into color and gets married
and brings the bahu home who inherits the Almirah.
But then... 10/22/2004 9:59 PM
i saw this after another google search.
Sat
Gabbar Singh ki Pasand? 10/22/2004 10:03 PM
hmm?
Sat
10/22/2004 10:15 PM
Glucose Biscuits
Raj Bade naazon se paali hamari banno

Tujhe dulhan banaye rey pyaari banno
Tujhe haldi ka uptan lagaaye sakhiyan
Teri kaaya ko kanchan banaye sakhiyan
Roop kundan sa, Roop Kundan Sa
Damke ri pyaari banno.
Thats easy. But lets see who gets these two? (Not
Related)
Yeh Andar ki baat hain

Sachmuch !! Kaafi Bada Hain
Though this is pretty recent 10/23/2004 7:25 AM
Since we talking about ads...
whats happened to digen verma?
10/23/2004 12:54 PM
@Coconut Crunchies... [small addition to Raj's
version]
Ek nariyal ped se toota,

teuneu neuneu neuneu neuneu neu
girte hi woh beech se toota,
teuneu neuneu neuneu neuneu neu
______ ______ ker usse pakaya,
khoob kurmurra usse banaya
brittania coconut crunchies!!!
@Laxman Sylvania
Asrani: Laxman Sylvania ke bulb dijiye.
Priyang Shopkeeper turns around to give him one.
Astani: Lekin ek nahi paanch.
Shopkeeper: paanch??
Asrani: Haan, poore ghar ke badal daloonga!
@andar ki baat hai

was it Lux ke underwear aur baniyan? with tiku
talsaniya, tabassum and that kid who i think when
he grows up is gonna look like bappi lahiri.
Guess this one..scenario is given 10/23/2004 2:18
PM
(Group of guys carrying cricket gear passes a group
of gals)
One of the gals: HI Kapil, kya cricket khelne ja rahe

ho?
Guy: Nahi, Bhangda karne ja rahe hai.

Pea Jay
Gal: To fir ye balle, valle...??
Guy: Haan...(dances with a bat in his hands, over

his head) O Balle Balle!!
@priyang 10/23/2004 2:58 PM
Yes. Right about the first one. And It hink the line
was "Tej Aach par use pakaaya". The second one
was OK Saabun.
Raj
Jo OK saabun se nahaaye
Kamal saa khil jaaye
OK Nahaane ka bada saabun
Sachmuch !! Kaafi Bada hain
@Pranav, Cannot remember this one.
OK. Whoever gets this one, can treat themselves to

some chocs.
I am too old to go to school

Too Young to be a grandma.
But I think you are just right for ..........
Amul Chocolates.. 10/23/2004 10:47 PM
Do I have to buy myself some chocolates?
Vikram Sat saal ke boodhe ya saat saal ke jawaan?

10/23/2004 11:09 PM
Zhandu ka special chavanpraash
Raj Poyinde, Gaayab, Chalo gayo she

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i ReMeMbEr 10/25/2004 9:24 PM
Byomkesh Bakshi....with the handsome, going
bald now, Rajat Kapoor
Bombay
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On the similar lines, Sherlock Holmes was also
going on for smtime on the tube
Games category: I rber playing Ludo, Snakes

n Ladders, Vypaaar (rber??) with the fake
Yadnya paper notes, we ended playing for hours
together.
Then there was Bogle..with the sand clock

10/26/2004 12:32 AM
@lakshman sylvenia:
The ad starts from

Asrani: Ram Lakshman bubl dena...
shop keeper: aisa koi bulb nahi aata
Nilesh
The one featuring archana joglekar was quite
famous..Shaadi aur tumse.... kabhi nahi....
MTNL 10/26/2004 2:16 AM
So who remembers the trauma MTNL gave
us...!
Phones going 'dead' off and on, especially in

the rains.
New lines coming ages after registration...
People having only one telephone line in a

house, sometimes buildings! (I used to have
people come home to make a call and leave a
buck back).
The men who used to fix telephone lines and

how important it was to stay in their good
books, thus a nice boni during Diwali.
The help line of MTNL with really rude people

answering the queries(these days they are
Ruchi ever so nice, really).
I still remember some telephone numbers the

old way. For eg, 35-8834 which became 382-
8834 which became 2-382-8834!
I remember the Flop Show episode where the

Bhatti's got a brand new telephone line, and
the neighbours used it more than them, and
when the phone 'died' - they had a baithak for
it! Heh.
(Have we mentioned Flop Show before... kya

show tha woh! ... fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
flop, flop show! flop show!)
10/26/2004 2:36 AM
flop show se yaad aaya..... bhatti's another
show.....
Ulta Pulta
Nilesh
MTNL! 10/27/2004 6:12 AM
yeah, diwali baksheesh and whatnot. once in
our area (N-E), for some reason all the phones
of everybody went down for a day or
something. nobody really complained coz, u
know, these things we're used to. the lines
come up. and in a few days every single house
gets an apology letter, and a rose! how bizzare
and touching is that?!!
Sat
onto other matters. remember this from
Target:
Peanut sat on a railroad track

Its heart was all a-flutter
The 5:15 came rushing by
Toot-Toot peanut butter!
10/27/2004 7:13 AM
i remember that episode of flop show too delete
ruchi... it had a really hilarious scene. see, the
deal was the bhatti's phone gets screwed up
coz the telephone linesman falls for bhatti's
neighbour. so he's wooing her desperately,
and he sends his crony to her house with this
Salil whole bunch of sugarcane and he enters sayin
"bhabhijee, ramesh ne aapke liye froot bheja
hai.."
telephone 10/27/2004 7:29 AM
I remember a shop "NBC" National business
center opened in our area.. Not everyone was
having the phone in their house. People book a
mail box at this shop and whenever some calls
come, they will take the message and put the
Nilesh card in your mailbox... It lasted for about a
year......
*SCREAM* 10/27/2004 7:43 AM
hahahhaa...i remember that "froot" too!!!
Sat
E-mail 10/27/2004 9:46 AM
my friend had an email account with VSNL
when email first started out. they'd actually
call him if he got any email. he lived in Borivli.
so he'd have to travel 4 hrs or whatever to get
to the VSLN bldg to retrieve his email. one
Sat time he went all the way there to find that all
he had were his own emails that had bounced.
how sad is that?
10/27/2004 7:51 PM
@satya
4 hours? Are you sure it was Borivli and not
Poona?
@salil
yeah the sugarcane scene was hillarious.
Bhatti had such an amazing sense of humor. I
Priyang don't know why he got into doing small (also
stupid and not at all funny) roles in movies.
I guess paapi pet ka sawaal tha...

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fastfood 10/27/2004 8:00 PM
the life before wadapav... the chat was
famous fastfood of bombay
Bombay
(6843 members)
Nilesh
priyang: 10/28/2004 1:25 PM
4 hrs to pune? oh, i'm talking about the good
old days when my friend and i were not
privileged to travel by snazzy expressways ;)!
i saw a fox on the bombay-pune highway last

year, and it was in the rains so there were all
Sat
these waterfalls and wildflowers (real ones as
opposed to the engineered ones you see in
the US). so pretty, no?
Resurrecting this thread. 10/31/2004 8:45 AM
Recognize these Ads:
Its start with Ashok Kumars Shrimati saying:

Suniye, Ladki ke maa baap aaye hain?
Raj
And which soft drink had isotonic salts to
quench your thirst?
10/31/2004 9:07 AM
The first one is Pan Parag
Suniye ladke ke maa baap aaye hai...
(forgot this part)

Shammmi Kapoor: Lekin ek baat kehna to
hum bhool hi gaye
AK: (Tense) Ab kya hoga
SK: Ghabaraiye nahi, hame kuch nahi chahiye

Pranav Ham itna chahate hai ke baaraatiyon ka
swagat Pan parag se kijiye.
AK: Oh Pan Paraag, hame kya maalum aap

bhi Paan parag ke shaukin hai..yeh lijiye Paan
Paraag
SK: PAAN PARAAAG
Sorry couldnt resist this memory overflow

10/31/2004 11:15 AM
isnt the soft drink Limca?
Satish
10/31/2004 1:48 PM
Both are right answers. Heres one more.
Which ad featured these lines:
Chai thoy chai hi hain, paani ubaalo, patthi

Raj daalo, doodh shakar milao, aur pi jaao. Isme
kya khaas baat hain?
10/31/2004 2:11 PM
Brooke bond Red Label
Pranav
random-shandom 11/1/2004 2:43 AM
a strange abstract mural which looked like a delete
bat to me (the flying variety) on the first
building in that poonam chambers stretch.. a
red mass of metal in piloo pochkanwala's
sculpture 'spark' in the centre of the circle at
haji ali.. badal, the 3 wheeler car made
famous by amitabh and dharmendra in 'ram
balram'. watching a highly dangerous (for
spectators) shoot for 'naseeb' when they were
throwing burning dummies from the
ambassador hotel... the colorful channa dal
wala on dadar's CR platform no 1 who went
"channe ki daaaaaaal, teriii kasam!!" the old,
decently dressed parsi woman who'd come to
your cab at the navjeevan signal and claim to
have lost her purse and passport.. and when
you asked her jus how many times she
expected to get away with that, she would
Salil shed her decent avataar and curse in the
foulest language... anyone remember those
ball bearing mazes? are they still around? and
water 'video' games? then there was the time
where your polyester and terylene shirts
simply HAD to be 'tebilized' or 'sanforised' and
yo mom wud use products like 'ranipal' on
them.. and beggin mom to buy only 'point'
detergent (have i mentioned this already?)coz
you could cut out stencils on the back and
make cool stuff like model buses and clown
puppets. ash, i've always wanted to ask you,
was there really such a thing as the "kolynos
kid?"
11/1/2004 2:55 AM
Strangely today I'm thinking about sweets..
Specifically, Melody (Melody hai

chocolatey...Melody khao khush ho jao) and
Parry's (Is toffee mein hai coffee, Parry's
Vikram
Coffee Bite)
11/1/2004 3:17 AM
Salil...about the water video game-
While I was travelling to Cal by train last

month, I saw someone peddling a variety of
those near Nasik. I was so amused I actually
thought of buying one! I thought they had all
become extinct, hehe! It was really quite
Irshad striking, most of the people had very good
and sleek state-of-the-art cellphones and here
was this thing, from a bygone era. I had one
with two sharks on which you had to pile in
the ringlets. There were others too
apparently.



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11/1/2004 3:26 AM
melody i think has made its appearance so delete
many times on this thread... i remember
Bombay melody being launched and it was an instant
(6843 members)
hit. at 40 paise a pop then it was still one of
the more expensive toffees, eclairs went for
60p at the time i think. then they started
launching variants, and when melody-rose
came out, u wanted to throw a brick at
whoever got that idea. one rose flavored
sweet i do remember having often is parle's
gold star rose mints. classic pack in sasta
paper.. and a very cool shape too i thot. even
now wen i pass vashi station, the shape of the
building brings back memories of goldstar. the
Salil product still exists, but the pack's all glitzy
now.
parle also cam up with the first paan flavoured
sweet called 'tri-pan' which was a disaster,
but all it's imitators did well especially pan
pasand which is stil around. parle also had
'fudgee' a chewy fudge bar which must have
put my dentist's (really cute) daughter thru
college.
parry's chocolate was launched with some
sexy packaging.. a brown gradient with a
cartoon cat on it.. then there was campco
chocolates with a very popular 'turbo minibar'.
i tihnk i did mention the jacob suchard range
that came out with fonda (abso delicious,
especially the almond variant) and chockrack
(mostly air on account of its rice crispy
interior)
so vik, nostalgic sweet tooth sufficently
tickled?
11/1/2004 9:05 AM
I remember Fonda more for the Superhero
stickers that used to come with them. Apart
from that, it was a disgustingly sweet
chocolate.
They also launched Melody Cola along with
Melody Rose, and both producs were not well
recieved as far as I remember.
Coffee Bite had the most delightful ads :
'Coffe-Toffee'coffe-toffee'.
Pranav
incidentally, there some contest with that
Fudge chocolate bar, something related to the
He-Man merchandise?
The most inane things I remember were
biscuits (or shall I say cookies?) flavored like
the energy drink Horlicks. WOnder if they are
still around.
11/1/2004 10:58 AM
The talk about the water video games brought
back memories of the balloon seller, and his
other interesting wares... there was a
marriage hall near where I lived and a
wedding there always brought out an army of
balloon sellers... I remember the View Master
toy they had, which you held to the sunlight
and in which you could see slides of the Taj
Mahal, Jantar Mantar and such, or if you took
another set, you would get Zeenat Aman,
Padmini Kolhapure, Tina Munim and the like...
I got a real kick when I saw the same toy out
here in the US at a souvenir shop at Niagara
Milind Falls, with slides showing images of the falls!!!
Also remember the wierd "balloon whistles" -

you blew into them and inflated the balloon,
and then let the air out, which would sound a
weird moaning whistle ...also remember the
tiny TV toys - which had a plastic screen and
u turned a spindle on the side to make a roll
of paper turn inside and show a series of
images on the "screen" ...ahhh... the simple
toys we had!!!
11/1/2004 7:42 PM
Flop Show, Flop Show.
Writer, fighter...
Nishant Writer, fighter, producer, director, singer
actor...
Hoo...Ah, ah, ah, aah, aah.
Lightman, Stuntman...Hoo...Ah, ah, ah, aah,
aah.
Cameramaaaan, Everymaaaan.
Is A Flop!
I am sure someone remembers Dilip

Prabhavalkar's Chimanrao ? (Sunbai, Kaakoo,
"Ishha bai...Kai tarich kay?")
Also Haswafaswee is very easily available in

any ghat video store in NJ? Six fantastic
performances...
Old Times :----- 12/13/1901 7:45 PM
@ Old Times ...........
OLD is Gold ...........
i remember those serials :-
Hum Log , Buniyaad , ek shoonya shoonya ,

paramveer , Chitrahaar/Chaayageet ,
Man, those dayz ppl used to really luv

soaps/serials .....
Movies were normally seen in Theatres ...
Wat else :-
Shankar Mumbai was Bombay ---- of course .....
Hence , CST was VT .......
& so on ...........
Who can forget :-
epics --- Ramayan [Ramanand Sagar]&

Mahabharat [BR Chopra] !!
Shankar.
12/13/1901 7:45 PM
Good morning Shankar!!!
Ruchi
good Morning ! 12/13/1901 7:45 PM
Hi Ruchi !
well, i'm late in postin' here alright; but I am

sure reminded of the 80's Bombay
scenes/tags/events ........ distinctly !
Shankar
Shankar.
@Shankar 12/13/1901 7:45 PM
maybe its a good idea to read atleast some of
the posts and then post a message yourself.
Pranav
@shankar... late in posting? 11/3/2004 1:03
AM delete
c'mon... at least not on this thread where
everyone obviously has a sharp memory.. and
if mine serves me right, you posted this exact
same thing almost 2 months ago....
Salil
@ Salil,Pranav & Ruchi 11/3/2004 4:25 AM
i thought this thread hadn't mentioned all that
............
Anywayz, Old Times also Remind me of Kapil

Dev "Palmolive" da Jawab Nahin ...
Some of 'em :-
The All-States Cricket Song for 1992 World

Cup Team; then similar such stuff for the
Reliance World Cup ; when India managed to
Shankar reach the Semifinals !
Then TV serial "Udaan"
..........
Shankar.



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12/13/1901 7:45 PM
ok am a bit late posting in here but tell me if you
guys remembered catchin crabs in the rains with a
Bombay stick and a thread!
(6843 members)
Santosh Those mud splashing rain drenched football

matches.
The Guppa Guppi (hope i remember right) wherein
we play with an iron rod and try to have it stick
upright on throwing inside a circle drawn on the
ground. If you fail then all the others playing with
you would do the same but this time outside the
circle and into places they decide... Once all your
opponents have failed one by one then you start
your langdi back to the circle traversing the path
exactly as it was taken in the first place.... phew ..
guess just got into the mood to explain this one .. I
played this one and can claim to have done langdi
for a record time! :))
11/3/2004 5:16 PM
We used to call it "Hera Heri". Then there were all
these games with Marbles (Dus,Bees; Raja Rani),
Cashews, and even bottle tops (Billas). Then, there
were Tops (Bawras). And come rainy season, those
fishing expeditions in the local lake. Looking under
rocks for fish bait. The football in the rains and the
Raj slush. Collecting 'chandas' for the local Ganesh
Mandal, and the Holi Festivities. I think, it was for
the good that technology was not advanced back
then. No 24 hour Televisions, No internet games,
and no Playstations.
11/4/2004 11:12 PM
And come rainy season, those fishing expeditions in
the local lake. Looking under rocks for fish bait.
Local Lake? Dude where did you live, u lucky guy!

My local lake would be the Bandra Talab (pre and
post "beautification")...
PS Have the Balbhartis for the first standard

Vikram
changed? My bacchalogs who I teach don't have
Nitin and Leena and Hassan and Jal...they have
strange people like Ravi and Suresh (who I don't
like at all!)
double decker chocolate 11/4/2004 11:38 PM
there used to be this chocolate "double decker"...
anybody know why did they stop making it....
i ReMeMbEr 11/5/2004 12:14 AM
Its not only Mumbai....but even Navi Mumbai has
changed!!!!! So many new stations added....now
with the link opening with btwn Thane n Vashi...its
gng to b a huge change
The old access bridge to Navi Mumbai is no longer
getting used. I rber whn we travelled to Vashi some
10-15 years back, we were amazed with the kind of
construction that was happpng alongside the old
Yadnya bridge. The open space of Vashi rlwy station is
totally changed with malls n commercial premises
being built. But inspite of all that, the sun setting on
the vashi creek in still picture perfect.....try to catch
it next time u travel by train during sun set
11/5/2004 12:51 AM
yep.. new bombay has changed a lot in last 3-4
years...
when there was no fly-over at belapur, we used to

walk from station to highway and catch a bus to
college.. it is on kalamboli highway.. whose board is
Nilesh now almost unvisible because of new fly-over which
marks the start of express-way.
11/5/2004 10:07 AM
ek
Sat
11/5/2004 10:08 AM
do
Sat
11/5/2004 10:10 AM
teen
Sat
11/5/2004 10:12 AM
Char Sau!!!
Sat



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@satya 11/5/2004 5:25 PM
char sau beesi to get to char sau
Bombay
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Raj
11/8/2004 10:19 PM
Ok this is no way connected to the topic.
Me and a couple of other orkutkars had gone

Irshad to a lounge on Fri nite and something
happened there that was supposed to go on
this thread. But I can't remember what it was.
There was just too much rum floating around
my brains. Even today.
SO, I hereby rename this thread -
"Warning: Totally arbitrary and random...I

don't remember!"
11/9/2004 1:54 AM
As one of the Orkutkars who was there, I
agree. I don't remember either..though I
remember telling Irshad, this should go up on
the thread!
Vikram
11/9/2004 2:59 AM
And as one of the orkut-kar who could NOT
there, I feel left out. But I remember some
things Irshad, about that night which I heard
through the grapevine...
Ruchi Should I remind you about those?!
so i guess is up to me then... 11/9/2004 3:16
AM delete
vik what you wanted to put up on this thread
was "sona nahi chandi nahi yaar to mila, arre
pyaar kar le...." wait a minute... was it that or
"main pyaar ka pujaari, mujhe pyaar
chahiye??"
Salil ruch, i don think irshad's forgettin wot u thot

about... check our respective scraps and u'll
see wot he wants to forget
totally random!! 11/9/2004 5:37 AM
stop press!!!
Can anyone tell me the name of a seafood
rest in flora fountain area ...I know there is
Mahesh Lunch home close..but which is the
other one??
Mangesh
11/9/2004 5:37 AM
Trishna?
Why bother? Go to Gajalee in Vile Parle

(E)...much better food, cheaper too.
Vikram Sayba at Bandra(W) station is good too..but

it's STINKS of fish!!
11/9/2004 3:30 PM
Vikram, Salil, Ruchi - are you sadists or
something??? Causing me so much heartburn
Milind by going on and on about your doings !!!!!
11/9/2004 10:00 PM
I feel left out too!And unlike ruchi, i don't
even have access to the grapevine to hear all
these seemingly interesting incidents that
must be forgotten.
waaah!
me 3 ( could be ) 11/9/2004 10:45 PM
Ok i am new to this comm .. and i dont think i
have time to read 407 posts .. can someone
tell me what this thead is about .. else i would
also feel left out .. :d ..
Priyavrat
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11/9/2004 10:45 PM
i remember.. (again) leaving trishna one night delete
and walkin bac to the office, and this guy in
Bombay my office comes running out and sez, is
(6843 members)
everything ok? i dinno wot he was talkin
about, but in the few minutes that it takes to
walk from trish, to where TGI Fridays is now,
a shootout had happened on the next table to
the one i was dining at, one of the brothers
that ran the place had been killed, AND the
news had already spread all over..
vik, trishna and mahesh hav both become

sell-outs after they started gettin lots of
press.. imran khan comes and dines there,
Salil and poof! suddenly they're nothin like wot
they used to be. saayba duzn't stink o fish, i
lived pretty close to it, and wud end up havin
dinner there quite often. im not too big on
seafood, hell im not too big on food, but still..
gajalee has sorta fizzled too... only one left
here in south bombay with some semblance of
old glory is apoorva.
@priyavrat, ok, so u can't read all posts, but

surely u can read the subject line/title?
11/10/2004 1:16 AM
hey i just read through the whole thread again
and it took me less than 30 minutes. (but I
omitted reading salil's posts cuz they're the
Irshad longest!)
So...priyavrat, go forth and, figure it out
yourself.
Happy diwali everyone! Does anyone

remember anything random from diwali? I
spent every diwali till 96 away from bombay,
either in Panchgani or pune. Well, this one
time, we lit a rocket in school and decided to
tinker with the stick that held it. The rocket
took off on a parabola motion and went
straight thru the window of one our
teachers... made a lil hole in his dhoti . The
next day, we saw stars!
diwali, eh? 11/10/2004 2:28 AM
ok, i think i did mention the now-banned delete
handbombs we loved as kids. and much has
been said about sweets too.. anyone
remember how gajra used to have a diwali
special? and marathi diwali 'ankas' of
magazines? i remember 'aawaaj' used to have
a window cut on the cover.. i remember a
diwali special episode of aavo maari saathe in
which this old kaka eats mithai but does not
know that the covers of the mithai box got
swapped with the box of crackers, and then
goes out on the balcony to smoke a bidi and
jus takes off... i warned u i'd be random, ok? i
remember someone getting very badly hurt
when those stupid crackers that came in tiny
round metal tins whizzed up his pajamas and
seared his calf. i remember trying to record a
funny programme on tv with a tape recorder
and playing back only the sound of crackers..
Salil umm.. wot else... different types of crackers,
little triangular ones with bird pics on them,
various animals but mostly wavy green
snakes that whizz about aimlessly, snake
tablets those disgusting things that lat out
loads of smoke and the ash (or
whatever)would curl out like a snake..
'telephone' that involved settin up a long
string betwen 2 buldings even.. i loved double
bars which had a big no 2 written on them,
parachutes? do they still make those? even
those little colored matches were fun to play
with especially the ones with a little bit of
sparkler masala on them.. and roll caps were
always more fun on a rough wall than in those
stupid guns they were made for.
11/10/2004 3:33 AM
Ah, that tikli gun! They normally would conk
off after just two or three rolls...!
ya salil, it was the best thing ever, to burst it

Irshad against the walls and on the ground with the
heels of the naughty boy shoes.
Parachutes! 11/10/2004 11:34 AM
I remember longingly chasing after one of
those 'parachutes' immediately after spotting
it, and finally, after successfully tracing the
path and catching it, being roughed up by
another kid and having to give it to him.
The little snakes tablets were so pointless!All
ash, no sparks.And tremendously
unsightly.Somehow as a kid, the unsightliness
went a long way in determining it's
popularity...
And the blue and red striped 'pencils'- loved
those!bright as hell...
There was this one cracker ..(our
extravagance that year- 300 bucks!)...on
being lit, little sparks (that reminded me of
calculus and the seven crystal balls ) would
follow random short trajectories, while
emanating the most annoying shrill
sound.Can't remember what they were called.
The diyas, the new clothes, the yummy food
and tonnes of relatives over (i.e. many gifts
coming your way)...*joy*
The least fun bit of Diwali, needless to say
was the annual clean up.
diwali related random 11/10/2004 11:40 AM
The red-bound books to be worshipped on
Laxmi poojan day, Invariably bursting Laxmi
Bombs (Loud crackers with picture of Goddess
laxmi on them) during the 'aarti' part of Laxmi
poojan, Making 'Aakash Kandil' (wanted to call
it sky-lamp..) at home with Joker gum, 1000,
10,000 garland-type firecrackers which were
the attraction of the alley and the guy would
Pranav get preference over everyone else's lot, us
kid's deference towards adults lighting "Sutali
Bombs" and its cousin, the one wrapped in
green thread, Anars(flower pots) which
exploded without warning after a jet of
sparks...
Thats Diwali as I enjoyed it.
11/10/2004 3:19 PM
Essabhai crackers store on Mohammed Ali
road - ahh... Firecracker paradise!!!!
I remember we used to get a box of sparklers

free with every box of anaars we bought there
Milind
Buy crackers, and then feast out at the
numerous stalls selling kababs and biryani
and phirni, during Ramzan... yet more
paradise!!!
11/10/2004 5:52 PM
I am in Bombay now.(Sorry, US residents. :) )
Yesterday, I think I was privileged to

Nishant
complete a minor Mumbai Darshan. I was in
Worli, Nariman Point, Mahalaxmi, Andheri,
Juhu, Oshiwara, Aarey, Powai and back home
in Chembur.
I had forgotten the magic of the Kandeels. It

was mind-blowing yaar. Goregaon, Mahim,
Oshiwara, blinking lights streaming down
buildings, whole buildings looking like veiled
princesses - I never thought of them that
way. Kandeels of all those colors and shapes,
and then the orange kandeels which
everybody in the building hangs, so it looks
orange and uniform. Really fantastic. And
suddenly,I stop to think how in the midst of
this random traffic and apparent
disillusionment, Mumbaikars imagine beauty
and joy (Sorry, kuch tho senti tha yaar...:)
At Lokhandwala, there is this awesome lane

which is completely lit by an awning of
streaming lights. Didnt get into it, or I would
have been truly eaten up by the traffic (haan,
yaar, traffic ka bahut futa hai - kuch karte
hai,lekin.)
At the entrance to this street, the banner

says, "Happy Diwali and Eid Mubarak."
11/11/2004 2:32 AM
one of the most beautiful sights which is delete
otherwise really ugly.. flying into bombay, on
diwali nights, when the hills covered in slums
are so prettily lit up.
another typical diwali memory, chayageet

Salil playing the 'deepavali manayee suhanee' song
from 'shirdi ke saibaba'..
sai baba song 11/11/2004 5:20 AM
yes i remember that one. and also the one in
marathi, where they had the most desolate
looking actor playing the saint and a sad
looking girl who lives in a hut and doesn't
have diyas since she is poor. so the saint
creates spontaneous combustion thru his
divinity and the diyas appear and light up.
Sat
one bura thing the kids used to do was to set
rockets alight in a horizontal position instead
of vertical.


arbitrary n random

Diwali memories... 11/11/2004 8:22 AM
We used to celebrate Kali puja, which was a
day before the Diwali. I remember a chocolate
Bombay bomb (called so because of the colourful
(6843 members)
aluminium foil on it) going quick on the wicker
and bursting in my hand. I remember a rocket
suddenly taking a rt angle random turn and
going straight through the neghbour's
Supratim window, and me diving behind our boundary
wall straight into the still hot burnt out anar
pots. Eating green peas kachauri (radha
ballabi) with sweetish aloo dum and having to
hug our dog because she would tremble so
much because of the noise.
11/11/2004 9:52 AM
@ Satya
Nishant Thats so funny....lol...cant stop laughing.

Hope this is the topic 11/11/2004 2:20 PM
This is what i remember about my Diwali days
.. that was until two years back. I stay near te
beach so all us friends would chip in the
dough and then we would burts crackers in
the sand. Yea we were harrased by the
pandoos ... but its Diwali... after a little
"haggling".. they would allow us :D ...Also as
mentioned earlier .. the best part would be
the parachutes ...Initially they would glow so
we could see them and dash after them..after
a while however, they would stop glowing and
then it would be on intuition to track it and
find it .. and if needed fight with the urchins
for it :D .... After that we would go to Marin
Drive to burst some crakers there ...Finally..
being a Maroo and all.. diwali is never
Priyavrat complete without a late night game of cards
:D ....
Also i remember ( and i think they still dod it )
.. Every diwali there is this group of people
who burn ladees ... outside the stock
exchange on dalal street .. I had been going
there as a kod every year to see that .. It was
fascinating .. one after the other, ,,,and long
ones too.. Also every diwali postmen come for
baksheesh .. lately i remember them haggling
for that even..... "itna hi kyon .. aur deejiye "
...
Cheers
@Priyavarat 11/11/2004 3:03 PM
You are right on the spot!
Pranav
AiYaiYo! 11/11/2004 10:25 PM
I'm going to be all Soutie and tell you my
Diwali was slightly difderent than all yours...
Waking up before dawn to have my mom oil

our hair (as teenagers..before that it was
chaddis off, full oil massage!) and then oiling
ourselves with coconut oil in which some tulsi
had been left. Then bathing in hot water
(water had to be stored the night before) and
saying the names of the holy 7 rivers as you
poured tumbler fulls of water over yourself.
Then, as you step out of the bathroom, you
crush this fruit thing that symbolizes Naraka's
head (Hence Naraka Chaturdashi)
Then touching parents feet, getting new

clothes, books and crackers(yay!). Eating
sweets and lighting off crackers (at 6 am!! as
the sun rose). Then making the rounds of all
assorted uncles and aunties houses to wish
them Happy Diwali...my mom taking care to
Vikram see that her silks weren't messed up in the
rick..
Then taking platefuls of sweets and savories

to all the neighbours houses and getting a
plate full of sweets in return (excpet most
Catholic neighbors would give us a plate full of
sugar..they'd give out sweets over
Christmas..our Muslim neighbours would send
over meat from the freshly slaughtered goat
during Id and as the token non-veggie in the
house, I had to accept the plate with my
parents out of the room!)
Then lighting crackers all evening after going

to the temple.
So far, this year I've managed to do it all :-)

Diwali Aftermath 11/11/2004 10:36 PM
Tomorrow ( day after diwali ) is gujrati new
year :D .. i rememeber the pedder road
..mahalakshmi junction is going to go crazy
cause a lot of gujjus go to the mandir there.
Also the jams are going to be all over the city
and till late...Good luck with the traffi folks
Priyavrat
Cheers
P.S. : Rues the fact that he is unable to busrt

crackers anymore :(
One more... 11/15/2004 12:18 AM
Don't know if this was mentioned... but I
remembered it today. Some bank sent us
chocolates which had this golden wrapping,
resembling a gold coin.
Irshad Harnik had the exact same stuff, anyone
remember eating that? it was crappy
chocolate but I loved collecting the gold coins.
gold coins 11/15/2004 1:40 PM
Yes i remember those, the chocolate would
melt real soon and make the hands messy,
resulting in a scolding from the grumps..but
the design on the gold wrappers were cool. I
was under impression that these too were lost
Pranav in time.
Irshad, which bank sent you those sweets?
they must be pretty nostalgic about them, like
us.
11/15/2004 10:12 PM
it was Kotak Mahindra, they've just started
banking, so perhaps it was their way of
My colleague pulled out a gem today (perhaps

its been mentioned) - how every school
birthday, the kids would buy ravalgaon sweets
Irshad and distribute it to the whole class. The kids
would fight for the red sweet and would
invariably throw up and the orange sweet was
the yuckiest of them all.
11/15/2004 11:15 PM
melt? u guys talk like it was real chocolate, it delete
was crappy toffee, as far as i remember...
vik, brilliant description there... not a southie

but totally relate to that.
Salil



arbitrary n random

Bombay @ Vikram 11/16/2004 3:45 AM
(6843 members) hi !
i'm also from VESIT .......
gr8 to know that u were the Hardsell Champ
UR version of the Southie Diwali was just

too good .......
Shankar
Dude, keep in touch.
Shankar.
@ Vikram 11/16/2004 3:46 AM
hi !

too good .......
Shankar
Shankar.
@ Vikram 11/16/2004 3:48 AM
hi !

too good .......
Shankar
Shankar.
Birthdays in school 11/16/2004 8:06 AM
I remember how as a birthday boy one wud
get to attend school in casual clothing and
then in one of the classes the birthday boy
wud stand in front of the class with a bag of
chocolates in his hands and the entire class
wud sing the birthday song to him and then
he wud go and distribute chocs to the teacher
Sharad and all the students..
those were the days..miss them all!!

11/16/2004 3:24 PM
Children splashin in pools of water an Roads
clogged due to excessive rain, People running
across the road in damp clothes an overturned
umbrellas,the red BEST buses over the damp
roads,and then finally after long hours or even
. days of rain, the elusive rainbow shows up.
Crusataceans and earthworms springing up
from nowhere, butterflies fluttering all around,
beetles and bugs trekking over damp
grass,and the divine odour of mother earth
dampened by the rain..
Whenever I step out into the roads just after

rain, and my nares get a hint of the after-rain
smell, my mind whirls back into the more
ecstatic phase of my life.
(That was ghatkopar W)
Come out of the home and you see long lines

of flea markets, people eagerly shoutin at you
and forcing you to buy whatever they
have.Once inside the station, we start feeling
like we are just a speck of dust in this huge
cruel world where no one ever seems like he
can spare an extra moment. People, people
and more people.. so much difference ..so
many types, so many jobs, so less time,.. it
all never seemed obvious when I first came to
mumbai, when I was all of 7.
Boarding a train too, needs a few techniques
in this city. Once into the rusted cubicle of
over-crowded, smelly people, one begins to
wonder why did he even think of trains as a
fast and a good mode of transport. The next
moment a near by seat goes empty and
viola!! even before you blink u r eyes, its full
again.Once out of the train and back onto the
station, we feel a wee bit of relief and start
staring at the cheap, indigenious commodities
being sold. There was this small, delicate set
of aluminium fancy mock tables, which this
dumb dora can make within a few seconds.
And still a treasure in my room, is this small
model of a cycle one of those guys sold to me
. all made with a single wire of aluminum. And
to think that smelly people are good for
nothin!!An then, there's also this boat model,
which runs on steam..
For 15 bucks, at the age of ten, I
thought it was real costly, but lookin back at
my past,.
11/16/2004 3:36 PM
I can say, my hands can never pain of writing
about bombay.The time when T.V. only meant
doordarshan and the newly launched DD-2
which was on air till bout 7pm,when
games(no virtual gaming!!) actually meant
sports, where spreading smiles was viral, and
where keeping your school lunch basket in Q,
so that one could get the best seat, the one
. above the tyre(the one, I feel really maladroit
in, now)..., where ganesh drank milk in my
house, and where, hum aapke hain koun ran
at the near by cinema house for months
together, where I bought five packets of
chicklets so that I could get this squeezable,
smashable, awfully scary looking
rubbery,lava-like lizard, and where I first saw
cinema-like real life sequences during the
Ayodhaya strike, where cheap shopping
meant.. the streets of V.T, and where comics
like disney and the Amar chitra katha were a
necessity to me weekly, That was bombay for
me...
Where the wind was so humid that when u dry
urself after a bath, u end up rubbing sweat off
the body,...
Where, the road to school, was a winding
path, up a hill,
where, u meet people of all sects and all
beliefs, right in your school(K.V.--IIT, powaii).
Where missing the BQC was as rare as
missing the daily news.
That's Bombay for me.. and I am back here
now, startin all over again.
11/18/2004 12:19 AM
This thread needs a revival... it was one of the
main reasons I ever visited orkut in the first
place
Irshad
@irshad the curator 11/18/2004 1:07 AM
why don you do it? c'mon surely a journo can delete
generate content... don jus bump the thread,
contribute!
I think guru raj jus b4 u, did a pretty good job
too..
Salil
11/19/2004 12:22 AM
I'm just maha-amused that Agrawal classes is
one of the "friend" communities to this one..
-Vikram (Vacation Batch A 1993-94)

Vikram
revival? 11/19/2004 12:31 AM
Someone told me that Roxy was coming up
again. Is it true?
Its one of the first things on this thread.. and

Ruchi if its true, I will be maha excited.



arbitrary n random

11/19/2004 12:55 AM
one really aweosme thing was the 123 bus ride
from tardeo to navy nagar..everyone wanted to sit
Bombay on the top deck in the first seat! so cool..literally!!
(6843 members) now apparently they've changed that to single
decker just like the others..losers..double decker
buses were unique to this city.
Priyanka btw..what is that "stone man" story..plz tell
me..sorry bout my ignorance!
about "gotya" 11/19/2004 1:02 AM
salil..i've not heard anyone mention the serial
"gotya" in years!! i was totally into it as a
kid..watched it all the time with my grandma..yeah i
was a true ghati!!!
Priyanka
11/19/2004 1:08 AM
awla supari was awesome..
so is raste ka sandwich
and ofcourse kailash parbat paani puri
o and New Yorkers..all my classmates flocked there
after finals..and ate the usual..nachos, enchiladas
Priyanka and onion rings!
11/19/2004 1:52 AM
Ok -
Salil, since I spent the latter half of the 80s and the
first half of the 90s in a boarding school which didn't
allow us to watch TV except on weekends, and
didn't allow us to read the newspapers till std 5th,
I've got precious little to add . Which is why I
loved reading most of these posts, revived
memories from summer holidays.
But - here's a few things we did, which city kids

probably didn't.
Run into the neighbouring mango plantation and

aim stones at raw 'kairee' hanging. Eat all those raw
kairees with salt and chilli powder stolen from the
gunny bags that were stacked behind our
Irshad dormitories. we'd play hide and seek on the roof on
the school... the drainage pipes were big enough to
accomodate two puny kids. The trick was to hold
onto the opening extra tight so we didn't slide down
and become part of the excreta. Alternately, play
land or water (did anyone else play this one or was
it a pure boarding school thing?) within the dorms,
on the top bunk of the double bunk beds. The first
ever music cassette that someone ever brought to
school was Tridev...so spent an entire term singing
'Oye oye'. Walkmen back then had these huge
headphones...the likes with high resistance and
pathetic output. Roos boots were big in 1988, but
they'd get stolen pretty regularly.
Cable TV was a big thing, we actually had it in
1991, before i had it at home. Our teachers didn't
let us watch MTV. They contributed to our
immediate graduation to Debonair that same year...
Few other random school things - football shoes by

Nivia, hockey sticks by Rover sports, white canvas
shoes from Corona (for some reason bata wasn't
common for the school buyers), postcards would be
distributed to all kids to write home, so that
teachers could check what we write back....
More randomness later.

@ Irshad 11/19/2004 6:32 AM
hey !
u r rite !
those dayz Cable TV wasn't there ....

i mean bfor some 1991/92 !
ppl never allowed kids to see MTV & the stuff ever
since cable-tv started [obvious bcoz of the Skin-
Shankar show & sex-stuff in 'em]
nowadayz ; however even Bollwood has changed ;
oops oopsy
mumbaii 11/19/2004 10:36 AM
aila i log into orkut after ages n man wat greatt
discussions on here.
talkin abt serials at a time when saas bahu didnt
appear on screen we had stuff like amchi mati
amchi mansa n all many other serials discussed
here. how abt surabhi, renuka n siddarth n superhit
muqabala where u had to send postcards(near to
extinction today) n they would pick up random
postcards. and ya the trend of showing "hit" movies
on sunday evening on DD. people actually stopped
visiting each other n would remain glued to tv to
see maine pyaar kiya when it was televised for the
first time.
Swetha and of course radio was a great force to reckon
with. hey guys dont u think as time passes we are
kind of reviving the past. radio wave seeping in
again, old fashioned clothes in thing again, mughal-
e - azam ab color mein. next maybe hype may be
the balbharati text books. kuch bhi kaho old is gold
. yep one thing i miss most is those phantom
ciggarate chocolate. dont get them anymore. sob
sob
OK Salil- 11/19/2004 9:41 PM
Out of the most hazy memories-
Summer holidays - Handloom handicraft fairs that

used to be at azad maidan and marine lines... and
Irshad euphimistically call themselves Disneyland. hehe!
They used to have all these weird rides, and was
around way before Esselworld or Fantasy Land.
Every single kid I know has been to one, and
nobody ever bothered shopping there. Atleast not
my folks. The only thing I ever picked up from any
one of these was an old 'Appu' replica that used to
hang in my cupboard til a few years back.
(Incidentally I went to appu ghar in the mid 80s and
was quite cheesed off that there was nothing of that
sort here)
My favourite was this wacko ride called Tora Tora,

god alone knows what they ever called it that!
Esselworld when it just started out had this really

wild ride called the Rainbow (or sumthn) When it
reached the top you could see half of bombay.
unfortunately they wound it up cuz it was too
dangerous. It came back many years later, only
after 96 or something. Made me feel dizzy as hell.
More later as I jog my memory.

some more ramblings 11/20/2004 5:35 AM
hey some more old memories struck me. talking
about chocolates(i luvvvv them) u ppl remember
paan pasand! n esp that ad . i cant remember the
jingle but a model gets angry n then eats pan
pasand and is happy.somebody plzz tell me the
jingle/ puchline if u can remember it. and then
coming back to DD (i was a couch potato then n sob
sob now get to see very less tv). there was
euphoria when DD 2 was started. tab DD 1 was like
Swetha boring n all happening serials there. remember dekh
bhai dekh n jaban sambhalke. and one song which
DD always played was" mile sur mera tumhara yeh
sur bane hamara" . bass ab itna hi yaad aa raha
hai, jab aur yaad ayega i will ramble more!!!!:)
talkin abt cable... 11/20/2004 5:58 AM
i;m not sure if it was Bhawani tv, or whether this is
an urban legend, bt there was supposed to be this
channel that broadcast bhajan-kirtan type of stuff
during the day and switched to porno late at night.
channel would've captured a big market at all times
Sat
of the day using the 2 main opiates of the masses,
not a bad idea, wot?
@swetha 11/20/2004 6:15 AM
Wow! I musta forgot a lot of those serials..The pan
pasand jingle was real famous.and then there was
7up ..and the amchi mati thing ..wat was it about??
And there was this cute rasna catchphrase:
Nanne munne bachhe tere mutthi mein kya hai,
. muthi mein hai mera ..... Rasna..



arbitrary n random

@swetha 11/20/2004 4:33 PM
hey Swetha, I think that jingle went
something like this: "Pan ka swaad, gazab ki
Bombay mithaas" , and this used to be followed by the
(6843 members)
angry person repeating his/her words in a
mild manner :)
Deepti
@Satya 11/22/2004 10:44 PM
FINALLY after ages I get a chance to
contribute on my most favorite thread on
Orkut.
@Satya,
Indeed there was a channel which played all
religious stuff in the day time, news in the
evening and unbelievably-hardcore-porn on
Pranav Saturday midnights. It was JAIN TV.
Unfortunately, I never was allowed to stay
that late on Saturdays back then, but some of
my most trustworthy buddies confirmed this
info.
more random 11/22/2004 10:48 PM
-Collecting the unused pages of you previous-
year notebooks in summer and carrying them
to be "bound-up" into one big 1000 page
notebook.
The notebook was a psychadelic thing as it
had pages with the different line-styles we
used to use in school, single-spaced, double-
Pranav spaced, squared. The biggest suspense was
what picture the binder put on the cover of
the giant notebook. Afterwards, I would
demand him to put some cool pictures rather
than boring Scholar or Rajat type designs.
HAHAHAHAH... 11/22/2004 10:52 PM
that jain tv thing brought back memories.. a delete
whole bunch of frenz n me used to do our
yearly submissions together at night. basically
gettin rid of backlog and extra assignments,
so the way it works in art school is, common
palette, lots of color, mass produced work. so
we put jain tv on, coz that was pretty
controversial then, and sure enough, soft core
Salil porn comes on. at this, my fren tej goes.."yeh
achcha hai, kaanda lasun nahi chalta hai, yeh
sab chalta hai..."
sorrrrreeee.... no offence intended
11/23/2004 5:58 AM
Puhleeze!!
It's the "no kaanda-lasun" types only who are

maximum into this stuff...
Vikram PS I watched my first Hindi (or badly dubbed

into Hindi) porno on Jain TV...YUK!
11/23/2004 9:13 AM
Now I have been in Bombay for about 2
weeks. From the beginning, I have been
complaining about how crowded it has
become, how there's no place for pedestrians
or cars, how hot it is, how people shout at
each other and dont really talk to each other -
the same things I would celebrate from the
quiet suburbs of New Jersey. I had been
thoroughly disappointed.
Today, I took a ride in an AC bus (A-4 from

Opera House to Amar Mahal, Chembur),
minus the pollution, minus the crowds, minus
the noise. And I saw the Bombay that we
speak of so affectionately about in this thread.
Kabutarkhana and Portuguese Church and the
roundabout near Plaza theater - slick, coolsy
Marathi film playing there. The older buildings
at Dadar on Ambedkar Road, quiet, and
somewhat desolate. The temples and shops
and quiet yellow halogen lamps, now under
the bridges. There was one little building
where all the homes were dark, except for
one. This was late evening, isnt that kind of
Nishant
strange, that there was only one inhabitant in
that building?
Just before that, I had walked through the

streets and smells of Charni Road, the
diamond market, the vada paav wala, old
Bombay, still breathing and living right by the
noisy television channels.
Some days ago, another fantastic 35 minutes

(First Class ticket) on a Harbour Line train
from Chembur (home) to VT (now CST)
brought me so close to seven years of
commuting. Harbor line services have
improved, yes, improved - thank you Central
Railway. The train ride brought the same
smells at Vadala, Cotton Green, Reay Road,
Dockyard, Sandhurst Road and Masjid.
Somewhere along the way, I re-discovered
Bombay's Parsi-Gujarati flavour.
Dudes, rest assured, Bombay rocks.

Paan Pasand Ad 11/23/2004 11:22 AM
(Angry, sniffy Archana Joglekar)
"Shaadi? Aur tumse? Kabhi nahi!"
Voiceover:
Paan Pasand. Paan ka swaad, gazab ki
Milind mithaas
(Lovey Dovey Archana Joglekar)

"Shaadi? Aur tumse? Kabhi nahi!"
@ Milind 11/24/2004 6:40 AM
good Recollection/Memory !
Old Times Serials'
Malgudi Days
Buniyaad
Nukkad
Shankar Circus
Gotya
Yeh Jo hai Zindagi
Mr. Yogi
11/24/2004 6:47 AM
The train ride brought the same smells at
Vadala, Cotton Green, Reay Road, Dockyard,
Sandhurst Road and Masjid.
I could live *without* the same smells along

Harbour line...
We'd call Sadhurst Road "Sandas Road" when
Vikram I was a kid travelling to town..
And Aamir, you *really* need to go back and

read all 400 odd posts in this thread...
11/24/2004 11:48 AM
Lol Vikram - You and everybody else!!! Poor
Lord Sandhurst!!! - must be rolling in his
Milind grave!



arbitrary n random

11/28/2004 12:11 AM
Lol, Vikram.
Nishant I couldnt. :)
u cudn't WHAT, nishant? 11/28/2004 12:59 AM
vik, fren o mine who used to live at antop hill, delete
would take the harbour line to GTB nagar..
Bombay she claimed she cud wake up at any point in
(6843 members) her journey and identify the station by its
stench. she actually had pretty detailed
descriptions for all of them. thankfully there
are a few things i have forgotten after all, and
this is one of them.
Salil
ever smelled burnt toothpaste? go to the
stretch between sion and mahim where they
burn garbage near the bridge. u'll definitely
see (smell) what i mean.
Stink things off all the Topics!
11/28/2004 2:27 AM
hey Salil/Vikram !
we can maybe talk bout somethin' else ....
Shankar Way Out .....

mumbaiii 11/28/2004 9:11 AM
ya absolutely smell is something that is very
distinct n if ur a regualr commuter by trains
then u can actually make out where u are.
vikram some people still call sandhurst road
as "sandas road". the first time i heard it i
Swetha laughed out so loud that the women who said
this didnt know wat to do.
y r ppl talking bout SHIT 11/29/2004 9:42 PM
we can maybe talk bout somethin' else ....
Way Out .....
Shankar
11/30/2004 9:17 AM
kyon re? kya hua? by now we should all be so
accustomed to the sight / smell of excrement
and its origins, that we shouldn't really have
any delicate sensibilities left to offend
Sat
anymore, no?
Dabur Lal Daanth Manjan 11/30/2004 8:35 PM
Master - " Raju tumahre daanth toh motiyon
jaise chamakte hai"
Raju - "Kyon na ho Masterji, Dabur ka lal

daanth manjan jo isteymaal karta hoon"
Kunal
LOL
11/30/2004 9:02 PM
Datton ki kare hifazat,
moti sa chamkaaye,
dabur lal dant-manjan se,
mukhda khil khil chamkaay!!
Ruchi
Spotted at Andheri station.. 12/1/2004 9:02
AM
On a purple velvet banner:
"TANA-TAN
100 DAYS PERFUME!
RS.5/- only!"
neone tried one of those?man, was i tempted!

arre Kunal 12/1/2004 9:32 AM
beta you forgot the clincher only -
aur masterji, aapke dant? hehehe.

Sat



arbitrary n random

12/1/2004 11:03 AM
hey, pavitra, i see the tanatan100 days delete
perfume guys every day at the beginnning of
Bombay D.N.road... believe me, u don even wanna get
(6843 members)
close, the stuff stinks.
and i saw a wall painting for 'dhantak ka

double B saabun' a few days ago at sion.
made me laugh to think of the jingle.. "yeh
dher se kapde, main kaise dho-un, achcha
saabun kaunsa laaoon.."
Salil went thru the new edition of 'bombay, the

cities within' by sharda dwivedi and rahul
mehrotra some days ago. was workng closely
with the designer of the first edition so was
lucky to see some kick ass pix of the city, but
the new edition has so many more and some
cool maps too. crazy wen u see dongri
marked as 'dungaree town' and charni road
passes thru wot were the 'churney oartes'.
was also kicked to finally find out that

'mahim' gets its name from 'mahikavati' the
12th century 'capital' of raja bhimdeo.
i keep bringing up the building i work in but

seriously the old baby has seen so much. the
oldest pix i've seen have that building with
little else around that's familiar. mohit
dropped in the other day, sorry bro, but was
too preoccupied wid jobs at hand to give you
a proper tour... nex time.
12/1/2004 1:00 PM
i remember
Lalitaji
Watching an English movie at New talkies in

bandra (i dont think it exists nymore) and
hearing all the andrews and national college
kids yell "jhaag" when the "nirma detergent
tikiya" add came on the screen. (for those
who don't remember it went a little like this
"nirma detergent tikiya.......iske jhaag ne
jaadu kar diya")
watching the annual jackie chan marathon at

New Talkies every summer ( folks from
Ashutosh
bandra should remember this)
the excitement of going to the garden in

santacruz with the airplane
gola sharbat outside ruia college after cricket

practice in the maidan across the street in the
summer
andorra and hearsch bakeries in bandra, jai

sandwich outside national college, pure gold
ice cream and stomach chinese near bhabha
hospital and shiv sagar in pali hill.
12/1/2004 7:02 PM
that Zhaag word was always a laugh-rioteer,
especially the way they sang it inthe jingle
like ZHaaaaaaaaa..gneJaduuu Kar Diya
Pranav
Mission 500 12/6/2004 7:16 PM
Guys N Gals
If Orkut maths is right, we are just 27 posts
short of making the longest thread on this
community reach 500.
Pranav So, wake those grey cells up and get
cracking!!
12/6/2004 7:51 PM
a real ride thru the 80s and the early
90s....wow!!....readin all the messages itself
has taken me over a day!!!,,,and i have an
exam in less than 48 hrs...eeeeks
isnt it fun to gather totally random thoughts

from thin air, stuck up somewhere in ure
memory...does reduce some burden off some
of those grey cells...
it also energizes u to get back to work feelin

lot lighter...and happier that an entire
' The Shiva generation shares the same set of
'© memories....
isnt Bombay the best!!
keep the comments comin....ill be a silent

reader from here on....
Bombay ruuuuullllleeeessss!!!!!!
randomness... 12/6/2004 8:09 PM
one thing that i remember is, the stupid
Sansad samachar that used to come on
primetime DD just before the really good
prayojit karyakrams ....Lok Sabha and the
Rajya Sabha...
i was like 9 and 10 those days and i hated to

' The Shiva wait to see some morons shout in the well of
'© the house....
and then came the really kool...Byomkesh

Bakshi, Tehelka, Gul Gulshan Gulfam?....
Sansad samaachar 12/6/2004 8:12 PM
And the worst part was that they used to
report it again in English as 'Parliament
News', but then it would be too late for us to
notice and there would be nothing following
them, so no one cared.
If anyone listened, the proceedings as
reported would sound so civic and respectable
Pranav from the mouths of those newscasters on
Sansad Samachar and Parliament News.
Then, they started live recording of the House
proceedings,and that showed what "actually"
went on in the parliament!!
sorry couldnt keep quiet... 12/6/2004 8:14 PM
had to write somethin....this thread is makin
me go crazy!!!
' The Shiva

'©
DD MTV mourning days.... 12/6/2004 8:21 PM
imagine when some prez or pm died...
DD bandh....5 days some moron used to play

some unbelievable shit....no programs...just
' The Shiva that shehnai...all day....
'©
no wonder u felt sad!!
12/6/2004 8:23 PM
That was the whole point!! to make you
grieve with the rest of the nation
Pranav



arbitrary n random

DD regional language movies on sundays...
12/6/2004 8:26 PM
i also remember the regional language movies on
Bombay DD on sunday afternoons....
(6844 members)
the entire cycle had to go thru before they showed
the same language...
my family would wait for the Tam movie with so

much patience...OMG...i didnt even understand
' The Shiva
'© what they were lookin forward to....in the end DD
did show some shit....and my family would be very
happy...i would be like..huh??...THIS...THIS was
ure movie???
i would have rather not waited....

12/6/2004 9:04 PM
batli dabba batliyaaa
Sat
cricket @ wankhede.... 12/6/2004 9:08 PM
wankhede rules....!!
my first ever test match was the 1991-92 england

rout, where kambli scored the double ton....the 4th
' The Shiva day was what i saw, where he scored his double ton
'© and then prabhakar took 3 quick wickets at the end
of play....watchin a game at wankhede is
awesome....
the second game i saw @ wankhede was the 1996

world cup under lites against the ozzies....wow SRT
was in awesome form that day and i still remember
the sound from his bat when he hit mcgrath for a
six over midwicket....we did however lose the
game..:(...the experience with the bby crowd under
lites is heavenly!!
the third game i saw at wankhede was the durin the

infamous ind-SA series where cronje and his
buddies huddled up the bigbucks....this was at the
fag end of the tour and was a mohinder amarnath
benfit game....ODI...this time i got to see the big
screen and the lites along with the bby crowd....and
we won...(apaprently durin the break the entire SA
team were discussin whether to throw the game)....
my dream is to watch SRT at MCG under lites and

probably my only chance would be at india's tour
down under in 2007....
12/6/2004 10:52 PM
Well I am not much of a Crick enthu but why wait
till 2007? Arent we playing the 'roos anytime
before? or is it the earliest we are playing at MCG?
Pranav
another arbit thgt 12/7/2004 8:35 AM
cant resist posting in this thread. thanks a lot salil
for starting this awesome thread. everytime i come
to this thread its so nice goin back to old times.
which was the malls that u ppl visited for the first
time in bombay? i remember goin to akbarallys at
fountain n being completely in awe of the ambience
there. then another mall i remember was shoppers
Swetha stop at andheri. bombay had a new landmark in it.
today one finds malls in every nook and corner, so
no big deal!!! hmm those were days!!!
12/7/2004 12:43 PM
Yeah..going to Akbarally's was considered to be a
status symbol in those days!But shopper's stop
sucks, there is nothing complete of any collection in
Pranav it. Crossroads is a bit OK
cross roads ...hmm... 12/7/2004 1:03 PM
good only for window shoppin and promotions...
and yeah pranav..the next tour it seems is only in

2007...have to plan for that...
' The Shiva
'©
Don't laugh... 12/7/2004 1:32 PM
but the first "Mall" I went to was the Apna Bazaar
store in Parel... I remember I must have been 4 or
5 years old at the time... and being amazed by a
Milind store which was 3 stories, and seemed to have
sooo many things !
12/7/2004 7:19 PM
Talking of malls, does anyone remember a toy store
somewhere at Mahalakshmi? I think I was really
really small so I dont remember. Think it was
owned by Jaydeep Garware?
Anyways, there was this kids store my parents used
to take me and I would think to myself I was in
'foren' and all those stores there must be so cool.
The toys there was so pretty... felt like Christmas to
Ruchi me. Always.
And then one day the store vanished.
ps, I think there was another cool supermarket next
to it as well... that was fun too.
12/7/2004 7:55 PM
i miss the apna bazaar bus!



arbitrary n random

12/7/2004 9:28 PM
We used to go to Akbarallys (the Santacruz
one) to sit on Chacha Deepak's lap (sorta this
Bombay desi Santa Claus trying to get junta to buy dry
(6844 members)
fruit dabbas)..
Anyone went shopping at Sahakari Bhandar?

We used to go to the Bandra Station one...
Vikram
And anyone remember *actually* using your
ration cards to buy stuff?
12/7/2004 10:10 PM
Not my family, but I distinctly remember our
Kaamwaali buying cheap sugar/rice on our
Ration card, which we got but used only as as
Pranav proof-of-address.
12/7/2004 11:02 PM
We would sometimes get Kerosene on our
ration card...the blue dyed official for public
distribution kerosene - never used it for
Milind
cooking, though!
@Milind 12/7/2004 11:28 PM
cooking, you mean as a fuel in cooking.?
Pranav
12/7/2004 11:34 PM
Obviously... wouldn't be using kerosene for
tadka or frying !
Milind
12/7/2004 11:49 PM
That reminds of a useless fact. Since there
were many suicides or accidental deaths by
drinking kerosene, this new kerosene had
additives for the blue color as well as for
giving it an extremely bitter taste to
Pranav discourage people drinking it, just as
mercaptans are added in LPG to give its easily
detectable odor.
12/7/2004 11:52 PM
memories of the blue kerosene came back delete
when pepsi came out with their blue variant.
milind, in another thread u mentioned smash
tshirts.. i had earlier brought up the whole
'roos' shoes craze. together these 2 became a
popular way to make fun of gujju's then, coz..
Salil "roos na soos, ane smes no tsirt" was wot
every self respecting pares(h) wud wear...
12/7/2004 11:55 PM
Also, at some time, Rasana released its Aqua
soft drink concentrate, which looked and even
tasted like the blue kerosene
Pranav
12/8/2004 12:55 AM
Ration card... I remember waiting about 3
hours in a line when they changed the ration
card system and made the white and saffron
cards. And remember waiting with drunk
macs to buy sugar.
Someone had convinced my grandma that if

Irshad ration cards weren't used once in two months
then they would cease to be recognised. It
took two years to convince her otherwise. Til
then, guess who trudged all the way to the
rationing office at Pali hill!
500 post 12/8/2004 1:44 AM
Hey we reached 500......COngrats
Remember that white liquid bottle with which

we used to polish our canvass shoes sparkling
white : ) :) for our PT!!!
Yadnya



arbitrary n random

12/8/2004 3:54 AM
Irshad,
I have memories of buying wheat and taking
Bombay it to the Atta chakki (Laxmi flour mill) on 33rd
(6844 members)
Road and Pali..
Man that smell of fresh atta being pisofied

was awesome!
Vikram
Anyone remember when salt wasn't iodized
and we had to buy salt crystals?
yeah 12/8/2004 6:51 AM
and the chakki man would be covered by a
fine dusting of white atta. (wow talk about job
related hazards, wonder what sort of
respiratory probs the guy must suffer from
Sat
after years on the job!)
12/8/2004 9:48 AM
Yeah.. .guess the chakki wala must be
"floured"
Milind (Poor pj, but couldn't resist!)
nahin re, 12/8/2004 11:07 AM
that's a good one. seriously. haha.
Sat
@milind...more 12/8/2004 11:38 AM
good one !!
ration cards used to be everythin for

identification...school admissions, drivers
license applications...the moment u suggest a
passport...u should see the look on the
officers faces...OMG...it was like committin
suicide....
the call to get LPG at home was another fun

' The Shiva fact...it used to take a weeks bookin to get
'© the guy to come home and replace ure
'cylinder' and it was almost to check the
predictive capabilities of the women at home
to call the guy up....
hey anyone remember when the first meter

card for rickshaws and taxis come out...
i had a cuz who came from the US after ten
yrs or so..the moment he got outta a rick, e
handed over to the driver...Rs 1.20
everyone on the road startin laughin...

the conversions used were more like the
Duckworth lewis system...
12/8/2004 12:13 PM
I'd find it hilarious when taxi drivers would
use the complex tariff calculations to
overcharge you and that too without actually
getting out the tariff card!
I remember being asked to pay Rs 650 for a

Milind taxi ride from the airport to Sion... I had a
good laugh, asked to see the tariff card, and
paid up the 40 odd rupees that was the actual
fare...
12/8/2004 10:40 PM
i almost hit a cabbie and his drunk cohort on delete
sunday night wen they tried the same shit
with me, milind.. under normal
circumstances, even i wud laff it off, AND get
my way, but that nite i was really pissed off
having had an excruciating delay flying back
from delhi. imagine taking a 7.40 flight that
takes off at 8.40 and u only get back by
11.45 and this jerk demands Rs.210 wen the
meter sez 80 bucks.
on a funnier note that is more relevant to the

thread, i did have a very interesting
conversation with an insane punjabi cabbie
who had been driving since 1959. irshad din
Salil belive it wen i sed 3 rupee cab rides, this
chappie tells me about the time wen petrol
was 50p a litre and and cab rides were 4
annas.
he told me about the various cars that were

cabs before the fiat and amby took over. he
sed some bentleys even were part of the cab
fleets. our man himself drove a ford prefect
and dinno why i started laughing my head off
wen he sed that. fellow douglas adam fans
will know wot i mean....
just caught a colleague singing this..
12/9/2004 4:53 AM delete
so i'm gonna make a quiz out of it:
jingle
A _____ in your hand

A smile on your face
Salil and suddenly the world is a much better
place.
with _____, _____,_____!
add something special, to an ordinary day.
12/9/2004 9:28 AM
A Bird in your hand
and suddenly the world is a much better
place.
with onebirdinhand, nottwo, inthebush!
add something special, to an ordinary day
Sat ok sorry that's as far as my creativity goes
today on a full stomach.
is it a chocolate ad?
jingle.... 12/9/2004 10:42 AM
me thinks two songs for conservative and
liberal america...
CONSERBATIVE::
A GUN in your hand

place.
with I-RAQ,BUSH's SHRUG,and CHENEY's
SAD FACE!
LIBERALLL:
A GAY PARTNER's HAND in your hand

' The Shiva A smile on your face
'© and suddenly the world is a much better
place.
with MARRIAGE,PRE-NUPS, and Kerry's long
but bright FACE!
comin to apna bby,
A VADA PAV in your hand

place.
with LASOON, SWEET CHUTNEY ,and the
TASTE!



arbitrary n random
@Salil 12/9/2004 6:11 PM
By any chance, is that an ad for Nescafe
select?
Milind
Bombay 12/9/2004 7:25 PM
(6844 members) nice work guys, but no cigar... delete
it's a drink, no longer in the market.
Salil
good morning! 12/9/2004 7:58 PM
black label whiskey?
campa cola?
gold spot?
Sprint?
thums up?
Sat
ol monk rum?
aarrgh, what is it?
12/9/2004 8:00 PM
ok ok, one mo hint... it was from dukes. NOW delete
that shud not b a problem...
in the meanwhile, here's another. have a

feeling milind will get this after his last
performance with the cherry jingle, awesome!
how about a _____ when you are in the sun

Salil how about a ____ when you are having fun
how about a _____ when you are at play
just have a _____ it'll brighten up your day.
_____, _____, _____, _ _ _____!
12/10/2004 12:31 AM
Minti.
NP Minti.
Nishant
Real Cool.
12/10/2004 10:07 AM
right on nishant, that was quick! wanna take a delete
shot at the earlier question?
Salil
mangola? 12/10/2004 10:14 AM
lemonade?
Ginger?
Thrill?
Sat
@Salil 12/10/2004 12:27 PM
Is it Appella?
Milind
woohoo!!! 12/13/2004 9:46 PM
after 4 days of being told to join this delete
community if i wanted to post, i finally get
back in.
happy to b back, so here's the answer:
A TangO in your hand,

a smile on your face
Salil and suddenly
the world is a much better place.
with TangO, TangO, TangO
add something special to an ordinary day!
12/14/2004 2:08 PM
Tango... drat it!! I knew that one!!
Milind



arbitrary n random

12/16/2004 2:59 AM
salil,
Bombay
which era was the tango in?
(6844 members)
Ruchi
12/16/2004 4:45 AM
jus one year b4 u were born, ruchi. i do think delete
they tried to revive it once later... not sure
wen.
Salil
12/16/2004 12:55 PM
Tango was actually quite good...
I remember, I had gone on a trek to Raigad

fort (sometime in 1990, I think) and in a
chhote gaon ki dukaan they had crates full of
Milind Rush, Double Cola and Tango... no idea which
era they were from, but they tasted good to
parched throats!!
12/16/2004 9:01 PM
Rush for taste
Rush for Tang
Spread the love
And join the gang...
Vikram I must be delirious with this nasty viral fever I

have..this song is going around in my head...
12/17/2004 12:53 PM
Didn't they advertise Double Cola as "The
American Cola" or something?? Ad guy Salil,
Milind care to confirm ?
12/17/2004 11:08 PM
absolutely. milind u are usually right, champ.. delete
don need me to back that. i was in class 7 i
think wen i found a folder discarded in the
elevator of my building. it was prelaunch
promotional material for double cola wen they
were looking for bottling partners in india. but
it wasn't until a year later that the product did
hit the shelves and was advertised using
Salil yankeepop idols. cindi lauper is the only one i
remember, but there were a couple more. and
yes, the sign off indeed was "the american
cola".
12/18/2004 2:50 AM
I remember Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the
USA' and Bangles 'Walk like an Egyptian' used
in ads for the cola... thats the first I ever
Milind heard those songs... so I remember the ads
vividly...
12/18/2004 2:57 AM
I remember seeing the Bangles in concert in
Bombay at Rang Bhavan in the mid 80's...
I had the HUGEST crush on Susannah Hoffs...

Vikram
12/18/2004 3:19 AM
susanna hoffs... hmmmmm... her lil break-in delete
in the middle of 'walk like an egyptian' is
probably one of the sexiest moments in any
music video. well, at least my teenage brain
(?) thot so..
yo rite milind, bangles and springsteen it was.

u jus had to mention to make the memory
Salil come back. saw a longer edit of the bangles
one in cinemas. speaking of concerts, anyone
remember OSIBISA? the 1st time i saw so
much hype.. and curiosity over the drummer's
strange name: Daku Potato.
OMG 12/18/2004 9:12 AM
yes! and Boney M? (By the rivers of
Babylon...)
*i* had the hugest crush on george michael.

Sat
last christmas and careless whisper, found LPs
recently.
moving along in time, anyone went to the Bon

Jovi concert?



arbitrary n random

its all comming bck to me now!
12/19/2004 10:57 PM
i owe it to Salil who brought bck thes
Bombay wonderful memories!
(6844 members)
to name a few fraggle rock..remember
running bck frm school on sats to see the
show..
Rishi classic adds...*phek do yeh kadhai,yeh frying
pan* and *eh he heh...lijjat papad*
and of cource the classic songs.."We Ddnt
Start The Fire" performed on stage at the
Grammy awards!
FEVICOL 12/24/2004 10:36 AM
remember tat Elephant-Advt !
the now-Famous M-Mbbs Director Rajkumar

Hirani featured in it :
"
dum laga ke haisha
zor laga ke haisha
Furniture ka saathi; Jiski nishaani hai haathi ;

Shankar
FEVICOL aisi Jod Lagaaye; Achche se Achcha
na Tod paaye .......
Haiyshaaaaaa [even the Elephant Gives Up!]

"
tats Hilarious !
1/13/2005 10:09 PM
anyone remember this?? delete
they used to show it on sunday mornings, i
think. hilarious link though, check it out, it
beats leena's birthday poem..
Salil
1/14/2005 7:37 AM
salil, no wonder us 70/80s kids turned out the
way we are today. it was a conspiracy all
along. a good conspiracy.
Sat
1/14/2005 11:05 AM
Salil - where do you dig these up...God, that
was fun, seeing it again!!!
Milind Nice of you to revive this thread again!!!

Captain Pugwash 1/14/2005 1:54 PM
Damn..I didnt know Captn Pugwash was that
old a series.
They used to use it as a filler between two
programs on Star TV
Pranav But that was in early 90s when Star TV was
still completely English.
1/15/2005 7:13 AM
Hi everyone!! Spent almost two hours
browsing through these posts and just can't
resist the feeling of wanting to
contribute..Probably been covered but here
goes..
I remember a particular time of the year (I

think around spring) all the kids would start
flying kites..Aggressive kite flying involved
Sreedevi cutting others kites and building a collection..
And I remember the water baloons during

holi..And sometimes the colors they'd use was
soo strong it wouldn't wear off
immediately..So you'd have kids showing up
to school with painted faces..very funny!!
@ sreedevi... 1/15/2005 8:14 AM
kite flying day was yesterday... 14th of jan, delete
also known as makar sankrant. i had a terrible
holi in 5th grade... used up my dad's squirty
bottles of foto-color on guys in my colony...
got beaten up by them, and whacked by my
Salil dad when i got back home.
1/15/2005 12:08 PM
Ohh I see..Shows my ignorance but strange
coincidence, don't you agree..
Sreedevi
Holi colors 1/15/2005 6:03 PM
The most notorius one's were the silver and
gold 'oil-paints' which would stay put almost
until a week after Holi, and it was a disaster if
Pranav someone put them in youer hair!



arbitrary n random

I LOVE BOMBAY!! 1/15/2005 8:57 PM
Woh elco ki pani puri,
woh chowpatty ki chaat,
Bombay Woh Naturals ki ice cream,
(6844 members)
Wah usme thi kuch baat.
Woh tiwari ki mithai,

woh raste ka dosa,
Woh shivsagar ki pav bhaji
aur Guru Kripa ka samosa.
Woh local train ka 'suffer',

woh juhu beach ki hawa,
woh chowpatty ke tange
aur joggers park ka sama.
Woh december ki zara si sardi,
woh baarishon ke mahine,
Woh garmi ki chuttiyan,
jab chuthe the paseene.
Woh holi ki masti,

woh navratri ka garba,
Madhu Woh divali ke patakhe
aur ganpati ka shor o sharaba.
Woh peak hours ki traffic,

woh BEST ki rush,
Woh tadapti garmi mien,
Snowmans ka ek kala khatta slush.
Woh Juhu beach ka mohol,

woh samunder ki leheren,
Woh doobte suraj ka nazara,
Wah uska kya kehena.
Woh Sterling ka popcorn aur

Cotton World mein shopping,
Woh Fashion Street ka nazara
aur Nariman Point ki building.
Woh cinema ke queue,
woh black ki ticket,
Who ShivajiPark ka maidan,
jahan practice karte the cricket.
Itni cheezen kehene ke baad,

aur kitni karoon mein badai,
Yeh shehar hain mera apna,
jiska naam hai MUMBAI !
This Is Mumbai.
Wah ..wah 1/15/2005 9:00 PM
Kya baat hai!
Pranav
OSIBISA 1/16/2005 5:51 PM
Salil
thanks for the memories mate, I remeber
Osibisa concert very well. Everyone had their
music cassette, dance the body music.....:))
I also remember our pop stars were Usha
Uthup and Asha Putli...:)remember them?
Sanjay Does anyone remember the Hawkins Pressure
cooker ad with Neena Gupta ? what were the
things she could make, Mutter pulao, Maki
Dall,Kheer aur Dum aloo :))
S
Quiz 1/16/2005 6:33 PM
In the 80s, Lipton or Brook bond ( not sure )
introduced iced tea in flavours like
lemon,orange etc.
The ad featured model Ruchika Pandey ( who
Sanjay also acted in a film 'Yaara Dildaara')
Can anyone name the brand ? ...
1/16/2005 6:57 PM
i think the brand you are talking about is delete
Paloma. from lipton. (don't ask how i
remembered that, it just flashed..)though i
don't think ruchika pandey was in that ad. it
was either chhabi dhariwal or monica dutta...
the only ad i remember ruchika pandey in was
Salil bajaj fans just before yaara dildaara came out
and that was 91-92 i think. am i right?
Bang on... 1/16/2005 7:01 PM
Salil
You are a adman mate.. you are right it was
Chabbi Greval.
Paloma... was in the market for not long.
Sanjay Good product but wrong timing I guess.
Good on you
Sanjay
I also remember 1/16/2005 7:19 PM
When Ranipaal was Tinopaal :)
very catchy gingle.
I also remember watching english movies at

Shree cinema. watched a lot of Laurel-hardy
and Charlie Chaplin movies there.
Sanjay
I remember we got the first phone in the
building and we put up a sign 'Rs.1 per call' as
the neighbors used it all the time.
Salil 1/16/2005 7:55 PM
Do you remember the ad featuring Anuradha
Patel ? "She's a special woman"....Red Label
tea was it ?
Sanjay Also the ad for Elphar suitings, Vilas Kalgutkar

riding a horse with a cowboy hat ? He is now
my neighbor at Prabhadevi :)
1/16/2005 8:04 PM
Not Red Label sir, methinks that was delete
Duncan's Double Diamond' ex colleague of
mine wrote the jingle, first conceived in hindi
and then adapted to the english version. yes,
Vikas Kalgutkar did model for El-Par suitings
Salil after Suresh Oberoi became too expensive for
them.
1/16/2005 9:52 PM
Salil, you got competition in the field of
'historic ads'
Milind



arbitrary n random

1/16/2005 10:03 PM
nothing new milind, u always been here... delete
Bombay
(6844 members)
Salil
Milind 1/17/2005 1:31 PM
just Reminiscing mate.
This is the best thread I have come across
orkut.
anyone remember playing marbles where you

Sanjay throw two in a square and try to hit one of
them, Koyba :) The bigger ones made out of
white cement - 'Duffers'
1/26/2005 11:42 PM
I can't bear to not see this thread in the top 5
for the "Bombay" community.
I remember:
-> 15 paise golas (heck, I now remember 10
and 5 paise coins)
-> Boris Becker winning Wimbledon at 17.. all
in black and white.
Dylan
-> the green-tiled bus stop at Flora Fountain
(have I got this one right?)
-> playing cricket on the terrace; asking
strangers to throw the ball up 4 floors!
Remembered this on the ferry ride
yesterday 1/26/2005 11:47 PM
Ek do teen char
Ek do teen char
chaaron milke saath chale , toh kitna
chamatkar
something something something na ho, hum
Vikram hain aise yaar..
Ek do teen char
The Bombay DD version of the Famous 5...

1/27/2005 12:56 AM
charon milkar saath chalein to kar de delete
chamatkar.
Kahi se koi juda na ho, hum hain aise yaar.
also don't forget, there was a national

integration theme in this, all 4 friend
belonging to different faiths. i think only the
fatso who played the mac speaking
'anthony'(?) had some sort of luck with his
acting career thereafter.
you brought this up at the meet yesterday,

Salil vik, but i think someone did mention it earlier
on this thread. the comment about the kid
sister being told by the main kid to go to the
kitchen and cut veggies...
just remembered. musta been sick in the

head, in class 7 to sing "charo milkar saath
chale to karde balatkaar..
I remember 1/27/2005 3:24 PM
I remember standing in the terrace for hours
to watch movies like 'Pandu Hawaldar' and 'Jai
Santoshi maa' in the 'Vadi' behind the
Sanjay building. intermissions after every 30 minutes
to change the reel.
Also remember on the 1st of april kids used to
fix a rupee coin to the road with fevicol and
when unassuming people tried to pick it up,
shout "April fool...."
1/27/2005 8:18 PM
Anyone remember this family-planning add
with butterflies.. it was animated and the
theme song had the words "..unek titliya.." in
it!
Also, can someone confirm that there was a

Dylan
green-tiled bus stop at Flora Fountain? This
has been eating me for a day now..
1/27/2005 8:56 PM
dylan, you just keep asking for it, don't you... delete
hehehe... it was not about family planning,
dude. that film was about the strength of
unity.. can't help you with the green tiled bus
stop though. unless you mean the stanchart
Salil bus stops which were maintained by them.
and I remember.. 1/27/2005 9:15 PM
Gold Spot
Fewer Highways
Bandstand without the promenade(tres nice
but tres pretentious)
Mahabharat, Tipu Sultan, Shaktimaan!!
Hamaara Bajaj
beta, shweater pehan lo
And yes, I remember everything else-misal

paav, Fountain, Barista, Haji Ali, Planet M,
Linking Road, Carter's, Marine Drive, Rythm
House, Fashio Street, BEST buses, the
rain,...simply coz Im not there!!
@ Dylan 1/27/2005 11:17 PM
Regarding dat "unek titliyan" cartoon, Salilz
bang on abt National Unity cuz it wuz not for
family planning... :p Tho d cartoon called
'Tree of Unity' is most recalled for National
Integration.
D one u mentioned wuz wid d concept of how

v r so many cultures yet one nation. Signature
line, i think, "Hum sab Ek Hai" Salil, kindly
confirm man.
I think, d song went sumwut like dis... m
trying 2 maintain d accent ov da singer, pls
Shree xcuse da spellingz... cant remember d xak
startin ov da storyline
Didi: Suraja ek, chandaa ek, taaray yanek
Younger sibling: Didi, Didi, taaronko anek

kyun kehtay hai?
Didi: Hmmmm.... bataatee hoo

Didi: Eka titalee, eka eka ekka karake, ho
gayi ab... aneka titaliyaa
Didi: Samajhey??
Sum more kids playing in d aangan: Didi, didi,

hamein bhi sunao nna!
Didi: Eka Gilahari, eka, eka, ekka karake ho

gayee ab... aneka gilhariya
Kids: Didi, Phirsay samjhaonaa (chorus)
Didi: Hmmm, Eka Chiriya. Daana chubhanay

baith gayee thee. Ek aur chirhiya, daana
chubhnay baithi chirhiya. Ek, ek, ekka
karakay anekka chirhiya.
Kids: haa haa didi, samajh gaye
n i think it signed off wid, "Ek, anek... Ek,

Anek"
MVO: Bhaasha hamaaree Anek kyun naa ho,
Sanskriti hamaree Anek kyun naa ho... Desh
Hamaara Ek hai! Hum Sab Ek hai!
@ Salil
Yaar, confirm dis one if u can remember
anything abt dis. Der wuz diz anada cartoon, i
think during d massive famines in North-
Western India, to encourage conservation of
food n donation of food. It wuz a chapter out
of d Mahabharata regarding "Akhshaye
Paatra" d miraculous never-exhausting food
vessel. Scene wuz set during d forest exile
ven Krishna visits d Pandavas, it had dat
catchy song "Mein, bhooka hooo, bhojan lavo,
Jo kuch bhi hai le avo, Mein Bhooka hoo!"
Talking abt food, its munch time ere n m
outta here... catchya laterz



arbitrary n random
1/27/2005 11:36 PM
hmmm... so i have become old man mozz eh? delete
who made me the authority to confirm stuff?
anyways, the ek-anek film actually ended with

the 'ek aur anek ki kahani sunoge?' story. the
Bombay one about the pigeons taking off as one with
(6844 members) the bird catcher's net.
this one had the same animation style as the

one with the monkey and the king. used to
love that.
the one you mentioned, shree, also had a

brilliant animation style with cutouts moving
on static background. of course i remember it.
"woh khaali bartan le aayee, aankhon mein
aansoo bhar layee.. prabhu bole "kyon
Salil sharmaati ho, kyon mujhse ann chhupati ho.
bus ek ann ka yeh daana.. sukh dega mujhko
manmaana(2)"
speaking of animation styles... i wud get

really freaked out whenever they showed this
buddhist monk's tale called "chandalika" it
had a really scary ending, does anyone
remember that? how about "the trip" in which
different parts of bombay were shown in time
lapse photography? another scary one was
"child on a chessboard" with paintal as a
mime.
1/28/2005 12:54 AM
Does anyone remember the two films division
animations, Dancing Chapati and another was
Smiling Thali. Dont know what the chapati
Sanjay thing was about but Smiling Thali was a good
message not to waste any food in your thali.
mumbai meri jaan 1/28/2005 2:35 AM
i was just at crossword looking up the coffee
table book with all those oldie pics of mumbai,
and a whole lotta memories came flooding
back to me...
- travelling by local train from andheri to

churchgate with my mom and aunt in the
ladies compartment in shorts and tshirt and
being compared to all the other ladies children
(i was like 5 at that time)
Pranay - Route No 365 that went from Worli Naka to

kasaiwada, it got discontinued [pretty soon]
but i remember it cos I used it one very late
night to return from basketball practice
- 25 paise bus fares changing to 50 paise

minimum bus fare and how we used to hear
oldies on the bus lamenting how expensive it
had become
- how we used to travel from chembur to sion

by rickshaw for 6.50 rs.
- watching "born free" at the bandra theatre

(forgot the name) and biryani at lucky
restaurant later.. Complete TREAT.
- making star wars style walkie talkies from 2

empty matchboxes and a rubber band.. abhi
bhi banaa sakta hoon :D
- there used to be this jeera cola called rim-

zim when i was in school... whatever
happened to that
- buying "jeera golis", "saunf" on its branches

(green saunf), big bor, small bor with the
mirchi namak, hard crystals of rock salt,
finding these floating "bombax" and seeing
them float around, stickly weeds that when
you threw them on people's socks/clothes,
they stuck on...
- tinkle comics, there used to be these

"MISHA" comics, that my upstairs friend used
to subscribe to.. archie, bettie and veronica
digests, from the local library that i couldnt
read, because comics were banned at home..
the only concession were these indrajal
comics, that my grandfather subscribed to..
there was a new hero they invented on the
lines of "bahadur" who was a rich industrialist
and who, by the cover of night, was a
undercover agent... logon ka parda FAASH
karta tha...:) hmmm..
- Just loved Amitabh Bachchan as Supremo!!!

i mean, what did i know...
- Loved Karamchand, the serial...

1/28/2005 9:41 PM
Family planning.. communal unity.. same
difference, man. They're both good for the
nation, hence.. it's all good!
Geez, I must have the suckiest memory on

this thread. Yet I keep coming back to get my
@$$ kicked (by Salil always - and then he
asks why he's the authority on confirming
stuff).
Dylan
Oh, here's my contribution: I remember "I
saaay chaps" becomming a craze in school
courtesy Fauzi. And I KNOW I've got this one
nailed down! Ha!
By the by, I had me some of that fab Lucky
biryani last night..
1/29/2005 2:05 AM
Salil - Old Man Mozz, Teller of Tales - Knows
all and forgets nothing - a very appropriate
title indeed... maan, now those are
memories... haven't read those Phantom
comics for ages now!!!
Milind
You got the "Main bhukha hoon, bhojan laao"
film memorised down to the very last word...
but then so have I - that was a classic!
1/29/2005 5:01 AM
@dylan - yaar, actually i had asked salil 2
confirm on both d animoz i had mentioned...
so u arent alone here wid a fazed out bits-n-
pieces memory :)
@salil - zankyu mann, sumhow i knew ur d

most reliable source 2 confrm nethin related
to AVz n u arent fuzzy like us in our recall
process :D hee hee
i sorta luved d cut out animo stylez too, tho it
went outta style till channel v created a
similar one for der promo ads in b/w. btw, der
Shree wuz dis utha animo abt a small fish called
'Swimmy' an awesome concept on "united v
stand n divided we fall".
i dunno, it seems nowadez der aint any such
unlayered simple animoz used to drive thru
important social messages...
absolutely fab thread once again mann, rock
on salil.
@pranay 1/29/2005 9:28 AM
boss rim-zim still sells
10 bucks for the new bottle
really cool too
maybe not as good as the old botal
Freebird
...
1/30/2005 6:12 PM
I remember the tender coconut water in
bottles which did stay on the markets for
long. I recall it didnt have the natural taste of
Nariyal Pani.
Sanjay Anyone remembers what the brand ? I dont.
Salil..Milind...
1/31/2005 1:27 AM
nopes. no recollection of bottled tender delete
coconut water. although not long ago i had
packaged (read plastic bags) nariyal paani at
wankhede.
was at home yesterday, surfing channels
when on zoom they showed this ad for fresh
Salil ones, the wet cleansing tissues. i think this is
the oldest ad currently running in its original
form on tv? my brother said, "yeah, this ad
used to come on 'lehrein'." remember lehrein?
those days when 10 bucks rented you a VHS
for 24 hours?
1/31/2005 8:49 AM
Did anyone catch that crazy rain yesterday?
More a drizzle than a propah rain, really..
anyways, it got me thinking about:
***endless games of Ludo indoors

***earthworms creeping into the bathroom
via the drain(does this happen to everyone or
Dylan
should I move?)
***rain holidays!!!
***gumboots splashing in muddy puddles



arbitrary n random

2/1/2005 11:49 PM
Yeah rber those lehren...me as a kid ws so curious
n so enchanted with those videos...never gt to c
Bombay thm fully though.
(6844 members)
hw many of u rber..Faster Fene? Marathi-speakin
Yadnya peopl wl know this...a hyper-active kid with his
antics.
2/2/2005 3:06 PM
Yep, remember Fa-Fe
Milind Ttttokkkkk
2/2/2005 3:52 PM
Fursungi !! Somewherenear Pune... does that place
exist ?
Sanjay I had the entire set of 8 or 9 books.

2/7/2005 10:22 PM
As summers approach, i remember gettin all
prepared 4 holidez more than d xams
Due 2 working parents, my pad wuz d makeshift
summer club wid friends studiously dropin der
various indoor games like Trade, Table Cricket,
Shree Carrom Coins, Uno Card deck n invariably atleast 4
decks of playing cards. its surprising dat i nevva
had 2 remind ppl abt playin cards cuz v usually lost
sumthing d last year
(strangely, junta had 2 b persistently nagged even
for a contri for Holi or a Picnic)
one more thing dat used 2 get lost every vacation
ver d carrom coins n Trade ke Currencies. guess it
had sumthin 2 do wid cheaters forgetfully carrying
stuff home in der pockets
i also remember d VCR conking off in d middle ov
our vacation due 2 d strain it had 2 endure
Karamchand 2/19/2005 2:36 PM
hey and how come u Bombayites FORGET the great
detective program ....KARAMCHAND..... in which
Kitty says "Sir you are a genious...."
Manoj
Does that ring any bells?
Oh yes 2/19/2005 3:48 PM
How can one forget Karamchand..the one and only
Pankaj Kapoor, with the trademark carrot eating
Pranav style.
Faster Fene 2/19/2005 4:48 PM
And does anyone remember the televisation of Fa
Fe on Sunday afternoon (was in Hindi), wherein
Sumit Raghavan played Faster Fene.
Pranav That was his debut role i think...
@Pranav 2/22/2005 7:19 PM
Well, Faster Fene was Sumit Raghavan's Television
Debut... He used to act in a lot of Marathi theater
productions prior to that... especially in Ratnakar
Milind Matkari's youth theater
2/22/2005 7:20 PM
Oh, and FWIW, Faster Fene on TV sucked big time!
Milind
Much needed revival... 2/22/2005 9:36 PM
Hehe!!!!! Who can forget that...
Yeh faster fenay hai, faster fenay hai..yikes I used

to sing that tune aloud!
Irshad Faster Fenay used to be a tinkle character too, but
duno if it was beofre or after the TV serial. His
surname was Mane.


random

Me big tinkle fan.. 2/22/2005 9:45 PM
.. and I also liked Phantom, Mandrake, Tarzan in that order.
Asterix rules the roost though!
Bombay
(6844 members)
Dylan
2/22/2005 9:50 PM
Oy vey Dylan..
Tinkle in Angrezi means "to pee"..
Vikram You might wanna change your post subject now eh?
2/22/2005 11:04 PM
And look at Sumit Raghavan now. poor chap. Fa Fe made him delete
flunk in his HSC exams too. i remember that the title track which
irshad mentioned earlier was only the opening of the show and
different from the weird song that played at the end of each
episode. it went "iraade nek ho to sapne bhi sakaaaaaaar hotey
Salil hain, agar sachchi lagan ho to raaste aasaan hote hai.." in a shrill
'ek titli' kind of voice.
2/22/2005 11:36 PM
Hahaha Yep salil remember that, was really sidey!
Oh BTW, you can download the "Ek anek aur ekta" video from
one of the sarkari sites... Its a scream.
Irshad
"Didi didi, ek kahani sunao na"
2/23/2005 2:04 AM
...or you can see it here...
googled it out.. it even had that en titli, anek titliya bit.. yes, yes,
Dylan salil - the same one i confused with a family planning piece!
(how?)
@Milind 2/23/2005 1:30 PM
I agree, Fa Fe on TV used to suck, but I used to watch it out of
my loyalty to the original Marathi books..
Pranav
2/23/2005 6:49 PM
What's up with this"
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=972&tid=8124695
there's still mucho space on this thread, right?

Dylan
2/23/2005 10:36 PM
There was more than enough space until some slum dweller
began squatting here...
In the interests of promoting this thread..BUMP!

Vikram
PS. Was Faster his first name? Cause then he'd be "Master Faster
Fene Mane"..
viks, ur creativity is a benchmark for all of us 2/24/2005 3:43
AM
btw, anyone remembers 'Chandamama'? i m sure this is ancient

stuff man
i found some of dose mini-booklets wid my cousin tho i couldnt
get thru one entire issue in one go. he told me it wuz a one-time
Shree hit. they have a lot of indian stories but d overtly text layout
made reading a task.
chandamama 2/24/2005 6:58 AM
yep absolutely. i remember troubling the paperwala if he didnt
get the chandamama i havent seen chandamama in stands for
sometime , i see champak n tinkle still.
Swetha


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2/24/2005 7:46 AM
Sorry guys ... i thot we cud make a clear distinction b/w < 85, 85 < x < 9
et all.. so i started a different thread..
Bombay but as someone correctly pointed out.. theres enuf space here..
(6844 members)
Ashish Advts.. i guess they still play the OLD advt. of "Vico Vajradanti" sometime
right??
Because I have nothing better to do.. 2/24/2005 7:51 AM
Vajradanti, vajradanti, Vicco vajradanti
Toothpowder , Vicco paste
Ayurvedic Jadibootiyon se bana sampoorn swadeshi
Toothpowder, Vicco paste, VICCO VAJRADANTI!!
Vikram
2/24/2005 7:34 PM
*bites into crunchy apple with strong teeth*
Dylan
2/24/2005 9:51 PM
Vik - rubs Zandu balm (Zandu balm, Zandu balm, peeda haari balm..) ont
elbow* and grimaces...What is this? Saath saal ke boodhe ya saath saal k
jawaan? Anyone has some Kesri Jeevan lying about?
*old basketball injury (was trying the "yeh hai badta baccha, dekho kaisi k
Vikram
lagaye" bit when I slipped..)
2/24/2005 11:14 PM
who remembers the phoogawallas near the babulnath bandstand? they us
sell all sorts of weird toys along with the balloons... like those stick helicop
and some sort or cube that u sould make with mirrors that were mounted
some kind of card paper..
Ritwik and who can forget the chicken jungleee croissants @ croissants etc...
2/24/2005 11:36 PM
incidentally, the weird phoogas are mentioned in the first ever post on this
thread..
yes, i have a lot of time on my hands..

Dylan
2/24/2005 11:42 PM
Speaking of weird phoogas..
http://www.orkut.com/AlbumZoom.aspx?uid=15666070047830276265&p
Vikram (Thanks to thread on Ido-Pak Friendship (??) forum)

2/24/2005 11:54 PM
Dukes Raspberry...Though its still available at Gaiety Galaxy
Vivek
2/25/2005 12:24 AM
and the quit smoking ad..
with a cigarette in my handdd... i felt like a man..
Ritwik
2/25/2005 12:40 AM
oh man.. i donno if anyones already put this up..but who remembers chac
choudhri and his giant side kick Sabu.. and whenver sabu used to get ang
volcanoes used to explode on Jupiter..
Ritwik
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Chinese dragon 2/25/2005 12:53 AM
Who remembers the chinese dragon
carts/trucks that they used to have at
Bombay Nariman Point that used to have chinese
(6844 members)
food??? Oh mannn... this thread is bringing
back such memories of bombay... and oh ya..
each and everyone of those trucks used to
have the sign "NO BEEF" in big bold capital
letters on it...
Ritwik How about those origamy shows on DD.. they

used to call it an origamy show but in the end
they always used to end up using glue to
make all those paper animals and birds.
"Chipka Deejye" was the only phrase i
remember from those shows..
uma joshi yea yea yea 2/25/2005 1:19 AM
and all those other clapping games that the
girls used to play in class...
uma joshi yea yea yea,

my mother she told me 50 years ago,
there came an old man knocking at the door..
and then it went on from there..
and also who stole the cookie from the cookie

jar,
#1 stole the cookie from the cookie jar..
Ritwik who me.. yes you.. cudnt be.. then who..
number 4 stole the cookie from the cookie
jar..
dammmm... this thread is awesome...
paras pepsi.. anyone remember that????

those frozen ice lollies that you used to get in
plastic covers...
2/25/2005 1:23 AM
Dude ritwik, what were you doing overhearing
lil pre-pubescent girls, specially at an age
where you tend to hate them?
Irshad
2/25/2005 1:28 AM
Irshi,
I remember those rhymes too...(Sigh! I guess
that explains everything about me..)
Vik - who spent many a rainy evening playing

Vikram
"Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar"
since everyone's admitting everything..
2/25/2005 1:39 AM
Mea Culpa! I played chuppi-chuppi with my
older cousin sisters!
Dylan
Anyone remember this ? 2/25/2005 1:46 AM
the sweet memory of those good old days
when only DOORDARSHAN was available on
our TV sets ..........(And How many of us
remember seeing this song's cartoon ... one
of the most famous DD cartoons, along with
the "Tree of Unity")
mmmm mmmm hind desh... mmm huhu...
hum sabhee.... ek hain... tara ra ra raaa
bhashaa anek hain mmmm mmmm bhasha
anek hain.... mmmm
yeh anek kya hain didi ?

anek yani bahut saare....
bahut saare, kya bahut saare?
acha, batatee hoon...
suraj ek...
chanda ek.....
taare anek....
taroN ko anek bhi kehte hain ?????

nahi nahi !!
dekho phir se
suraj ek, chanda ek, ek ek ek karke taare
bane anek....
theek se samjhao naa didi
dekho dekho ek gilahari

peeche peeche anek gilahariyan
ek thithli, ..... ek aur thithali......
ek ek ek karke ho gayee ab, anek
thithliyaaN...
samajhgaya didi
ek ungli, anek ungliyaan haaan,
didi didi woh dekho anek chidiyan...
anek chidiyoN ki kahani sunoge .... haan haan
aa aa aaa,
ek chidiya, ek ek karke anek chidiya....

dana chugne aayee chidiyan .....
chorus : didi humen bhi sunaonaa.......
tho suno phirse...
ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN

dana chugne baith gayee thi .....
hai raam, par wahan byaadh ne ek jaal

bhijaya tha...
byaadh, byaadh kaun didi ?
byaadh ... chidiya pakadne wala
"phir kya hua didi, byaadhne unhe pakad liya,

maar daala... " un..huh...Himmat se gar jute
rahe to , chote ho par, mile rahe tho,bada
kaam bhi hove bhaiya.. bada kaam bhi hove
bhaiya ...
ek..do..theen..
Chaturrr cidiyaaN, sayaani chidiyaaN

miljul kar, jaal le kar, bhaagee chidiyan
furrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
door, ek gaaon ke paas, chidiyon ke dost,

chuhe rahte the....
aur unhone, chidiyonkaa jaal, kaat diya.........
tho dekha ki tumne, anek, sirf ek hojate hain

tho kaisa mazaa aata hain
didi main bataoon...
HO GAYE EK ...
BAN GAYEE TAKAT..
BAN GAYEE HIMMAT...
didi agar hum ek ho jaayen to bada kaam kar

sakte hain?
haan haan, kyon nahi ...
to is ped ke aam bhi thod sakte hain ???
haa
2/25/2005 1:53 AM
@ Irshad: It wasnt as much overhearing as
asking them to keep their traps shut.. We had
like 28 people in our class and classrooms
ever really small.. hell the school had only
300 people.. so i mean wherever you went, as
Ritwik long as you were in class u could heard the
pre-pubescent girls screaming away to glory...
3/1/2005 10:06 AM
Just some links...
Look
here and here.
Ruchi
3/1/2005 7:09 PM
I remember this serial on DD called "Oshin"
where all one ate was radish rice. For a long
time I used to think it was a delicacy up until I
found out otherwise.
Vivek
3/2/2005 5:00 AM
hey ruchi, that baje sargam link reminded me delete
of the whole slew of such films. i remember
the first of them was "spread the light of
freedom" with the sportsmen bearing the
torch..
Salil
ok, this goes out for the few guys MY age..
what do you remember from that film? or
rather, what do you NOT want to remember
but is indelibly graven in your memory?



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@Salil 3/2/2005 2:25 PM
From the "Light of Freedom" video you mean?
Bombay * Sunil Gavaskar running in the rains, in the
(6844 members)
Khandala ghats
* P.T. Usha?? running with a few deer
Milind * A hefty, overweight Sikh sportsman (don't

remember the name) ambling along
* And a rather heavy bosomed woman, whose

identity I never knew
3/2/2005 7:50 PM
Assuming Salil's freedom ad is the one that
Milind's described...
I won't ever forget this VERY BOUNCY

female.. (she's the one that comes out of the
tunnel???).. she has this huge grin on her
Dylan
face, though of course - that's NOT her most
prominent feature.
3/2/2005 7:52 PM
PS: THIS DOES NOT MEAN I'M SALIL'S
AGE!!!
Dylan
3/2/2005 8:14 PM
Lady Bounce-a-Lot was Nirupama Mankad.
I am also not Salil's age..but remember being

very embaressed when my dad said it was his
favorite National Integration bit (I'm
Vikram
repressing his "jhanda ooncha rahe hamara"
comment)
3/2/2005 9:18 PM
Salil... how old are you anyways??? And why
do people shy away from being in your age
Milind group ?
3/2/2005 9:29 PM
@vik - LOL.. I thought I was the only one with
a perv dad! My dad would say.. "Look at her
Dodhhol, men!!!"..
For the non-Goans among us, Dodhhol (don't

know if that's the way to spell it.. crazy Goan
Dylan
spelling and all) - is this bouncy, jelly-like
Goan dessert..
3/2/2005 9:47 PM
yeah.. i see you guys have been scarred for delete
life too. that's just the part i meant. nirupama
mankad it is. as if it wasn't embarassing
enough for young guys already, these two
AVM kids were asked to identify her on the
BQC in a video round. they couldn't, and
Salil looked at Derek O'Brien as if to say "please
get us out of here."
mile sur mera tumahara 3/2/2005 11:30 PM
heres a rendition of mile sur mera tumhara
that some MIT folk happened to make...
mileSur
Ritwik
3/2/2005 11:45 PM
Hmmm I certainly remember that...!!!
But, damn, didn't think too much about

bouncing boobies. I guess it was baywatch
Irshad that shud take more credit for scarring me
with that...
3/3/2005 9:07 AM
Aha... Salil, did you know, or remember, that
Nirupama Mankad in fact was the TT champ?
Irshad How appropriate



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Chandamama 3/5/2005 11:17 PM
It was published in many languages - the Marathi
one was Chandoba
Bombay Ash
(6844 members)
3/5/2005 11:45 PM
Hey Ash is around!!!
We'd love to hear more about old Bombay if you

please?
Vikram
Birthday sweets 3/5/2005 11:58 PM
Ravalgaon sweets, Morton toffees, Parle sweets
(blue tin for sweets with pic of Ram/Sita/Laxman,
and red tin for toffees).
Yup, I don't think our school (St Xavier's Boys'

Academy) allowed the birthday boy to wear casual
clothes, but we gave each student one sweet each,
gave the teacher as many as he/she took, then
went to the staff rooms to give the rest to the other
teachers.
One of the best soft drinks in the 50s that didn't

Ash survive was "Pick Me Up" -- I think it was what we
know here in Oz as "Creaming Soda" (Was that "ice
cream soda" in Bombay?).
Another favourite chocolate that disappeared in the

60s was a dark Cadbury choc called "Bournville". I
think Cadbury was edible then -- these days, the
execs should be taken out and shot for passing off
this current crop of crap as "Cadbury's". Yuk.
Smokes 3/6/2005 12:48 AM
I never smoked, but as a kid I would collect
discarded packets. Brands I remember:
Red and White

Black and White (Indian Navy got them)
Blue and White
Capstan
Cavanders
Benson & Hedges
Panama
Ash Wills
Four Square
Charminar Beedies
Gold Flake
The covers of the slide-out packs could be made

into many things - mats were the most common.
Movie ads 3/6/2005 1:15 AM
Advertising on the big screen was mostly done by a
company called Blaze. It was run by my classmate
Gulshan Bijlani's dad. Wonder what happened to
Blaze or Gulshan. (Salil?)
Gulshan was filthy rich, eccentric, but never showed

off. He once proved to me that his Rado watch was
unbreakable by dropping it from his balcony some
2-3 floors below. His family holidays were usually in
the US - he had an autographed photo of Paul Anka
in Las Vegas (never heard of either until then).
Our little competition was to see who could eat the

biggest food item in class while the teacher's back
Ash was turned and not get caught. You had to finish
the whole item within one period. (Eating in class
was one of the worser crimes to commit, after
talking in class). Eating supari was a piece of piss,
so the goal was to eat something like an "egg
toast". In Oz we call them jaffles except they are
triangular - the Indian ones were the full sandwich
size with a circular bulge in the middle - very
awkward to eat without the scrambled egg filling
falling out.
School Trips 3/6/2005 1:44 AM
A Parsi chap named Homi Lala used to operate
"Lala's Tours" for many schools. In the Diwali
vacation our school would take us on tours such as:
Jaipur-Agra-Delhi-Nainital
Gwalior-Agra-Delhi-Simla-Chandigarh
Madras-Madurai-Rameswaram-Talaimannar-
Colombo-Kodaikanal
The modus operandi was for a bogie to be dedicated

to our group and we lived in it at the station at a
remote platform. Steam trains were still in use, so it
was fun to watch the red hot cinders flying past the
window and sometimes creating small fires on the
tracks.
Ash Yes, we still used "beddings" - canvas roll-ups that

contained your thin mattress, pillow and blanket.
While we toured during the day (visiting places with

swimming pools was common, as it enabled them to
wash 40 kids in one go), the cooks set up a kitchen
on the platform and fed us when we got back.
Lala sent college students (always Parsis, for some

strange reason) as our minders. They were great
folks, often puzzling us pre-pubsecent kids with racy
jokes that we pretended to understand. They taught
us various bus songs, e.g. "she'll be coming roung
the mountain when she comes" -- with some local
adaptation.
In the 1960s, you could not take photos of dams,

railway stations, bridges, airports, etc for "security
reasons". Therefore, it was fun to take photos
precisely of such objects. I had a Kodak Retinette
camera, whose 10-second timer was easy to set,
press the shutter while looking another way, let the
camera hang down, then turn around in time to
take a wildly aimed picture of some dam or bridge -
the things that amused us!
Fondest memory of a train tour was of our much-

disliked, humourless teacher who poked his head
out of the window to yell at some hawker as the
train pulled out. He didn't see the chap a little
further who reached up and gave him a resounding
slap and ran off. Justice comes to such tyrants
eventually. :)
3/6/2005 7:19 AM
@ash
I am from SXBA too . You must have been one of
the first batches to have passed out 1962 i guess.
I passed out in 1999.

Btw lala tours was still operating in the school in my
time .
I think they just started a primary division and I
Chaitanya think the students have to wear ties.
Were you there for the 40th anniversery

celebrations?
Any more trivia about the school.

ROTFL!!!! 3/7/2005 7:23 AM
"Fondest memory of a train tour was of our much-
disliked, humourless teacher who poked his head
out of the window to yell at some hawker as the
train pulled out. He didn't see the chap a little
further who reached up and gave him a resounding
slap and ran off."
Bombay's the coolest. What with role models like

Ash around to set the right standards for our
collective sense of humor .
Sat
Another one: asking a rickshaw walla - "Bandra
jayega?", and when he says "Hanh.", replying "Toh
jaa na." and running away.
Sounds reaalllyy silly and insensitive to PCfied ears

now, but my guilty secret is that this still makes me
laugh.
a little stale but.... 3/7/2005 7:29 AM
Hey don't make digs at Salil's age yaar! He's got
great company in his age group - moi!
Sat Irshad bhai - LOL at TT. Talking abt PCfication, i

gues that's why here in the US, they call it ping-
pong.
Talking about racy.... 3/7/2005 7:39 AM
"she'll be coming down the mountain when she
comes.....she'll be wearing pink pajamas when she
comes..." yeah i remember that! How about "In the
moooorning, in the mooorning, in the mooorning by
the sea....(and then something abt a a sailor's son)"
kids picnic songs? no way man. my analysis is that

Sat these were old dirty songs sung in the army or
some such collective from the british era, that
somehow wound their way to school picnic buses as
someone's idea of a joke (hilarious in a surreptitious
way, what?)



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3/7/2005 10:16 AM
"darling open the door, darling open the door
why are you angry so"
Bombay
(6844 members)
Yup, remember this song - used to sing it on
picnics when we were real young (about
Milind 3rd/4th standard) and would blush at having
to say "darling"
Yep, we were *really* innocent back then!!!

*scream* 3/7/2005 6:33 PM
yes of course!!!!! i remember that one!!! but
it wasn't 3rd/4th ka bachalog who sang it in
my colony, it was 11th/12th types. and the
accent was not on the "darling" but on "door".
and this was esp. sung on the afternoon of
Sat playing holi after some pretty potent thandai.
me, i was too cool to play holi. eww.

3/7/2005 7:10 PM
and parlez vous? delete
"the chinese on the borderline - parlez vous!

the chinese on the borderline - parlez vous!
Salil the chinese on the borderline - they dip their
b***s in turpentine. inky pinky (?)parlez
vous!"
complete the following:
of all the animals in the zoo...

3/7/2005 7:22 PM
..."the monkey kissed the kangaroo"...
would be the printable version!
And hey, I still sing those songs at picnics!!!

Vikster, you're bound to have been to your
Dylan share of mac picnics in your time - vouch for
me, man!
3/7/2005 10:02 PM
What about -
In the morning, in the morning, in the

Irshad morning by the sea...
3/7/2005 11:25 PM
dirty limericks anyone? they're sung to the
tune of "Aiy, yai, yai, yaiiihhhh.. in china they
do it with chillies.. the chillies are hot and God
knows for what.. in India we do it with
mirchi.."
Dylan
Don't look at me for the meaning!
3/7/2005 11:36 PM
hey ash... you were on a roll on the last page, delete
do go on, we're all ears.
as for blaze and gulshan, i really don't know.

that is one medium i have never worked on..
cinema slides. i do remember blaze had
'pioneered' cinema ki duniya mein ek
tehelka... [voice=amin sayani]slides with
Salil SOUND![/voice]
and bournville dark is still available, it was

revived in the early 80's.
3/8/2005 3:40 AM
Mac picnics? My whole life, men, was one long
Mac picnic. (P.S. Pass the sannas men)
"I'll take you to Agra and lift up your ghagra"

(Why are you angry so?) We had a whole
bunch of these...How sad was our life? (you
would be too if you went to an all-boys
Catholic school)
Vikram
And any 5 minutes spent in the bus was an
excuse for someone to start "Baithe Baithe
kya karen, karna hai kuch kaam (We hadn't
discovered masturbation I guess), shuru karo
Antakshri, leke preabhu ka naam".
3/8/2005 3:41 AM
antakshari is for homosexuals
reminds me of all the ppl pissed off when I
called Vikram a homosexual
Coddie
3/8/2005 3:55 AM
*Sigh*
Vikram



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*sigh* indeed. 3/8/2005 5:40 AM
is this what the naya generation is reduced
to? eat $hit, blackheart.
Bombay
(6844 members)
Sat
3/8/2005 6:20 AM
preaching to the converted, satya? delete
Salil
3/8/2005 6:31 AM
Damn orkut its and its donut deprivation.
Wrote somethin about us discussing things

that Blackheart would not have possibly
Irshad fathomed cuz Im sure he wasn't even thought
of at that time
no man, salil 3/8/2005 7:42 AM
i'm so out of it , i have no clue. Just daling
daana to bachalog for keeda purposes.
Sat
3/8/2005 11:19 PM
i remember this rumour during this
particularly bad monsoon.. it was said that the
dam at vihar lake was going to burst because
of excessive water pressure and the whole of
the city was gonna be submerged.. (hey! i
was in the fifth standard - stop judging!).. so
Dylan
if you woke up and heard police whistles, that
was your signal to find higher ground!
3/8/2005 11:37 PM
when i was a kid it was skylab. everyone was delete
afraid it would fall on their heads. bombay
was no better than the little gaulish village.
hey, actually we are a bit like the little gaulish

Salil village..
3/9/2005 12:35 AM
now that's one of the best analogies to this
city i've heard!
Dylan
3/9/2005 12:06 PM
Ahhh... just bring on the Romans now!!!!!
Milind
3/9/2005 9:52 PM
Join up, them said...
Its a man's life, them said...
Irshad
yeah bring on the romans (read pakis)
3/10/2005 3:24 AM
for some obscure reason, maharashtra has
not been awarded a single match of the
current indo-pak series, leave alone bombay!
but thats another story...
ash, salil.. i thot id lived in bombay.. but

mann u guys have LIVED in this city.. hmmm
if i take a trip down memory lane i can
remember the lokhnadwala and haji ali
Shamit circles... and also those umbrella shaped
thingies outside heera panna shopping
centre... another fav memory is yankee
doodles ice cream (which was still there up
until a few years ago)... and who remembers
that ek tittly.. anek tittliya.. that thing used to
come on DD.. that animated movie....
hahahahahhah ... check this out..



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bet you havn't seen this in a long time
3/10/2005 7:07 AM
an old timer from DD TV
Bombay Ek, Anek aur Ekataa = one, many and unity
(6844 members)
Rishi
3/10/2005 10:33 PM
noone gives a goddamn fuck
as for all da ppl sayin shit bout me
: GO FUDGE URSELF
& bring on the wild boars, I am hungry. You see,

Coddie when I was a baby I fell into a cauldron of magic
potion...
3/15/2005 11:53 AM
how many children do you have salil?
you must be a good father/grandfather
3/15/2005 6:37 PM
huh?
Dylan
3/16/2005 7:26 AM
hey I have a good one
Remember long time ago there used to show this

programme on dd metro about these german
villages playing against each other. Its like one of
the first game shows on DD.
Chaitanya It was great timepass on all those summer
afternoons with nothing to do.
So does anyone know the name of that programme.

Telematches... 3/16/2005 8:05 AM
But I think someone mentioned that 500 posts ago
Irshad
3/16/2005 9:18 AM
ops I thought it was too obscure.
Chaitanya
3/16/2005 9:30 AM
oh come now, why would this thread be called arbit
and random if we all weren't going to refer to
obscure things that are somehow hidden inside our
Sat collective mumbai consciousness?
3/16/2005 9:35 AM
what I meant was that I thought that it was too
obscure for it too be a in the thread ,but it must be
there somewhere,I have been gong through the
Chaitanya thread right now(I am on page 16 ) almost
everypossible thing is there.
i remember.. 3/16/2005 6:40 PM
..having read about telematches on this thread!
*snigger*
Dylan



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but seriously.. 3/16/2005 6:43 PM
I remember our colony picking up on the
telematch popularity by staging our own
Bombay telematches on an annual basis.
(6844 members)
Dylan I'm sure this has been done before but..

CRYSTAL MAZE!!! loved it!
3/16/2005 6:51 PM
Is CST a huge station? (Just wanted to
increase the arbitrariness and randomness of
the thread. )
Karthik
o karthikeya.... 3/16/2005 8:16 PM
define huge.
Sat
Ecstacy unlimited 3/16/2005 9:10 PM
Was browsing the local public library out here
this weekend... and did I find buried
Milind treasure!!!
I knew I could borrow Tintin and Asterix from

the library collections (even though the
Americanos hadn't even heard of these
publications) - but this time I hit mother lode
- Amar Chitra Kathas in the foreign young
adults section!!!!
@Satya 3/16/2005 9:15 PM
COmpared to other railway stations across
India?
Karthik
3/17/2005 4:37 AM
Oh yeah telematch thts the name.
It great time pass.
One more did is there anyone who saw the

whole robotech series .
It used to come at 4:30 in the afternoon
that ws dam good
Chaitanya Who can forget force five ,every day of the

week a different cartoon ,so cool.
And one day it stopped they put some

learning alphabets programme. Tht was such
a sad day for me. It never ever came back
soon.
3/17/2005 4:44 AM
I remember watching japanese anime on AXN,
I had to wake up at 8 am at sat & sun to
watch em
but it was so damn worth it. I remember
Cartoon Network showing Dragonball Z with
Coddie their fucked up hindi translation
Salil looks like a jap anime character
3/17/2005 5:09 AM
thank you blackheart.. that, i shall take as a delete
compliment.
Salil
yes, salil 3/17/2005 6:05 AM
anime is cool, japanese are the coolest...you
really got a compliment there from l'il brother.
Blackheart, i also like anime you know?

...not the pokeyman types or the kiddie action
Sat
stuff....but there's a whole bunch of
sophisticated high-funda stuff out there.
speaking of hindi translations
3/17/2005 11:25 AM
they dubbed hercules in hindi ..and the scene
Lemon where hercules is riding back home on his
noble steed his 'chela' says ... 'jaldi chalo
mahashakti, ghar par khane me halwa puri
bana hai"
hmm
and when starmovies kept playing The Mask
with Hindi subtitles... they'd write
'Dhumrapaan" and "dhuan uth raha hai" for
smokin' and its smokin respectively
and where they shoot at him and miss their

aim, The mask says, 'did you miss me'
the subtitle is " kya tum mujhe yaad kar rahe
they?"
hmmmm
like they say,
the poetry was
what got lost in the translation



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3/17/2005 4:30 PM
I remember the "Dhumrapan" for "Smoking!" in
The Mask
Bombay
(6844 members)
Another subtitle I remember is again, from The
Milind
Mask... for "Oh God!" the sibtitle would read
"Daiyya Ri!"
3/17/2005 7:42 PM
and who can forget the way they showed the
promos on air for The lostbworld in hindi.... and
the famous
"Bachey ki maa naaraaz hain"
Lalit
3/17/2005 10:32 PM
I remember how cartoon network fucked up good
jap anime like dragonball Z with their pire hindi. I
puke whenever I see pokemon
There were some real cool shows on AXN like

Coddie NINKU, Grandmaster Mushashi, Flame of Recca &
mainly Fuushi Yuugi.
starts singing : 'those were the days' by Queen
speaking of cartoons.. 3/17/2005 11:47 PM
i remember these video tapes my uncles in the gulf
(where else) had made.. they had: Tom and Jerry
(all time fav), Woody Woodpecker, Mickey and
gang, some other misc. cartoons.. and every day
my dad would get home from work he'd be greeted
by a "Dada, put Tom and Jerry, no?" singsong
Dylan chorus (my bro and i)..
No we didn't have bugs and daffy, porky et al.

Loved those guys on Cartoon Network!
!! 3/18/2005 3:15 AM
and
ERASER was called mita doonga naamonishaan
Lemon
Jurrassic park was called Kudrat ka karishma
3/18/2005 3:29 AM
my school bus passed alexandra cinema at delete
nagpada, at the corner of shuklaji street.. which
was then the fringes of the red light area. the only
theatre that chose to show english movies in a
locality where almost nobody spoke english. (broad
assumption)
so every friday, we'd wait to see what the bawa

who owned the theatre had come up with. english
poster (small) with hindi title (huge) below it.
crazy jungle adventure became 'aasmaan se gire

Salil jungle mein atke'
fist of fury became 'fauladi mukka'
loaded guns became 'jaanbaaz haseena nikale

paseena'
36 chambers of shaolin became 'ek cheena ke

chhattis paintrey'
3/18/2005 6:21 AM
How come they don't dub hindi movies into
english. Then we would have more things to laugh
about.
I remember they dubbed small wonder in hindi it

Chaitanya wasn't funny really not funny. But on Vijay TV you
can see small wonder in tamil now that funny (only
for the 5 minites that you can tolerate it).
@Salil 3/18/2005 9:12 AM
Crazy Jungle Adventure.... isn't that the one where
the guy keeps going "This would never happen on
Milind Swissair..." ??
3/19/2005 12:51 PM
When "From Russia with Love" came the first time,
that was its name. During the "Kiss the USSR's
arse" years, it returned as "From 007 with Love".
70mm films (and theatres) seem to have gone, but

they were the best. I saw "The Battle of the Bulge"
from the first row at Eros or Regal and it was like
Ash watching a tennis match, as you couldn't see the
whole screen at once. I think the inventor of iMax
theatres must have got his idea while seated in the
first row...
Picnic songs 3/19/2005 1:19 PM
Some of those songs go back to WW1 and WW2,
e.g.
http://www.whatalovelywar.co.uk/trenchlyrics.html
http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/g039.html
When I was at Sydenham College doing a BCom,

there were lots of clubs and societies. You tried to
get on the committees because you got a huge
certificate that you thought was going to impress
your potential employers. Also, if you came from a
boys-only school like I did, those committees were
another way to get to know females!
Ash
There was a govt funded entity called Indian
Council for Cultural Relations based in a home in
Marine Drive. They organised socials or tours for
foreign students in India. Since I was going to "go
phoren" after graduation, the Sydenham Overseas
Students Association snuck me in as a "foreign
student" and I went on their picnics and tours.
They were well organised, with printed booklets
containing picnic songs in multiple languages. Try
singing in Cantonese...



arbitrary n random

Bombay SXBA - pt 1 3/19/2005 7:19 PM
(6844 members) I was at St Xavier's Boys' Academy from 1963 to 1969
(Std V-XI). It was a concrete skyscraper (well, 6 storeys,
IIRC), so no playground apart from the nearby Cross
Maidan. The USIS was opposite in the early 60s, so I
read a lot of Yank magazines and books. The most
interesting piece of trivia was this "picnic wagon" owned
by the consulate. It was a van whose sides opened out to
reveal stacks of plates, knives and forks etc and was
used to accompany their family outings.
The school's discipline was harsh. No cane or strap, but

rulers on knuckles or palm, kneeling down for a whole
period, slaps across the face, and Fr Netto's favourite -
50 phattacks on the buttocks.
Assembly started with a prayer "Eternal God, creator of

Ash all, etc" which was slightly changed in later years.
The school occupied the bottom three floors, then a floor

for a teacher's training college (we were guinea pigs for
them) and a couple of classes on the top floor. Sports
were - hu-tu-tu, table tennis, kho, langdi, cricket and
this game whose name I have forgotten. One kid would
stand up and the rest formed a chain by bending over
and holding the waist of the guy in front. The other team
would take a running jump and land as far forward so the
whole team could fit without falling. If the first team
could not hold the weight and collapsed, they lost; if the
jumping team fell over or could not fit, they lost.
SXBA - pt 2 3/19/2005 7:34 PM
The canteen was run by a Goan named Caetano Toscano
(Mr Tosa) and his son. Coke was 25 paise a bottle. The
food was the usual samosa, batata wada, sandwiches
fare. I still have a small silver Goan coin that he gave
me.
In the street there was the sandwich man (this happened

in the mid 1960s - great invention - Britannia Bread, fake
Polson butter, boiled potato, tomato, chutney and tomato
sauce), the sweets/supari man - the owner was a slick
young Malyali with the greasy hair and starched shirt,
while his lackey carried the display case. Imports were
not allowed, so there was a lot of smuggled chewing gum
e.g. Chiclets and its Indian imitator, Dubble-Bubble gum
from the US, imported Kit Kat, etc. He also sold "hot"
Ash magazines such as Mamta and some imported titles.
There was a protection racket in place, so you didn't get
two competing hawkers or heat from the cops.
The channawala used a brass container to fill the paper

cone, but the container had been stuffed so that it
couldn't hold much. I guess the theory was that four
measures looked better than one big one with the same
quantity. Minimum size was 10 paise.
If we walked to Cross Maidan, you would get decent bhel

for 50-75 paise, sugarcane juice for slightly more. My
daily allowance was Rs 5, which was considered more
than enough to eat, so I would save a couple of bucks to
rent a few books or comics from a shop near Metro.
The school was near a Parsi-run school - Bai Bhikaijee

Bengalee or something like that. We had no interaction
with them, not even any kind of teasing. I think the two
schools had arranged so that the breaks never coincided.
Latter Day Wars 3/19/2005 8:11 PM
When Nehru died, most people my parents' age cried.
His funeral ceremony was shown on film (this is pre-TV)
and I bought a magazine devoted to it. It was a long,
drawn-out affair, with his ashes going to Triveni-
Sangam, being dropped from helicopters, etc.
I barely remember the 1962 war with China except that

we lost big-time.
In the 1965 war, air-raid drill meant all staff and

students had to crouch low in the passage outside the
classes. Lata Mangeshkar had earlier (1962 war)
released this patriotic song "Hey mere vatanke logon"
which allegedly brought a tear to Jawaharlal Nehru's eye.
She also released in Gujarati "Taiyaar thai jajo", "Jinku
kinva maru" in Marathi and probably similar songs in
about 50 languages.
Wars meant following WW2-vintage procedures. Patriotic

music and jingoism on Vividh Bharti. Blackouts, painting
out headlights except for a chink, a white stripe along
Ash the side of cars, air-raid sirens, etc. The warnings were
largely ignored, as we didn't have air-raid shelters
anywhere. In the 1965 war I remember seeing
explosions in the sky above me (broad daylight) and not
thinking anything of it - it was probably a U2 plane far
above ack-ack range.
In the 1971 war, there was a false alarm when at night

all the ack-ack guns started firing. The people were told
the next day that there was an air raid, but they couldn't
admit that some idiot had let off some rounds and the
others started firing. Hundreds of people were injured or
killed as the projectiles fell.
I did the Civil Defence air-raid warden course but the war
ended before I finished my course. :) All that knowledge
about detecting UXBs, smothering phosphorus bombs etc
gone to waste...
I wish if I was a hippie in goa 3/19/2005 9:38 PM
I wish if I was a hippie in goa in the 60-70's. I would
have followed QUEEN everywhere & would have attended
all their concerts, or else I would have started a band
"BLACK ICE" & would have played 70's music in Goa.
Coddie sings : "Those were the days not of our lives" not by
QUEEN
the name of the game.. 3/21/2005 2:32 AM
@Ash - the game you described in your SXBA - pt1 post
was called "Kitty Kitty, what's the time?"... well at least
that's what it was called in our colony...
Dylan
3/21/2005 10:24 PM
how old are you ash
Lemon
3/23/2005 2:02 AM
So I don't know where thse shouldgo, but I figured that
since this is the random, arbit community, I cn put these
in here.
These are pictures of Rajabai tower and the Uiv buildings

when I walked by them a month or so ago. Album is
called Rajabai.
Vikram
Yenjoy
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/thehotvikster/my_photos
3/25/2005 5:09 AM
"machli jal ki rani hai
jivan uska pani hai
haath lagao to dar jayegi
bahar nikalo tomar jayegi"
Bourgeois one of the few hindi poems that i remember from my

childhood days.
poems.. 3/25/2005 6:31 AM
talking about school poems.. i remember lots of them..
in Hindi
"koshish karane vaalo ki haar nahi hoti.
Nanhi chiti dana lekar jab chalati hai.
chalati dewaaro par baar baar fisalati hai.
chadhakar girana girakar chadana ragome sahas bharata
hai.
mehenat uusaki bekar har baar nahi hoti,
Koshish karane ....."
I could recite the whole poem man but

lemme not bore u ppl
OK. one more.

Kaustubh "choto choti jal ki boonde sagar ko bhar delti hai.
balu ki raj nanhi nanhi sudhar bhumi rach deti hai.
kshan kshan kaal iikhatta hokar lamba yug ban jaat hai.
khan ko shudra na samazo bhai yeah ka nirmata hai."
Now some "vilayati" poems.

had those shakesphere ones from hamlet. "To thine own
self be true". one of ma fav's.
another of my favourite line from "solitude - by

Alexander Pope"
Let me live unseen unknown,
Unlamented let me die.
Steal from this world and,
not a stone tell where I lie
how profound !!!

3/25/2005 6:55 AM
i remember
yere yere pausa

tula de du paisa
paisa zhala khota
paus ala motha
Lemon yere yere sari
majhe matké bhari
sar ali dhaaun
paise gele vaahoon



arbitrary n random

I remember... 3/25/2005 8:06 AM
Main banjara le iktaara ghuma bharat saara
Kahin khade parbat barfeele
Bombay to phir kahin reth ke teele
(6844 members)
jungle kahin, kahin hai daldal
kahin jheel jharnon ki kalkal
khade khet khalihaan kahin par
hare chai bagaan kahin par
fal-fuloon se lade bageeche
baandh bandhe neher nitya sinche
Milind sagar kahin hilorein leta
kahin nadi ki dhaara
aisa apna desh sajeela
dheer veer pranveer hatila
jisne ispar aankh uthayi
usne hi bas mooh ki khaayi
har nar naahar ke samaan hai
har naari angaara
3/25/2005 9:58 AM
I remember throwing a 'fuga' at an old lady two
years ago from my the top of my friend's 30 storey
building. the lady's son came up & slapped us all
twice
Coddie
3/26/2005 12:27 AM
serves you right
you will go to hell
Lemon
Vik remembers... 3/26/2005 12:29 AM
The Mala D ads. I'm surprised I ddin't see any
mention of those.
Irshad
anu malik! 3/26/2005 6:36 AM
dekho barish ho rahi hai
its raining
its raining
its raining
Lemon mera dil ro raha hai
my heart is paining
its paining
its paining
3/26/2005 6:37 AM
merri jaan
merri jaan
murgi ke ande
Lemon sunday ho ya monday
roj khaye ande
Warna srikhand 3/26/2005 7:45 AM
"ek that gudda, Guddi ki gudiya,
pyari sundar lagane vaali.
Ruuth jaati hai. alee lee lee,
kuch bhi na khati hai.
Warna srikhand se vo fir khush ho jaati hai.
Ussako pasand, muzako pasand. swad bhara Warna
Kaustubh srikhand"
3/26/2005 7:47 AM
and how can one forget..
"majedarr, lajjatdaar, 7 swad me lijjat lijjat papad.

lijjat papad..eh he he"
Kaustubh
3/26/2005 11:41 AM
I gotta....
Nishant
3/26/2005 11:44 AM
do this. :)
Nishant



arbitrary n random

3/26/2005 9:03 PM
why you bending over eh? nishant
Bombay
(6844 members)
Lemon
Kaun-traceptive? 3/26/2005 9:28 PM
There were 2 : Mala-D and Mala-N...with the "Matki
kyon tooti, Urmila kyon Phooti" type ads.
Nirodh had the truck driver sitting on a charpoy with

Vikram his wife and two beaming bachhe...and the triangle
painted on his truck.
3/26/2005 11:04 PM
I remember when I was young, cartoon network
used to come only till 4pm, then 5pm & then 7pm,
then 9pm & finally full day
Coddie I used to get so damn happy when the time

increased.
3/26/2005 11:28 PM
vikram! what triangle ?
Lemon
3/27/2005 5:22 AM
VVriter-ji... "when i was young"???
Dylan
3/27/2005 5:23 AM
meaning 6-7 years old.
Coddie
3/27/2005 7:40 AM
Hum do Hamare do, Goli ke humjoli... What else
was there? Does anyone else remember more
birthplanning slogans?
Irshad
3/27/2005 7:55 AM
whats up irshy, u r hell bent upon familiy planning
nyways...
it goes something like zis
Kaustubh
Sooch liya hai, samaz liya hai,
hamane pakka irada kiya hai.
Bas do hi phul khilayenge !!
Har aanagan me hum bas do hi....
3/27/2005 9:01 AM
I remember when cartoon network first came . It
was pure heaven that summer. Think about it first
we had to watch cartoons at specified times now we
Chaitanya can watch it every time ,dammn cool.
3/27/2005 8:10 PM
dude, u still watch cartoons??
& some pricks here think I am immature
Coddie



arbitrary n random

3/27/2005 8:38 PM
Cartoon Network - can be watched anytime ! I still
enjoy watching it for the entire day on holidays
Bombay
(6844 members)
NerdIndian
3/28/2005 12:20 AM
yeah rt !!
especially when its Popyee show.
In the good old days.. we had He-Man, Superman,
Spidy etc.. love those shows
Kaustubh
3/28/2005 2:45 AM
CN fuks all cartoons by their hindi translation
Coddie
3/28/2005 3:08 AM
But don't kids from rural areas [or maybe non-
English speaking kids] deserve to watch those too ?
And even the Hindi versions of these cartoons are
not as bad !
NerdIndian
In fact, most of the dubbed movies are like cartoon
flims.
3/28/2005 3:28 AM
i remember remembering once...but i don't
remember when...
Viraaj
3/28/2005 4:24 AM
fuck the rural area loser kids
Coddie
@ Blackheart Kiddo ! 3/28/2005 6:40 AM
WFT, those kids are not losers just because they
were born in rural areas or because they have no
access to technology like us !
I can show you example of a guy who comes from a

rural area and is into the MIT, doing his MS today.
He is on Orkut too. You will see a day when one of
those kids might be your boss too. Dare you get
into the MIT !
Using those few f*** english words doesn't make

NerdIndian anyone great. I respect all languages and know that
English is a must for all international
communication, but it is not everything on the earth
!
If you want to read more about the friend I am

referring to, visit
DP's Inn
@Frederic Balsara 3/28/2005 6:55 AM
they say youre a ball dance expert
Lemon
3/28/2005 8:30 PM
two things
1: writers do not have bosses, we are to do what
we want
2: I don't see it as a reason good enough to get
such a crappy translation. Mainly, Don't I deserve
good television. I don't break any laws or offend
people reasonlessly. So why shud I get such crappy
Coddie TV for their cause? Its just making the kids wanting
to learn hindi instead of english. If the kids could
not understand english, they would learn english
with atleast the intention of understanding the
cartoons & our country will be a little more educated
3/28/2005 10:09 PM
i only wish these posts would be around ones you
grew up...
so for your fond memories you would come back to
Lemon read them and say
"Gaaack! whaa!!! i said That!!"
"So why shud I get such crappy TV for their
cause?"(their's is not a 'causee besides..YOu hog!)
"If the kids could not understand english, they

would learn english with atleast the intention of
understanding the cartoons & our country will be a
little more educated"
sigh.... you dint get any education, did you !

live example.... of someone who has all the gadgets
and all the english education and talks like this



arbitrary n random

3/29/2005 12:24 AM
"...we are to do what we want"...ha ha ha ha ha ha
Bombay
(6844 members)
Viraaj
rural kids 3/30/2005 2:47 AM
hey Shishir --thanks for the flattering words ;)
writer of vt or ft or whatever he is, has no sense or

clue about kids from rural areas. they'll do well, and
are doing so. and let him go to wherever he wants
to.
Time to flame VVriter of FT!! 4/1/2005 12:23 AM
Writers dont have bosses, true but they need
publishers..
And they can very well b from the rural areas you
so derisively speak of!
Unless ofcourse you plan to publish your own book,

Pranav which you can as it will be 10 pages long anyways.
You will be doing the reading community a favour

by not writing more than those 10 pages!!
4/2/2005 6:45 AM
hey Blackheart... what are you holding with your
hands?
Lemon
@Chromus 4/2/2005 8:16 AM
I MANAGED TO WRITE 11 PAGES!
check how small the book is at
http://www.ffodyssey.com/ : fan fiction : Final
Trigger by Cody Rossheart
or jus search Final Trigger in google, the first link is
mine.
see how small it is.
Coddie MAIN THING! quantity does not matter at all,
quality does. my book is over 270 word pages & I
leave judging the quality upon you. It is not that
writers need publishers, both publishers & writers
need each other
@lemon 4/2/2005 10:11 AM
ur mom's panties
Coddie
4/2/2005 11:20 AM
Freddie boy, you do realise that we grew out of
chaddi jokes some 15 years back. Probably even
before you were a glint in your father's eyes.
Irshad Don't get your panty in a knot over insulting other

people.
4/2/2005 11:38 AM
see how small it is.
what is small, bete?

Sat
4/3/2005 4:44 AM
???
Coddie
4/3/2005 5:11 AM
270 pages of a word document at 150pt font size?
and why IS it so small? It's not something most

people would proclaim...
Viraaj


arbitrary n random

4/3/2005 5:12 AM
shut the fuck up & check the document if you like
instead of barking
Bombay
(6844 members)
Coddie
\/\/riter... 4/3/2005 6:31 AM
i heard you were a Ball Dancer
Lemon
4/3/2005 9:01 AM
you have to have balls to be a ball dancer
lemon...he's trying though...
Viraaj
4/3/2005 10:06 AM
was that a joke?
allthesame, check out the document before judging
it
Coddie
History repeats itself :) 4/3/2005 12:40 PM
Quoting leomn:
> i only wish these posts would be around
> ones you grew up...
> so for your fond memories you would come
> back to read them and say
> "Gaaack! whaa!!! i said That!!"
Hmmmm, you have never posted to usenet, have

Just Read you? Google groups tends to do that to you.
Oh, and I think you meant 'once' up there

(s/ones/once/)
4/3/2005 3:48 PM
@devdas
yea i meant 'once'...

i tend to type the way i pronounce so sometimes
use becomes youse and wimmen becomes wimmen
Lemon when i am not paying attention
hmm whats this usenet and all that?
that post was meant for \/\/riter...

4/10/2005 1:41 AM
Bumping up this thread...
While posting on a diffeerent thread in this

community, I was reminded of the first remixes I
Milind ever heard - the (in)famous Jhankaar Beats, added
to all popular songs (they usually sounded like sonic
booms going off in the background tracks!) - Most
likely place to hear these songs? - The tinny casette
players in Rickshaws and Tax cabs...
Do these jhankaar beat remixes still exist in the

current remix world? I dont think so...
viraaj 4/10/2005 9:05 AM
aap bachpan se hi itne funny the?
Sat
h 4/10/2005 7:09 PM
Nothin beats bombay in the rains. whether u r
sitting in palms (previosly samarkand) lookin out at
the people gettin drenched on nariman point or if u
R one of the people getting drenched on nariman
point.
chai cigarattes and egg bhurji at ur favourite irani

joint.
feelin the prematch jitters before a big match in

Shaunak wankhede.
gola, pani puri, bhel puri, dosas n all the posible

junk available in every nook n corner.
:)))
4/10/2005 11:44 PM
WOW I LOVE THE RAINS!!
i walk home from college and get drenched along
marine drive and get almost get flyed away on
Lemon princes street flyover...



arbitrary n random

4/11/2005 1:25 AM
I remember that I can remember
Bombay
(6844 members)
Coddie
4/11/2005 3:02 AM
@black cycle...bicycle...whatever...
you line looter (ref. pg72)
@satya...nai yaar...only since yesterday...i

said to myself..."viraaj...all work and no
Viraaj raunchy jokes will make you a very very dull
boy" but i don't know any raunchy jokes so i
ended up like this...
hey 4/12/2005 3:44 AM
hey anybody remember Sam Fox? sorry this
isn't quintessentially indian but she had quite
a fan following even here
Monks
of course, old monks! 4/12/2005 6:18 AM
i remember 1 poster of hers which was very
famous all over the place with blonde 80s hair
short top and cut away jeans. did she really
sing? or was it just opportune marketing that
got her big in india?
Sat
George Michael....*sigh*....Careless Whisper,
Last Christmas....kya hero admi hai.
4/12/2005 7:13 AM
(ah, it's a rum thing calling me old monk)
But yeah, george micheal. and madonna,
romping 'round the place with papa don't
preach. guaranteed to get you in trouble with
the olders.
Monks aach, sam fox didn't sing. she was the

trendsetter as far as, well, big goes -- long
before pam a & baywatch
4/12/2005 7:38 AM
@satya: she didn't get big in india, she was delete
already that way in the uk.
but she did make an appearance in the

bhappi lahiri home production 'Rock Dancer'.
same movie with the chicken fry and fish fry
song. this was way after her success had
faded in the west, so i suppose india was
pretty partial to her.
she was also big in pop-o-phile europe,

germany type countries. she recently had a
Salil remixed version of 'touch
me' done by some gunther dude.
personally never liked her, but have one good

friend who got extra saliva retentive at the
sight of her posters in satyam collections.
another reason i never liked her was because i

thought her (then) arch rival
sabrina salerno was hot. everyone in my class
(all boys school, wot to do) came to school
one day with a big shocked smile one day. the
previous night's telecast of 'western music'
(on DD!) where sabrina's
video 'boys, boys, boys (summertime love)'
had suddenly made horny young men out of
14 year olds...
while i am still on the subect of the depraved

bits of my juvenile days..
i remember walking past the right side of the

pherozeshah mehta statue at BMC, and the
same friend i mentioned earlier in this post
asked me to keep looking at the statue as you
walk past it.
has anyone else done this? do people know

what i am talking about?
this thread makes me ramble...

4/12/2005 8:01 AM
no matter what you say:
no one will be able to make as big as an
impression on this mortal world as Lord
Freddie did.
I remember once in Hyderabad, I was glaring
at a buddha statue from the upper deck of a
Coddie ship, some motherfucker (I still don't know
who) pushed me from the deck, making me
fall down ten feet with a bloody nose
4/12/2005 8:31 AM
god bless the motherfucker
Lemon
@Salil 4/12/2005 11:21 AM
keep looking at the statue as you walk past it.
I've heard about this, but never done it

Milind
personally.. care to enlighten us ???
4/12/2005 12:30 PM
i wish i could in words... maybe i shud go take delete
a few pictures to elaborate? good to see
someone knows what i'm talking about...
Salil


arbitrary n random

4/12/2005 1:56 PM
well Salil me remember the statue and have
tried wht u said a couple of times understand
Bombay wht u say infact thts just one more thing u
(6844 members)
ought to show a newcomer in VT
Amit The Statue has a colloquial name which very
much sums it up
4/12/2005 7:49 PM
I think its something to do with the left hand
of the statue.... am I right Salil :)
Sanjay
4/12/2005 9:54 PM
@amit... the statue has a colloquial name??? delete
are you sure you're not confusing it with the
one under byculla bridge which actually has
no such quirks?
yeah sanjay, it has something to do with the

Salil left hand of the statue. and before i forget,
aamer said hi..
4/12/2005 9:58 PM
There is a huge statue of Freddie Mercury in
Switzerland dedicated to him.
I would give anything to see that statue
Coddie
@saLiL 4/12/2005 10:21 PM
ah! just tell us!
Lemon
4/13/2005 3:32 AM
Been there, seen that! Though i was taken to
one spot and told to look up at the statue..
haven't done the walking thing, though I can
see how that's even funnier..
Dylan
doff, doff, bow 4/13/2005 4:05 AM
Salil, you're a walking encyc. i doff my mane
off to u.
Monks
4/13/2005 8:35 AM
@salil
nope i think arent we talking of the statue of a
parsi guy outside VT the guy standing right
Amit
outside VT station ;)
though the name of gentlemen escapes me
rite now think i shud read the ealier posts
someone mention the name
4/13/2005 9:12 AM
@monks, thank you.. bhala aapki mane meri delete
mane se doffable kaise...
@amit- i thought you were referring to the

'khada parsi' who stands beneath the byculla
flyover on a column flanked by 4 topless
sprites. like flora fountain, this one has been
spared by the culture police, i'd hate to see
them put bras on them.
in case you did not take the trouble to flip to

Salil the earlier page, it's pherozeshah mehta.
wonder if the sculptor had seen it coming, but

the positioning of mr.mehta's left hand
creates quite a hilarious illusion when you
walk past the right side of this statue. will try
and put up pictures in the coming couple of
days.
@ Salil 4/13/2005 8:26 PM
Yeah, seen it.
Nishant



arbitrary n random

@Salil 4/14/2005 4:24 AM
okay, now we're all waiting for the pictures
Bombay
(6844 members) and hush, not so loudly bout the mane
Monks
4/14/2005 4:29 AM
or maybe he just made it up in his head, this man
who's this salil guy?

Letucce does he have a good reputation monks?
4/14/2005 6:02 AM
who's this salil this head says...
Viraaj
4/14/2005 8:03 AM
abe randvya
Salil is ur baap
Coddie
4/15/2005 4:03 AM
Salil's a nice guy, a trifle serious
But it's his mane 'n memory that make me envious
Monks
4/15/2005 10:13 AM
For those who came in late, Salil is best known by
the self inflicted title "Old Man Mozz"
Milind
4/15/2005 11:50 AM
this salil guy has grankids at home?
he seems to have a looot of time .... he jobless?
hehehe
Letucce 80 PAISE energee?
bahut vela insaan hai

4/15/2005 1:55 PM
Great posts guys. I have been away in Chicago for
sometime now and this thread is bringing back
some sweet memories....of my childhood
days...those days of fun.
Anand Regards
Anand
1-2-3-4 4/29/2005 7:38 AM
hey..this reminds of the serial '1-2-3-4' and the
jingle..."chaaro milkar saath chale to karde
chamatkar"
Parag
4/29/2005 9:32 PM
tuppence from the far flung northern suburbs...
remember seeing a lot of rickshaws, as a kid, with

these shiny, trumpet-like air horns sticking out
above the left rear view mirrors. always insisted on
sounding 'em before i got out of a rickshaw.
reasonable demand from a 3yr old, i believe.
Ninad
don't see them anymore... i guess most rickshaw-
wallas traded them for the electronic ones. maybe
the new ones sounded louder in traffic jams!



arbitrary n random

4/30/2005 12:12 AM
I remember when ppl were damn crazy bout MJ all
over India
Bombay fags didn't know MJ is FM's bitch yet they gave the
(6844 members)
tranny all that attention
Coddie
4/30/2005 1:59 AM
> tula de du paisa
tula deto paisa
Yes, I remember that one too. At high school we

had this Marathi text book that was the same one
Ash used in primary schools (Marathi medium).
I am 52.
4/30/2005 2:02 AM
Ash,
You have any stories about the Royal Opera House
in...Opera House?
I would love to hear some if you know any. The

Vikram
building is so dilapidated now.
5/1/2005 12:48 AM
maharastra board sux
just rataakhor giri, no use of IQ
I am skrewed by all this tutions, bwaah... is 10th
the hardest year in life?
Coddie
sings save me by Queen
wrt 10th 5/1/2005 4:22 AM
Your HSC may be slightly worse. The really hard
part is when you are working and you have to deal
with idiots all the time.
Just Read
...back to random... 5/3/2005 10:23 PM
Someone mentioned Jerome K. Jerome and I had
another Bal Bharati flashback!
I remember borrowing english text books from older

friends during the summer vacations cause I liked
reading from the "prose" stories!
My favourites include: The Open Window, The

Stuffed Trout (I think this is the Jerome K Jerome
story), this one murder-mystery about Triceratops
Dylan (that I was so in love with that I made my friends
enact it!), The boy who broke the bank..
I'm getting a sense of deja vu. I'm pretty sure these

have come up before on this thread.
Oh, and from the "poetry" section: The Born

Spectator, Topsy Turvy World
5/3/2005 10:56 PM
yeah.. i remember..
The stuffed trout was from 'Three Men in a Boat' -
Jerome K Jerome.
I always used to wonder, whoever this guy is, how
come he has the same name as the surname or vice
a versa
Amoungst other prose..

-'An Excellent Father' extract from my all time fav.
Pride n Prejudice - Jane Austin.
- 'On Travel by the train'
Poetry.. lots of them..

-'A Born Spectator' - dont remember the poet
-'To Thine Own Self Be True' - Extract from Hamlet
Kaustubh - Shakesphere
-'Psalm of Life' - Longfellow .. What lines !!!
-'Vagabond' - R L Stvenson
-'Solitude' - Alexander Pope
Some my fav lines..that I remember

Let me live unseen unknown,
Unlamented let me die.
Steal from this world,
And not a stone tell where I lie.
Sigh*** Those were the days..

5/4/2005 6:08 AM
hmm... I remember not so long ago you were in red
knickerbockers
Monks
5/4/2005 6:08 AM
hmm... I remember not so long ago you were in red
knickerbockers
Monks
5/4/2005 10:22 AM
from balbharati. flashback to school days. back
when i was in 4th std. geography unit test in
progress...
the sky suddenly turns pitch black and its definitely

about to rain. but the rain sounds different as it hits
the top of the school buses parked outside.
suddenly our teacher asks us to stop writing and
line up alongside the verandah.
it's hail, as it turns out! so our teacher tells us what

Ninad those ice spheres crashing into the ground are, and
there we are, in the middle of exams, standing and
looking at hailstones.
it was unexpected and quite memorable. any of you

guys remember the only time (in my experience)
mumbai got hail?



arbitrary n random

5/5/2005 12:49 AM
I REMEMBER THE HAILSTONES IN THE
AFTERNOON!!!!!!!
Bombay
(6844 members)
Lemon
a Lesson in SSC [Class X] 5/20/2005 4:14 AM
Called "The Impossible Dream"
again BALBHArti it is .......
it was a nice Story !!!

Shankar
5/20/2005 6:09 AM
far too impossible to be true
allthesame, good writing work
Coddie
my 2 paisa ... 6/9/2005 11:34 AM
YOU PPL ROCK! pheww!! what a memory .. you
people took me too back in time and itd difficult to
come out now .. aaj to kaam nahi hoga baba ... :)
Well, most of the things are covered, but i'll give it

a try, remember
1. the old Hindi news.. i think at 8.40 .. with that
background music :),
2. the 'ek titali, anek titaliya, ek gilahari anek
gilahariyan .. dana chubhane ..' :)
Rohan 3. the marathi serial called 'Chal nawachi wachal
wasti' ..
4. Hiring a VCR for 2 days and watching movies
overnight (5/6 in a row)
5. Starting trowing ballons from terrace one month
in advance, we even got police visit .. LOL !
6. Also how can i forget playing cricket on road
when it used to be 'band'? and running away on
breaking the glass of someone :)
6/9/2005 3:32 PM
running home at noon during the school summer
vacation to catch the 1 hour of kids programming.
fraggle rock, he-man, giant robot, jungle book...

Ninad
6/10/2005 1:00 AM
I remember...
Freddie Mercury died in 91
whole country was in tears
goddamn terrible tragedy
Coddie
The news 6/10/2005 1:16 AM
Hindi Samachar at 8:30 PM
Sansad Samachar at 8:50 PM
The news in English at 9:00 PM
Parliament news at 9:20 PM
Just Read This would be followed by a serial with no ad

breaks in between, then ads, then another serial.
6/10/2005 8:25 AM
tandurusti ki raksha karta hai lifeboy ...
lifeboy hai jahan tandurusti hai wahan
hippoleen hippoleen hippoleen ...

maaaiil ka dushman aaya ... hippoleen hippoleen
hippoleen
Niraj( )
kaise kahoon .. inke saanson me badboo hai
chup chup baithe ho zaroor koi baat hai ...

Editing Niraj's "memories" :) 6/10/2005 11:21 AM
Hipoleen Hipoleen washing powder Hipoleen
Mail ka dushman tagda, chamkaye har kapda
Milind Washing powder Hipoleen
6/10/2005 7:38 PM
SKYLAB and the scare that it would fall on
Bombay?
Raj Those afternoon movies on Doordarshan on solar

eclipse days.



arbitrary n random

6/10/2005 9:55 PM
and of course, the day ganesha 'drank' milk.
headline news!
Bombay
(6844 members)
Ninad
6/10/2005 10:36 PM
I remember...
Freddie Mercury died in 91
whole country was in tears
Vikram Weren't you 1 year old then?

6/12/2005 1:42 AM
wheres that ganesh rumor start from
Lemon
6/12/2005 2:07 AM
I remember...
the 87 cyclone that nearly hit Bombay.
I went out to go to school and it took me a full

2 minutes in the blinding rain to decide to turn
Mohit back.
Discretion is the better part of valour.

@Vikram 6/12/2005 10:47 AM
I had a very sharp memory, I remember
people crying on streets, the greatest Indian
ever died (his birth-certificate said he was
Indian). I could hear people shouting
"FREDDIE FOREVER"
Coddie TThe 87 cyclone, yes.. the whole city was
terrifid. We got our asses saved for a lil. The
whole city was in terror
6/13/2005 4:15 AM
i remember eagerly awaiting chitrahaar as i
was very fond of music...
wednesday and fridays 8 pm
:o)
Chandni
6/13/2005 10:42 AM
@Lemon
ganesh rumour originated in Delhi and spread
to the far regions of Mumbai, Calcutta and as
far as the UK.
it was that rare day when priests could give

the media soundbytes such as 'the idol at this
Ninad temple drank litres and litres of milk'.
*burp*
6/13/2005 11:55 AM
i heard about the ganesh rumour at around delete
noon, when the telephone operator in my
office came up to me and said she wouldn't
have believed it if she hadn't seen it. but in
her version of the story it was Nandi, the bull
outside the temple. in a few minutes news
from all over said it was Ganesh idols, and in
a couple of hours there were calls from across
the world talking first hand about the
phenomenon.
Salil of course, the next day, Chandraswami who'd

just been arested took credit for the whole
thing. saying it was his prayers that made the
'miracle' happen..
i so hate 'Godmen'...
6/13/2005 12:19 PM
goddamn religious ppl
*invites everyone to become Atheists*
Coddie
6/14/2005 4:06 AM
*invites everyone to become Atheists*
Freddy is God.
We should all become atheists.
Ergo, We must agree there is no God.
Vikram
Ergo, Freddy is not God who doesn't exist.
*goes to lie down and calm swimming head*


topic: i remember.. warning: totally arbitrary

n random

6/14/2005 5:19 AM
that was the 800th entry! fuck.
Bombay
(6844 members)
Sat
6/14/2005 5:43 AM
I don't think the words 800th entry and fuck should be in
the same sentence...
Ouch.
Vikram
A quiz 6/14/2005 5:00 PM
Bhavnagar waale Seth brothers ka ...... ...... ???
(Two words)
Raj
And watch this ad,
http://www.dazzled.com/dangermuff/bollybob/n_ghee.html
6/14/2005 5:39 PM
Quoting Vikram:
Freddy is God.
We should all become atheists.
Ergo, We must agree there is no God.
Ergo, Freddy is not God who doesn't exist.
Your conclusion is wrong. The correct conclusion is that

Freddie does not exist.
Just Read
Remember that gods are only created by the belief of their
followers. To kill a god, you must just kill the belief of his
followers.
Ganapati drinking milk incident... 6/14/2005 6:24 PM
I think the date was 22 September 1995 (or was it
1996??)...
Milind Anyways, I was in Engineering College at the time... And it

happened to be the final day of our Intra-collegiate festival.
At around 6 in the evening, it was the final (formal) event
of the day - Housie!!! And for the first time in my life I was
actually about to win at Housie - I had just one number to
go, and could hardly restrain myself... And at this very
moment the principal came up to the stage, and
announced that the festival had to end and everyone had
to go home at that very instant, as there was an uproar in
the city and the police would be imposing a curfew any
minute !!!
We walked out of college, with no idea of what was going

on... it was only once we got a bus, that the conductor told
us what was going on, told us how the BEST staff at Kala
Killa Depot had performed a Ganesh pooja and had actually
seen the idol drink milk... and then the conductor actually
led us in a Ganapati arati in the bus itself, urging the
passengers to join in... which we did!
One question remains : Will I ever again come close to

winning at Housie again ???
6/15/2005 2:02 AM
not offending anyone
GHAND-PATI
Coddie
i dunno know man, milind. 6/15/2005 5:54 AM
even the gods don't want u to win. i remember i was at
work and we were hearing the radio and there were reports
taht ganpatis were drinking milk in the US.
Sat
6/15/2005 10:35 PM
taht ganpatis were drinking milk in the US.
2% or Skim?
Vikram
6/16/2005 10:19 AM
I would say Whole milk... nothing but the real stuff for
Gods
Milind
6/16/2005 1:48 PM
Jab mein chchota bachcha tha ...
badi shararat karta tha ...
meri chori pakdi jati ...
ting ding ding ding ding ding ...
jab roshan hota Bajaj !!
Rohan ek titali, anek titaliya,

ek gilahari, anek gilahariya ...
ek .. anek ...



arbitrary n random

6/16/2005 10:13 PM
I'd imagine that even the Gods would fall ill if
they were drinking unboiled milk, specially in
Bombay
Irshad Bombay.
(6844 members)
6/17/2005 12:53 AM
as Tabu said "Use Cartridge milk, much better
than diluted milk" Bombay doodhwalas mix
milk in water, which the poor gods would have
to drink
Coddie
6/17/2005 1:22 AM
Regarding the ganesh milk drinking incident...
we had a normal day but heard the news at
school that GODs were drinking milk and in
particular Lord Ganesh
teachers discussing this, non teachinf staff...
by noon the news had been blown out of
proportuion and when school finished some
teachers dashed straight to the temple nearby
and performed the whole exercise themselves
to be a prt of the 'miracle'....
Lalit
by evening the whole thing died out and
reporters from aajtak had interviewed
numerous people in their studios who
described the phenomenon as a result of
surface tension to capillary action to what
not...
6/17/2005 3:46 AM
lalit, was there aaj tak when that happened? delete
or are you referring to the old news magazine
of the same name?
Salil
6/17/2005 6:37 AM
It was in 1995, and then Aaj Tak was just a
one hour weekly news show. A bit like The
World This Week (I'm assuming someone has
mentioned this surely!)
Irshad What was the name of that person who had

become synonymous with the show and
unfortunately passed away...?
World this week 6/17/2005 5:54 AM
wasnt the world this week hosted by Prannoy
Roy ? and he is very much alive or am i
Amit missing someone here
S P Singh - Aaj Tak 6/17/2005 6:10 AM
kya baat thi uski yaar
aisey lagta tha mano news nahi padh raha kisi
ki pitai kar raha ho...
Lalit
6/17/2005 9:54 AM
@Irshad
his name was Appan Menon. I think he passed

away while on a foreign assignment.
Ninad
6/17/2005 10:35 AM
Appan Menon indeed... He always used to
remind me of the guy in the Godrej Shaving
Cream ad, who would caress his beard and
Milind say "ME???"
6/17/2005 12:43 PM
had forgotten about the Godrej ad
another news show that used to be pretty

good was this one called 'question time india'
(may have the name wrong) by saeed naqvi.
he had some high profile guests on that show.
though, as always, DD's sense of timing the

broadcast was up there on a cloud playing a
Ninad harp. i remember, they used naqvi's interview
with boutros-boutros ghali as a filler when
rain had interrupted a cricket match!
talking about interruptions, the 'rukawat ke

liye khed hain' cards. real show-stoppers!



arbitrary n random

6/18/2005 2:29 AM
Ah yes, Appan Menon. And yeah, he passed away
while on a foreign assignment. In the saddle, so to
speak :)
Thanks Ninad, that brings back some good

memories of the yesteryears -- less hype, less
Bombay bluster, and just the right amount of the substance.
(6844 members) Ah yes, he was good. And quite unlike today's
Barkha Dutts and Rajdeep Sardesais (sigh). Or for
Monks that matter thousands of other teeny things on TV.
Ah and those doordarshan newsreaders, some of

them had such perfect diction. And one of them I
almost fell in love with :))
7/7/2005 3:39 PM
did you guys know that one of the only two
surviving manuscripts of the epic poem 'the divine
comedy' is owned by the Asiatic Society of Bombay?
methinks this post may be out of place in this

Ninad thread. but this was pretty interesting trivia for me
and i didn't know where else to post it!
7/7/2005 3:41 PM
@Monks
thanks for the thanks!
Ninad
sometimes 7/7/2005 3:49 PM
there would be flies flitting around the newsreaders.
and on the vyatyay placcards. i always would
wonder what frenzied activities might be in progress
Sat behind those cardboard signs. or not.
7/7/2005 9:46 PM
@Ninad!
hey! when you have something to say and dunno

where to say it... go to
" i will take you to bandra and show you my sandra"

Lemon that way it keeps all threads as threads without
getting them all knotted up !
*blows kisses
7/7/2005 10:27 PM
Marathi DD news (Baatmya) would have all these
bearded dues while the women were all fair-and-
lovely, green or grey eyed Kokansthas.
I had such a crush on one of them. I saw her once

Vikram
at Dadar and made my dad stop the cab. LOL!
7/7/2005 10:28 PM
*/make that dudes..not dues
Vikram
7/13/2005 5:21 AM
This one deserved a bump, well deserved one-
because I suddenly remembered something right
out of childhood.
Irshad Cadbury's Mr. Pops chocolate lollipop. With that

monkey kind of thing as the mascot. Where did that
disappear to?
@irshad 7/13/2005 7:40 AM
now that cadbury's lolypop is so ugh! have you
eaten it? its plastic boiled confectionary!
Lemon
7/13/2005 8:12 AM
m postin here in Bombay aft a looooong time ..i
guess & this thread has turned up grr8
Readin all those posts sure makes us wonder...

*Jaane Kahan Gaye Wo Din..*
Karthik
'KK' But then if we were still in those din, then wudnt be
feelin good readin abt this stuff rite ...
So let the fun continue ....



arbitrary n random

7/29/2005 10:02 PM
Vikram > You have any stories about the Royal
Opera House in...Opera House?
Bombay
(6844 members)
Earliest memory is seeing V. Shantaram's Do
Aankhen Bara Haath when I was < 10. My dad saw
Anna Pavlova (ballerina) there in the 1920s or
1930s.
Ash There was an alley behind the opera house where

Exide batteries were sold/serviced. My dad used to
take our Morris Minor there to have the battery
topped up with distilled water.
Directly opposite was the home of my uncle, L.P.
Jai, who was a test cricketer in the 1930s and is
listed in Wisden. Poor chap was too patriotic for his
own cricketing good, so he resigned in protest over
some political event and wouldn't go to England. He
was in the same group as Merchant, Duleepsinhji,
etc.
In the 1960s, cricketers needed a day job

sponsored by some company, although they were
never at their desk. His job was with the Imperial
Bank, later known as the State Bank. Every peon in
the bank knew to collect stamps off the day's mail
and hand them to him, so he became a great stamp
collector and was a compatriot of Jal Cooper, who
ran a well-known stamp shop on DN Road.
7/29/2005 10:28 PM
My dad saw Anna Pavlova (ballerina) there in the
1920s or 1930s.
WOW!!!!!!!!
Man! Bombay in the 1920's/30's must have been

such an exciting place to be. From the world's best
who made a stopover here to being able to
Vikram participate in the freedom movement, there was so
much to do!
Everytime I pass the Royal Opera House I feel so

sad how we've let our heritage go to pieces.
7/30/2005 6:51 AM
ya mumbai witnessed WAR , Indo china war , India-
pak war (twice) , blackouts , painting glass with
black ,pasting paper on glassed so that light should
not come out , total black out at night , 'jaag te
rahoo' , first siron - RUNNING FOR COVER , sititng
down ,hidding under cots , bed , desks in school
corner , bus stan still on road , petrolling, when
second siron rings everything normal.
then strikes 15 days BEST , rail strike , we used to
walk down school from Parel to Wadala, then there
was 'daagad fake'STONE THROWING , riots , tear
gas , soda bottles throwing , BEST bus burnings
(eye wistnessed all)danga ,slogans - 'shiv sena
Pravin Da
jinda bad' , 'andugundu thanda paani soda lemon
garm paani', 'lungi haatav'
there were quues for everything
shottages milk shortage , ration shop there used to
be 'CARD' for milk , milk booths , queue early
morning , 'rokel'-kerosine , DALADA--yes dalda
favoraite cooking oil/ghee, shortage
raman raghavan -killer man ,
varda bhai (arda satya),haji mastan (deewar)
then reclamation , nariman point , backbay, ans
sooooooooo on
Yes I have witnessed 7/30/2005 12:01 AM
I have stayed in heart of mumbai for 3 decaded
Agarbazar , parel , & wadala
ya mumbai
witnessed WAR yes , no other city in India were so
much alert and asertive since it was the only
Industrial place , BARC , ATOMIC ENERGY ,
TEXTILEMILLS , PHARMACEUTICALS , BANKS ,
STOCK EXCHANGES and foundation of Indian
economy, Bombay was target for enemy,roumours
of bombay being Bombed
Indo china war , India-pak war (twice) , blackouts ,

painting glass with black ,pasting paper on glassed
so that light should not come out , total black out at
night , 'jaag te rahoo' , first siron - RUNNING FOR
COVER , sititng down ,hidding under cots , bed ,
desks in school corner , bus stan still on road ,
petrolling, when second siron rings everything
Pravin Da normal.
then strikes 15 days BEST , rail strike , we used to
walk down school from Parel to Wadala, then there
was 'daagad fake'STONE THROWING , riots , tear
gas , soda bottles throwing , BEST bus burnings
(eye wistnessed all)danga ,slogans - 'shiv sena
jinda bad' , 'andugundu thanda paani soda lemon
garm paani', 'lungi haatav'
there were quues for everything
shottages milk shortage , ration shop there used to
be 'CARD' for milk , milk booths , queue early
morning , 'rokel'-kerosine , DALADA--yes dalda
favoraite cooking oil/ghee, shortage
raman raghavan -killer man ,
varda bhai (arda satya),haji mastan (deewar)
then reclamation , nariman point , backbay, ans
sooooooooo on
contd 7/30/2005 12:16 AM
DURING 1971 WAR -YAYA KHAN
mumbai witnessed Anti aircraft fires , by military ,
on one evening sky was looking like falling stars ,
red ones , from all sides ,we saw it from our gallery
, but some people came out to see were got burnt
,yes burnt
it was first time India tested that.
during child hood games like vitty danndu , kabbadi

Pravin Da , aatya paatya , shig rupi (iron rod piearcing
ground), gada (ring), goti (marble), paagam ,
koyba ,had ki , dappar (names of marble game),
then cards , pach teen dona , mendikot , badam
satta , gadhav,vaya paar ,carrom , patang - jhole ,
dhenga ,bhardol , manja , tara manja , badami ,
gulabi manja , Dongri was famous for Patang
(kites), firki ,..
7/30/2005 1:11 PM
PravinDa must be of my vintage - I was just 10 in
1962 but I remember the "Hindi-Chini bhai bhai"
slogan before that war. We lost the top right hand
side of Kashmir (Aksai Chin) and bits near NEFA.
The "air raid" incident of 1971 was no air raid.

Some crazy guy started shooting in the sky and the
rest of the ships and shore batteries followed suit.
What goes up comes down, and the next morning
we read that dozens of people were killed, injured
(by the falling shells). The official line was that
there was an air raid. If you haven't heard ack ack,
it is awesome (in the original sense of the word).
Ash The red tracer shells seem to float up lazily and
then explode.
It reminds me of the 1962 war. I was playing in my

galli and remember looking at the sky. I saw a
couple of shells exploding high in the sky but could
hardly hear them. I don't think I used to read the
newspapers then but I did not hear anything about
the incident. In later years I assumed that a U2
flying overhead may have been shot at.
7/30/2005 1:12 PM
>andugundu thanda paani soda lemon garm paani',
The version I remember was "andugundu thanda

paani; hoshil ka tu maaji rani?" :)
Ash
ASH 7/30/2005 9:00 AM
ya i was 2 yr old in 1962 , i was from new course
1st batch 10+2+3 1975 ssc
of Mumbai's , first time in education syatem was
shook , parents , teachers and students , we were
treated like guinea pigs throughout our career , no
Pravin Da
text books till second term!!, no previous years
question papers,teaches were not knowing what to
teach , they went for training till july.
bombay 60-80 7/30/2005 9:29 AM
i remember
there used to be loud speakar on any good
occations , one could hear filmy songs from long
distance , there used to be LP record which is
played with record player and an amplifier,
these songs/films have deep impact till today
if i hear those songs i can link it to which class i was
studying. for eg.songs from padosan-ek chatura
naara -3rd ,bramha chari - chakke pe chaaka , aan
Pravin Da milo saajna - accha to hum chal te hai -4th std ,
aradhana film - 5th std , hare rama hare krishna -
7th std , sholay -11th etc
there used to be road side Cenemas at night on

ganapati days , we used to roam in night to find
where is hit film screened, sit on the road ,
foothpath , roads are blocked
there used to be good dramas too on stages during
ganapati festival. among good dramas i have seen
(marathi) preeti sangam , lekure udanda jhale ,
nata saamrat , we have seen many actors on the
stages - ramesh deo , seema ,
then there was earthquake koyna was worst

affected ,
then there was once a releief fund collection, I dont
remember which one , at Dardar TT circle there was
a big julus of all film stars I saw almost all, you
name them , top actors actress of that time , we
shook hands , just standing there at one place ,
they were collecting funds walking on the road
Cool thread 7/30/2005 10:33 AM
I have been reading this one since past one hr...still
not finished. This thread is really awesome...thnx to
author for refreshing the memories.
My favs were batatyachi chal, gotya, giant robot,
vikram n vetal, dada dadi ki kahani...n so many. I
still remember on Sunday morning how people used
to stay at home to watch Mahabharat and
Ramayana.
Hemangi And the games we used to play..lapa chupi,
anadhali koshibir, ghar-ghar..where you pretend to
be a family..lol, vish-amrut, shakali-sakhali, Chappi,
joly,opingo-batingo...man there were so
many:)...Nowdays I see kids playing either cricket
or those comp games. I truly miss those days:(



arbitrary n random

7/30/2005 10:34 AM
this thread is getting more interesting as time goes
on..
Bombay
like wine
(6844 members)
Kaustubh
7/30/2005 8:03 PM
People check out this site...around 80 indian ads are
here.
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~sundar/tp/jinglebell.html
Hemangi
thanks to sundar.
8/4/2005 7:38 AM
i remember major outdoor shooting spots of
mumbai, you can see in old films
one is goregaon arey colony road near picknick
spot, apart from film city , chotakashmir etc, five
garden dadar -saccha jootha -rajesh khanna,
gateway of india , worli sea face, band stand
bandra,
mud island, hanging garden, girgaon chopati , dock,
I have seen many outdoor shootings in mumbai by

chance
Five garden at dadar -padosan -mahmood on icee
Donbosco high school matunga -amar akhbar

anthony- Amitabh bacchan , Parveen babi,naseer
Pravin Da
husain
kalina campus- saath saath-farukh sheikh ,deepti

naval
chorni -ruia college class room as court room - nitu

singh , shreeram laagu as judge
wadala depot -idont remember the name of the film

starts with K - pran, reeta bahadhuri, but prans
dummy jumped from the top of BEST bus ,RAIN
sceen was created by water from tanker spraying
through pipe
8/9/2005 8:56 AM
you really killed this thread or what uncle!?! you
havent still answered my question about women
wives and sisters equating to servants.
Sat
@Sat 8/9/2005 9:12 AM
It was not this thread
it was bare thread
Just check the thread 'Question and ans'
I have replied you
Pravin Da
As I have promised not to post in that mentioned
thread I created another thread
8/9/2005 9:20 AM
unkil unkil
yes KD
tryin 2 piss me off?
no KD
tellin lies?
Krunal no KD
kiss my arse
yes KD
@Krunal 8/9/2005 9:31 AM
This is not Mumbai spirit from you
its not Krunal in you its anal from you
Pravin Da
8/10/2005 6:10 AM
THose movies played in the streets on white cloth
screens during Ganpati in our community ground!!
ahhh I miss those!!
NagPAIper
Giant Robot and He Man shows!! wow
8/11/2005 7:33 AM
hey, to bolo
om....shanti om.....shanti shanti om....
Sat
8/11/2005 8:00 AM
Pravin Da



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8/11/2005 8:10 AM
while (true) loop;
Bombay
(6844 members)
Kaustubh
i remember 8/21/2005 9:37 AM
I remember the only skyscraper tallest in
Bombay was Usha Kiron
26 storey bldg, it was a tourist spot , I hope
now people and tourist of Mumbai have
forgotten that location.
Then the tallest structure we saw was TV

Pravin Da tower at Worli, we used to have antennas on
terrace and it was adjusted for direction
pointing to that tower!! , crows and pigeons
used to sit on it and it used to break ,also
from kite getting stuck and that too during
Test cricket match or during Wimbeldon!!
I remember we could see TV tower clearly
from as far as 15-20 km away from suburbs
bldg terrace.
Our terrace used to be full of antennas and
their used to be fight for space for this among
neighbours and bldg people.
Even in kids drawing of those days the pic of
bldg used to have antenna on top
8/21/2005 12:02 PM
@PD
"I hope now people and tourist of Mumbai
have forgotten that location"
Freebird why do u hope that people and tourist of

Mumbai have forgotten that location ??
8/21/2005 12:14 PM
radio listeners.....anyone remember Hello
Farmayish?????
it used to be a request n dedications kinda
show on vivid bharti...n aftr sayin d name of d
show they used to hv echoes for d same...i
Neha jus loved it...also cant find ne mention of
detective karamchand n his sec. kitty (was
it??? cant remember)
8/21/2005 2:34 PM
some of the things here are not just mumbai
specific. i remember me and a unch of friends
running around, taking down numbers of
maruti license plates because rumor had it
that MUL had just rolled out it's 1000'th car
and whoever can bring the number of all 1000
can have one 800 free. ofcourse we never
bothered to figure out the statistics, but at the
end of two days, there was plenty of cynicism
to say the least. but we couldn't trace the
"originator" of the rumor, even within our
small gang. so, pfft, some 20 pages of license
numbers were discarded. and we still don't
know if anyone won that 800.
as for the radio programs, surprise surprise,
most of them program are still aired and
listened to all over India. turn ur A.M. radio
on!
@Neha 8/21/2005 9:22 PM
Yes, that was Karamchand the jasoos.... wih
his secretary Kitty, and his trusted gajars
Milind
8/21/2005 11:10 PM
@monstrous: you are 23 and in hyderabad. delete
the maruti contest rumour i was speaking of
took place around 1984. you were 2 years old
then! takes pretty long for a rumour to head
south, does it?
Salil
8/21/2005 11:20 PM
Hehehe!
There was no internet and email then, so

Irshad chain letters would take some time to reach I
imagine
8/21/2005 11:37 PM
When I was in school.. there was a rumor
going around that there were few 1 rupee
coins that had 'H' or 'M' or 'T' letters inscribed
on them. Whoever manages to collect 3 coins
having with those letters to complete the
Kaustubh "HMT" would get an HMT watch free !!!
I remember 8/21/2005 11:48 PM

when Bohemain Rhapsody was released, full
country had the craze. even with their black &
white TVs. Freddie was a living role-model for
the whole of the country
Coddie



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whoops! 8/22/2005 12:10 AM
almost deleted the first post in the thread by delete
mistake... the delete link is too close the last
Bombay page link.
(6844 members)
can't believe this topic is over a year old now.

Salil
Radio 8/22/2005 1:10 AM
I remember Cricket commentary became
famous because of one person Anand
Setleward , we used to imitate his style in
school during match.
Pravin Da
The best program on radio was cricket review
from Vijay Merchant , he was a good orator.
8/22/2005 2:04 AM
Radio made Jhumri Talaiiiya famous......
Yadnya
8/22/2005 2:54 AM
who remembers when Bret Hart got screwed
at survivor seris in 1997
Coddie
8/22/2005 4:39 AM
does ANYONE remember thsi radio ad?
"mummmy! ho gaya! dho do! "

Lemon i dont remember what product it was for.
8/22/2005 4:56 AM
I am guessing it must be for laxatives
Advait
8/22/2005 5:13 AM
I remember there was an add on radio at 10
at night
ladies voice Karona ... , karona .. then there

was male voice CARONA JUTEY (SHOES)
Pravin Da
CARONA SHOES WAS FAMOUS THEN.OFFICE
WAS AT FORT HANDLOOM HOUSE BLD.
@cody aka freddie fan 8/22/2005 7:38 AM
queen never released an album named
bohemian raophsody.. it was a song off thier
"night at the opera album" which came out in
1975 and u were born in 1990 so u cldnt
Freebird possibly remember how it was when it came
out unless memories frm your previous life
carried fwd :D P
8/22/2005 12:31 PM
I know all of that
I read it in Wiki
but it was the video-craze which Bohemain
Rhapsody created that gave the band all the
hype. It had stayed on as #1 in Many
Coddie countries for a long period of time. I hear the
song daily since the past 2 years & never get
tired of it.
@salil 8/22/2005 3:34 PM
That would have been unforgivable!!!
Milind



arbitrary n random

8/23/2005 2:16 AM
Does anyone still have those small bottles of
Thumbs Up ? I have the bat and the ball
Bombay which i got in exchange for the bottles. Would
(6844 members)
love to get my hands on the small bottle
Advait though.
8/23/2005 2:26 AM
Advait,
I was at a club on Saturday where they gave
us the small Thums Up bottles when we
orderd a cold drink.
Vikram Was prety awesome until they charged us

30Rs. for them.
8/23/2005 4:32 AM
Vikram,
What did u do with the bottles once you were

done drinking . Did u get one home by
Advait chance.
8/23/2005 4:50 AM
advait i think vik means the old 200 ml delete
bottles, not the mini thums up you were
asking about. i have a strange uncle who once
actually drank (and immediately spat out) the
coloured water that came in those mini thums
ups. personally i thought the li'l thrils that
Salil came out before the mini thums ups were
more well finished, proportionate and cute.
you got those in exchange for 6 thril crowns.
8/23/2005 4:58 AM
been really long, so time to fish out another delete
random memory. these guys with what looked
liked fish tanks strapped around their necks
walked around peddling balls of pink candy
floss from them. the top of the fish tank was
modified into a wooden pinball game. i
distinctly remember the plunger for the pinball
was made out of a toothpaste tube cap, and
the cups were simply semicircular arcs of
nails. street food was forbidden for me
Salil through most of my childhood but that didn't
stop me from watching other kids either
buying a ball of candy floss for 5 paise, or
taking a chance with 10 paise with the pinball.
nowadays you still see the stuff but it's now
sold out of a large, boring plastic bag.
8/23/2005 6:15 AM
Damn ... spent the whole afternoon
wondering how anyone would be happy with
that small quantity of cold drink
....aaaaghhhhh !!!
Advait
8/23/2005 6:22 AM
we used to have those erasers put inside
small plastic toys.. like bunny etc.. There were
some small cricket bat shaped toys which had
those erasers in them.
And they were perfumed..
Kaustubh
8/23/2005 6:27 AM
I remember making walky talkies (like the
ones they used in Star Trek) with empty
match boxes and rubber bands ....
I remember reaching cinema halls well before
time to catch the films division
Advait documentaries. They even had one of the
1985 Bombay test match between India and
England
on stationery.. 8/23/2005 8:54 PM
I remember being extremely envious of was
these extra-long pencils with a little plastic
hand at the end. My folks never let me get
one, branding them "dangerous".
Dylan
8/23/2005 9:55 PM
That reminds me of the long plastic hand that
is available these days for scratching your
back. I bet they got the idea from the long
pencil with a plastic hand.
Advait



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8/23/2005 11:09 PM
I remember we used to have on long pen type
made of wood /bamboo type which is called ‘Boru’
Bombay we have to sharpen its end and dip in ink and write
(6844 members)
, as improving handwriting , this was compulsory at
Pravin Da
our school drawing period ,before switching to ink
pen at 7th std.
There were ink pens with ‘nib’ , ink of ‘camel’ brand
was famous for that , there was ink filler , daily
morning filling ink before going to school in ink pens
, fingers getting blue , some time pens getting leak
, shirt getting stain with ink were common. Ball
point pen were not allowed in school of course there
were no gel pens .
Parker pen was hero no 1
just got one nice e mail 8/25/2005 1:26 AM
When gulli-danda and kanche (marbles) were more
> > > > popular than cricket ...
>>>>
> > > > When we always had friends to play aais-
paais (I Spy),
> > > > chhepan-chhepai and pitthoo anytime ...
>>>>
> > > > When we desperately waited for 'yeh jo hai
jindagi'
> > > > ...
> > > > When chitrahaar, vikram-baitaal, dada
daadi ki
> > > > kahaniyaan were so fulfilling ...
>>>>
> > > > When there was just one tv in every five
houses and
>>>>
> > > > When bisleris were not sold in the trains
and we were
> > > > worrying if papas will get back into the
train in time
> > > > or not when they were getting down at
stations to fill
> > > > up the water bottle ...
>>>>
Pravin Da > > > > When we were going to bed by 9.00pm
sharp except for
> > > > the 'yeh jo hai jindagi' day ...
>>>>
> > > > When Holis & Diwalis meant mostly hand-
made pakwaans and
> > > > sweets and moms seeking our help while
preparing them
> > > > ...
> > > > When Maths teachers were not worried of
our mummys and
> > > > papas while slapping/beating us ...
>>>>
> > > > When we were exchanging comics and
stamps and
> > > > chacha-chaudaris and billus were our
heroes ...
>>>>
> > > > When we were in nanihaals every summer
and loved
> > > > flying kites and plucking and eating unripe
mangoes
> > > > and leechis ...
>>>>
> > > > When one movie every Sunday evening on
television was
> > > > more than asked for and 'ek do teen chaar'
and
> > > > 'Rajni' inspired us ...
> > > > When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees
...
>>>>
> > > > When left over pages of the last years
notebooks were
> > > > used for rough work or even fair work ...
>>>>
> > > > When 'chelpark' and 'natraaj' were
encouraged against
> > > > 'reynolds and family' ...
>>>>
> > > > When the first rain meant getting
drenched and playing
> > > > in water and mud and making 'kaagaj ki
kishtis' ...
>>>>
> > > > When there were no phones to tell friends
that we will
> > > > be at their homes at six in the evening ...
>>>>
contd 8/25/2005 1:26 AM
> > > > When our parents always had 15 paise
blue colored
> > > > 'antardesis' and 5 paise machli wale
stamps at home
> > > > ...
> > > > When we remembered tens of jokes and
were not finding
> > > > 'ice-cream and papa' type jokes foolish
enough to stop
> > > > us from laughing ...
>>>>
> > > > When we were not seeing patakhes on
Diwalis and
> > > > gulaals on Holis as air and noise polluting
or
> > > > allergic agents ...
> > > > the list can be endless ...
Pravin Da
> > > > on the serious note I would like to
summarise with ...
>>>>
> > > > When we were using our hearts more than
our brains,
> > > > even for scientifically brainy activities like
> > > > 'thinking' and 'deciding' ...
>>>>
> > > > When we were crying and laughing more
often, more
> > > > openly and more sincerily ...
>>>>
> > > > When we were enjoying our present more
than worrying
> > > > about our future ...
>>>>
> > > > When being emotional was not
synonymous to being weak
> > > > ...
> > > > When sharing worries and happinesses
didnt mean
> > > > getting vulnerable to the listener ...
> > > > When blacks and whites were the favourite
colors
> > > > instead of greys ...
> > > > When journeys also were important and
not just the
> > > > destinations ...
>>>>
> > > > When life was a passenger's sleeper giving
enough time
> > > > and opportunity to enjoy the sceneries
from its open
> > > > and transparent glass windows instead of
some
> > > > superfast's second ac with its curtained,
closed and
> > > > dark windows ...
> > > > Wo choti choti khushiya, small pleasures,
those corners of
galli
with
this guy really killed this thread 10/26/2005 6:42
PM
or what?
Sat
10/26/2005 10:24 PM
wat a stupid topic to post.come on guys grow up.
sayeed
10/27/2005 5:55 AM
hey sat sunday
Pravin Da that was an email I reced long back

11/23/2005 5:48 AM
*koff* *koff*
Sat
11/23/2005 9:02 AM
Sat feeling nostalgic ?
Milind
11/23/2005 8:51 PM
I Remember the school days with no tension around
and the careless college days.
Aalok
11/23/2005 9:46 PM
So I woke up this morning singing the theme song
of "Superhit Muqabla" hosted by Baba Sehgal.
How sad is my life!

Vikram



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@Vikram 11/23/2005 10:57 PM
It would have been sadder if you had been
humming one of Baba Sehgal's atrocious rap songs
Bombay
(6844 members) Milind instead
Baba Sehgal...aka BS.. 11/23/2005 11:47 PM
Manjula Manjula Manjula Manjula Manjula Manjula
Manjula Manjula.
Irshad YO!
11/24/2005 12:33 AM
Aaja meri gaadi main baith ja..
this was also baba sehgal i guess!!
Aalok
11/24/2005 12:47 AM
Now that we have Billboard Top 200, Superhit
Muqabla is SAD..phew
Gopi
I too remember 11/24/2005 1:10 AM
Playing Dabba ais pais (I spy) or thappo,
playing cricket with strabeg rules and stranger
terms; underrum (under arm), and overrum, tiffin
(tip and run),
and most common, bahar full toss out, one tappi
out, kaach ko kaise bhi laga to out.
I remember going in school buses and listening the

Nirav first NON VEG JOKE (from school seniors)
I remember playing holi before school final exams,
I remember my dads Lambretta scooter ...

Am i crazy ... 11/24/2005 2:48 AM
to go thru first 450 posts ...
or just feeling nostalgic

anyways great thread .. might read the rest
sometime later
Nirav
hope orkut has a better navigator allowing to visit
page of your choice rather than previous and next
11/24/2005 3:06 AM
Lambretaa reminded me of my rides with my
dad....and the gunny bags full of sand that we used
to get back at home to play with from juhu
chowpatty.. ..WOW..whataaa life!!!!
Yadnya
11/24/2005 3:18 AM
i'm pretty new & young to all of u,but does anyone
remember "Indus creed/rock machine".amazing
Anoop music.still heard & admired!
Neighbourhood Star Library 11/24/2005 3:21 AM
where i would rent asterix and tintin comics (as
they were too expensive for middle class children)
and when i first went in crossword, i read the
complete Menhir and Co.
did the same 2 days back. Read the complete Sky is

Nirav falling (latest asterix comic by uderzo, goscinny is
dead)
in a book shop at Wurzburg
number 900 11/24/2005 3:36 AM
ok finally browsed thru the entire thread,
and yeah spent 3 hours doing this instead of some
assignemnt.
But time well spent.

Nirav
Need to visit orkut more often



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gaalis at age 8... 11/24/2005 5:04 AM
Bombay you bloody basket.
(6844 members)
Sat
@Dil 11/24/2005 5:10 AM
"and the gunny bags full of sand that we used to
get back at home to play with from juhu
chowpatty"
thats why we were wondering where all sands of

Pravin Da chowpatty gone!!
have you got any precious stones or cakes along

with sands!!
hey !! 11/24/2005 6:39 PM
HEY ALL !!!
I have been on this thread for days now , trying to
get thru each and every entry , i think ive read
about the frst 400 o so. n trust me , some day il
finish it all !!! wenever im nostalgic n miss bombay
, i cum up here , read a few more entries and so
on... but i have 2 say , awsum awsum awsum !!!!!
Salil , Vikram , ash , milind , pea jay and the others
,... I hereby announce u as the Gods of Mumbai
!!!!!
I Lurvve I wasnt even born that long ago , but styl , wat a
SyDneY great read !!! Tho as I move on and read the later
posts,I can recollect sum of them ones which wer
memories of my childhood tho not very long ago
!!one of the best threads no doubt , keep it up guys
!! Its been goin on from may 2004 if im right ,
hopefully its here 2 stay , so il have sum stuff 2
post too sum 10 years down the line .
In all , LOVED IT !!!

11/24/2005 6:43 PM
Salil , Vikram , ash , milind , pea jay and the others
,... I hereby announce u as the Gods of Mumbai
!!!!!
Milind
Dhanyawaad, vatsa... ayushyamaan bhava
@Pra Da 11/24/2005 7:10 PM
Lolz...naaaa..those days were free of stones and
cakes....
they were full of smiles and laughter...
Yadnya
11/25/2005 4:01 PM
I agree with you , there were smiles and laughter
on sands!!
when there used to be vacation for school
Pravin Da we used to go to our grand pa house at Agar Bazar
(near SiddhiVinayak temple)and every evening he
used to take us to beach
(atleast 5-10 children from the bldg)from Kirti
college end ( 5 mins walk from grand paa house)
the excitement of going to beach was such thet we
children used to be ready by 4 pm (when he used
to take us at 5 pm)
once we go there we used to play , and there used
to compitition of building sand house , tunnel , fort
etc
as the sky becomes dark one person carrrying one
round vessel with lamp(panti)on the top of head
shouting 'hiyo' 'hiyo'we used to closely watch him
but dont no what he used to sell
i used to wonder what he is shouting , once when
my grand pa called him and bought kulfi from
him.it was yummy !!a small piece on banana leaf.
After many years I came to know that he was
shouting 'kulphiyo' kulphiyo'
i remember ... 12/5/2005 6:48 AM
paying my first bribe to a traffic cop
speaking in fractured marathi
ah those were the days before i perfected

Nirav "Rahu dya na saheb, kahi laahn adjustment karu
yaa"
@Laxmi 12/6/2005 9:32 AM
how come the MHP of Bombay community is not
included?
now I will gather other MHPs & file a lawsuit against

Coddie you for under the violation of the MHP Penal code:
law no. 39: not including the name of the MHP

whereas including the name of some jackasses.
12/6/2005 6:08 PM
No offences meant to anyone in particular !!!!!
I Lurvve
SyDneY
12/7/2005 6:58 AM
Laxmi- gr8 u read 400+
if u continuing reading and posting then it will be of
sense to everyone
Pravin Da
and nonsense to cody


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Hats off...... 12/7/2005 12:51 PM
Great thread ...... I'm fairly new to this community
and the only reason I joined was for threads like
Bombay these.....
(6844 members)
you can take the bombayite out of bombay but
you'll never take bombay out of the bombayite.......
it sometimes annoys the hell out of non-bombayite
indians
And my share........There'd be golawallas in
Bhavik summer selling sherbet flavored ice chunks
dripping in chilled juice........ Kaala Khatta was a
pretty popular flavor. we'd take our own glasses
and the golas were for chaar-aana each,........
somehow fancy ice-cream parlors and coffee shops
just don't compare...
BALBIR PASHA 12/7/2005 6:51 PM
this may be a change from all the nostalgia
ever wonder what became of the BALBIR PASHA
KO AIDS HOGA KYA ? campaign 3 yrs ago?
Bhavik
12/7/2005 7:42 PM
i remember dhituklya from kilbil on tv
and santakukdi the gujrati kiddie programme..
and whats the good word..on sundays by Sabira
Merchant
and Magic lamp on sunday mornings...
BAlbir Pasha ko AIDS !!! 12/7/2005 7:43 PM
Kya balbir pasha ko AIDS 3 saal pehle hua tha ???
How fast does time go by ??? Ab kya haal hai janab
ke ????
I Lurvve
SyDneY
12/7/2005 8:16 PM
I remember wearing the AIDS awareness band for
a monh now...
mine one says 'Freddie Mercury 1946-1991'

Coddie spreads awareness as well as a tribute to the
greatest Indian ever
12/8/2005 1:13 AM
Swati some more to add
Chaya geet , chimanrao gundya bhavu, gajra,
phool khilehai gulshan gulshan –Tabassum
Pravin Da yeh jo jindagi, hum log, yakub sayyed and baban
prabhu’s haas paridhaas,
Doordarshans start music- shahanai ,news readers
sarita sethi , harish bhimani,pradeep bhide,bhakti
barve
I remember on radio 12/9/2005 3:07 AM
Bhoole bisere geet
and the commercial

Bhoole bisere geet ke prayojakta
"washing powder nirma, washing powder nirma ...
Nirav
dhoodh ki safedi nirma se aayi ..."
12/10/2005 5:55 PM
patel roadways
patel roadways
kangaaroo hai kangaaro
kangaaroo hai nishaani
lollllllllllll
12/10/2005 5:55 PM
oh and how can i forget??
baabbuuubhaii jagjivandaas lol

bhavik 12/10/2005 6:04 PM
we used to put some salt on the malai kulfi ( the 25
paisa variety sold outside our school at lunchtime)
and watch it curdle and point at the malai bits
thinking they were worms. lolll
( we did that with earthworms too :( )
oh and the supari wala with his aluminium

dabba..the khajur supari..
the laal imli wala..who'd wrap up the imli with salt

in the filthiest bits of newspaper
the high we got from jumping off the BEST bus at

the signal next to our school..to avoid walking from
the bus stop
damn..why do we grow up???



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12/11/2005 3:00 AM
Swati !! Swati!! so nice ..
nice to remind me , we used to do on (salt)
ice cream seniors used to say there are kida
worms in it so used to beleive and try to see
worm, we used to call ice candy ,
icefrut.There were Bum gola (round ice candy
Bombay red one), long cone culfi with stick.
(6844 members) That cycle icecream wal with ganti and
rectangular box with 2 small opening
we used to climb the box and peep inside
through small opening for choice to select -
colour and variey of ice candy ( but i could
never see anything inside as it was dark).
orange and mango were favorite , then came
white milky (taste was horrible)
about the imly thing type there were red bor ,

green badishape , karwand , and dongarchi
kalimaina , aamm paapad(seasonal)were sold
opp school with typical cane stand crossed
Pravin Da sticks , girls used to crowd around.
and that sharbat wala , 10 paise per glass
with kalingad(water melon)sabja,
he used to clean glass in one bucket , after
some time his bucket water used to look same
as sharbat , and we used to say he makes
sharbat with same liquid.Then we never feel
like drinking but afer football match we were
tempted to drink that sharbaat
and that felow at the corner with a thick

wooden long stick with sticky chocholate
wound at the top with plastic covering with 3-
4 colours stripes , he used to pull that stripe
and make diff shapes like watch , ring , flower
of it and give
(it tasteslike pepermint)
also there were pink kapus (sugar gola)on
small stick.
12/11/2005 8:19 PM
I think those colour stripes are still available
in Mulund... don't know what the hell is an ice
candy though.
Coddie
12/11/2005 10:20 PM
ice candy and icefruit are just colloquial delete
names for ice lollies, cody. but pravinda, what
exactly is 'dongarchi kaalimaina?'
Salil
12/11/2005 10:34 PM
the early mornin show on radio AIR FM stereo
& a host of amazin rj's-my favourite being
Anoop kiesha lobo.so many others playin gr8 music-
noel,phali& so many others.miss them.
12/12/2005 1:16 AM
The Ripe Karvand with small seed inside is
called kali maina –or dongarchi kalimaina it is
dark in colour when it is cut it oozes red or
pink liquid we used to call komda ki komdi
(cock or hen)(I don’t know the name in eng-
Pravin Da
karvand is used in pickle which is round green
in colour if broken white milk like liquid oozes
out) u get these during april-june.
good old school times 12/13/2005 11:57 AM
i remember:
- 75 paise samosa with 25 paise paav

- tomato flavored simba chips
- yummy potato shells by monginis
- eating imli, raw mango, peru and sauf from
the hawkers outside school
- seeing stone boy on tv
- being crazy fan of chintu(rishi kapoor) and
Shweta imitating his dance in om shanti om from karz
- dancing on tamma tamma loge from
thanedaar..hahaha...i even got prizes for this!
oh those good ol days!

Ads: 12/13/2005 2:11 PM
Does anyone remember those wonderful ads
on tv...
1. Jab mein chota baccha tha badi shararat

karta tha...fir bhi meri chori pakdi jaati...jab
roshni tab bajaj!!
Shweta
2. Kabir Bedi hosting a quiz show and ending
it with " Full points to you and JK Tyres!!"
Awesome Thread! 12/13/2005 2:22 PM
I have comment here that this is an
absolutely mindblowing thread. Kudos to all
author Salil and all the regular contributors
Vikram, Ruchi, et al!
I spent almost 4 hours going through the

entire thread..and it was just worth reading
Shweta through everyone's experience and reliving
my own!
Truly, once a bombayite always a bombayite!

more school nostalgia 12/13/2005 4:27 PM
yeah swati - the kulfis were kinda neat and
affordable too
i remember hari saunf and then having cold
water after that - it was awesome
too bad its all never coming back, and i feel it
right now more strongly then ever. i mean
Bhavik here i am sitting in a starbucks sipping latte
and having fake and polite conversations with
random starngers with no real meaning.....
damn i wish there were a time machine just
like the serial indradhanush......
12/14/2005 5:25 AM
bombay is still one place where u can have a
wonderfully happy day with just 100 bucks in
your pocket..and do sooooooooo much
too..even today.



arbitrary n random

bhavik 12/14/2005 5:26 AM
try delhi after bombay
Bombay u'll know what i've suffered :(
(6844 members)
12/14/2005 5:36 AM
ohhhhhhh we forgot 'buddhi ke baal' lol
12/14/2005 8:06 AM
Swati- buddhi ke baal there was some confusion ,
recently there was an add on TV where a girl is
standing and another says wo dekh buddhi kaa baal
etc etc
but it was pointing to Pink sugary puff type ona
Pravin Da
stick or now a days they give in plastic.
but according to me it was creamy soft thread like
moulded round or loose sugary.
School days 12/14/2005 8:40 AM
I remember when the Josh movie was released,
everyone was making their gangs in school. We
used to beat up other gang members & such.
Feel funny thinking how it would have looked

5th/6th graders beating up each other via gangs.
The post-puberty 'I am cool' period is also kinda

Coddie hilarious...
all the kids act like WWE Wrestlers, or actors or

singers to impress the girls & they with each other
about what type of porn they prefer & such... weird
but funny
12/14/2005 3:52 PM
Wow..could this get more evocative:)
U bet it took me a good 2 hours to read the entire
thread..being in accordance with the ads and
serials..All apologies if I am repeating anything but
here I go...I remember this very silly but catchy
tune of nirodh played just before or after the news
at 8.40pm "zarasi saavdhani zindagi bhar asani."
and then there was saptahiki(that 2 min music was
something)..with Bhakti Bharve hosting it at times..
and then phool khile hai gulshan gulshan.Udaan
with that "lalitaji"..
I will never forget the taste of golas at Juhu and
that was the only place that sold Bhel with this
Happlicious certain kind of mangopieces in it(parrot nosed) and
it tasted heavenly. and khau gulli in town where
they sold the most amazin ghanne ka juice and the
hawkers would say"jueeece"
Also speaking about the Thums up series.. I dunno
but was it then when the rage of "Flickers" started
where Gavaskar was shown drinking it..man
everybody wanted to own one
Sigh..i miss it too much
12/14/2005 6:49 PM
i remember those days
i remember during drawing period
water colour from camel with digene tablet type
/shaped colours we could afford and all that dish
with cups and cofee coloured solution and all mix
ups in that colours but my rich friends used to have
tube colour and bottle colour as it was called.
Pravin Da
similarly pink bordered note books were called
DELUX were top variety Rajat name was famous
now all that has become relatively cheap

ENERGEE 12/15/2005 10:29 AM
fortunately ENERGEE by AAREY dairy is something
from our childhood that's still available and popular
as are a lot of other things......
anyone listing?
Bhavik
takin cue frm swati !! 12/15/2005 12:15 PM
HO man.. this thread is probably one the most
compelling threads tht i have come across on
orkut...SALIL'S brainchild..promoted by others as
well...NEAT STUFF PEOPLE...though mes not tht old
i guess..mes jus 21...but i can relate to most of the
stuff...
Vishal
BOMBAY...not for nothing YOU R D BEST !!
ORANGE ad 12/15/2005 4:55 PM
The ORANGE commercial that ran about 2-3 years
ago with the boy and his puppy was really neat.......
"You and I in this beautiful world...."
Anyone has any links to this ad?
Bhavik
12/16/2005 8:42 AM
i remember the programmes "Giant Robot", "He-
man", "Gaayab aaya" on the national channel. the
movies every saturday evening.
i remember Uncle Chips. Man, the Paapri Chat
flavor was to die for.
Kevin i remember Gold Spot. Would love to have it again.
i remember the Bombay bombings, the riots, the
curfews.
i remember the WWF craze.



arbitrary n random

@Kevin 12/17/2005 9:21 PM
let me explain to all of you the WWE Craze.
Bombay I assume you are over 16, so no longer interested...
(6844 members)
once you are not interested, you figure out that was
damn pathetic & with only a few good wrestlers
(The ones who entered around mid 80's - mid 90's)
However, the younger generation when watching

WWE also obviously sees the half fake audience
cheers for certain 'face' (good people). They all feel
he is very cool & they should be like him (hence,
the imitations). When they reach puberty, they give
attention to the divas & act like their 'boyfriends'
they think they will get these type of girls doing so
(regardless of them being 12-14 & hitting on 19 yr.
old girls... you girls may be accquainted with this,
Coddie the little boys in photo-printed Tees & spiked hair,
with some freckles & usually a canvas pant callin
you baby or trying to simply talk to you, asking for
directions when they know em very well).
They will act like idiots till they start discovering

some other work or have a load of studies or so
on... after a few years, 65% of em realising what
assholes they were & then decide to be a rocker
worshipper or something, hence falling into another
fad whilst giving gallis to the wwe...
strange, but its true...

12/17/2005 10:07 PM
wwe is bullshit!!
used to rock when hitman, hulkman, machoman n
all were dere.. now utter shit..
Sagar
where have all the sparrows gone?
12/17/2005 10:39 PM
Came back to India after 3 years this month, and
one thing I noticed s that there just are no sparrows
here anymore... I remember the times in my
childhood when sparrows would come and have a
dust abth in the patch of garden in my building...
Milind some even dared enter our flat and made a nest on
top of our wardrobes... but now dont seem em
anywhere at all... hope they haven't become
extinct...
@Milind 12/17/2005 10:49 PM
I agree with you , even my gallery used to be
sparrows maternity home.
But its not that extinct, last time I saw in Malabar
hill areas , shivaji park
Pravin Da
but in suburb its almost extinct , the reason I heard
is because of Mobile phones tower and waves!!
12/18/2005 2:20 AM
u guys make me feel so small...
dun rememebr much of all tat but yea... rememebr
that NCERT animated ad tat used to come on DD
n the doordarshan song n range logo which wud
come b4 Mhahbharata show on sundys...thse were
Marin days :)
12/19/2005 12:57 AM
Before the Israelis blew up the ships in the Red Sea
in 1967 and forced the world to use long range
passenger jets, it was fun to read the Shipping
notices at the back of the Times of India. A typical
route was Sydney, Fremantle, Singapore, Colombo,
Bombay, Aden, Suez, Piraeus, Naples, Marseille,
and Tilbury Docks (London). There were shipping
lines such as P&O, Chandris, Lloyd Triestino etc. I
remember the P&O ships of the day, such as
Orsova, Oriana, Orion, Oronsay, etc. They were
serviced by Mackinnon Mackenzie when in port.
In 1962, my uncle having done his CA exam and

served time with AF Fergusson & Co on DN Road,
decided to go phoren for a couple of years. He was
Ash to sail on the Orion. He was given two guest passes
(like the platform tickets sold to people sending off
train pax). He gave one to his mum and I seemed
to score the other one. (As a precocious 10-yo I
imagine I made a nuisance of myself to get it).
He had gone aboard a while before the guests were

allowed on board. I went with my granny and tried
in vain to find his room, gave up and came down,
having wasted the ticket. My granny wisely decided
to stand at the railing until he came up and met
her. When the ship later pulled away, it was quite a
sight to see hundreds of passengers waving to the
people on the dock.
Thanks to the Israelis, when he returned two years

later, it was on Air India's shiny, newish 707 named
Kanchenjunga (planes had names back then). The
pax used to get a little booklet with tips on how to
use the amenities, e.g. a picture of the AI
maharajah lathering up his beard and holding an
electric razor to it with a note NOT to do this! The
same plane a few years later was carrying Homi
Bhabha the atomic reactor supremo when it crashed
on Mont Blanc...
12/19/2005 1:08 AM
In the early 70s, there used to be a ship owned by
CY Tung (father of the HK boss Tung Chee Hwa)
called the SeaWise (get it?) University. It sailed
around the world with a bunch of rich kids who got
one hell of a geography education.
We heard from someone that you could get a

visitor's pass to see the ship from Mackinnon
Mackenzie (who else?). So I went to have a look. I
had never seen a green blackboard before, so that
was an education in itself. There was a tuck shop
selling all sorts of phoren sweets and gum but it
was shut. Then we came down in time to see the
rich kids returning to the ship with some local
souvenirs.
Ash
I still remember what looked like a dark Sardar
teenager being grabbed by the police as he tried to
get on board. It turned out that he was a black
American kid who had bought a turban. No wonder,
turban on head = Sardarji, right? They were not
amused.
Some years later, the Seawise University caught fire

and was wrecked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawise_University
@ milind 12/19/2005 2:23 AM
I live in Borivali and thankfully there are still some
sparrows to be seen around. Have lost the squirrels
though.
Advait
Dental hygiene 12/19/2005 2:28 AM
In high school one of my friends was Rustom
Avasia, the brightest kid in the class. His parents
Banoo and Minoo were dentists and had their
business at home in Tapia Building near Sir
Hurkisondas Hospital. The drill was operated with a
foot pedal. Thankfully I was not a patient of theirs.
Ash When I went to the countryside, a toothbrush was a

twig that one chewed to get the end fibrous and
then you savaged your gums with it.
Some people used Colgate Tooth Powder, which you
placed on your left palm and used your right index
finger to apply it to your teeth.
Sometimes we used a black tooth powder called

Monkey Chaap. It was made from charcoal and
camphor and it's a miracle I have any teeth left.
When I went to NZ and checked in at the dental

school in Dunedin for a free checkup, the professor
called all the students to look at my teeth. I feared
the worst, but he told the students "See what a
healthy set of teeth looks like.".
One year and a few non-veg meals later, I had four

molar fillings! It would seem that my Bombay
regimen of eating veg food and washing my hands
and gargling afterwards was good for the teeth, but
I wasn't as good with cleaning my teeth after my
Western meals... Bacche log, brush your teeth!
Villa Theresa and Lost Treasures 12/19/2005 2:48
AM
My primary school was Villa Theresa on Pedder Rd.
The kindergarten in the late 50s was in the old,
mosque-like building which was originally the home
of Sir Hurkisondas Narottamdas. I didn't know until
a few years later when my dad was briefly
employed there as the General Manager and I read
their hospital magazine.
It featured a story of him and another employee

who had dug up a fact that the late knight had a
hidden vault in that old building but it was hidden
behind a bookcase. So they trotted off to the school
and asked if the hospital could have the treasures
believed to be in the vault.
The school had not heard of this and didn't know

about what was behind the bookcase. So they
moved it and lo, there was indeed a vault there.
They opened it (not sure if they had to crack it open
Ash or it was unlocked) and there was nothing in it.
My dad told me that the wily nuns had probably

discovered it years earlier and had given it to the
church!
Sports Day at VTHS was in a dirt field behind the

old building. We had sack races, three-legged races,
one-legged races etc.
Almost every week there was a Feast of Some

Obscure Saint or the Other, which meant we had to
bring some money as a donation.
At morning assembly we sang a song that went,

"Good Morning to you,
Good morning to you.
We're all in our places
with sun shiny faces
Good Morning to you,
Good morning to you."
At each refrain the boys would bow with the right

arm folded in the front and the left at the back. The
girls would curtsy.
Our school Mother was Irish and my KG teacher was

a Pom with an improbable name of Miss Dolly
Booth. We had fun calling her Miss Dolly Bhoot. :) I
recall learning the alphabet at KG whereas my
children didn't when they went to KG here in Oz.
The nuns ran some kind of enterprise as well. There

were lots of Christian women (only Christian women
wore skirts then) using sewing machines,
embroidery etc. God knows what they made.



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The birds 12/19/2005 3:06 AM
In the 60s, there were four main birds in Bombay
(Thakurdwar, near Charni Rd) and lots of them:
Bombay sparrows, pigeons, crows and kites. The pigeons
(6844 members)
lived under the eaves of the old tiled roofs and were
a damn nuisance.
We had a ceiling fan in our home, not being rich

enough to afford an airconditioner. Every now and
then a pigeon would fly into the house, hit the fan
and there would be feathers, blood and guts
Ash everywhere.
In the monsoons, cockroaches would spout wings

and fly. One day, one flew into my mouth as I was
talking. Yes, it is not a pleasant feeling and put me
off cockroaches forever!
Maggi and things at the naka 12/19/2005 3:36 AM
A passing comment on Maggi - in India I noticed
that you pronounce it with a hard "g" as in Maggie.
Elsewhere, it is pronounced Majji.
When I was little, my mother would reminisce about

a pre-independence chocolate or cocoa called
Nestle, pronounced as the word nestle ("nessle"). In
Oz and NZ, the brand had never gone away and it
was also pronounced as nessle. Then a few years
ago, the ad agencies decided we were ready to
pronounce it "ness-lay"!
When my allowance didn't stretch to Cadbury's, I

made do with Sathe's or Dr Writer's chocolate (I use
the terms loosely).
Supari was a perennial favourite. Milan came later,

but there were other kinds of shredded, chopped,
and diced flavours and colours. But nothing could
beat a powdered version we simply knew as
Suparichi bhooki, sold by Jaadya - a fat man whose
name we didn't know. You had to be careful not to
breathe it in by mistake but to wet it thoroughly in
your mouth before chewing it. It always caught the
back of your throat later.
It was a simple treat to have kadak pav (as

Ash opposed to naram pav, the other variety) with one's
tea, especially if the bread was fresh and you
dipped it into the tea, even if it had lashings of
Polson butter...
The naram pav was nominally a cube of

indeterminate shape but it kept shrinking every
year. Years later, the little bun we got with
Kentucky Fried Chicken in Oz/NZ (what the Yanks
call a biscuit!) reminded me of the humble naram
pav. Its main role was to be eaten with hot Usal
until much later, when wada-pav and pav bhaji
were invented in the late 60s.
There were strange little shops and I wonder how

their owners could live on the takings. There was a
watch repairer who also sold Hindi movie lyric
sheets. There were Kutchi shops that sold
stationery, batteries, etc. There was the coal shop
that also sold crackers at Diwali. There was the cold
drinks shop where you went to drink a Mangola.
There were grain shops and as kids we would grab a
handful of beans and run off into our lane.
Recycled tea 12/19/2005 3:46 AM
There were tea shops at my naka where the tea was
always strong and hot. The leaves were recycled.
There were not many cars then, so there was plenty
of footpath space to dry the used tea leaves. These
were swept up and sent to some "factory" to be
Ash coloured and mixed with fresh tea.
Over here in Oz, cheap tea leaves are usually
referred to as floor sweepings - makes me shudder
when I remember the recycled tea leaves of
Thakurdwar...
@Ash 12/19/2005 5:34 AM
Wonderful!!
u did sou sunar ki ek luhar ki!!postings.

Pravin Da
gr8
Munji circle kissa 1/5/2006 5:45 PM
Munji circle
Yesterday I was going from BEST bus in Mumbai to

Dadar from Esatern suburb, an old man sat beside
me , he was taking ticket from bus conductor asking
ticket for Munji Circle and conductor was confused
as there is no Mumnji circle on this route, old man
was murmoring Munji circle,then he said matunga ,
I came to know it as it was not munji circle but King
circle so I corrected him ,but that old man had not
enough money to buy ticket (as he earliear caught
wrong bus and exuasted his money by buying
wrong ticket of munji circle and made him to get
down) , so this conductor also told him to get down
but I said this conductor to give him ticket for which
I paid the ticket cost.That old man (looking like an
acharya aged 75 ,in dhoti, who had shendi on
head)thanked me and was saying how long is Munji
circle and talking to me in kannada as he was not
Pravin Da
knowing hindi well,I replied in Kannada and h was
surpriced, He had come to mumbai from Shimoga
dist of karnataka as we were talking he said he was
a teacher by profession and now retired , he was 75
yr old i felt touchy .He was so thankful to me that
he offered an orange fruit the only one he had to
me which I refused saying its for u. as the bus was
speeding and his orange fell and as he was catching
it ,the bus was on bridge on slope that orange
tumbled under seat All pasengers were trying to
catch that orange but of no use as it fell out from
front drivers end.Still that old man had smile on his
face , as kingcircle (Munji circle)approached I told
him to get slowly down and he got down and went.
I remembered all my ex school teacheres who may
be so old or order than him, some may not be there
and had tears in my eyes.
@Pravin Da - Great post 1/5/2006 10:56 PM
its really sad to think those who helped you become
what you are are now dead or helpless...
I always wish I would die before 40... least wouldn't

have to see our respected mentors die neither
Coddie would I like to be someone wit back-ache or any
dependance on anyone else...
@Cody 1/8/2006 2:26 AM
Whats this yaar , abhisey ghabra gaye, life is
beautiful and life after 40 is more beautiful.One has
to experienece every stage of life , its different,one
cant explain one has to experience, one thing is ,
see that u r fit and healthy ,You said u r going for
ARTS after SSC , I didn't expected this from you,
Arts people knows how to live happily till end ,
never give up
Life is precious , u always use words 'kill' 'die' so
Pravin Da
easily , the fact is u r afraid of it.
unless one completes his balance sheet of
enjoyment and sufferings in relative sense one
person never dies.
now better concentrate of studies till march (date
has anounced 7th) then u can discuss on this,
all the best to u r exams.
1/13/2006 10:08 AM
One heck of a thread!!
Didn't go through it all...but it reminded of

memories I didn't remember I had ....if that makes
any sense ;-)
It was like dominant corners of my brain suddenly
flickered and lit up after many years.
Thanks to all the contributors.

André
This thread is priceless.....Can I get the hard-copy
somewhere? ;-)
btw,has anyone mentioned Phantom cigarettes yet?

Used to love those as a kid.
1/29/2006 11:43 PM
oh ya those phantom cigarrettes !! who can 4get
them .... well i dont think i went thru all these
memories u r talkin about ...but i remember those
phantoms for re1 and then using the red end part to
Mahalaxmi color the lips like a lipstick n then sitting n
pretending to smoke like a rich lady frm the movies
....those were days...
1/29/2006 11:58 PM
oh that stick cigarette goli
those phantom cigarrettes , I did not know it was

called phantom cigarretes.
I first thought phantom trade mark etc.
thanks for that info.
Pravin Da I remember we used to colour white chalk on tip

with black and red spots and at at bottom light
brown band, looking exactly like burning cigarette
and we used to hold in between two fingers and
showing from distance to a friend, half hiding and
acting like smoking who then used to make
chuggli(tell) my brother that he saw me smoking
cigarette.


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1/30/2006 12:04 AM
who remembers Ganesh mahotsav with movies etc..with projectors and dh
screens??
Bombay
(6844 members)
Swati
ganesh mahotsav ... 1/30/2006 1:47 AM
with movie screenings in the locality
and small skits enacted by children in the program every night after the aa
Nirav
@swati 1/30/2006 2:09 AM
check this
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=972&tid=1026648&na=4&
Pravin Da 1026648-111401717 , cenema on the road side
1/30/2006 2:14 AM
1 question?
Why not purchase a cigratte & smoke it instead?
Coddie
1/30/2006 7:00 AM
Cody
good one ,
purchase a cigratte & smoke it instead.

Pravin Da
and tell kids, friends that it is still a Phantom cigaratte!! or a painted chalk
1/30/2006 8:30 AM
smoking real cigarettes, there would be no need for phantom cigarettes. w
automatically become phantom after some time.
Kevin
1/30/2006 8:35 AM
i fondly remember this one:
just visit this link and see
http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/356.html
Kevin this surely brings back some memories for me.
1/31/2006 8:33 AM
:) i love bombay..it brings tears to my eyes reading all your posts :)
Swati
2/2/2006 11:50 PM
Ganesh utsav in my lane (where the Shiv Sena was born) was funded part
charm only budding sainiks can exude. They would collect vargani door-to
were supposed to donate on the basis of your perceived wealth.
I was a half-Marathi kid who used to play with all the budding sainiks, so I
they never hassled my dad, but my Guju relatives who owned Continental
DN Road were the shrimant ones, so they were squeezed for all they were
all very pleasant.
At the end of my lane, a mandap was erected mainly to hold a small stage
screen made of something more substantial than a dhoti. Each night after
Ash would be a play, singing troupe, or a forgettable movie. It could rain at an
the street could get emptied very quickly with the actors playing to about
audience that could fit in the mandap.
The visarjan would wind its way up Girgaum, past the Majestic "tawkij", O
then Chowpatty. All within walking distance. We felt sorry for the big Ganp
that had come a long way, as there weren't many visarjan launch pads in
Can we swap railway stations? 2/2/2006 11:56 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_Street_Station
I work a few hundred metres from Melbourne's Flinders Street Station, so

to find that it was apparently built from plans meant for Bombay's VT stat
versa.
Ash The Poms were always mixing up plans - I think the plans for the barracks
Fort were mixed with ones for one in Scotland, so Delhi got one with thick
Scots had one more reason to hate the Poms.
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2/3/2006 12:00 AM
ever so often i get mail from people telling me how much they love this th
thank everyone who added to it. and thanks ash, i may have started this t
really kept it alive with fabulous inputs.. keep going, we're almost at the fo
Bombay
(6844 members)
Salil majestic 'tawkij' was no longer there by the time i used to accompany my
cab ride from navjeevan society) when she went shopping around there. in
shopping centre sat depressingly housing 5 or 6 shops. i used to slink awa
ambitious little model they had in the atrium.. it showed this flourishing sh
ambassador cars parked outside under sponge-foam foliage.. that place w
time i passed it.
2/3/2006 2:53 AM
Salil- I Think still that area is called Majestic.
No doubt about this thread,
I like yours and Ash posting very much.

Pravin Da But when u read Ash posting u feel the original uniform Heart beat of Bom
lost today
Ash in his writing skill carries us to exact spot step by step as a sincere fri
touching.
2/3/2006 7:05 PM
Hey Ash... what was that about plans getting mixxed up - you got more in
collecting trivia, and this seems like a juicy piece I never knew about
Milind
2/20/2006 3:10 AM
Oh, so Majestic Talkies is no more? I saw "Sampoorna Ramayana" there a
remember the "trick photography" used to make Hanuman fly. I said to m
said to Ravana 'Main Ram ka dost hoon'" -- actually he said "Main Ram ka
a new word that day.
A few doors away from Majestic was a sweetmeats shop called Baburao Pu
bald chap with glasses. Often stopped there to have Piyush -- haven't tast
Alternative drink there was plain old limbu sharbat.
Diagonally opposite was a small Marathi restaurant called Cona - it was in

building. They served a good veg thali and great pachdi.
Around the corner at Portuguese Church were the two textbook stores - La
Annual pilgrimage before the schools opened. We couldn't buy the generic
anywhere but had to use the official ones sold by St Xavier's Boys' Academ
by the same supplier...
A couple of doors away was a clothing shop run by the Karanjia family. On
Ash was a tailor named Kotak Stores. My dad liked having his clothes tailor-ma
survive a few years of wearing the most baggy, uncool school uniforms.
It wasn't until college that I could go to Raymond's at Ballard Estate (uncle

got me discount coupons) to buy trousers and sports jackets. I also bough
Sobers and bell-bottom jeans (early 70s) around Fort.
Yes, the Brits have a lot of mixups - http://kildare.ie/knn/newsweekjune2
http://www.remuseum.org.uk/education/school/teachers/Background_Info
http://www.garrisonhotel.co.uk/docs/16_Garrison-History.pdf
http://www.vincentpeters.nl/triskelle/attractions/cahirciveen.php?index=1
Sweet local delicacies 2/20/2006 3:27 AM
What are the locally made Bombay delicacies that often have no English n
were hand-made:
* Shrikhand vadi
* Shrikhand
* Badam vadi
* Thandai
* Panha
* Fresh jalebi-gathia
Ash * Badshah's falooda
* Vibgyor icecream
* Sweet poha
* Am papad
Do they all still exist?
Add your own.

Piyush 2/20/2006 3:36 AM
I could only find one recipe for Piyush and it wasn't how I remember the M
remember a strong mace or nutmeg (can never remember the difference)
in this thick saffron-yellow yoghurt + milk cold drink.
Any specific memories of this elusive drink? Is it a Bombay-only drink?

Ash
2/20/2006 3:57 AM
yes ash, it's a bombay-only drink. it was invented in sikkanagar if my dad
It's quite simple. piyush is nothing but diluted and whipped shrikhand.
thought of the last message you had posted when i landed up right outside
it was late so no explorations could be made. all i saw was one bharatgas
and that was all.
i remember going to cona as a kid. had 'kharvas' which my kid bro would
the 70's cona still had topiwalla waiters in shorts, carrying aluminum box t
kulkarni for the best misal in girgaum (my personal opinion) and stopped
my uncle once forced me to drink a disgusting pink "doodh cold drink".
Salil there was also "virkar aahaar bhavan" once famous and the last time i we
place was haunted by this very scary lady who was doing everything herse
kaa, aamras?" she burst into the 'family room' mid-meal and scared the b
us.
i heard she later used the premises to screen porno movies to the local tee
teens told me years later how she hid the VHS cassette in her saree during
last week when i passed it, it was "virkar telecommunication centre"

2/20/2006 5:49 AM
Ash
u still get good piyush in dadar shivaji park area , prakash hotel, panshika
Pravin Da it tastes like shrikhand (diluted with lassi)
2/20/2006 12:33 PM
Piyush does seem to be a Mumbai-only drink... My friends from Pune/Nasi
even heard about it when I mentioned it at one of our nostalgia trips...
Milind "Dilute Shrikhand" seems to be the best way to describe it... with a strong
Nutmeg in it!
2/20/2006 2:33 PM
Prakash Hotel ki kothimbir vadi and Daalimbi Usal. Wow.
Raj
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2/20/2006 11:50 PM
Havent seen any Vibgyor icecream lately.
Have had loads of it as a kid. The rest of the
Bombay delicacies still exist. Does anyone remember
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Tambe Uphaar Bhavan. I donno what it is
called now.
Ash,
The other book stall which we frequented
during engineering days (early 90's)was next
Advait to Lakhani's. It sold "Students Notes" for
various engineering subjects. I am sure the
Engg grads here would know this. Got thru a
lot of subjects thanks to those notes. The
other one at the time was "Social". I believe
this book stall is near Somaiya College.
2/21/2006 12:42 AM
Never heard of Vibgyor ice cream where did delete
you get it?
And bookshops i went to for school books

were Popular and Cultural on Lamington Road.
Arts de Trio near Gaiwadi is where i went to

Salil get art material while i was in JJ.
Once we paid the bill in Cona and the waiter

came back and asked "Bachchi ko pun deu?"
my mum, my brother and myself stared
dumbfounded while he went on repeating his
strange request.
refer the first post in this thread where i

mention bus coupons as legal tender. the
waiter was asking "Bus chi coupon deu?"
2/21/2006 1:05 AM
Tambe Uphaar Bhuvan. I do not know Girgaon
that much as my family shifted to Borivali
before i was born. But i do remember this
place where we frequented for Vibgyor,
whenever we were in Girgaon. In fact the
propreitor(sp), a frnd of my dads, claimed
Advait only they have it !!! Dunno how true that was.
Does anyone know why Dhus Wadi is called so
? Girgaon is one place in Bombay that for
some reason makes you go back in years.
love this thread... love d mumbaikar in u
all 2/21/2006 8:43 AM
it feels so good reading all this... but the
nostalgia in your words make me take a
breath n try to think about the romance that
this city brings to the life of so many...
i always decide to write in something, but
words fail me,
as my heart goes heavy, so does my pen...
Eternal the ink spreads, conjuring up a picture of the
map of the city in its absolute
shapelessness...
thanks a million guys, for writing from your

heart
2/21/2006 9:28 AM
Hital u r welcome
not thanks a Million guys

but thanks a Salili n guys (girls also)
Pravin Da
not only writing from heart but by ASH also
2/21/2006 7:35 PM
From Random memories
Near Wadala station (while coming from my
school as we used to walk to school from
house , no school bus- 20 mins walk)on the
way, there used to be a ‘bholanath’ bulls
astrology, ya .A man with big bull and a’bugu
bugu ‘dhol (he used to come once a week),
there used to be big crowd standing in circle
and that person used to shout at bull ‘ein
Pravin Da
logon main kaon sab sey paise wala hai ya
hoga ‘ or ‘kaon huashiyar hai’ ‘kaoun dana
shur hai ‘ , ‘kis ki shadi honewali hai’ etc and
that that bull use to walk on circle and stand
near a person , then some questions and
answer by bull by shaking head , and he used
to ask for money from that person , ‘yeh paise
khushi sey diya kya naraji sey’ naturally that
person used to say khushi sey , than he used
to keep that money.
Such events I have never seen now a
days.Has anybody observed??recently.
2/21/2006 8:47 PM
oops, i messed up my sentence... forgot to
put the comma after 'million'...
Eternal thanks a million, guys, for writing from your

heart
help me out 2/22/2006 12:39 AM
Damn! I just can't remember that gum I used
to chew as a kid. The "phoren" purple one
with the "tattoo" on the wrapper. Used to be
Vineet my staple diet in school. How can I forget?
Can anyone please tell me the name.
2/22/2006 12:41 AM
GOT IT! Fusen Gum !!!
Vineet
2/22/2006 1:26 AM
Fusen Gum was Purple ? ... I always got the
white one. The Tatoo was purple iirc. My
staple diet as a kid was pepsi cola... the one
in plastic tubes. 25p for water one and 50p for
the one which had milk in it. Also the kulfi
sold by the kulfi waala bhaiyya. In a basket
Advait with that distinctive red cloth tied around it.
He used salt+ice to keep the temperatures
down so sometimes the kulfi tasted a bit
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Ek Anek cartoon clip 2/22/2006 6:44 AM
There'd be a nice childrens' cartoon on DD when I
was a kid, a little boy and his elder sister telling him
Bombay a story about Unity......
(6844 members)
It had jingles like - "Ek chidiya, anek chidiyaan, ek
Bhavik gilhari, anek gilhariyaan.."
and a story about how birds fly together when
trapped in a net and escape a bird-catcher; and
then the net gets bitten off by their friends the
mice........
This clip was doing email rounds a few months ago,
does anyone have it now???
2/22/2006 7:03 AM
Ek anek...unity in diversityThe Clip
Now that you look at it, it seems cheesy, but back

in the days, i have lost count as to how many times
i would see this. Would prolly see it every day i
Priyavrat guess.
Cheers
from my holidays in mumbai... 2/22/2006 8:46 AM
Random bits from my Mumbai memories...
Going out for lunch with the family at Cream
Centre, Chowpatty.
Doing random shopping at Century Bazaar
,Prabhadevi
Going to Fort ,to visit Strand Bookstore and buy
story books… I don’t care much for the Crosswords
or Landmarks.
Miss the old fashioned Amar Chitra Katha’s…
Natasha Grampa buying me Poppins…
Buying Ecko felt pens for coloring …
JAM magazine
Mom used to read a magazine called Eve’s weekly, I
used to browse through it but don’t know how much
I understood as a 7 year old!!!!
2/22/2006 9:17 AM
Priyavrat nice gr8, good link
Pravin Da
random -mm 2/22/2006 9:54 AM
we stayed in Parel area for about 7 yrs 1962 to 69 ,
just near V Shantaram's Raaj kamal studio , behind
Gandhi hospital and near animal hospital , that area
bus stop was called 'bail ghoda'
i was small then , i used to wonder when people bye
ticket from conductor saying 'ek bail ghoda' and
conductor used to give ticket and same stop we
used to call ek gandhi hospital ,i never new why
that stop was called bail ghoda until one day i saw
the entrance of animal hospital near road with a bull
and horse statue on top of pillar gate.
Pravin Da that area was so polluted then , surrounded my

mills , and noise ,'taka taka taka' throughout , our
ceiling fan was thinly coated with cotton !! yaa
cotton , every week end we have to clean that , we
could have made bed out of that cotton !! , (my
father has severe asthama because of that , so we
shifted to wadala in late 1969)
we used to know the timings from sirons from mill ,
and that chimney's black smoke we used to watch
its trail from wind direction which used to spread
with diff designs on sky. on chimney i used to get
confused with sparrow which is aslo called chimney
in marathi , i used to wonder when friends used to
say look at black smoke from chimney!!
2/22/2006 10:02 AM
Lets gift Salil his present by making this thread go
1000 posts
Coddie
2/22/2006 10:14 AM
Anyone remembers the early comics like Chacha
Caudhary & Pinky...
My god! What English they used!
'Ok, I go'
'When Sabu gets angry volcano erupts'
I recall when I was in 3rd/4th grade we used to

Coddie make our gangs and hang out in the primary halls
like bosses of the whole school... I think it was like
the year 2000 then, people were all into the gang
feuds started by Josh movie.
I remember on some of the streets, there were

these silly graffitis with the gang names on them. It
seemed damn funny...
2/22/2006 10:33 AM
Does anyone remember the sunglasses being
'fashion' and nearly every college going dude would
be wearing them.
Coddie
@Natasha 2/22/2006 10:36 AM
I remember the Amar Chitra Katha stuff and have a
huge stack of historic comics... They always seem
fun.
Though they fucked Mahabharata bitterly (even

more fucked than its original form)
Coddie You remember poppins? I recall we used to have a

'giraa wo gayaa' competition for which.
Damn fun...
2/22/2006 10:37 AM
1000!
Coddie



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1001!!!!!!!! 2/22/2006 5:01 PM
yaa,kudos!!
Bombay is baat main ek kissa yaad aaya bachpaan kaa
(6844 members)
whehever we used to see red van, car , or postal

van (There used to be a red postal van(bajaj
Pravin Da tempo) )we used to say 'shambar ek' means '101'
and immediately slap the friend near to u on
head.This was the game , like 'statue' game,
now its '1001'!! wow

2/23/2006 2:13 AM
Yeah Pravin Da , i remember that game too. It
seems to have originated in the Sion Matunga area
coz i got it from my cousins who lived there and no
one else arnd bombay seems to know this game.
Advait BTW did anyone else make those walky talky's like
the ones in Star Trek using empty match boxes and
a rubber band?
2/23/2006 3:36 AM
Walky talkies?
Of course.
Cody, ACK wasn't all that bad. Speaking of which, I

should find out if Strand has any Neil Gaiman
Just Read books. Their SF and Fantasy section is sadly lacking
:(.
2/23/2006 4:19 AM
walky talkies and then pagers and mobiles..
i miss those days when festivals were celebrated
with lotssa fan and fare..
holi, diwali, navratri, christmas...
and i miss ram leela too.. dunno whether the next
vivek generation will even hear about these festivals...
Amar Chitra Katha 2/23/2006 3:48 PM
Those books were great, they had a lot of history
and mythology... i bet a lot of the people posting
here grew up reading them.
It taught you real good stuff without being preachy,
Bhavik i'm not sure if its still popular these days, they're
kinda uncool for today.
HE-MAN toys 2/23/2006 4:05 PM
The cartoon series He-Man was very popular in the
late 80s , there were Leo toys based on HeMan
characters... those toys would sell at 60 rupees
apiece, which in the late 1980s was still somewhat
of a steep price for toys.
I remember rich brats in school flashing about how
many He-Man toys they had collected.
Bhavik There was HeMan, Skeletor, Man-at-Arms and some
other characters that sold as toys. And if you
twisted them at the waist, by some elastic they'd
twist back... which was how they faught.
Vibgyor Ice Cream 2/23/2006 4:44 PM
Vibgyor was near Cream Centre / Purandare
Hospital at Chowpatty - closer to the Parsi building.
It was a slab served on a plate. It was a mosaic of
little rectangles in many flavours, i.e. more than 7
colours of the rainbow, and it was fun trying to
Ash distinguish the different flavours. I think they all
tasted the same.
Amar Chitra Katha and Phantom comics
2/23/2006 4:55 PM
I hadn't noted ACK before I left in 1973 but did in
1978 during a visit. I bought the full set bound in
about 24 volumes and still have it. It is often
borrowed by expats to show their children.
When I was at high school, the local version of

Phantom by Indrajal Comics ran for years. The
artist was Kavadi. The Phantom story has changed
Ash since the 1930s - he was originally a British
aristocrat and the story was set around Bengal
(Bangala coast). In recent years, the story changed
to make his ancestor a Yank and the setting moved
to West Africa...
2/23/2006 6:56 PM
This Phantom and Mandrek , Hagar , Henry ,comic
series ,stories used to come daily , some on week
ends ,in Times of India on last page 3 or 4 blocks on
one row. In the morning before our elders read we
used to grab the paper and read fast to see what
happened , it was like TV serial to us,waiting for
next day and share , discuss with friends in class
Pravin Da
(aaj aisa hua re , kya re, aab dekh wo kya kaarne
wala hai etc).Then one of my friends used to cut
that row and stick in a book serially , he had a good
collection , when ever we miss any of this we used
to get from his book.
2/23/2006 7:05 PM
chandamama
and
champak :)
Swati



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2/23/2006 7:50 PM
I hated those HE-MAN Toys
I remember how much we played with the GI Joe
Bombay figures.
(6844 members)
There were this ranged weapons which fired little
sticks which came with some joes. We played a
game called blast. Here both the players would put
their GI-joes within around 2 feet of their opponents
Coddie Joes and the one who blasts the opponent's joes to
zero wins and gets one of his Joes.
A turn can be used to move the Joes like in Chess.

2/24/2006 12:22 AM
Anyone remembers Mowgli?
and during summer vaccations we used to get Fun-
time at 12 in the noon.
Heramb
2/24/2006 12:31 AM
Mowgli - "jungle jungle baat chali hai pataa chala
hai. chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai phool khila hai"
- total arbit but great stuff!!
Also, the summer afternoon shows - Giant Robot,

Kunal StoneBoy etc.
Man, those were days..

2/24/2006 8:40 AM
any oen for indrajal comics
check this out
http://thecomicproject.blogspot.com/
Nirav
2/24/2006 2:27 PM
yup jungle book was popular, and somehow for
once I think it sounded good in Hindi.
I remember there was some double entendre about
"chaddi pehenke phool khila hai" - cant exactly
remember what..
And I remember when Cable TV had just started in
and became a sudden rage.
Bhavik There was a channel when I was in standards 7-9 ,
I think it was called Jain TV that beamed adult
movies. We'd sneak up to watch those at a friend's
house until we were caught and his parents called
everybody else's parents and I got a lecture at
home about it being "bad stuff" et al......
2/24/2006 4:10 PM
Yup. Remember that. And MTV Grind Also, the
Sun TV songs that started at 12:30 AM, was the
reason for many a late nights for me, until Madame
Raj
Sushma Swaraj played spoilsport.
2/25/2006 8:11 AM
I remember these books:
Tinkle
Champak
Chandamama
Target
Chacha Chaudhary
Billoo
Pinky
Channi Chachi
Raman
Lamboo Motu
Tauji
Chacha Bhatija
Thak thak
Agniputra Abhay
I remember these tv shows:

He Man
Spiderman
Giant Robot
Baingan Raja
Tele games
Kevin Shazam
Gayab Aaya
Superman
Superboy
G I Joe
Force Five
Voltron
Indradhanush
Hum log
Chitrageet
Ramayan
Mahabharat
Gotya
Fatichar
Nukkad
Rajni
Wagle ki duniya
Hello inspector
Zee horror show
zabaan sambhalke
Malgudi days
2/25/2006 8:19 AM
vikram-betal : used to be really scared of betal;i
was about 5-6 yrs that time
singhasan battisi: had really cool stories
Bhavik
2/25/2006 8:32 AM
ok now
i miss the bhaandi wali..the twang twang of those

guys who redo the cotton mattresses and
cushions...the kulfi with falooda that used to taste
like heaven...the sev jalebi ghaantia wala who
Swati cycled by in the morning...the haaapoooooooooos
wala...the tarboooooooooooooooj wala..dammit..i
miss it all
2/25/2006 8:34 AM
hey swati,
those guys still roam around my place with the
exception of the sev jalebi waala
Kevin



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Bhandiwaleee ...bhandeee!! 2/25/2006 9:13
AM
Ya that Bhandi waaali still comes she used to
Bombay come when my mom was there ,for last 15yrs
(6844 members)
she comes regularly once a month on sunday
,last sunday she came to our place , her
dialogue remains same , 'kapde nikalooo' -
naya bartan laya hai (mai mann main bola taa
houn -kapda nikala tou baretan rahe gaa
naa!!) tub laya hai , balti laya hai , daabba hai
Pravin Da ,etc , and onec u start giving cloth she calls
my wife aur kapda dalo ye dabba itne kapde
main nahi aaata , 'saree nikalo' , ek dou sari
dalna pade gaa..
and that istri wala , bell marta hai , when u

open the door - smililar dialogue
'kapde nikalo' upar jaake aataa houn !!
TV shows 2/25/2006 8:28 PM
I remember these TV Shows from ZEE TV's
early years....
Banegi Apni Baat
Campus
Tara
Natasha
Filmi Chakkar
The Zee Horror Show
Antakshari.. it's off the airwaves now i've
heard...
There was also this Hindi kids show ... Junglee
Toofan Tyre Puncture.. i was too old to watch
that stuff but it was good timepass....
Saanp Seedi with Mohan Kapur...
2/25/2006 8:55 PM
See, the reason I am so great abd you all are
not is because I grew up watching Japanese
anime...
Coddie Kyo-oro-Shitiyoro
2/25/2006 8:59 PM
@Coddie,
eeee, so desu ka
Kevin
2/27/2006 8:09 PM
at 1024 posts, this thread is now one delete
MegaPost long. thanks to everyone for a year
of reading and contributing.
Salil
2/27/2006 9:17 PM
I remember when 1024 was just 1000+24 no
mega no giga
Advait
2/28/2006 2:41 AM
Good one Advait...
vivek
2/28/2006 2:43 AM
And guess salil u posted the first message
almost a couple of years back..
This is Mumbai... A city that never stops...
vivek
2/28/2006 3:58 AM
i'd visited bombay a few times before, but i've
been living here for the last six months now,
and loving it!. i remember seeing double
decker buses the last time i was here, about
seven years ago. i was so thrilled, coz in
bangalore (where i come from) they had been
Namitha withdrawn a long time back. but now i don't
see double deckers here either. are they still
around?
2/28/2006 5:57 AM
@Namitha,
OFCOURSE they are around. And lots of them.
Where do u live babe? In Mahape?
Kevin



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2/28/2006 9:43 AM
Kevin,
The roadmasters are being phased out. They are
Bombay rare on the streets today (but they still run).
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Just Read
2/28/2006 11:10 AM
@Namitha
Have they removed the double deckers which used

to run from MG Road to Jaya Nagar and from Indra
Nagar to Shivaji Nagar (I think #139)
Prasanna
@prasanna 3/1/2006 12:47 AM

nope, no double deckers on that route now. there
used to be one to domlur, about 2-3 years back, but
i haven't seen any around of late. and kevin, i really
haven't seen any . i live in dadar and commute
Namitha mostly along the western line. glad to know they're
still around, though. will keep an eye out.
3/1/2006 2:42 AM
I used to take the 4 Ltd. from VT to Bandra a
lot...and would love to peer into people's houses
along Mohammed Ali Road from the top deck.
Once we were stuck in a traffic jam and some guys

Vikram from the neighbouring building starting chatting up
some girls in the bus I was in. Was quite fun!
3/1/2006 6:16 AM
@namitha..
double deckers are still operatinal here.. u can find

them in the areas around VT and churchgate...
vivek
@namitha 3/1/2006 2:06 PM
In Andheri (W) and (E) you'll see double decker
buses plying from the station to the interior like
Veera Desai Rd, Lokhandwala etc.
Bhavik
3/1/2006 11:54 PM
Who remembers Johnny Soko and His Flying Robot ,
or more commonly, Giant Robot
Priyavrat
3/2/2006 12:52 AM
The third post on the second page of this thread.
Also in several other places on this thread.
Vikram
3/2/2006 1:00 AM
Anyone notice how politically correct our Balbharti
English textbooks in Standard 1 and 2 were?
The friends were called Nitin (Hindu), Hassan

Vikram (Muslim), Jal (Parsi) and Dick (Christian).
3/2/2006 1:29 AM
The politicians had not thought about tampering
with school text books at that time i guess !!!
Advait



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3/2/2006 2:35 AM
I recall having a poem in 8th...
Bombay It said Jo Ishwar ko naa maane wo daanav

(6844 members)
samaan hai:
Presently we also have in 10th certian unseen

poems which declare Those who do not
Coddie worship god are bound for hell and will rot
there till eternity.
I have a chapter in Hindi titled lautna aur

lautaana... It has seen to be believed, it
insults all americans and indirectly states
comparing men and women is wrong and
dowry is a good thing...
Buy the Hindi text for SSC (Maharashtra

board) and go through the lesson, you'll what
I mean...
Nitin - Balbharti 3/2/2006 7:37 AM
I remember the 1st lesson in the 1st std.
Balbharti textbook was Nitin, followed by
Leena (I think his sister)
Nitin
This is Nitin.
He is six.
He lives in Nasik.
Bhavik This is his garden.
I don't know how this is still on my memory -

but am pretty sure this is how the 1st chapter
went.
Namitha 3/2/2006 8:01 AM
Staying in Dadar and not seen double decker
is impossible!!
bus no 65, 66 , 165,171 are still double
decker, looks like u walk with head down.
Or may be walking below the Tilak bridge
Pravin Da
and looking at the bridge ,could see only
upper portion of bus and assume it as single
decker.
3/2/2006 8:10 AM
i regularly see double deckers at kurla station.
No
332 Kurla to Andheri
311 Kurla to Santacruz
Kevin 313 Kurla to Santacruz
310 Kurla to Bandra
Entertainment 3/6/2006 2:39 AM
In the 1960s, there was no TV in Bombay, so
movies and plays were the main outlets for
entertainment. If you were desperate, there
was this auditorium (name Tarabai Hall?) near
the Princess St flyover on the Marine Drive
end where you paid to watch documentaries.
Documentaries were shown in the movies
before the main feature started and included
the news.
My dad used to tell me about this old Parsi

Ash chap who would come every day to the old
Excelsior cinema (even I remember it
vaguely) and bought a 75 paise Matinee
ticket, the cheapest. He would sit in the front
row and go to sleep for 2-3 hours as he
reckoned this was a good price for
airconditioned comfort. In that theatre there
were columns within the seats, so you were
unlucky if you got a seat behind one of them.
Apsara was probably the first theatre to have

the "airline" seats (not that we knew what an
airline seat looked like). You could slide the
seat cushion forward and lean back a little.
The best plays were the Parsi ones and they

always featured Adi Marzban. The Gujarati
ones were rarer and always very
melodramatic. Some featured a family friend
of ours - Deepak Gheevala. A regular
magician was K Lal and His Maya Jaal. Once I
found out that his name was Kantilal, the
magic disappeared :)
Woh beete din yaad hain..... 3/6/2006 5:09
AM
I remember juhu circle at JVPD scheme which
has been broken now due to traffic
congestion. But u can still see it in lot of
movies.
I remember a day when suddenly all Ganesh
Kavita idols started drinkin milk in Mumbai. Thr were
lot of theories abt it.
3/6/2006 6:47 AM
you're right as usual, ash.. that was tarabai delete
hall. i don't know why you doubted it, you
mentioned it in an earlier post too as the
stomping ground of adi marzban. i used to go
there quite often till a few years ago, as
someone i used to work with a lot has his
office in the same building.
documentaries before movies? i remember

something calle d"indian news review" which
played before movies. i also remember how
the same documentaries would play in all the
theatres at the same time, so if there was a
month when you watched more movies than
your usual quota, you'd be subjected to the
same documentaries which were hardly
entertaining. in my case, i went through
maybe a dozen screenings of "Pangu Giri
Salil Langhe" in 1990-91. i swear that really was
the name of the documentary, it was about
prosthetic limbs.
Apsara theatre always boggled the mind. huge

phallic structure on the outside. with a verrry
well endowed female bust on the facade.
inside, the theatre had one of those big
spiralling walkways. Minerva had a waterfall
alongside the stairway. it was lined with
mother of pearl and these grew disgustingly
paan stained over the years. newspaper ads
always added the suffix "pride of
maharashtra" to the name minerva. just like
they always added "theatre magnificient" to
Novelty's name.
kavita, how ironic that a song that brings

about nostalgia for me is called "woh beete
din yaad hai". not like i think it's a great song
but just that this song was one of the songs
my friend played over and over whenever
we'd go to his house to do our assignments in
college. it was on a mix tape, so for about 3
years we did not know who sang that song
and in what movie. it's from a ramsay flick
called purana mandir and was sung by jeet
singh. father of tanya singh who covered the
song a few years ago. one of the ramsay
brothers had his kid studying in my school,
and we'd walk home from the bus stop
together sometimes. when we got to his
place, i'd usually hang around outside and
gawk at posters of upcoming horror flicks.
To salil 3/6/2006 7:01 AM
Thnks salil for the info on that song. I m not
especially fond of that song but the 1st line
juz came to my mind while writtin that scrap.
I remember those posters of horroe flicks too
and i remember generally finding them on
Kavita walls and doors of small shops.
Thr r lot of things abt mumbai that i miss.
3/6/2006 10:11 AM
Salil
"i went through maybe a dozen screenings of
"Pangu Giri Langhe" in 1990-91. i swear that
really was the name of the documentary, it
was about prosthetic limbs."
Its a sanskrit word -its Pangu langhe Giri- a

cripled person can climb the mountain!
The Indian news review used to be in black

and white and for many years the Voice used
to be of same person.Typical ,
Pravin Da the marathi one used to begin with some
jargons like
'ani hya desha cha ... durdaiwane..
bhayankar pristhiti nirman jhali ahey ...
shetat paani nahi....gavatlya manasala anna
milat nahi.. berojagari vadhli ahey ..janavare
...etc etc
used to show some dry farm faminne , mal
nutrition animals , people , bidi smoker ,
tambaku -chewing toungue cancer
wrinkle face of old man were common
3/6/2006 3:18 PM
I was looking for images of the little baby
from the Murphy TV (or was it radio) paper
ads. No luck. Anyone know where I can find
Raj it?



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3/6/2006 9:48 PM
I remember a documentary where they showed the
highlights of India v/s England cricket match from
Bombay the 82 series i think.
(6844 members)
Somehow movie watching with Dolby and all that is
Advait more comfortable but less Charming !!!
3/7/2006 12:07 AM
the murphy baby was really a classic icon. i read delete
some years ago that the guy was working in a bank
in calcutta now.
pravin da, that really was the name of the

documentary. you are saying the same phrase in a
different way, crudely translated, i am saying
"langda pahaad chadhhe" and you are saying
"langda chadhhe pahaad". same difference.
yes the voices in those documentaries were almost

always either zul siwani or partap sharma. zul
Salil siwani is long departed, but partap sharma is very
much around, in fact he still conducts courses for
aspiring voice over artistes at indo studio near
mahalaxmi temple. for all those who remembered
"tinkle" and "target" magazine earlier, partap
sharma is also the owner of "Dog Detective Ranjha"
and wrote the stories that appeared in both these
magazines. for all you others of todays generation,
he is actress Tara Sharma's father.
3/7/2006 5:10 AM
Don't think so Salil, Tarabai Hall wasn't really used
for major plays as it was too small. I have forgotten
the name of the hall closer Nariman Point where
the Marzban plays were held.
My dad's friend Mr CL Gheevala was the supremo of

the Indian Merchants Chamber, the curved building
opposite Churchgate near Resham Bhavan/Tea
Ash Centre. He was a trustee of this auditorium and we
would get free tickets if his own family wasn't using
their allocation.
I can't recognise it in the list at
http://glamsham.com/dramas/auditorium.asp so it
might have been demolished or renamed. It wasn't
particularly old then. Not here either:
http://www.mumbainet.com/etainmnt/theatres.htm
We actually used to go to the Tea Centre to drink

tea - radical thought! They also served great dahi
wadas. Nearby was this Gujarati restaurant -
Purohits. They had this grand Kathiawadi guard
with a shotgun, bandolier of shells and an
impressive moustache and turban. I was a veg in
those days and really enjoyed their mixed veg curry
and rice. Later when at Sydenham College, it was
very uncool to be seen in Purohits. It wasn't there
in 2004 when I visited after a 20-yr absence.
I think Coffee Centre was at Fort. Didn't go there

much.
I think I may have found it - Bhulabhai Desai

Auditorium - rings a bell. Was it near Nariman
Point? What street was it in?
3/7/2006 7:06 PM
Salil
I remember I have also seen that documentary
many times.
Pravin Da Ya thanx for that names Zul Siwani and Pratap
Sharma - I have alomost forgoten their names.
3/7/2006 9:20 PM
http://www.filmsdivision.org/ has all those
documentaries for your viewing pleasure...
Milind
3/8/2006 11:19 AM
All crones here...
...
...
Coddie ...
Just read some old newspapers or magazines...

Holi 3/14/2006 10:15 PM
I remeber those days when we were in wadala , we
used to have holi bonfire in our colony , 2-3 days
before digging work used to start and used to make
round area with a small pit (hole) at the center nice
elivated border with mud in our ground and then
used to water it to make hard , we used to go and
bring wood, lakdi's, some we used to buy some we
Pravin Da used to cut dry branches from trees. There used to
be pooja in night , before bonfire and all people
used to gather , once the fire is on people used to
throw cocunut in it and all friends used to keep one
long stick to remove roasted cocunut and we all
used to follow then to eat that inside of roasted
cocunut.then all that colours gulal used to apply in
same night.
next morning there were people collecting ash , as
it was in demand ,as there was no vim or shineit
that time for washing utensils.
now also we have bonfire here at present place but
people are too busy dont come down, but those
were the days.
3/15/2006 5:28 PM
I remember the watchman in my building would
diligently collect branches trimmed from the trees
in the compound all year round, as well as dry
coconut leaves that fell off from the couple of
coconut trees at the back - and save them all for
the society Holi - At night I would be in the team
who would light the Holi (since I was a Boy Scout,
it was assumed I knew how to light fires )
Milind
I've been away from home 5 years now and I really
miss Holi - and it makes me even less happier to
learn that my society discontinued the celebrations
as there are far too many cars in the compound
these days for a safe bonfire
3/16/2006 1:50 AM
Milind, burn the cars :P. Holi hai!
Just Read
3/16/2006 8:31 AM
I couldn't play Holi because:
1.) Next day marathi exams
2.) Red Dye in my hair would get fucked
Coddie



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I remember ... some more .. 3/18/2006 9:25
AM
As kids, eating Amulspray straight from the
Bombay tin.
(6844 members)
Raj
Appu from Asiad 82.
Fantazing about Diana Walker & Narda. And
wishing for a job like that of Hojo. Anyone
know which Hojo I am talking about?
Mom making sure I have my calcium sandoz
pills daily, which I would have, coz of the cute
Appu like bottle it was in.
Hated the Complan, though.
Cricket with Vijay Merchant, every Sunday
Afternoon.
Binaca (later cibaca) GeetMaala with Amin
Sayaani.
Reading all those "competition success"
magazines.
@Raj 3/18/2006 2:04 PM
So did you want to be a cook, or a linguist, or
a 10th degree Karate black belt, or the secret
head of Inter Intel ?
Milind
Or just a fat man ?
3/19/2006 4:24 PM
chunnu padhta diamond comix, munni padhti
diamond comix, mazedaar hai diamond
comix! horrible show. but listened
nevertheless. c'mon guys wot ELSE was but is
no more a part of bombay?
Megha Took me back to my childhood
Just wondering, does anyone listen to Vividh

Bharti anymore ???
3/19/2006 4:30 PM
Remember Phool Khile hai gulshan gulshan
with Tabassum - India's talk show with
Megha bollywood celebrities.
3/19/2006 7:50 PM
i remember
two serials
1.dekh bhai dekh
2.zabaan sambhal ke
Siddharth they were the great serials
Potter i never missed those one!!
remember?
I remember.... 3/20/2006 4:12 AM
A string of pharmaceutical companes that
lined either side of LBS Marg in Mulund
(W)...They have now been unceremoniously
replaced by pidgeon holes pretending to be
homes and flashy curtain walls housing the
brands of the world.-the Nirmal Lifestyles
proudly endorsed by Dravid himself.
Kingkini Capitalism has had a face lift and
globalization has changed name from
"industrialization" to "mallification". One of
these factories was Hoechst, later known as
Hoechest Marion Roussel which finally shifted
hands to Nicholas Piramal before being finally
torn down. Rolling lawns and shining pipes
conatining all kinds of chemicals and steam
piping off at a few ends..it was a sight of
sophistication associated those days to the
West. Gone are those sparkling whitewashed
buildings, save for Johnson and Johnson
which strives and struggles to remain an
entity in the city which it helped shape at one
point of time.
I also remember... 3/20/2006 4:20 AM
The tiny cafeteria behind Jehangir Art Gallery
that served awesome chicken frankies...
Kingkini
3/20/2006 4:48 AM
T Shirts with "HAPPY" written on them
Advait
3/20/2006 5:26 AM
the wwe stickers?
some coud be transplanted on tees, others

collected....
Coddie There was also this card game where you

would compare the stats and win cards till
your opponent has none
3/20/2006 6:01 AM
Nice one, advait! delete
good you brought it up, i had thought of it so

many times myself, but kept wondering what
else to club it with.. there were just a few, so
i'll just rattle off those..
"twinkle chan" water bottles with hello kitty

type japanese graphics in pastel shades. you
twisted the round head and a straw would
slide out from inside.
adidas drawstring sling bags. nothing special,

but the fact that they were all fakes with
"made as japan" written below. ditto for
Salil puma. on the same note, fake NIKE tshirts
when everyone pronounced it as NAIK.
another popular bag was one usually in brown
with a squarish 'PPPPPP' kind of design.
nobody knew then, that it was ripped off from
pierre cardin's signature pattern.
who had those fancy compass boxes with a

dozen buttons on them? i was already out of
school when they came out, but i remember
they were too gizmofied for the younger kids
to resist..



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3/20/2006 6:06 AM
@kingkini... delete
Bombay the tiny cafetaria behind jehangir? that can't
(6844 members)
be Samovar because it never served chicken
frankies.. and it's still there.
the otherjoint around there that always did

Salil and still serves frankies is "Chickita" and
(ahem).. do tell us more about your
memories of that place?
3/20/2006 7:45 AM
Gaming machines at some udipi restaurants
where u have to put a coin n paly games while
waitin for ur order.
Hot dogs at Sarkari bhandar, vile parle....they
were very tasty.
Kavita
@Salil 3/20/2006 8:18 AM
The compasses with the hoards of buttons?
I remember them being the newest and
coolest thing when I was in 1st and 2nd...
I recall it was shaped like a paino and upon

pressing certian keys would open
compartments to erasers, pens or pencils.
Earlier, it was only me and two other kids who

had got their parents to get for them from
Bombay (whinning and crying)
Coddie Everyone picked up as soon as they were

available in Mulund... it became a status
symbol among us, some of us would have
wwe/cricket stickers on them...
I recall whenever a new period started, we

used to make huge tapping voices from the
gizmos in order to get our stuff (we
deliberately put them back in so we could take
em out with the keys).
It became a nuisance and was therefore
banned from school... I believe other schools
followed quickly
3/20/2006 8:31 AM
@kingkini
ya all those on lbs marg right from Ghat kopar
ro Mulund , all pharma companies closed
down accept J&J.
hoechest , merind , may & baker , ciba,john
wieth, Geofrey Manners (anacin), Welcome .
i have worked in our 2 of (Multinational
pharma co)units in mulund , now closed and
property is sold , i feel sorry when i pass
through that area , i see 'all patra' on border
and some demolition and contruction work
Pravin Da
going on'.
after closure of factory i was moved to HO ,

most of my collegues got VRS, now we have
one chemical unit at Thane.
i had an opportunity to see/ visit all those
formulation units on lbs which were of world
class standard including our units.which i m
missing now
@Salil.... 3/20/2006 8:36 AM
I did mean Samovar and they did serve
frankies when I went there about 8 years
ago....and the last I heard was that it was
closed down...well if its still there I guess I
Kingkini heard wrong or they had closed to redo it..my
mistake.
3/20/2006 8:37 AM
@kavita
that gaming machine i have never seen in any
udipi hotels but in irani hotels yes they were
there , one at king circle
Pravin Da
i have seen , also there were music , u have
to put coin and select u r song in irani hotel
Caramel Custard 3/20/2006 8:46 AM
Parsi Dairy Farm makes the most amazing
caramel custard.... or at least used to until a
few years ago.
Bhavik
3/20/2006 9:23 PM
PPPPP in the bags was Pierre Cardin ... wow
!!! we had a blue one IIRC.
Talking about fashion accessories .. what abt
the ROOS shoes .. was a rage with the gujju
crowd in my college. They also had a typical
Advait label for their Jeans ..can't remember what it
was called....Dacron or something like that !!!
3/20/2006 9:28 PM
dacron came later.. those were popular delete
around the time 'road star' shoes became all
the rage. road stars were ankle length but you
could unzip and remove the cuffs..
n was "roos na soos, hara ni jeans ane smays

no tsirt"
Salil
smays=smash tshirts, with the running bull
logo
3/20/2006 11:13 PM
yeah iremeber roos shoes
but that was when i was areal small kid in
class 2 or so
I remeber small pocket book size he man

Nirav comics which my class teacher confiscated for
me reading them in class



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@pravin da 3/21/2006 6:30 AM
Those gamin machines were in udipi
restaurants too. There was 1 in juhu near
Bombay HAre rama Mandir and 1 in santacruz west,
(6844 members)
juz outside the station. The juhu restaurant is
closed now. I dont know abt the s'cruz 1. I
dont know abt them being in irani restaurant.
Kavita They were not the song playin machines. It
was a game.
3/21/2006 10:09 PM
Coming back from Goa last night by7 train, I
realized what I missed seeing from when I
was growing up..
Those Duckback pillows that you had to blow

up to use..we called them Air Pillows I think...
Vikram And at Sawantwadi, this guy got on the train

and was selling Fryums!! It's been years since
I've even heard of Fryums..and now I can
hum the jingle to it! (Fryums, the
tiyums..Fryums, the tiyums)
Anyone remember which camera company got

all of us to say Khatak instead of Cheese while
posing for a picture for years?
3/21/2006 11:26 PM
Hotshot ? Was that a company or a product
line ?
Advait
3/22/2006 12:25 AM
Vikram, I _have_ one of those pillows. That
isn't really a Mumbai memory though.
Just Read
Wafers 3/22/2006 1:34 AM
Only in India are crisps called wafers (or
were). In the 1960s, there were just two
major brands. A1 Wafers were in striped
red+white paper bags and OK Wafers were in
something else.

However, my favourites were sold by some
little shop that made them on the spot. This
was very close to Colaba post office and it was
a delight to eat them fresh out of the fryer
while they were still had hot air trapped
Ash inside. Anyone remember this company?

Of course there were lots of unlabelled
brands, such as the ones sold by Panshikar's
in Thakurdwar. Dipped in shrikhand, they
were also quite pleasant, not to mention an
unusual combination. :)
3/22/2006 3:07 AM
Oh yeah....Hotshots...Gosh,had completely
forgotten about those. I was sooo excited
when I was gifted one..I had been working on
Kingkini my parents to buy me one for soo long
3/22/2006 3:18 AM
I'm a Hotshot lady, I'm a Hotshot guy..
something something something
Vikram Khatak!
3/22/2006 3:19 AM
i'm a hotshot lady, i'm a hotshot guy delete
the (something) little camera that money can
buy...
ash, do you mean camy wafers?

Salil
Happy T-Shirts 3/22/2006 3:23 AM
Hi guys...
There were t-shirts with the words

"Happy" written on it...
Do we still get them ;) ?

Ravi
Regards,
Ravi
3/22/2006 3:39 AM
vik, we posted that simultaneously! delete
which reminds me... it's:
Fryums! Ta-dum!
Fryums! Ta-dum!!
Just fry them

just try them
Salil just pass around the bowl
let the fun times roll..
they had 3 flavours didn't they? Masala

Wheels, Onion Checks and a third one i can't
remember..



arbitrary n random

3/22/2006 3:54 AM
Talking of Wafers .. i rememer ones that came
in pink colour and packets .. dunno what they
Bombay were called. Are those the ones u talkin abt
(6844 members)
Salil ?
Advait
3/22/2006 4:11 AM
Isn't Camy wafers still around???
Are you talking about Pickwicks Advait?

Kingkini
3/22/2006 4:17 AM
No Pickwicks came later. These were just
Pink. Pickwick had many flavours and they
came in different colours.
Advait
3/22/2006 4:21 AM
advait's talking about the Strawberry Cream delete
Waffles from Interfood. They had an
illustration of a mexican in a big sombrero.
right?
Salil
3/22/2006 5:01 AM
Dunno abt this mexico stuff .. i just remember
that they were pink colour wafers in a pink
plastic packing. Each packing had 2 wafers in
it with strawberry cream. They were the size
of two pickwicks put together side by side.
Some foodie stuff to remember from my
kiddie days... NP chewing gum for 25p. Then
Advait there were those muticoloured gum balls in
packs of four. 25p and 50p pepsi colas...i
think u still get those.
What is a sombrero btw ?

fatafat 3/22/2006 5:55 AM
i dunno how many of u had dis fantastic tasty
golis...called Fatafat....its stil available...i ve
been consuming it for last 15 yrs...he heh
heee
Sam again an ad of CEMA tubelights by our then

bollywood-rani Sridevi....'cema bulb...cema
tube...cema cema'
3/22/2006 9:01 AM
I'm a Hotshots lady
I'm a Hotshots guy
Got the Smallest little camera
That money can buy
Milind
I think that was it, repeated twice

awwwwesome!!! 3/22/2006 4:36 PM
i totally luvvv this thread.....its so much
fun..goin down memory lane....
keep goin, guys!
i used to keep playin these ad-ad games with
Archana my sis..so its all comin bak to me now..
how i miss bombay!! all u guys who r still in
bombay, im sooo jealous!!!!
Ads 3/22/2006 5:06 PM
The CINKARA ad was kinda memorable. "Yeh
bechara kaam ke bojh ka maara, inhe chahiye
cinkara"
Bhavik And I remember the "Raju tumhare daant to

motiyon jaise chamak rahe hain" - Dabur Lal
dant manjan.
And in my primary school years Doordarshan

would constantly bombard us with Family
Planning Ads - Mala D , small family etc.
I remember .... 3/22/2006 5:25 PM
Nani Palkhiwala's budget speeches, at
Brabourne Stadium.
Raj



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3/22/2006 7:04 PM
Plastic era-
i remember there was plastic material started
Bombay replacing metals , around late 70 , the quality
(6844 members)
was very good made of virgin raw materials
but it was costly initialy , there were few petro
chemical companies who were making
rawmaterial for plastics, majority was
imported , IPCL and few were original
manufacturer or RM, there were quota of raw
materials for plastic manufacturers and
demand was more than supply, manufacturers
were just selling their licensed quota to buy
rawmaterial ,in black and earning money.
This demand for RM and future requirement
Pravin Da
triggered Dhirubhai Ambani to float Reliance
petro co.
at one time there were plastic chappals ,were

fashion,like sleepers, but it lasted for few yrs.
then came plastic chairs (Nirmal plastic

became famous)
there was separate eye droper along with eye
drop medicine (ink filler type with rubber bulb
and glass/plastic tube) it was replaced by
plastic eye dropper
3/22/2006 7:33 PM
oh those lezim walas at Ganesh visarjan
Swati
@Bhavik 3/22/2006 8:14 PM
You remember that Saffola ad?
Where the boy in yellow does cartwheels near

gaint puris after he somehow sinks down to
Coddie their size?
3/22/2006 8:20 PM
Yeah the Saffola ad... Tonnes of giant sized
food.
I remember the Complan jingle too... yeh hai

Bhavik badhta bachha dekho kaise kood lagaye..
3/22/2006 8:40 PM
Sundrop super refined sunflower oil. delete
the healthy oil for healthy people.
Salil
3/22/2006 8:55 PM
one more i remember.....laxman sylvania
tubes...Asrani used to cum n tell 'sade ghar ko
badal dalunga'
Sam
3/22/2006 9:10 PM
its not sade ghar its sarey ghar...
Pravin Da
3/22/2006 9:11 PM
it's not sare ghar it's pooore ghar.. delete
Salil
3/22/2006 9:18 PM
aaadjectly...
Sam
3/22/2006 9:38 PM
Mummy the puri is fallin.....
Advait



arbitrary n random

3/22/2006 9:42 PM
Asrani used to cum n tell
Bombay Ewww...was this on some late night Jain TV/

(6844 members)
Sun TV thing?
Vikram
3/22/2006 10:12 PM
Godrej store well was/is famous , once there
was new company named Gadre gave
advertisment on radio and also on TV for their
Pravin Da store well , it was sounding 'Gadhe' after
many days we came know it was 'Gadre'
3/22/2006 10:13 PM
Talking about Puris...
I hav never been to this place but my nanji

(matenal grandfather) told me bout it...
He said in VT some odd 20 years ago, there

was a small store which opened in 1850 that
served Jalebi ghaatiyaas, puri bhaaji, poram
puri, lassi, buttermilk, first ones to start nimu
pani, some kesar sweets...
Coddie
A meal would cost 2Rs till 1950... by the time
it closed (I believe 1985), it took thirty Rs.
with no specific additions on the menu.
Apparently a huge crowd would be gathered in

the morning hours to lunch there daily
3/22/2006 10:46 PM
still there, cody... still there.. delete
you're talking about Pancham Puriwalla at the

mouth of Bora Bazaar Lane..
Salil
3/22/2006 11:01 PM
yeah , Pancham's still there right outside VT
station, but not sure if it's so popular any
more.
I don't quite remember a crowd outside it
Bhavik during the 5 years I was in that area.
More ads 3/22/2006 11:07 PM
Pan Parag - some guy distributes paan parag
packs to many guests and then a tall guy asks
him "aur mere liye" ... or something like that.
Doordarshan would start in the evenings at

about 6 in the evening or so and the start up
Bhavik music used to be some very sad tune
And the Kelvinator refrigerators Penguin -

Kelvinator, its the coolest one
3/22/2006 11:13 PM
Baarat theek 8 baje pahunch jaayegi
Par hum aapse ek baat kehna toh bhool hi

gaye
Ghabrayiye nahin, humen kuch nahin chahiye,

hum sirf itna chahte hain ki baaratiyon ka
swagat paan paraag se kijiye..
Vikram
Oh ho paan parag, hume kya maloom aap bhi
paan parag ke shoukeen hain ..yeh lijiye paan
paraag..
Paan Paraag!!
3/22/2006 11:13 PM
Pan Parag - some guy distributes paan parag
packs
That guy was Jalal Agha..

Vikram
3/22/2006 11:49 PM
yes Jalal Agha
(the same person who was in sholay dacing

Pravin Da on famous song Mehbooba o mehbooba uoo u
uooo..)
3/23/2006 9:52 AM
I think the Ad was remade with Aman
Verma...
Coddie



arbitrary n random

3/23/2006 10:00 AM
we're talking about before you were born,
beta.
Bombay
(6844 members) Sat
3/23/2006 11:01 AM
remember playing cricket on the gymkhanas
along marine drive in summer with the red
leather ball and walking bak home from coz
alteast one of us managed to loose the return
fare everytime. Pooling money to get a cricket
kit.
Amit i Sometimes miss the chowpatty of old before
it was cleaned and everything
There was a place there which was the only
permanent building on chowpatty served nice
masala milk ? i forget the name.
3/23/2006 9:38 PM
another one....'tandoroosti ki raksha karta
hau lifebuoy...lifebuoy hai jahan...tandoroosti
hai wahan....lifebuoy'
heard dat this jingle was first sung by Jagjeet
Singh jee....
Sam
And I remember .... 3/24/2006 3:19 PM
Cricket broadcasts on Sundays being
interrupted to be shown the News followed by
the 'badhiron ke liye samachar patr'.
Then DD2, came along, and the telecast

Raj
would be moved to DD2.
The "Rukawat ke liye khed hain" screens.

3/24/2006 10:22 PM
Rukawat.... is unforgettable, so many
interruptions when you least wanted them
I am trying to recollect the name of an

American TV show that appeared I'd say in
the mid-80s on Sunday afternoons which had
a black kid as the main character?
Bhavik
Also I remember some German or Soviet
detective show dubbed in English that ran late
at night.....
3/24/2006 10:28 PM
aapan hyaana pahilaat ka?
Swati
3/25/2006 2:44 AM
the american show you speak of was delete
'Different Strokes'. Gary Coleman is currently
trying his hand at politics.
the others.. not soviet, they were german all

Salil right. you're referring to 'Der Alte - The Old
Fox' and 'Derrick' aren't you?
3/25/2006 3:16 AM
the german show was dubbed " the
investigator " wasnt it ??
and btw after diffrent strokes ended gary

coleman worked as a lift (elevator) guy for a
while...
Freebird
@vikram's mention of late night jain tv
antics.. does anyone remember the russian
channel TB6 ???
3/25/2006 3:22 AM
Yeah thats the show where the elder brother
Will and the younger fella kept calling the
sister Kimberley -" metal mouth" coz she wore
braces.Also "Mind your language"...that was a
Kingkini fun one too and "Some mothers do have'em"
Anyone remember those?
3/25/2006 4:40 AM
The kid from different strokes is still a
shorty...
I can't believe only me and Kevin kn0ow

Coddie about the morning Anime on AXN



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3/25/2006 5:05 AM
Whatchou talking about, Sahil?
Bombay
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Raj
3/25/2006 12:18 PM
Giant Robot series, used to be shown about 12-15
years ago on DD Metro was it? I still remember
those arm movements the robot used to do before
firing the bullets/missiles from its fingertips
Miss it, have searched for it on numerous sites, it
Farewell has vanished without a trace though.
3/25/2006 6:44 PM
has karamchand been mentioned? with his silly secy
kitty?
Swati
3/25/2006 6:45 PM
Metro Dhamaka!!!
Vineet
3/25/2006 9:14 PM
superhit muqabala, geeto ka hain silsila, public ka
hain faisla, superhit muqabala
Farewell
3/25/2006 11:41 PM
One of the only likeable Indian shows was Malgudi
Days...
Coddie
3/26/2006 12:34 AM
dont forget indradhanush. it was created years
ahead of its time. infact, even now the science
fiction stuff made in India sucks compared to that
show.
also stone boy was pretty good.
Kevin the one that used to suck then was some serial
called zigma or something like that which was
copied from star trek.
3/26/2006 12:51 AM
Yeah the wannabe star trek was "Zigma". Giant
Robot was something I loved too. Somehow in
those days without cable it used to be always a
struggle to catch the transmission especially on b/w
ECE tv, and for some reason it was particularly hard
on the days that Giant robot would feature.
Also in the early days of cartoon network, late
mornings had a Japanese animation about
intergalactic wars and robots that were spaceships.
Kingkini Most of them are like that so it isnt a specific
description I know, but just cant remember the
name of that one...had a characters Lisa and
Minmay or something like that.
The other recent Jap. animation one was "Curious
play" on AXN. They stopped showing that one too.
Now there is "Animax".
3/26/2006 1:10 AM
And remember "Rangoli" (or Chitrahaar was it??)on
DD on Sunday mornings??
Kingkini
3/26/2006 4:29 AM
Tejas:
http://www.google.com/search?q=johnny+sokko
Just Read



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3/26/2006 9:22 AM
Rangoli on Sunday morning, Chitrahaar on Tuesday
evenings, then moved to Thurday, then Wednesday.
Bombay
(6845 members)
There used to be a Geet Ateet on Thursday evenings,
which would show black and white movie songs.
Just Read
3/26/2006 9:38 AM
Sam u said-"another one....'tandoroosti ki raksha karta
hau lifebuoy...lifebuoy hai jahan...tandoroosti hai
wahan....lifebuoy'
heard dat this jingle was first sung by Jagjeet Singh
jee.... "
Pravin Da
It was not sung by jagjeet but it was by Bhupendra
the same person who sung 'ek akela ish shahar main raat
ya do praharamain abodana(sabodana) dhoond taa hai'
'dil dhoond ta hai phir wohi ."
@kingkini 3/26/2006 10:38 AM
the wannabe star trek was sigma
or space city sigma
the guy who made it,ashok talwar is quite a genius as
Freebird per me...(and a gentleman)
who definately has his shots figured out right !!
3/26/2006 9:57 PM
thanks Pravinda for d info....
ok again there was serial 'Stone Boy'....ohhh i liked it so
much....
n also the 'Fairy Tales'....n 'Potli Baba ki'....
ofcourse malgudi days is my all time fav....it stil comes in
Sam some Channel...may be *one??..
3/26/2006 10:08 PM
Likeable Indian TV shows of old:-
Khaandan
Buniyaad (If it were cut short a bit)
Lifeline (One of the best)
Dekh Bhai Dekh
Dwidhaata (Marathi)
Malgudi Days
Advait
Fill in the names for these:
1. Some short stories show on Zee aired on Sunday
evenings.
2. Shekhar Kapur stared in this one. Something to do
with a character called Yaksh. Damn it was intriguing.
3/26/2006 10:54 PM
there was a serial with three kids:
one boy with cat eyes, one fat boy and a girl who run
away from home.
dont know the name.
there was "gotya".
Kevin there was another one with a boy who gets some alien
instrument which can make him invisible, fly, cause
earthquakes, etc.
dont know its name either.
3/26/2006 11:37 PM
Advait you forgot to mention Nukad, Circus and Fauji
Shreeji
plz join 4 fun 3/27/2006 12:30 AM
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=10534570
zoby
@ kevin 3/27/2006 1:00 AM
hey i remember dat serial but cudnt recall d name...
again there was another one...where 4 guys frm school
used to do spying n burst rackets....d title song was
somethng like 'ek do teen char...charo milke saath
chalen to karde chamaatkar...'
Sam name was 1234...
@just read 3/27/2006 2:01 AM
thanks for the giant robot info
Farewell



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3/27/2006 2:15 AM
I remember on radio there used to be (in Mumbai
A,some thing like that- marathi station)'Gammat
Bombay Jammat' and that jingle was too good -gammaaat
(6845 members)
jaammmaaaaat , gammat jammat tuka laya
gammat ya jammat ...ya ya ya ..etc.
Pravin Da
and the Music on that station during changeover
was also good 'dhun tun tu ...'
@freebird 3/27/2006 10:25 AM
Hey, no offense meant...I am sure he is a great
guy. a genius too maybe...adapting a western sci. fi
sitcom for an Indian crowd seems to be a good idea
too especially for those times. Not to mention that I
Kingkini watched it too (thats how I know about it!!)till I
discovered Star trek. But it still remains a take off
of Star trek.
3/28/2006 3:26 AM
Sometimes during Sunday afternoons (if m not
wrong) ... there used to be movies on the radio...
actual movies.. only dialogues (obvsly).
Kunal counds weird now.. but was kinda fun then...

3/28/2006 9:33 AM
d title song was somethng like 'ek do teen char
The name of that serial was "Ek Do Teen Char" as

well - one of those boys in the serial, named Vikas
Khanna, used to be in my school, and I remember
Milind my class teacher gloating over how she had
punished him so many times for not ever doing his
homework!
3/28/2006 9:36 AM
Rangoli on Sunday morning, Chitrahaar on Tuesday
evenings, then moved to Thurday, then Wednesday.
There also used to be a Chayageet on Friday

evenings... The first 2 songs would be from new
Milind movies and "sponsored songs" - the rest would be
old black and white numbers... I remember we
would stop watching after the sponsored ones were
done with - never realising till later, that the black
and white melodies were the "real thing"
3/28/2006 9:38 AM
And of course, on Tuesday evenings Bombay
Doordarshan would have "Chitrageet" with Marathi
songs! - And there also was a Chitramala some time
Milind with songs from all possible Indian languages on
Monday evenings.
3/28/2006 5:02 PM
I remember all these ... For we discussed all this in
the first 10 pages of this thread.
Raj Anyone has something new to add?
3/28/2006 10:02 PM
some intel-series
the world this week ...by Pranay Roy
turning point...by Girish Karnad
surubhi ...by Siddharta kak n Renuka Sahani
Sam Surubhi was fantastic!!!

3/28/2006 10:12 PM
chimanrao and gundyabhau
Swati
3/28/2006 10:15 PM
idhar udhar - ravi baswani - doordarshan
Swati



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3/29/2006 3:36 AM
yeah raj, (not surprisingly) this threads gone delete
deja-vu back onto itself. btw, were you
Bombay referring to something i said earlier? it's salil,
(6845 members)
not sahil..
Salil
ok.. since i seem to be half a generation
ahead of you guys, let me use it to my
advantage and embarrass you people:
'fess up - how many of you wore caps that

said either "friend" or "captain"(with a li'l gold
chain on the side?
how many of you played "Unicorns and

Gargoyles" instead of cops n robbers?
how many (this is the most recent) actually

had the guts to stomach something called
"Joly Jelly"?
who remembers owning a black and white tv?

anyone remember the first indian colour tv to
offer a remote control?
(that last one came from Kingkini's ref to

ECTV (not ece, those were bulbs and tubes as
more than one reference in this thread will tell
you) i was intrigued by my neighbours ECtv
only because it also had a hindi logo which
read "EeKaa tv".. short for Eelectraanik
Kaarporation, i'm sure.
@Milind - if Vikas Khanna was in your class,

did you guys give him a tough time for
showing his willie in a movie called Basera?
3/29/2006 3:59 AM
I remember the day this thread started.
Vikram
3/29/2006 5:11 AM
comming to black and white TV
those brands i remember were CROWN,
STANDARD , UPTRON , ECTV, BUSH ,
KELTRON etc
those foreign tvs were coloured but due to

black and white Indian tranmissions they were
also looking black and white till coloured
transmission began
SHARP , SONY , were some brands
Pravin Da
we could afford to buy black and white tv in
1981-2 (asiad games) when others started
buying coloured TVs , we owned Crown TV
ASIAD games were first to see in colour tv
and that time colour tv craze and boom took
place and buy back offers for black and white
tv.
TV was luxury in those days only few used to

afford , watching TV in others house was more
intersting , as we all friends used to gather in
one friends house who was owning tv , and
watching film or wimbeldon or cricket with
expert comments from sitting member were
were really fun than that on tv .
for info: the bus used in asiad games to carry

players were then used for mumbai pune
route by msrtc and it was called ASIAD bus ,
till now its called by same name
3/29/2006 5:28 AM
Joly Jely had a jingle that went to the tune of
Cotton Eye Joe (Remember THAT!)... "
It jiggles jiggles, it wiggles wiggles, JOly Jely,

Irshad the drink that jiggles...
Tried it. Yuck!

3/29/2006 6:21 AM
I remember that Jolly Jelly ad.
It had a really fat lady in it, I think it was
Guddi Maruti....
Bhavik
3/29/2006 7:41 AM
My Grandpa still has the 1970 black and white
TV and a 1940 radio...
Coddie
3/29/2006 8:23 AM
I didn't wear caps (still don't), but I remember
those.
We owned a black and white TV though

Just Read
3/29/2006 8:31 AM
kayyyyypooooooooooooo cheeeeeee
:)
and nukkad
Swati
3/29/2006 9:06 AM
We too had a B&W TV till I was 5
Bhavik
3/29/2006 9:07 AM
@Swati
They revived Idhar-Udhar in around 1998 I

think , but it bombed.
Bhavik Isn't it the same show that's a remake of

"Three's Company.."



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a li'l more nostagia 3/29/2006 9:38 AM
d 'MONGINIS' cake ad.its bak after so many
yrs.
Bombay shows like karamaati,gotya,filmi
(6845 members)
chakkar,phulwari bachhon ki,fun time(in d
summer hols),junglee toofan tyre
puncture,potli baba ki,suno suno trin trin trin
Akshata jungle buk contest where u had to watch it
every week n answer questions to win prizes
3/29/2006 9:58 AM
This thread is going like stock market index
first 1000 it took long time , now 170 in few
Pravin Da days!!
3/29/2006 12:02 PM
remember the black and white TV company
called Texla (i think) ?
Freebird
@Salil 3/29/2006 3:34 PM
Was the first TV with a remote the Nelco Blue
Diamond? With a detachable remote that also
served as the front control panel of the TV?
And no, Vikas Khanna wasn't my classmate,

Milind he was 3 years ahead of me... But I did go to
the same coaching classes as Joy Ghanekar,
the boy who played "Gotya" in the TV serial
games 3/29/2006 7:08 PM

Remember those kids' games... summer
vacation stuff , I used to play with a bunch of
other gujju kids and the hide and seek game I
SPY was called ice-pice.
And for time out you said "templisse" which I

figured out many years later was Time Please.
Bhavik
Under-arm cricket where everyone got a
chance to bat.... bowling was your prerogative
and if you caught the ball hit by the batsman
even after it touched the ground once " ek
tappi" , he was still out.
3/29/2006 7:59 PM
@Milind, who's almost always right.. yup it delete
was Nelco, no it wasn't Blue Diamond. Blue
Diamond came a little later, with ads featuring
Vinod Khanna. the ads for the first ones with
the remote (and so right about the detachable
Salil front panel thingy) featured dilip tahil.
3/29/2006 8:40 PM
The first TV in our household, was a black and
white Weston. After 2 years, we would be
calling the mechanic every other month, who
would then climb onto the roof, and point the
antenna in the rite direction. "Abhi program
Raj aaya kyan?". "Nahi". "Abhi?". "Nahi". Often he
would open it up for repairs, and I still have
vivid images of those huge cathode ray tubes
that were used back then.
3/29/2006 9:18 PM
Talking of TV antenna's I remember when
every one had their own antenna at terrace.
Then some smart ass would put a longer pole
for better reception and that would result in
"Ghost" images for all other whose antennae
were below the longer pole propped antenna.
Then someone would come up with an even
Advait longer pole :-)
Also there was this craze for sometime of
pointing antenna in a specific direction which
would then get you some Russian Channels !!!
3/30/2006 1:39 AM
kaade peti kaade peti petat nahi
majhi maitrin bhetat nahi
kaade peti kaade peti petli
majhi maitrin bhetli
Akshata
3/30/2006 2:08 AM
on antina
i remember we used to go to terrace (4 storey
bldg in ghatkopar) from there we could see TV
tower clearly and adjust the antina, now we
Pravin Da
can'tsee TV tower ,may be because of
pollution and due to skyscrapers in between


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3/30/2006 2:23 AM
Bhavik;For timeplise the other symbol was u
spit on backhand and show u r 'thunki' for
Bombay Pravin Da confermation
(6845 members)
3/30/2006 4:40 AM
INDUS CREED....Mumbai's first international
Rock Band...guess it has sunk into oblivion
now..
Nitin
3/30/2006 7:50 AM
2 shows on TV:
CRYSTAL MAZE
UDAN CHOO
Akshata
3/30/2006 9:05 AM
TV shows there was fraggle rock as well
(dunno if discussed earlier on this thread)
and i had COSMIC TV
i guess company went bust soon after we
Nirav bought it
3/30/2006 9:26 AM
it can't be that bad nirav, imagine what delete
happened to NIKY/TASHA.
after some success, initially with the niky

tasha kitchenette (ANYTHING is possible with
niky tasha kitchenette) the company decided
to cash in on the craze in 1984 for all things
3D.
Chhota Chetan, the first indian 3D film was

followed by "Shiva ka Insaaf" the 1st hindi 3D
film. then came a whole bunch more.. the
Ramsays made Saamri, someone else made
"Mahashaktimaan".. all hollywood films ever
shot in 3D were re-released and there was
also a whole bunch of 3D comics that came
out, some of which i still have.
Salil
NIKY/TASHA, decided to launch niky tasha 3D
vision. a television that promised to turn your
living room into a 3D circus.
anyone who knows the principle of

stereoscopic 3D imaging knows that to
playback a 3D video signal you have to first
shoot in 3D. Predictably, niky tasha's 3D
television flopped - and badly.
Mukesh Agarwal, the poor guy who owned the

company went bust. then he married actress
Rekha. Soon after; he killed himself.
3/30/2006 9:48 AM
The famous household brand Sumeet mixer
and grinder is no more now.
Pravin Da
3/30/2006 10:06 AM
I had a few 3D comics of "Sheena: Queen of
the Jungle" - a skimpily dressed voluptuous
female... now that I look back at it, it was
Milind almost soft porn - in 3D
3/30/2006 10:09 AM
PravinDa, Sumeet certainly is around still...
maybe its not as popular... in India at least -
however, its pretty popular in the US,
especially since it comes in Dual voltage
Milind modes and with a heavy duty grinder... check
here
3/30/2006 10:17 AM
yeah i htink my mum still might have the
sumeet mixer grinder in our kitchen
Nirav
3/30/2006 12:01 PM
Mukesh Agarwal, the poor guy who owned the
company went bust. then he married actress
Rekha. Soon after; he killed himself.
Must have thought marne se pehle thaak-

thook karnaa chaaiye...
Coddie
I remember Sheena... Hot... inspired me to

watch Hentai...



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3/30/2006 10:21 PM
another grinder 'Singer' has also disappeared dis
days...
Bombay we used to see an ad -- sumthng sumthng...its a
(6845 members)
singer...evry morninggg its a singer...
Sam
3/31/2006 11:09 AM
I remember TV video games like Contra, Mario and
Duck Hunter....to which Mumbai kids were glued to
like crazy..
Nitin
@Nitin 3/31/2006 12:03 PM
I did the same thing with ps1 and a SNES (Super
Nintendo, 16 bit) emulator.
I loved (and still do) RPG

Coddie
@Pravin Da 3/31/2006 12:36 PM
I still use Sumeet mixer!
Farewell
3/31/2006 12:38 PM
I woke up today thinking about "Stick-em Stones" -
itty bitty plastic stickers, in all colours and glow in
the dark kinds, that seemed to come out of
nowhere... If you didn't have a few on your pencil
Milind box or your watch, you were old fashioned...
anyone else go through that phase?
3/31/2006 2:55 PM
I remember those glowing stickers - they came in
different shapes - squares, circles. diamonds etc.
Bhavik
This reminds me of JOLLY 3/31/2006 2:57 PM
Kids used to play "Jolly" - It meant that whenever
the other person on the game said Jolly , your
hands should have had an ink stain or pen mark,
otherwise the other guy scores more points over
Bhavik you.
A couple of points' difference meant a punishment.
Misha 4/1/2006 12:06 AM
This is one of the best threads I have ever come
across. Brings back so many forgotten memories...
I wonder if this was mentioned before (there are

way too many posts to follow up on), but does
anoop anyone remember the soviet era where khadi
kurtas, jholas, "comrades" and misha comics were
the flavor of the time..
thanks to all those who have shared this ride

4/1/2006 1:17 AM
Who remembers Opps Batts?
That was rad...
I often used a hammer strike or explosive elbow to

grind my opponents backs...
Coddie
soon, people did the cutting the game thing where
your cross your little finger..
4/1/2006 1:50 AM
Guys I am currently in Michigan USA. Originally
from Bambai, the city. I cudnt hold back the tears
from ur scraps. I love you all. God bless you and
Susheel our city.
Theres no place like Mumbai.



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4/1/2006 1:59 AM
Cody,
Bombay Read Salil's post here

(6845 members)
Vikram
We're now regurgitating posts....
4/1/2006 2:10 AM
I remember a Bandra WITHOUT a Bandra
Reclamation.
The sea started just where the bus depot is

today. The ONGC flats were the only buildings
there and no one wanted to live there becuse
of the mosquitoes. I remember watching the
giant landfill tractors things filling up earth
into the Bandra bay when I was in school..
Anyone remember the spate of copy-cat

Vikram suicides that rocked Bandra (and Bombay)
after "Ek Duje Ke Liye" came out? Couples
would jump into the sea from bandra fort!
Anyone remember the plywood shop that was

where Toto's is right now? I do! (Well, I've
lived in Bandra almost all my life so I notice
crap like this)
4/1/2006 2:11 AM
has anybody played 'attaya patya'
it was wonderful game , we used to play in
vacation and in night with extra lamps on , we
used to shout toad toad something on
Pravin Da
winning.
If u read any encyclopedia on indian sports
'atyapatya' is on first page.
4/1/2006 2:15 AM
So many brands one almost never sees
anymore..
Singer, Sumeet, NikiTasha, Nelco, Corona,

Campa Cola, S Kumars (They are still around
bt previously they were like the ONLY people
Vikram who made school uniform colours..we had to
buy our standard grey color pants at Elco
Arcade)
4/1/2006 2:15 AM
Vikram :Yes i remember that 'series of
suicides after film ek duje ke liye
Pravin Da it was in 1980-81 i hope
4/1/2006 2:27 AM
Vikram we used to visit Bandra often as my
uncle used to stay behind siaba hotel , bhatia
bldg,that mahim causway road used to get
flash flood from high tide time and during
Pravin Da
monsoon.we used to visit band stand with
friends - and watch couples in diff positions!!
4/1/2006 10:19 AM
why, pravin da, i stayed in bhatia bldg. for 3 delete
years as a PG. i stayed with a catholic family,
the middle aged bachelor sons said exactly
the same things about bandra that vik said a
couple of posts ago.
brands that were everywhere but no longer? i

remember that on every railway station there
were billboards featuring a moghul
miniaturesque woman holding uup her pallu
advertising Ranipal i think it was a fabric
conditioner or something?
there were also boards with a sardar couple

dancing, advertising Hakoba
i think the name is still used for that fabric
with the holes in it.
Salil Singer went out of the household appliances

market but i think it's still a big name in
sewing machines. remember the "you did it,
with your merritt" ads?
Zarapkars was a big name in 'easy

installments' and wall paintings for 'V.G.
Paneerdas - VGP' were also everywhere.
S.Kumars tried something ambitious about 7

years ago, that flopped. Internet retail. did
anyone lose money on that nonsense?
another fabric brand which i can't see any
more is Binny's.
There was also something called "Peerless"

that people seemed to be investing in a lot.
PravinDa, shed some light on this, if you
recall?
As kids we were subjected to savings schemes

initiated by banks. i recall my mum getting
me and my brother these television shaped
piggy banks from Canara Bank. A couple of
years later, Maharashtra bank had a similar
scheme for kids and we got squirrel shaped
piggy banks. i think the squirrel mascot was
called Minti... and there was also a govt.
scheme for children's savings called
"Sanchayita" which was promoted through
one of those films division animation films.
i also remember having an apple bank, almost

everyone i knew had one. it had a little button
that you placed your coin on, and a plastic
worm would come out of the apple and drag it
in. anyone else remember these?
4/1/2006 11:00 PM
Ranipal- is a fabric whitner initially it was
called Tinopol was early a monopoly item
(Tinopol adv was famous in Radio used to
come daily) which was objected by other
manufacturer later as it was a chemical name
and not to be used a brand name , so the
company has to change name and started
advertising as 'TINOPOL KA NAYA NAAM
RANIPAL' slowly the ranipal became famous in
this category, now aala , ujala and other
brands came.
About 'Peerless' a calcutta based pvt finance

company ( i think started as chitfund
company)started PVT insurance business with
more attractive benifits than LIC, There was
Pravin Da boom for investment and agency , every other
person was made agent , i remember when I
passed SSC in 1975 after few yrs i met one of
my friend (who was doing Bcom) who said he
is doing well part time as an peerless agent
getting good commision
(Rs 5000 in those days pm).
Govt policy did not support this company that
time and went in to some controversy , govt
did not gave 80c benifits which LIC used to
get etc.
now after 25yrs govt opened Insurance for
PVT sectors !
there were boom for CHITFUNDS also in those
days but many people gained and lost money.
on radio.. 4/2/2006 6:31 AM
i remember listenin to "bhoole bisre geet" on
radio....reallly ancient songs n my mom used
to get all excited with them......only now i
Archana actually appreciate them!
also ther was an ad abt 'competition success
review' or smthin like that...
4/2/2006 9:43 AM
@vikram ...
garden vareli sarees ..I dont see those advts
as well nowadays....
I remember seeing this line at the milk

Shailen centers in the morning. i think it was warna or
aarey . the milk used to come in those bottles
with a tin foil cap.



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@Salil 4/2/2006 5:47 PM
The VGP outlet still exists almost next to my
house, in Sion... though from its appearance,
Bombay it seems like its fallen on bad times...
(6845 members) Milind
4/2/2006 11:52 PM
Anyone remember the plywood shop that was
where Toto's is right now? I do! (Well, I've
lived in Bandra almost all my life so I notice
crap like this)
Aye! I do! I used to frequent the video game

parlour next door when mortal kombt became
popular.
Irshad Peerless still exists and is a big advertiser in

most business mags/newspapers (it's more
into insurance and bancassurance, not really
chit funds).
Babubhai Jagjivandas that's one heavy

outdoors advertiser that don't advertise as
much now!
4/3/2006 12:43 AM
BJ BJ BeeeeJay!
Babubhai Jagjivandas, Babubhai Jagjivandas,

Babubhai Jagjivandas!
Vikram
4/3/2006 12:47 AM
I remember the Garden Ads ... You fascinate
me !!!
Raj
4/3/2006 12:53 AM
And looking back, I must have been really
outta my mind, when I paid some of my
meagre pocket money to buy Hassan
Raj Jahangirs "Hawa Hawa". It was a craze then.
4/3/2006 1:10 AM
Oh God, I remember Hassan Jehangir's Hawa
Hawa"
We even had a dance that went along with the

song...I'm scared that I still remember BOTH
the words and the steps to the dance....
On the subject of ads...How about "Every

Vikram
night I hope and pray, Dream Lover will come
my way, And his touch will sweep me
oooooofffff my feeeeet, cause my dream lover
is the Bombay Dyeing man"
4/3/2006 1:31 AM
Talking of investments, i remember a scheme
floated by a BEST employee which doubled ur
investment in 2 yrs or something like that. It
was based upon some chain investment logic
Advait but went awry.
4/3/2006 3:02 AM
advait: I hope it was already discussed the
persons name was Sherekar , and double in
Pravin Da one month!!! not 2 yrs
4/3/2006 4:26 AM
another famous add on radio
'sirf ek saridon aur sardard se aaram naarahe
...'
'dada ji dada ji wo jo mohan ke dadaji ke daat

nahi hai .. patani beta forhans tooth paste
istamaal nahi kiya hoga!'
Pravin Da
anacin add was showing 4 fingers, for 4
remidies in one tablets , then it was realised
that people were taking 4 tablets instead of
one!!
4/3/2006 5:53 AM
was it true that an anacin dropped in a bottle delete
of "Sosyo" gave you a super-kick?
btw, loved Sosyo, even if it was way too

sweet. i guess they took the "thanda meetha"
Salil baseline too seriously..



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4/3/2006 5:56 AM
here are some of the other nostalgic songs which
used to be aired by DD
Bombay
(6845 members)
The most famous one -- 'Miley sur mera tumhara
tooo sur bane hamaraa...... sur kee nadhiyaan har
disha se behkee saagar mein mileee...Baadalon ka
roop leike barse holeai hoolei........bahut lamba
gana hai :-)'
'
Sam then comes -- 'bajey sargaam har taraf se...gunje
bankaar deshraag'
while i was a kid ..i almost memorised d whole

song...'miley sur'
4/3/2006 6:04 AM
while i was a kid se kuch aur yaad agaya...
'jab mein chotta bacha tha...bada shararat karta
tha...mere chori pakdi jati...tab roshan tha Bajaj'
Sam
Dabur Lal Dant Manjan 4/3/2006 7:08 AM
Masterji :"To yeh hai apne daaton ki banawat, arre
Raju tumhare daant to motiyon jaise chamak rahe
hain"
Raju:"Kyon na ho masterji , main Dabur lal dant
Bhavik manjan jo istamal karta hoon"
Jingles 4/3/2006 7:09 AM
"Washhhhhhhhhhming powder NIRMA"
and "Hawkins ki siti bajee"
Bhavik
Doordarshan 4/3/2006 7:11 AM
Remember the literacy ad ??
"....padhna likhna sikho..."
Damn I also remember the family planning jingles "

Do hi phool khilayenge"
Bhavik
and MALA-D
@Bhavik 4/3/2006 9:53 AM
Yeah... the literacy ad.
The boy in the aid was frying food in forms of

Alphabets and his employer asks if he was going to
school and he nodded in agreement.
Coddie
And he was asked why he left school.
4/3/2006 10:40 AM
another one ek titha li anek thithaliyaa , ek anek etc
sam: that mile sur mera was picturised nice

especially in the middle one shot became so famous
we just used to see that shot and go.
there sports man and woman with torch running
Pravin Da
and in one seen 'she' was looking wonderful seeing
running. ( later came to know that she was Ms
Mankad, national badminton player and wife of
Ashok Mankad crickter)
4/3/2006 11:26 AM
does anyone remember those chipmunk stickers in
some candy???? almost every mirror n fridge in
every house had em.
also yankee doodle anyone???
Shailen we didnt know about the sosyo and anacin we heard

it was anacin n thumsup.. tried it on someone .. he
acted weird .. prolly knowing we tried it on him n he
pulled one on us ...
4/3/2006 1:18 PM
duuno if this is relavant..but speaking of ads i
absolutely loved the ujala song..."aaya naya
ujala..char bundo wala...[four drops in the
background]
kapdo ke reshe tak jaaye...safedi ka naya rang
laaye"..
Meghna does anyone know any links where we cxan see all
these ads again?
4/3/2006 4:27 PM
And I remember, when you would turn on
Doordarshan, and would be hear/see something
concerning Rajiv Gandhi every 15-30 minutes.
Raj Critics called it RajivDarshan instead of
Doordarshan.


arbitrary n random

4/3/2006 7:46 PM
Don Bosco's annual fun fairs...
i can remember 'funky town' the song being played
Bombay every three minutes lol
(6845 members)
tryya luck tryya luck tryya luck
Swati
4/3/2006 9:39 PM
The Hindi news on DD was so heavily Sanskritized
(it was almost too hard to understand) that the joke
was instead of hearing "Ab aap Hindi mein
samachar suniye" , it should have been "Ab aap
samachar mein Hindi suniye".
With the advent of AC studios, it's hard to see the

Vikram
bechari Marathi newsreaders trying in vain to swat
the flies buzzing around their head while reading
the news.
4/3/2006 10:17 PM
What I remember more are the frequent "rukawat
ke liye khed hai" placards on TV, with flies settling
on them...
Milind
4/3/2006 10:38 PM
I remember those Rasna add around 1980 which
became popular , 'I love u Rasna' and Rasna
became hit in the market and for every party and in
summer at home rasna was common drink.
I have met one food specialist Dr Rege who was

Pravin Da doing consultancy in my earlier firm working on
soya products ,soya baby food , soya milk , told me
,that he was behind the formulation of Rasna as a
R&D cunsultant but he did not earn much but that
company came up.
4/3/2006 10:40 PM
Sansad Samachar ... my cousin used to call it
Sandas samachar :-)
Advait
4/3/2006 10:41 PM
ya pravin da 'ek teetli anek teetliyan' is one of my
favs ....
i ve got d video....if u want it i can fwd it to u :-)
from 'saksharta mission' i remember another one

Sam 'purab se suraj ugga faila ujaala....jagi haar disha
disha...jaga jag saraa....kya yeh wohi Kishan hai?'
4/4/2006 12:28 PM
Does anyone else remember some silly limericks
like these:
Raj A B C D, E F G
G se nikla Gandhiji
Gandhiji ne khaaya peru
Peru se nikla Nehru
Nehru ne khaaya kaakdi
Bhaiya ka shendi waakdi
.. Or was it just my neighbourhood?

@Raj 4/4/2006 1:20 PM
It starts of the same way but there are lot of
variations to the same rhyme
Bhavik
@Raj 4/4/2006 2:29 PM
yeah... these things were everywhere...
in our neighbourhood, there was this 'ek don teen

char' ganpati ke something something...
Coddie
it went on till twenty
4/4/2006 10:06 PM
Anyone remembers the cartoon which use to preach
about Unity in diversity.... "Ek Chudia Anek Chudia"
... it goes like this...
Amar Ek Chudia .... anek Chudia

Daana chugne bheth raheee....
taa naaa taan naaaa taan naaa !!! :-)



arbitrary n random

4/4/2006 10:25 PM
YEs, we all remember..
Bombay If you read the rest of this thread, you'd find

(6845 members)
we've all talked about this before..
Vikram
4/4/2006 11:00 PM
thanks Vikarm, this is a real huge thread and i
have just joined this community .. so didn't
had the paitence to go thru it all ... though its
Amar very interesting conversation .. and may even
break some record of the longest running
topic in orkut ... btw i went thru some of them
and really loved the giant robot link :) ...
maybe in my freee time i will read thru it all...
4/4/2006 11:07 PM
Raj : there was similar thing
mera pas tha hatodi

hathodi se nikla Pataudi
pataudi ne mara six
six sey nikla Gibbs
Pravin Da
Gibbs ne mara ball
Ball se nikla Hall
Hall ne pakda catch
khatam hogaya match
4/4/2006 11:24 PM
Hey Pravin Da Ekdum fultu ...
I donno whether this one has been posted

earlier ..I couldnt go thru all da posts in the
thread .. a new entrant ...
Hey .. I do remember ... do ya .
Padhna likhna seekkho O mehnat karne

Kunal walo..
Padhna likhna seekkho O mehnat karne
walo..
Ka Kha Ga Gha ko pehchano .. Ganit ko

karna sikho ...
A AA e EE ko hatyar bana kar ladhna
sikho ..
4/5/2006 9:13 PM
there were famous picnic time pass songs in
those days sung during travel in bus
Bambai sey aya mera dost dost ko salam karo

raat ko khavo pio din ko araam karo
(this song latter introduced in Film by Bappi
lahri)
another one in marathi
meri tujhe kes laamb laamb laamb , papa

baghi taan papa baghi taan..
Pravin Da
galyat sakli konachi hi pori kona chi

aai bhi bevdi ani bapus bhi bevda hi pori
konachi
then
pakad pakada pakada , khich ke pakad
kheech ke pakad
3 cheer for.. hip hip hurray1

then that 'bongo' bajana
dance on Bhagwan style 'bholi surat dilke

khote naam bade aur darshan khote..'
4/6/2006 7:32 AM
i remember how v wud die to watch DD n DD
Metro.....those old serials like HUM LOG,
NUKKAD...n i also had a crush on mowgli....n
if sumone got a video casette, then how the
entire bldg wud gather at tht house to see the
movie......n crawford mrkt n elco mrkt were
supposed to be the ultimate shoppin
Rachana places.........n initially v didnt even hav a
telephone n wud use the neighbours
phone......
@Kunal 4/6/2006 3:47 PM
That actually was
Ka Kha Ga Gha ko pehchano .. aliph ko
Milind padhna sikho ...
4/6/2006 9:28 PM
Ka Kha Ga Gha ko pehchano .. aliph ko
padhna sikho ...
In which case, I suppose I was "anpadh" till I

Vikram was 25! Hooray for Arabic classes!
4/6/2006 10:49 PM
i suppose they must have put that so as to delete
not alienate those who chose to go to urdu
schools? actually i would not be surprised,
they used to (and still can) be quite paranoid
about PC-ness.
if i remember right, initially the 4th line was

Salil "O bhookh se marne waalo" which was quickly
retracted and replaced with a repeat of the
3rd line refrain.
4/6/2006 10:50 PM
Crush on MOWGLI?
Dear, you are watching too much hentai...
Coddie



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Agni ka safal parikshan 4/6/2006 10:58 PM
Anyone remembers the "Agni ka safal parikshan
desh ki...something something..."
Vineet With Mr Rajiv Gandhi's face and the missile launch

Bombay juxtaposed.
(6845 members) 4/6/2006 11:13 PM
I think Its ". aliph bey padhna sikho ..."
Pravin Da and not 'aliph ko'

4/6/2006 11:26 PM
Anyone remembers the "Agni ka safal parikshan
desh ki...something something..."
Agni ka safal pareekshan rashtra ki aazadi,

Vikram suraksha tatha "something" ka pramaan hai...
4/7/2006 2:24 AM
" GIANT ROBERT "
I still wish i have a watch like that ... GIANT
ROBERT will come n with those Rocket fingers of his
.. will do my codes ...
Bro n me used to rush home from school aft 5:00 n

Kunal a late bus wod miss our fav program ...
also ..
FUN DAY - 1 hr show on Sunday ...
POTLI BABA KI ...
4/7/2006 2:26 AM
Was it "Giant Robert" or "Giant Robot"?
Vineet
4/7/2006 2:27 AM
http://www.stomptokyo.com/otf/Johnny-
Sokko/Johnny-Sokko.htm
Vineet
4/7/2006 3:34 AM
'jhunnur walle...chunur walle chunu ka
baba...keeson ka khazana laya geeton ka blah
blah...
aya aya jhunu walle ..chunu ka baba...ayaaa baba
aayaa...'
Sam i tried my best to recal d lyrics n write it dwn....can
anyone of u remember few lines of potli baba ki..
OOpps galti se mistik kar diya .. 4/7/2006 3:53 AM
Ya..Vineet ROBOT .. n cool link buddy .. Actually I
had recvd only the pics in some FWD ..
Kunal Fultu .. ekdum Dhassu ..
4/7/2006 10:50 AM
I remember, as kids, when someone used to tell us
something which we had already heard of from
someone else (or read about it much earlier in this
Raj thread), we would retort "Postman is too late".
4/7/2006 4:51 PM
Yes Salil - it was "O bhook se marne walo" before
they changed it... I wonder what genius thought
that a good line to put in !
Milind



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4/7/2006 4:52 PM
Agni ka safal pareekshan rashtra ki aazadi,
suraksha tatha swayampurnata ka pramaan
Bombay
hai...
(6845 members)
Milind I scare myself when I remember all these
titbits!!!
4/7/2006 7:01 PM
Didn't Ramdas Padhye the ventriloquist do the
Lijjat Papad rabbit ad? The puppet saying
Lijjat Papad hehe.....
And I remember the child artist in most

commercials was Baby Guddu and there were
Bhavik urban legend type stories about her that she
was being injected with stuff to stop her from
growing....
4/7/2006 9:37 PM
anyone remember chandrakanta with its main
theme being the otal absence of chandrakanta
or anyone remotely connected to her after
Kartik some episodes.
still absence of cable made it popular.
4/8/2006 7:03 AM
a few days ago i posted this one to the orkut delete
bombay group mail.. none of them got it then,
so they better not post the answer
guess the brand from the jingle:
oranges and lemons

Salil sold by the penny
smile with _______
flavours so many
hint: it's a soft drink.
speaking of which, how many of you drew big

"C"s with your fingers whenever a glass/jug
frosted over?
4/8/2006 8:20 AM
campa?
Swati
4/8/2006 7:14 PM
Energee? Wild guess, since it does come in
many flavors.
And any one remember a product called

Raj Dipy's, and the cowboy comic strip ad for it? I
forget, if it was a Tomato sauce, or ketchup?
4/8/2006 7:31 PM
Or how about Sosyo, RimZim, Do it, Thrill,
Citra, Teem, Rush, Bejois, Sprint?
Raj
4/8/2006 7:50 PM
Salil, is that Campa ?
Milind
4/9/2006 1:27 AM
I think it Energee
Shreeji
4/9/2006 3:57 AM
In school days we used to say
'Half circle full circle half circle A

Half circle full circle right angle A'
Pravin Da
whats that!



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4/9/2006 4:20 AM
It's Trinka.
Don't ask me how I know..LOL@ Salil.
Vikram
4/9/2006 4:29 AM
Bombay I remember it was in 1972-73 , 12 yrs old , I joined
(6845 members) Savio Club at DonBosco Matunga in vacation
(membership was cheap as it was subsidised
because of foreign aid), It was my memorable days
where I saw first time billiards ,carrom champion
board, sketing , played season cricket, learnt basket
ball ,BOWLING game (yes what u see now in
malls),played volley ball,saw all musical
instruments like acodian , drums , guitar etc(they
had musical group)
Brother Rocha (club head) used to stand in gallery

watching our games in the evening and used to
throw foreign postal stamps and we used to leave
the game run for collecting it.Then we used to fight
and sort out and exchange stamps which are
duplicate.
Every sundays we used to have english movies in

the Hall for club members and their friends and
serve cold cofee yummy!
I have seen most of the then movies there
Pravin Da
like charlie chaplin's, laurel and hardy,Macanas
gold, fivemen army, dirty dozen,10 commandments
etc.
Though we never understand their English words
we used to say kya sholet pic tha 'eastaman colour'
we use to have anual fair at Donbosco (as swati

mentioned in her post early)we used to sit in stall
whole day.
Those basket ball state level matches with Indian

gym , NNH ,Railways - we used to watch as our
seniors play.
Farookh engeener used to come there to play

billiard.
Shashi Kapoor was our default chief guest (ex
Bosco).
I think that club is no more there now!!

4/9/2006 6:11 AM
Trinka !!! I thought that was a toilet cleaner
Raj
i remember...... 4/9/2006 6:50 AM
the bread used to cost rs 2 n 10 paise then it was
2.35 then ppl were apprehensive to buy breads
No Less bcoz it was costly(the hike of 15 paise wo!)
Than mumma used to give us 1 ruppee everyday, n we
used to enjoy the whole day in that
our school fee was rs 15 for 3months,....

rememberances 4/9/2006 7:31 AM
i think this is pretty recent but still i remember
school days in the late eighties and early
nienties....when dd was the king
12 noon fun time where in giant robot...and all
those crazy serials....makes me nostalgic
but the i thing i will never forget that i was born in

Rohit BOMBAY.tats wat i learnt when i was a kid and i will
never forget.i guess because everything was
changin those f***in ppl thought of changin the
name of my dear city
4/9/2006 8:20 AM
And I used to save my pocket money of 1 Rupee,
by walking to college, and getting a Gold Flake for
70 paise.
Raj In my school days, I remember paying 25 paise for
a half ticket.
4/9/2006 8:47 AM
Myself and my brother used to walk to school
25mins to save 10paise each 1/2ticket single
journey,buy groundnut chicky on the way and also
buy one chocholate (which we never used to
like)but we used to get small square photografic
paper stamp size inside(suspense - we used to
predict then whos pic will come) when made wet
Pravin Da used to get Cricketers in action picture in black and
white , which we used to collect.
later in chocolate a paper with tatto used to come

on making wet on cloth and ironing the print used
to come on cloth.
rembr the good ol days 4/9/2006 8:49 AM
i rembr the campus was all my world the whole
powai used to seem a jungle n the whole world to
No Less me.....
Than
4/9/2006 8:57 AM
I recall when I was younger we used to swear when
girls were nearby but act as if we don't know they
were around... since we looked tough then.
Also we used to copy the WWE taunts and all...
While playing kabbadi (I was the captain), we all

had the moves of a particular wrestler despite the
Coddie fact that we had to simply touch them, we would
use jabs or so.
And if someone came in our line, we would be

giving Bodyslams... I was given the wrestler role of
Kane...
@pravin da 4/10/2006 9:56 AM
wasn't dat 'half circle full circle' thing COCA COLA?
@all
does ne1 remember a marathi serial called 'ase
paahune'?
Akshata



arbitrary n random

4/10/2006 10:11 AM
yes u r right
Bombay Pravin Da
(6845 members)
4/10/2006 10:18 AM
I know "asse pahune".
I can still sing the theme song "Asse pahune,

asse pahune, asse pahune yete, ani stuti (?)
Vikram gheune zaate"
vik, vik... 4/10/2006 10:34 AM
smriti deuni, not stuti gheuni. delete
leaving memories, not receiving praise...
that reminded me of vane kong, this chinese

kid in my school who was singing raghupati
raghav in the school assembly and sang
"eeshwar allah tero naam, sabko santati de
bhagwaan"
Salil
santati=offspring
as against the more appropriate and correct
sanmati=like mindedness/wisdom
4/10/2006 10:40 AM
I remember whenever some bollywood song
becomes hit there were other funny songs
were made in similar lines those days
like 'meri desh ki dhar ti sona ugle hire moti'

Pravin Da
has sung like this mixed with marathi'
meridesh ki dharti don pay warti khalun distey
mirchi' (excuse me for this )
dum maro dum mita jaye hum bolo suba
sham harekrishna hare ram.
that time BEST strike for diwali bonus was

there, George Fernandis was leader , it went
for many days
so posters were pasted on bus later 'dum
maro dum mita jaye hum bolo subha sham
pahila bonus pichey kaam'
ay nilegagan ke ta ley dharti ka pyar bade
was sung like
ayy bombai ka naam badha andhar bhara

kacharaa (refering to migrants)
mere saam ne wali khid ke main ek chaand ka

tukda reha taa hai
was sung like 'mere saam ne wali khid ki main
ek doodh wala(bhaiyya)reha ta hai , wo chor
hai wo daku hai wo doodh main paani dal ta
hai'
many more
4/10/2006 2:03 PM
I remember "ase pahune yetil". Remember,
shwetambara.
Back then, DD had a strict policy of only 13

Raj episodes per serial. Dont you wish it was in
effect today? Kusum and Jassi would have
lived happily ever after.
@salil 4/10/2006 2:20 PM
Now thats one variation of Raghupati Raghav
that might not have appealed to Gandhi
Milind
@Pravin Da 4/10/2006 2:47 PM
Did you forget mentioning something along
the lines of Ashok Kumar's compere from Hum
Log?
Raj Chan Pakaiya, Chan Pakaiya

Chan ke upar lota ..
4/10/2006 9:33 PM
Raj: it all covered in many more
like one 'avo baccho tumhe sikha du ...and

included Dara Singhs name in between with
Pravin Da vulgur comments'
Dara Singh was so popular that he was like

ultimate in strength and body (there was add
few yrs back some thing on strenght kitni
Dara singh jitni) because of Wrestling , one
used to say Dara singh banna hai kya, khud
ko dara signh samajh ta hai kya.
Wrestling fight between King Kong and Dara

Singh was like Finals, there were more fans of
them than cricketers in those days in
Mumbai.Randhawa his brother was also a
wrestler
King kong -Dara singh became household

name.
then came one Mighty Mongol
Most of the wrestling compitition was taking

place in one Worli Stadium
4/10/2006 9:54 PM
Was listening to "Jaanu Meri Jaan" from the
movie Shaan, on my way to work today and it
occured to me that most of the Bollywood
songs in those days had 3 stanzas as opposed
to 2 nowadays. The love songs usually had
Advait one stanza each for the Hero and Heroine and
one duet. How politically correct :-)
@PravinDa 4/11/2006 2:09 PM
That ad about Dara Singh was "Everest
cement ki chaadarein - mazboot itni, Dara
Milind Singh jitni" - am I right?



arbitrary n random

4/11/2006 3:39 PM
I remember another Marathi show about a miser -
Bhikajirao, that was his name and the name of the
Bombay show.
(6845 members)
Bhavik
4/11/2006 9:07 PM
Bhikajirao Karodpati you mean
Milind
4/12/2006 1:33 AM
Hello Hello Hello Hello Inspectarrr!
Vineet
Dr Rajkumar -Bombay memories 4/13/2006 10:27
AM
Yesterday Dr RajKumar a noted kannada film actor
and singer died , I felt very sad on hearing as I am
a silent fan of him. A great loss to film industry.
I remember in 70s when I was in school

(NKES high school wadala-a kannada and english
med school), Dr Rajkumar was once in BOMBAY has
come for shooting in shanmukhananda hall Matunga
, our school trustee - invited him to our school
saying his fans are intersted in seeing him and he
accepted invitation in short notice as our school was
1 km away.
but he said he will come after the film shoot,
immediately news spread , teachers were thrilled
anounced in each class that Rajkumar is visiting
school that day.Students were excited after 5.0pm
Pravin Da when our school time over we all waited for him to
come , sitting in hall , he came at aroung 6.30 pm
along with heroin Laxmi and his wife , looking tired
as he came straight from shoot whole day when i
saw him first time 'wow' !! too charming , handsom
,he was in silk lungi and jhabba .The hall was jam
packed , after all the bhasan , flower har etc
students demanded a 'song' from him
'we want song' though tired he immediately sang
song without any musical instruments and the hall
was so silent listning to his song , he sang almost 3
songs continously, tears in our eyes with joy, It was
a memorable day for me .
'endendu ninnanu maretu na nirala re'

one of the famous song of his film
4/14/2006 4:55 PM
does anyone remember those really large ladders
with huge steel wheels....I think they were used by
people to change street lights or by firefighters .. i
Shailen never saw those being used .. but there used to be
one on the street.
4/15/2006 2:00 AM
A boring saturday afternoon which reminded me of
a great boardgame that we used to play...Scotland
Yard. Does anyone remember that?
Irshad A certain Mr X has to trawl across the London and 3

detectives hunt him down within 28 moves. The
dice is naturaly loaded against Mr. X. What fun!
4/15/2006 8:15 AM
that ad is still shown on some channels.
never played it though.
some popular board games:
ludo, snakes and ladders.
carrom.
Kevin monopoly (buying and selling places, remember the
pink, yellow, blue money).
cricket(it had a cricket ground with cricketers and a
batting machine)
4/15/2006 8:43 AM
Kevin: that game Monopoly was called Vyapar we
used to play lot in early 70s -that time we were not
knowing Bombay well and all names were there
though we have not seen we have owned many in
Pravin Da
that game! ,I was wondering why Walkeshwar
costing more in that game than other place
4/15/2006 9:54 AM
Anyone, remember those flip books from Thums Up.
I still have one of Gavaskar playing the drive.
Raj
4/15/2006 12:11 PM
There was another one, I think it was Gavaskar
drinking Thums Up
Bhavik



arbitrary n random

4/15/2006 9:40 PM
also miniature thums up bottles.
remember the hero cycles, bsa cycles, tobu
Bombay cycles
(6845 members) Kevin
4/16/2006 12:45 AM
yeah i remeber scotland yard. still have it.
might just as k friends to play it some time.
also i had thumbs up flip books of gavaskar

and kapil
Nirav flip em one way sunny hits a cover drive /
kapil clean bowls a batsman
flip em the other way and they are drinking
thums up
4/16/2006 1:56 AM
there were quite a few flicker books available delete
then in that thums up contest. no cover drive
by sunny though.. let's see which one's i canm
remember..
Sunil Gavaskar - Straight drive. (you could

stare all you like but you'd never see the ball
in this one.. maybe he was just
demonstrating)
Sandeep Patil - Lofted drive (my favourite)
Vivian Richards - Cover drive
Clive Lloyd - Sweep

Salil
Kapil Dev - Bowling action
Michael Holding - Bowling action.
i vaguely remember one with Kapil batting

too, but i'm not very sure. There was also an
older black and white gavaskar flicker which
wasn't part of this promo. and an unofficial
old Gary Sobers flicker you'd get at the
baloonwala's for 50 p.
4/16/2006 2:13 AM
hey anyone remember spot the ball contest
on paper
they used to show a pic of cricket match
Pravin Da and one has to spot and mark where ball
could be and win a prize.
4/17/2006 6:07 AM
As i was watching discovery channel on
inventor of Elevator - Mr Otis
In 70s in mumbai very few skyscrapers were

there.
I remember those days when Deewar film was

hit and that automatic door open /close lift in
that film was new to us .we never seen such
lift.
Pravin Da My self and my brother got chance first time

to see that when one of our relative got house
in Cuffeparade area and he invited for house
warming ,as we went that area it was like
foreign to us all skyscrapers
president hotel was beside that bldg ,
as we never saw cuff parade area that time
when we entered that bldg Sealord (18 or 20 i

dont remember the floor)we saw that lift wow
- deewar wala lift ! automatic open /close and
baand darwajaa , we went up down many
times , first we were afraid to go. From
terrace we saw swiming pool of president
hotel Which was on some floor , wow kya
sceen hai!
after comming home we were discussing with

friends what we saw and all friends listening
as if we were telling Deewar film story.
'lift mai daar laga kya'
'areey upar atak gaya tou'
'hey upaar sey dekh tey samay dar nahi lag ta
kya ree' 'hey swiming pool mai kay dekhaa '
were some questions.
4/17/2006 2:37 PM
I remember when my grandfather took me
and my cousins to the Worls trade center just
to show us the escalators... we spent an
entire afternoon going up and down those
...
Milind
The pedestrian overbridge at Marine drive had
escalators as well - but I never saw it work
4/17/2006 4:25 PM
hi everyone! i feel so happy right now.. like i
havent felt in many years. I have laughed so
hard remembering the old days.. not as old as
the anna days or the tram days. its amazing
that memories comes back when instigated by
some other parallel memories...I am not
going to put any of them in here cause i think
most have been put on in these last 2 years
that this thread has existed. the school days
were golden.. lots of space to play galli cricket
and mri made rubber balls which were priced
at 3.50.. even at that time teams collected 75
paise from each player in the colony and
bought balls from the local general stores.
"box-type" had become the game. Salil
mentioned french cricket in one of his earliest
posts.. yeah i remember it very clearly..was
fun to bhe**%^&d hit the ball on the guys
yash feet.Talking about advertising I dont know if
anybody in the preceding posts has
mentioned the very famous ad "A cigarette in
my hand.. i felt like a man". school was fun on
fridays with the white uniforms and white
canvas shoes.. we used to get a think paste
that you applied on the canvas shoes the
night before friday morning so they would dry.
and rainy days.. with gum-boots....
man...often we mumbaikars here discuss stuff
that we grew up with but this here is a wealth
of information. Thanks to all you guys. it
brings peace to me to remember these days
about bombay after so many years and
especially when im away from the place.
I havent read all the posts. Has anybody read
the book Shantaram.. by gregory david
roberts?.... i met the guy last year on May 7th
in Leopolds...I was so amazed with the book
that I just had to go there once again and I
actually met the guy... who had come there to
see his friend from australia... this was the
same day that abhishek bacchan and boman
irani were shooting for "bluffmaster" at the
gateway... the "piche mat dekhna piche mat
dekhna" scene which i later saw here after it
was released...
yeah me currently reading shantaram
4/23/2006 2:46 AM
by gregiry david roberts.
And man this book has changed my view
about mumbai. For a guy brought up in the
suburbs, little did i know all my life about the
drug cartels, the extent of availability and
organised crime for me was little more than
the D vs Chhota R and extorting wealthy
Nirav builders.
Well all said and done there is little petty

crime in the city, and i feel safe moving out at
any point in the night alone
books.. 4/23/2006 11:09 AM
guys..can u gimme a good list of books to
read on bombay....its history n all....
Archana
4/23/2006 11:16 AM
start with Maximum City : Bombay lost and
found....
Shantaram mentioned in the previous post is
good too...
Bhavik



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4/23/2006 11:19 AM
Archana: Why spend money on books on
Bombay, just read this thread (main author
Bombay Salil)in detail ,I bet u wont need any book!
(6845 members) Pravin Da
and if u still has time compile this and make a
book!!
4/23/2006 11:21 AM
yeh thread ko compile kiya to who will have
the copyright?
Bhavik
4/23/2006 11:26 AM
forget about copyright there wont be any
copyleft!!!
Pravin Da
4/24/2006 4:45 AM
forget it, i've been trying to save this thread delete
for i don't know how long i think i'm some 40
pages into it so far..
as for shantaram, nirav i'd advise you to take

it with a pinch of salt, the more i read it the
less i found believable. when he started
talking about a widespread cholera epidemic
in the late 80's - early 90's, i gave the book
up. to top it all the guy almost ran me over
with his bike.. riding full speed on the
pavement during the kala ghoda festival a
couple of months ago.
thanks for the info on ranipal pravinda.. in

fact there were so many ads in which i did not
(then) know what the actual product was.
there used to be poters/boards and small ads

in the times for 'PECOPP' with half a black
cat's head for a pest control company.
freedom sanitary pads of course was a big

mystery to me then too.
Salil
as was 'OKASA' silver pills for men. A guy in
my class used to carry his broke crayons in an
okasa box and i would keep wondering what
his dad took those piss for.
and i'm sure a lot of people still remember the

fist and rifle graphic of '303'.
there used to be ads for 'tebilized' i asked a

tutor once what 'tebilized' was and he said it's
the same as 'sanforised'... like that would
help.
there were ads for 'steritabs' that claimed to

remove impurities in water. i used to wonder
how you could take something out of water by
adding more stuff to it.
Does anyone remember the first branded

frisbee that was launched? or have i asked
that before? i remember it clearly because the
company that made them was NOT a toy
company.
4/24/2006 5:59 AM
they ran an ad for that frisbee didn't they ?
this rings such a big bell in my head
...think think...
Freebird
4/24/2006 6:07 AM
yup. and guess what, i've never seen this delete
otherwise but they used another brand's
property, the poppins characters, Ram &
Shyam to advertise it. not very sure, but it's
possible there was a promotional tie-up in the
beginning. still, does anyone remember what
Salil it was called? and no vikram, i'm not giving
out the answer on mail this time.
was it... 4/24/2006 6:10 AM
Leo Mattel?
Irshad
4/24/2006 8:14 AM
yes yes
leo mattel .. the hotweels guys ..
they used to have a very fancy packaging for
that i think.. didn't they also market
Freebird bommerang at some point too ?..
tho unsuccessfully..
4/24/2006 10:45 AM
nope. i said not a toy company. delete
leo mattel came much later, when leo toys

decided to tie up for the whole he-man action
figure and barbie franchise.
before that was just leo toys, preceded by

aurora hasbro and shakti toys which basically
made a whole lot of guns and cars and a few
board games.
another memory some of you might have, is

that before aquaguard became a household
name, we had water filters in every house.
ugly two tiered metal containers, and the top
one had 1 or 2 ceramic 'candles' which would
Salil drip down filtered water into the lower
container which had a tap. now 2 companies
were at the top of this market: Crompton and
Phirol. Phirol was also in every house in the
shape of that filter which fit directly on to the
tap. remember? typically a red rubberised
plastic kind of thing that fit snugly on the
faucet and a blue porous section that did the
actual filtering? ring a bell?
well Phirol was the first frisbee in the market

with the "Phirol Firkee" dig out your old
indrajals and you might find the ads..
@Salil 4/24/2006 11:47 AM
Didn't Phirol use a clown to advertise their
Frisbees? I think that clown was a comic book
character too - but the name slips my mind at
Milind the moment...



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4/24/2006 11:49 AM
Bozo - I think that was the name of the
clown...
Bombay
(6845 members) Milind
4/24/2006 3:08 PM
Yeah, I remember both the types of
filters that you've described Salil... one
of the science textbooks even had a
description of that.
And also Godrej refrigerators, that

initially didn't have the automatic
defrost, so every weekend the whole
thing would be cleaned up to get rid of
Bhavik all the accumulated ice.
Ever notice that the old time Godrej
fridge had A LOCK AND KEY? I think I
read somewhere that lock-and-key for
the fridge is an exclusive Indian
phenomenon.
4/25/2006 5:12 AM
I am half way through Shantaram, and
it reads like a Bollywood potboiler,
rather than reality.
Speaking of books, has anyone else

Just Read read "Crazy Bombay", by Gangadhar
Gadgil?
4/25/2006 5:48 AM
i would keep wondering what his dad
took those piss for.
You went to school with Morarjibhai's

son Kanti?
Vikram P.S. Shantaram is quite a crappy book

really. Badly researched (even though
he "claims" it's real life)
4/25/2006 6:26 AM
yeah milind, i vaguely remember that delete
bozo rip off.. do you remember a
detergent brand that used a clown? in
fact the back of the carton had, for a
while; a clown puppet you could cut out
and string together. i loved the carton
that came with a double decker bus
model you could assemble after you cut
it out.remember the name of the
detergent? speaking of paper puppets,
the old OLD colgate logo could be cut
Salil out from the toothpaste carton and
made into a puppet too..
bhavik, they still make locks for

refrigerator doors. i think it may well be
an india only phenomenon. like the
locks they have for telephones.
4/25/2006 6:32 AM
Wow! This is certainly a great walk
down nostalia lane. Adding to the train
of thoughts, 'Rukavat ke liye khed hai'
on DD with the rainbown colored stripes
one had to watch for long periods of
time before getting on to the show.
Srilakshmi/Meera Talking of books based in Bombay,

'Family Matters' by Rohinton Mistry is a
great peek into the Parsi community.
Have you read it?
4/25/2006 8:30 AM
Is that detergent name 'Point' from
mysore soaps,
and about lock on godrej refrigerator-

Pravin Da
they were first in lock business na, so its
sort of advertisement!!
4/25/2006 1:27 PM
recently looked at maximum city nice
book
think i have already discussed this
somewhere else salman rushdie's moors
Amit
last sigh and midnights children also
paint bombay very beautifully
@salil 4/25/2006 4:43 PM
Are you talking about Hipolin?
Milind
4/25/2006 10:02 PM
Wow this thread is brilliant!
Oh Hugger!



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4/25/2006 10:21 PM
Going back to Phirol .. was it not Phirol Phirkee ? I
somehow remember it as Phirol Phirkee.
Bombay
(6845 members)
Advait
@Artist 4/26/2006 12:33 AM
all bouncers...
Coddie
4/26/2006 7:31 AM
@Coddie,
more like beamers.
Kevin
4/26/2006 10:14 PM
remeber those days when every Sun they showed
movie on DD n the whole family plus the neighbours
wld gather around to watch them
Mahalaxmi
4/26/2006 11:12 PM
And I remember the deathly silence and deserted
when Mahabharat was being aired. And hearing
MAHAAABHAAAAAAAAARAT echoing from every
single TV set in the nation.
I remember Bharat Ek Khoj. Chitrahaar. Those

educational cartoons---- that unity one with bela
Oh gulab juhi champa chameli all forming a garland
Hugger! together and that morphs into the outline of India.
Ek, anek and the pigeons trapped in the net.... How
the 'Superhit Muqabala' revolution hit us. The first
non-DD channel---- was it CNN?
Funny how we had DD and DD Metro, and only part

of the day, and we still had better stuff to watch
than what we get with a hajjar channels today. And
we got by JUST FINE without Ekta Kapoor.
GOD! I remember the endless classical music

sessions that happened all afternoon with faux
painted sets with fake flowers, with the background
in 'soothing' shades of blue and green, with women
in Kanjivarams and venis in thier hair.
Rukawat ke liye khed hai.... And those Rainbow

stripes---- help!
Times of India didnt publish cartoons during the

Gulf War, and I was pissed as hell. I was a very
unsympathetic child I guess ;)
Amul Chocolates! They've completely dissapeared! I

remember flavours like Fruit n nut, orange apart
from Milk chocolate.... Help me out here.... What
WERE the others?!
Then Nestle was launched.... And how they had a

wider range when they launched than they do now.
There was a pretty nice dark bitter chocolate....
*sigh*
Campa replaced by Coke!
Okay this is recent history for most of you... but I'm

a bit chronologically challenged.
4/26/2006 11:24 PM
guys do u remember the "Gold Spot" drink... there
used also b a silly game associated with it.
Amrita
4/26/2006 11:32 PM
A chance remark by a co-worker this morning and
all I can think of is Archana Puran Singh with her
trademark "Wah! Kya Scene Hai" show...
Vikram
4/26/2006 11:39 PM
@Amrita
Yeah totally....
@Vikram
You've got a looong day ahead! :P
Oh Does anyone else remeber those early 90s long

Hugger! flowy skirts and those extra-tight broad belts with
loud flashy buckles, the big madhuri-dixit curls and
the extra-pink make-up?
Pooja Bhatt actually made a debut once upon a
time. So did Karishma Kapoor. Tabu and Ajay
Devgan singing Ruk ruk ruk?! Shah Rukh Khan back
in the days when he actually acted and gave you
the heebie jeebies.
4/27/2006 12:06 AM
karishma used to look so weird, with her thick eye
brows.. she looks so much more feminine now..
Amrita
4/27/2006 12:13 AM
xtra-tight broad belts with loud flashy buckles
???
Coddie I wear em NOW...



arbitrary n random

4/27/2006 1:29 AM
walking down the road right in front of the police
headqurters near crawford market at around
Bombay 8.00a.m in the morning.the only movement was the
(6845 members)
poor people who used the posh marble steps of
fancy stores like roopam,samrat,cambel,shetal as a
bed to lie down on,because they had to leave as son
sachin they could .......the stores would open in a few
hours and ven before that the policemen doing their
rounds wiould harrass them.
4/27/2006 3:56 AM
too many things about south mumbai when people
were not paranoid as they are now
sachin
4/27/2006 7:21 AM
People are paranoid now? About South Bombay?
Dylan
4/27/2006 9:44 AM
@Dylan,
Dude, i remember you from Crimson Glory.
Kevin
4/27/2006 10:07 AM
This thread is so nostalgic....
Especially now that i m here, it reminds me more of
Mumbai
Kavita
4/27/2006 1:05 PM
i remember my days in maneckji cooper school...we
used to get Energee milk and 2 parle g biscuits
during break time. as soon as the bell rang for
break everyone used to run to get hold of the few
Aditi bottles of 'coffee' flavour Energee.
4/27/2006 1:40 PM
I remember the weekend blasts at The prabhu
Gaurav
4/27/2006 10:51 PM
remeber the boost n milo tryouts in school where
we used to run to drink the free drinks
Mahalaxmi
4/27/2006 10:55 PM
I remember when Vivek Oberoi had a hit...
Coddie
4/27/2006 11:07 PM
No Codie, I dont think that has happened as yet...
not a solo hit at least.
Found myself humming the "Cigarette in my hand"

spot this morning.... Hmmm
Oh
Hugger!


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4/28/2006 1:46 AM
I remember watching Ajay Devgan in a black ganji shooting the 'entry sce
famous action films near my house. (Also remember watching the film & s
watched that scene being shot")
Aditi Remember Divya Bharti being my favourite actress

4/28/2006 1:52 AM
Bombay havent had a chance to browse thru the entire forum ....but failed to find a
(6845 members) "aamchi mati...aamchi manse" on DD. I think it used to be aired on weekd
Nevil
4/28/2006 1:57 AM
amchi maati amchi manas..santakukdi..kilbil..chimanrao and gundhya bha
lamp..sports round up...saptahiki..chaya geet...phool khile hain gulshan g
rukaavat ke liye kheyd hai

Swati
4/28/2006 7:45 AM
@Aditi,
There is no coffee flavor energy. It must have been chocolate flavor. It's s
Kevin
4/28/2006 8:12 AM
^^ there definitely was a coffee flavour
Aditi
4/28/2006 9:08 AM
yes its simlar to cold coffee , It was my favorite too , we used to get in Sa
sundays (I have already mentioned this)
Pravin Da
4/28/2006 9:09 AM
savio club..don bosco...wont u take me to funky town blaring...couples jiv
songs..sigh..some time around january-feb it used to be..the savio fair
Swati
4/28/2006 9:11 AM
yes read this
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=972&tid=1026648&na=4&
Pravin Da 1026648-2457950605295888696
4/28/2006 9:47 AM
i'll vouch for that too... coffee was my favourite energee flavour as well. in
probably the only one i liked.
Salil
4/28/2006 10:01 AM
Well to be fair, I also liked the pineapple flavour...
I had a pineapple flavoured milkshake recently at the Aarey parlour next t

Milind the Gateway... loved it, after so many years...
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arbitrary n random

4/28/2006 11:01 AM
eeeww i hated pineapple flavour...used to hold my
nose & gulp it down.
Bombay
(6845 members)
talking abt school days...i remember the '93 riots...
initially i was damn kicked coz it meant holiday from
school & our exams were cancelled...gradually that
excitement turned into confusion/fear when
rumours began doing the rounds of our
building....that a 'chaakoo vaala bhai' was hiding
somewhere in our compund or xyz's father was
Aditi nearly stabbed on his way back from work. i think
that was the first time i was introduced to
communal differences by some older kids in the
building who told us little ones.. "if someone asks
whether you are a hindu or muslim, dont answer
because if he is a muslim he will kill u because u r
hindu."
4/28/2006 11:34 AM
On that riots- how diif each place of mumbai at that
time - our area was safe for both Hindus and
Muslim
I remember its was saturday I was working
overtime that day in Mulund factory and life was
normal there , i wanted to go to wadala temple , so
i went by train to dadar everything looked normal
trains rly station all crowded , in dadar i went to one
of my friends house who was just behind that
sawminarayyan temple( now that bldg is taken and
rebuilt by sawminarayan trust)
after that at about 6.150 pm I started walking
towards Prithamm ,then dadar TT
Pravin Da crowded diminished and then at Dadar circle I was
alone on middle of the road no vehicle,no
pedestrian only police van and fire brigade enggine ,
at 6.15 pm in dadar no pedestrian, shops closed
was imaginary thing , i was bit tense and nervous
,(curphew was declared and police were anouncing
BEST buses stopped frm 7 pm onwards since
previous night Dawood shoe shop was burned ) I
was almost dragging my feet forward I manage to
go to temple and came back hurriedly from same
route to dadar railway station and scene changed
station crowded trains crowded i came back to
ghatkopar stn then came walking home roads were
crowded as usual as if nothing is there , i narreted
the dadar incident at home they could not beleive i
have gone through tense situation 1 hrs before.
This is Mumbai !! its different!
4/28/2006 11:41 AM
the girls might remember this game...
FLAMES
F = friend, L = love, A = adore, M = marriage, E =
enemy, S = sister(?)
& a later variant was FLASHES
Aditi
Also name, place, animal, thing
4/28/2006 11:53 AM
the guys might remember chor police
Shailen
@Aditi 4/29/2006 12:10 AM
The 'A' stood for Asshole not Adore...
HEY HEY HEY!!!
Super 'I remember' post...
how many of you have played text book cricket?

Coddie
Where the last digit of the page number decides the
runs you make (7 makes 1 run, 8 is no ball, 9 is
wide)
4/29/2006 12:56 AM
yes !!... text book cricket ..
the saving grace for all
history classes ...
Freebird
4/29/2006 1:40 AM
Coddie : yes , text book cricket ,we used to play in
70s also!! during english , history and geography
period.
also we used to make animation cartoon step by

Pravin Da step pic of cartoon in each page of 200page rough
note book corner and then on moving (shufling)
page fast we used to see that cartoon moving its
hand leg , walking etc.
4/29/2006 7:36 AM
text book cricket! i always lost :-(
remember the indipop singers of the 90s...sunita

rao (pari hoon main), mehnaaz (banoongi main
miss india), shaan & sagarika (pyar mein aisa hota
hai), shweta shetty (johnny joker), biddu (boom
Aditi boom), colonial cousins...
had totally forgot that they existed until i saw
suneeta rao & mehnaaz at the kalaghoda festival.. &
colonial cousins judging saregamapa
@Pravin Da 4/29/2006 9:52 AM
You guys seriously needed a life...
I mean what the hell were the girls for?

Coddie
4/29/2006 9:57 AM
We used to play something something called pen-
fight on the school desks.
Donno if it happened elsewhere too...
Bhavik



arbitrary n random

4/29/2006 10:02 AM
dekho na ... johhny johhny joker !!!
Bombay
(6845 members) Freebird
4/29/2006 11:49 AM
I remember pen fights! There was a whole year in
the 5th standard when that was a craze
Saurabh
4/29/2006 1:43 PM
HELL YEAH!!
Pen fights live forevermore!!!
I remember people specifically bought the rubber

gripped pens in order to last longer in the battles...
the savkar kids bought the special gripped big ones

Coddie costing around 50 bucks...
if the one with a bad pen defeated the bettter pen...

he was like Mithun, poor Hero beating bad rich
villan
4/29/2006 8:00 PM
our desks had small circular pits for ink pots. so we
used to play carrom with our erazors.
also football on the last pages of the book. the page
Kevin used to get thrashed though.
4/29/2006 9:31 PM
In small recess we used to play table tenis on class
room table
also cricket in class room with paper ball
(papers crimpled to make round and tied with
rubber bands ro make small ball) and thik note
book as bat and scores are as per hit on wall , dist ,
Pravin Da which row of bench etc and if ball goes outside class
through door or window means he is out.Fielding
standing on benches and on rows between benches
, one person used to stand out to see any faculty
members or peon around and used to warn us.
4/29/2006 10:55 PM
Chalk fights...beats all.
Vineet
4/29/2006 11:16 PM
BOINK!
NONE OF YOU WOULD REMEMBER THIS!!!
During my 3rd-4th grades, we had this special little

rubber bats measuring perhaps 2 inches and a little
rubber ball 1.5 cms in diameter... we used to play
cricket with that...
I also recall overhearing some girl games...
'Aa mina
Super celo
Coddie crazy girls
lazy boys'
and the rest is not in my mind...
Also, how many of you played statue-statue?

There was a variation of 10 blows if someone
moved while getting statued... that lame Ash-Sallu
movie ruined the reputation of the game
4/30/2006 3:12 AM
aa-bina.
super sina.
bing bong.
crazy girl.
aa bina super sina bing bong crazy girl
STATUE.
Statue statue
Aditi police will catch you
dog will bite you
mother will kiss you
father will hit you! (hit the person closest to you as
you say 'hit you')
4/30/2006 3:43 AM
chalk fights, i agree, vinit!
that was fun... esp when done during a class...
when d teacher turned around to chalk out
Eternal
somethin on d blackboard
4/30/2006 11:08 AM
there was some chalk fight in class 7. though i was
a culprit a friend was caught with chalks inhis hand
and had to buy 2 boxes asa punishment
Nirav and @ codie that cricket set is damn old man



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4/30/2006 11:29 AM
Is this the same cricket set which came on a green
cloth that was the pitch and little plastic players
Bombay whose feet were attached to little green open-
(6845 members)
scissor shaped plastic pieces - that's how they
"fielded"
A little ball was passed over a slide which had
different levels for "fast paced" and "medium
Bhavik
paced" and the batsman hit with a little plastic bat.
And the green cloth had markings where fielders
were supposed to be placed on.
4/30/2006 12:30 PM
Babhubhai Jagjivandas
Duckback shoes bags and all
Squeezee waterbottles
Red color gum boots for the girls :))
Shailen
Anyone ever hated gumboots? I totally detested
them
4/30/2006 12:39 PM
Farhad Wadia...
at rang bhavan on the nights of 14th and 15th
August every year .. till the government intervened.
Shailen
4/30/2006 12:43 PM
i loved gumboots.
until i reached my tweens & wanted something
more girly...then i used to wea 'rainy
shoes'...plastic/rubber pumps which now i find
Aditi absolutely ghastly!!
4/30/2006 7:26 PM
Not sure if you guys played cricket like
this...randomly open the even page number of the
book the number ending with "0" was out.
also playing cricket on paper with one person doing
field placemnet and the bowling and other player
batting, bowling and batting was done by pressing
the pencil tight on the paper and then releasing it in
Nevil one desired direction!..football also played
similarly..and also name, place animal thing... pen
fights were all time fun...and also scale fight...i
dunno how many scales i landed up
breaking...buying the most flexible scale the reason
being the ability to flip it!
5/1/2006 12:14 AM
The gumboots rocked...
I used to buy the much larger ones in length and

tucked my trousers inside them and wore a very
huge leather belt with a gigantic buckle and a black
raincoat...
Coddie Man, it was so weird and cool
note: Yes, I have been a weirdo since long...
I just liked the gothic warrior look it gave

5/2/2006 1:02 PM
Timeplease! for some odd reason we used to lick
the back of our palm, stick it in the other kid's face
& then say timeplease.
& i was damn smart...when the person coming to

give me 'dhappa' was close i'd quickly shout
timeplease & say...oh im tired..so i'd never be out.
oh & the person whose den it was, was called

Aditi 'denner' & i remember our english teacher trying to
convince us that there is no word like denner...that
was so disappointing.
& does anyone remember those plastic ice cubes we

used to put in our water bottles?
5/2/2006 10:35 PM
I recall in Holi we used chalk powder to colour each
other and I also remember fracturing a wrist when
he tried to give me the 'dhappa'...
Moron brought his Dada, Dadi, Mama, Mami,

Mummy, Daddy, Big Sis and a cousin to school...
I think it is quite notable that till 9th Std... even if

Coddie there was a scratch on someone, he would bring his
family to get vengeance whereas in 10th... to save
his impression and look cool among the girl he
would plan a sneak revenge attack (I know, none of
you remember)
plzzz join this coomunity 5/3/2006 5:14 AM
BEST buses
Check out
my
5/3/2006 5:46 AM
Okay, your exams are over, but I suggest you GET
A FUCKIN LIFE! Go ride a BEST Bus will ya!
Oh
Hugger!



random

5/3/2006 9:07 AM
Artist madam...
Bombay Kyu gusaa hoti ho... naadaan hai bacha..

(6846 members)
Coddie
@avinash 5/3/2006 10:23 AM
that's tue
independence rock at rang bhavan every year
that is one nice memory !!
Freebird It's a pitty what happenned to all that

Rang Bhavan Rocked !!
hey 5/3/2006 10:58 AM
anybody remember photo romance ? are they still
around? i had friends who went went ga ga over them
and even had their own fav heroes :)
Monks
5/3/2006 11:47 AM
Another super I remember!
Fire in the mountain RUN RUN RUN!

or something like that...
Coddie how bout Stop Palti? Where one person if sighting

anyone else can issue a stop making him lose...
Whereas Palti was a pat on the back by a person not
stopped yet...
very ninja like.
How many of you played the WWF cards where you

compared height weight and all...
join this too 5/3/2006 12:26 PM
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=12445052
Piyush
5/3/2006 12:45 PM
WWF trump cards! Hulk Hogan was the no. 1 rank. & the
highest 'chest' was 52..dont remember whose.
some card packs had couple of scantily dressed female
wrestlers & the guys used to drool over them, hoping
Aditi they'd get the one wit the best 'chest' stats.
5/3/2006 2:08 PM
And Bret Hard Hitman with his blue glasses.. and
Undertaker without any eyebrows!
Srilakshmi/Meera
5/3/2006 2:24 PM
Macho man, shawn michales with his flashy shades and
british bulldog and lex lugger with best chest and
biceps.........yokozuna being the heaviest!...i'as once in
my 7th std caught watching WWF postcards in
Nevil school......and the school authorites freakin took all of
my 150-200 odd postcards away!........lol.........good old
days!
5/3/2006 2:51 PM
I have not checked the previous posts so dont know
whether this one is a repetition..
But I remember trying to get my hands on those "flick"

cards.. A set of cards with Sunil Gavaskar in different
poses while drinking a Thums Up (I guess)
Shailendra
So you "flick" the cards and see him gulping down the
whole cola!!
Power failures; shadows on the wall; Maggi book
5/4/2006 3:04 PM
I'm not sure if this should go in this thread... but today
as I sat in my lab in front of the computer a while back,
there was a momentary voltage fluctuation for a fraction
of a second which was back to normal in no time - but
enough to feel it and turn off the computers with all
unsaved data gone....
Bhavik
It reminds me of the power failures we experienced in
childhood , and still occasionally happen in Bombay,
fortunately not as much as the rest of the country. We'd
all gather either at our house or the neighbours' , and it
would be an impromptu social gathering with rumours
and speculation about the power and as kids we'd make
shadows on the wall with our fingers and palms.... now
that reminds me of a little "Maggi book" that you got in
exchange for a certain number of Maggi noodle packets.
The Maggi book had a lot of shadows you could make,
also some comics/stories and puzzles.



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5/4/2006 5:33 PM
Bhavik:r u in US?
what sort of lab u r working , no UPS,spike buster,
Bombay window XP ?? and voltaje fluctuation?
(6846 members)
Pravin Da
This is not happeneing in Mumbai at least.
5/4/2006 6:09 PM
Hahahaha, yeah it happened , but was part of some
repair/new installation where they warned us in
advance...
Some of us were too smart to not heed their advice
Windows XP does not save unsaved data in a
Bhavik
situation like this ,does it?
5/4/2006 9:25 PM
@Bhavik
I'm sure it will if you make enough blood sacrifices
to Bill Gates.....
Oh
Hugger!
floodssssss 5/5/2006 12:05 AM
nightmare..... mumbai had seen in ages.... but thts
not what i remember much ... i remember the way
Mumbai fought back and revived within few days...
the camaraderie and the mettle shown by one and
all was nothing short of heroic or being called JUST
Bhagat AWESOME!!! Mumbai rocks......
5/5/2006 3:13 AM
i remember those debateful evenings with friends at
a usually empty Prithvi sit out - smokes n 1 irish
coffee could last hours.
these days the place is more like a pick up for
Shree wannabe actors even on weekdays
Chacha Deepak 5/6/2006 5:37 PM
Can't find an earlier mention of this. In the 1960s
Akbarallys used to have a Santa Claus clone around
Diwali time called Chacha Deepak. Kids would go to
him and tell him what they wanted (I think it could
be for Christmas? - getting hazy).
I went once and he gave me a little bag of goodies

(including a miniature Cadburys choc smaller than
one could buy). After asking me what I wanted as a
gift, he asked where my parents were. I said my
dad was standing outside the shop and he pushed
Ash me off with a grunt! I wonder if the idea was to get
the parents to the counter where they sold the
desired item.
In later years I was bemused at the business model

of this "department store" - the first in Bombay I
think - and how it managed to survive.
5/6/2006 7:35 PM
Ash,
We mentioned it here
Vikram
5/6/2006 7:53 PM
Hooray!
I had a pepsi yesterday..NOT the cola..the forzen

Rasna type stuff in a little (filthy) plastic baggie...I
thought they stopped making those years ago. I
remember buying the small one for 25 paise and
the big one for 50 paise. My favourite was the
kalakhatta flavour.
Well, I found a store on Pali Hill that sells pepsi and

Vikram I had about 6 in a row. they don't cost 25 paise
anymore ..they're 5 Rs each!!
They also had the raspberry-vanilla duet icecream

that I remember being the biggest fan off. I'm
gonna try that after my run this evening. Hooray
again!
5/6/2006 9:57 PM
Vikram : we used to call pepsi cola for that in those
days before pepsi came to India , its still available
in small hotels or stores here also and price may
vary depends on quality of water and ingradients ,
Pravin Da its also available at Rs 1 and 50 paise (very small
size) ,available in area mostly near big grounds
where people play cricket
5/6/2006 10:07 PM
we used to get He-Man
(and the Masters of the universe) comics with every
two bars of FUDGY chocolate bar. I think the bars
cost around Rs.5-6 each.
RoDz



arbitrary n random

5/7/2006 2:15 AM
talking abt chocolates reminds me of that
pack of 3 nestle chocolate bars -- dark
Bombay chocolate, milk chocolate (the one wit a red
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cover) & milky bar.
Aditi Is Nestle Dark Chocolate still available
anywhere?
5/7/2006 3:42 AM
Hey Pravin Da and Vikram...
Those Pepsi colas are still widly available in
most of the rural areas.
And the best part is they are still available at
a low cost....50ps for the water ones and 1Rs
for the milk ones(small size).Big ones cost
Rs2
Rohit Considering the exponential rise in everything
else...this is one product whose price has not
gone up much.
I always make it a point to have pepsi cola
when i go on any trek....since they are
available in all the villages.
5/7/2006 3:44 AM
Hey Aditi....
I think those Dark Chocos by Nestle are long
gone...used to be my favourite too...
Rohit U can try the Hersheys dark choco..they are
awesome!
5/7/2006 10:37 PM
Has anyone seen pictures of deities, drawn on
the roads, with coloured chalks lately. I have
not seen them for quite a while now
Advait
5/8/2006 12:32 AM
There was a giant Sai Baba one on the
footpath near Kalaghoda a couple of days
ago..
Vikram
Pepsi!!! 5/8/2006 11:22 AM
along with 'bada' pepsi and 'chhota' pepsi,
there also was the "milk" pepsi. I think that
was 50 ps too.
Dylan
5/8/2006 11:39 AM
I recall drinking them till third standard...
My health grew worse and had to stop them

then by Parents orders
There was something like rose milk and coffee

Coddie milk versions which I loved a lot.
We used to get them for like 50p - 1 r.

Pictures of dieties 5/8/2006 11:40 AM
Don't you have religious symbols implanted as
tiles on road-facing walls just to deter people
from peeing on them?
Bhavik
5/8/2006 12:34 PM
The red cover one(i forget its name) and the
milkybar versions are still there... but the
dark chocolate is no longer available.
Srilakshmi/Meera
5/8/2006 1:02 PM
woooooo i am getting nostalgic here. i used to
hv thes pepsi colas when i was in my school.
there was this shop near our school from
where we used to get them for 25ps. well ......
gaya woh zamana.
As for the tv progs ....... i used to love giant
robot & the way the jap kid used to say it
"Come on Giant Robot"
And i still remember waking up on Sunday
hearing to Rangoli songs. And then Ramayan
& then Mahabharat. Each household watched
these serials & there was quietness on roads.
Rupali Then there were the serials like potli baba ki &
jungle book. And who can forget Trishna,
Rehne do ji, Aakar & Sukanya which used to
come on DD in afternoon transmission. Also
during the summer vacations in afternoon
transmission on DD they used to also show
fairy tales.
All these sends me in the yesteryears of
Bombay
Long Live the Spirit of Bombay & we
Bombayeties
Love You BOMBAY



arbitrary n random

5/8/2006 9:53 PM
And 'Shanti' used to be the longest-running
afternoon soap once upon a time ;)
Bombay
(6846 members)
Oh
Hugger!
Summer fun 5/8/2006 10:42 PM
Anyone own a BSA bike?
I remember pakaoing my dad for months until

I got a BSA bike just in time for my summer
holidays.
Summer holidays se yaad aaya:
1. Joining a "circulating" library run out of a

tiny shack every April and reading every Enid
Blyton, Desmond Bagley and Alistair Maclean
ever (PS> I'm talking about me as a 10 year
old btw..so don't judge me for not reading
Harold Robbins and the like..)
2. Waking up early in the morning to head to

Vikram the bicycle shop to rent a good bike for 3Rs
per hour and then heading off with a gang of
about 20 kids to explore Pali Hill slopes..
3. Fighting with each other over who gets to

eat the raspberry part and who gets the
vanilla bit in the "Duet".
4. Raiding my neighbors terraces to open and

snack on the assorted bottles of "chunda"
cooking in the hot sun. (This was when
Bandra was full of 1-2 storey buildings and
bungalows..not the 10-15 storey
monstrosities we see today)
5. Walking around with a big stick looking for
"kairi" all along the side roads in Bandra.
6. Buying brown paper and labels and note

books and text books for the next year and
covering them very nicely all set for June
13th.
7. Reading the English, Rapid Reading and

History text books WAY ahead of time and
then inisting I was bored all through the
school year.
5/8/2006 11:13 PM
i remember the ad for BSA SLR which also delete
had a comic strip version in which Kapil Dev's
car breaks down and he asks this passing
cyclist babe..
Salil "Hey BSA, can i ride your SLR?"
innuendo or what?
5/8/2006 11:21 PM
"Hey BSA, can i ride your SLR?"
And that is why you should pay your

advertising agency on time--- so they don't
consider revenge.
Oh
Hugger!
5/8/2006 11:53 PM
errr... i am in an advertising agency. so i do delete
support your statement.
but a quick memory flash redeems kapil and

his copywriter. now that i think about it, he
Salil said can i borrow your SLR..
5/8/2006 11:59 PM
Argh MEN! They see a hot woman and they
try to get their hands on her camera. ;)
Oh
Hugger!
5/9/2006 12:02 AM
From the community profile:
1.Advertising is not allowded in Mumbai.
Salil, don't shoot the messenger, but you're a

fugutive.
Oh
Hugger!
@Vik 5/9/2006 12:10 AM
I remember having a Top Gear Ezy...
It was then considered cool to have a cycle
with gears.
Coddie I recall doing the same on Kali Tekri in
Mulund... only that we would climb till the first
level with an adult and then eat like pigs and
come back...
'Peppy' was it then.
Having a computer was a luxury (before

1998).
Every owned a 'video game'. It was a 8-bit

NES system with cassetes and all. My god...
what lame games (but I have spent far more
time playing them rather than the ps2)
We raided for the papads... (all mongolians)
We used the stick for Jamuns from the

terrace, one of my friends broke his leg.
Though I recall actually being forced to cover

the damn books for June 13th.
Well, The English, RR, history books were the

only ones which you liked to read... I mean,
who the fuck would randomly read a math
book... I recall also seeing all the pictures
from Science textbook.
I wonder why did everyone laugh so much

during the 'reproduction' chapter... It was so
funny when the teacher was explaining the
process, not the content but the teacher's
face.
I recall in every class, there was one

extremely powerful person to whom most
were shrimps.
Its very unnatural to have an accurate ONE

powerful person in the class.
Pre - 7th Grade, the boys actually had to

muster up courage to speak to the girls.
And everyone had an unusual habit of linking

any random boy with a girl because he/she
would talk to the other...
Weird...
5/9/2006 12:18 AM
oh damn! now where do i go? delete
not giving up advertising for sure it's way too
much fun. a doting mother just sent pics of
her baby for modelling ans said "please use
him fast, he's growing up!"
Salil
so till the new mod kicks me out, i'll stick with
the drill till then..
vik, summer holiday circulating libraries

rocked i used to walk from navjeevan society
to imperial cinema where dewans had a
treasure trove of books. didn't the air smell
different during vacations? the 'fragrance' of
old books was a major component.
bike rentals? 50p an hour in my time. yes yes,

pravinda i know you could buy a bike or that
much in yours..
did anyone else like those icecreams you got

in a plastic ball?
Ball ice creams 5/9/2006 12:25 AM
Hell yeah I loved em.
What ever happened to the ice cream brands
like 100% (everything about it is 100%)
Kwality n stuff....
Oh Remember when 16 mb ram was HOT, since 8

Hugger! mb was the norm?

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● view forum StrongGel consider revenge.
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errr... i am in an advertising agency. so i do
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but a quick memory flash redeems kapil and

Salil his copywriter. now that i think about it, he
(manage) said can i borrow your SLR..
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@Vik
Anonymous I remember having a Top Gear Ezy...
It was then considered cool to have a cycle
with gears.
I recall doing the same on Kali Tekri in

Mulund... only that we would climb till the first
level with an adult and then eat like pigs and
come back...
'Peppy' was it then.
Having a computer was a luxury (before 1998).
Every owned a 'video game'. It was a 8-bit

NES system with cassetes and all. My god...
what lame games (but I have spent far more
time playing them rather than the ps2)
We raided for the papads... (all mongolians)
We used the stick for Jamuns from the terrace,

one of my friends broke his leg.
Though I recall actually being forced to cover

the damn books for June 13th.
Well, The English, RR, history books were the

only ones which you liked to read... I mean,
who the fuck would randomly read a math
book... I recall also seeing all the pictures from
Science textbook.
I wonder why did everyone laugh so much

during the 'reproduction' chapter... It was so
funny when the teacher was explaining the
process, not the content but the teacher's face.
I recall in every class, there was one

extremely powerful person to whom most were
shrimps.
Its very unnatural to have an accurate ONE

powerful person in the class.
Pre - 7th Grade, the boys actually had to

muster up courage to speak to the girls.
And everyone had an unusual habit of linking

any random boy with a girl because he/she
would talk to the other...

Weird...
5/9/2006 12:18 AM delete
oh damn! now where do i go?
not giving up advertising for sure it's way too
much fun. a doting mother just sent pics of her
baby for modelling ans said "please use him
Salil fast, he's growing up!"
(manage)
so till the new mod kicks me out, i'll stick with
the drill till then..
vik, summer holiday circulating libraries rocked

i used to walk from navjeevan society to
imperial cinema where dewans had a treasure
trove of books. didn't the air smell different
during vacations? the 'fragrance' of old books
was a major component.
bike rentals? 50p an hour in my time. yes yes,

pravinda i know you could buy a bike or that
much in yours..
did anyone else like those icecreams you got in

a plastic ball?
5/9/2006 12:25 AM delete
Ball ice creams
Hell yeah I loved em.
What ever happened to the ice cream brands
like 100% (everything about it is 100%)
StrongGel Kwality n stuff....
(manage)
Remember when 16 mb ram was HOT, since 8
mb was the norm?
5/9/2006 12:27 AM delete
DOS! I had a DOS nightmare some weeks ago
where my old computer teacher (who looked
like a horse, incidentally) was grilling me about
long-forgotten DOS commands.
StrongGel
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5/9/2006 12:58 AM delete

As a kid my friends and I would hire cycles
from where currently JATC operates in
Irshad Bandra...at Rs. 5 an hr. The renting library I'd
(manage) haunt used to be where KBN currently is.
Damn, those two instances say a lot.
And go to zig-zag road, and cycle up

and down
and up
and down
Damn our folks got away light, we never

fleeced them for money.
I had Joy Ice-cream's special cricket ball ice-

cream. Was pretty sweet and very amusing
when one wasn't allowed to out of the house in
the rains.
5/9/2006 2:01 AM delete
I remember... when I first saw WWF on Star
TV.
It was the Royal Rumble.(The one where
André wrestlers fill the ring and try to throw each
(manage) other out.) There were two notable
characters...a crazy viking with grizzly hair
(don't remember his name) and Texas Tornado
(who later became Ultimate Warrior). Texas
Tornado had an cool move where he grabbed
the another guy behind the neck with his
palm , and then in one swift, powerful action
tossed him over the ropes. That was my
favorite move in the after-school wrestling
matches with my brother on my parents' bed.
Luckily, both of us didn't suffer any major
wrestling injuries in those days (except for a
stinging rash behind the neck thanks to the
Texas Tornado move). The bed wasn't so lucky
and broke quite a few times.
If only we had known the wrestling wasn't
real, perhaps the bed wouldn't have had such
a hard time.
Some of the wrestlers I remember

-Bam Bam Bigelo
-Tanaka
-Razor Ramon
-Nasty boys
-Narcissist

-Bossman
-Nailz
-Repo man
and ya...I know...this has nothing to do with

Bombay or whatever it's being called these
days
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Bombay
(18,322 members) I used to mimic Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels
Anonymous a lot.
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We had a stage in the auditorium in school
● view forum where we played the rumble.
● view events I created my own move for the match where

you bend and position your wrist under your
enemy's armpit and get up while pushing the
thigh giving a circular slam.
5/9/2006 2:15 AM delete
things i remember
and what abt goldspot cold drink and the
the giant robot show
Suraj
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5/9/2006 9:45 AM delete
covering text books was like an event for me...
not that I did much work...my mom would
cover all my books in brown paper and then I
would neatly stick a label on the top right
Aditi hand corner and write my roll number. she
(manage) would fill in the other columns...name, std
etc...coz i had the handwriting of an 8-yr-old
(i was an 8yrold!) I hated the fact that my
school had standard labels and we weren't
allowed to use those cool cartoon ones. I used
those on my 'rough' book'.

5/9/2006 10:23 AM delete

BSA Champ.. i think that was the bike I was
promised if I stood first in the 3rd standard!
Report card comes home, the rank says
"first". My dad brings home the bike. The next
Dylan morning my classmate (who always beat me
(manage) to 1st rank) comes over and shows me an
average error in his report. My teacher then
contacts me to let me know that I had, in fact,
stood second! teehee. Of course, I got to keep
the bike.
5/9/2006 10:40 AM delete
In addition to the standard Hardy Boys, Enid
Blyton, Alistair McLean, Perry Mason books
Milind from the "circulating library in a shack", what
(manage) I read most were the "War Picture Library
comics" - World War II stories in comic form...
those used to be pretty interesting...
5/9/2006 10:50 AM delete
the 12'o clock funtime on DD and we used to
play "follow the leader" on our bicycles in my
Comfortably
building..theres was one leader and the rest of
(manage)
the gang follows....one who loses balance was
out.......we had a lot pillars and cars parked in
the premises....so find the hardest possible
way and clear it successfully....my first cycle
was a safari....which was later later upgraded
to a hero ranger ATB....my reason behined
that was hercules was MTB(Mountain Terrain
Bike) and this one was ATB(All terrain
Bike) .....still rememebr the names like
StreetCat and rock shocks...the inn things at
that time
5/10/2006 12:11 AM delete
the story so far...
hey people,
for those of you who'd be interested, you can
download a pdf version of this thread right up
Salil to the previous page here.[http://rapidshare.
(manage) de/files/20079132/i_remember_1430.pdf.
html]
i'll keep everyone posted as and when updates

are available.

5/10/2006 12:21 AM delete

Thanks Salil.... That halo you've got is glowing
bright today ;)
StrongGel
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5/10/2006 12:42 AM delete
Thanks Salil.
I had requested the hard copy sometime
back...but this is even better.
André Searching the thread has never been easier!
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I noticed some of the old profile pics so I
guess you have been working on this for some
time now.
Keep up the great work man!
5/10/2006 8:16 AM delete
@salil
Thanks man !! really cool
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Nice thread
gr8 thread!!
● view profile Vasudev
Kini I remember so many slums opposite my
● view forum (manage) house in 90s when I was kid ,now its different,
its export orented zone for leathers
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5/10/2006 9:49 AM delete
Salil, don't tell me you have been keeping a
running archive!! Talk about dedication!!
Milind
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5/10/2006 10:09 PM delete
I miss the BIG size of TIMES OF INDIA
Its so small now. And it does not contain any
Rupali sensible news also nowadays. It shas become
(manage) more llike a gossip paper than a newspaper. :
x
5/11/2006 6:54 AM delete
glad it was appreciated. and just in time too.
84 posts just went <poof!> from this thread
today.
Salil those posts were links in a chain of

(manage) conversation. some of them were answers to
questions which will remain unanswered to
those reading this thread now. none of those
posts had advertising or foul language.
so mr. musharraf err.. sorry moderator, you

may have assumed power unchallenged, you
may have even done a better job than the
previous mod in the simple fact that you are
actually active unlike your predecessor. you
may even keep this community clean and ad
free. but.. not a single person wants you here.

the night before you stole the community,(no

you did not 'take' it, nobody 'gave you the
option to take it', you stole it.) you announced
yourself as a pakistani and were even
welcomed by a couple of people. normally
threads that are potentially volatile just sink
to the bottom in this community. this is
probably the only community where indian
and pakistani members don't indulge in indo
pak arguments because those are useless. you
were the first to to use nationality as a taunt.
even then you hardly got the abusive
response you expected. and then elsewhere
you're hypocritical enough to pretend you
don't hate indians.
whatever your problem is, and i'm sure it

must be tough for you to cope. the best this
community has to offer you is pity. and
contempt, the kind one has for an annoying
bed bug you can't get rid of.
go on, delete this. ban me. no rules broken,

but you're not expected to play fair so stop
fooling yourself, you don't fool us.
5/11/2006 6:57 AM delete
@Salil
Can we start an "I remember.. "community?
Bhavik
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5/11/2006 10:48 PM delete
WTF!
84 posts from this gone!?
Why am I even shocked-- I'm just glad you

StrongGel saved it before the philistine got here, Salil.
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5/12/2006 1:40 AM delete

Salil gushaa ho gaya...
serious baat kar rahaa ha...
Shadow
WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED???
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The signs are changing something big is about
to happen...
*unsheaths dagger and looks around*
the days have darkened...

5/12/2006 1:53 PM delete
this just pisses me off so much ..
is it time for an alternate community .. ??
for people who really care about being a part
Ziggy of an orkut bombay community and not being
(manage) Nazi-d by such a chump...
mr.musharraf as salil said ,... if u ban

everyone wtf are u gonna do with this
community huh ??
5/12/2006 2:33 PM delete
let's all bogus mr/miss musharaff
....going back to 'i remember'....

Aditi
did anyone do the Birdy Dance at bday
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parties? bandra buggers?
5/12/2006 6:29 PM delete
ne subarbanites here?!as in khar-bandra..
!Kushal
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Bombay
(18,322 members) theres no point comin up with a new
Shailen community as the hero would come there
● view profile (manage) too...
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dont mess....
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I remember when this community was owned
by akash shetty
5/12/2006 9:50 PM delete
Not sure if this was mentioned before
Any of you played Jolly where in one has to
Hibernating mark some symbol on your hand before you
(manage) reach school n meet your friend!
Anyone one of you hit your friendTajji after he

had a hair cut n said Ram Ram after you had
one!
5/12/2006 10:56 PM delete
"did anyone do the Birdy Dance at bday
parties? bandra buggers?"
Irshad
(manage) Hell yea!
But the last time I did it I was about 13. And

the hokey-pokey too...
5/12/2006 11:55 PM delete
I remember Sosyo...the soya sauce!
Vikram
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5/13/2006 10:11 AM delete

I ain't sure what Birdy dance you guys were
talking about...
But I remember this one from school

Bhavik "Put your left leg in and put your left leg out..
(manage) (repeat)... And shake it all about... Do the
Boogie-Woogie... Turn yourself about.. and
that's what it's all about"
To be repeated with the 3 remaining limbs.
I think there is also a bad Hindi translation.

5/13/2006 10:37 AM delete
That's the Hokey-pokey man!
("Do the Hokey pokey...")
André The birdie dance got no lyrics...

It's something like...
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pa pa pa pa pah, pa pa pa pa pah
pa pa pa pa pah-pah-pah-pah-pah
Writing a description of the dance itself is

beyond me...but it's like imitating a chicken in
some way.
5/13/2006 12:05 PM delete
A forum for south india specials
Join to this forum for south india specials
Jagadeesh
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5/14/2006 11:52 PM delete
The birdie dance got no lyrics...
It's something like...
pa pa pa pa pah, pa pa pa pa pah
pa pa pa pa pah-pah-pah-pah-pah
Aditi
(manage) it does! the papapah is just the background
music...the kids are supposed to sing the lyrics
which go..
Chorus:
Touch your finger tips
Flap your hands like this
something something..
Clap clap clap your hands
Repeat Chorus

Ring up your partners arm

Start turning/twirling(?)
It's such an easy dance to do
And every time you feel like dancing
I'll do the birdy dance with you!
....don't remember the remaining...

5/15/2006 12:30 AM delete
It's "Snap your fingertips" I thought.
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5/15/2006 1:53 AM delete
^^ possible.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Yeah Aditi...those lyrics do ring a bell.
● view profile I think the first line goes "Tap your fingertips"
André
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@ vikram
"I remember Sosyo...the soya sauce!"
you remember the radio spot?

Shree "mast hokay jeeyo, mazay lakay piyo,
(manage) thandaa, meetha... sosyo"
or something on the same lines
and that thing tasted anything but meetha

5/15/2006 1:05 PM delete
the SOSYO add. I remember is
"SAB SE ACCHA EK DRINK HAI
Comfortably
S O S Y Ooooo
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YEH HAI SOSYO...YHE HAI SOSYO..."
or something on similar lines!

5/15/2006 10:28 PM delete
A place called home
My Bombay photo blogs, hope you like them:
Mosh
http://bombay11.blogspot.com
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http://pipal.blogspot.com

5/17/2006 12:19 PM delete

He Man video
I found a He-Man video online
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=JEsHUel04dY&search=he-man
Bhavik
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5/18/2006 11:51 AM delete
U guys remember watching "giant robot" in
childhood days...we were crazy about it. Then
there was Fun time which was aired in
vacations from 12 to 1PM on DD.
Contract
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5/18/2006 12:28 PM delete
@ shree and nevil, both of you got those
right, shrees' version was the radio jingle,
while nevil's is the TV ad starring?
Salil poonam gidwani.

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and shree if you thought it wasn't meetha, i
don't know what is.. this was probably the
sugariest soft drink ever.
for those who missed it, there's 2 places you

could get a similar drink when i last checked,
though that was also a while ago.
1. kings cold drink house, near the gate of

christ church school that opens on to clare
road. non-aerated version though, ask for
'faalsa'.
2. mahalaxmi cold drink house, next to raj oil

depot, nagpada: the drink's also known as
falsa here, but aerated and lighter/less sweet
than sosyo.
5/25/2006 12:49 PM delete
is ne1 der
yogesh
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5/25/2006 1:13 PM delete

wer can i find giant robot episodes ?
<G:a:u:r:a:
v>
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5/25/2006 5:26 PM delete
I remember..
..doing the birdie dance 27 times this past
December (Catlick wedding season, men). I
think the concensus that it's past its sell-by
Dylan date is slowly spreading.
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Interestingly, they do the birdy dance in the
US too except that it's called the Chicken
Dance.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) me got
- ek-anek (ek chidiya, anek chidiya) in mp3
● view profile - he-man theme song in mp3
● view forum AlphaVictor ne1 need em, scrap me...

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5/27/2006 12:45 AM delete
Has anyone mentioned the other German
dubbed serial yet? Hearts of Stone?
Just Read
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5/27/2006 1:09 AM delete
this not a essay compitition so all of u
writting an essay here
GH@N$
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5/28/2006 7:33 AM delete
Sez who that this is not an essay contest?
Milind
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5/28/2006 7:34 AM delete
its on its on whats onnnn its uptronnnn
Mellow
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6/10/2006 8:13 AM delete

I remember, when this community was not
full of games. When we had intelligent topics
on, instead of verbal silliness. When puns
were less frequent, and the posters were
Just Read eloquent.
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6/10/2006 8:38 AM delete
@Devdas
Keep bumping up this topic every now and
Amit then and we will have something to
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6/10/2006 10:32 AM delete
Good old memories...!!!
hey der was dis programme...called
LoSt iN Potliwaale baba...he used 2 carry potli n
(manage) den ...he used 2 tell d stories...2 d puppets...
den meena n her poppat...n even dis song...
ek titli anek titliya...it was interesting...
den...mile sur mera tumhaara, toh sur bane
hamaara...dis was d beautiful composition...!!!
i dream of jeanie...dennis d menace......
dey 2 ver fun watchin...!
hey how can i 4gt....alibaba n chaalis chor...n
ders so many things...bt need time 2 recollect
all...
hey bt dis thread s goin on well...keep
goin...!!!
6/10/2006 2:33 PM delete
I remember when people knew how to spell
common english words, and didn't revert to
Milind bad spelling and SMS language deliberately
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6/10/2006 4:26 PM delete

@Devdas
Bingo... pun may be good entertainment and
helps to bust lame game threads, but way too
much is just as bad as spam, or as someone
Bhavik may put it, not punny any more
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@Milind
Readable language is going to be pretty much
a relic, so maybe it deserves to be on the "I
remember" thread, coz prty sun evry1 wil
write lyke dis...
@the thread
The above references to puns and language
reminds me of "What's the good word?",
Sabira Merchant's show in the early 80s. Has
that been discussed on this thread before??
She was really articulate, I was way too
young to figure out what was going on the
show though.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Whats the Good Word was where I first heard
the word Iconoclast...weird thing to
● view profile Milind remember... but it happened ... the next time
(manage) I saw that word was in some Tintin comic and it
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was fun "recognising" the word!
●
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On english - oh used to hate this period in
school days may be because we didnot have
good teacher for that and also
because of evry now and then corection,
•••••• •• gramatic mistake ,spelling mistake ,
(manage) composition , letter writing , comprehension ,
what writer want to say, what poet want to say,
who said to whom .. huh,never explained how
to improve.
On hevvy rain day I used to find excuse to go to

school if there are more than one period of
english on that day.
I got exact 35 marks in Eng in SSC

bacch gaye, may be because of scienec and
maths marks board - moderator might have
pusshed me.
6/10/2006 5:38 PM delete
and this is just 1400
•••••• ••
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6/11/2006 4:49 PM delete

I remember when I could post a book reference
on the Internet and readers would actually
understand it in context.
Just Read
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6/11/2006 10:03 PM delete
English !!! hmmm
You know what I quite agree. People have
started resorting to accronyms every now and
then.... Things like ROFL, BRB (Rolling On the
Fido Floor Laughing and Be Right Back for the
(manage) uninitiated) didn't exist back then...
English for me was never a problem because I

had a very good teahcer who really took pains
for us to teach us english. she actually used to
take extra lectures during the vacations so that
we could all scrape good marks in the exams.
Back then teachers really took pains for the

students. Now a days its more like 'show me
the money honey', I won't say that all are the
same because no two fingers are alike, but then
again the typical zeal prevelant during my
school days I find it missing now. [sigh]...
we'll anyways you can't have the best of
everything... atleast the Mumbai spirit is still
alive... or is it?
6/11/2006 10:17 PM delete
- Two types of internet accounts Shell and TCP/
IP.
Advait - Dialling onto NCST servers and then using
(manage) their network to hook up to the internet through
shell accounts.
- "Press Space Bar for More"
- A free mail service called usa.net
- The UGLY look of windows 3.1
6/12/2006 2:02 AM delete
Acronyms are not a problem. Internet acronyms
are standard usage, and perfectly valid in
textual context.
Just Read The problem comes when people spell in such a

(manage) way that their message cannot be conveyed.

6/12/2006 2:10 AM delete

And forget to capitalize (or capitalise),
punctuate, or for that matter, spell.
StrongGel
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6/12/2006 3:39 AM delete
AAREY products
How come nobody mentioned aarey milkshakes
and lassis.. and vadapavs, and pavbhaji
Arati Jitna ganda bhaiya utna badiya vada pav!.Gosh

(manage) bombay college days, we used to be able to get
a stomach filling burji paav/vadapav, samosas
within 2 rs!
Have been aways for a while now, and i guess 2

rs mein kuch nahin milta, except for maybe
Parle Kissme chocolates:)
6/13/2006 12:40 AM delete
All of them have been mentioned.
Just Read
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Arati: Jitna ganda bhaiya utna badiya vada pav!
I have never seen a Bhaiya selling vada pav!!
● view profile may be pani puri tastes as u said.
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6/13/2006 2:08 AM delete
does anyone remember--
he is crazy 'bout drivin
Pree she is crazy 'bout divin
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---------------------- (i dont recollect the lines
here)
as crazy as crazy as we're 'bout gold spot the
zing thing...
well this used to be the lullaby which was sung

for me..my most fav
And then happy days are here again, thums up

thums up..everybody's ------ on thums up..
refreshing cola..thums up refreshing cola
(anyone... help me with the lines here too
please)
I vaguely remember something called JuC jucie..

shakkar dalo paani milao juc jucee.. i guess it
was on one of my vacations spent in bombay
that i saw this ad on tv..
I also hear that there used to be static slides

(dunno what they are called) on TV(B/w) for
advertisements like Marlex Pressure Cooker..
the jingle ( khana jaldi pakai..jaise seeti bhajai..
marlex)

6/13/2006 3:27 AM delete

mungerilal ke hassen sapne..
byomkesh bakshi...
and this serial in which tabassum would
interview famous movie stars... i dont
Shweta
remember the name..
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comincs...
6/13/2006 3:39 AM delete
the marlex pressure cooker ad was awesome. it
went;
marlex pressure cooker;khana jaldi pakaye
kaisi seeti bajaaye
Janhavi marlex
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then the prestige pressure cooker ad
phek do yeh kadhai yeh frying pan

inse naata todo
prestige pressure cooker
fry kare
deep fry kare
hum chum ke fry kare
jat ubaale,pat pressure de
prestige prssure cooker
ttk utpaadan
man when i read all the entries i thot i had

becom eretarded,i cdnt reember lotsa stuff.but i
aint tht bad huh?????????
6/13/2006 3:44 AM delete
Shweta:Its Phool Khilehain Gulshan Gulshan by
Tabussum - I think it used to be on Fridays
•••••• ••
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6/13/2006 3:52 AM delete
playing chess in train...catching running train
Amit from 3 coaches ahead....reserving seats for
friends staring at babes outside college
(••••)
hehehehe...worst part was standing in line for
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tickets and also change for bus conductors...

6/13/2006 3:53 AM delete

tan ki shakti man ki shakti bournvita
Amit
(••••)
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6/13/2006 4:10 AM delete
melody chocolate.. melody hain choclaty..
my favourite was chocolate with strawberry
Shweta
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6/13/2006 5:26 AM delete
wow tan ki shakti man ki shakti..
Pree well those were the days when i did not know
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donkee shakti monkee ki shakti

bournveeeeeeeeetaaa amidst claps
6/13/2006 5:43 AM delete
I remember the ravalgaon chocolate that we
use to eat in school...
BHAKTI Also the three decker bus...
(manage) It was fun...
The Western Express highway without the
Flyovers and lot of trees...
My aunt stayed at Borivli..and going to her
house by road was as if we were travelling out
of bombay....The raod was heaven... now it has
all changed...
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Yeah WE highway was a great drive once upon
a time. Thakur Complex and Thakur village
● view profile Advait were grasslands and secluded. We went there
(manage) for having beer at night during navratri. The
● view forum whole stretch from the SSL (I know its called
something else now) flyover to Malad had no
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buildings on either side...there used to be a
●
Hakoba factory where Vasant Nagari is now.

Ladies, remember the Hakoba sarees ?
6/13/2006 6:08 AM delete
Cheating
I first encountered major cheating at University.
Before the exams, a series of "hot tips" would
be leaked, supposedly from the people who
Ash wrote the exam papers. Apparently, several
(manage) people wrote the papers and a selection of
questions was taken from each of them, so it
didn't help much to get a leaked set. This
seemed to be true, because I never saw a
"complete" set of questions in advance. Maybe
others did.
Our annual BCom exams always seemed to be

done at Siddharth College. People would take
notes and hide them on top of the toilet
cisterns, in their pockets, written on rulers, etc.
No calculators, mobiles or PDAs back then.
During the exams, some supervisors would

blatantly go out of the room for a long period,
so a lot of copying took place. In one instance,
the supervisor went around helping anyone who
asked for help.

6/13/2006 6:15 AM delete

Elections in colleges for posts like CR (Class
Representative) & GS (General Secretary).
Advait When did that stop ?
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6/13/2006 7:03 AM delete
@ash
ya,and i was batch of 1996 in the tenth
standard.we had a massive paper leak and we
had a repeat exam for maths and science..how
Janhavi we had cursed bcos our vacations were ruined
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6/13/2006 8:43 AM delete
experienced Politics in early days!!
Elections : wow it was my wonderful experience
in RUIA college , in SYBSc we had 3 divisions
and I told my friends and also from other
•••••• •• division that I am interested in contesting
(manage) election for CR One collegue from other division
who was with me ,staying near my house went
on saying he will try to give full support from
his division till a day before filling paper.On the
day of filling nomination paper I saw him
comming out of election registration room ,
later I found that he has filled nomination paper
to contest, he refused to talk to me.I took it as
a challenge , it was 3way contest each from one
div.
And I won the election at the end with big
margin, I got 99% votes from my division and
25% each from other div.
I was shocked in the begining the way that

friend behaved ,when I asked him later why he
did so , he said -This is politics.
later in TYBSc , nobody contested against me

When I filed paper, later my brother told me
not to become CR and concentrate on studies
so I withdrew and others filed paper.
But in MSC in Kalina campus I again won
election ,became CR in 3 way contest.
I have experienced Dhamki from other
contestant , a big gang came to our laboratory
during practicals and asked me who is Pravin ,
asked me to tell Pravin to withdraw from
election ,when I said I am that person and that
Dada a senior was known to me ,he laughed ,

due to gym pehchan ,was my carrom partner

and he supported contest later which I won.
I enjoyed these a lot!!kya din thyy
6/13/2006 9:04 AM delete
@bhakti
Where was there a threee decker bus ?
Milind
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6/13/2006 9:05 AM delete
hey it must be Trailor bus!!mistaken for 3
decker.
90ltd was one of them
•••••• ••
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6/13/2006 10:03 AM delete
what about those double decker trains which
were supposedly a craze during the late 70s
Pree and early 80s?
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pune-mumbai there used to be coaches in
trains which had double decker type seating..
somebody enlighten..
6/13/2006 10:08 AM delete
@Pree
You are talking about the Sinhagad express,
Milind which had double decker coaches... I am not
(manage) sure, but I think it still has them?
Also another one with double decker coaches

was the Flying Ranee, going to Surat
6/13/2006 10:26 AM delete
deccan queen?
Mellow
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Bombay
(18,322 members) I am not sure about this...but i guess about
17-18 years ago..i travelled in a double
Comfortably
● view profile decker train to nashik from bombay.......the
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only memory i have of that train is the so
● view forum called "double decker" i seriously doubt if
they still exist!
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Flying Rani is still a double decker train ..
also on of the Buses on route no 348 from
Advait Dahisar to Sion is a trailer bus in a dirty
(manage) yellow colour. Once a bhaiyya travelling on
this bus tried to find the loo in the connecting
portion. The conductor was in splits when he
came to know what the bhaiyya was looking
for.
6/13/2006 9:51 PM delete
palmolive da jawab nahin and all the
Amit (••••) fevicol ad and also the MAX ad....also the
(manage) feviquick ad where the man is fishing...
6/13/2006 10:15 PM delete

Nevil-Ya Panchavati Train -Mumbai Nashik
was double decker once
Now Flying Rani Mumbai Surat is double
decker
•••••• ••
(manage) Advait-what u are telling is not the one
trailor bus mentioned early , its called jod -
bus
the one trailor bus mentioened was like
drivers portion was separate from bus and
connected - like container trailor lorry

6/13/2006 10:27 PM delete

@Milind
No double decker coaches for Sinhghad
Hibernating Express.. The double decker coaches are
(manage) plyed on Flying Ranee and Valsad Fast
Passenger
6/13/2006 11:33 PM delete
The technically correct name for the "jod-
bus" is the Vestibule bus
Milind
(manage) Well, I know Sinhagad used to have double
decker coaches - it always caused problems
buying batata wadas at Karjat - either you
were too high, or near the seller's feet!..
maybe its a good thing they discontinued
them!
6/14/2006 1:07 AM delete
i Remember Cibaca chaayageet on Fm...then
TV serials such as Giant Robot,Jungle
Aayee...
Book.....and also collecting G.I.Joe....and
Savvy... there was 1 more character...but i can't
(manage) remember it....n also remember thse Popins
Lollypops....they were the best....
6/14/2006 9:54 AM delete
i remember...remember...remember,,,gosh!!!
amnesia!
Ashwin
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6/14/2006 2:53 PM delete
The Cibaca Geetmala was on AM, not FM...
since long before FM even started getting
Milind popular... also used to be called the Binaca
(manage) Geetmala earlier...
6/14/2006 9:08 PM delete
the Binaca Geetmala started on Radio
Ceylon, didn't it? i remember the resurrection
(as Cibaca Geetmala) around '89 when hawa
hawa, and then maine pyaar kiya songs were
Salil at the top forever..
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Yes it was radio ceylon used to come on short
wave band and that time transistor was in
● view profile demand , kitna band hai tumhara transistor
main ? 2 band 3 band etc, celyon ata hai naa ,
● view forum •••••• •• binaca geet mala vagera.All India radio and
(manage) vividha bharati on medium waves.
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(Medium wave , short wave 1, short wave 2 ,
FM came later.)
We used to listen to Binaca geet mala in early
70s , 'bhai yo aur behenou..' ameen sayani
was most popular for that
It used to be on wednesday , and we all
friends used to sit near transistor and that
sound was never clear used to get lot of
disturbances , low and suddenly high pitch
voice ,so we have to raise antina and move the
position of transitor to get stable voice.lot of
research done to keep the position of transitor
to get stable voice!!
and we used to bet aabb 'baadan number ek ,
dou ,teen ' which song will come etc.'
bhai yo aur beh no , ye binaca geet mala hai ,

Aab suno ye gana baadan number char paey
gaye haptey main sey is baar baddan no 2 pay
aya hai, kishor kumar ka gaya hua film
aradhana ... 'mere saponoki rani kaba aaye gi
tu...chali aa tu chali aa''

6/14/2006 10:44 PM delete

I remember in those days,in history book
everything was looking confusion ,
Srilanka was earlier called as ceylon and
people used to pronouce it was Shilon
•••••• •• Karnataka was called Mysore state and there
(manage) was mysore city in it.
Tamilnadu was Madras state and also Madras
city in it (chennai)again confusion.
Now Thane dist makes more confusion with
actual Thane station area -
6/20/2006 1:27 AM delete
@salil - man, this thread rocks
- i'm reading it for past 3 hrs and getting
nostalgic......
Sarang
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6/20/2006 7:39 AM delete
@ Pravin Da
also, Bombay was a state consisting of current
day Maharashtra & Gujarat...
AlphaVictor and Bombay was a city in it!!

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6/20/2006 9:56 AM delete
yes u r right
•••••• ••
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6/20/2006 10:21 AM delete
I remember most of it! Now I want to come
home!
Poonam
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6/20/2006 11:04 PM delete

....too nostalgiac...i miss
my CHACHA CHOUDRY collections..i miss HE-
K••я†H! MAN cartoon dat was aired on DD...thn every
friday evening 5.30..GIANT ROBOT--japanese
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early version of robots was 5 floors high..now
its 5 inches tall..G-I JOES..was big hit at dat
time...
6/20/2006 11:52 PM delete
Yesterday I went to eat vada pav , saw that
kerosene stove ..
I remember we used to have kerosene stove
many many yrs ago , we were staying in parel
•••••• •• area , Lighting that stove was an Art , some
(manage) parts name were pump , washer burner, nipple
(not the one u think) , kakda , pin for cleaning
nipple , stand etc.kerosine was sold in open in
those days and there were kerosene cart
moving , one with bullock attached , some
hand cart .the bhaiyya used to come to our
colony regularly , if our kerosene stock was
over we used to just wave from balcony how
much litre we required from distance , and his
eyes are set for that and used to home deliver.
he used to have different measuring jars , and
we used to catch him from his mischief ,
tampering with jar
Pouring fast to make foam so as to deliver less
volume.
When stove used to give problem we used to
take it to stove repair wala , he used to have
good business and many stoves were in
queue , I used to stand there and get it
repaired other wise khana nahi milega !
Later kerosene became controlled item only
sold in ration shop and all the debate is on
increasing quota and decreasing price.
when we bought first time LPG gas stove ,
cylinder , all our neighbors came to see how it
works, as we were fist among them , Getting
gas connection was not easy it used to take
many years.People were afraid to book LPG
connetion /cylinders , for safety reasons gas
leak , cylinder burst etc and for cost factor.
Initially one cylinder used to get so still
kerosene stove was required later when 2
cylinders available per family this k stove
phased out.

6/21/2006 12:08 AM delete

Well yesetrday I was at Cotton Green and
surrounding places...
Hibernating
(manage) The mills there which are now shut and have
become khandar are also what you associate
with Mumbai!
6/21/2006 12:09 AM delete
Did anyone have piped gas in their houses
when they were kids ? I am told we had that in
Advait our house in Girgaon. I think only Ash may
(manage) remember coz this was like ages ago. Also
they had cement roads in many parts of
bombay....as can be seen in many movies. So
all these years later we are going back to the
same things we already had earlier. Weird.
I wish we could go back to some of these
things:-
fewer channels on TV, kids paying in building
compounds in evening, playing with marbles
being okay (my nephew, who is 13, says it is
for poor people), Dinner at 8:30 followed by a
TV serial and go to sleep by 9:30, Karamchand
at 10:20 being considered too late, Afternoon
naps on weekdays, Family dinners not in front
of the TV, Religiously going to native place
during summer, three tyre scooter rides,
watching a hindi movie in the theatre after unit
tests, visiting relatives ... just like that,
afternoons spent at friends places playing
cards, running like hell on breaking a "khadus"
aunties window glass, time bombs in Diwali,
cricket matches with 11 Rs and tennis ball as
"Seal", Volleyball games during monsoon,
Intense rivalry with the neighbouring building
kids, rented bicycle rides ....
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Bombay
(18,322 members) yes , my uncles house had piped gas in those
days at matunga , they were staying near
● view profile Indian Gym area , the pipline is still there un
used , even khalsa college and ruia collge
● view forum •••••• •• laboratory had this connection , it was
(manage) supplied from company in lalbaugh area
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where u could see a big tank where gas used
●
to get generated and distributed.Recently

cable operator requested to take these
pipelines on lease for cable network , i dont
know what happened next.
6/21/2006 10:24 PM delete
@ Pravin da.... Piped gas could only be
afforded by the rich n niche in those days....
my dad also used to stay @ matunga in those
days (rambaug lane) he reminisces those
Fido days telling us his stories of how he and his
(manage) pals used to go to chowpatty have pani puri
and come back in two annas (about 12.5
paise, can you belive it?). I'm ofcourse talking
about the late 60s and early 70s here. even
my grand mom still has those old
gramophone records from her broken
gramophone.. we even have a national ka
transister still cleaned every day personally by
my dad.. (he doesn't let any1 touch it still)
even listening him go on about his childhood
makes him nostalgic.
Tejas

6/21/2006 11:14 PM delete

@ keerhti
my he-man once broke th arm of one of those
puny GI Joes my friend had...
AlphaVictor he went home crying... (my friend, not GI

(manage) Joe)
6/21/2006 11:43 PM delete
its all just amazing to read it, salil!grt thread!
got all my memories back!!
ColOrS n
sP@rKle
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6/22/2006 2:51 PM delete
Anyone remember that serial with ashok
kumar - he was a doctor or something and
this hospital burns down and all kids are
mixed up with different parents - but they
Poonam have no documents...
(manage) Ohhh - I cant remember what it used to be
called - I remember it being funny cause the
bengali family thinks their son really the son
of a sindhi neighbour and so on....Anyone
remember?
Oh I miss the "fairy tales" doordarshan played

every sunday at 1.
6/22/2006 8:32 PM delete
have not really been a part of this
bombay.............but do remeber the sat
evenings movies on dd!!!!!..............i also
remeber there was dia show on sum butler...
Rinel Rodz- comedy type..used to cum in afternoon once
Wen U a week.i guess on dd........weell...still love
(manage) those comics................still have a whole lot
of a collection at home................must have
read 1000 times n still do!!!!!!!!!!...............

6/23/2006 12:31 AM delete

Probably these topics might have come up
before but this thread is awesome ... some
Neville old memories of childhood for me
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1) Phantom comics - the ultimate childhood
fantasy. Diana, the wolf, hero and life in the
jungle. Also "Old jungle sayings" like "The
cold voice of angry phantom can freeze a
tigers blood - old jungle sayig" (or something
like that)
"When phantom is angry he is really angry -
Old jungle saying"
2) Maggi noodles - haute cuisine for a school

kid in the 80s
3) Falooda at Maharaja's.
4) 50 concurrent cricket matches going on on

1 single ground. Counting six balls in an over
with stones.
5) Lagori, kho-kho, 4-corners, sakli, the

timeless art of terrace cricket in the
afternoon. (kids don't try this at home)
6) The launch of Channel 2 on DD, Didi's

comedy show, Old fox. Film's division the
apple tree, railway crossing, didi and chiddi
story. I got one here for those who'd like
http://cs-club.org/~ncrasto/ek_anek.asf
7) The Europe concert.
8) Def Leppard, Iron Maiden T-shirts. Fashion

street
9) Drink at Monde's, eat at Bagdadi's and barf

all over at gateway.
10) The lop stop.
11) Catching a running bus/train.
12) Catching the I Class compartment

attached to the ladies I Class.
13) Punishments in class

Level 1 - Stand outside class.
Level 2 - Kneel down outside class.

Level 3 - Kneel down with hands in the air.

(Does it still happen ?? I wonder )
14) Classroom games Name/place/animal/

thing, dot game, battlefield.
15) Playing hockey (apparently this sport has

died out in India). Watching hockey on TV
mohammed shayeed, shabaz khan, pargat
singh, bob wilander (penalty corner
specialist), fisher.
16) Songs - 99 red ballons, eye of the, tiger,

tarzan boy, heart of the common people,
africa, safety dance .... tumse milke
(parinda), the bike song from hero, ,
soundtrack of tezzaab, bombay-goa, dance
dance..
17) Goti/Gota games 10-20.., thoiba followed

by "piddi" for the one who comes last.
18) Noisy election campaigns

6/23/2006 10:23 AM delete
@ Neville
Thanx a ton man.... that post of that Unity
Film brought back many sweet memories....
I'll be gr8full to you for that all my life... man
Fido u made my day....
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Tejas
6/23/2006 8:32 PM delete
@Tejas
Am glad you u enjoyed it. Actually that was
Neville pretty much my reaction as well when i saw it
(manage) the first time after ages. Probably must've
also been the first time that i saw the films
divsion logo in colour.
Cheers
6/23/2006 9:00 PM delete
hey no the punishment dont happen...us
Anonymous children are far to outspoken to tolerate this
anymore...it did happen when I was in school
but toward the end we all broke the chains :)
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6/23/2006 9:50 PM delete
Bombay
(18,322 members) Maggi noodles is STILL a haute cuisine for
people living on their own and all the hostelites.
● view profile Advait
(manage) BTW the hockey penalty corner specialist is
● view forum Bovelander iirc.
● view events Europe concert...reminds me of another one i

went to .. the Bon Jovi one at Andheri. I
remember, just before the start of the show
some gora sound engineer came on stage to
check the equipment and everyone thought
thats Jon Bon Jovi and a HUGE cheer with
chants of JON BON JOVI went around the
ground. All these rockers look the same
neways.
6/24/2006 7:23 AM delete
Yeah advait thanks,
bovelander ... that's the name ... that was the
Neville only part i was trying hard to recollect .. i only
(manage) remembered wht the name sounded like.
Should've simply googled to check and
should've figured that 'Bob' is more american
than dutch.
6/25/2006 3:48 AM delete
Tejas, I think your dad has forgotten how much
it cost to get from Matunga to Chowpatty and
back in the 60s and 70s. Certainly not even 2
annas in those days.
Ash
(manage) I remember the changeover to decimal
currency, probably not 1957 being just 4.5
years old, but seeing George VI on the coins
until the early 1960s. This only happened where
the new coinage had the same size and value, e.
g. 4 annas, 8 annas, 1 rupee. There were
conversion tables showing how many Naye
Paise for how many Annas. Some shops had

cash registers for Rs, Annas and Pies. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Modern_Indian_coins
As a kid in the 60s I remember 4 annas (25

paise) was the magic number if you wanted
something half decent. The first Coke cost 25
paise. Cadbury's in the folded silver foil wrapper
cost 25 paise. Bhel from the bhaiyas in Cross
Maidan was 25 paise, but not at the "high
quality" bhel shops at Chowpatty. It was more
like 50 or 75 paise there. Bus tickets used to be
a minimum of 10 paise. 20 paise from Charni
Rd to Warden Rd/Mahalaxmi.
6/25/2006 4:02 AM delete
Shilon?
Pravin,
I think Indians pronounced names badly at all

Ash times (witness "Hujhis Road" for what should be
(manage) "hues road"). It was definitely Ceylon and not
Shilon and everybody heard it as Radio Ceylon
on the shortwave.
When Lala's Tours took my school group to

Ceylon, I got my first passport - an "India-
Ceylon" passport, valid for no other country. It
was light red, cloth-wrapped cardboard cover.
When I tell Sri Lankans about the route we
took, they laugh, as it is not possible any more
- Rameswaram to Talaimannar by dhow, then
train to Colombo.
I learnt some Urdu by listening to Ameen

Sayani, most of it I never understood, but it
sounded good. I still see the Binaca brand used
in the US.

6/25/2006 4:17 AM delete

Guards
Before the 1965 war, we saw a few Pathans,
but they seemed to have disappeared since.
Pathans were favourite guards who stood tall
Ash and proud in front of banks with shotguns and
(manage) bandoliers, big beard and high pheta. They
were most impressive.
The second choice for guards were the tall

Kathiawadis who also looked fierce with their
big moustaches, uniforms and turbans. Purohits
(Guju restaurant near Resham Bhavan at
Churchgate) had one of these. I wonder if there
was any danger of robbers planning to do a big
heist of their kanda bhajias! He was a jovial old
man with medals from some war and he would
open the car door and salute you.
Many streets and buildings would hire Nepali

guards who were armed with a kukri. He would
come for his monthly vargani and would be
seen walking up and down the street at night.
6/25/2006 9:10 AM delete
Ash:well said
Pathans , I have seen them , Tall well built with

turbans and beard ,from 1st to 10 th of every
•••••• •• month they used to be in front of factory gates
(manage) for collection , when i first joined company in
82, workers used to tell me dont go near them ,
they used to be friendly and used to lend
money in cash immediately ,on interest 2-4 %
monthly , and they never ask principle amount
only interested in interest.If u dont pay interest
they used to use muscle power.
this type of lending was branded as 'kya pathan
giri kar ta hai kya'

6/25/2006 10:06 AM delete

Fascinating to hear these stories ... My ma grew
up in Mahim and she told me this story from the
Neville her school days in the early 50s once about a
(manage) pakistani paratropper once touched down using
the mahim beach as a dropzone (probably lost
his way o'wise what was he thinking ? he'd get
away with it ??)
It was infact the pathans in the area who first

thrashed the daylights out of him before
everyone else joined in the party finally handing
him over to the police.
6/27/2006 12:12 PM delete
Another National Integration song
I don't mean Mile sur mera tumhara.
Although I chanced upon an NRI version of it on
youtube, it reminds me of a totally different all-
Bhavik indians-bonhomie song.
(manage) It went something like "Sun sun sun mere
munne sun", there were the 80s and 90s actors
- Rishi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff and many others
along with their kids. Lessons in communal and
regional harmony from the conscientious.
There were many more celebrity public service

endorsements. I remember Shabana Azmi
doing the rounds of a pediatric AIDS ward while
the journalists accompanying her hesitated to
do the same. The current crusader for slums
told us back then "Chhone se AIDS nahin failta,
choone se pyar failta hai".
I think Amitabh-Jaya and even Aishwarya Rai

pledged their eyes after death on TV. Any other
celeb noble endorsements?

6/28/2006 2:57 AM delete

Its result time , when Salil told me "gone are
the days of pedhas. now we get scraps, eh? "
when i scrapped him of my sons result,
I remember those days
•••••• •• when I passed SSC or other imp exams first
(manage) thing important was distributing 'Pedhas'to
relatives , neighbours and friends.We used to
make a note that each and every relative ,
friends gets the pedhas , they may be staying
far in virar or ambernath , we used to carry
those pedhas to give them.
since we had many relatives and friends ,
neighbours we required about 5 kg ,
my grandmom used to prepare at home by
bringing Mava , we used to help her making
round pedhas and eating in between.
now a days people are busy in admission and

pedhas got last priority after getting admission
etc.
there were no much telephone in relatives

house so only way of communication was going
personally to give pedhas and tell marks , which
people used to go with interest.
Now as days we distribute during some festival
days, say ganesh chaturthi where we all
relatives meet so one can give pedhas to all
relatives at one place.
Going to house has been stopped because of all
these mobile and other communications.
6/28/2006 3:23 AM delete
What's funny is that all these means were
meant to enrich our lives.
And they've gone and stolen my pedhas now ;)

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Bombay
(18,322 members) This really is a fabulous thread!!
● view profile Aman Though I am kinda outsider given the context

(manage) of the thread since I am from Delhi (infact not
● view forum yet in mumbai but will soon be) but couldn't
resist commenting.
● view events The reason being though the thread is about
Bombay a lot of it is actually common for tht
generation across the nation. The 'ek chidiya
anek chidiya' script, giant robot, hum log,
buniyad, DD2...on the entertainment side. Yes,
probably boarding local trains will be replaced
by catching DTC buses (and travelling on them
with just a toe in the bus) and panipuri with
golgappas, distributing pedas with distributing
rasgullas... but incredibly the basic fabric which
seems to be discussed is remarkably the same.
6/28/2006 8:17 AM delete
COOLEST THREAD EVER I did coppied it to
my mail box.
Tushar And i still remember that Akasvani Tune in

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6/28/2006 8:29 AM delete
Sorry to change in topic but remember
dalda ad.
Kaun har subah sabhi ko jagaye.
Tushar Ye kisaki hai aankhen pyar ki rahe.
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Ye nrami ye garami dalda se aaye. Ye swad aur
chehare ki raunak badhaye.
Woh tum ho tumhi ho ke tumpe hai naaz.

Tumhi ho mamata ke aawaz (Here comes the
mom)
I love this ad.

And still remember the title song of fauji. That

was nie one with bullets firing at start.
6/28/2006 8:49 AM delete
Tushar: Dalda brand name was so popular and
a common household name for hydroginated
vegitable oil.It was almost monopoly item.
The one kg dabba ,tin with yellow colour was
•••••• •• commonly seen in every house,later plastic
(manage) pack came, that used tin dabba was used for
gardening small plants in it, also in chawls and
slums one can see that used tin was used to
carry water to common toilet/loo , even in
house it was used as tumbler in toilet.Later
plastic replaced it.
many yrs it was sold under public dristribution ,
ration shops not available in open market.
we can say Dalda was one of topmost brand

name in those days.
6/28/2006 9:07 AM delete
yes, so much so that any vanaspati ghee is still
commonly called Dalda, though the actual
Bhagyashri brand name could be something else...
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6/28/2006 9:10 AM delete
I have read and re-ead this thread many times
and every time I dont know if I miss Bombay
more or I feel like I am home....
Dont know if that makes sense....
Poonam Thanks!
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6/28/2006 10:06 AM delete
according to my father, dalda was marketed
through demonstration initially. the resistance
of ghee eaters was countered by having a guy
in a bullock cart frying pakodas and puris in
Salil dalda going around the village encouraging
(manage) sampling.
the thought of a wok with boiling dalda on a

bullock cart is scary, isn't it?
anyway, that's something i can't claim to

remember and it certainly isn't a bombay only
thought.

what i do remember is that whenever i went to

visit my uncle, i noticed tins being used to pot
plants, just like pravin da said, only the tins
looked liked dalda, but said "Oomda".
6/28/2006 10:19 AM delete
Salil: ya oomda was immitated like dalda which
came much later in market.
•••••• ••
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6/28/2006 9:25 PM delete
@Salil
Local hospital ke burns ward ke saath setting

thi.
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6/28/2006 11:04 PM delete
Yeah Dalda and Umda was well known brand all
over india not much related only to bombay. I
just rememberd the ad that what i wanted to
Tushar share.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) while on th topic of vanaspati...
● view profile godrej launched their vanaspati in pouches, an

th pouch had a silhouette of 2 kids puttin
● view forum AlphaVictor sumthin in their mouths...
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● view events so for a while i thought that godrej vanaspati is
sum ready-to-eat product!!!
6/28/2006 11:56 PM delete
A V looks like u tried that... hmm how was the
taste!!
•••••• ••
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6/28/2006 11:56 PM delete
*retching at the thot*
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6/28/2006 11:57 PM delete
yum yam yetch...
AlphaVictor
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6/29/2006 5:08 AM delete

i hope we can pull this one to 1500 today!!!
need some help here folks...
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6/29/2006 5:10 AM delete
Shit! I've run outta memory again!
StrongGel
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6/29/2006 5:11 AM delete
Damn, can ANYONE remember how we
coordinated to meet up with anyone before
cellphones?
StrongGel
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6/29/2006 5:13 AM delete
i remember th times when we dint have a
landline also, an we had to go to our
neighbour's to take a call...
AlphaVictor
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6/29/2006 5:20 AM delete
I remeber big black HEAVY dial-type phones.
When dialing a number really meant dialing it
and not punching it out.
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6/29/2006 5:20 AM delete
A also remember booking trunk calls and
hollering into the mouthpiece.....
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Bombay
(18,322 members) i remember while we played compound cricket
during summer vacations, aunties used
● view profile exchange gossip loudly from one balcony to
another "aray inkay behan ka phone aaya tha
● view forum Shree kal Amreeka say, apnay joshi kay gharpar.
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karengay" calling one day or sometimes 15
●
mins in advance in order to be able to talk to

relatives at a c/o number was a common trick
in those days.
6/29/2006 5:26 AM delete
remember when, in those rotary dialling PCOs,
u cud talk for hours by puttin in just one
rupee??
AlphaVictor (that aint too far back in the past, tho... was
(manage) doin it even 2 yrs ago...!!)
6/29/2006 5:46 AM delete
read the first post again, av.. when we didn't
have the 50p required to dial from a pco, we'd
shout into the earpiece and be heard.. no coin
required.
Salil
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6/29/2006 7:04 AM delete
oooh... how can u insinuate that i dont read
the previous posts??
and salil, times changed, inflation raised its

AlphaVictor ugly head (which explains the 50P to Re.1), & i
(manage) dont remember shouting into the earpiece, 'cos
i hadnt done it!!!
so, i just put down what i remembered!!

6/29/2006 7:07 AM delete

and in those college days many tricks for
saving that coin
a strip of x ray film was kept near pco on grd
floor in podar college matunga and we nearby
•••••• •• students used to go there all the way ,put that
(manage) strip in slit and pull the lever down to talk on
phone unlimited.
Even the private telephone with lock and
without dial , we used to dial by just by
pusshing that top push button (on which u
keep phone) number of times as of dialing
numbers with rythem , its still working one can
try but now digits are more.
6/29/2006 7:34 AM delete
Ah technology...nobody remembers how we
did when it wasn't around.
Irshad
(manage) Co-ordinating without cellphones was somehow
much easier... you all landed up at one spot at
one time. Now with the damn phone everyone
turns up at their own time partly because they
can be reached!
I actually went through all of school and

college without using the computer and the
internet (it was definitely there during college)
for assignments.
Large handwritten projects alongwith tomes of

references as bibliography.
I have to add something here - not firsthand

though. One senior editor at a leading
newspaper was telling me how she started off
her career as a sub. In those days they had the
linotypes...which were huge machines, which
had those huge plates with the words in
different point sizes all backwards. In times of
an emergency when corrections ahd to be
made, or copies had to be changed, they would
read it backwards and make the necessary
changes. Bloody unimaginable!

6/29/2006 7:39 AM delete

Lucky prick studied in Panchgani and still
complaining
Shadow
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6/29/2006 8:25 AM delete
Guys this were the golden days of our
childhood...this all Radio,TV shows we also use
Zindagi to watch even thoe at that time i was not
(manage) here....
How can you forget that Ad. "Ek Chidiya Anek

Chidiya..." tht gr8 Ammen Sayani..." Hmmm
Ha ha,ha to bhaiyo aur bhanno ...to aapke
sammne prastut kartey hey ..."
Also tht old Zuhu Beach, people use to njoy...

but now its totally commercialized...
Did any one remember the popular Serial "

Nukkad" excellent man...
6/29/2006 8:58 AM delete
i remember when stamp collection, coin
collection etc used to be people's hobbies. We
Bhagyashri as kids fighting to get hold of a stamp of
(manage) Burkina Faso & other such rare ones..if
someone had multiple ones of the same
country they used to exchange them amongst
themselves.
6/29/2006 9:04 AM delete
and there were these "fake" stamps also...
some ppl used to specialise in "fakes" only...
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6/29/2006 9:11 AM delete
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(18,322 members) Fakela stamps he tou collect kar te theay
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6/29/2006 9:31 AM delete
Coordinating where to meet... without
cellphones, it was so much simpler and
Milind efficient... all you had to do was decide which
(manage) railway station, and then at a given time agree
to meet either at the ticket window, or under
the indicator on platform 1
6/29/2006 9:36 AM delete
coordinating meet without cel phone in those
days : i remember we had one friend who
always used to come late , so we gave him time
30 mins ahead of meet and told all others the
•••••• •• right time, and to our surprice that friend came
(manage) on given time and we all came 30 mins later!!
but in time and he was scolding all of us saying
we are all late by 30 mins and he was there at
right time and he said he has changed , and we
all laughed at him !!
6/29/2006 9:43 AM delete
Mohit
i remember roamin arnd wid frnds in water
(manage) logged roads...n thn havin butta's n bhajiyas...
while gettin wet...
well those wer old days...now every1 is damm
bzy to spend time like dis..unfortunately
tc
Mohit

6/29/2006 9:45 AM delete

Well, I remember in the not so recent past
when I was unaware of orkut, or a few years
before it was IM.... wonder how things got
done...
Bhavik
(manage) I remember bad dial up internet connections.
When I was a kid VCRs and its slightly inferior
cousins VCPs were popular. Video cassettes
were rented/borrowed and most movies could
be watched that way. I don't remember
watching as many movies on screen in
childhood as now, because most were avaible at
the video renting store. I remember cassettes
having the "SHEMAROO" logo when you ran
them. There were also cassettes from the Gulf
available here.
It all lasted until cable TV arrived.
6/29/2006 9:45 AM delete
i remember when mtv first struck, the first
video was from belinda carlisle... then saw a
scandalous one from chris isaak - 'wicked
games', nonie, danny mcgill, g'nr at their prime,
samarth
metallica... watching mtv was fantastic man...
(manage)
6/29/2006 9:48 AM delete
tell you guys a coincidence, when the bombay
balsts happened in march '93, a few days
earlier danny mcgill was on a roadshow called
'bombay blast'.
samarth
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6/29/2006 11:22 AM delete
on cheating the phone companies..
reminded me, so i'm putting it down.
in the late 80's came the 'papad' phenomenon.

Salil although i believe the origins of the name were
(manage) closer to its other popular name - popat. but
the fact that this was common in gujju and
sindhi households around me, made the name
'papad' a lot more ubiquitous.
nobody spoke about it, but all families that had

a member in the gulf had it. it was a little
switch. actually fashioned out of a film can or
something that looked like one. it went
somewhere between your telephone instrument

and the jack, and what one did was switch it on

when your pappu mama in abu dhabi would
give one ring and disconnect. once on, the thing
would make sure he didn't have to pay a single
fil after his one dirham coin. yes. the poor
wretch could be calling from a pay phone and
still he would not be prompted to drop another
coin as long as you wanted the conversation to
last.
something tells me this would be even more

popular in kerala, but i'm sure it wasn't called
popat/papad there.
6/29/2006 12:20 PM delete
Wow, never heard of that one Salil. Though I do
know that a public phone owner in my former
neighbourhood was rumoured had ways to get
around hefty phone bills and make long
Bhavik distance trunk calls in connivance with the local
(manage) line-man.
It reminds me of the time when all telephone

exchanges were not yet electronic. Our home
phone in Vile Parle starting with 612 was among
the last ones to be modernised. That meant you
could talk for an hour and still get billed for only
one call - these good times lasted until 1998,
when finally the Vile Parle telephone exchange
was made into an electronic one. The flip side
was that cross connections were very common .
You could eavesdrop on peoples' conversations
more often than not, and in suburban Vile Parle
those were far from interesting....
6/29/2006 10:27 PM delete
Popat Papad----
That is sooo interesting--- never underestimate

Indian ingenuity!
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Coordinating where to meet... without
cellphones, it was so much simpler and
Milind efficient... all you had to do was decide which
(manage) railway station, and then at a given time agree
to meet either at the ticket window, or under
the indicator on platform 1
6/29/2006 9:36 AM delete
coordinating meet without cel phone in those
days : i remember we had one friend who
always used to come late , so we gave him time
30 mins ahead of meet and told all others the
•••••• •• right time, and to our surprice that friend came
(manage) on given time and we all came 30 mins later!!
but in time and he was scolding all of us saying
we are all late by 30 mins and he was there at
right time and he said he has changed , and we
all laughed at him !!
6/29/2006 9:43 AM delete
i remember roamin arnd wid frnds in water
logged roads...n thn havin butta's n bhajiyas...
Mohit while gettin wet...
(manage) well those wer old days...now every1 is damm
bzy to spend time like dis..unfortunately
tc
Mohit

6/29/2006 9:45 AM delete

Well, I remember in the not so recent past
when I was unaware of orkut, or a few years
before it was IM.... wonder how things got
done...
Bhavik
(manage) I remember bad dial up internet connections.
When I was a kid VCRs and its slightly inferior
cousins VCPs were popular. Video cassettes
were rented/borrowed and most movies could
be watched that way. I don't remember
watching as many movies on screen in
childhood as now, because most were avaible at
the video renting store. I remember cassettes
having the "SHEMAROO" logo when you ran
them. There were also cassettes from the Gulf
available here.
It all lasted until cable TV arrived.
6/29/2006 9:45 AM delete
i remember when mtv first struck, the first
video was from belinda carlisle... then saw a
scandalous one from chris isaak - 'wicked
games', nonie, danny mcgill, g'nr at their prime,
samarth
metallica... watching mtv was fantastic man...
(manage)
6/29/2006 9:48 AM delete
tell you guys a coincidence, when the bombay
balsts happened in march '93, a few days
earlier danny mcgill was on a roadshow called
'bombay blast'.
samarth
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6/29/2006 11:22 AM delete
on cheating the phone companies..
reminded me, so i'm putting it down.
in the late 80's came the 'papad' phenomenon.

Salil although i believe the origins of the name were
(manage) closer to its other popular name - popat. but
the fact that this was common in gujju and
sindhi households around me, made the name
'papad' a lot more ubiquitous.
nobody spoke about it, but all families that had

a member in the gulf had it. it was a little
switch. actually fashioned out of a film can or
something that looked like one. it went
somewhere between your telephone instrument

and the jack, and what one did was switch it on

when your pappu mama in abu dhabi would
give one ring and disconnect. once on, the thing
would make sure he didn't have to pay a single
fil after his one dirham coin. yes. the poor
wretch could be calling from a pay phone and
still he would not be prompted to drop another
coin as long as you wanted the conversation to
last.
something tells me this would be even more

popular in kerala, but i'm sure it wasn't called
popat/papad there.
6/29/2006 12:20 PM delete
Wow, never heard of that one Salil. Though I do
know that a public phone owner in my former
neighbourhood was rumoured had ways to get
around hefty phone bills and make long
Bhavik distance trunk calls in connivance with the local
(manage) line-man.
It reminds me of the time when all telephone

exchanges were not yet electronic. Our home
phone in Vile Parle starting with 612 was among
the last ones to be modernised. That meant you
could talk for an hour and still get billed for only
one call - these good times lasted until 1998,
when finally the Vile Parle telephone exchange
was made into an electronic one. The flip side
was that cross connections were very common .
You could eavesdrop on peoples' conversations
more often than not, and in suburban Vile Parle
those were far from interesting....
6/29/2006 10:27 PM delete
Popat Papad----
That is sooo interesting--- never underestimate

Indian ingenuity!
StrongGel
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6/29/2006 10:38 PM delete
Bombay
(18,322 members) Nowadays Sindhis with 'ud' 'du' accent are
called papads
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6/29/2006 10:42 PM delete
Bhavik even our no 512 in ghatkopar
exchange was last to be transferred on
electronic exchange , i used to tell my friends,
relatives when they call , that i will ring back
•••••• •• and we used to talk for hrs with one call
(manage) charge.
6/29/2006 10:44 PM delete
Back in my days we used to eat papads.
Remember the giant white Lijjat Papad bunny

grinning evilly and going karram kurram, lijjat
StrongGel papad, hehehheheeh.
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Now we know Sayeed's origins--- he isn't from
outer space.
6/29/2006 11:14 PM delete
nope... he was born out of the two "Ramdas
Padhye" puppet bunnies...
AlphaVictor
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6/29/2006 11:28 PM delete

Not 'born' as much as 'inflicted'.
StrongGel
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6/30/2006 1:52 AM delete
I remember a daddy Lijjat Papad rabbit go "eh
hen hen" and a mommy rabbit go "eh hen
Milind hen" and then the baby rabbit would pop out
(manage) from between them and bleat "Lijjat Papal"...
that was Sayeed ?
6/30/2006 10:10 PM delete
A karram kurram
*bumpity*
StrongGel
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6/30/2006 10:51 PM delete
I dont remember things that most of u have
written about... I dont remember the radio
programmes nor the doordarshan shows...
Ankit The one thing I remember was when a hoard

Motani of crowd had helped a distressed child of 8
(manage) years during the 92 riots and I have seen
more recently is the helping hand being
extended by the people of Bombay during the
26/7 rains...
Things have changed... Doordarshan has been

replaced by star plus, Ameen sayani has been
replaced by fancy Rjs, The black and white TVs
have gone from being a matter of pride to
virtually non existant... BUT the one thing that
has not changed is the Spirit of the people of
Bombay. More things will come and go and
technologies will change.. but one thing that
will keep us different from any other city in the
world is our spirit and love for the city.....
I hope my kids and grand kids also remember

this same feeling which i have now....

7/3/2006 4:24 AM delete

well, a b&W tv wud b a showpiece in a
museum now, so owning an antique like that is
a matter of pride!!!
AlphaVictor
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7/3/2006 10:27 AM delete
I dont remember things that most of u have
written about..
Now that makes me feel old. Oh well, old age

Just Read is mandatory but maturity is optional.
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*continues on his path to immaturity*
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Will the word Game thread, beat this thread
for the number of posts?
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7/5/2006 11:51 PM delete
today i saw with my friend a non folding
umbrella with hard plastic folding cover for
protecting cloth or from water when not in use.
•••••• •• I remeber the wodden (stick type -J shaped)

(manage) handle non folding umbrella big size small
family can accomodate ,RTOs used to have
that and there were many good brands of non
folding umbrellas anybody remember the
brands.
hiran chap -was it ibrahim karim and sons ??

7/6/2006 2:17 AM delete
i'd pestered my dad to buy one of those "old"
type long non-folding umbrellas... used to
brandish it like a sword in school... my
classmates soon followed n we had mock
AlphaVictor sword fights everyday during recess...
(manage)
the umbrellas lasted about 2 weeks!!
tnx for reminding me @ them...

7/6/2006 10:39 PM delete

LOL
StrongGel
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7/7/2006 9:40 AM delete
Today is ashada ekadashi
i remember we used to stay in wadala for 11
yrs and during ashada ekadashi day the
'jatra' (fare) used to be there without missing ,
•••••• •• fare was from dadar TT to wadala katrak road ,
(manage) famous vithoba temple is situated there,
people used to come from all corner of the
city, , we were teanagers then used to go in
gangs ,it was 5 min walk from our house to go
to fare , we used to hear sound 'peyn' 'peyn '
throughout the day , that joker caps on kids
with feather top, that toy shops selling pink
and yellow water filled glass ducks , cranes ,
that coloured shell pecock toys ,that flute ,
dhols , that giant wheel ride , that
merigoround , that phut fatty wala going round
in well- sphere , that stalls selling sweets
(kadya bodya)and the one 'magical mirror
'stall (diff shaped look), that gun shot on
baloons , that photo shop with impala- open
car cut out sitting on stool to take pic as if
sitting in car,thet crowd pushing , that police
catching eve teasers and that mangya court -
annady court to release them (double u r fine
if u say no)
what an excitement we used to get
i miss them all staying in suburb!!
7/7/2006 11:10 AM delete
Dont remember what festival - but there was
one when kids used to go all over my building
with these green leaves that were called 'sona'
and you would give that to everyone in the
Poonam building (except this one family cause there
(manage) were rumours that the wife was a prostitute)
and yell and scream.

7/7/2006 11:33 AM delete

hey thats 'DASEERA' day , it has some
significance , pandavas have kept (hide)their
weapons on this tree during 1 yr
ajnatwas and after the end of this period 1 yr
•••••• •• they took it back on this auspisious day
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7/7/2006 10:28 PM delete
I saw a living fossil on TV yesterday--- the
Nirma jingle. And the dancing girl.
I recently discovered Melody hai chocolatey,

StrongGel dekho kitni chocolatey is still made!
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7/8/2006 4:51 AM delete
anyone still sell those A&A kaju sweets? (the
square flat ones wrapped in cellophane & with
a gold colored circular sticker)??
AlphaVictor
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7/8/2006 4:56 AM delete
@Just
You discovered Melody
Hibernating
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Bombay
(18,322 members) anyone remember those sexy flickers that
Ajith were based on cricket.....
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Nothing like using a folding umbrella with a
Neville good spring and flaps tied securely as guns
(manage) and guns beat swords anyday.
@Just
I know what u mean ... last week i came
across "britannia bourbon" choclate biscuits
after ages ... u know the 2 biscuit-sandwich
type. I couldn't wait until checking out but
instead walked though the aisles eating the
biscuit "old-school" style... ie: Seperate the
layers and lick the cream off first... i guess i
must've been passed of as demented or
something. As a kid i remember they used to
an expensive treat reserved only for sundays
and all when all the homework was done.
7/8/2006 6:05 AM delete
@Melody hai chocolatey
Melody Khao, Khud Jaan Jaao
Raj
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7/8/2006 10:10 AM delete

@Nirma jingle
I remember a Sangita Bijlani version besides
the original girl-rotating one.
Who was the other girl with Sangita Bijlani?
Bhavik
(manage) I remember a somewhat annoying Maggi Hot n
Sweet tomato chilli sauce commercial. The
punchline went "It's different", there was a
series of those.
7/8/2006 11:18 AM delete
You fascinate me ......
No. Thats the Garden Vareli Tagline.
Raj
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7/8/2006 11:25 AM delete
@ AV
they those kaju sweet still sell!!!hmm shivaji
park ka stop drinks has them!!
isha
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7/9/2006 4:33 AM delete
THANK YOU
You know what guys this thread has got a
nasty tinge about it that gets water in my eyes
and puts a beat back in my heart...
Fido
(manage) makes me remember the golden days of
childhood. makes me remember the numerous
small occasions of life, the numerous things
that we used to hold close to our heart as kids,
those that have been long lost in the new
grown up world's dimensions of money and
positions in society. so much that mere
reminder of them brings to harsh face of
reality of how we were then and how
metamorphed we've become with time.
I know this may sound philosophical but this is

what my heart asked me to pour out and I did.
I just want to say one thing to you all ........
THANK YOU

as I write these lines my so called money-

wise, society-wise brain is telling me don't
press submit... you'll look like a moron.... but
I guess today I'll go with my heart... so if you
feel like laughing go ahead n do that. I don't
care a hat.
Tejas
7/9/2006 10:23 PM delete
@Bhavik
ARGH! Javed Jaffery at his dementedest, if

such a word exists. Akhir is sauce main hai
StrongGel kya! New Maggi Hot n Sweet tomato chilli
(manage) sauce.... it's different.
7/9/2006 11:45 PM delete
Just: its pankaj kapoor who was there in that
first add
•••••• ••
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7/10/2006 2:37 AM delete
I remember watching matches at wankhede..
where we wud call any foreign player a
bastard and sing it in a great tune... where we
would erupt every time Sachin even touches
Ankit collects the ball to just pass it on... all the
Motani mexican waves...and coming back from the
(manage) stadium and giving bad words to the team for
losing...
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Bombay
(18,322 members) what abt that ad 'Hamdard ka Tonic, Sinkara'
very funny ad, where Javed Jaffery has this
● view profile Vadapav tonic and he breaks the glass!!!??
at last!
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@ankit
Irshad "..where we wud call any foreign player a

(manage) bastard and sing it in a great tune..."
That's something to remember?

7/10/2006 5:36 AM delete
YES! Hamdard ka tonic Cinkara!!! Cinkara's still
alive too, BTW!
StrongGel
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7/10/2006 3:36 PM delete
haven't you heard Cinkara is dead salman
"shikari" khan killed it... ?
Neville
(manage) BTW can anyone here please fill in the blank for
me ... i was never able to figure it out?
"Zandu balm Zandu balm ________wali balm"

7/10/2006 3:55 PM delete

Solved ... but what does "peda hari" mean ...
"Green with disease" ?
Neville
(manage) http://shayar.blogspot.
com/2004_10_01_shayar_archive.html
Search for the word "Nostalgia" on the page.

The October 10th 2004 blog entry has them all.
7/10/2006 4:42 PM delete
Peeda - hari.
Peeda is pain/plight
hari == assassain/killer.
Just Read
(manage) So a peedahari balm would be a pain killer balm.
Google: Matahari for a similar construct.

7/10/2006 5:22 PM delete
^ I wouldn't do that... if Peeda hari = Pain
killer, then Mata Hari = ???
Milind
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7/10/2006 5:24 PM delete
I rather think that "hari" in Peedahari is derived
from "haar" and means to defeat...
Milind
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7/10/2006 5:29 PM delete
@Pravin Da
I remember the Wadala fair very vividly... as a
Milind kid would go there every year, after the
(manage) upasacha faraal - (a feast more than a fast!)...
and come home with water balloon yo-yos -
water filled balloons tied to the end of a strip of
rubber cut from tyre tubes, and accordion type
snakes with a paper hood stuck to the end of a
pair of sticks...and the inevitable soap water
bubbles. I remember once i got a "helicopter" -
a flimsy metal propeller that simply spiralled
down a corkscrew shaft - and it had me
enthralled for days!! I guess I was easy to
please

7/10/2006 5:56 PM delete

Thanks @Just_Read finally makes sense
now. ....
Neville
(manage) errr however Mother - Killer (matahari)
definately doesn't sound right however and you
aren't talking about Mata Hari are you ? : )
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Peeda - hari.
● view profile Peeda also means - kitkit , takleef,trouble
● view forum •••••• •• hari- in this case pronounced as Haaari

(manage) harana , to defeat , bhaga na
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tou peeda haari = takleaf ko bhagane wala
but not definitely killer
Matahari =here Mata is mother and Hari id god .
Milind :ya i missed that water baloons with

rubber band type tied , we used to throw the
baloon to known passer by and he/she used to
react back in fear ,the baloon rebounds and is
back in hand in second.
once the baloon breaks , we used to play with
that rubber to give phatkas on others leg ,
'phatek' 'phatek'(pulling that band and
releasing ,pointing to others leg from a
distance)
7/10/2006 11:32 PM delete
@
I remember that Jingle " Ek chidya Anekh
Chidya , Dana Chubne Baith gayi thi"
Sandeep i really loved it as a kid on DD ...

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there was another one with one black fish and
other coloured fishes .....

7/10/2006 11:35 PM delete

@Sandeep
Read the whole thread--- those have been
referred to along with others. AV has the ek
anek song on MP3. Yes, you can kiss his feet.
StrongGel
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7/10/2006 11:37 PM delete
@ DD Logo
Doordarshan Logo s music .... two circles
dissoulving (Almost like an omlette ;) )
Sandeep
(manage) with tht sad music ... pe pe ppppppppee pe ....
it was horrible bcoz , so much time was wasted

in tht ....
7/10/2006 11:43 PM delete
well since i am a tv buff.. most of my memories
are weird tv shows.. one of them had jaspal
bhatti.. the only time he was funny.. and then
there was one with pankaj kapoor being a
Shweta
detective.. and then there was mungerilal ke
(manage) haseen sapne.. and not to forget malgudi
days...
7/10/2006 11:45 PM delete
there was another one with one black fish and
other coloured fishes
Vikram
(manage) That was Swimmy.
The most imaginative name for a fish the DD

guys could come up with!
7/10/2006 11:50 PM delete
Well, Vikram, all said, it was still amongst the
most entertaining ones... no better illustration
Milind of Unity is Strength
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7/11/2006 4:24 AM delete
Does anyone else remember 'Surabhi'? :D
Good times, good times....
StrongGel
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7/11/2006 4:43 AM delete

yes, Surabhi was one of those 'informative'
programmes you actually enjoyed watching!
Bhagyashri Siddharth Kak & Renuka Shahane were
(manage) brilliant.
7/11/2006 4:44 AM delete
Siddharth Kak, Renuka Shahane...definitely
been mentioned!
Irshad
(manage) There was a really sad program that was
modelled along the lines of Surabhi called
"Tana Bana". Very very average. Who was
anchoring that one?
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Was it Sashi Kumar? No, I think he wrote the
show...
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7/11/2006 4:53 AM delete
surabhi had introduced a game based on the
six degrees of separation funda...
how easy the game wud have been today in th

AlphaVictor orkut age...
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but most ppl on that game were from far flung
villages n towns... unlik most orkutkars...
7/11/2006 4:55 AM delete
anybody have the "tree of unity" video??
wud make a good addition to my collection-of-

things-i-wanna-show-my-grandkids....
AlphaVictor
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7/11/2006 5:09 AM delete
AV, most people on Bombay, Orkut were in
Karachi some months back ;)
I remember there beng a question at the end

StrongGel of each program and the correct answers
(manage) would be put in a lucky draw and the winner
got a holiday in someplace....
I remeber the first episode of Tana Bana was

very disappointing, so my family never
bothered with the second etc...

7/11/2006 5:40 AM delete

But i did like the music of Tana Bana & the
graphics that accompanied it..showing some
Bhagyashri musical instruments & various other things.
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7/11/2006 10:10 AM delete
Another informative show I liked was Turning
Point, with Naseeruddin Shah as the host, and
Milind Professor Yashpal as the Scientific expert...
(manage) that was a good one
7/14/2006 12:32 AM delete
I remembered this thread
its cool naa , looks toofan chala gaya
•••••• •• so I brought it up from next page.

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7/14/2006 12:37 AM delete
:D Thanks Pravin Da.... I needed this solid
dose of nostalgia to remind me of better times :
D
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7/14/2006 12:41 AM delete
ya this thread is like a solid dose like
Sustain release tablets , one tablet (post)is
enough for whole day , no need to take 4
doses , ie no need to start a new post thread
•••••• ••
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7/14/2006 12:49 AM delete
Used a slate and chalk to practice maths... I
missed those days when Mom use to teach and
Hibernating take homework!!!
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Bombay
(18,322 members) I remeber coloured chalks!
● view profile Yeah you still have them, I know, but I

haven't seen them since an age, so :D
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7/14/2006 1:13 AM delete
sometimes i see kids today practicing on
whiteboards...!!!
AlphaVictor
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7/14/2006 1:15 AM delete
salil
your topics are very nice and i enjoy reading
them
pallavi thanks for adding me in this community

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7/14/2006 1:19 AM delete
... when there used to be an irani cafe right
outside Dadar Terminus taxi stand where I
used to meet up with friends first thing when
I touched bombay.
Nitish
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7/14/2006 2:19 AM delete
Irani cafe is still there
•••••• ••
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7/14/2006 2:21 AM delete
was not the last time i got off at dadar. all

sealed up and white-washed outside. no
signboard or anything.
Nitish
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7/14/2006 5:49 AM delete
u remember the 'slate pencil' not the chalk
that school teachers used, the other slimmer
Vadapav at one. I used to love eating them. YUCKKK!!!
last!
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7/14/2006 6:11 AM delete
Hey yeah pre-kg/kg do they still use slates in
school ?
Neville
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7/14/2006 6:25 AM delete
I remember eating chalks, the cylindrical
ones used on the blackboard were somehow
more palatable than the thin ones.
Someone told my folks it's because I lack
Bhavik Calcium, so I was put on Calcium Sandoz pills
(manage) after that, the ones you got in the dog
shaped box.
7/14/2006 8:24 AM delete
I remember having chalk fights.. not eating
them!
Hibernating
(manage) @Neville NO.... they dont use that anymore!
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(18,322 members) I used to love eating the slates - once I bought
a whole box of them - you guessed it - for
● view profile consumption - and my stupid bro went and told
my parents....then I started eating the wall....
● view forum Poonam Good times!
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Oh yeah I remember those sandoz pills! Later
created piggy (err sorry.. doggy) banks out of
the boxes.
Santosh Do they still sell it in dog shaped boxes? I doubt

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7/14/2006 11:08 AM delete
wow i am so nostalgic sniff
I want to thank ruchi for the link to Giant
Robot..I loved that guy
I remember all of those times
Ryan i loved Fireball XL5 with the semi- puppet like
(manage) characters....spiderman
and the Rasna -spiderman contests
I also used to love Appy the drink..and when

they started disappearing i used to go to every
little known store so i could find it
there was also another drink called neela...i

think they sold it at this neela store at the old
BEST bus stop in Sion..and i used to save
money to drink it

7/14/2006 11:10 AM delete

sorry it was neera maybe...now i am confused
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@Poonam
I used to love eating the slates
Milind
(manage) You do mean pencils/chalks, don't you ?
7/14/2006 9:41 PM delete
Telephones
My parents never owned a telephone and there
were none in my whole building, so "important"
phone calls were made using one in a
Ash neighbouring building or from the pay phone in
(manage) the post office. When my cousin's mum died, it
took us almost 12 hours before we could ring
my cousin who was living in NZ. Phone calls
were mainly for "important" conversations.
We would simply roll up at friends and relatives'

homes and sometimes they were not at home.
That was considered just a fact of life, since
neither party owned a phone.
The pay phones could be used for free by

dropping the hook twice per digit, e.g. four
times to dial a 2, 8 times to dial a 4 and so on.
Worked perfectly but you had to get the
frequency correctly and the post office staff
used to come out to catch us if they saw this
was happening.
I think a local phone call was 20 paise. I am

stretching my memory here but there was some
time limit if you made it from a pay phone. A
beep would warn you xx seconds before the line
went dead.
To call overseas you had to book a call through

the operator. To order a phone line you could
be on the waiting list for 5-10 years.
In the early 60s the numbers were 5 digits -

cousin's number was 20218. In the late 60s

they became 6 digits - 310218.

7/14/2006 9:43 PM delete
Neera
Neera is the non-alcoholic version of Toddy
(Marathi tadi, made from tadgolas). Can't recall
ever drinking it, since those shops had a foul,
Ash decaying smell to them.
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7/14/2006 9:48 PM delete
Eating chalk
The home walls used to have chuna in them, or
it was used to seal cracks. Toddlers would often
lick the chuna and this was a sign of calcium
Ash deficiency. I don't think I ever tasted chalk.
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7/14/2006 9:59 PM delete
Piped gas
Yes, it was piped by the Bombay Gas Company
and the meter design hasn't changed much (in
other countries that still use piped gas, such as
Ash Australia).
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You could not get a new connection in the 60s.
You simply had to get a red Burshane LPG
cylinder delivered to your home on a bicycle or
a Tempo at regular intervals. Burshane was sold
by Burmah Shell and they had a monopoly.
We had a single cast-iron, circular burner on

the floor. Sometime in the 1960s or early 70s,
the company went bankrupt. A lot of the
underground pipes had corroded and they
couldn't afford to fix them. So, one day there
was no more gas.
You couldn't use this burner with a Burshane

cylinder because it was a different gas. Bombay
Gas was produced from coal and was probably
methane. The huge outdoor storage tank is
known as a gasometer and I saw a few of these
in NZ and Australia in later years.

7/14/2006 10:20 PM delete

Rohinton Mistry
Someone mentioned one of his books. He is a
little older than me but was a year behind me at
St Xavier's Boys' Academy. He was a very
Ash friendly and popular chap.
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I didn't know about his writings until a
classmate asked me if I had his email address.
Nice to know I went to school with a prominent
writer.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) I remember...
when the community had less than 100
● view profile Mohit members. :-D
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7/15/2006 12:49 AM delete
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I remember Juhu Beach as being THE beach
in the whole world, even if my parents rarely
Devang (like once) let me eat any of the nice food
(manage) there when I was little.
7/15/2006 1:22 AM delete
ASH as usual u cam back with bang - nice to
read
Neera - is now a days sold mostly in railway

•••••• •• station or near railway station it comes in
(manage) can , it gets finishes before 11am , its
unfermented Tadgola juice and is colourless.
tody fermented and made from tadgola is

white is colour and smelly , sold in separate
TODI shops not in open.
7/15/2006 5:42 AM delete
I also remember when SV Road went from
being damar to RCC... I watched from the
Devang balcony everyday when I was 9.
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7/15/2006 6:23 AM delete

When we were in 2nd std. Teacher use to
give a chalk to one boy and one girl for good
work etc. Remember once teacher gave me
Tushar chalk and some guy try to take out of my
(manage) pocket we had a good fight over this and
finally when teacher came back after interval
she slapped both of us over fighting and told
me i should have told her about this.
I dont think i learned anything from that
LOL
7/15/2006 6:41 AM delete
i remembr....
nt surfin all dis much...as i do 2dy!!!!!
Happy
Diwali and
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7/15/2006 7:38 AM delete
Yeah around 12yrs back wasn’t sure about
net but had a gr8 pc available in market that
time it was 486 DX100 around 50times
Tushar slower than current P4 with 630MB hardisk
(manage) almost double is width which is available in
market now but almost 160times less space
and around 4MB ram compared to 512MB
now.
Still kept that pc at home to show kids LOL
But some how able to manage to play Prince

of Persia, Grand Prix and F19 over it.
That was awesome cant give much time to

games now.
7/15/2006 6:44 PM delete
who cud forget
Hari T 1.) 10 paise for the Biscope thingy
2.) buddih k baal for 20 paise
(saving
3.) Jungle book contest from Goldspot..
(manage) 4.) had to maintain a Ration Card kinda
thingy if u owned a Radio or TV.
5.) Rent a bicycle for a rupee..

7/15/2006 9:39 PM delete

Budhi ka baal.. ahhh Candy Floss... that what
I used to get when I went to Girgoan
Hibernating Chowpatty with parents... i used to cry... only
(manage) after that they were conviced that I am
desprate to have those tasty things!!!
7/15/2006 10:13 PM delete
I remember how people were crying on the
streets when Freddie Mercury died.
As soon as the news was announced, people

Ready ran shouting on the streets, some with their
Coddie portable radios confirming the news to other
(manage) citizens.
When it was announced at VT, a girl got a

heart attack because of the huge loss.
Many people fell on their knees because of

the grief.
That month was titled as Black November in

Indian history
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(18,322 members) @Coddie
Dude.. did you learn all these in your 10
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● view events Has anyone got those little boat toys in which
you light a little flame and the boat moves?....
if kept inside a tub of water the boat will move
along the edges.
Bhavik
(manage) And there used to be plastic pankhas we'd get
outside school... I remember they would have
just 2 twisted wings placed 180 degrees from
each other and connected to a plastic stick,
the size of a pen. You had to rotate the stick
between your palms and release... the pankha
would fly.
I also have some vague recollection about

collecting wrappers of chocolates in exchange
for gifts. I think when Nestle marketed with a
bang sometime in 1990, if you collected 200
odd wrappers you got a mini-camera.
7/16/2006 10:00 PM delete
@Santosh
Calcium sandoz is STILL sold in those doggy
boxes. Getcher own Calcium Sandoz Dog!
StrongGel
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7/16/2006 10:16 PM delete

Kutte kamine, main tera calcium kha jaunga.
StrongGel
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7/16/2006 10:21 PM delete
ROFL!
Ready
Coddie
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7/16/2006 11:01 PM delete
Bhavik, that was Cadbury's, not Nestle.
Just Read
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7/16/2006 11:23 PM delete
http://www.orkut.com/AlbumZoom.aspx?
uid=3982279327655029499&pid=1
Turns out a lot of you have fond fond

StrongGel fooooonnnndddd memories of Kailas Jeevan's
(manage) TV ad....
Irshad also reminded me of "khujli karne wale,

bitex laga le..." yesterday *chuckle*
7/17/2006 12:45 AM delete
sorry folks, no patience to read all the posts
Anonymous here, but has anyone mentioned:
1. the "Intermission" and "Rukavat ke liye
khed hai" placards that used to take up half
the DD viewing time in the good old days ('70s)
2. actually having AND USING a "Hold" knob
on TV sets
3. televisions enshrined within wooden cabinets
4. DD instructional films like "Iska kya karen"
and another one that had two men going
around the city singing "Kachra mat phainko,
kachra mat phainko aur phainko to phainko

dabbe ke andar, o bhai mast kalandar"

5. There was another wonderful animated
Films Division short with a boy who gets fed up
of all the rubbish thrown out by apartment
dwellers and starts kicking it all BACK INTO
the apartments. Great stuff.
6. And another animation film showing a
comparison between man and machine with a
well-built man progressively growing skinnier
for lack of food till he becomes a crawling
skeleton before finally finding nourishment and
growing strong again
7. And another lovable film showing two men
eating, one does not eat greens and other
essential stuff while the other does so, with
the voice-over saying in Marathi: "ha pahaa
ramaiyya, kasaa dhashta-pushta, kaaran to
khaato hirvya paale bhaajya".
5. Phantom cigarettes
6. 10-paise bus tickets
7. (in Borivali at least) ONLY horse-drawn
carriages - tongas and victorias - and a few
taxis but NO autorickshaws
8. 20-paise 1-hour rented bicycle rides
9. when having a telephone was a status
symbol - in Borivali where I stay, only senior
executives used to be allotted one by their
organisations
10. (in Borivali at least) roads without dividers
that, at any time of day, could be crossed
without having to look both ways
7/17/2006 3:53 AM delete
Yea.. i remeber that advertisment it featured
late Jatin Kanakia and that Dilruba Uncle
Hibernating
(manage) *Dilruba uncles reminds me Shriman
Shrimati *
7/17/2006 3:57 AM delete
Once upon a time Dilruba Uncle was the soul
of "Yeh Joh Hai Zindagi"..still one of the best
Vikram comedy serials on Indian TV.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) dilruba uncle?? who be that? you don't mean
ravi baswani, do you?
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and last week i had a phantom cigarette! and
● view forum Salil all these years i did not know how to light
(manage) them till my friend showed me how.
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you're supposed to wet the red tip so it
brightens. now tell me you knew that?
7/17/2006 3:59 AM delete
oh ok, rakesh bedi..
Salil
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7/17/2006 4:01 AM delete
Light a phantom cigratte? How?
Hibernating
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7/17/2006 5:17 AM delete
Hey does anyone remember all the lines of
"Main bhookha hoon, bhojan lao", yet
Irshad another of those umpteen films division
(manage) cartoons that we lapped up?
7/17/2006 5:24 AM delete
I can hear that in my mind!!! Woohooo!
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7/17/2006 5:59 AM delete

yeh jo hai zindagi with all its star cast of shafi
Rama inamdar, swaroop sampat, rakesh bedi and
later on tiku talsania (of the yeh kya ho raha
(manage)
hai fame) one of the best comedies on indian
television. another one which almost came
near was ados pados.
7/17/2006 8:14 AM delete
Does anyone remember... in the old movies,
the symbol of kids being rich was that they
wore a bow with an elastic grip
Ready
Coddie
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7/17/2006 8:21 AM delete
Maybe we should start a signature campaign
Anonymous and get Films Division to release all their DD
animation classics on dvd.
I also remember the chorus conducted by a

wand-waving Vijay Raghav Rao. The songs
were used as fillers and were composed by
Rao himself and sung by traditionally attired
men and women. I think Rao composed the
music for all Films Division cartoons as well,
including the immortal "Tree of Unity".
7/17/2006 9:41 AM delete
(shaking off vision of vijay raghav rao as
harry potter) it's called a baton ,ashish
and musical wizard he may have been but i
don't think it was him conducting those
Salil ghastly 'vrindgaan' (yea, laugh, but they
(manage) were called that!) filler sessions. you're right
about him having scored the music for most
films div documentaries. and you
remembered quite a few of the classics and
my favourites too. yea, i wish you could get
the whole bunch on dvd. it's available on the
web, link earlier in this thread, but they're
poor quality and on a slow server, also you
can't download them. speaking of dvd's, a 2
disc set of FTII films by well known directors
from shyam benegal to kundan shah has hit
the market. it's called "masterstrokes" and i
keep forgetting to pick it up.

cody that was a hilarious observation, so

true, that.. don't forget their homes had bars
with vat 69 bottles too.
7/17/2006 10:44 AM delete
I dont kow if this has been mentioned, but
dont u guys remember the Mount Mary Fair
Rushikesh in bandra (where u give candles and other
(manage) wax offerings). with the big gaint wheel and
the toys and puzzles that used to be sold and
the pick candy floss and also the Tora tora
ride (hmm i guess that was in disney land)
that was fun !
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Bombay
(18,322 members) This is a regurgitation... (Legends?)
... but I just read some of the initial posts
● view profile today, in fact in the first post Salil mentions
about the infamous killer of pavement
● view forum Bhavik dwellers, and Milind talks of the same a
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Are you guys referring to the Raman
Raghav killings, but I thought those
happened sometimes in the 60s or 70s where
this psychopath Raman Raghav would kill
pavement dwellers by pounding their heads
with huge stones? I just read about it
elsewhere. Did something like that happen
sometime later as well?
And a question for the older folks - is it true

that sometime during Emergency there were
rare instances of women with long hair
having their chotis mysteriously chopped off
or "stolen", it happened stealthily in public
places and no-one noticed ? I asked at home,
but no-one could give any satisfactory
answers. Just wanted to know if this has any
truth...
I remember in my childhood there were

rumours of a child kidnapping gang who
would kidnap kids using a van.

7/17/2006 6:53 PM delete

Of course, Salil, "baton" is the good word, not
Anonymous "wand". Thanks. So has anyone mentioned
"What's the good word" conducted by Sabira
Merchant? That was a really good show and I
used to enjoy watching it. I still fondly
remember Sabira saying to so many
participants: "Could you expand on that?"
Come to think of it, with all its poor
technology and limitations due to state
control, DD had some really creative talents
working for it. Even 'Buniyaad' and 'Hum log'
for all their length still managed to
consistently tell a good story and carry it
forward with each episode, unlike the
mindless crap dished out by private channels
today.
7/17/2006 7:53 PM delete
Childhoood rumours... one of which I heard
was of Teenmundi ki chudel, later I realised
Hibernating that it was somtheing to do with the series
(manage) Hum Paanch!
Raman Raghav was India's first superhuman

(or something of that sort). He had some
unusual genes structuers
7/17/2006 9:52 PM delete
Remember that milk ad. "Dhoodh, Dhoodh
wonderful dhoodh." Operation Flood was it??
Vadapav at
last!
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7/17/2006 9:54 PM delete
Yay! Peeyo glassful doodh!
StrongGel
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7/17/2006 9:59 PM delete
they used mak milk loof do delicious, but i
wouldnt touch it for anything
Vadapav at
last!
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7/17/2006 11:10 PM delete

Good thing too, since I hear they use acrylic
paint to depict milk in ads---- better texture.
Yechhh :P
StrongGel
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7/18/2006 2:26 AM delete
Say who can remember more lines of the
doodh ad? I can remeber "Garmi main dalo
doodh main ice, doodh ban gaya very nice"
and "peeyo daily once or twice, ban jayega
StrongGel tasty surprise".... Any others?!
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7/18/2006 2:30 AM delete
Heres one more
Bhagyashri Doodh hai mast/must (?) in every season

(manage) Peeyo doodh for healthy reason
Rahoge tum fit & fine
Jeeyoge past 99
7/18/2006 2:30 AM delete
@ just
doodh doodh doodh doodh

doodh hai wonderful
Janhavi pee sakte hai roz glass full
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garmi mein dalo doodh main ice
doodh ban gaya very nice
piyo daily once or twice
mil jaayega tasty surprise
doodh hai mast in every season

piyo doodh for healthy reason
rahoge phir fit and fine
jiyoge past 99
doodh doodh wonderful doodh
yaaron aur mach gaya shor

gimme more gimme more
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Bombay
(18,322 members) This is a regurgitation... (Legends?)
... but I just read some of the initial posts
● view profile today, in fact in the first post Salil mentions
about the infamous killer of pavement
● view forum Bhavik dwellers, and Milind talks of the same a
(manage) couple of posts later.
● view events
Are you guys referring to the Raman
Raghav killings, but I thought those
happened sometimes in the 60s or 70s where
this psychopath Raman Raghav would kill
pavement dwellers by pounding their heads
with huge stones? I just read about it
elsewhere. Did something like that happen
sometime later as well?
And a question for the older folks - is it true

that sometime during Emergency there were
rare instances of women with long hair
having their chotis mysteriously chopped off
or "stolen", it happened stealthily in public
places and no-one noticed ? I asked at home,
but no-one could give any satisfactory
answers. Just wanted to know if this has any
truth...
I remember in my childhood there were

rumours of a child kidnapping gang who
would kidnap kids using a van.

7/17/2006 6:53 PM delete

Of course, Salil, "baton" is the good word, not
Anonymous "wand". Thanks. So has anyone mentioned
"What's the good word" conducted by Sabira
Merchant? That was a really good show and I
used to enjoy watching it. I still fondly
remember Sabira saying to so many
participants: "Could you expand on that?"
Come to think of it, with all its poor
technology and limitations due to state
control, DD had some really creative talents
working for it. Even 'Buniyaad' and 'Hum log'
for all their length still managed to
consistently tell a good story and carry it
forward with each episode, unlike the
mindless crap dished out by private channels
today.
7/17/2006 7:53 PM delete
Childhoood rumours... one of which I heard
was of Teenmundi ki chudel, later I realised
Hibernating that it was somtheing to do with the series
(manage) Hum Paanch!
Raman Raghav was India's first superhuman

(or something of that sort). He had some
unusual genes structuers
7/17/2006 9:52 PM delete
Remember that milk ad. "Dhoodh, Dhoodh
wonderful dhoodh." Operation Flood was it??
Vadapav at
last!
(manage)
7/17/2006 9:54 PM delete
Yay! Peeyo glassful doodh!
StrongGel
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7/17/2006 9:59 PM delete
they used mak milk loof do delicious, but i
wouldnt touch it for anything
Vadapav at
last!
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7/17/2006 11:10 PM delete

Good thing too, since I hear they use acrylic
paint to depict milk in ads---- better texture.
Yechhh :P
StrongGel
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7/18/2006 2:26 AM delete
Say who can remember more lines of the
doodh ad? I can remeber "Garmi main dalo
doodh main ice, doodh ban gaya very nice"
and "peeyo daily once or twice, ban jayega
StrongGel tasty surprise".... Any others?!
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Heres one more
Bhagyashri Doodh hai mast/must (?) in every season

(manage) Peeyo doodh for healthy reason
Rahoge tum fit & fine
Jeeyoge past 99
7/18/2006 2:30 AM delete
@ just
doodh doodh doodh doodh

doodh hai wonderful
Janhavi pee sakte hai roz glass full
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garmi mein dalo doodh main ice
doodh ban gaya very nice
piyo daily once or twice
mil jaayega tasty surprise
doodh hai mast in every season

piyo doodh for healthy reason
rahoge phir fit and fine
jiyoge past 99
doodh doodh wonderful doodh
yaaron aur mach gaya shor

gimme more gimme more
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7/18/2006 2:32 AM delete
Bombay
(18,322 members) what was that cartoon thingie they brought
to our schools to show us?
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i'm no fool..no siree..i'm gonna live to be a
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● view events to teach us how to cross the road etc?
7/18/2006 2:32 AM delete
YEP! That was it.... Except the last couplet
was "Charon or mach gaya shor....."
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7/18/2006 2:47 AM delete
oh i always thougt yaaron aur
*cringes and thinks oh dear.....am getting old

and losing my hearing*
Janhavi
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7/18/2006 2:48 AM delete
Sweetie, anyone posting here leaves this
thread feeling "those were the days..." If that
isn't old, what is... :D
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7/18/2006 3:08 AM delete

*glaring angrily at riju*
why'd u have to remind me im growin old??
AlphaVictor an that too when i just had my b'day...

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7/18/2006 3:11 AM delete
So did I ASK you to have nother birthday!?
You go have one behind my back, not call me
when you come into town, and then have the
audacity to dislike feeling old! Shut up and
StrongGel wash those dentures!
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7/19/2006 1:48 AM delete
you people have started chitchatting on this
thread also?
@Irshad. I'll try to remember as much as i

Wally can, ok?
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Jhuke sharm se nain, hui bechain, Draupadi
aayi.
Woh khaali bartan le aayi, aankhon mein
aansoo bhat laayi.
Prabhu bole
Kyon sharmaati ho, kyon mujhhse ann

chhupati ho.
Bas ek ann ka yeh daana. Sukh Dega mujhko
manmaana. Sukh dega mujhko manmaana.
7/19/2006 2:07 AM delete
@ dhoodh ad
i remember this ande ke ande ad. sunday ho
ya monday roz khao ande
Poorvi i did not read the full thread.so sorry if i am

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7/19/2006 3:00 AM delete
it went something like this : meri jaan meri
jaan, murgi ke ande.. ... Sunday ho ya
Vadapav at Monday, roz khao ande"
last!
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7/19/2006 3:06 AM delete

The original was a film song which went
"Aana meri jaan, meri jaan, Sunday ke
Irshad Sunday..."
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What film was that?!
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7/19/2006 3:29 AM delete
Bombay
(18,322 members) This original was from the film Shaheed
starring Dilip Kumar though its a little hard to
● view profile Bhagyashri imagine Dilip Kumar in that song! I dont know
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● view forum The words go like this
● view events Aana meri Jaan Sunday ke Sunday
I Love You...Bhag yahan se tu..
The song actually has a mention of 'ande' in it!

7/19/2006 3:33 AM delete
This site says it was from the movie Shehnai...
starring Nasir Khan and Dulari.
Vikram
(manage) http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/
nuts/search.cgi?song=meri+jaan+meri+jaan
+sunday+ke+sunday+aana+meri+jaan+meri
+jaan+sunday+ke+sunday
7/19/2006 4:05 AM delete
This is really strange...I found another website
which says its from the movie Albela...Can
Bhagyashri someone confirm the actual one?
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7/19/2006 5:51 AM delete
this is where milind will be able to help the
data bank of information on hindi movies and
Pree trivia
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7/19/2006 6:59 AM delete

i've always imagined bhagwaan singing it too..
and the tune certainly sounds like C.
Ramachandra. i think i'll go with Albela.
Salil
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7/19/2006 8:12 AM delete
It is C Ramachandra... and Shamshaad begum
I think.. Albela, yes.
I particularly like the --
main dharam karam ki nasi,
Ruchi tu neech videshi abhilashi!! Heh.
(manage) (er, my spellings might be flawed but thats
memory for you!)
7/19/2006 8:21 AM delete
OK, did a search again and I find that most of
the sites list it as from the film Shehnai. There
Bhagyashri is one which says its from Shaheed & a couple
(manage) of them say its from Albela. But going by the
majority I think Vikram is right here.
7/19/2006 10:59 AM delete
Pree, you just had to go and put me on the
spot, right ?
Milind
(manage) Anyways, from what I know, the song "Meri
Jaan Sunday ke Sunday" is from the movie
Shehnai (the old one, I believe there was one
with the same name later) and the song is
sung by Chitalkar, otherwise known as C.
Ramchandran - which might explain why you
visualise Bhagwan, Salil...Chitalkar also sang
all the songs in Albela
As for who is it picturised on.. well, I don't

know... never saw the song in my life - but
IMDB should be able to help with that...

7/19/2006 11:10 AM delete

It is definitely not from albela.
As ripped from the CD:

/home/music/albela/bholi_soorat_dil_ke_khote.
Just Read mp3
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dil_dhadke_nazar_sharmaye.mp3.mp3
/home/music/albela/sham_dhale_kihdki_tale.
mp3
/home/music/albela/
dhire_se_aaja_ri_aakhiyan_mein.mp3
/home/music/albela/diwana_aa_gaya.mp3
/home/music/albela/
kismat_ki_hawa_kabhi_naram.mp3
/home/music/albela/balmaa_bada_nadaan.mp3
/home/music/albela/
haseenon_se_mohabbat_ka.mp3
/home/music/albela/diwana_parwana.mp3
/home/music/albela/shola_jo_bhadke.mp3
/home/music/albela/teri_yaad_ne_maara.mp3
7/19/2006 12:09 PM delete
I remember the Murgi ke ande song better
than the Sunday ke Sunday one
Milind
(manage) Meri jaan, meri jaan murgi ke ande
Khaana meri jaan meri jaan, murgi ke ande
Omlette khilaao, fried khilaao, boiled khilaao
Khilaao swaad bhare, shakti bhare ande hi ande
Sunday ho ya Monday, roz khao Ande!

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Bombay
(18,322 members) doodh doodh doodh doooooodh!!..piyo glass
full doodh! doodh hai mast in every season
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Prasad fine jiyoge past 99..yannnn!!! chaaro aur mach
● view forum (manage) gaya shor...gimme more gimmmmmmme
more...
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7/19/2006 1:27 PM delete
dint have da enerygy to go trhu the whole
thing..my resolve was broken somewer close to
post # 800 ...shud've seen this earlier..but
Prasad neways..i dint see neone mention 25 paise
(manage) seeng (sheng daana..ground nuts for
uninitiated nuts who dont und)
7/19/2006 1:34 PM delete
hmm..here wat i remember!! ...wwf trump
cards...pepsi cola stick for 25 paise...sauf and
imli outside skool...fry-ems..double decker
Prasad tiffins(i think da craze for em juz started
(manage) around da time i was in first std)...those cycles
that u pus with one leg...123 double
decker...85 double decker to churchgate..
nukkad on tv (khopdi n guru)...he--maaaaan..
tan tan ta tada tadan he-man!! i have the
power!!!!! .....heman dolls n gi-joes..hot
wheels... raspberry dolly for 2 Rs ...sitting near
da tv to change channel coz der wsant no
remote....i remember some magazine with a
skimpily dressed sonam, cant rem its name
though...dirty girgau chowpatti...prakash vada
at dadar...my skool IES-king george and my
skool bus servoce (sangeeta bus ..neone here
form sangeeta bus??) ..appy (amazing man!!!
loved it)

7/19/2006 2:58 PM delete

yayy another appy drinker
i wonder when comercial gas cylinders were
delivered to homes....I vaguely remember
using the kerosene or ghaslet burners for
Ryan something...pumping that thing was a
(manage) horendous task
keep pumping till u almost die of the fumes

and then lite up the flame with this weird
lighting thingy
and before commercial grinders were the

ancient stone grinding..i even recall using this
at some point of time
don't see too many scooters anymore with the

extra attached section where the third person
could sit...I guess the high polution and
accident rates forced them out...but i
remember it being so much fun to sit in that
third seat...i used to fight for it
7/19/2006 5:35 PM delete
Oh yeah going to the "chakki" to pisao atta for
chappati's the next day ...
Neville
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7/19/2006 5:57 PM delete
Request
This isn't that bygone ...
Neville
(manage) Does anyone remember javed jaffery's show
"timex timepass" on V (thursday 9:00 i think)...
the original indian show about "nothing" where
he imitated typical bambaiya public.
Abdul Cutpiece, Future Furtado, Chaila

Sylvester, Sohrab Supariwalla, Queenie SIngh
and others. Don't remember all the names but
definately remember each character if i ever
see them again. There was also a Gurkha (in
love koirala), south indian prof and his alter
ego verrapan, a sindhi guy who else, who
else ..... Although the show drew a lot of flak i
thought jaffery did a great job, prbably his best
ever.
The request, just wondering if anyone has a

copy of that show .... i will kiss yuor feet, be

your slave for a month if so

7/19/2006 5:59 PM delete
the doodh doodh commercial is sung by kunal
ganjawala who started his career by singing ad
jingles.
Ruchi
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7/19/2006 8:23 PM delete
Does anyone remember those ads for Jai
Soaps? "Pehla pyaar, laaye jeevan mein
bahaar".
Raj
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7/19/2006 8:26 PM delete
tan se khushboo ude, kai batein kahe...
pehla pyaar....
pehlaaaaa pyaaaaar...
AlphaVictor
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7/19/2006 8:26 PM delete
Yeh hain Mr.Raam Muraari
Ofsar hain ye ik sarkaari
Roz raat tak kaam yeh karte
Phir ghar jaane se the darte
Raj Unko soojhi ek upai
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Kaam bhi hain ab poora kar paate
Ghar pe jyaada waqt bitate
Tumko bhi hai gar sukh paana
Shaan se bolo chal meri LUNA
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Does anyone remember the Rapidex English
speaking course ad? There was one with
● view profile showed a bunch of guys envying this dude
talking animatedly to some girls, apparently
● view forum Bhavik because the kewl one spoke fluent English.
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● view events And there was some ad for an ayurvedic
gastrointestinal product where the
bespectacled mustachioed guy saying it
appeared to come closer and closer to the
camera. It looked weird.
There was one Shilpa char chand lagaye.

7/19/2006 8:39 PM delete
These soaps remind me of a line, I don't know
which ad, but it was - Aisa hi hota hai, meri
tvacha se meri umra ka pata hi nahin chalta.
Some college girls mistake this really gorgeous
Bhavik looking mom for a student.
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7/19/2006 8:47 PM delete
Bhavik, thats Santoor Soap! I guess the model
in the Ad was Simone Singh.
Hibernating
(manage) Anwyas I also REMEMBER MY ENGINEERING
DAYS... as finally I got my results and I AM
ENGINEER!!!

7/20/2006 2:36 AM delete

Engineering Days!
More than the day of the final result i
Bhagyashri remember the day we got the results of the I
(manage) sem. All wannabe engineers, most of them had
got KTs (Thats Allowed to Keep Term) & were
shell shocked to realise that this could happen
to them.
The final result was more of an anti climax

though. We came to know abt the results
being declared & then checked on the internet
and called each other to congratualte on
Finally becoming an Engineer.
Another thing i vividly remember is the GT,

Glass Tracing, for the Drawing assignments. It
almosed looked like we weredoing Plantchet
(Is that the correct spelling?) We used to be
huddled around a glass table with all the lights
off & just a candle burning beneath the table
with all those huge drawing sheets on the
table & each one of us tracing away!
7/20/2006 3:06 AM delete
I remember the old HMT advertisement on TV
Anonymous in which the girl reaches home very late in the
night. Her parents were waiting to give her a
new HMT watch for her birthday.
I remember the hand painted movie hoardings

at Juhu beach.
I remember soft drinks called sosyo and thrill.

7/20/2006 3:22 AM delete
I remember the Indian airlines Caravelles
Anonymous taking off. Boy, I loved the loud sound they
made.
Remember when the international flights also

departed from the Santa Cruz terminal.
Remember the Indian Navy Super Connies.

7/20/2006 5:04 AM delete

I guess everyone must aware about the
programme "Aamchi Maati Aamchi mansa" (I
believe its still ON). Earlier on every
wednesday evening (just before chitrahar)
Amit there used to be a module called
(manage) "Gappagoshti" on this AMAM!... there were
various characters from a small village (names
like Patil, housabai etc etc) who used to create
a problem.. n at the end a character by the
name Vishvasrao ( who was the only educated
guy in the village) would enter solve the
problem..!
Does anyone remember "Kilbil" which used to

come on Monday evening 6 o clock?... We
used to rush home on MOndays to watch it...
"Kridangan"... the only sports programme on
DD! (before an english sports programme was
introduced on sunday morning 11ish)
DDs comedy show on saturday afternoons!
And above all the adult movies on Tuesday

nights on DD1!!!...used to watch it on mute!!...
We used to study till late nite on tuesdays to
watch it!!!... Parents used to think that we
were studying!
7/20/2006 5:23 AM delete
the only marathi i knew in my childhood was
because of aamchi mati ammchi manse,aapan
yanaa pahilat ka.....aajchya thalak
batmya.........
Janhavi
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7/20/2006 9:05 AM delete
I used to laugh at 'Aamchi maati aamchi
Anonymous maansa' as a teenager but when, as an adult,
I watched a few episodes while surfing
channels I realised that though it may seem
very stupid and a waste of time to us city-born-
and-bred folk, it actually provides - despite all
its technological limitations - very good
information and advice to farmers, and its
contents are more meaningful and significant
to those for whom the programme is intended
than all the Channel V - MTV bakwaas.

I remember 'Kilbil' and also 2 other children's

programmes - 'Khel khilone' in Hindi with
Manju didi telling kids stories on Fridays and
'Magic lamp' in English on Sundays. Then there
was 'Sundar maajha ghar' on Tuesdays, I
think, which was addressed to housewives and
women in general.
"Kridaangan" was not the only sports

programme on DD, there was also "Sports
Roundup" with a very distinctive signature
music that has escaped my memory.
DDs comedy show was in fact "Didi's Comedy

Show" by the famous German comedian Dieter
Hallervorden.
And those movies on Tuesday nights were

AWARD-WINNING European films by famous
directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker
Schlöndorff and Constantin Costa-Gavras. But
yes, they did contain nudity and to DD's credit
the films were shown uncensored unlike today
when Star Movies, HBO and other movie
channels either cut out the nude scene
altogether or digitally "cover" the naughty bits.
7/20/2006 9:10 AM delete
DD - 2 things I really miss
Anonymous Tele Match (eine, zwein, drei.... and the good
old towns of Dortmund, Hamburg et al)
Didi's Comedy Show (its original German title

is "Nonstop Nonsens" - the complete Nonstop
Nonsens series was released last year in
Germany on 2 dvd sets which are available at
amazon.de, but unfortunately they only have
German audio without the English dubbed
version that was shown on DD.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) here's an old nirma ad which has stuck in my
head 4 no apparent reason...
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yeh nahi, woh
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tikiyaa...
leti thi. jab wohi mehengi daamon waali safedi,
wohi chaagh kam daamon mein milee toh koi
yeh kyon le woh na lee...
maan gayee...
kise?
aap ke paar ki nazar aur nirma super, dono
ko
***arbit
7/20/2006 9:17 AM delete
DD - 2 things I absolutely do not miss
Anonymous Salma Sultan (newsreader) - she with the
constipated look, like she was reading the
news with a poker shoved up her a***
Cricket commentary by Narottam Puri, Sushil

Doshi, Ravi Chaturvedi and (grrrr!) Milind
Wagle
When Narottam Puri was at the mike,
whenever the batsman hit a boundary, the ball
would always "ricochet off the fence".
Sample Hindi commentary by Sushil Doshi and
Ravi Chaturvedi:
Sushil: West Indies ke bowler kaafi sateek
aur napeetuli gendbaazi kar rahe hain.
Ravi: bilkul theek kahaa aapne Sushil, aur Gus
Logie ek bahut chust aur mustaid fielder
hain.
Sushil: aur yeh batsman ne ballaa ghumaaya,
aur gend tezi se boundary ki taraf badhti hui

aur ye chaar runnnnnnnnnnnnnn...

Ravi: aur yeh over ki samaapti aur umpire ne
lunch break ki ghoshna ki. Khilaadi vaapas
pavilion laut rahe hain. Aur isi ke saath main,
Ravi Chaturvedi, aapko vaapas studio le chalta
hoon.
7/20/2006 9:21 AM delete
@Amit,
Ah-ha Kilbil... actually a local from Karjat
Hibernating (where my college is situated) when asked
(manage) abuot it, told us that its Marathi serial and he
watched it. Me n friends laughed at him for
this.. he was like... yuo are talking about the
Marathi seraial na..
We used to tease "Aai zavadya, bill mi aali"
@Bhagashri
Yea.... GT, ATKT... thankfully they all come
under "I remember" now!
7/20/2006 9:33 AM delete
I just remembered the russian serial/movie on
Nadia whats-her-name, the Gymnast - and
remember my dad hoping I would be one!
Alas - no such luck!
Poonam
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7/20/2006 9:33 AM delete
yeah final results are like Orgasm, when we
get marksheet in hand we used to happy
(atleast i used to) then after some time we
Tushar know ohhh those cool college days are over
(manage) now.
7/20/2006 10:14 AM delete
Poonam, you mean the Romanian gymnast
Nadia Comaneci.
Just Read
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7/20/2006 10:16 AM delete

To Just Read
You are correct sir!
Poonam
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7/20/2006 12:01 PM delete
I wanted to be Nadia too! In fact I asked my
mom to change my name to Nadia.
I was literally obsessed wit that show. Once

Aditi when i was looking at the map of the world...i
(manage) suddenly noticed the words NDIA in bold (it
was India..& the 'I' was covered by
something)..
I for some reason, read it as NaDIA & was so

excited to hav discovered that a country had
been named after my idol! ofcourse in a
matter of seconds my bubble burst when i
realised that the 'I' had been covered & it was
just plain ol' India
7/20/2006 2:56 PM delete
Aditi and Just Read
Was that a movie or some sort of serial - was
it dubbed?
I just remember being obsessed by it - cant
Poonam really remember what happened though
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7/20/2006 3:21 PM delete
@Ashish
LOL @the running cricket commentary.
Raj
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(18,322 members) Wah Ustad Wah!
Remember the Taj ad?
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I saw Zakir Hussian in Vancouver - and
● view forum Poonam wanted to scream out that line....
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7/20/2006 4:05 PM delete
I know this serial has been mentioned earlier
but can someone recall what was the story
like in the japanese drama - Osheen.
Santosh It was about a little girl.. but dont remember

(manage) anything more. My mom used to watch it a
lot.
7/20/2006 5:37 PM delete
Ashish: nice comentory
but the one by anand setalwad was awsome

we used to listen on radio ,transistor when no
•••••• •• TV was there , we just used to imagine whole
(manage) match from his comentory ball by ball.
7/20/2006 6:07 PM delete
Did somebody already mention the
instrumental music video on national unity
featuring India's top athlete's in the early
80s ?
RoDz
(manage) It begins with one sportsperson passing the
torch to another and so on until finally a
number of kids dressed in the tri colour
scheme arrange themselves to make the
Indian tri colour?
The video had Kapil Dev, Prakash Padokuone,

Milkha Singh,Sunil Gavaskar,Shinky Wilson,
etc

7/20/2006 6:10 PM delete

rodzz...
iph moi memolyz collect isn it 'Mile Sur mela
Its the tumala'
End...
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7/20/2006 6:12 PM delete
As kids, I remember how we longed for
batsmen to get out on 0, just so that we could
see the animated duck, waddle across the
screen, fuming with this bat resting on his
Raj shoulders. This was only when the DD
(manage) broadcast used to pick up the Aussie Channel
9 Feed. (Benson and Hedges Series ???)
7/20/2006 6:15 PM delete
Deadd
Mile sur mera tumhara was done with film
artists...not sportspersons...dont u remember
Amitabh, Jitendra and Mithun coming together
RoDz in the end and singing in the video?
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7/20/2006 6:17 PM delete
you also missed the key word there
-"instrumental", no vokhaals, only moojik
RoDz
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7/20/2006 6:17 PM delete
rodzz...
danke man" Moi memoly suxx
Its the
End...
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7/20/2006 6:29 PM delete
Willkommen Herr Dead
RoDz
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(18,322 members) Wah Ustad Wah!
Remember the Taj ad?
● view profile
I saw Zakir Hussian in Vancouver - and
● view forum Poonam wanted to scream out that line....
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7/20/2006 4:05 PM delete
I know this serial has been mentioned earlier
but can someone recall what was the story
like in the japanese drama - Osheen.
Santosh It was about a little girl.. but dont remember

(manage) anything more. My mom used to watch it a
lot.
7/20/2006 5:37 PM delete
Ashish: nice comentory
but the one by anand setalwad was awsome

we used to listen on radio ,transistor when no
•••••• •• TV was there , we just used to imagine whole
(manage) match from his comentory ball by ball.
7/20/2006 6:07 PM delete
Did somebody already mention the
instrumental music video on national unity
featuring India's top athlete's in the early
80s ?
RoDz
(manage) It begins with one sportsperson passing the
torch to another and so on until finally a
number of kids dressed in the tri colour
scheme arrange themselves to make the
Indian tri colour?
The video had Kapil Dev, Prakash Padokuone,

Milkha Singh,Sunil Gavaskar,Shinky Wilson,
etc

7/20/2006 6:10 PM delete

rodzz...
iph moi memolyz collect isn it 'Mile Sur mela
Its the tumala'
End...
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7/20/2006 6:12 PM delete
As kids, I remember how we longed for
batsmen to get out on 0, just so that we could
see the animated duck, waddle across the
screen, fuming with this bat resting on his
Raj shoulders. This was only when the DD
(manage) broadcast used to pick up the Aussie Channel
9 Feed. (Benson and Hedges Series ???)
7/20/2006 6:15 PM delete
Deadd
Mile sur mera tumhara was done with film
artists...not sportspersons...dont u remember
Amitabh, Jitendra and Mithun coming together
RoDz in the end and singing in the video?
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7/20/2006 6:17 PM delete
you also missed the key word there
-"instrumental", no vokhaals, only moojik
RoDz
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7/20/2006 6:17 PM delete
rodzz...
danke man" Moi memoly suxx
Its the
End...
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7/20/2006 6:29 PM delete
Willkommen Herr Dead
RoDz
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Vrindgaan
Anonymous Just remembered - the baton-wielding
● view profile conductor of the "Vrindgaan" orchestra that I'd
mentioned in an earlier post was Kanu Ghosh
● view forum and not Vijay Raghav Rao, as was rightly
pointed out by Salil.
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7/20/2006 7:16 PM delete
@ RoDz and Dead,
Anonymous
Unless I'm mistaken, the "sportspersons
passing the torch" video had no vocals but
featured only the famous music score from the
film "Chariots of Fire".
7/20/2006 8:58 PM delete
I dunno where the music's taken from, can
somebody confirm it?
RoDz
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7/20/2006 9:14 PM delete
it did sound like that, but it wasn't. this one
was louis banks' inspired version. spread the
light of freedom has been dicussed before,
hasn't it? i think this thread should be divided
Salil into chapters..
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7/20/2006 10:18 PM delete

Old planes
> Indian airlines Caravelles taking off. Boy, I
loved the loud sound they made.
Ash They also made a loud sound when they

(manage) crashed. :)
> Remember when the international flights

also departed from the Santa Cruz terminal.
Santa Cruz was an aerodrome, now an archaic

term for smaller airports. In the 60s, it was a
popular destination for family outings. You
would see large families wandering through as
they would at Palva Bunder (Apollo Bunder).
The air conditioning was one of the draw
cards. The cops were always chasing homeless
people out, who didn't mind the air
conditioning either. After the 1965 war, you
could not take photographs in the area,
including the car park for "security reasons",
and you could not go there for an outing. IIRC
they introduced paid "platform tickets" for
families who were seeing off a relative.
> Remember the Indian Navy Super Connies.
Not specifically the IN, but I remember seeing

Super Connies flying overhead, as I do the old
Canberra bombers with their distinctive tail. I
also remember seeing the Juhu Aero Club's
Tiger Moths.
7/20/2006 10:26 PM delete
@Salil
We didn't exactly discuss the "Light of
Milind freedom" video... we discussed the amply
(manage) provided sportswoman whose name I keep
forgetting

7/20/2006 10:40 PM delete

Ash:Santa Cruz was an aerodrome i have lot of
those memories
my uncles stays 5 mins dist from airport and
we used to visit during may vacation in late
•••••• •• 60s and going to airport and watching was
(manage) routine on those days, I remember we used to
go to airport bldgs open balcony , entrance
was from right corner, watching take off and
landing and seeing celibrities getting down
from plane was exactly like those shown in old
movies.
No security check and free darshan for visitors

kya jamana thaa !!
7/20/2006 11:19 PM delete
Yea my Dad used to tell me stories about the
airport, his Uncle also stayed there!
Hibernating
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once?
7/20/2006 11:25 PM delete
@ milind: nirupama mankad
Salil
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7/20/2006 11:34 PM delete
@ salil
Anonymous
it was rumoured (it may very well be true)
that her husband got her cameo edited out of
the video, coz her assets do not make an
appearance in later versions of the video.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) It was a serial.
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7/21/2006 4:43 AM delete
ya light of freedom has been discussed before
and I have mentioned also that Nirupama
Mankad (Ashok Mankads wife)running with
torch was our favorite slot to watch in those
•••••• •• days and there was lot of discussion on that in
(manage) office also i may be in late 20s then , we used
to see that part only nothing else was
interesting.
7/21/2006 8:19 PM delete
I remember rushing to the door when the bell
rang every AM, just so that I could grab the
Free Press Journal before dad did. And that
was just for the Mr.Jiggs from "Bringing up
Raj father".
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And I remember, solving silly puzzles in
magazines like "spot the 7 difference" between
the 2 pics.

7/22/2006 12:36 AM delete

I remember there used to be fire hydrant out
let at waist height at the corner of foot path ,
one seen at dadar TT near BEST workshop and
a fire alarm with glass covered red box of cast
•••••• •• iron on small pillar(near by a sheek kabab
(manage) wala )one has to break the glass and rotate
the wheel inside with handle and fire brigade
from nearby used to come (as there were very
less telephones)some boys used to play
mischief false alarm.now as the road repaired
many times , added layes of tar and jelly
stones and increased the height the hydrant
now almost submerged to ankle ht some are
not seen at all.All this may be from british
jamana,
In suburbs such hydants are not seen
7/22/2006 3:48 AM delete
Didnt a concord land here in Mumbai airport
Anonymous once?
Yes, a Concorde landed here in 1989. It had
brought the French President to BOM. He was
here to inaugurate the French Festival.
7/22/2006 3:49 AM delete
The Lalitajee advertisement. Surf ki kharid dari
Anonymous mai samajdari hai.
7/22/2006 9:05 AM delete
Does anyone remember there was a television
broadcasting of African safari sometime in 85
ot 86. I have only a vague recollection of
sitting through the animal close-ups and a
Bhavik particular scene where they show African
(manage) tribals drinking animal blood. There was also
the hype with the Hailey's comet sighting
sometime in the mid-80s.
I remember when sometime in my 6th or 7th

grade Essel World was opened and we had a
new picnic spot. Until then it usually meant the
Sanjay Gandhi National Park for day picnics.
What was the duo of theatres where Shoppers'

stop, Andheri stands now? I remember
watching Chhota Chetan, the old one there,
with 3D glasses.

7/22/2006 10:46 AM delete

Amber and Oscar were the two theatres. I
remember those!
Just Read
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7/22/2006 10:58 PM delete
In the early days of DD in the 70s there was a
Anonymous show with Yakub Saeed and Baban Prabhu
enacting comic skits. It was silly but good fun.
Does anyone remember what it was called?
7/22/2006 11:09 PM delete
was it Hastey Kheltey
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Well the other common picinc spot was Chota
Kasmir and Aarey Milk Colony.. the ofcourse
● view profile Hibernating Fantasy Land and Essel World and almost
(manage) every school was held there.
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7/23/2006 12:02 AM delete
● view events Ashish : i remember ,its Has Parihas
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7/23/2006 4:02 AM delete
@ Pravin Da
Anonymous
Yes, it was "Haas Parihas" indeed. Thanks a
lot.
7/24/2006 12:30 AM delete
@ pravin da
my dad remembers....
in his childhood, the BMC used to use the fire

AlphaVictor hydrants to actually wash the streets...!!!
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now they sweep it like they doin us a big
favor... (not that they do a good job of that...)
7/24/2006 8:19 AM delete
'What was the duo of theatres where
Shoppers' stop, Andheri stands now? I
Advait remember watching Chhota Chetan, the old
(manage) one there, with 3D glasses'
There were three. Ambar, Oscar and Minor.
Chota Chetan played at Minor.

7/24/2006 12:11 PM delete

I remember the BMC washing streets using the
fire hydrants (or water tankers) too... does
Milind that make me old ?
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7/24/2006 5:35 PM delete
Ek - Anek...DD song
Check this out friends....really made me go
Harish
back many years....not aware if somebody has
(manage) already posted it...but its worth the repitition....
Ek-Anek, the doordarshan song that we all

have in our minds since our childhood.
v=uaTYLy1Jgio
7/24/2006 5:43 PM delete
Harish really nice to watch good
Milind :remembering BMCs good work means

either u r really old or u r becoming old early
•••••• •• discounting future!! like BMC promising to do
(manage) good work in future say 2020!.
7/24/2006 8:43 PM delete
i just love it how this video keeps surfacing.
those who forget history are condemned to
repeat it, i guess. yaawn.
Sat
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7/25/2006 2:37 AM delete
i was quite small but i do have a faint
recollection of bombay during christmas, there
used to be groups of people gathering outside
Parizad old bawa bungalows/buildings/baugs and
(manage) actually singing christmas carols at exactly 12
midnight when christmas set in.
then the mahout with his elephant strolling the
streets of mumbai..nowadays its very rare.
the pony rides for kids at marine drive beach...
this beach is so swamped with hawkers these
days.
the cable tv meant movies only at fixed times
and was specific to each group...not the
universal 24 hr saas-bahu serials...cheeeeeeee.
music on tv was chayageet or chitrahaar not
mtv or channel v

saturday-sunday movie specials on

doordarshan
spiderman and junglebook on sunday
mornings..........
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Bombay
(18,322 members) i was quite small but i do have a faint
recollection of bombay during christmas, there
● view profile Vikram used to be groups of people gathering outside
(manage) old bawa bungalows/buildings/baugs and
● view forum actually singing christmas carols at exactly 12
midnight when christmas set in.
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Some tooting of horn follows:
I wrote about a Bandra Christmas here[http://

sourapplemartini.blogspot.com/2005/12/
christmas-cheer-all.html]
7/25/2006 3:07 AM delete
hey, they still sing carols during christmas in
juhu (atleast the i had seen 2 years ago)
Rushikesh
(manage) And remeber the budha man, all kids collecting
money for budha man. (i guess this also still
happens)
7/25/2006 3:37 AM delete
nice piece Vikram,
Rushikesh and Vikram, the two of u speak of

Parizad just 2 localities where the carol singing still
(manage) takes place, but early on i remember having
witnessed this near my granny's place at grant
rd as well as my cousins at parel but its not so
these days...
and rushikesh even the mahout i just saw one
at bandra on sunday almost after 6 months of
having seen one at worli.....for me i used to
see the mahout at least twice a week on my to
school...sometimes even twice in a day :)

7/25/2006 7:53 PM delete

Parizad: "then the mahout with his elephant
strolli"
hey I see daily , in the morning while comming

•••••• •• to office ,now below flyover at ghatkopar east
(manage) on E E highway , I think he has made home
there , I see a baby elephant too some times
there with mother.
7/25/2006 8:25 PM delete
I haven't seen those fortune telling bulls that
nod their heads ever since I was a kid.
Somehow all my years in Bombay I also
NEVER encountered the parrot fortune teller
Bhavik where the bird tells you the future by pulling
(manage) out cards, the only place I've seen that is on
television.
7/25/2006 9:12 PM delete
@Bhavik
Go visit Sion Hospital - there always used to
Milind be a "Totaram Jyotshi" there on the footpath
(manage) outside the compound wall... and I was
delighted to find him still around, when I went
back home last year
7/25/2006 9:15 PM delete
WIBS bread used to be available for Rs. 2.50
and the Fruit Bread for Rs 4.00.....in the 80s
RoDz
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7/25/2006 9:35 PM delete
i remember the saffola ad where the kid used
to go like JALEBIIIIIIEEEEE !
Cletus
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7/25/2006 9:39 PM delete
I remeber the Sundrop ad with the kid running
amidst gigantic rolling poories ;)
The healthy oil for healthy people.
StrongGel
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7/25/2006 10:54 PM delete

Parizad: I see a grand old elephant every now
Anonymous and then on our roads in Borivali. Brings the
traffic to a halt but nobody seems to mind.
Bhavik: You can also try M.G. Road (the road

from Flora Fountain to Regal). I used to
frequent that area 10-15 years ago to buy
books and would regularly see a 'jyotish tota'
on the footpath. Maybe one of his disciples is
still plying the trade there!
The people I do not see at all now are the

bioscope-wala and the saanp-wala. The saanp-
wala wasn't a sapera, he used to come to our
society carrying sacks and baskets and open
them to reveal pythons and cobras and other
serpentine species. I don't remember him ever
carrying or playing a 'been'.
Then there would be those tribal women called
"taki wali bai" or something - I just can't seem
to recollect what their line of trade was. I don't
recollect them ever entering a house, they
would sit on the threshold and talk to the
womenfolk of that house, and I also don't
recollect them ever wearing a blouse (being
tribals). Maybe Pravin Da can help me out here.
Someone please tell Dheeraj Kumar and 'Mr.
Bharat' Manoj Kumar to make "Kahaan gaye
woh log" part II and include all these people
who have seemingly vanished from our city
but not from our minds and hearts.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) I also don't recollect them ever wearing a
blouse (being tribals). Maybe Pravin Da can
● view profile Vikram help me out here.
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● view forum Pravin Da is the expert on blouseless women?
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many many times!
7/25/2006 11:31 PM delete
School time. Action ka school time...
who remembers this shoe ad?

Ready
Coddie
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7/25/2006 11:51 PM delete
Ashish & Vikram : ya those blouse less tribals
are professional in rough nessing stones
called 'patya' for making wet masala , (like
those stones of chakkis bhayyas do on their
•••••• •• nonworking day), In most of the
(manage) maharashtrian house ,mostly from ghat side
(not ghatkopar) there used to be 'patya' for
masala peesing with one stone on top
grinding on bottom patya , it needs
roughness every fortnight or month like ,
'taakye laga na' to make rough , like making
'dahaar for ustara of old shaving knife '
so these tribal black brown ladies with head

covered ,one child on jholi and their hatyar
on head roaming with shout 'patyaala taa
kye' and one can see blouse less but imp
parts fully covered since sari is non
transperent

(hmm ..no comparison with Mandakini!!in

RTGM - her is patyalaa see through sari)
This taakye is done by fine chini and hatoda ,

like a stone sculpture does.
south indians have 'Ragada stones'

7/26/2006 12:09 AM delete
Aaj kal women have changed from
'blouseless' to 'blouse' back to 'blouse,less
cloth'
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7/26/2006 10:59 AM delete
@Pravinda
LOLZ Good one Pravinda... I must agree on
this one...
Fido Blouse Less

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Tejas
7/26/2006 11:10 AM delete
a little off-topic
Did you know they are making a movie about
the gangster Maya Dolas and his skirmish
with the police in Lokhandwala? It sounds
Poonam wierd to me since I remember it as a kid - it
(manage) happened not very far from where I lived...
Thats one more thing - maybe a sad thing -
that you kind of remember being part of
these police shootings, riots and curfews as
bombayites - and you just shrug it off as a
normal thing....
7/26/2006 4:54 PM delete
Anyone remember this one park near juhu
beach with a replica of an air india boeing
Neville (that i remember playing inside of) ?
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7/26/2006 5:35 PM delete
ya it is still there , the park is called juhu
garden , right at the junction of santacruz
juhubeach road and linking road
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7/26/2006 6:00 PM delete

It's the Lions Garden, Santacruz.
Besides the plane I remember as a kid there
was also a concrete elephant and a couple of
slides. The garden is very much there and in
Bhavik better shape than before thanks to private
(manage) management, the Air India aircraft miniature
is still there too.
7/26/2006 11:51 PM delete
in better shape than before thanks to private
management, the Air India aircraft miniature
is still there too.
AlphaVictor maybe it'll soon morph into a kingfisher -

(manage) generate some money to spend on th upkeep
of th garden!!

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Bombay
(18,322 members) yup ... now juhu garden look much cleaner
than what it was a few yrs back ... also the
● view profile amit laughing club goes on there .... mornings u can
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7/27/2006 3:48 AM delete
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CommMsgs.aspx?
cmm=972&tid=2478134340267622433] just
reminded me of the marathi movies we used to
AlphaVictor
watch in Plaza Theatre in Dadar in th late
(manage) 80s...
more often than not, it used be when we used

to go to baadal/bijli/barkha to catch a hindi
movie, not get th tickets & then run down to
plaza to catch a marathi flick...
though i'm born into a southie family, i must've

watched more marathi films than tamil...
hardly make any good marathi movies

nowadays
7/27/2006 4:45 AM delete
... which reminds me of the Saturday Marathi
movies on DD, that had the Tamasha's with
Bulbul and "Aika ho Aika's".
Raj
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7/27/2006 5:46 AM delete
Today I remembered that old faithful
"patriotic" serial "Kahaan gaye woh log?".
Vikram
(manage) Saldy, I remember the theme song so have
been driving my office insane humming it.

7/27/2006 7:37 AM delete

oh "Kahaan gaye woh log"
Last few days on orkut I was watchng this

"Kahaan gaye woh log"
•••••• •• I mean when I login - no dounuts message!!
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jokes apart
kaha gaye wo log was a good serial
I remember Aur bhi gum hai Jamane main by

Dr Revatisharan Sharma and Dr Ashwini kumar
7/27/2006 12:16 PM delete
@Vikram
How goes the theme song? I seem to
Milind remember it start off with "Kehte hai alvida
(manage) unhe..." but am blanking out after that, till the
"Kahan gaye woh log" reprise...
7/27/2006 4:12 PM delete
hey does anyone remember this serial ...
Param Vir Chakra.
Rupali That was also a good serial
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7/27/2006 6:41 PM delete
Since we are talking TV shows now, I just have
a really faint recollection of one of the many
Bengali stories shown in the 80s.
Bhavik Was Utpal Dutt on a TV show ever? Or I just

(manage) think it was someone else, probably who
looked like him... He had a son or grandson I
forget which... and there was this lady in
white, presumably a widow who would drop by
the haveli and the kid would run behind her
palinquin screaming "Kaale-ganj ki bahu".
And I think like all Bengali tales, this was a sad
one too.
7/27/2006 6:58 PM delete
Bhavik, Its Mujrim Haazir ??
Remember, Faster Feni. The kid (Rajat

Kapoor ?) who starred in this, then grew up to
Raj play the lead role in "Vyomkesh Bakshi".
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And .. Aa bail mujhe maar.

7/27/2006 8:19 PM delete

Vyomkesh Bakshi had a great following.People
loved that series.
Also u guys remember a very old soap 'Maila
Anchal' and there was a very good soap
Contract featuring Alok nath 'Talash' in which he goes
Killer on search trail of his younger brother...it also
(manage) featured Moushmi Chaterjee.
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(18,322 members) @ raj
Remember, Faster Feni. The kid (Rajat
● view profile Kapoor ?) who starred in this, then grew up to
play the lead role in "Vyomkesh Bakshi".
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(manage) Feni? dude, u spending too much time in Goa...
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it was "Faster Fene" - and it was based on a
marathi comic book character by th same
name... or was it th other way around?
7/27/2006 11:20 PM delete
Faster Fene wasn't a comic book character
exactly... it was more like Marathi adventure
Milind stories for teens - something in the Famous
(manage) Five genre... and it wasn't Rajat Kapoor who
played Banesh urf Banya urf Faster Fene in the
TV series - it was Sumit Raghavan
7/28/2006 2:13 AM delete
talking of TV.. i remeber the liril ad.. the first
one under the waterfall and the great
soundtrack to go with it..
Shweta
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7/28/2006 2:33 AM delete
The first Liril ad came out in the mid-1970s
with karen lunel. Do you really remember that
Irshad one (I wasn't born then for sure!) or the
(manage) subsequent ones?

7/28/2006 2:47 AM delete

I rember that Liril add of 70s and there was
strong rumor that that model died during
shooting
•••••• ••
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7/28/2006 2:52 AM delete
i remember Abhi of TV serial "fauji"..who knew
that he will become so popular some day.
Leena
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7/28/2006 2:56 AM delete
if anyone says fauji........the dialogue that
immediately comes to mind is "I say chaps....."
Janhavi
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7/28/2006 2:58 AM delete
Does anyone remember "Oshin" and "Pachpan
Kambhe Laal Deewarien"?
Vivek
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7/28/2006 3:02 AM delete
oshin was about the japanese grandmom who
was marrating her childhood to her grandson
or something...............if I'm not rong it used
to air on monday nights and it stopped
Janhavi abruptly mid way when she gets pregnant or
(manage) something............
7/28/2006 3:04 AM delete
@J
Yes J you are correct... I do not know whether
it stopped abruptly or not. I think it did not.
Vivek They completed it - didn't they?
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(18,322 members) @irshad..
in that case i must be thinking of the one with
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was..
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I wasnt born at the time of the first Liril ad
either but i do remember the model before
Bhagyashri Preity Zinta, dont know the name though!
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7/28/2006 4:04 AM delete
was it anoosha dalal?
Janhavi
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7/28/2006 7:46 AM delete
I remember campus serial... used to come on
zee tv, mondays a@ 9
Ankit
Motani
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7/28/2006 7:51 AM delete
i remember 'hum hongey kaam yaab hum
hongey kaam yaab ek din , mann main hai
vishwas pura hai vishwas hum hongey kaam
yaab ek din'
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I remember when Pravin Da was older than his
current look .... sorry could not resist
Advait
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7/28/2006 9:52 AM delete
I remembered kaan ke upar baal, big Golden
frame specks and bell bottom pant was once a
fashion!!
•••••• •• very few people used to apply dye for grey

(manage) hairs and that dye was not of good quality and
when one sweats ,black colour used to trip
down
7/28/2006 12:16 PM delete
Pravin Da, in my parents' wedding album ,
many people match the description you've
written....
Bhavik There used to be some show called Kakkaji

(manage) kahen or something like that... have we
discussed that before?
I remember the Pakistani song Hawa Hawa

being really popular once upon a time, maybe
amongst the first non-filmi ones to be so
popular and was invariably sung during all
antaksharis (back when real antaksharis were
played as opposed to typing songs online)...I'd
heard the guy who sang that song was
murdered.
Anyone remembers that ad where Tabassum is

shopping for her husband's underwear,
explaining details to the salesman, much to
the husband's embarrasement. Her Phool khile
hain gulshan gulshan was the earliest
interview show of film-wallahs, but there was
another one which ran much later in the early
90s which appeared on Wednesday night I
think that had this mustachioed, bespactacled
guy interviewing TV and movie stars... the set
was kinda neat for its time. Who was this guy?
I remember how television would be shut

down for three days to mourn the death of any
mentionable politician. There'd be only dull
music played then.

7/28/2006 12:33 PM delete

hawa hawa
Bhavik do u mean the Hassan Jehangir one
which went.. hawa hawa ae hawa khushboo
luta dey? wasn't it used in some mithun
Aditi movie?
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@Bhavik
I know the show you are talking about... can't
Milind recall the name of the show... was the guy
(manage) named Vipul Handa or something?
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(18,322 members) at last i get to correct milind for the first time
in in two years. vipin handa. now this is
● view profile where i could be wrong: the show was (i
think) 'bajaj ki lehren' a tv adaptation of the
● view forum Salil video film magazine.
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popular. there were movies being made
especially for video, notably be nari hira who
had the likes of persis khambatta in a few of
which. lal dupatta malmal kaa was really
popular, inspired a sequel even called 'phir
lehraya lal dupatta', i was already in college
by then and i remember a guy joking about
the next part being called 'phir phir lehraaya
lal dupatta'. that guy later went on to make
marathi music videos, irony of it all.
speaking of video movies, one such film was

called 'the don' err.. 'starring' jeet upendra,
which used the entire hassan jehangir album
as it's OST. the album itself was called 'beat
music' (nice name, huh? ) and AFAIK, was
the only non filmi album to figure at the top
or even in the cibaca geet mala.
hawa hawa was ripped off by every music

director starting with (who else) bappida with
"aaya aaya" in 'aag ka gola' and ending with
'haan bhai haan, hoon main jawaan' by annu
malik (that's how he spelt his name then) in
toofan.
pravin da.. 'kaan ke upar baal' is stil in

fashion, look at laloo yadav..

7/28/2006 12:55 PM delete

ek chidiya
guys,
do u remember the old ads that used to come

Ramalingam on TV...there's one which goes like...
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ek chidiya...anek chidiya...dana chubhne baith
gayi thi...(dont remember the rest of it)
then there was this....tree of unity thingee...
then about keeping the locality clean...a

cartoon character used to kick back all the
trash back into the homes...
7/28/2006 12:57 PM delete
marathi serial
does anyone remember chimanrao?? :-))
Ramalingam
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7/28/2006 1:02 PM delete
@Salil
Thanks for the correction... - interesting
Milind sidebar - Google search for the Handa throws
(manage) up a Vipin Handa vs Vipul Handa court case -
any connection???
It wasn't Bajaj ki Lehren... that came later,

and was more the film magazine while this
show was more the interview/reminescences
type... I remember Nitin Mukesh being the
guest on the first show, and then singing "so
gaya yeh jahaan" live... and the creative
editors on the show getting creative and
interspersing him singing, with shots of an
Ambasaddor backing in and out of a street, to
build the mood!
7/28/2006 1:06 PM delete
Which makes me think? How did a filmi gossip
crazy country ever survive on helpings of just
Milind 1 issue of Lehren every fortnight? No daily
(manage) Page 3 kind of shows, just 2 video cassette of
movie gossip every month? Stardust and
Filmfare must have ruled !

7/28/2006 1:20 PM delete

Talking abt filmfare & stardust... remember
that ad for one of them which showed that the
magazine was being smuggled in to some
african country...proving it's popularity?
Aditi
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7/28/2006 4:12 PM delete
@Salil
Also - that movie with the Hassan Jahangir
Milind album as it's OST... was it "The Don" or was it
(manage) called "Don II"? I somehow think it was the
latter...
7/28/2006 9:03 PM delete
"Don II" it was. I remember there being a
controversy in school cause some boys called
it "Don Eleven".
Dylan What a craze that song was! As was Khaled's

(manage) "Didi".
7/28/2006 10:19 PM delete
@ Bipin Da
Anonymous Karen Lunel did not die under the waterfall as
it was rumoured at the time. She married
someone named Hishey Tashi (!!) and has a
son named Scott. Karen is now called Karen
Lunel-Hishey.
See here:
http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98aug30/
sunday/head3.htm
7/28/2006 10:26 PM delete
@Ram-White Angel
Anonymous Those "ek chidiya" and "tree of unity" films
have already been discussed. They were not
ads but Films Division animation films aimed
at imparting a social message (one of the
objectives of Doordarshan).
As for 'Chimanrao', I think everyone who

watched TV in the 70s will remember him,
and Gundya Bhau, Chiu, Kau, Raghu and
Myna, not to forget Chimanrao's ever
exasperated mother. 'Chimanrao' epitomised
some of the serials on DD at the time -
minimal set design, maximum entertainment

value.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Some ads I remember
Anonymous "jo OK saabun se nahaaye, woh kamal sa khil
● view profile jaaye...OK nahaane ka naya saabun" and then
the USP - "sachmuch, kaafi badaa hai" (just
● view forum before saying this, the man taking a shower
used to look down at something, presumably
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the soap, but could he in fact have been
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looking at something else, I wonder?)
"Oh my dee-ar
main laayi hun tumhaare liye
Victor ke V-front vaale underwee-ar
Aa-ha-ha-ha Victor"
Was this on DD or AIR?
"Vajradanti vajradanti
Vicco vajradanti, toothpowder toothpaste,
Ayurvedic jadi-bootiyon se bana sampoorn
swadeshi,
Toothpowder toothpaste,
VICCO, VAJRADANTI!"
"Bade naazon se paali hamaari banno, tujhe

dulhan banayen re pyaari banno, tujhe haldi
ka uptan lagaayen sakhiyaan, teri kaaya ko
komal banaayen sakhiyaan."
What ad was this?
Ad for a ketchup:
Man says: "Isme kaddu hai/hoga bharaa"
Another man: "Isme kaddu nahi zaraa"
Ad for VIP banian:

Man brings Dara Singh various banians which
Dara Singh tears up. Finally he brings Dara
Singh VIP banian which Dara Singh cannot
tear. Dara Singh wears it and lifts the man
across his shoulder and starts swinging him
around in joy and the man says: "Mazboot itni

Dara Singh jitni".

7/28/2006 11:07 PM delete
Vicco turmeric
Nahin cosmetic
Vicco turmeric ayurvedic cream
StrongGel Keel muhason ko jad se mitaye

(manage) haldi chandan ke gun isme samae
twacha ki rksha kare
ayurvedic cream
Vicco turmeric ayurvedic creeeeam.

7/28/2006 11:15 PM delete
I remember seeing that Ad in theaters.... ha
ha ha. Just loved it!
Hibernating
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"Hawa Hawa" song!
7/28/2006 11:43 PM delete
hmmmmmm.. is it strange that everyone
always seems to remember all these ads?
Lemon
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7/28/2006 11:47 PM delete
Do you guys remember the Garden Varelli
Anonymous saree adverts featuring Persis Cambatta.
7/28/2006 11:53 PM delete
@Lemon
Those ads achieved thier goal!
StrongGel
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7/29/2006 12:11 AM delete

In 1972 oct 2nd when DD started with one
channel , there were no advertisement for
many months , so when advertisements were
started relaying on TV it was thrill to watch
•••••• •• those products add which for many yrs used
(manage) to listen on radios after the ting tong sound in
vividbhrati.No body used to say jayiga mat or
ye break hojay , it was fun and entertaining to
watch adds and people used to discuss on add
rather than serials.
one such add was vicco vajradhanti , vicco

turmeric add
one of the first commers was 'Point' detergent

from mysore sandal soaps but later that
product dissapeared.
I remember once watching some sports event

(together with friends) after the Point add ,TV
relay went off and all we could see a Point of
small light on TV and all we start joking
laughing on that
7/29/2006 12:23 AM delete
one of the dumbest ads
one of the dumbest ads i remember was...
when Sakura..changed its name to Konica...
Ramalingam there's some guy standing outside a cave or
(manage) something...shouting out Sakura...and
nothing happens...and all of a sudden a light
bulb glows in his head and he shouts Konica...
and there's an avalanche or something..
7/29/2006 12:26 AM delete
@ashish
well...i didnt know the ek chidiya thingee was
already discussed...
Ramalingam BTW...i just burst out laughing when i read ur
(manage) "Kafi Bada Hai" dialog...hilarious...
do u remember...this one...."Dadaji
Badminton"
And what about dabur lal dantmanjan..."raju

tumhare daat toh motiyon jaise chamak rahe
hain"

7/29/2006 1:28 AM delete

ting ting ting tindig tiding…
tuu tuu toooo
Vivek tuu tuu toooo
(manage) ting ting ting tindig tiding…
tuu tuu toooo
tuu tuu toooo
Didi ye anek kya hota hai ?

Anek…. anek yani bahut saare….
jaise…
suraj ek…
chanda ek…..
taare anek….
achcha to taroN ko anek bhi kehte hain ?????

nahi nahi !!
dekho phir se batati hooN

suraj ek…
chanda ek…..
taare anek….
ek gilhari, ….
ek aur gilhari……
ek ek ek karke ho gayee ab anek gilhariyaaN…
ek titali, anek titaliyaaN….
ek chidiya.. ek ek anek chidiyaaN……

anek chidiyoN ki kahani sunoge ….
haan sunao…
ek chidiya anek chidiya….

dana chugne baith gayee thi …..
(chorus :) didi humen bhi sunao…….
phir se suno…
ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN
dana chugne baith gayee thi …..
WahiN ek byaadh ne jaal bichhaya tha…

byaadh, byaadh kya hota hai didi ?

byaadh … chidiya pakadne wala
to phir kya hua, usne chidiyoN ko pakad liya,…

unhe maar diya ……
un..huh…
Himmat se jo jute rahe to bada kaam bhi

hove bhaiya..
bada kaam bhi hove bhaiya …
1..2..3.. furrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Chaturrr cidiyaaN sayaani chidiyaaN,

miljul kar, jaal le kar…
Bhaagi chidiyaaN….
furrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
door ek gaaon mein chidiyon ke dost chuhe

rahte the….
unhone unka jaal kaat diya………
dekha ekta mein kitni shakti hai……

didi agar hum ek ho jaayen to kya koi bhi
kaam kar sakte hain ?
haan haan kyon nahi …
to kya is ped ke aam bhi tod sakte hain ???
haan magar jugat lagani hogi …
JUGAT ???
**
***
****
achchha ye jugat …. wah bada mazaa

aayega….
HO GAYE EK …
BAN GAYEE TAKAT..
BAN GAYEE HIMMAT…
hind desh ke niwasi sabhi jana ek hain,
rang-roop vesh-bhaasha chahe anek hain
—- repeat —-

bela gulab juhi champa chameli…..

phool hain anek kintu mala phir ek hai …
ek-anek-ek anek
suraj ek, chanda ek, taare anek,

ek gilhari , anek gilhariyaaN,
ek titli, anek titaliyaaN,
ek chidiyaa , anek chidiyaaN……
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(18,322 members) @ Salil & Milind
● view profile Bhagyashri The show with Vipin Handa was called 'Aamne
(manage) Samne'. I distinctly remember seeing the
● view forum interviews of Preeti Sagar, Anuradha Paudwal,
Shabbir Kumar etc
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7/29/2006 1:50 AM delete
Cosmos
does anyone remember this serial?? it was
done by carl sagan...used to be aired on DD
on sundays...and it used to be followed by
Ramalingam
different strokes
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7/29/2006 1:52 AM delete
lost toothpaste...
does anyone remember...Forhans...it was a
toothpaste...my mom used to be very
particular about it...all of us in the family used
Ramalingam
colgate and we used to get Forhans...only for
(manage) my mom...
7/29/2006 2:40 AM delete
competition postcards
Anonymous the blue color competition postcards, to reply
to questions asked at the end of episodes,
slightly costlier than the cream colored normal
ones, which also reminds me of the mounds
of mail they used to sift and mix on surabhi
and i would think, my heart sinking, whoa..
not a chance!
7/29/2006 2:46 AM delete
i recollect how we used to watch the "pranoy
roy show"...it was the only one of its kind
show during those days.
Vivek
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7/29/2006 2:47 AM delete

@vivek
RATISH Thanks man. u have written each and every

stanza of that ..
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nice to see that
7/29/2006 2:51 AM delete
To Everyone
Have the sound clip of "ek chidiya anek
chidiyaan"...just in case anyone wants it i
Vivek could send it..
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7/29/2006 2:54 AM delete
The add of forhans tooth paste on radio
-Nanaji nanaji wo jo mohan ke dada ji hai na
unke daath nahi hai (something)... pata nahi
beta Forhans toothpaste istamaal nahi kiya ho
•••••• •• gaa!
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another one Mummy mummy modern bread
(a voice comes)jyada shakti
Mummy mummy modern bread
there used to be small toys of animals birds

made of rubber or plastic inside binaca tooth
paste box, we never used to have that
toothpaste we were using colgate
toothpowder , toothpaste was luxury items in
those days toothpowder was middle class and
koila-charcoal , lal dant manjan was of poors
or from village
7/29/2006 2:56 AM delete
He-Man
I remember watching that as a kid and having
the biggest crush ever on He-Man!! lol!!
Vivek collecting all those He-man toys and castle
(manage) grayskull!!

7/29/2006 3:05 AM delete

Dada Dadi ki kahaniyaan
....barson yaad rahi
bhoola koi bhi nahin
Vivek
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and then
vikram-vikram-vikram
betal-betal-betal-
vikram aur betal
vikram aur betaaaaalll
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Bombay
(18,322 members) @Bhagyashri
The show with Vipin Handa was called 'Aamne
● view profile Milind Samne'.
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● view forum Thanks a lot! Thats the one... Now I can sleep
in peace
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7/29/2006 3:44 AM delete
"vikram-vikram-vikram"
Vikram Who's that calling me?

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7/29/2006 3:47 AM delete
thanks bhagyashri, you're quite right there. as
are you milind (and dylan) about don II, 'the
don' was a stupid salim movie with ajit and
jugal hansraj.
Salil
(manage) ashish, what i remember form that is: "thoda
ketchup try karo.
ketchup hota kaddu bhara.
isme kaddu nahi zara
Volfarm. laal raseeley tamaataron se hota hai

taiyyaar. Volfarm"
(there's more, but i can't be bothered)
jess, you're probably the only person i've seen

who started posting minutes after joining the
community. you've been reading up
beforehand, haven't you?

7/29/2006 3:52 AM delete

the folks at Geoffrey Manners were my clients
about 7 -8 years ago, and we tried for almost
8 months to get a new packaging design
rolling for Forhans. eventually they decided,
Salil they wanted to stay traditional. the orange
(manage) pack has a small but faithful following. the blue
one, with fluoride was actually sold as
"foaming" forhans toothpaste in contrast to the
orange one which doesn't foam at all. they had
ads with a kid saying "yeh jhaagwaala hai!"
bizarre.
anyone remember a toothpaste called

mcCleans? another of my childhood follies:
mistaking the brylcreem tube for mcCleans
toothpaste. Yuck!
7/29/2006 3:54 AM delete
Betaal is calling vikram
but he wont cum in u r Bus
•••••• •• Betaal:'Vikram mai tumhare bus main anewala

(manage) nahi huon , main chalaa'
7/29/2006 3:55 AM delete

Betal: hooo haha ha ha hoo hahaha
with fake trees, fake eerie noises, fake wigs for

Vivek vikram and betal...
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7/29/2006 5:11 AM delete
Hey I too remember sending those post cards
to SURBHI.. but never won!
Hibernating
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7/29/2006 5:15 AM delete
@ Ram-WhiteAngel
Anonymous Re Cosmos
I also remember how Carl Sagan pronounced
the word - KAAZ-MOZ! That serial taught me
one thing - even the most brilliant Americans
don't know how to spell OR pronounce.

7/29/2006 5:28 AM delete

@ Ashish
Mailed it baba. Even scrapped u about it
Vivek
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7/29/2006 5:32 AM delete
@ Vivek
Anonymous I inserted and then deleted this post by
mistake. So posting it again -
I think Hemant Kumar sang the song:
Dada dadi ki kahaaniyaan
Sadiyon yaad rahen
Bhoola nahin koi bachpan mein suni
Dada dadi ki kahaaniyaan,
Dada dadi ki kahaaniyaan (repeat to fade)
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Bombay
(18,322 members) @ Vivek
Anonymous Thanks for the "ek chidiya anek chidiya" mp3.
● view profile Listening to it at the moment.
7/29/2006 5:59 AM delete
● view forum
@ Retox
● view events I will surely second your views...
Surabhi Producers you own me atleast a

Fido couple of tenners...
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Later on when the competition postcards were
introduced, Pallavi Joshi would used to go
"Aur Yaad Rahe, Aapke Jawab hume keval
competition postcards par hi bhejen"
Those things used to cost Rs. 2
Tejas
7/29/2006 7:39 AM delete
And does anyone remember seeing (not
hearing or reading) Javed Miandad hoist a
Chetan Sharma full toss across the ropes
Me and most of my friends were cut off from
Raj watching cricket for quite a few weeks, coz of
(manage) all the cussing that followed.

7/29/2006 8:53 AM delete

star trek communicator
back in the days when star trek used to come
on DD, the communicator was pretty popular
and I remember...
Ramalingam
(manage) my friends and I we joined two matchboxes
together with a rubber band and a cello-tape
and used to play star trek....you opened the
cello-tape..and the match-box communicator
would open...
havent still gotten me to like the new star trek

series tho! I adored the Vulcan! Leonard
Nimoy.
7/29/2006 11:52 AM delete
Boss its all getting repetitive...coz i guess
everything has been discussed atleast
twice!!... Salil, u can compile the whole thread
and publish a book of ur own!... i bet it would
Amit be much better than Shantaram by Gregery &
(manage) Bombay by Suketu!! :)
7/29/2006 9:42 PM delete
Macleans toothpaste
Sure I remember it and still use it in Oz now
and then. It is made by Glaxo so they must
have taken it off the Indian market.
Ash
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7/29/2006 10:07 PM delete
I also remember McCleans Tooth paste
I think its a medicated tooth paste , like
Sansodyne for sensitivity and gum disorder.
Also another one Aquafresh by smithkline
•••••• ••
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7/29/2006 10:09 PM delete
@ Amit
LOLZ....
nah I wouldn't bet my money on it.....

Fido
(manage) Mumbai is by far too big to ever finish being
discussed....
Tejas

7/29/2006 10:39 PM delete

Help!
Anonymous This thread seems to be rapidly aging us all
and prematurely turning us into grandparents,
and of the deadliest kind at that - the "I
remember when..." kind.
Except for Pravin Da, on whom it seems to
have had the opposite effect (judging by the
recent sudden... ahem... change in his
appearance).
7/29/2006 10:58 PM delete
hey its Like this
I was very thin when i was 20s-28 and always
wish to put on weight , was 52-55 kg , now I
am 78-82kg since age 40 and
•••••• •• always wish to loose weight, ye hi hai jindagi!
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'jo hota hai sochne lag ta hai , aur jo soch ta
hai wo hota nahi!'
this dialogue was so famous when 'ye jo hai

jindagi' serials was telicasted , and is said by
satish shah!!
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Bombay
(18,322 members) @ pravin da
Anonymous pravin da, tumhaara "thirty-three years (se
● view profile zyaada) ka experience" ka photo lagaao jaldi.
● view forum (another famous satish shah line from "yeh jo

hai zindagi")
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don't worry, i was just kidding in my earlier
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post, your photo is fine.
some decent-to-excellent english/australian

series shown in the 80s - i wonder if anyone
remembers them:
"Shoestring" - English detective named Eddie
Shoestring who solves various crimes
"Mother" - English comedy about a loser who
is overly attached to his mom
"Some mothers do have 'em" - Australian
comedy about a bumbling idiot who messes up
whatever he tries to do
7/30/2006 3:20 AM delete
Ashish : its 'THIRTY yrs ka experince hai'
by satish shah
"Some mothers do ave 'em" hey it was my fav

•••••• •• also
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also 'lucy show' some thing or 'here is lucy'
was one of the best in those days
also 'didid's' comedy show some thing like that

also were good
mr bean is shown now adays in POGO channel

is also a good one

7/30/2006 4:27 AM delete

Does anyone remember a german serial called
"Baron Von Der Terenk" .. or something like
Advait that ? Had quite a lot of HOT stuff. Well atleast
(manage) by the standards of that time.
7/30/2006 4:51 AM delete
@ Pravin Da
Anonymous Right as usual, it was "THIRTY YEARS ka
experience hai" - don't know how I got the
number wrong, that line was such a hit with
everybody.
The line is listed as one of the memorable
quotes of the show on wikipedia:
Yeh_jo_hai_zindagi
@ Advait
It was "The adventures of Baron von der
Trenck" about the Austrian soldier who lived in
the 18th century. The theme music was very
catchy and I still remember it.
More info about the Baron here:
Franz_Freiherr_von_der_Trenck
7/30/2006 6:33 AM delete
Pravin Da: "I love Lucy", starring Lucille Ball.
Just Read
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7/30/2006 11:15 AM delete
I remember that show with the NRI groom
who comes to India hunting for a bride and
each episode he meets a new candidate.
Y I Patel, son of I C Patel
Bhavik
(manage) For some reason I remember the Kalnirnay
calender ad punchline "Bhintivari Kaalnirnay
asaave"
They had this jingle in Marathi, Hindi and
Gujarati... and Renuka Sahane was the one
who asked for Kaalnirnay in Hindi " Kaalnirnay
dijiye - (reply) - Kaalnirnay lijiye". Who were
those other two ladies?
I also remember another punchline, but not

sure which product. A mint?

"Paan ka swad, ghazab ki mithaas"
7/30/2006 2:09 PM delete
@Bhavik
You talking about Mr. Yogi, the NRI groom
Milind
(manage) The Kalnirnay ad had Archana Joglekar,
Renuka Shahane and a 3rd lady who I can't
place at the moment... though I know who it
was... will have to think hard...
The Paan ka swaad was an ad for Pan Pasand -

a paan flavoured candy... and again had
Archana Joglekar going "Shaadi.. aur tumse?
Kabhi nahi!"
7/30/2006 7:50 PM delete
kaal nirnay -was it Priya Tendulkar!
•••••• ••
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7/30/2006 8:05 PM delete
talking abt paan pasand reminds me of that
Dabur Hajmola ad - in the boys hostel dorm,
"bhaago!! apne masterji!! bhaag0!!"....
"hajmola sir"
RoDz
(manage) one more - Bajaj tubes n bulbs
"jab mein chota bacha tha, badi shararat karta

tha...."
7/30/2006 9:24 PM delete
I remember , my grand ma haggling with the
ghoda gaadi wala for 5paise who had
apparently charged us extra from Nana chowk
to Thakurdwaar. Sitting atop my mama's
Sheetal shoulders waiting to see the Ganesh idols
(manage) passing by at Khotachi wadi. The emergence of
the Mumbai sandwich!Can almost taste it as
we speak! Eating Gola at chowpatty. yes there
was sand then.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) That ghodagadi was called TANGA , and the
ghodagadiwala was called Tangewala, their
● view profile pant were khaki coloured long pant just longer
that present pant 3/4th style ,and shorter than
● view forum •••••• •• normal full pant
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view events
when we were tenagers ,whenever anybody
●
used to were those pants which were slightly

shorter (longer than current 3/4th) than the
normal full pants we used to tease them as
'Tangewala' and people used to ashamed of
that and never were those pants , just give it
to bhandiwalis, now it has become fashion!!
3/4th pant
7/30/2006 10:27 PM delete
In the early 70s there were only 'tangas' in
Anonymous Borivali - no autorickshaws. But with the rise
in population came a wave of autos and the
tangawalas were forced to shift base across
the Gorai creek to Gorai island. They used to
ferry the handful (at that time) of picnickers
and villagers between the Gorai island pier and
the Gorai beach.
As kids we would either walk the 40-45
minutes from the creek to the beach or catch a
tanga, taking in the mangroves and the
backwaters on either side of the narrow road.
But then came Essel World, swallowing up the
mangroves and the sea and dragging behind it
hordes of noisy picnickers and the dreaded
autorickshaws.
I no longer go across the creek and don't know
whether those tangawalas are still there or
have they been shifted again, and if so,
where?

7/30/2006 11:39 PM delete

@Ashish
They are still there... but they dont ferry
Hibernating passengers now.
(manage) All those tangas were run by a Muslim
community from the Eksar Village.
I have had a tanga ride at Marine Drive but
never here at Gorai.
7/30/2006 11:44 PM delete
Those 'tangas' at Marine Drive are Victorias.
Very different.
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7/30/2006 11:49 PM delete
How is it differnt?
Hibernating
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7/31/2006 12:06 AM delete
Victorias had licence nos , a pic came in late
70s 'Victoria no 203' , Navin Nischal was hero ,
a famous song I remember on that victoria ,
'dekha maine dekha ,sundar si ek rani ko..."
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7/31/2006 12:08 AM delete
Yea.. it had Ashok Kumar and someone other
guy as thugs.. i loved that movie!
Hibernating
(manage) But how different is tanga from Victoria

7/31/2006 12:29 AM delete

@ Subtly snafued
Anonymous Thanks for the info about the Borivali
tangawalas.
Both the tanga and victoria are horse-drawn

carriages but they are different:
A tanga has 2 wheels. A victoria has 4 wheels.
In a tanga, the passengers sit with their backs
to the driver. In a victoria, the seat is forward-
facing.
Tangas are usually covered, i.e. they have a
framework with a cloth extended over the
pasenger section. Victorias are open carriages.
Victorias are bigger and much more spacious
than tangas.
Tangas are the common man's mode of
transport while victorias were originally meant
for wealthy patrons.
7/31/2006 12:43 AM delete
Re Victoria no. 203
Anonymous The two thugs were Ashok Kumar and Pran.
Saira Banu was the heroine.
@ Pravin Da
Don't tell me you don't remember "Do
bechaare, bina sahaare, dekho poochh poochh
kar haare, bin taale ki chaabi lekar phirte
maare maare, main hoon Raja yeh hai Rana,
main deewaana yeh mastaana, dono milke
gaayen gaana, o haseena, o zaraa ruk jaana"
7/31/2006 12:57 AM delete
Asish : Acche tang(a) lada tey ho!! just kidding
Ashish :good details on tanga and victoria ,
•••••• •• that song was not in this context to victoria so

(manage) i didnot mention , but the one on victoria i
mentioned
also in Sholay there was tangewali and a song

'koi tangewali jab rootha jaa tee hai tou ek dou
teen ho jaa tey hai'
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(18,322 members) Was O.P. Nayyar the ultimate tangewala?
Anonymous
● view profile All or at least 99% of the songs that O.P.
Nayyar composed for old Hindi films are
● view forum quintessential "tangewala" songs with the "clip-
clop-clip-clop-clip-clop" tanga beat.
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7/31/2006 2:13 AM delete
Bhavik's mention of a mint reminded me of
that vicks ad...gale me khich khich...vicks ki
goli lo....khich khich door karo.......what was
tht ad though....ws it a father and
Janhavi daughter?????
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and there was some vicks ad even with Dalip
Tahil...was it vicks action 500? someone help
me here........
7/31/2006 2:39 AM delete
J: Jayant Kriplani - Fathers role in vicks
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7/31/2006 2:53 AM delete
adsssssss
the mention of the vicks ads reminded me of
one of my fav ads ......... "jab main chota
ladka ..... badi shararth karta tha ".......... n ad
Sneha for bajaj lights ......
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do u rem it ..........

7/31/2006 3:22 AM delete

thanx pravin da..........and what about the
dalip tahil ad??????was it vicks action 500?
Janhavi
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7/31/2006 6:43 AM delete
@ Sneha
Anonymous Ad for Bajaj Bulbs - Parsi man singing his
life's story:
Childhood
Jab main chhota ladka tha,
badi sharaarat karta tha
(shown reading a book under his blanket with
his torch)
meri chori pakdi jaati....
jab roshan hota Bajaj
Youth
Kya rangeen jawaani thi,
ek raja aur ek rani thi
raja-rani sharma jaate...
(the parents turn the light on in the room
while raja-rani are making out)
jab roshni deta Bajaj
Old age
Ab main bilkul boodha hoon,
goli khaakar jeeta hoon
(old man swallowing some pills)
lekin aaj bhi ghar ke andar...
roshni deta Bajaj!
Voice over: Roshni ki duniya ka sartaaj, BAJAJ!

7/31/2006 8:01 AM delete
pop quiz: what's the connection between the
'hajmola sir" ad and the vicks ki goli "bedtime
story" ad?
Salil it's not a technical question, it's about the

(manage) people that appeared in them. answers could
be found earlier on this thread

7/31/2006 9:03 AM delete

Salil, this almost seems like the gimmick they
use to promote the serials nowadays, you have
Bhagyashri to watch the complete episode to be able to
(manage) answer the question
Anyway is it Jugal Hansraj? (I havent gone

through the whole thread for this, just
guessing!)
7/31/2006 9:28 AM delete
nice try bhagyashri, wrong of course, but
really nice try. jugal hansraj did appear in a
version of the hajmola ad, but he modelled for
vicks vaporub, not vicks cough drops. the ad
Salil we're talking about was the jayant kripalani
(manage) one..
anybody else remember jugal hansraj in a

karate gi saying "i'm a nutramul dada!" ?
i can bet everyone reading this much preferred

eating nutramul/boost/bournvita/maltova to
mixing it in milk, right? and wasn't it delicious
when it solidified, either because of humidity
or if someone used a wet spoon. or did you
just sabotage it with a few drops of water like i
did?
7/31/2006 9:34 AM delete
Salil: "anybody else remember jugal hansraj in
a karate gi saying "i'm a nutramul Dada!" ?"
how can i forget that ,I do remember ,

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came from?
-just kidding
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7/31/2006 10:36 AM delete
Bombay
(18,322 members) Salil, I remember the Nutramul dada ad, and
Anonymous also used to eat Bournvita. But when are you
● view profile going to say "Time's up"? How much longer to
wait before you give us the answer?
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7/31/2006 11:06 AM delete
● view events jalal agha..
anyone remembers that ad for some Pan
Masala...
Ramalingam where there's jalal agha (of Mehbooba Sholey
(manage) fame) and somebody who "appears" really tall
opens up a packet of some Pan Masala...(was
it Pan Parag?)
7/31/2006 2:24 PM delete
yes, it was Pan Parag
RoDz
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7/31/2006 2:26 PM delete
Ashish
when I mentioned the bajaj ad a few posts
back, u were busy with tangas, BUT when
Sneha mentions it he comes with the whole
RoDz ad jingle and voice over n what not....
(manage) WAAH !! [\b]

7/31/2006 2:57 PM delete

I wonder why I was such a skinny, small kid
until 12 years of age in spite of the claims of
Boost being the secret of Kapil's energy and
the "I'm a Complan" boy's claim whose
Bhavik clothes were just not keeping up. Yeah,
(manage) Bournvita was particularly tasty when had
raw. Also somehow I have never seen it
dissolve completely in cold milk... a little
residue always remained floating atop.
Now I don't know if this should be in this

thread... but was anyone plagued with being
excessively skinny in childhood and your
parents had to try all sorts of things to either
raise your appetite or somehow get you to put
on weight?
I remember having a compulsory spoonful of
Chyawanprash for that.
And a particularly horrid-tasting remedy was
recommended by the pediatrician that even
freaked out my vegetarian folks. It involved
dissolving raw egg in milk and having a glass
of the stuff everyday, it tasted awful. Anyone
else try this for putting on weight?
I remember no vaccines meant chickenpox

was something everyone got in childhood and
it was a good thing too, just get done with it
when you're a kid.
7/31/2006 6:04 PM delete
The boost ad reminds me of the joke which
we often used to quote. Anjali Tendulkar gives
birth to twins, and the media is congratulating
Sachin, and they ask him for the secret of his
Raj new success. "Boost is the secret of my
(manage) energy". Kapil paaji walks in, pats him on the
shoulder "Our energy"
And anyone remember, whoz "Bombay ka

number one Bhai"?

7/31/2006 8:00 PM delete

@ RoDz
Anonymous
But just to prove that I don't practise or

advocate sex discrimination, I'll help out our
friend Ram-WhiteAngel with the Pan Parag ad.
Jalal Agha enters a party, and some guests

speak to him and he nods and smiles at them.
Guest#1 (middle-aged woman): Arre lo,
aagaye? Aaj kal to bade chhaaye hue ho TV
par, Pan Parag aur kya kya!
Jalal Agha (smiles): Shukriya.
Guest#2 (a man): TV mein to hamesha
tayyaar rehte ho, aaj kahaan hai tumhaara
dibba?
JA (pulls out a pouch): To YEH kya hai?!
Guest#3: Ek se... mera kya hoga!!!
Jalal Agha: To aap DO leejiye!
Guest#4 (out of shot): Aur mere liye?
(Jalal Agha turns, sees it's a very tall man,
and pulls out the whole strip and smiles)
Voice over: Pan Parag, pan masala, Pan

Parag...
7/31/2006 8:22 PM delete
Oh yeah mine is a similar story but different
results, i did the egg+milk thing too and then
Neville for some strange reason in Class 4-5 i put on
(manage) a lot of weight. By Class 9 i was forced to
wear glasses.
So then, i remember typical Bambaiya

teasenames like "Jadiya", "Chasmees" and my
favourite "Daphniya" stuck with me... then
again for some these were easier than
pronouncing my name. I've never heard these
outside Bombay and in other states probably
have their own versions but, i guess not half
as vocally interesting as these are.
7/31/2006 8:24 PM delete
in my kiddo days all "dhapniyas" used to be
termed as "double battery single power"...oh
well
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7/31/2006 8:27 PM delete

@ Bhavik
Anonymous That raw egg in milk, I used to have it too,
but not every day!! My mother had named the
concoction "egg milkshake"!
There were also sundry tonics but there was
one that had the picture of a yellow giraffe on
its pack (maybe its long neck signified
growth) which was very popular. I don't
remember its name though.
Two medicines that I no longer find being
prescribed or consumed anywhere in Bombay
now are "milk of magnesia" and erandel. That
milk of magnesia was one disgusting fluid.
The erandel was for constipation, but what
was the milk of magnesia for?
I don't think any of the new generation kids in
Bombay have heard of "milk of magnesia",
but earlier these bottles were always present
in households with children, like Crocin syrup.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) milk of magnesia is still around and is a
laxative too never heard of erandel though.
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@Bhavik
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Yea... skinny. I was teased as "Lakdi" and

Hibernating "Double battery single power"
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It was Dabur Chayvanprash n 3 glasses of
Bournvita daily, but sadly Mom is still trying
to make fat!
And a glass of carrot or Palak juice for my

eyes!
7/31/2006 9:03 PM delete
@Ashish
A slight correction
Milind
(manage) Jalal Agha enters a party, and some guests
speak to him and he nods and smiles at them.
Guest#1 (middle-aged woman): Arre lo,
aagaye? Aaj kal to bade chhaaye hue ho TV
par, Pan Parag aur kya kya!
Jalal Agha (smiles): Shukriya.
Guest#2 (a man): TV mein to hamesha
tayyaar rehte ho, aaj kahaan hai tumhaara
dibba?
JA (pulls out a pouch): To YEH kya hai?!
Guest 1 (same woman): Ek hi pouch se
kya sabko khilaoge?
JA (pulls out another one): App bhi ek
lijiye
Guest#3 ( pointing to his big belly): Ek
se... mera kya hoga!!!
Jalal Agha: To aap DO leejiye!
Guest#4 (out of shot): Aur mere liye?

(Jalal Agha turns, sees it's a very tall man,

and pulls out the whole strip and smiles)
Voice over: Pan Parag, pan masala, Pan

Parag...
7/31/2006 9:05 PM delete
Milk of Magnesia was to combat Acidity...
while Erandel, otherwise known as Castor oil
Milind was a laxative...
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And was anyone else forced to pop 2 pills of 7
Seas Codliver Oil everyday, like I was?
7/31/2006 10:00 PM delete
Bhavik: same here what u said is almost for
me also
I was on thinner side but not skinny, but I
myself wanted to be silghtly fat so I tried
•••••• •• many like chavanprash , sharkaferrol ,
(manage) ferradol ,seven seas (vitamin A) , B complex ,
Waterbourys compound , protenex ,A V Malt
(something like that name), ovaltine (is it
correct?)
but I actually gained wt later without any of

these.
7/31/2006 11:20 PM delete
@ Bhavik, Neville, Subtly snafued, Milind.....
Anonymous (Pravin Da?)
Some of us were skinny, some of us fat, some

of us were called "lakdi", some of us "jadiya",
some of us took Bournvita, some of us
Ovaltine, some of us swallowed Waterbury's
Compound syrup, some of us Seven Seas cod
liver oil capsules...
I agree we were all of us PATIENTS at one
time or another as kids.
But since boys will be boys, I'm sure we
were all of us efficient DOCTORS when it
came to playing "Doctor doctor" with cute
little girls as patients so that we could give
them checkups!! Am I right?

7/31/2006 11:23 PM delete

ashizh..
u mean datz wat docz actually do
Its the
End...
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7/31/2006 11:32 PM delete
@ashish and @milind
thanks for the whole ad. wow u guys seem to
have a whole repository of all the ads.
Awesome!
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7/31/2006 11:35 PM delete
Ashish i didnot played that Doc Doc , but was
a Dulha in one Bhatukli games , i dont
remember who was my dulhan !!
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7/31/2006 11:35 PM delete
Gayab Aaya...
Does anyone remember this one?? It used to
come on Sundays (if I remember correctly)
Ramalingam Gayab aaya...Gayab aaya...
(manage) Gayab aaya...Gayab aaya...
Kisiko hasane aaya...
Kisiko satane aaya...
The main character resembled somewhat like

a Gummi Bear (or was it)
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(18,322 members) Ripoff of Gummy bear? I can understand
someone calling it a rip off of Casper the
● view profile Milind friendly ghost - but a bear?
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● view forum Of course, Gayab came with this inane song
atleast once every episode...
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ta ta thai tatat thai
jhula jhule, pair na phisle
8/1/2006 12:16 AM delete
pop quiz politely ignored, eh?
ok, the kid joy ghanekar and his brother dhruv
(i think he was also in the ad as one of the
boys) grew up like the rest of us. as did the
Salil little girl in the vicks ki goli ad. dhruv and the
(manage) little girl, ishita arun got married.
8/1/2006 12:27 AM delete
Thank you Salil, now I sleep in peace
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8/1/2006 12:45 AM delete
Salil: how u no all these details yaar!!
•••••• ••
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8/1/2006 12:49 AM delete

Now that the suspense of the quiz is over and
Anonymous we can all breathe easy again:
Does anyone remember -
The Odd Couple: a comedy about 2 bachelors
named Felix and Oscar sharing the same
apartment. It was said that the two characters
were actually portraying homosexual live-in
lovers but because homosexuality was a taboo
subject then (even in the West), they were
portrayed as an "odd couple" [the word
'couple' here was supposed to be suggestive]
and the precise relationship between the two
characters was never made clear.
Daadi Maa Jaagi/Jaag Uthi: Okay serial
about a grandmother who slips into a coma
and wakes up after 25 years to a completely
different Delhi (or maybe some other city I'm
not sure).
Jockey: This was a short-lived Marathi serial
about a jockey named Arjun. The worst serial
ever and anyone who saw it and remembers it
will agree with me. The most ludicrous title
track with someone singing "Jockey, jockey...
jockey, jockey...jockey, jockey... jockey!" over
and over again! Varsha Usgaonkar had a
cameo role in it. The show was so bad viewers
actually got it pulled off the air.
8/1/2006 5:40 AM delete
@ Ram & Milind...
weird that u shd mention it, cos i hum the
"Gayab aaya...Gayab aaya...
Gayab aaya...Gayab aaya..." almost everyday
AlphaVictor on my way to work!!!
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@Ashish
I remember Jockey...their "race" picturisations
Milind were hilarious - stock footage, mixed with
(manage) shots of 5 guys in a studio (you could even see
curtains hanging behind them) shouting "come
on Black Pearl" or something...
And the serial was sponsored by Warana and

always had this cheesy ad about a genie
coming and offering (forcing?) Warana
Shrikhand, Warana lassi, etc to his master...
and then then genie would also morph into one
of the main characters of the serial...
8/1/2006 7:10 PM delete
Transtel had some sort of childrens' programs
that were telecast on Sunday morning... they
seemed weird with the bad dubbing and I
thought they were kinda boring too.
Bhavik
(manage) I remember a fairy-tale TV show where they
ran all the famous fairy tales, also on Sunday
mornings, sometime in 87... I remember
watching Snow white, Puss in Boots (er in
those days the P-word word meant cat), Jack
in the Beanstalk, etc. on that show... and I
think that may have been first time I saw an
on-screen kiss, surprisingly the censors forgot
or overlooked the happily-ever-after endings
which often concluded in a liplock.
In my old neighbourhood in Vile Parle upto 85-

86 there were rare visits by Bahroopiya-babas
dressed as mythological characters and those
baba-types carrying the kavad until the society
intervened. But now I don't think they exist at
all.
I remember drawing "Scenery" over so many

years in school with the same picture.
Mountains in the backgroud, sun rising over
the mountains, a river running parallel to the
foot of the mountain line, a few huts, and a
well all on this side of the river... with a few
birds flying in the sky.
Everyone's Scenery drawing were uncannily
similar, and last when I checked a few years
ago, kids were still drawing the same thing.
The days of memory drawing and water

colours and still life and geometric designs..

8/1/2006 7:25 PM delete
Salil, the two kids you mention about, were
they those fair boys with long hair, one of
whom played the part of the girl child in many
movies?
Bhavik The only child artistes I remember from ads or
(manage) movies are Baby Guddu and Master Raju...
Milind, 7 seas cod-liver oil had an ad that ran

in those days..., I think I tried that for a bit
too.
Ashish, er, the examination you talk about is

described in some detail in the first few pages
of Erich Segal's Doctors.
8/1/2006 9:43 PM delete
@ Bhavik #1
Anonymous Regarding 'Doctors', I wasn't exactly talking
about "that" examination. The girls used to
have all their clothes on, damn it! It was just
cough & cold, headaches and fever. What were
you thinking? You have a dirty mind, Bhavik.
In the film "Appu Raja" there's this constable

who keeps saying to his superior officer: "Aap
kitni door pahunch gaye, sir". Well, Bhavik, to
you I say: "Aap kuchh zyaada hi door
pahunch gaye, sir"
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(18,322 members) Bhavik #2
Anonymous Those "bahuroopiyas" still exist. A few
● view profile months back, I saw a few Hanumans
wandering around the streets at various
● view forum places in Borivali. I remember when I was a
kid a Bholenath would come into our society,
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he used to have a small leather sac
●
containing water under his armpit with a

small tube attached, one end of which was
nestled in his "jataa". Every time he
squeezed the sac under his armpit a jet of
water would shoot out of the tube in his hair
and he would shout: "Ganga...jamuna!"
Sometimes I still see "kadaklakshmis" - those

men with long hair who whip themselves
across their backs and are accompanied by
women who carry pictures of the goddess on
their heads.
And then there were those people who used

to come into our societies after each lunar
eclipse shouting "De daan...sute giraan" and
others who, as far as I remember, used to
repeat just two words: "Rahu, ketu, rahu,
ketu".
These people should always exist, they

should never vanish from our streets and
from our lives. They represent something
that is beyond reason and logic, they
represent mystery and magic. Their
professions are based on ancient myths that
some may call superstitions, but I feel we
need these myths in our lives. I would like to
quote a poem called "Realism" by Thomas
Bailey Aldrich. It does not deal with Bombay,
sure, but it expresses the sentiment of
nostalgia in this thread perfectly:

Romance beside his unstrung lute

Lies stricken mute.
The old-time fire, the antique grace,
You will not find them anywhere.
Today we breathe a commonplace,
Polemic, scientific air:
We strip Illusion of her veil;
We vivisect the nightingale
To probe the secret of his note.
The Muse in alien ways remote
Goes wandering.
8/1/2006 10:41 PM delete
Bhavik #3
Anonymous The fairy-tale show you mentioned is "Faerie
Tale Theatre" hosted by the American actress
Shelley Duvall. It was so popular wherever it
was aired that last year the entire 26-episode
series was released in the US on dvd and now
those same persons who watched the show in
the 80s as kids and who are now parents, are
buying the sets for their own children. This
proves that good TV shows never die - they
are only reissued as DVD sets.
8/1/2006 11:21 PM delete
about an old serial...
dunno if anyone's already mentioned it in this
thread since i joined this community late....i
vaguely remember about Honee Anhonee...
Ramalingam
that used be the old time.."X-Files"
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8/1/2006 11:43 PM delete
Anyone remember Aerobics Oz-Style on early
Star TV in the mornings?
Vikram
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8/1/2006 11:56 PM delete
@ Vikram
I remember the aerobics shown on DD -
some Breakfast show or something
Vivek
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8/1/2006 11:58 PM delete

was that instructor a parsi girl
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i dont know if this has been discussed,i got
up in the morning and the first thing i
remembered was the vicks ad i cdn't
remember,so i was pretyy thrilled."Aur phir
Janhavi bhediye ne memne se kaha ,mai tumhe kha
(manage) jaaonga".thts where i learnt bhediya means
wolf.Salil you're right,this thread is a mind
exerciser.
and condom ads then were so subtle and

underplayed.there was this condom ad where
the father is begging the child to sleep.
remembered it from this mornings
conversation at work about pilgrimages.At
one such pilgrimage;when this ad was doing
the rounds of t.v;one of my colleagues' then
young cousins sang the "so jaa meri jaan,
chod do rona" to the krishnaji's murti she
was swinging at a temple!!!
8/2/2006 2:06 AM delete
I love Parsi girls
I love Parsi girls
Ready I love Parsi girls

Coddie
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8/2/2006 2:16 AM delete
Coddie, you're 16.... you love ALL girls.
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8/2/2006 2:31 AM delete

Coddie u mean u 'love parsi girl' in hindi its is
'pyari si' girls
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Bombay
(18,322 members) I love all girls
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● view forum Ready I love all girls

Coddie
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Coddie:C missing in all
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I Remember as a kid I used to afraid of
parsis , i mean old male parsis with white
typical parsi dress ,a black cap ,big stomach ,
we use to call parsa, one of our neighbour
•••••• •• was there , he used to shout when there is a
(manage) fight with other neighbours friends in the
afternoon when we used to play and give
usual typical galis so we used to hide inside
the house (common gallary was there)and
peep from door side never come out when he
was there , later when I had parsi friends and
collegues I found they are very nice people.
but galis are same!!
8/2/2006 4:07 AM delete
yeah the show was called "keep fit" i
remember barely watching it with one eye
Neville open and still in bed ...
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8/2/2006 4:26 AM delete

Have we discussed Jumpstart with Trey and
Muriel on [V]? That was what I used to watch
bleary-eyed... :D
StrongGel
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8/2/2006 5:24 AM delete
I don't remember Parsi girls teaching
Anonymous aerobics but I do remember a very bearded
Dhirendra Brahmachari teaching yoga!
8/2/2006 10:16 AM delete
mujhe yaad hai jab mai chota baccha tha
mere dostonke saath bhatak ne jate theey ,
tab thode dost log car ka tyre ke hava
bharneki jagaha ka valve ka kaala cover nikal
•••••• •• letey they , pencil ko lagane.
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Parel area main thodi jagaha Jungal hua kar
ka tha waha jaakar ek gum (dinka)ka peyd
(jhad) sey gum(dinka-acacia)jamaa kar tey
theey aur ghar main laakar dinkaa(gum)
banateey they us jaagaha baad main parsi
colony hua (back side of lalbaugh towards
cotton green)
8/2/2006 10:51 AM delete
J, the ad was Kohinoor I think. The howling
child gets in the way of the eager-to-do-their-
stuff couple. They do their best to get him fall
asleep. I remember a bit of it.
Bhavik The female voice says "Chhod do rona , bey-
(manage) chain hona"
Male voice "Apne baap pe kar ehsaan"
The child finally falls asleep and the dad leads
the mom to bed...
Then there was a shamefaced guy mumbling

embarrasedly to the chemist that he wanted
a pack of condoms while this apparently cool
dude strode by and asked confidently "Moods
please".
Speaking of watching TV just half-awake, I

think in the wee morning hours DD used to
play classical music for about 15 minutes or
so.

...Does anyone like the smell of brand-new

textbooks or is it just me?
8/2/2006 11:09 AM delete
ya same here , new text book ,even note
book and also craft book after sticking boat ,
flowers made of marble paper and sticking on
book with gum (Brown Translucent viscous
•••••• •• gum - in blue bottle with orange red rubber
(manage) cap with hole now a days not seen) and when
its still wet
8/2/2006 9:56 PM delete
Bhavik, YES! The smell of new books still
reminds me of the beggining of the school
year.... *sigh*
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(18,322 members) Does anyone else have traumatic memories
of spending the last few days of the vacation
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8/2/2006 10:21 PM delete
yes..covering the notebooks.. it used to be a
torutre.. and you would want the best labels..i
remember wanting the barbie ones .... and
Shweta those "push button" pencil casses.. does
anyone remember those if you had that you
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8/2/2006 10:32 PM delete
Torture is when you are not allowed to put on
the cool colorful picture labels on your books,
Milind and instead have to stick on plain white labels
(manage) with your school name - like I had to do!!
8/2/2006 10:54 PM delete
In school my friends mostly had the WWE
stickers while the girls had bollywood/animals
labels...
Ready I loved being an oddball then and I used to

Coddie use black covers for my books (From Big
(manage) Bazaar, those smooth imported like ones) and
the labels were self printed with the images of
Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat characters.
In my last year in school I made Freddie

Mercury labels... people took me for a queer
folk then...
I recall there is this thing known as crush

calculator type where you put in the names

and the site says if it will come true or not
and it will be sent to the guy who sent us the
link (It existed even 2 years back) and just
for jokes I had written Freddie Mercury...
some people took it seriously.
8/2/2006 11:10 PM delete
Coddie, necrophilia?
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8/3/2006 4:03 AM delete
Erendel oil - gasp, choke
Erendel oil was known to my family as
eucalyptus oil, not castor oil (the latter is
correct). It tasted foul, not surprising because
Ash it is a poison in large doses -- no wonder my
(manage) relatives popped off at an early age! ROFL
Milk of Magnesia - I too had lots of

encounters with it: http://www.bayercare.
com/htm/philmom.htm
8/3/2006 4:12 AM delete
Eucalyptus oil is Nilgiri tel, (a)erendel is
Castor.
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8/3/2006 4:18 AM delete
Does anyone remember those Gumshuda
Talash Kendra things on DD?
So-n-so this-this place se so-n-so date se

StrongGel lapata hai, rang- gora/ gehuan/ sawla , kad-
(manage) 5'4", and these were the clothes he was last
wearing. Agar apne is vyakti ko dekha hai to
gumshuda talash kendra pe sampark karen...
PO Box blah blah.....

8/3/2006 4:20 AM delete

aamchi mate aamchi manse is it?
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Eucalyptus tree , nilgiri trees , we used to
play with dried leaves of this tree while
comming from school and rub in hand and
showing the smell to friends , waah kya
•••••• •• khushbu hai,whos aroma is strong!
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coimbatore , i saw near S I viscous Company
(40km from there)I had got chance to visit
this factory, there wood of eucalyptus trees
were lying and are raw material , min 7 yr old
tree is cut for that , and that wood is soaked
and mad pulp and yarn is made from that!!!!
and is used in making cloth (Viscous yarn) }
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Just:
I used to like that Marathi version
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8/3/2006 4:31 AM delete
Was it, people? This was on Delhi's DD, and
one of the reasons I didn't run away was
because they'd get me back from whatever
corner of the country I was in and spank me.
StrongGel Now I hear that the long arm of Gumshuda
(manage) Talash Kendra didn't reach Bombay. All too
late....
8/3/2006 4:32 AM delete
Gahu varna, madhya baandha.
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8/3/2006 4:33 AM delete
aamchi mati aamchi manase was a agriculture
based show, i think at 7 in the evening right
Bhagyashri after the missing persons programme. These
(manage) were specific to the Doordarshan Kendras. So
the former was called Krishi Darshan for the
Delhi viewers and the Gumshuda Talash was
called 'Apan Yhana Pahilat ka?' in Maharashtra.
8/3/2006 4:34 AM delete
Rijuta, "AApan yanna pahilat ka?" was the
local equivalent
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8/3/2006 4:53 AM delete

Wasnt "Aamchi mati amch manse" a political
drive of Shiv Sena?
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8/3/2006 5:39 AM delete
oohh i know tht show,aamchi mati amchi
manse,sumthing on agriculture on DD
isha
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8/3/2006 9:24 AM delete
Amchi mati amchi mansey was never shiv
senas
shiv sena had 'apla manus' 'dagad fek'- out
side - not in TV program.
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8/3/2006 9:40 AM delete
Amchi maati Amchi mansa could be quite
educative... it wasn't just for farmers, it had
Milind some bits on biodiversity and bio conservations
(manage) (buzzwords today!) which, when I really paid
attention, were quite interesting. Then there
used to be a program called Kamgar Vishwa
which I could never grasp. Apan hyana pahilat
ka was a "filler" - something that would come
up when there were 5 minutes to spare. And
some of the photos would look dreadfully like
those you would associate with "Wanted"
posters!
8/3/2006 9:42 AM delete
i remember....
the bandra kurla complex, an dhow barren it
-Anirudh was, and how it is going to be ina few yrs time
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Bombay
(18,322 members) ya very true , when i was in college , it was all
mangroves i could see sion dharavi from
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pesticides to kill mosquitos
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8/3/2006 1:11 PM delete
street hawk
Des anyone remember this...used to come on
DD...david haselhof starred in this one didnt
he??
Ramalingam
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8/3/2006 2:04 PM delete
Pre-phising days...
I remember there was a gold-polishing scam
when I was a kid. Apparently someone
pretending to be a gold-polisher would knock
Bhavik at your door and tell you they could polish
(manage) gold ornaments and make them shine like
new. These guys were supposed to be
carrying a solution that dissolved gold and the
unwitting housewif who gave her jewellery to
be polished got back her jewel set with its
weight reduced.
Stories of post-hypnosis muggings have also

done the rounds.
8/3/2006 2:11 PM delete
yea before the bandra kurla complex came up
i could see the open air movie theater all the
way from chunnabhati-chembur area
Ryan and with binoculars could even tell what

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8/3/2006 2:17 PM delete

@Ram
david haselhof starred in this one didnt he
Milind
(manage) No, David Haselhoff was in Knight Rider, not
Street Hawk...
Street Hawk was Jessie Mach, played by Rex

Smith
8/3/2006 2:21 PM delete
Anyone remember Blue Blood? This guy who
was some sort of royality would solve
crimes... and then Manimal - from which they
made Junoon with Rahul Roy...
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8/3/2006 2:32 PM delete
the man, the machine ... street hawk yeah, it
was around the same time that hero honda
Neville launched "Sleek" with similar ad lines anyone
(manage) remember that ? What an upgrade that was
from 100cc to 110cc and an uncomfortable
seat. I don't remember David Hasseldump
starring in that series though...
I don't remember the Bandra Kurla complex

as it existed before but do remember
discovering that route for the first time it was
like finding the warp zone in dangerous dave
or the secret tunnel in wolfenstein (all ye DOS
gamers out there will know what i mean).
However that route cut travel time from
Ghatkopar to town by almost half.
8/3/2006 2:35 PM delete
@milind
thanks for the info...as a matter of fact...i had
intended to post knight rider along with my
post...but couldn't remember for sure whether
Ramalingam
there was a serial by that name..
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8/3/2006 2:48 PM delete

did they air knight rider on DD then ? i only
remember those knight rider toy cars back
Neville then which my evil spoilt cousin wouldn;t
(manage) even let me touch though i didn't have a clue
who or what knight-rider was.
then there was "The old fox" too anohter one

of those transtel shows with inspector "i-cant-
pronouce-or-remember-his-name"
8/3/2006 3:59 PM delete
The best liftoff on Street Hawk was, in my
opinion, by MRF, who came out with their The
Milind Man, The Machine, The Tyre campaign... for
(manage) MRF Nylogrip, I think it was...
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Bombay
(18,322 members) on open air movie theater called drive inn ,
we could see the screen from matunga Podar
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1987-88) but not clear pics
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Yeah milind that was MRF nylogrip right ...
funny how they always had this idea surf on
Neville that seventh wave. I remember they had
(manage) those corny ads for MRF Zigma "The spaceage
radial" before and after star trek.
Also about a fortnight before the first rains

newspapers would run these MRF rain-day
predictions, anyone remember those ? I guess
they used a roulette wheel to make those
beacause i don't quite remember them ever
being right ... yeah but they did come with a
note at the bottom to change to rubber tyres
and i never really understood that. I mean,
aren;t tyres made out of rubber anyways ?
8/4/2006 1:30 AM delete
Sure they aired Knight Rider on DD... don't
you remember KITT (KITT)? Which stood for
Irshad Knight Industries Two Thousand?
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8/4/2006 8:28 AM delete
I guess nobody here will remember a
Anonymous programme on DD called "Amrit manthan". It
was exclusively in Sanskrit. I couldn't
understand a word but I enjoyed listening to
the sounds the words made. Well, maybe
Pravin Da will remember.

8/4/2006 8:36 AM delete

Ashish : I have definitely heard that
programme but dont remember watching full
programme , Amrut manthan is between god
and rakshasa
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@Ashish
I do remember the name Amrit Manthan - It
Milind used to be one of those programs you did not
(manage) need Saptahiki to tell you about - it was
always there at its fixed time ... however, I
dont remember what the show was about...
8/4/2006 8:46 AM delete
@Neville
MRF Zigma had nothing to do with Star Trek...
Milind I think Zigma was launched after MRF tied up
(manage) with B.F. Goodrich - who made tyres for the
Space Shuttle. That was when MRF Zigma
became the "space age radial" - I remember
they sponsored a MRF Cup cricket series
where the drinks carts were in the form of
Space Shuttles.
Actually, I am more inclined to think that

"Zigma" was born out of Space City Sigma
8/4/2006 9:13 AM delete
Also I think (and Salil, you are best placed to
correct me on this) - the MRF ad might just
Milind have been a reply to the Dunlop tyres ad
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voiceover going "...in precisely 5 seconds tyre
technology will be put to the ultimate test..."
or something... Space Age scores over Jet
Age !
8/4/2006 9:43 AM delete
speaking of tyres ads
@milind full points to you and JK tyres !!!
Neville (another weird tyre ad) .... yeah i got the star
(manage) trek timing wrong i guess.

8/4/2006 10:31 AM delete

@milind
yeah it used to be so funny seeing the space
shuttle type drinks trolley coming out. it
seemed so huge, bulky and out of place with
Ramalingam
just a single person manning that thing.
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@ashish
i do vaguely remember amrit manthan...i
used to concentrate really hard to understand
what they were saying just to show-off to
other school friends that i could speak
sanskrit..
BTW do you guys remember a serial called

mriganayni? i think mita vashist was in that
one wasnt she??
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Mrignayani was Pallavi Joshi, I think... with
Mohan bhandari as the prince... am I thinking
● view profile Milind of the same serial as you?
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● view events I remember Mrignayani... there was not a
single episode where Pallavi Joshi married to
a polygamous king did not cry.
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@milind
ooops...sorry...i just cant seem to place the
actors and the serial right..can i...
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8/4/2006 6:54 PM delete
Comics - HEY!! anybody wants to refresh
memories here in HT (HINDUSTAN TIMES)
saturday edition gives 2 full pages of comics
•••••• •• Here are names :

(manage) Denis the menace , dilburt , claasic peanuts ,
crock, popeye, the amazing spider man,
Marvin and bitsy, ginger meggs ,
marmaduke , classic rugrats ,archie,the born
loser, andy capp, beau peep, bound and
gagged , a lawer a doctor and a cop, blondie,
luann, tina groove , doonesburry, frrd basset
i Only remember few of the above when i was

kid, others looks new to me!

8/4/2006 10:13 PM delete

BOINK!!!!
While I read your post Pravin Da, I was also

reading the comics thing!!!
Ready
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8/4/2006 10:31 PM delete
Its Saturday, its comics day!
Hibernating
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8/4/2006 10:46 PM delete
Pravin Da, out of those comic strips, the only
Anonymous ones I read regularly were 'Crock' and 'The
Born Loser' (both of which I think were
carried in 'The Sunday Review' supplement of
the TOI), and 'Andy Capp' and 'The
Adventures of Legionnaire Beau Peep' (both
of which featured in the good old 'The
Illustrated Weekly of India').
But the comics (as in children's comic books)
that really defined my childhood were 'Amar
Chitra Katha', 'Tinkle', 'Chandamama',
'Target' and 'Indrajal Comics' (Phantom,
Mandrake, Bahadur, Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby,
Garth, Buzz Sawyer - were there any more?).
8/4/2006 10:54 PM delete
When I read comics, I started out with Tinkle
and Archie...
I later bought those small black n white

Ready comic books of Robinson Crusoe, Tom
Coddie Sawyer and Huck Finn.
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I moved on to reading Tin Tin, Asterix,
Batman, Superman, JLA, etc.
Tin Tin was expensive, each one cost a hefty

250 bucks, so did Asterix... I got a birthday
gift when I became 12 of all TinTin followed
by a Bday gift of All Asterix when I got 13.
Do any of you recall Chacha Chaudhary, the

raped English? I read it a lot nonetheless,
also there were these DC Comics which had

JLA, Superman and such from USA, pretty

rare stuff now...
Sadly Manga is not available here, it is far

better than comics...
Speaking of which, how many of you have

played with G I Joes and Hot Wheels?
8/5/2006 12:18 AM delete
ooh i had an entire collection of GI joes!didnt
collect those cars but had gi joes,my cuz had
tht fort of he-man!
isha
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8/5/2006 12:37 AM delete
today is 2 years since this thread began!
happy birthday, thread!
Salil
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Now you make me feel like an old timer,
Salil
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8/5/2006 12:40 AM delete
● view events 2 years?! :D
Whoa! And that averages to nearly 1000
posts a year.
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8/5/2006 12:46 AM delete
Happy Birthday to you
May God Bless you
Ready Happy Birthday to you
Coddie
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8/5/2006 2:29 AM delete
Here's my contribution in Italian (to give this
Anonymous momentous occasion an international flavour):
Tanti auguri a te,

tanti auguri a te,
tanti auguri al thread,
tanti auguri a te.
8/5/2006 3:25 AM delete
and mine in japanese
Kevin o tanjoobi omedeto gozaimasu

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8/5/2006 5:58 AM delete

Happy Friendship day and also Happy B day
thread , and who will post at exact 7 am !!!
lets see
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8/5/2006 6:36 AM delete
Comics
Earliest memories are buying comics from a
newsagent next to Regal around 1961 for 75
nips (Naye Paise). They ranged from the
Ash Disney characters to Superman, Batman,
(manage) Dennis the Menace, and some from US TV
shows of the day, such as Gunsmoke, The
Virginian, Bonanza, etc.
The ToI had a Sunday comics supplement. I

can only remember one strip in it - The Little
Woman, by Don Tobin - http://lambiek.net/
artists/t/tobin_don.htm. The daily paper had
a cartoon by R. Laxman - I think he is still at
it. Many publications printed the cute "Love
Is" cartoon daily.
One of the Gujarati comics had a character

called Bakor Patel (a humanised goat). One
of his daily memory aids was "Paka
peru" (ripe guavas) (Pakit, Kaaski, Pen,
Rumaal). My uncle adapted it to "Pacha
Peru" (Pakit, Chavi, Pen, Rumaal).
Sometimes I wish I used something like that
when I forget one of those at home.
Paper quality of comics went from bad to

worse. Before my birth, they were printed on
non-recycled, glossy paper. Someone gave
me a Roy Rogers & Dale Evans comic from
~1950 that looked like it was printed
yesterday.
There were also hardbound magazines with

stories and comics combined - both from the
UK and the US. In the late 60s, there were
small, B&W war comics from the UK including
Commando comics. I learnt most of my
German from the Achtung/Teufel/Donner und
Blitzens of the vanquished Jerries portrayed
in it.

There were the entire Archie/Veronica/

Jughead series, both in full size colour and
pocket size B&W.
8/5/2006 6:45 AM delete
Ash: Buying books at 75 np may not be that
easy am I right Ash , 75 np was not a small
amount in those days I hope ,
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8/5/2006 7:07 AM delete
now this thread completed 2 yrs!! 7 am
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8/5/2006 9:10 AM delete
Speaking of comics, I also remember a bald
kid called Henry, that strip used to appear a
long time ago, but I haven't seen it in
existence for many years now.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) That bald henry comic was my no 1 favorite ,
I used to like one with eating ice cream and
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8/5/2006 1:26 PM delete
a memory from not that far back..
a view of the mumbai sky from my balcony;

Girish now obscured by towering monstrosities in
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unfortunate but tue for most across the city...

8/6/2006 12:49 AM delete
Henry had 2 humungous cheeks but no
mouth or chin, right? He'd be there on the
back pages of Indrajal Comics, and also the
Little King.
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8/6/2006 5:45 AM delete
Yes, 75 np was a big amount for a kid when
you could buy the cheapest movie ticket for
that sum in a cheap non-English movie.
Ash Henry is still around - his site seems to have

(manage) the images turned off.
Reminds me of the Harvey Comics stable -

Little Lotta, Richie Rich, Little Lulu, Little Dot,
Casper, etc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Harvey_Comics
Mutt & Jeff also appeared in Gujarati

translations.

Link to Indian comics: http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Indian_comics
8/6/2006 5:49 AM delete
i remember wen i first visited taraporewala
aquqrium(& was disappointed coz it was
nthing like the 1 i had seen on
Find the 1
discovery&xpected).bt i loved it later on..
that
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Smallpox
Smallpox hadn't been eradicated when I was
a kid, so we used to get inoculated every so-
many years. Inoculation meant two cuts on
Ash the forearm and an application of the yucky
(manage) stuff. It caused a horrible pair of itchy blisters
and it was hard not to scratch it. Eventually,
the scabs dried and fell off, but the scar
lasted for years. Babies got them on the
upper arm and these lasted for life.
I remember seeing people with smallpox - a

relative of mine survived but was
pockmarked badly and couldn't find a wife. It
was called "mata" in Gujarati and "devi" in
Marathi - Sitaladevi temple in Mahim was the
place to go for religious people who wanted
to ward off the pox.
8/6/2006 6:14 AM delete
OT: 1931 Census of India
Kinda OT - but it does mention Bombay.
When my dad was a lad: http://www.
athelstane.co.uk/tchodson/ind_ethn/ind_ethn.
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8/6/2006 8:41 AM delete

Ash: I know a person who survived smallpox.
Anonymous I think she contracted it in Gujarat and was
cured by the time she came here, but her
face is pockmarked. Sadly she too is
unmarried.
I don't see many polio victims nowadays
either. Twenty to twenty-five years back I
used to regularly see kids wearing those
heavy boots designed for polio-stricken legs -
in fact we had one such kid in our class at
school - but now I don't see such kids any
more. I'm not sure whether those children I
see begging on roads walking on all fours are
suffering from polio or muscular dystrophy or
something else.
8/6/2006 9:17 AM delete
I remember people with small pox and pock
marked were often tesed as chappan tickli
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OK my post disappeared so it's likely that it
appears twice
this morning I remembered an ad for shoes

Janhavi that went a little like this "new corona
(manage) shoes.....new new new corona shoes"
I think this ad had those kids walking on

walls with these shoes.I wanted a pair so
badly.......Wanted to walk on walls and all
that like spiderman(this ad came about the
same time as the spiderman cartoon series)
thanx Salil,you've rescued me from

Alzheimers of sorts.my idle mind has started
exercising ever since reading this thread.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Babies got them on the upper arm and these
lasted for life.
● view profile Vikram
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● view forum BCG and one Smallpox innoculation.
● view events Very true, I don't recollect seeing these huge

25 -50 paise sized scars on children
nowadays..
8/8/2006 5:27 AM delete
Just thought I'd post this link
Irshad http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/
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An iconic Indian brand, and one that's left an

impression on everyone's childhood (barring
Cody's) on this thread. Here's to its revival!
8/8/2006 6:30 AM delete
The No of posts in this thread reminds of the
year in which Man took his first step on
Bhagyashri Moon!
(manage) I remember all the GK tests and quizzes we
used to participate in school & also outside of
it. For the lower age categories this used to
be a sure question. Another one was about
the first lady to go in space. They even had a
subject of GK in the curriculum back then.

8/8/2006 10:09 AM delete

does anyone remember this ad..i've forgotten
the first part..but i do remember the latter
part and the punch line
Ramalingam man approaches another man and asks him
(manage) "which shaving cream do you use?" later
realizes he's sporting a beard. The other guy
says "me??"
The punch line was "One bright spot in a

man's morning". which ad is this??
8/8/2006 10:30 AM delete
Godrej Shaving cream
Milind The ad was:

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Man 1: Sir which shaving cream do you use?
Man 2: Godrej
Man 1: why?
Man 2: Great shave, cologne fragrance, wife
loves it.
Man 1: Sir which shaving cream do you use?
Man 3(Stroking beard): Me?
Godrej shaving cream. The one bright spot

in a man's morning.
8/8/2006 9:08 PM delete
and if 3 posts ago bhagyashri pointed out it
was the year of the lunar landing in the
number of posts before that, here's a good
one. this is post 1973, the year i was born..
Salil now i feel so old!
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8/8/2006 9:37 PM delete
1973...Salil to toh ekdum uncle hai re....
RoDz
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8/8/2006 9:42 PM delete

Salil
DUDE YOU ARE SOOOO OLD!!!
Man, you seem hideous

Ready
Coddie crone!
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crone!
You are like the Pardada of the Bombay

family... ewww...
8/8/2006 10:36 PM delete
1972-73 year I wont forget !!
I was in 8th std and we had new course

introduced in Mumbai (pune board)
•••••• •• 10+2+3, started from 8th std , all new text
(manage) books!!! , (othere wise i used to get my
brothers old text books every yr up to 7th as
he was one class ahead)
every teachers and parents were excited with
the word New course , teachers were in
motivated state , all went on special training ,
every thing was new and suspense ,schools
has special labs renovated ,first times parents
have been called and had meeting on
syllabus and how to study , how they will
teach , what parents should do etc, objective
type questions was introduced.
compared to old course.
I went to school picnic to Elephenta caves !
first time far away picnic spot! other wise ,
hanging garden , ranibaag etc
another thing is My sister is born on 1st Jan

1973!!
Telivision was introduced in Mumbai on 2nd

Oct 1972,
Saw first time saw cricketers on TV - MCC vs

India
I joined savio club in DonBosco where i got
good exposure to many games and saw many
old English movies on sundays! like macanas
gold , five men army , dirty dozen , etc

8/8/2006 10:45 PM delete

And this is #1977...the year I was born.
Vikram Old Man Mozz, I'm not that much younger

(manage) than you!
Anyone remember what the 4 Phantom tribes

were? I only remember Mori, Wambesi and
Llongo.
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Bombay
(18,322 members) 1978! My birth year claim.
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i am impatient
Ryan
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8/8/2006 11:37 PM delete
1980 here is my year claim
Ryan
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8/9/2006 12:03 AM delete
1981...woohoo!
Irshad Can someone tell me what '81 was like?

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Whoelse?? i remember watching superhit muqabla on DD
(manage) before the advent of cable television. baba
sehgal used to host that show.. v had to send
our entries on pastcards unlike todays sms!

8/9/2006 12:24 AM delete

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Whoelse?? also..can sum1 tell me wat 1983 was like?
(manage) history says that india won the world cup
then!..but was life like?
8/9/2006 2:02 AM delete
Irshad: 1981 - I was doing PG ,there was
english film boom was there in new excessor ,
sterling and new empire , towering inferno,
eXorsist , Godfather, The Omen, Diamonds are
•••••• •• forever, Never say never again
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1982 asiad games , APPU moscot was ruling ,
also colour TV boom
1983 mumbai got asiad bus for bombay Pune!
bombay pune journey was easy and comfort.
I dont remember exact yr but around this time

- skylab- old satilite was supposed to fall , a
fear was there !! so we all got half day as if it
will fall on our building or in mumbai but later
it fell faar away!
many business Units put skylab as their brand
names ,
8/9/2006 2:38 AM delete
Can someone tell me what '81 was like?
Vikram Well, 1981 saw me take my first plane trip..

(manage) Bombay to Mangalore and back..
I remember 1984 when Indira Gandhi was

shot, I was at a hockey camp..and they told all
of us to go home early cause they were afraid
riots would break out.
8/9/2006 2:40 AM delete
Vik, you have some exciting memories of the
84
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8/9/2006 6:52 AM delete

@vik
Anyone remember what the 4 Phantom tribes
Milind were? I only remember Mori, Wambesi and
(manage) Llongo.
Missing the Bandar, are we ? Or was there

another one?
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Bombay
(18,322 members) WAFA WAS BORN!!!
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Coddie
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THE MIRACLE ALBUM WAS RELEASED
Ready
Coddie
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8/9/2006 7:35 AM delete
3/3/1990
Birth of Captain KuroiHonoo Coddie.
Ready *Applause*
Coddie
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24/11/1991
Death of Freddie Mercury.
Ready
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8/9/2006 8:07 AM delete

I remember the Babri Masjid demolition and
resulting riots of 1992. A classmate of mine
lost her father in one of those riots.
Just Read
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8/9/2006 10:23 AM delete
93-94 the year i passed SSC ... my exam
centre was in the same area (Asalfa) that was
Neville worst affect in the bloody riots that happend
(manage) a year ago. Also found out that the mass
copying and cheating shown on TV is not an
urban myth. In a stupid attempt to justify
what i saw, 2 years later in my HSC i got bold
two years later and tried to sneak in a
formula sheet for the physics exams all for a
few marks more!!! and almost got caught .....
never tried it ever again. : )
8/9/2006 10:28 AM delete
I am from the batch which had mass paper
leaks in the SSC exams... and we had a re-
exam too to compensate for it. March 1996
Bhavik
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8/9/2006 1:25 PM delete
I remember seeing an ad for an Acer PC in
1995. It was a cool 149000 odd INR, with a
powerful 100 MHz Pentium chip, 16 MB of
RAM and a 540 MB hard disk.
Just Read
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8/9/2006 3:37 PM delete
I remember the times when the post above
mine would have sounded alien.
Also how pagers came and went, how the
initial expensive cellphones and expensive call
Bhavik rates made them a rarity and were more
(manage) often than not used as pagers.
Now that 2000 is approaching, I remember it
being celebrated as the millenial year and the
belaboured explanations that 2001 was
actually the year of the new millenium.

8/9/2006 7:01 PM delete

1997...my junior college days, from FYJC to
SYJC
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Wow this is positively the nicest thread on
rkut... decades on mumbai in a few pages....
● view profile thou i was too young to remember the facts
You n I listed out here, just reading abt em brings
● view forum (manage) back faint memories of havin heard of em
sumwhere, n its amazing....!!! u guys rock!!!!
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8/9/2006 8:59 PM delete
hey guys while you are talking about
computers... and this thread is about
nostalgia.... can any1 tell me what is the
oldest computer any1 has used....
Fido
(manage) we'll I still have and use (don't ask me how?) a
486 running at 66 MHz with all of 32 MB ram
with a ESS 1868 sound card.
I use it for linux training.... u know cost

effective and also I don't get screwed up if due
to my fingering around something goes
kaput... dad's PC is still intact.... that he uses
for his mails...
What about you all.....
Tejas
8/9/2006 9:00 PM delete
I know this is not in accordance with the rules
and not in good spirit too.... but couldn't
simply resist writing the 2000th post of this
topic......
Fido
(manage) sorry guys..... couldn't miss this opportunity.....
excuse me
Tejas

8/9/2006 10:22 PM delete

I dont know much about mumbai as i never
A really lived there but my house is in bombay :)
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When mumbai(more like bombay for me)
comes to my mind, it is VT and surrounding
[ shopping and eye-candies(i am sure u guys
know better places)]
the crappy roads[ the kichad etc] - always

constructing roads during the rainy season ...
huh! i dont understand why?
The fruits and vegetable market[sabzi mandi]

with ppl shouting all over :)
The crowded train journey and the odor of the
trains. The khich khach of the train...The
storming entry into the local...
The chaat shops all over and vada pav. simply

delicious.
Amazing daab and singhade[ which are not
available in canada *sigh*]
The amazing sweet shops and dhokla[namkeen
shops]
The once upon a time good place to go to

when malls didnt exist : juhu beach.. the
camel ride, horse ride. and the rides.
Shoppers stop and the games they hosted...
The gole wala and its ghanti - Bring your own

glass {BYOG}
The idli wala coming right at your door step to

give you those soft idlis...yummy.
The transportation system is amazing...you

could find a rickshaw or taxi 24-7.
it is the happening city , the city that never

sleeps.
The language[ some what unique] somehow i

feel sometimes rude, but generally they dont
mean anything bad...just the way of talking :)
This is the some of my experiences, very little,

because i didnt get an opportunity to live
there.

The thing which i will never be able to achieve

in this lifetime
8/10/2006 1:41 AM delete
this is such a fuckin crazy thread
Lemon
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8/10/2006 2:02 AM delete
Perhaps the only thread on all of Orkut that's
not a game thread and has 2000+ posts.
Irshad
(manage) Since Thril, DoIT and Parle has been
mentioned in this thread before, thought I'd
add this bit of information... Ramesh Chauhan
bought out the unions at Thril and all the
competition and forced them to cause
management problems and finally shut down.
So there... we had only Thums Up for a long
time!
8/10/2006 2:07 AM delete
Irshad,
I hvae been wanting to do this for a long time
Hibernating for your amazing tirvail knowledge
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*Bows down and does the shi kha kha dance
(The tribal dance)*
8/10/2006 2:30 AM delete
Err...thanks I guess, but I'm not the only one
with amazing 'tirvail' knowledge.
Irshad
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8/10/2006 2:40 AM delete
"the shi kha kha dance"
Vikram Whatever happened to all those "Shikakai"

(manage) soap brands? I remember Wipro Shikakai and
all the long haired Indian beauties they used in
their ads..I don't see them anymore? What
happened? Did we get so caught up in our
L'Oreals and our gels, that we forgot our neem
and shikakai soaps?
Speaking of beauty and beauty regimens..
I went through a year in my teens where I'd

buy packs of "Multani mitti" for my pimply
face..I still have a bit somewhere..I remember

the awesome feeling you got (or rather your

face got) after you used a pack from this mud.
Oh and great visual..Feroz Gujral in the USAH

fans ads..I fell in love with her then. I just saw
her recently and she looks FANTASTIC still.
She's gotta be about 55 or so..
8/10/2006 2:54 AM delete
Maybe Vikram the "shikakai" soaps sells
without the marketting. My mom still uses
Hibernating them!
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Bombay
(18,322 members) Another Shikakai brand that comes to mind is
Silkesha.
● view profile Bhagyashri
(manage) I remember back then they had to emphasise
● view forum the presence of natural herbs such as
shikakai, amla, ritha, even egg extracts (Halo
● view events Shampoo) etc for the product to come across
as a very good one. These days its keratin,
Pro Vit B5, menthol etc (There are quite a few
more but cant recall them now)
8/10/2006 3:05 AM delete
Erm...Shikakai is a generic name so far as I
can tell, but many soap companies have their
Irshad own thingie - like Godrej Shikakai etc etc.
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Feroz Gujral... yes. Very very hot! What was it
in the water where she was?!
8/10/2006 3:06 AM delete
By thingie I meant brand variant of course...
sleepy in the afternoon.
Irshad
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8/10/2006 7:35 AM delete
Todays DNA mentions something about Naina
Balsaver. IIRC she was the first expert on TV
Advait for Shampoo ads. Can't remember the ad
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8/10/2006 7:40 AM delete
This is an insanely beautiful thread that I can
spend hours (at work) browsing at random....
Saurabh even though a lot of it is before my time, it's
(manage) like wandering through the tiny lanes of flora
fountain on a sunday afternoon....
love it!

8/10/2006 7:42 AM delete

"Multani mitti" ya I remember this
4 days before marriage in 1988 ,when i went
to give my wedding invitation to my uncles
house at Agarbazar , their neighbour had
•••••• •• beauty parlor at home , so my aunt told me to
(manage) do facial as my face will glow on video film , I
was reluctant to do but then the lady of
parlour convinced me not to worry and she
will do for me (she was knowing me since i
was kid so she agreed to do facial on me
other wise she said she never do for males),
as she applied lotion containing amonia it was
giving burning sensation on my face i told her
to remove immediately also i was in hurry but
later when she applied Multani Mitti wow !!
what a cooling sensation!
8/10/2006 9:25 AM delete
I remember and distinctly remember the
smell of Halo Shampoo - it was treat to wash
your hair with a shampoo! We were only
allowed Shikakai - and I am glad for that!
Poonam
(manage) Speaking of Multani Mitti - I remember getting
some special mud from gujarat that we would
apply in the hair - it was amazing...better
than any shampoo I have used!
8/10/2006 12:16 PM delete
speaking of beauty products...does anyone
remember Cuticura talc? If I am not wrong (in
many cases I am) it used to come in a
maroon coloured dabba (using this for the
Ramalingam
lack of a better word). Do you still get it??
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8/11/2006 12:40 AM delete
Yep...cuticura is still around.
Irshad
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8/11/2006 12:45 AM delete
Cuticura was in a rust-orange tin.... All talcs
came in long tins.... I remeber Cinthol (?)
advertizing thier new powder ka platic bottle
which looked so cool.... And is now the norm.
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Most of the food and FMCG items were in tin
containers and Metal box was the sole
● view profile manufacturer in those days and leading the
market suppying tins to say DALDA , PONDS ,
● view forum •••••• •• POSTMAN OIL etc ,there was tin cutter in
(manage) differeent forms to cut open the seal of thin
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shinning tin (we used to call 'patra'), cutting
●
those seal was an art some times if it slips u

had it u will cut u r skin of palm or hand .
the used tins had many applications , there

used to be 'dabba batili wala/wali' to collect
used /Empty tins and bottles ,
has anybody played dabba aise paise (we

used to pronounce as dabba express)that tin
used to place at the center of open ground
and hide and seek , and the kicking that
dabba far away , some time at the middle of
the game in case of controversies we used to
press that tin /dabba make it 'chuntneyy' or
'chepta' and sop the game!!
8/11/2006 1:02 AM delete
dabba aise paise
Hibernating Wasnt it dabba ice pice?

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8/11/2006 1:52 AM delete
we used to call it dabba ice pice as well...
spent hours playing it.. really good time pass
in those days
Ankit Motani
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8/11/2006 2:09 AM delete

@ Engineer's
Sabka Dabba ICE SPICE.... yaa its your den
(turn) again.....
Fido we too have played it for long hours........

(manage) had loads a fun. we also remember playing
gold-spot (after that famous drink then????)
we used to stand in a circle, and whosever
turn it was used to jump towards one of the
others... if that guy didn't jump backwards
away in time then he was out. and the denner
(the guy who's turn it was) used to continue
with the next guy.... so on till every one was
out.... however if in case the other guy
managed to jump out of the way... then he
used to get the initiative to try and jump
other players' out.
Tejas
8/11/2006 3:09 AM delete
Well everybody has played this game... but
wht is the meaning of Dabba ais spice?... i
guess it is a distorted version of "Dabba is
pressed"!... wht say?!
Amit
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8/11/2006 3:17 AM delete
speaking of shampoos, i remeber using this
soap called 'Morning Glory' I guess the ad
Vadapav at had Dimple Kapadia in it. Her hair was so
last! lovely. how i used to wish!!!
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8/11/2006 3:46 AM delete
Archana, I think it was 'Crowning Glory' !
Bhagyashri
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8/11/2006 4:57 AM delete

We had a kid in my class whose surname was
Kripalani - he had polio and wore those
calipers on his legs. Unfortunate name but he
wasn't teased about it. He was carried
Ash everywhere by a servant who had to sit
(manage) outside the school and came in at certain
times when we changed the class.
1973? That's when I finished my BCom at

Sydenham and left "Urbs Prima in Indis" for
NZ.
Years I can remember:
1957 - Taking the train from VT to go to

Lucknow with my mother. The door was
locked from the outside with a special allen
key - no idea how one got out.
1961 - Seeing off my uncle when he went

phoren on the P&O Orion. Hindi-Chini bhai
bhai slogan.
1962 - The China war. Aye mere vatanke

logon, taiyaar thai jajo, jinku kinva maru etc.
1963 - Phoren-returned uncle brought back a

tape recorder and tapes of some group called
The Beatles. Just one kid at my school had
heard of them.
1964 - Nehru died. Many relatives cried.

Ashes taken by train all over India.
1965 - Pak war, Ayub Khan, blackouts in

Bombay.
1966 - Lal Bahadur "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan"

Shastri died in Tashkent.
1969 - Where was I when man landed on the

moon? In my SSC year at Xavier's Academy,
class XIth 1 (didn't have A & B in my school)
- pre "10+2+3".
1971 - Pak war. Blackouts. Did the civil

defence Air Raid Warden course at Dhobi
Talao and the damn war ended before I
finished!
1973 - Santa Cruz aerodrome, Air India

B747, goodbye.
1978 - Visit. WTF happened to Churchgate

station? One or two platforms added by
simply enlarging the building onto Queens Rd
(er, Maharshi Karve Marg - the renaming rot
had set in) A nice rectangular building now
had a crazy angle to it. What was this
horrible drink called Campa Cola?
1981 - Visit. Damn, I had forgotten about

mosquitos and bed bugs. Wanna go home...
1983 - Quick visit. Nothing changed.
2003 - Visit. Boy, everything looks smaller.

8/11/2006 5:02 AM delete
Ice pice
We also called it that, but it was a corruption
of I Spy, just like eena meena myna mo. At
school we used the correct Eenie meenie
Ash minie mo, catch a nigger by his toe, etc -- all
(manage) pre-PC days.
8/11/2006 5:18 AM delete
Wow! That was a really brilliant one Ash, I
had absolutely NO idea that cobbler was
Irshad actually nigger once upon a time!
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PC is sort of getting a little over the top.
When we sang "Oranges and lemons sold for
a penny..." etc the last line was "remember
me till I'm dead dead dead". My friends
nephew sang it as "remember me till I'm sad
sad sad". And he insisted that that's the way
it was taught in school! (I have a feeling I've
mentioned this somewhere earlier on this
thread)
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Cuticura and soaps
http://www.cuticura.com/
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Didn't use it but remember it well.
● view forum Ash
(manage) We used the only red Shikakai soap sold by
● view events whoever was the original maker - I think it was
Swastik.
There was also this abrasive, fragrant powder

or sawdust that you rubbed into your hair
before washing it off. Can't remember the
name. Definitely not a mitti.
However, our daily staple soap was Lux.
For washing washcloths and rough clothing, we

used Lifebuoy or 501 soap. For years, the
Iranian institution near Charni Rd station had a
501 Soap neon light at the top. http://www.
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Hair care
Men went to "hair cutting saloons". The better
ones, e.g. next to Satkar at Churchgate or
Lamington Rd had this rotary drum brush that
Ash got the loose hairs out fairly well. Cheap thrill.
(manage) Near my lane in Thakurdwar a hair cut cost
75p and at Churchgate you were fleeced
(shorn?) for Rs 1.25.
(It is funny that many Indians still put a slash

after the Rupee - a hangover from the Rs/
Annas/Pies days)
You had to pour oil on your head, or else all

kinds of problems would occur. Perfumed

coconut oil was the best and apparently did

wonders to one's brain and havoc on the
pillows and car seats. A Marwari kid in my
class was teased because drops of oil usually
dripped off his hair.
A well advertised oil was Jabakusum Taila. I

wondered how it differed from a "tel".
At college, we were oh-so sophisticated and

wouldn't be seen dead with oil in the hair, but
used Brylcreem. My dad still used "pomade" -
a sticky green substance with a sickly sweet
smell.
Hair dyes were primitive and turned pillows

black.
8/11/2006 7:17 AM delete
Biscuits
We were brought up on Parle Gluco and
Monaco biscuits. Gluco was "Gulko" when
ordering in Marathi and Monaco was
Ash "Monneko". Gluco was the magic solution to fix
(manage) a crying brat.
Less common were the Bourbon biscuits,

pronounced "Boor bon" but were delicious.
My mum liked Nice (pronounced like the word,

not the place) and Marie biscuits.
Babies were fed Milk Arrowroot biscuits

("arraroot" in Marathi).
There was this super-dry sweet toast with

sultanas in it but it was sold as a biscuit.
Wasn't branded but every "dry fruit store"
seemed to have it.
8/11/2006 8:38 AM delete
Ash, you remind of my grandpa!
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8/11/2006 9:11 AM delete

Ash that was awesome!
I miss bourbon biscuits - they were yummy!
Poonam
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8/11/2006 9:52 AM delete
Rubber cricket ball used to cost around Rs. 3-
3.50.
Himanshu
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8/11/2006 10:17 AM delete
Ash - I remember that toast with Sultanas... it
used to be heavenly with tea/coffee ... My
Milind grandma always bought it from one particular
(manage) place near the Dadar kabutarkhana, claiming it
to be *fresher* than anywhere else...
8/11/2006 10:21 AM delete
Merwan's cakes - heavenly!
Poonam
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8/11/2006 10:22 AM delete
Merwan's is still around and as heavenly. I love
the Parsi Dairy caramel custard too.
Bhavik
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8/11/2006 10:27 AM delete
anybody remember animal birds biscuits its
called chimni marrie biscuit with animal pics ,
we used to get from masjid bunder! and
distribute animals while eating and try to say
•••••• •• now i m eating lion , tiger , now cutting head ,
(manage) tail etc!!while eating
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Those animal biscuits were kinda bland like
regular Marie, but would love them for the
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● view forum Bhavik

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8/11/2006 10:51 AM delete
The balance between this world and its alter
dimension is next by opposite facts
such as laughs - cries

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Coddie I remember thread started by Sojwal Salil
increased the about of happiness for such a
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long time that the balance was obstructed
The alter world hence sent an equalizer to

revert the balance back.
He approaches coldly amongst.
He is coming... He approaches.... he is known

as....
8/11/2006 11:13 AM delete
I also remember a bald kid called Henry, that
strip used to appear a long time ago...
Milind
(manage) Just ran into that bald kid today here[http://
img479.imageshack.us/my.php?
image=THV0027.jpg]... so thought I would
reintroduce him to old friends and to those
who didn't know him

8/11/2006 11:26 AM delete

Thanks, Milind...this was the Henry all right,
but I'd thought he had a mouth too.
Hasn't Hagar the horrible always been there,

Bhavik ever since the 80s, as has Nancy?
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8/12/2006 3:27 AM delete
BIZZARO SALIL!!!
HAAA HA AHA AHA HA HA HA HA!!!
I WILL DO FRANDSHIP WID ALL AF YA

Bizzaro Salil LOLZ... I M GONNA CHANGZ BALANCE
(manage) LOLZ...
8/12/2006 3:30 AM delete
Biccharo Salil!
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8/12/2006 3:36 AM delete
*Starts singing that bichhoaa song*
Ready
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8/12/2006 4:02 AM delete
BTW Merwan's cake still are heavenly but
damn expensive too.
Neeraj
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8/12/2006 4:44 AM delete
the 1 rupee freshner .. called the pepsi cola.
in a small pack
Kaotic used to have it every day after school
(manage) doodh ki pepsi, orange flavoured .. jumbo
pepsi was the new addition

8/12/2006 6:03 AM delete

""BIZZARO SALIL""
I think it should be 'Busy Raho Salil'
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Hey... Dosent anyone remember "Ek Titali...
Anek Titalia"... that song on DD and the silly
● view profile cartoons mark my childhood.... i still have an
mpeg of it and it always brings a smile to my
● view forum Kavita face no matter wat....
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8/12/2006 6:47 AM delete
does antbody knows
ek ek titali yahaan post kar ke kar key anek
titaliaan post hogaye hai is thread main!!jara
peeche mud ke dekho!
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8/13/2006 8:53 AM delete
one black coffee please
The first ad I remember of a cell phone I saw
on TV was the ericsson ad...where this lady
appears talking to someone with her hand to
Ramalingam
her ear shielded by her hair...one gentleman
(manage) mistaking that the lady was talking to him...
approaches the lady...and the lady tells
him..."one black coffee. Please"
i was told that this ad won some award or

something. Is it true?
8/13/2006 9:35 AM delete
i remember travelling by train and bus
without worrying about terrorist attacks
:(
Mellow
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http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=972&tid=10...na=3&nst=3901&nid=972-1026648-2481122250210552120 (1 of 3)10/25/2006 12:00:10 PM

8/14/2006 2:53 AM delete

Ohh yea.. I remember that Ad vivdly. One of
the best ads to ever come out on TV!
Hibernating
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8/14/2006 10:40 AM delete
Tickled Pink, keep on travelling without
worrying about random terrorist attacks.
Mumbaikars have enough problems to worry
about than to waste time living in fear.
Just Read
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8/15/2006 1:14 AM delete
I remember -
few days before 15th august when we were in
School in NCC we used to practice marchpast
and gaurd of honour ,some practice
•••••• •• malkhamb , fire jump , etc
(manage) on the day we used to have starched and
ironed NCC uniform,blanco and brasso shining
belt& cap and shining shoe , when we were
doing marchpast and giving gaurd of honour
to chief guest .. 'dahineey dekh , ek dou ek ek
dou ek ...saamney dekh ek dou ek ek dou ek...
we used to feel proud and after all the events
and speaches we used to shout 'we want
holiday ..we want holiday1! and our principal
used to anounce at the end!! tomorrow
holiday!! and we used to shout oooooo hooo
ooooooo hihip hurray!!
8/15/2006 2:47 PM delete
hey Kavita ..how can i get this mpeg
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8/16/2006 4:41 AM delete

Oranges and Lemons
I vaguely remember the "sold for a penny"
version but not the rest of the words as
stated. Can't find many instances of it on the
Ash web either.
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The similar one I do remember was the BBC
signature tune that we used to hear on the
shortwave radio. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/
h2g2/alabaster/A696125 and http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons.
8/16/2006 4:43 AM delete
Kindly use other threads to pee in. This thread
is the ONE good reason this community
Vikram attracts so many people.
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Oranges and Lemon
Sold for a penny
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8/16/2006 9:57 AM delete
and the rose is red
remember me till u're dead dead dead dead
dead
Mellow lol atleast that is what we sang

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and there was..gol gol raani..etla etla paani
and ye re ye re pausa..tula deto paisa.

8/16/2006 9:59 AM delete
and that advt..
watch...its happening..
watch ...its happening
Mellow
(manage) its HMT. wherever its happening - 2 ..its HMT
lol
and which watch's advt said..if u have the

inclination..we have the time?

8/16/2006 10:11 AM delete

wow i remember that gol gol rani itka itka
paani and out!!
also dongrala aag lagli palare palaa !!, talyat -

•••••• •• malyat , upingo -baithingo ,
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anybody remember team game where one
team will bend one behind other leaning wall
and other team will jump and sit over them to
accomodate all and then say 'jambul ke jhad
pey kitney andey hai' with some fingers hide
at back and that team has to say correct
figure and one umpire checks !
8/16/2006 10:38 AM delete
I remember...the hot and mucky days of May
when I stood in line patiently awaiting the
12:30p.m. bus to arrive. I remember... being
pollyannaish
disgusted, as I inhaled the much needed
(manage) oxygen combined with the smell of open trash
and human odor. I remember....keenly
observing, as people feverishly complained
about the unforgiving weather and the 'BEST'
frequency.I remember...being embarrassed
and amused, as others squabbled with each
other in the local dialect over their place in
the line.I remember...cringing, as I heard
cheesy Hindi songs mixed with jhankar beats
blasted over a set of cheap speakers from a
close-by rickshaw. I remember...being
heartbroken, as I observed a frail body of a
young girl in tattered clothes limp her way
across people, begging for alms. I remember...
being further saddened, by the people who
completely ignored her presence. I
remember...breaking into a laugh, at the man
who sat in the confines of his comfortable and
luxurious a/c car, safely protected from the
summer heat, aghast at the nonchalant cow
that had managed to stray onto the roads. I
remember...smiling, as I observed a boy who
checked his watch way too often. I
remember...his face as it gleamed with joy,
while a girl hurried her way towards him
through the crowd. I remember.. being
amazed, at the working woman who stood in
line skillfully knitting a sweater for someone
she cared, amid all the chaos. I remember...

when the bus finally arrived at 1:15p.m.

(sooner than expected)...people heaved a
sigh of relief, squabblers still bickered and
pushed, the limping young girl had made her
way to the end of the street where she
happily joined others alike her, the young
couple had transcended to another world, the
man in the car had finally managed to drive
around the stubborn cow that continued to
stick its ground, the knitting woman had
safely tucked away her half woven sweater
only to start weaving again in the bus.
I remember...looking out the window,

savoring every moment as it miraculously
began raining on a hot summers day.
8/16/2006 10:56 AM delete
Nice post Savi!
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8/16/2006 2:14 PM delete
The first rain....I remember every year all the
kids from the compound (yes thats what we
used to call it) would go to play in the rain
and kichad....and someone came up with the
Poonam game to fill your shoes with water and throw
(manage) it on someone's head....by the time you got
home you were soaked head to toe in kichad
water - best time of my life!
Also - a variety of games come to my head

lagori, stairs, wolf-wolf, sakli, chor-police and
one we used to called chippi (hopscotch) till 8
in the evening...although once I remember
coming home at 10 and getting the third
degree from my parents LOL!
8/16/2006 7:18 PM delete
I have actually made paper boats and played
in the "puddle streams" with them during the
rains.
RoDz We also used to make a kinda boat with a

(manage) wood base and a rubber band tied around two
sticks at the sides. Asmaller stick would be
wound on the rubber band and then put in the
water to get a propeller effect, pushing the
boat on

8/16/2006 8:48 PM delete

RoDz, I had almost forgotten one of the
intresting childhoood memories of making
Hibernating boats n laying with it in the puddle. Thanks!
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8/16/2006 8:51 PM delete
aaah...
dat remndz moi oph d crabz v kidz uzed 2
Its the catch durn d rainy season.. aftr d rains
End...
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dem to a rope doze wer d dyz...
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Bombay
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● view profile u r welcome dude
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8/17/2006 2:26 AM delete
I've been humming "Zaraa si saavdhani,
zindagi bhar aasani" all day.
Vikram
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8/17/2006 7:08 AM delete
Vikram that zaraa si saavdhaani reminds me
of that guy who'd explain to his buddies he
was still as much a man as before in spite of
the nasbandi operation, with a blushing wife
Bhavik in the background to vouch for that..
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8/17/2006 12:42 PM delete
take one 'double decker' compass box. (if you
don't know what that is, i really am too old to
post here now.)
Salil put a rubber band across it, width-wise,

(manage) preferebly one of those strip type bands, not
the string type ones.
insert 2 half-length pencils on either side,

wind up equally. place on desk.
watch it go hopping across, sometimes

flinging the pencils across the class.
that's how to kill a 'free class'.

8/18/2006 2:11 AM delete

Flinging pencils? That's how to kill half the
class. ;)
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8/18/2006 3:57 AM delete
How boput filling up a steel or metal compass
box with pens and pencils(completely) and
-Anirudh then dropping it from a height
(manage) the sound that follows, is that simlira to that
of a glass breaking!(aka Stone Cold Steve
Austin's Entry Theme of WWE Fame)
8/18/2006 4:03 AM delete
hmmm rmndz moi oph d 'TRUMP' gme
rmembr 'CLAZH'
Its the
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8/18/2006 8:12 AM delete
i remember when my old workplace had
orkut...
AlphaVictor
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8/18/2006 8:15 AM delete
hhahah . .!
niceee
im probably at one of the few places where

Nishank orkut is not banned yet ..
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8/18/2006 10:26 AM delete

Making rubber out of the pencil wood that
comes out from the sharpner. There was a
Advait theory like this.
(manage) Placing a rupee coin on a railway track and
hoping it would get magnestised after the
train passed over it.
HUGE 2 and 5 rupee coins.
Yellow coloured school bags which went on
and on for years.
Everchanging PT (Physical Training) teachers
at school.
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Bombay
(18,321 members) You guys really needed to switch attention to
girls in school
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Coddie
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8/19/2006 4:10 AM delete
Bending over game
anybody remember team game where one
team will bend one behind other leaning wall
and other team will jump and sit over them
Ash to accomodate all and then say 'jambul ke
(manage) jhad pey kitney andey hai' with some fingers
hide at back and that team has to say correct
figure and one umpire checks !
I think we covered this game (but where's

that PDF of the thread so far? - Orkut
limitation). I think we simply asked "kiti kiti?"
instead of that long Hindi thing and that was
probably the name of the game as well.
Anyone else recall?
8/19/2006 5:05 AM delete
Ash, I happen to have done my graduation
from a sad place so to kill time have played
Hibernating "kiti kiti" some 2 years back! But it was
(manage) longer to kill time.. its was pure sheer fun
playing it in the night on the hostel's terrace!

8/19/2006 6:54 AM delete

PDF of this thread
I skimmed through the first 1500 or so
messages looking for the compilation, but it
has been deleted by the free service for lack
Ash of downloads.
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If someone wants to recompile the messages
to date (preferably just the pure
reminiscences), I have plenty of space to
host it on my server.
I found the earlier mention of the bending

over game, yes it was Kiti Kiti.
8/19/2006 7:22 AM delete
Cheap petrol
Around post 501:
Salil > insane punjabi cabbie who had been
driving since 1959. irshad din belive it wen i
Ash sed 3 rupee cab rides, this chappie tells me
(manage) about the time wen petrol was 50p a litre and
and cab rides were 4 annas.
Thanks for confirming my recollection that

petrol was about 75p a litre in the early 60s.
My dad had a 1953 Morris Minor that cost

him Rs 9000 brand new. He bought it from
the Hindustan Motors showroom near Kemp's
Corner (not Sah and Sanghi which was
further down the same road close to Opera
House).
The strangest memory about that car (black

was a common colour then) is that the seats
had a vinyl covering that ripped and one day
he had it taken out completely, revealing red
leather seat covering underneath! It was
definitely not an add-on vinyl covering but an
factory-supplied annoying hard surface with
raised ridges that bit into my exposed skin
during the half-pant years. (The expression
"half pants" seems to be unique to India).
The leather seating was so comfortable that
the vinyl outer skin made no sense.
We usually bought petrol from the ex-

Servicemen's Caltex station next to
Sachivalaya near the Oval (same building
now known as Mantralaya). Two or three men

would come out to attend to each car. One

would wipe the whole car with a cloth.
Another would check the oil and water and a
third would tend the pump. IIRC, money
didn't change hands but there was a book of
tear-off slips like a bank deposit book. So I
imagine my dad got a bill in the post. The
workers there were all ex-Servicemen.
Old taxis - yes I remember the pre Fiat/

Ambassador ones. The most common were
the Tiger Hindustans (same shape as Morris
Minor but single glass windscreen like the
Minor 1000 of the day, which were never
imported into India by the late 50s. These
taxis were still around in the late 60s and
there was a high proportion of Sardarji
drivers.
continued...
8/19/2006 8:02 AM delete
Old taxis
There were also "Big Taxis" (or "Large Taxis")
- can't remember the exact term. The larger
version of the Tiger Hindustan was based on
Ash the Morris Oxford around 1950 (first pic in
(manage) the URL below), except that the Indian
version was made until replaced by the
Landmaster around 1959.
http://www.philseed.com/mo-oxford.html
Another common taxi was the Hillman Minx:

http://www.philseed.com/hmminxp5.html
But there were also the truly large taxis -

they were usually 1940s Yank tanks like the
4-door version of this picture: http://www.
philseed.com/fordus-46.html - you paid more
to use the big taxis but you could fit 7 or
more people in them.
In the outer suburbs, e.g. Bassein (Vasai)

and Thana, they had motorcycle taxis
powered by red coloured Indian motorcycles.
The closest picture I can find is http://www.
carnut.com/cgi-bin/03/image.pl?/photo/
contrib/nash/pic003.jpg which were repaired
near my home near Charni Rd.

8/19/2006 8:18 AM delete

Ash : u r right the game was called was kitti
kitti!
•••••• •• about the car the first one I remember I have

(manage) seen that big car
i dont no why that ambassador taxi was

called 'Small Taxi' during Fiat taxi days!
8/21/2006 1:19 AM delete
Speaking of schools, anyone played choc
fights?
It was stupid and pointless but really fun.

Ready
Coddie Also Pen fights...
(manage) where the first one to knock the other's pen
off the table by hitting his pen wins.
Those with the rubber grips were better and

the very expensive Add Daimond Roller which
had this very sturdy grip was like a sports-
pen.
8/21/2006 1:49 AM delete
With chcocolates...
make love, not war ;)
You're probably talking of chalk fights....

StrongGel Damn I miss those!
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8/21/2006 2:06 AM delete
aaah capt!!!
add d paper ballz 2 n d bnch scrachrzz
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(18,321 members) YEAH!!!
● view profile We used to write our names on the benches

with the scissors and that geometrical
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Coddie
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8/21/2006 2:52 AM delete
aaah capt!!!
dnt phrgt d lub shtrzz scratchd all ovr d
Its the wallz
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8/21/2006 8:53 AM delete
gangar opticians..
And how can we forget the "Gangar Opticians"
advt, we saw at almost all the cinema
theaters...aap dekhe duniya ko...aur duniya
Pranab dekhe aapko...yahi toh hai kamal gangar kay
(manage) chashmo ka...
Wonder if the new Metro Ad Labs will play this
all time favourite ??
8/21/2006 4:21 PM delete
I remember eating out at Rivers Dale and
Bhupesh Heavens Dale at Vashi Railway Stn, and there
were these street kids who used to beg for
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cold drinks, once one of my friends was
sipping coke from her cup of coke and one of
the beggers took a sip from her cup. And
unwillingly she had to give her cup to that
child. Then onwards she alwz stayed away
from those beggers esp. when she was drinkin
coke at Vashi stn.

8/22/2006 7:45 AM delete

Kiti, Kiti used to be a regular feature outside
the Mithibai/NM canteen..got a lot physical
Advait eventually and someone broke a hand or leg.
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We inscribed our names on the desks in
school using a Compass and then rubbed
chalk all over it. Gave our names a nice finish.
Car memories do not go as far as the morris

but we had a Fiat and one of the guys in our
building had a 'dukkar'fiat, a black one. Which
reminds me , some years back the
'Dukkar'Fiat had become a rage especially the
black ones.
8/22/2006 9:35 AM delete
all the indian VVIP's and forign deligates
including president John F.Kennedy, quien
VaIsHnAvI elizabeth, pop poll, Pandit Neharu, lal
K... bahaddur shastri, Rajendra Prasad and even
(manage) Indira Gandhi... travelled in the open car from
airport to town through shivsena bhavan,
waving toward public and giving pleasent
smile.
8/22/2006 9:48 AM delete
shivaji park chowtaty had wild space and
clean sand available for killah making...
VaIsHnAvI milk centre at every corner for the
K... disttribution of tonne and whole milk and
(manage) early morning que's with y'day's Mpty bolttle
to exchange with new.
sosiyo and wimto for 25 paisa, sterlised milk
for 15 paisa...
dadar TT was actual dadar tram turminus...
8/22/2006 9:53 AM delete
and yess, amin sayani's hit number binaka
geet mala every wed. 8-9PM..
VaIsHnAvI
K...
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8/22/2006 10:04 AM delete

Nice memories, If you get old images, more
write up's we can make nice website of our
memories of Bombay.
Just Ashu
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8/22/2006 10:47 PM delete
ya that is really cool
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(18,321 members) @Vaishnavi
You have memories of Kennedy and Nehru
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Also, Nehru, Kennedy and Rajendra Prasad

Milind could never have driven past Shiv Sena
(manage) bhavan, since Shiv Sena bhavan was built in
1972, way after all the venerable gentlemen
had passed away! (The S.S. itself was
founded in 1966, after the deaths of all three
statesmen)
8/22/2006 11:37 PM delete
the 'i fantasise' thread must be elsewhere..
hehehe.. "pop poll"... you do mean Pot Pol,

don't you?
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8/23/2006 1:15 AM delete
I think its Pope John Paul
I have confirmed with Kennedy on

telephone , ya he was in mumbai
•••••• •• and he said came for inaguration of bridge ,
(manage) kennedy bridge named after him!!! - how is
this !!

8/23/2006 1:29 AM delete

I remember drinking Gold Spot, Mangola,
Super Cooler Citra with his three color dots
and specially imported Coke from US. This
days I find the Citra ad painted somewhere
Just Ashu on walls of deserted streets. Gold Spot bottle
(manage) vanished from the roof of his factory at Vile
Parle. That was my favourite drink.
8/23/2006 1:37 AM delete
John F Kennedy?
He came here...
Ready Yeah, I remember seeing him on some

Coddie parade.
(manage) He was waving to everyone and smiling.
There was this guard near me with a gun, I

then thought it was an airgun so I took the
gun and thought I would shoot the small
yellow dots on Kennedy.
But the bullets were real...
*sigh*
8/23/2006 1:37 AM delete
*Handcuffs Coddie*
Smiling inward-
Good riddance to..
Num
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8/23/2006 2:22 AM delete
Catcher in the Rye?
Hibernating
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8/23/2006 2:42 AM delete
Once again, the reptile saves the day!
We can group hug in peace now.
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8/23/2006 3:21 AM delete

the thing my dad told
VaIsHnAvI
K...
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8/23/2006 3:22 AM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) pop paul
● view profile VaIsHnAvI

K...
Pop Paul?!
As in Pope John Paul? Your father's the pope?
StrongGel
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8/23/2006 5:34 AM delete
He's EVERYONE's Father.
*shushes up Riju*
Num
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8/23/2006 5:37 AM delete
You mean Father of the Nation?
Hibernating
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8/23/2006 5:38 AM delete
No as in The Father,Son and the Holy Ghost.
*sings on to herself...*
Num
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8/23/2006 5:42 AM delete

Drana Zaroori hai part 3
Hibernating
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8/23/2006 5:46 AM delete
whats going on in this thread!! who's father
what goes
Translated from marathi 'konacha bapacha
kay jatey'
•••••• ••
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8/23/2006 7:36 AM delete
@Salil
That would be Pol Pot, not Pot Pol
Milind
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8/23/2006 9:30 AM delete
Vaishnavi: 'the thing my dad told'
so now we can have another thread for i

remember - the thing my dad told
•••••• ••
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8/23/2006 9:35 AM delete
Pol Pot
Hehe Milind I was wondering the whole day
about the same.Thought there might have
Num been a hidden joke(I still don't know)-
(manage) Too prone to FootInMouth disease to take
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Bombay
(18,321 members) @Pravin Da
A better name would be "Papa kehte hai..."
● view profile Milind
(manage) @Karma - yeah, Footinthemouthitis is a very
● view forum common ailment, happens to everyone... don't
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8/23/2006 10:09 AM delete
@ milind.............try podo-stomatitis!!!!
Janhavi
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8/23/2006 11:31 AM delete
I'd rather not, thank you
Milind
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8/23/2006 11:27 PM delete
Bhailog,
Vikram Please save your chats for ALL the other

(manage) threads..let's save this one as the "one" thread
where we stick to topic?
8/24/2006 10:34 AM delete
I remember
during Ganesh festival days in late 70s first

time when musical lights came in decoration of
•••••• •• pendal we used to go to many places to watch
(manage) the music and light, one famous was near
Matunga station during Varda bhai's days , the
road was so crowded and big queue to watch

8/24/2006 11:08 AM delete

What is the future of Bombay?
Just Ashu
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8/24/2006 11:33 AM delete
@Pravin Da
I remember that Ganapati, I used to go visit
Milind that one every year too... then one year there
(manage) was a fire in the Pandal and the entire pandal
burnt down... but it was rebuilt overnight and
everything was back, just as it was before the
fire!!!
The clout some people have!!!
These days the Ganapati to see is the

Tilaknagar one.. ironically, by yet another bhai
8/24/2006 5:36 PM delete
Milind i remember that too and when we got
that news we were watching movie on road
side in our area late night ,we went to see that
next day !
•••••• ••
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8/24/2006 7:21 PM delete
I remember those moving mannequins that
portrayed mythological and historical stories
against Ganesha in the background... they still
exist, but I remember as a kid visiting pandals
Bhavik to just watch the moving idols depicting a
(manage) particular scene. Mahabharata and Ramayan
stories were popular, but I've witnessed
historic scenes too...
I don't know if this is a one-off thing that I

seem to have encountered.... but while vada-
pav stalls have been ubiqitous and popular
since my childhood (I'm 25), as were those
sandwhich-wallahs with their amazing teekha
green chutney, but daabeliwallahs seemed to
be a more recent addition. I remember kulfi-
wallahs in my childhood, they would sell really
heavy and filling kulfi ... does it have ghee, or
is it just milky-heavy?

Chinese stalls were rarer too and stuff like

"Chinese bhel" was a more recent novelty. Do
people still have bhelwallahs who come over
daily in their neighbourhoods? We had one in
our old neighbourhood, and we also had a sing-
chana-mamraa-wallah who would stop by daily
in my old neighbourhood. (Mamraa is puffed
rice, that's the Gujarati word)
8/25/2006 1:38 AM delete
Speaking of Ganpati, I remember the day
Ganpati drank milk! What a furore it had
Bhagyashri caused, something very similar to what
(manage) happened when the water in the sea turned
sweet recently. Everyone thronging the
temples just to see the miracle. But we were
smarter and thought if he can drink milk in a
temple why not at home and we had actaully
tried it at home & it really worked. Ofcourse
there was a perfectly logical explanation for the
happenings later on, something to do with the
rise/fall of the atmopsheric/hygroscopic
pressure etc. So it wasnt just milk but any fluid
for that matter.
@ Bhavik: I dont know about the bhelwallas

but the murmura wallas still exist, infact there
is this lady who frequents our locality in
Ghatkopar & we happen to be regular
customers
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Bombay
(18,321 members) I remember in science class learning that
there are nine planets. with pluto gone, all
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I had learnt about "My Very Educated Mother
Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" and "My Very
Milind Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine
(manage) Planets"... I wonder what very educated
mothers will show and serve now
8/25/2006 7:32 AM delete
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us
Neptune
Narcotics
Nishank
(manage) My Very Educated Mother Just Shoved Us
Nariyal-Paani
8/26/2006 6:17 AM delete
"My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us
Nine Planets"...
That's what i was trying to remember, and

Aditi couldn't!! thanks.
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Nothing?

8/26/2006 7:36 AM delete

Yes, dabelis are a recent innovation outside
the place where they were presumably made
for centuries. Had one for the first time in
Melbourne recently.
Ash
(manage) What's a murmura? Same as kurmura?
8/26/2006 8:01 AM delete
Yep, Ash!
Hibernating Dabeli's is a Kachi dish!

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* Busybee's column
* Second-hand books on the footpath at Flora
Fountain
* Jhunka bhakar opposite VT station
Raju * Madhu Sapre on the ramp
(manage) * Aarey masala milk
* Tabelas and their bhaiya owners along the
main road from Khar to Dahisar
* Mario Miranda's sketches
* Shreeram Lagoo on stage
8/27/2006 9:30 PM delete
i remember, Mario Miranda's sketches in my
1st Std textbook English (was it him?). Abt a
Vadapav at story 'The Quazi's dilemma', i guess in the
last! 4th std English BalBharathi textbook, though
(manage) i dont remember wht the story was all abt.
Its just that, it was the first time i looked into
the dictionary, for 'dilemma'.
8/28/2006 12:26 AM delete
There is a restaurant opposite Flora Fountain
which has Mario Miranda's sketches on the
walls...It's a pity he has now retired to Goa...
Raju
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8/28/2006 7:17 AM delete

Campa Cola, had anyone taste the
softdrink????????? when did the factory was
shut down???????????
Just Ashu
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(18,321 members) I remember in science class learning that
there are nine planets. with pluto gone, all
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I had learnt about "My Very Educated Mother
Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" and "My Very
Milind Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine
(manage) Planets"... I wonder what very educated
mothers will show and serve now
8/25/2006 7:32 AM delete
Neptune
Narcotics
Nishank
(manage) My Very Educated Mother Just Shoved Us
Nariyal-Paani
8/26/2006 6:17 AM delete
"My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us
Nine Planets"...

Aditi couldn't!! thanks.
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Nothing?

8/26/2006 7:36 AM delete

Yes, dabelis are a recent innovation outside
the place where they were presumably made
for centuries. Had one for the first time in
Melbourne recently.
Ash
(manage) What's a murmura? Same as kurmura?
8/26/2006 8:01 AM delete
Yep, Ash!
Hibernating Dabeli's is a Kachi dish!

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8/26/2006 8:29 AM delete
* Busybee's column
* Second-hand books on the footpath at Flora
Fountain
* Jhunka bhakar opposite VT station
Raju * Madhu Sapre on the ramp
(manage) * Aarey masala milk
* Tabelas and their bhaiya owners along the
main road from Khar to Dahisar
* Mario Miranda's sketches
* Shreeram Lagoo on stage
8/27/2006 9:30 PM delete
i remember, Mario Miranda's sketches in my
1st Std textbook English (was it him?). Abt a
Vadapav at story 'The Quazi's dilemma', i guess in the
last! 4th std English BalBharathi textbook, though
(manage) i dont remember wht the story was all abt.
Its just that, it was the first time i looked into
the dictionary, for 'dilemma'.
8/28/2006 12:26 AM delete
There is a restaurant opposite Flora Fountain
which has Mario Miranda's sketches on the
walls...It's a pity he has now retired to Goa...
Raju
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8/28/2006 7:17 AM delete

Campa Cola, had anyone taste the
softdrink????????? when did the factory was
shut down???????????
Just Ashu
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Bombay
(18,321 members) this is pretty recent...
● view profile i remember...the FM channel GO-92.5...they

used to play a good mix of hindi and english
● view forum Ramalingam songs...pity they changed to playing only
(manage) hindi now...
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8/28/2006 9:01 AM delete
Dont know when they shut down the factory
but i remember other cold drinks like Gold
Spot, Citra and Team
Ankit Motani
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8/28/2006 9:50 AM delete
Coming to think of it, many if not all
illustrations in Balbharti textbooks from stds
I to IV looked like Mario Miranda's work.
Archana, is that a Naseeruddin Hodja tale
Bhavik you're talking about in std IV ?
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8/28/2006 4:51 PM delete
@Aditi
Milind couldn't!! thanks.
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...rather ironic, don't you think? especially
since the sentence was a device to help you
*remember* something else ?

8/28/2006 8:19 PM delete

I remember...
...that series of ads for Maggi hot n sweet
tomato chili sauce - done by Pankaj Kapur
and Javed Jaffrey - "Its Different" !!
RoDz
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8/29/2006 2:42 AM delete
@Bhavik
I do not remember it at all.
Vadapav at Though I kind of remembered some other
last! stories like 'All for the best' and a Keats
(manage) poem on a dove and the story abt the pond
and the bandicoots.
Looks like I dont make sense to myself ....
have I grown old??? :-(
8/29/2006 9:02 AM delete
I remember All for the Best, the story about
the Bandicoots... also remember one called
Milind "Soma Datta and the dead mouse"
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8/29/2006 9:03 AM delete
Also, the Keats poem about a Dove... I think
it went... I had a dove, and the sweet dove
Milind died...
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Standard 6th Balbharti maybe ?
8/29/2006 9:50 AM delete
Milind and Arhcana, I remember All for the
best, I think it was std III... Is that
Somdatta story the one where the poor but
brilliant boy becomes rich by starting off with
Bhavik the sale of a dead mouse?
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There was some story about 10 foolish boys
who can't count themselves, they always
count one less. And there was a bit about
Tenali Raman sometime...
I remember the Balbharti front page logo, a

boy on the left side sharing a Balbharti with
a slightly taller girl to his right, both looking
uncannily similar, and with large smiles. I
think they were enclosed within a triangle...
(or am I confusing with the family planning
triangle ?)

I was the first batch of the revised syllabus

in stds IX and X, these days they believe
more in "communication", so the old style
tales and prose and poems in English
textbooks has been done away in favour of
very simplified language.
8/29/2006 9:00 PM delete
I was from the same batch. I was looking
forward to some shakespeare and
Vadapav at woodsworth, instead there was some real
last! good crap.
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Bombay
(18,321 members) ^^then u guys also had the SSC re-exams of
Maths n Science due to paper leaks
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8/29/2006 9:54 PM delete
We did, I always wondered why... I never
even got to know what was on the papers,
you know.
Bhavik
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8/29/2006 10:00 PM delete
Perhaps it warrants a new community? "SSC
re-exam batch of 1996, introduce yourselves
here and play games..."
Bhavik It reminds me of exam hell during the years

(manage) from SSC to HSC, it becomes so ingrained in
your psyche that you think it's normal...
8/29/2006 10:51 PM delete
I remember the Balbharti front page logo, a
boy on the left side sharing a Balbharti with a
Vikram slightly taller girl to his right, both looking
(manage) uncannily similar, and with large smiles.
Oh I see you've met my friends Nitin and

Leena!
This is Nitin. He is Six. He lives in Nasik. This

is his garden.
This is Leena. She is Ten. She is Nitin's sister.

8/29/2006 10:55 PM delete

Vikram, doesn't Nitin half-climb a tree in the
first chapter of std I? In the pre-back-to-
roots-days Balbharti spelt Nasik as Nasik, not
NasHik
Bhavik And isn't Leena sitting on a bench reading a
(manage) book in chapter II?
Either that, or I'm a loser way too lost in the
past...
8/30/2006 3:34 AM delete
Damn it,am I the only one here who does not
remember how text books looked way back
when I was in the Ist
Janhavi Anyone caught the new Bajaj lighting ad on

(manage) Tv???its a rehash of the old "jab mai chota
ladka tha badi shararat karta tha".......... ?
8/30/2006 3:41 AM delete
Anyone remembers the 4th standard
Textbooks' history was only that of Shivaji
Maharaj?
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8/30/2006 7:27 AM delete
@janhavi
is there a new ad ?? wow .. id really like to c
it! par yahan apne paas na tv hai .. na indian
Nikita channels (mayb i can check it out online
sumtime)
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8/30/2006 7:28 AM delete
@Capt.
yeah ... i rem the history of 4th std. but i
liked the 9th std hist the most (world wars) -
Nikita was it 9th or 10th??
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8/30/2006 7:39 AM delete

some chapters/poems i remember from old
balbharati text books
Excuse me said Eddie...(i think in 4th
standard)
Ramalingam
Seven at One Blow Part 1 & 2...this was a
(manage) play...and i remember we enacted this in class
And then there was this "horror" story...
Monkey's Paw..I dont remember when it
was...
The solitary reaper by William Wordsworth (in
9th or was it 10th?)
Speaking of poems...i remember lots of

Figures of speeches...alliteration, hyperbole,
onomatopoea, similie, metaphor, transferred
epithet...
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8/30/2006 7:44 AM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) @ nikita...world wars were std X
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revolutions........
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8/30/2006 11:17 AM delete
Behold her single in the field, yon solitary
highland lass, reaping and singing by herself,
stop here or gently pass.... Yes, I remember,
only it was 5th std for us...
Sulbha
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8/30/2006 1:07 PM delete
@Janhavi
hey, i have the mp3 of that ad jab mai chota
ladka tha badi shararat karta tha"........... but
i think its remix
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8/30/2006 3:03 PM delete
@capt
so what u wanted it to be of Henry the fifth?
Yogeshwar
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8/30/2006 3:06 PM delete
i remember.. (this is from a drama actually..
but nevertheless true)
mathematics problems in 9th std with leaking
Yogeshwar tanks of water and worker A and worker B
(manage) taking 10 hours and 5 hours to do a job
respectively.. (find average time)

8/30/2006 5:14 PM delete

I remember that problem!
Saurabh
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8/30/2006 11:08 PM delete
Salil, your thread's gone off on a tangent from
memories of good old bombay to all memories
in general. But i guess like u said, arbitrary
and random :)
Sulbha
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8/30/2006 11:11 PM delete
Must say though, this thread sent me down
memory lane so much, it's all i could talk
about with my friends last evening... By the
end they all decided they must find out too
Sulbha what this is all about :)
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8/30/2006 11:12 PM delete
10th had the World War History content.
9th had a historical culture (Egyptain, etc)

Content.
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8/30/2006 11:38 PM delete
Out of curiousity...
Have you guys noted 'the jallainwalla baugh'

incident was repeated from 5th-10th
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8/30/2006 11:49 PM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) Sulbha: I remeber that poetry (now also by
heart()its from
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poem,we had in 7th std
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O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound ....
8/31/2006 1:02 AM delete
Bloody Brit, Coddie!
It's Jallianwala Bagh
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8/31/2006 1:39 AM delete
Very, Codie
Thanks! But I shtill cant remember mah
Its the history lessons forget wat was the event @
End... bagh/baugh
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8/31/2006 1:47 AM delete
General Dyer ordered his men to close all
exits and shoot dead hundreds of peaceful
protestors trapped inside Jallianwala Bagh in
Amritsar.
StrongGel
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8/31/2006 1:53 AM delete
Dead you really need to be killed!
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8/31/2006 2:35 AM delete

@ Pravin Da
Yes, Pravin Da, I wrote that in reply to
Ramalingam before me. Remember it from
my school days :)
Sulbha
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8/31/2006 2:50 AM delete
shrreeeji~~
aaah!~~! iz that a proposal try it wen am
Its the bkk in bbay
End...
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8/31/2006 9:37 PM delete
@dead
wow you've made good progress from ur SMS-
lingo to more conventional english.
Ramalingam @sulbha
(manage) do you remember...W.H.Davies' poem (This
was also there in 7th or 8th)
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare....
It is so very true...
8/31/2006 10:19 PM delete
@ Ramalingam
You're talking about 'Leisure' yeah, i
remember it...
Sulbha
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8/31/2006 10:24 PM delete
Leisure continues as
"No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows."
Bhavik
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Bombay
(18,321 members) CBSE educated... remember a chapter in Std
3 about Hans, the little Dutch boy who
● view profile Irshad plugged the 'hole in the dyke' with his finger.
(manage) They weren't very politically correct, were
● view forum they?
OK so Irshy, takes me back to major career
crisis in my life in 2000.
Vikram
(manage) I used the term "plugging your finger in the
dike" as a metaphor for stopping a small
problem before it becomes a bigger one
during some random code writing sessions..
Next thing I know I'm hauled up before HR

and made to undergo sensitivity training as
someone thought I was being offensive to
lesbians...
Stupid Americans and their lack of Dutch

fairy-tale knowledge!
9/1/2006 12:41 AM delete
@ Irshad
I too (though I am not from CBSE.)
remember this from my R.R. (rapid reader)
text-book.
Fido
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9/1/2006 1:31 AM delete
I remember reading, "The Selfish Giant" by
Oscar Wilde in one of the textbooks.
Vadapav at
last!
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9/1/2006 1:59 AM delete

Yes I remember the 'Leisure' poem as well.
There was one more which, for some reason,
Bhagyashri kept repeating in atleast 3 stds, i dont
(manage) remember which std though. The first time
was in V/VI std in CBSE.
What does little birdie say

In her nest at peep of day..
Does anyone remember this? I still know the

whole poem by heart.
9/1/2006 2:13 AM delete
I carried my curds to the Mathura fair..
Govinda, Govinda, Govinda, Govinda..
Vikram
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9/1/2006 6:09 AM delete
Just remembered this jingle..
Vikram Noga Noga Jam jab ho

(manage) yummy Mummy, thoda aur Noga do!
Orange Marmalade, pineapple jam, orange

jam
Aur Mixed Fruit Jam!
Icecream sajao, chapati mein khao,
(something something)
Noga Noga Jam jab ho

yummy Mummy, thoda aur Noga do!
9/1/2006 7:02 AM delete
I remember NOGA means Nagpur Orange
Growers Association
•••••• ••
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9/1/2006 7:26 AM delete
i remember "Surds" in Std 9th maths ...
found it realllly tuf at that time - mayb cos of
the tuf sounding name! nw ven u look back at
Nikita it ..feels so silly to not be able to solve those
problems!! :D
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9/1/2006 7:33 AM delete

surds ??
maane sardar ?
Nishank
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(18,321 members) I remember the time when teachers would
write the essays on the board and in exams we
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(content and structure).
● view forum kartik some of the topics were atleast for hindi were:
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then the ones on dahej or sati....
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9/1/2006 10:07 AM delete
Canada dry...
does anyone remember canada dry... they
stopped producing it... cant remember why
though...
kartik
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9/1/2006 11:19 AM delete
@vikram
I am going to try and use the phrase at wrk
Amit and check if i get hauled to HR for sensitivity
(manage) training will be fun
9/1/2006 9:20 PM delete
Canada Dry
It was a product of Cadbury Schweppes which
Hibernating was later taken by Coco -Cola.
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I dont remember what product of Canada Dry
was launched in India, I guess it was Soda.
9/1/2006 9:23 PM delete
^^Canada Dry had its ginger ale in India....the
golden soft drink
RoDz
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9/2/2006 11:26 AM delete

Is Gopala, Gopala Sarojini's version of the tale
of the day-dreaming milkmaid who spilt milk
she was carrying on her head?
Bhavik Canada dry... I have some vague memory of a

(manage) controversy surrounding it, did they propose to
sponsor the recital of the National Anthem at
the Parliament during one of our Independence
Days? Was that during the 50th Independence
day that this controversy surfaced? Or was
that some other cola?
Canada Dry had nice ads though, I remember

one with two polar bears "Cool Cool Canada" in
the background.
9/2/2006 11:39 AM delete
dunno if it has been mentioned earlier..all the
talk about textbooks & chapters reminded me
of this one poem in Marathi text books...
anyone remember Sassa Sassa?
Aditi
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kapus pinjdun, thevlaye jasa
lal lal dode chaan, lahan sheput mothe kaan
paala khaun fugto tum
something something something dhum
9/2/2006 11:48 AM delete
Aditi: ya u r right , taht song was there
I remember
i began learning official Marathi in school and
•••••• •• first lesson
(manage) after a aa ee etc was
aai kamal baaug and something changan
kamal baaug
anybody remember as a kid while drying slate

(black slate)we used to sing one song kalwla
kawla wara dey chimni chimni pani pee
9/2/2006 11:57 AM delete
Does anyone remember the poem of Timothy
Taylor?... guess it was from Std 2nd or 3rd...
Amit
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9/2/2006 11:57 AM delete

Wow, I remember another Marathi poem about
a parrot in captivity
I dont remember how it starts but the parrot's

Bhavik dialogue goes like this.
(manage) "Bhau bhau boltos god, detos fod, daar ughad
ani mala sod".
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(18,321 members) Remember one about the horse in std 4(we
used SSC texts for Marathi)
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toda.
ANd so on it went.
And another one, with the chorus...
"Dada malaa ek vhaini aan"

9/2/2006 12:04 PM delete
hey that was filmy song
gori gori paan tujha sarkhi chaan dada mala

ek vahini la aaan
•••••• ••
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9/2/2006 2:17 PM delete
Dhum Dudhum Dhum Dudhum
Dhum Dhum Dhum Dudhum
Dhum Dudhum Dhum Dudhum
Dhum Dhum Dhum Dudhum
Just Ashu Arre Pehle To Bombay Tha Mumbai Ho Gaya
(manage) Bombay Bombay Mumbai Mein Mein Pagal
Ho Gaya
Arre Pehle To Bombay Tha Mumbai Ho Gaya
Bombay Bombay Mumbai Mein Mein Pagal
Ho Gaya
Array Jo Bhi Isko Pukaro Kal Yeh Jo Tha Aaj
Bhi Wohi Hai Re
Hai Yeh Jaisa Waisa Hi Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai
Re Sahi Hai Re
Hey Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re

Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re
Ghar Bhi Hai Arre Garmi Hai Bedardi Hai

Besharmi Hai
Ghar Bhi Hai Garmi Hai Bedardi Hai
Besharmi Hai Bahar Se Sakti Hai
Arre Andar Se Narmi Hai Arre Andar Se
Narmi Hai
Arre Jo Bhi Isko Pukaro Kal Yeh Jo Tha Aaj
Bhi Wohi Hai Re
Re Sahi Hai Re
Hey Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re
Ho Ho Ho O O O O O Ho Ho Ho O O O O O
Ho Ho Ho O O O O O Ho Ho Ho O O O O O
Hey Badi Badi Building Hai Badi Badi Basti

Hai
Thoda Thoda Tension Hai Thodi Thodi Masti
Hai
Building Hai Basti Hai Tension Hai Masti Hai
Kitni Mehangayi Hai Jaan Utni Sasti Hai
Arre Jaan Utni Sasti Hai
Duniya Ke Shehro Ko Dekha Phir Bhi Aisa
Aur Nahi Hai Re
Re Sahi Hai Re
Arre Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re
Pehle To Bombay Tha Mumbai Ho Gaya
Bombay Bombay Mumbai Mein Mein Pagal
Ho Gaya
Arre Jo Bhi Isko Pukaro Kal Yeh Jo Tha Aaj
Bhi Wohi Hai Re
Re Sahi Hai Re
Arre Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re Sahi Hai Re
9/3/2006 11:13 AM delete
The first few lines of the post above
reminded me of another marathi poem ...
Advait Lezim.
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9/3/2006 9:27 PM delete

"Tap Tap padti, angavarati, prajaktachi
phule" from school, though this line is all i
Vadapav at remember &
last! and "yere yere pausa, tula deto paisa, apisa
(manage) jhala khota, paus aala motha", my all time
favs.
9/3/2006 11:13 PM delete
marathi poems... and english too
talking of poems.. theres one marathi poem i
remember.. chandoba chandoba yetus ka...
something something.. and in english we
Shweta
had this macavity the mysterious cat.. any
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9/4/2006 2:39 AM delete
Out of all the poems mentioned.. I remeber
only "Yere Yere pausa". What standard was
Hibernating it in?
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9/4/2006 3:25 AM delete
"hey that was filmy song
Irshad gori gori paan tujha sarkhi chaan dada mala

(manage) ek vahini la aaan"
Indeed it was Pravin Da. My memory isn't as

good as yours!
9/4/2006 8:02 AM delete
Shweta: chandoba chandoba yetus ka...
its like this

chandomama chandomama bhaglas ka
•••••• •• limbolicha jhada mage laplas ka , limboliche
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9/4/2006 8:42 AM delete
i remember..there used to be marathi
lesson...gogalgayi barchyala zataat. about a
snail which gets invited for a naming
ceremony and reaches the venue for
Ramalingam
wedding..
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9/4/2006 10:13 AM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) I remember poems like "Confessions of a born
spectator by Ogden Nash!"... "the
● view profile Vagabond"..."Solitude"...
Also remember a lesson from english named
● view forum Amit "Packing" by Jerome K Jerome!...It was
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Also remember a lesson wherein a grand father
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writes a letter to her grand daughter... dont

remember the name though...
Mamaji ki Ainak from Hindi!...The poem called
"Mera Chaata"!... Also a poem which goes like
main banjara le ek tara ghuma bharat saara..
kahin khade parbat barfile kahin ret ke tile!!
9/4/2006 10:33 AM delete
I remember lessons , english -Uncle Podger
Hangs a pic , Sweets
Hindi- kafan , mama ke einak , Sanskrit-
badarayana sambandhoo, subhasitamalas -..
•••••• •• yatha gaccha tee sagaram , sarva devu
(manage) namsakaraha keshavam pratigachhati.
9/4/2006 11:35 AM delete
uncle podger hangs a picture!! i loved that one!
anyone had the poem Ulyses in 10th? a lot of

ppl raved abt it... i detested it!!
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9/5/2006 1:47 AM delete

Pravin Da, I remember the Subhshitmalas too.
But what first comes to mind when talking of
Bhagyashri Sanskrit is 'Ramah Ramou Ramaha...' , had
(manage) to rattofy it so much that I can still recite it in
one go. Plus the English translation of Sanskrit
verses used to be hilarious sometimes. I
always felt the translation made better sense in
Hindi.
9/5/2006 4:08 AM delete
HOW DO THAT SEA WATER IN MI=UMBAI
BECAME SALTY.CAN ANYBUDY CAN GIVE ME
REPLY?
ANANTH
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9/5/2006 5:46 AM delete
It's called 'salt' dear.
StrongGel
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9/5/2006 6:01 AM delete
@ Ananth
And the reason you post this question in this
Bhagyashri thread is....?
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9/5/2006 8:11 AM delete
more nostalgia
yeh dekhiye - old commericals ads for
'hamaara bajaj' and 'milcent garelu aata
chakki':
Pradeep
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v=oWFSG0YL_mM
v=KsI3UMS2zZg

9/5/2006 10:48 AM delete

I remember A lesson in english which I
understood well is - The Vicar
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9/6/2006 1:30 AM delete
Remember Milkfood 100% icecream?
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Bombay
(18,321 members) I remember my family Doc who passed away
in the recent Bomb Blasts !! may his soul R.I.
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i remember the Amul adds when they first
introduced the sliced cheese.. "Milk that u can
eat".. i was so happy!
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9/6/2006 3:23 PM delete
hey thanks pradeep!
Yogeshwar
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9/7/2006 3:09 AM delete
I remember school picnic to Prince of Wales
museum and the teachers had taught us the
Vadapav at song 'bom bom bom bom bombay meri hai....'
last! especially to be sung during the journey.
(manage) anybody know this song?

9/7/2006 3:32 AM delete

@ Archana...bombay meri hai is one song that
is played in any Goan Party.............. I think it
goes a little like this.........
Janhavi Come from England, come from Scotland,

(manage) come from Ireland,
Come from Holland, come from Poland, come

from any land,
If you want to stay for a pleasant holiday,
Come to Bombay, come to Bombay, Bombay

meri hai.
Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom, Bombay meri hai,
The ladies are nice,The gents are full of spice,
Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom, Bombay meri hai

9/7/2006 3:48 AM delete
The gents are full of spice,
Marinade, kya?
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9/7/2006 3:57 AM delete
Isn't it supposed to be Mistress of Spices?
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9/7/2006 7:27 AM delete

Marinated?!!!!
Irshad Riju -- your slip is showing, you're definitely

(manage) not a Bombayite.
Picnic songs... man they were so much.
-In the morning, in the morning...etc, already

discussed.
-Darling open the door...discussed as well.
-In China they do it with Chillies (any mac;

Dildo, Maria, Vik, pliss elaborate)
-Galyat sankli sonyachi...yes it was a picnicky

song.
-Of all the animals in the zoo, the monkey

fucked the kangaroo...
Can't recollect any more currently. There was

actually a La Bamba school picnic version,
which ashamed even the most hardened
school teacher.
9/7/2006 9:30 AM delete
gosh irshad yr post just took me 15 years
back in time.. i remember all those songs!!
this one wasn't really a picnic song.. but a

Aditi very popular one..
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Pontius pilot king of jews parlez vous
Pontius pilot king of jews parlez vous
Pontious pilot king of jews, went and bought a
pair of shoes
Inky pinky parlez vous
Does anyone remember this song about not

wanting to be in the army?? i can't recall the
lyrics properly... a part of went like "i asked
for no. 7 and they gave me no. 9....oh i dont
wanna live the army life,
somethingsomething"

9/7/2006 10:03 AM delete

nopes. do remember the ones that were
rather uncharitable to the teachers though.
especially since they were sitting in the front
end of the same bus. won't go into that.
Salil
(manage) but speaking of lyrics..
iwas on my way home this evening, stuck

behind some really late-departing ganpatis
when radio One (and i do remember it used to
be Go92.5 not too long ago) decided to play a
blast from the past.. and considering it's about
10 years old, i don't suppose it would be
entirely wrong to let this feature in this
thread, right? i'm talking about the famous
"muqabla" song from "hum se hai
muqabla" (kaadhalan) and for the first time i
paid attention to the lyrics..
Jurassic park mein sunder se jode

Jazz music gaayein milke
Picasso ki painting mere peechhe pakad ke
Texas mein naache milke
______________
_______________
Sex mere tan mein hai
Mix mere man mein hai
Pop music jaisi Laila

Strawberry jaisi aankhen
Love story ban jaane de
Kick thodi lag jaane de..
who writes this shit????

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9/7/2006 10:07 AM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) @ aditi
i think this is how the song goes
● view profile I don't like this army life
I don't like this army life
● view forum Janhavi Mamma I wanna go Oma I wanna go
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The food in the army they say is mighty fine
If you ask for Biriyani,they give you intestine
Chorus
The biscuits in the army they say are mighty

fine
one rolled over the table and broke a toe of
mine
chorus
9/7/2006 10:15 AM delete
wait, it's come back to me, only i remember it
as "sergeant, i wanna go, show me the way to
go home.."
Salil
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9/7/2006 10:18 AM delete
I think there were more stanzas than this too
though I don't remember any
Janhavi
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9/7/2006 10:33 AM delete

yes yes! that's the one! very good
Impending :)
and yeah it did have more stanzas...
Aditi "The shoes in the army, they say are mighty

(manage) fine
I asked for no. 7 and I got a no. 9"
There were more... can't remember!
& wow @ the muqabala lyrics!! another song

from the same movie with bizarre lyrics was
urvasi urvasi:
Urvasi, Urvasi, take it easy urvasi
ungli jaisi dubli ko, nahi chaiye PHARMACY
(whaa???)
& the lyricist is the same guy who wrote the

words for that song from Hindustani (Kamal
Hassan):
Telephone booth main hasne waali
Melbourne machili machalne waali
9/7/2006 10:34 AM delete
Very good Aditi and Jhanavi...'Life in the
army' was a gem!
Irshad
(manage) That reminds me of another song - 'I married
a female wrestler, now look at the mess I'm
in'. What are the other lines from that?
We sang a very vague rhyme that went--

'Baap re baap, itna badaa pet, lagta hai jaise,
India ka gate.'
9/7/2006 10:35 AM delete
!
wwooohaaa! that was hilarious Aditi.. and also
Its the not forgettin all the Govinda numbers...
End...
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9/7/2006 10:41 AM delete

dekho dekho...
i remember, when i was in school, i used to
freak on the 18 minute version of "dekho
dekho yeh hai jalwa" by remo fernandes... i
Romanticus used to have each "tigda-pak-okoko-
(manage) tigdabak"... memorised until it started
sounding like actual words to me... and i used
to love the shooting at cidade de goa... i used
to revere that place and thought it was such a
hotshot place where naseeruddin shah
jumped while shooting at the villain (dalip
tahil)... until a few years ago when i went to
see it and saw how run down it had become...
piki-kakai-ka-koko-kaka-tigdabak...:grin..:))
9/7/2006 10:42 AM delete
oooh! i remember more stanzas!
The coffee in the army, they say is mighty fine

It looks like dirty water and taster like
Aditi turpentine
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The money/wages/pay (?) in the army, they
say are mighty fine
They give you fifty dollars and take back forty
nine.
9/7/2006 10:43 AM delete
he was some pandit something wasn't he? the
guy who wrote those'lyrics'? he also wrote co-
lumbus, co-lumbus chutti hai aayee?
Salil and it's

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"telephone dhun mein hasne waali
melbourne machhli machalne waali
digital mein sur hai taraasha
ma-doanna hai ya natasha
zaakir hussein tabla tu hai kya...."
9/7/2006 10:44 AM delete
i dunno his name.... but he also surprisingly
wrote the lyrics for Roja.
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9/7/2006 10:47 AM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) Are you guys talking of this dude named P.K.
Mishra?
● view profile I've seen his name on all cassettes/CDs of
south Indian movies dubbed in Hindi as
● view forum Bhavik lyricist...
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9/7/2006 10:56 AM delete
that's him, bhavik.. i guess for roja he had
mani rathnam on his back and not the likes of
shankar, who don't care if the whole movie
makes sense, much less the songs..
Salil
(manage) but not like even then, it kept him from
writing stuff like "khatiya bhi dheere dheere
khat khat hone lagi, aagey peechhay hua to
jhatpat hone lagi."
9/7/2006 10:56 AM delete
@impending
Wear a Dhoti, put a topi and a small coatie
Mini or Bikini wouldn't be good for you honey
Sat
If you ain't so gay then you can live the
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Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom-bay
Hooray!!!
The ladies are nice,The gents are full of spice,
Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom, Bombay meri hai

9/7/2006 10:59 AM delete

with apologies to any parsi folk here....
my name is jeejeebhoy jamshedji
the parsi son of a vip
Sat
driving engine number 420
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now i'm old and weary

drinking wine and whiskey
and jeebhoy is my name pam pam pam
one day as i lay in bed

the doctor thought that i was dead
he hit me with a big bamboo
and on my head was a big limboo

drinking wine and whiskey
and jeebhoy is my name
9/7/2006 11:00 AM delete
Isn't there a Mac song
"Gaon waalon apni murgi sambhalo,
...something...
...something else...
Bhavik Mera murga karega zabardasti" ?
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9/7/2006 11:14 AM delete
Glares at Sat
Thats offensive to Freddie
Ready
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9/7/2006 11:18 AM delete

remember the amitabh version from
'jaadugar' which went 'padosin apnni murgi
ko rakhnaa sambhaal, mera murga hua hai
deewana'
Salil
(manage) and satya, it's
my name is jeejeebhoy janshedji

the parsi driver of GIP (the great indian
peninsular railway)
my engine number 420
from byculla (though i've also heard borivali)
to chinchpokli

drinking wine and whisky
now i'm ooooold and weary
and jeejeebhoy is my name
one day as i was going to school

i called the maali a big fat fool
the maali came out with a big bamboo
and on my head was a big limboo
one day when i was sick in bed

the doctor thought that i was dead
he brought a coffin to put me in
but i jumped out and pushed him in (ok that
wasn't half funny but but that's how it went)
now i'm old and weary.. and so on..
another popular parsi song was 'maaraa

pappa ni chhe motor gaadi, maara mamma ni
che phulwaari, mara kaka chalawe ghoda
gaadi, pan rahi gayo hu kunwaro.. hoon
minerva ma picture jowa jaaoon chhu,
nariman point par chhokri jowa jaaoon chhu,
hu _____ chhu, pan rahi gayo hu kunwaro'
<waits for ash to come by and fill in the

blanks>

9/7/2006 11:36 AM delete

Jurassic park mein sunder se jode
Jazz music gaayein milke
Milind Picasso ki painting mere peechhe pakad ke
(manage) Texas mein naache milke
______________
_______________
Sex mere tan mein hai
Mix mere man mein hai
I think the missing lines were "Cowboy

peeche pade, Playboy chede mujhe" or
something...
9/7/2006 11:36 AM <input ty
ah yes, the bit about going to school was
what i was missing. thx salil.
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9/7/2006 11:34 PM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) @ aditi.............yes thts it......that was the
whole army song.......wow i sang that last 15
● view profile years ago.........
● view forum Janhavi @ Irshad..the poem was in hindi

(manage) Baap re baap kitni badi muchh;lagti hai jaise
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Baap re baat kitna mota ladka

mota bola to kitna bhadka
@ Bhavik...thts another good goan song

it's bambai se aaya mera doat,dost ko salaam
karo
raat ko khao piyo din ko aaram karo
Gaon waalo apni murgi sambhaalo,gaon

waalon apni murgi sambhalo
teri murgi karegi jo masti,to mera murga
karega zabardasti
Theres more to it but I don't remember.........

anyone???????????
9/7/2006 11:53 PM delete
I cant recollect picnic songs.. but I remember
picnic games!
Hibernating
(manage) Char wasta komda ordla shaku geli pani
anayla, shaku la thikde kaun bhetl (then
some name), shaku tila kya mahnali (then
the song)

9/8/2006 1:17 AM delete

I remember we used to hear song on loud
speaker , voice of sayaji shinde also 'Navin
popat haa vitu vitu bolai la’
'majha kombdaa!!' etc etc
•••••• •• many more songs
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9/8/2006 1:38 AM delete
@ sat
...is that part of the song...............bombay
meri hai?
I've never heard this part....nice
Janhavi
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9/8/2006 4:53 AM delete
@Pravin Da
I remember that song... "something
Vadapav at something... naagoba dolaayla lagla".
last! In school for annual day program some guys
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9/8/2006 12:40 PM delete
Pravin da... It is not vitu vitu... its Mithu
mithu bolaila!!...it was a blockbuster marathi
song!... i remember it also featured in some
chunky pandey movie in a hindi version...
Amit something like mera dil tota ban jaye!!...
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@ Archana... The song goes like "Bilanchi
Nagin nighali!... Nagoba dulaila lagla!"...It
was a very popular koli song...
I also remember some songs from Jeetendra

& Jaya prada/Sridevi/Rekha movies being
played on the loudspeakers... popular among
them being the Tofaa tofaa tofaa...laya laya
laya!... ju ju ju from Sanjog!...hell lot of
them,... but cant remember the xact
wordings!

9/9/2006 8:36 AM delete

@shweta and @Pravin da.
Nikhil the chandoba song is 'budbud' geet :
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chandoba chandoba bhaglas ka?
limbonichya zada mage laplas ka?
limboniche zaad karvandi
mamacha vaada chirebandi
mamachya vadyala yeun ja
tup roti khaun ja
tupat padli mashi
chandoba rahila upaashiii
(am not sure of the translation, but this is

what i grew up thinking it was)
bhaglas : tired
karvandi : greenish
limboni : a tree that grows wild has has bitter
lemon like fruits
chirebandi vada : a house made of a pink
coloured stone, the kinds you see in the
konkan or goa
-n
orkut newbie. great thread. spent half the
day reading thru it. :)
9/9/2006 9:08 AM delete
Yesterday i heard on radio this marathi song
at night , it was also a fav picnic song of our
days
•••••• •• hill hill hill pori hila , tujha kappa liala tila ,
(manage) tujha kappa li la tila ....
9/9/2006 9:17 AM delete
Nikhil that was nice!!from u
•••••• ••
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9/9/2006 10:01 AM delete

Pravin da. yup, 'hil pori hila' is a nice song
too. a lot of the songs you mentioned like
Nikhil
'dhagaalaa laagli kala', 'nagoba dulaayaa
(manage) laaglaa','nava naveena popat ha' etc are all
loaded with double entendres. and sometimes
it is embarrassing to even comtemplate the
things they seem to insinuate. but now i have
reason to 'research', and will post a few lyrics
in a coupla days.
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9/9/2006 2:54 PM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) speaking of picnic songs...i remember this
one..
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darling open the door...darling open the
● view forum Ramalingam door...
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dont remember the rest of it...does anyone
remember??
9/9/2006 11:40 PM delete
Rama, this one was discussed some 2100
posts ago
Irshad
(manage) It had verses that you could make up as you
went along. For instance,
'I will take you to Agra and lift up your ghagra'
or
'I will take you to Poona and show you my

luna.'
(Geez, very innuendo laden now that I think

about it!)
Anyway I loved 'In the morning' much more,

way cooler.
9/10/2006 12:01 AM delete
The one all time hit in picnic was 'meri tujhey
kes laamb laam laamb ..papa bagi taan papa
bagi taan .. endless sentenses can be made
fromm this.
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9/10/2006 12:08 AM delete

Pravin Da, is that aicha go?
Hibernating
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9/10/2006 12:55 AM delete
@irshad
well...unfortunately 2100 posts ago...i wasnt
a part of this community..
Ramalingam
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9/10/2006 12:59 AM delete
i hope this wasnt discussed earlier...i'll just
mention the first coupla lines...coz i dont
remember the whole song...
Ramalingam a sol..a sol..a soldier went to war..
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arms..
blah..blah...
9/10/2006 1:09 AM delete
...fight for the cunt, fight for the cunt... fight
Rohan for the cunterie:P
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9/10/2006 8:26 AM delete
Conceited: no its not that word
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9/10/2006 11:04 AM delete
hmm
agree
Monika
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9/11/2006 4:54 AM delete

Pravin Da, the old Asha Bhosle song is "Gori
gori paan, phulaasaarkhi chhaan, daada mala
ek vahini aaN."
Ash
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Bombay
(18,321 members) They say that in the Army the coffee’s mighty
fine
● view profile It looks like muddy water and tastes like
turpentine
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Hooooooooommmme! Hey
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They say that in the Army the chow is mighty

fine
A chicken jumped off the table and started
marking time
They say that in the Army the pay is might fine

They give you a hundred dollars and take back
ninety-nine
They say that in the Army the food is might fine

A roll rolled off the table and killed a friend of
mine
They say that in the Army the women are

mighty fine
They look like Kruger and walk like
Frankenstein
They say that in the Army the coffee is might

fine
It’s good for cuts and bruises and tastes like
iodine
They say that in the Army the buses are

mighty fine
One went round the corner and left three
wheels behind
They say that in the Army the toilets are

mighty fine
You flush them up at seven they come back up
at nine

They say that in the Army the hours are just

right
Start early in the morning and work all
through the night
They say that in the Army the meat is mighty

fine
Last night we had ten puppies, this morning
only nine
They say that in the Army the shoes are

mighty fine
You ask for size eleven they give you size nine
They say that in the Army the pancakes are

mighty fine
You can try to chew them but you’re only
wasting time
They say that in the Army the beds are mighty

fine
But how the hell should I know I’ve never slept
in mine
They say that in the Army the mail is so great

Today I got a letter dated 1948
9/11/2006 5:34 AM delete
Gori gori paan
Gori gori paan, phulaasaarkhi chaan.
Dada mala ek vahini aaN.
Ash Gorya Gorya vahinichi andhaaraachi saaDi.

(manage) Andhaaraachyaa saaDivar chaandNyaachi
khaDi.
ChaandNyaachyaa padraalaa bijlichaa baaN!
Vahinilaa aaNaayalaa chandobaachi gaaDi.

Chandobaachyaa gaadilaa harNaachi joDi.
HarNaachi gaaDi tuDvi gulaabaache raan!
Vahinishi gaTTi hotaa tulaa don thaapaa.

Tulaa don thaapaa, tilaa saakhrechaa paapaa.
Bahulyaachyaa pari houu doghi aamhi saan!
(Sorry, not strictly Bombay related other than

I heard it there but I had to get the whole
lyrics.)

9/11/2006 5:36 AM delete

Ash thats Nice one!
i remember when we went for NCC camp in

10th std in 1974 diwali vacation 1st
•••••• •• Maharashtra battallion ,i had those tea! look
(manage) was muddy and never tasted that before , a
new taste not so good . fews yrs later when
there was scarecity of sugar i tasted that tea in
one of my friends house and it reminded me of
my camp days , when I asked his mother
about the tea , she quitely said due to sugar
scarecity she made added jaggery instead of
sugar in tea!! thas was the secret formula!! of
NCC camp!
9/11/2006 11:43 AM delete
A serious post
I remember us 2 years back at the IMS Vikrant
meet.
Ready We changed a lot haven't we?

Coddie
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9/12/2006 5:25 AM delete
maaraa pappa ni chhe motor gaadi
@Salil,
Sorry, I'm not a Parsi and haven't heard that

Ash song before.
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9/12/2006 5:39 AM delete
Salil that song about "Pappa ni chhe" was sung
in 'Pestonjee', that's the only way I could
Irshad identify that as a bawa song.
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Pestonjee is one fabulous film about the typical
Parsees in Bombay in the 60s and thereafter.

9/13/2006 7:47 PM delete

I contributed towards buying some educational
software for the birthday gift of a colleague's
kid today.... I don't know if anyone
remembers, but there were Nursery rhymes'
Bhavik cassettes with the rhymes sung by Preeti
(manage) Sagar when I was a kid. (Isn't she the same
singer allegedly butted out by the Mangeshkar
sisters' politics?)
It had all the regular rhymes, I remember one
cassette I had started with "Jack and Jill".
Were these ever popular?
And Indian movies were watched for a

loooooong time on VCRs and VCPs, until
sometime in the mid-90s. Was the sappy Hum
Aapke Hain Kaun the first which revived the
back-to-cinema halls tradition?
I think somewhere in the archives of this

thread, the FRIEND caps following Maine Pyar
Kiya's popularity became really popular... but I
remember buying one of those sponge ice
cream toys after watching that movie... It used
to be pink coloured ice-cream scoop shaped
sponge resting on a plastic replica of an ice
cream cone. After you pressed the button on
the cone, the sponge scoop would shoot out.
And the first post talks about those weird birds

with a tail sticking out of their rears which
drank a coloured liquid indefinitely in a see-
saw like fashion. Anyone remember those
electric vases with plastic looking material
sticking out of their mouths... when current
was passed the vase rotated and the fake
plastic flowers shed an intermittent multi-
coloured glow?
9/13/2006 8:33 PM delete
Wow !! M new here.. and haven't been to
Bombay in awhile now.. but going thru some
of these posts here brings back those
memories..
nina
(manage) I sure love Bombay.. just the feel of roaming
near Regal and Sterling and catching up all the
movies.. is what I loved most.. Are those still
there ? Last I had heard was they were pulling
it down... (sorry abt my lack of information)

9/13/2006 9:01 PM delete

nina, regal n sterling are very much here...
even though there are many changes in the
Amrita suburbs, with gaint malls, huge complexes
(manage) almost like self sufficient mini towns in
themselves are coming up, the churchgate and
colaba stretch still has the old bombay feel,
with lazy sidewalks and small cafes and
bakeries.. thank God for small mercies :)
9/13/2006 9:13 PM delete
i dont know if preeti sagar's cassettes were
popular but i sure remember, that was one of
the earliest audios i listened to as a kid - quite
clearly remember listening to her nursery
amar rhymes over and over again in
(manage) kindergarten..... in fact, i think we still have
that old cassette with us in mumbai still.......
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Bombay
(18,321 members) ........... and yup.... she is one of the singers
butted out by the mangeshkar sisters......
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9/14/2006 1:27 AM delete
what about these things that are not part of
mumbai now....
mini-BEST buses... they started these

Raghudon school kids who looked innocent.. these days
(manage) they look like they are already 15!
premier padmini and bajaj chetak was status
symbols!
u could have seen the old TATA trucks with
the snouty cabs - the SFC 1212 ! with the
wooden body and all colourful body!
bell bottoms
dance bars
chaat stalls on juhu beach
trip to new mumbai was 4 hours (now its 1!)
speed limit was 60 kmph
imported foreign cars
9/14/2006 4:06 AM delete
FOr some reason I'm reminded of those VIP
undie ads (ALL over the city billboards in the
Vikram early 80's) that had a hairy-chestwallah guy
(manage) in just undies and an open bathrobe with his
arms around some woman in a tiny red dress
punching some ruffian or villian or something..
Remember those?

9/14/2006 5:08 AM delete

Wasnt that lady Mallika Sherawat????
Vadapav at
last!
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9/14/2006 5:12 AM delete
used to love delite biscuits. liked 'em dipped
in tea.
Nikhil
are bsa machs still available?
(manage)
the thread also made me think of things that
still exist, but dont taste/feel the same.
there were these mints. rectangular small

bricks, wrapped in translucent paper, and a
second, mostly white with a green border
outer cover. came in a pink version too. lot of
knock offs/new editions available, but not
quite the same thing. even chicklets, the ones
available today start off excessively minty,
and quickly end up chewy.
the tibbs frankie off dadar station. we'd even

find parking there.
mawa cakes at merwan, grant rd. not quite

the same anymore.
siddhivinayak temple. my building shared its

back cmpd wall and had a wicket gate, almost
our own private access. now haven't visited
the temple in over 3 yrs.
milk bottles. with the blue and white stripped

Al foil caps. we'd mould the caps around a
marble, and race each other.
9/14/2006 8:01 AM delete
Vikram I remember that add , man standing
near a car! etc etc
•••••• •• Arch:"Wasnt that lady Mallika Sherawat???? "

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in early 80s Mallika Sherawat may be in
nappys!! not in short red dress!

9/14/2006 8:39 AM delete

.....
....less fortification n commercialisation at
Kaveri mahalaxmi temple.....going out on the clean
(manage) rocks...cleaner streets... thamba master to
the BEST bus conductor got the correct
response :)..no reservation or segregation on
the BEST(women, old, handicap, while the
idea i believe is to have some respect, they
are abused against)...it reflected the cities
respectful n free spirit...where girls/women
( i'll give my opinion only) were free n safe
enuf to enjoy a last seat ride... amul butter at
Rs.45/half kg....coffee energy..where's it
gone doesnt anyone like it??? ....
9/14/2006 8:58 AM delete
remember OnLY VIMAL? dhirubhais genius ....
also what about east west airlines?
Raghudon
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9/14/2006 1:18 PM delete
OMG bhavik i totally remember all of those
things!! (i had absolutely forgotten abt them,
until i read your post)
Aditi Preeti Sagar, hindi movies on vcr (with

(manage) Shemaroo & sometimes some toffee/
waterbottle brand ka logo on the side of the
screen), the FRIEND cap, the sponge
icecream!! (shit i'd totally forgotten that ever
existed!), and those electric vases! the ones i
remember had these thin plastic noodle-like
things coming out & when a current was
passed they glowed and keep changing
colour..so tacky but so fascinating!
9/14/2006 1:42 PM delete
VIP ads.. wasn't that hairy-chested guy in silk
robe Dalip Tahil?
there was another men's undie ad (i think

Aditi Rupa Frontline Briefs) on tv with a frustrated
(manage) guy shouting "What's he got that I ain't got!"
or something... and then the 'cool' fellow
agressively opens his fly revealing a multi-
coloured undie.


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Bombay
(18,321 members) Aditi, I remember that chuddie ad...
and in the VIP ad mentioned a few
● view profile posts ago, I think it was all a dream
or nostalgia where the girl has been
● view forum Bhavik thinking about the said incident.
(manage) When she wakes up, the dude asks
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her "Dreaaaaming about me?"
●
I think we've spoken of the 'Dreaming

about me' ad somewhere, either here
or on some advertisements thread.
There was another tacky ad... was it

Denim aftershave, where a female
hand unbuttons a guy's denim shirt
and he grabs her hand... "For the
man who doesn't have to try.... Too
hard".
9/14/2006 2:59 PM delete
finally, i find this thread...
"What's he got that I ain't got!" or

something... and then the 'cool' fellow
AlphaVictor agressively opens his fly revealing a
(manage) multi-coloured undie.
imho, it wud have wrkd better if th

"cool" guy dint get th girl, but th
"geek" gets her just cos he wears
colorful undies...

9/15/2006 12:11 AM delete

The VIP ad had this awesome George
Thoroughgood blues riff (Bad to the
Irshad Bone) and Gary Lawyer singing, "I
(manage) saw her on a park bench/And I knew
she was the one/(Something
something something)/Till this guy he
came along...." The music then
reached a crescendo -- and the
punchline -- "I looked at them and I
said, 'what's he got that I ain't got!'"
The Hindi version was cornier--

"Dekhi jab haseena, kaata dil mein
chubb gaya. Duh duh duh duh duh...
USME KYA HAIN JO MUJHME NAHIN!"
And then we had to be subjected to
the hairiest, flabbiest undie model.
9/19/2006 2:23 AM delete
*bump* yeh sab andar ki baaton ko
oopar la rahi hoon.
StrongGel
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9/20/2006 4:52 AM delete
Gaya baya gaya baya
&
**6σ~TheShrew~** potli baba ki kahani
(manage)
=DDD
9/20/2006 5:10 AM delete
Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi
• Deepak •
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9/20/2006 6:23 AM delete
hey there was this maggie fan club!!
u see u had to send them cut outs of
raji maggie 2 mins logo and they would
(manage) make u a member...and also
exchange games and stuff for more
maggie wrappers... wow such fun

9/20/2006 6:47 AM delete

hahaha anyone remember this serial
called phaticar?About this guy who
**6σ~TheShrew~** lived in pipes and shit.It also ended
(manage) abrubtly and incomplete no?
9/20/2006 7:04 AM delete
*Phatichar
**6σ~TheShrew~**
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9/20/2006 8:40 AM delete
gold spot,campa cola , thrill,dukes
mangola(speciality of mumbai did'nt
• Deepak • get 2 see outside maharastra) , my
(manage) best Giant robot ,
fireball XL5 , the great lucy show,I
was so vella that at times I even used
to watch amchi mati amchi mansa
besides not missing the daily marathi
news batmya, chitrageet , prannoy
roy's Newsweek........
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Bombay
(18,321 members) I remember there was a brief period of
absolute craze over Jungle Book....and my
● view profile sister got a Kaa, the snake toy.
● view forum Poonam

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9/20/2006 9:16 AM delete
Deja vu all over again.
Irshad Did everyone also have that weird twisty

(manage) thingie that you could twist into shapes? It was
just called the snake for some reason... and it
was easiest to twist it into, well, a snake.
9/20/2006 9:18 AM delete
I remember in 80s one shop keeper near our
house used to listen TV serial /programs on
transistor having FM band (some local
adjustment done to capture TV channel
•••••• •• frequency!!)
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9/20/2006 9:25 AM delete
You talking about Chipku, Irshad? That would
stick on to surfaces?
Hibernating
(manage) Quite possible Pravin Da if as FM tuner's range
lies the VHF band!

9/20/2006 9:30 AM delete

Hmm
For some reason that reminded me of the
multicoloured plastic springs that became
Num popular.
(manage) And plasticine that had this peculiar smell,that
never really went away,however many times
you washed your hands.
And Origami.
And Tangram-those Seven green plastic
pieces..
(mine apparently came straight from the North
Pole..)
*chuckle*
Snakes and ladders and Ludo and Carrom.
Scotland Yard and Chess and Monopoly.
Boggle..(acted like an excited puppy,spotting
that in a store not long ago)
The sandtimer and cubes..everything's in a
snazzier packing now...
9/20/2006 9:47 AM delete
Shreeji
I remember my bro had one of those chipku
things - he used throw them at the wall and
after awhile the wall had a green tinge....
Poonam I think Irshad is talking about something else
(manage) and I kind of remember those twisty things
that you could twist in various shapes...right
Irshad?
9/20/2006 10:06 AM delete
I remember when i was kid and when mother
was preparing chapati, me and my bro used to
take some dough and make small gola and
apply little water and throw on celing and
•••••• •• count how many chipkaowed on that , some
(manage) used to fall immediately, also used to apply
burnt matchstick on dough and chipkao on
wall , wow what a game!! some used to remain
for many days !! In those old bldgs celing was
high!! and we could not reach those chipkos to
remove that.

9/20/2006 10:07 AM delete

what irshad is referring to is the 'rubik's
snake'. (if vik hadn't left the community in a
huff, we'd have surely seen a wisecrack there.
and another one there)
Salil
(manage) rubik's snake was one of the spin offs that
followed the rubik's cube craze. i remember
everyone calling them 'snake cubes' we just
called everything like that a cube, even rubik's
cyliner puzzle was known as the 'cylinder
cube'. the cylinder had moving color chips like
the picture puzzles where you slide pieces
around. and rubik's snake was made up of
these triangular pieces, not a puzzle but you
could make shapes out of it.
9/20/2006 10:16 AM delete
the ganapatis drinking milk
enerjee (its still available but havent had in

years!-- gotta find tomorow
Raghudon
(manage) pepsi -- the things u could suck on?
reliance workd cup chewing gum... used o be a

book in which u stick them up
WWF cards,,, was a craze!
He - Man... Robocop [atack...]... DD days@
the victorias
girls in long frocks,..... i guess this has just

absolutely disappeared!!!!
madari walla - the monkeys used to be my

favs,... just loved them!
a stray dog near my house called brownie...

sniff ... sniff... hes no more! (have 2 now)
9/20/2006 10:18 AM delete
yeah raji... maggie...
used to make my mom make it altermate days
and collect the wrappers.. they used to also
give stamps in return....
Raghudon
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Bombay
(18,321 members) ISPs have changed!
The boyfriend n I got round to discussing 'Shell'
● view profile accounts. Does anyone else remeber the
concept? All text, no pictures, and cheap. You
● view forum StrongGel had to be a student to get really cheap rates.
(manage)
● view events And TCP/IP being the premium option for spoilt
brats and corporates.
28 kbps modems that didn't dependably work.
Hacking corporate accounts. Because we dint

want to steal from anyone except someone who
can afford it
Free surfing @ night.....
Anyone out there who shares these? C'mon

step right up folks!
9/20/2006 10:31 AM delete
I remember way back when the only flavour of
ice cream you could get was vanilla - in really
small cups and that was a treat at all other
times you would get pepsi...that too not the
Poonam milk one - we could only buy onces like
(manage) kalakhatta, orange and maybe it was mango....
I loved the kalakhatta....yummmmm
9/20/2006 10:36 AM delete
Remember the Nirma adds....Oh ho Deepika ji...
yeh lijiyee aapka saaman...yeh nahin woh...
monica Magar App toh hamesha mehengi waali tikiya...
(manage) leti thi....jab wahin mehangi waali safedi ...wahi
jaak ...kum daamon mein mile fir koi yeh kyun
na le...woh na le???Maan kiye???Kisi aapki
paarki nazar or Nirma super dono ko!!!!!

9/20/2006 10:39 AM delete

Was 'Ab aap samjhe yeh tikiya maine kyon li'
Rin?
StrongGel
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9/20/2006 10:45 AM delete
Stick Game
Neone remembers that stick game. You pile up
a bunch of colored sticks.....Gently throw them
kAusHiK on the floor......then pick out sticks of different
(manage) colors while being careful that none of the other
sticks moved.......Each color had different
points.....
Something like this.....
Stick Game http://www.barbecue-online.co.uk/

acatalog/Pick-Up-Stick-150px.jpg
9/20/2006 10:49 AM delete
i remember when Computers have been
ordered in factory ,those in stores were
happiest person since they never got AC facility
before in stores area before but in those days
•••••• •• first requirement was to have a room with AC!
(manage) so stores area were modifed to have ac room
and then computers came in!
9/20/2006 11:02 AM delete
@kaushik: we called it mikado..
Salil
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9/20/2006 11:12 AM delete
This game we used to play from broken
coloured glass bangles instead of sticks
•••••• ••
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9/20/2006 11:19 AM delete

@very shell accts! i used to use lynx to surf the
web...
Nikhil
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9/20/2006 11:59 AM delete
Yes @ Rijuta.
I have used ERNET, dialled into NCST at 9600

baud, and learnt to tell the speed at which a
Just Read connection was established by ear. I remember
(manage) when the 286 was fast, and I cut my computing
teeth on a 386 in school (and college).
Oh, and for those who are in the "we used

lynx" category, some of us never left it. Unix
shells rock! vi(1), mutt(1), lynx(1), ssh(1) are
essential tools. elinks is good too.
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Bombay
(18,321 members) @milind
people like the ones you have
● view profile mentioned dont change, I saw that
there's already a new thread post.
● view forum Ramalingam
(manage) BTW does anyone remember this
● view events marathi ad (about some fertilizers or
something I forget what) targetted
towards marathi farmers. Its been
plying on my head since quite a
while, forcing me to post on this
thread. Here it goes..
"Kimaya chi kamaal...Ujwala chi

dhamal...Sonyane bharle ghar daar"
9/20/2006 5:59 PM delete
anyone stayed up watching "Top of
the pops" on DD ... was it saturday or
Neville sunday night can't remember?
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9/21/2006 9:06 AM delete
@ Ramalingam:
I wonder if you're talking about
**6σ~TheShrew~** "Aamchi Maati Aamchi maansa".Used
(manage) to love that tune.Ahh childhood.

9/21/2006 9:21 AM delete

Speaking of which,I remember a
poem we had "Lahanpan dega deva".
**6σ~TheShrew~** I remember how the sun used to
(manage) shine right on my books when i was
in Kindergarten...Going from khar to
joggers park with my uncle.
There weren't all those posh
promenades to run on and well
trimmed hedges then.I remember the
wild sea :D
Trying to jog and falling everytime.
Somehow I could never quite run
straight.
Eating bon bon ice creams.BON BON's
yummy yummy thingies man =).
Juhu beach in shorty shorts,Ice-
creams,kalla khattas and golas
there....and one sunny day when we
went,the beach had sewage all over
so we didn't go for the next few
years....Paying peanuts to
raddhiwalas and getting a stockload
of books for two rupees..mandrake
the magician..Phantom..Tintin who I
had a crush on.Walking all around
khar with my cousin,yet finally
reaching home after going around in
circles."Oh there's that big aeroplane,
we're close!"..
I remember playing in that Aeroplane
too.Only that garden to be precise.
Diwali!!! bullet bombs wrapped in
polka dotted shiny foils that were
cooler than the 8 rounds
WhateverItsCalled that explodes in
the sky now.That neighbourhood
seems to have gone quiet now.I really
do remember the time when diwali
meant noise and not noise pollution.
Khar danda and the bombay duck
smell..Oh that hasn't changed has it?
=DDDD
Bombbillll.I always crinkled my nose
when we passed by it.I think thats
where my dislike for bombil comes
from.
Town was where daddy worked in
that big Air-India building and they
would take us to the terrace for naval

shows.You didn't have all the security

in that building then.
Scooters were so the fad once....
Getting funky multi-coloured sandals
from linking road!!With straps the
colours of red yellow green blue and
what not.Hah I used to think those
rainbows on my feet were cool.But
who cares when you are 6.I'm
beginning to get where "Once was
Bombay" came from.
I loves sepia toned nostalgia
*glee
9/21/2006 10:02 AM delete
I remember during the Fido Dido rage
sometime in 90-91, there used to be
those synthetic material covered
metallic bands which looked like a
Bhavik regular scale but which curved up and
(manage) encircled any object against which
they were hit.
The dumbass thread on drinking

reminds me of Sunny Deol, I think
also Jackie Shroff going " Khoob
jamegaa rang jab mil baithenge teen
yaar, aap mein aur Bagpiper" But I
guess this may have been covered...
9/21/2006 11:38 AM delete
synthetic material covered bands
yeah! and we'd say.. "see see i'm
gonna hit myself with a scale" and
then the unsuspecting friend would go
Aditi "are u sure?? it wont hurt??"
(manage) and then we'd slap the scale against
our arms & it would wrap around it.
same ones right?

9/21/2006 11:48 AM delete

Thanks 'The Shrew-If' - you brought
back memories....
playing in that aeroplane as a kid
smelling the old khar smell
Poonam shopping on linking road
(manage) buying rainy shoes that would have to
last atleast two rain seasons
buying brown paper to cover your
books
playing 'lagori' till 8.30 in the evening
...it all comes back!
I remember eating in a restaurant
and being told by my parents not to
tell anyone that we were eating out....
it was a luxury
9/21/2006 4:42 PM delete
@shrew
no...i know "amchi maati amchi
manse"...but I am talking about a
marathi advertisement which used to
Ramalingam
come during "amchi maati amchi
(manage) manse".
9/21/2006 7:52 PM delete
@Neville - I've watched a few "Top of
the Pops" , Sunday nights I think they
were
RoDz
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9/21/2006 8:13 PM delete
Does anyone remember these
ad..?
1)"Sriram Honda sab shaktishaali
Genset(?)...computer chalaye,
RoDz typewriter chalaye, pinic pe jaaye,
(manage) arre khoob mazaa aaye"...twas one of
those portable generators I believe
2)Cema bulbs n tubes - Sridevi

endorsed
3)The promo of Pepsi featuring Remo

n Juhi - "you got aha, Lehar Pepsi
aha, yehi hai right choice baabee.......
ahaaaaaaa!!"

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Bombay
(18,321 members) SUPERHIT MUKABLA - krutika desai -sheeee
● view profile raji

9/22/2006 8:05 AM delete
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There used to be a fabric called Mikado .. The
ad went something like OOOOOO .. Mikado
Advait
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9/22/2006 8:39 AM delete
ya i remember that add because i was knowing
that proprietor of the company too had office at
andheri east suren road
•••••• ••
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9/22/2006 9:20 AM delete
hey does anybody recollect maggie noodles in
CAPSIKA flavour
raji
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9/22/2006 9:20 AM delete
YUMMY
raji
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9/22/2006 9:27 AM delete

Melody hai chocolateee, Melody hai
chocolateee...
Do we still have melody?

Poonam
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9/22/2006 11:22 AM delete
capsica? how cme i dont remember it?? was it
veggie?
half my veins must be made of maggie
nutrients!
Raghudon
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9/22/2006 11:25 AM delete
@riju
remember the shell accounts and thestudents
accounts... when we had tcpip we had to just
connect for 5 mins and it used to be clogged...
Raghudon then there were hacked passwords... evryday
(manage) we used to spend 15 mins testing rumors!
when i got my first comp home i was at the top
of the world....
9/22/2006 11:55 AM delete
of course it was veg, basically capsicum
raji
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9/22/2006 11:56 AM delete
of course it was veg, basically capsicum
raji
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i remember.. warning: totally arbitrary n random

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9/22/2006 11:57 AM delete
hmmm... gotta ask my mom! must be real time
Bombay
bak!
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view profile also du u remember how popular mongines

●
Raghudon was? that was about the only cake shop of
● view forum (manage) repute!
9/22/2006 12:06 PM delete
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Doordashan antic
Remember this
• Deepak •
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v=uaTYLy1Jgio&mode=related&search=HipHop
%20Rap%20Indian%20Dancers%20Hindi
9/22/2006 12:09 PM delete
Doordashan antic and this
• Deepak • v=k7OkWpfTz1U&mode=related&search=HipHop
(manage) %20Rap%20Indian%20Dancers%20Hindi
9/22/2006 12:24 PM delete
hey u know akbarally's used to have a super
market inside the mall, lovely pattices u used to
raji get there!!
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9/22/2006 1:05 PM delete
Yeah we still have melody and we used to get
those little pink sweets that used to look like
**6σ~TheShrew~** pomegranate seeds.Anyone remember them?
(manage) Hey akbarally's also sold awesome butter
choclates na then?
9/22/2006 6:43 PM delete
@ deepak....
almost got tears in my eyes! this was an
awsome link! the bestest DD had to offer@
Raghudon
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9/22/2006 10:50 PM delete

Patel on the other thread reminded me of this
Hibernating "Patel Patel khpodi ma tel, khai charana ni bhel

(manage) jaai peva tel.." Or something on this lines.
Does anyone remember the whole thing?

9/23/2006 12:59 AM delete
its so strange, don't see kids playing hide n
seek, lagori, and all those games, used to be
raji such fun
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9/23/2006 1:01 AM delete
It was stop palty, not bloody hide n seek!
Ready Coddie
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9/23/2006 1:14 AM delete
i invite u all to a new community mumbai
rocks
most welcome
shripal
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Raji, kids today have more
schoolwork, more "electronic" games,
● view profile more TV, and fewer playgrounds.

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9/23/2006 2:07 AM delete
Yes,and kids today have Internet
access.
**6σ~TheShrew~** My sister and her friends are so
(manage) internet and computer savvy @ 13.
Its amazing.They can even burn cd's.
Make IM id's,Download stuff.
And they know all the game sites.My
sister for instance plays
Blackgammon online?!?!
They do play outdoorgames like
cricket and football still though.
I remember when I was 13.I used to

hate basic taught at school.The only
board games I played were chess,
scrabble,ludo,buisness.And I had to
read.Books were an addiction.Kids
today don't even want to read.And
thats a fact.
9/23/2006 2:11 AM delete
yet these kids are twice as smart as
to wat we used to be! look at coddie.
raji hehee
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9/23/2006 2:20 AM delete

@P.Shrew
Refer to bloody Harry Potter...
Kids are tech savy but the difference

Ready Coddie is the time you used in playing Mario
(manage) is used by them to play GTA San
Andreas or some Pinkish girl game.
That dont mean they dont play

sports... I mean they try to imitate
Ronaldo, Bruce Lee (*Whistles*),
Jackie Chan (*Again whistles*), WWF
Superstars, Sachin Tendulkar, etc.
I mean most of the kids detest the

nerdy ones as you imagine today's
youth to be...
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i used to play contra, quiet cool, and
that stupid pc alladin
raji
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9/23/2006 2:26 AM delete
i still play pacman its the best!!
raji
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9/23/2006 3:18 AM delete
Hmmm, playing Mario. I only played
that on a PC. And when we were kids,
PCs were a tad ... expensive.
Just Read As for kids being twice as "smart", I

(manage) wonder .... Kids have always been
smart, most adults just stop learning
for some reason.
I remember discussing the lack of

reading habits with a friend a few
months ago. He offered an interesting
datapoint: He reads a lot, because he
grew up without a TV till he was ~ 10
years old. His younger sister, OTOH
(3 years younger), got used to
watching TV before she got into the
reading habit. She doesn't read much.

Hmmm, in the snow, uphill both

ways.
9/23/2006 3:44 AM delete
An I Remember golden post
Earlier, 16 bit games were a big deal
and called Super Video Game (SNES,
Super Nintendo)
Ready Coddie
(manage) The most commonly found were the 8
Nintendo system which went by the
name of Video Game and had
cassetes which had an approx. 4-6
games in them.
In fact even widely available today for

lower middle class people.
The most common would perhaps be

Contra which was a 2 player special
and a favourite among everyone...
Here a player in red and a player in

Blue would be player 1 and 2 and it
had celebrated stuff like S power, M
Power, F Power with different ranges
and speed.
It was damn hard to complete the

game.
Some tricks were devised where you

press start select and something to
skip a level.
Another famed game is Mario which

stood for its simplicity...
It had this thing where you could skip

level by jumping through pipes and
oftenly completely Mario in time was
a challenge.
The WWF games were also brillaint in

the sense that you could figure out
who is the wrestler easily and it had
the very cool 80's music. Here you
had to go over a steel cage after you
hit your opponent with approx 10
slams.

Also an unforgetable game would be

Duck Hunt for which you needed
these guns to aim at a duck and
shoot it dead and you had to do it
from atleast 5 feet apart to prove
yourself.
Final Fantasy was a game which

though made great fame in other
countries it couldnt do much here in
India.
And the first two Mortal Kombat

games were also released and
extremely respected because of their
extremely revolutionary gameplay.
Liu Kang subsequently became a

household name.
In Fighting games there was Street

Fighter which was perhaps the first
game to include an Indian character
(Dhalsim) and Ryu and Ken became
Body building idols for 8-12 yr. olds.
Also another few games I forgot the

names but they had these 3 option of
characters with their own skills, really
good...
Contra force had 5 different

characters to choose from.
Cont.
9/23/2006 3:50 AM delete
Mario too released its sequels though
they didnt sell much despite better
graphics and smoother gameplay they
set the trend to upgrade characters
Ready Coddie and give more than the normal jump
(manage) thing which would later be followed
by all other games.
Alladin too made a great impact on

the gaming world... it was extremely
hard but possible to complete and
had a really huge range of stuff to see
in it...
The First Zelda was released in India

but failed to meet the success it did in

the states and Japan.
Also it can be noted that Street

Fighter 2 was the only game which
sky rocketed in success as compared
to an original succesful first part.
Alladin marked the End of the 8 bit

era revolution with the bittersweet
success of SF 2.
It can be noted many hotels had put

up machines on which you can play 8
bit stuff (A very famous Captain
America and Bruce Lee fighting game
amidst them) where you moved with
a hard analog and had 6 buttons to
play with, it was 1 Rupee for 30 mins
(YUP!).
They want extremely well and

prompted the release of the Jurassic
Park games which would mark the
last game released for NES and held
the door for SNES to enter Bombay
though it had a short lived success it
was destined to leave eyes quickly
with the arrival of PLaystation 1 in
gaming cafes
9/23/2006 3:52 AM delete
Coddie boy you forgot to mention
Spartman(Or was it something else?)
Hibernating
(manage) Final Fanatsy was book written by
you, aint it?
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Coddie I've read the harry potter
series with delight.My sister didn't.
● view profile **6σ~TheShrew~** The rage did make her ask me to buy
(manage) the books though.
● view forum I agree with Just Read,Animax,
cartoon network,pogo, Other
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whatsitsnames.Spoilt for choice?Lets
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give them some credit.They afterall,

do gather around to watch Beakman's
world.(That mole on the nose is very
ugly isn't it?)
I remember DD didn't leave us with

much option except for sunday,
Mahabharat,ducktales,sunday evening
movies around five thirty with asha
parekh in tight saris and 3 feet high
wigs.
We had enid blyton though.And

malory towers,famous fives and
secret sevens.
9/23/2006 4:59 AM delete
hey u r reall maharastrian........
really.........
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9/23/2006 5:19 AM delete
hey enid blyton ...... THE ENCHANTED
WOODS... superb!!
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9/23/2006 5:20 AM delete

INDRAJAL COMICS... Mandrake!!
raji
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9/23/2006 6:05 AM delete
mandrake and loather ( i remember
dem quaintly)..
Neil
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9/23/2006 7:06 AM delete
hey do people still read archie
comics... i love them....
raji
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9/23/2006 7:08 AM delete
!
Raji... u bet! eye have the whole lotta
Its the End... digezt...with me!
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9/23/2006 7:12 AM delete
hey even i love collecting them, i love
the magzine size ones more
raji
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9/23/2006 7:13 AM delete
magazine size 1z
Its the End... eye still collect the ol' skul text buk
(manage) type ones! whenever eye get mah
hands on...
9/23/2006 7:53 AM delete
@Raji
I have approx 45 Double Digests and
the sort I never read... want em?
Ready Coddie
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Bombay
(18,321 members) coddie gimme no =D
● view profile **6σ~TheShrew~**

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● view events Yeah raji, mandrake the magician and
the number 8 hehe.Me remembers.
**6σ~TheShrew~** What was it they called that 8 club?
(manage) Some octjkh...d thingie na?
*scratch *scratch *SWAT!!
9/23/2006 8:12 AM delete
@The shrew
All yours All yours...
BTW, Who here has read them Tinkle

Ready Coddie and Amar Chitra Katha stuff?
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Also during that time came almost
imported like DC comics which had all
unheard superheroes...
I personally believe the quality of

comics has declined with time...
9/23/2006 8:15 AM delete
^^I've read comics of all the Indrajal
heroes (mandrake,phantom, garth,
dara, flash gordon, rip kirby.....)as
well as Tinkle and ACK too. As a kid I
RoDz was lucky to get some DC comics
(manage) from some of my cousins returning
from abroad - Batman, Superman,
Aquaman adn the likes.

9/23/2006 8:18 AM delete

...
Remindz moi of chacha choudhari n
Its the End... Sabu
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9/23/2006 8:54 AM delete
dead
chacha chaudry , sabu ,supandi :-)
• Deepak •
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9/23/2006 9:35 AM delete
i was a member of the tinkle club...
uncle pai haha
raji hey coddie ur gonna give the archies
(manage) to me... first hmmmm
9/23/2006 9:36 AM delete

not exactly a member but something
like it!!
raji
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9/23/2006 9:37 AM delete
aye there were HE MAN comics too i
still have mine.. thank god my mom
raji didint throw those away
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9/23/2006 9:38 AM delete
... :|
You two ladies quarrel over it...
*Both are so damn cute I cant

Ready Coddie support one*
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Bombay
(18,321 members) hmmmmm

9/23/2006 9:46 AM delete
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@ dead
hey u get the magzine size ones(archies) at
raji colaba opposite FAB INDIA, on the road
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9/23/2006 9:47 AM delete
25 rupees each hehehe
raji
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9/23/2006 9:47 AM delete
And on crossroads, raddiwallas, etc.
Ready
Coddie
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9/23/2006 9:59 AM delete
yeah... read all those comix...
also asterix/ tintin/ flash gordon/ bahadur.. all
the indrajal comix!
Raghudon i used to love.... "mandarke" urf Mandrake the
(manage) magician and his sidekick lothar and his hot
wife nadia!
who can forget the ghost who walks???

9/23/2006 10:00 AM delete

do u remember the subzi market???? its really
been ages since i have seen one!
Raghudon
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9/23/2006 10:20 AM delete
Shakari Bhandar, bandra , Is it still running ?
• Deepak
•
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9/23/2006 10:32 AM delete
hey sahakari bhandar bandra has anyone knows
there was a theater in that place before called i
think Neptune! or Nandi!
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9/23/2006 10:58 AM delete
Raji..
hehehe thankz.. eye guezz eyeve grown too ol'
Its the now
End...
(manage) Deepakbhaii,
Purfuct.. Supandi comix, n doze lil twins ~ err

wat did we call them...
9/23/2006 1:18 PM delete
Speaking of ACKs, I know a couple of people
who had the entire collection, and their parents
threw it away as junk.
Just Read And Raji, check your book titles ;).

(manage) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Magic_Faraway_Tree_series
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Bombay
(18,321 members) does anyone remember an old series called
Fireball-XL5...puppets sitting on a space
● view profile rocket. The title song went something like
this..
view forum Ramalingam
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"Its got to be a fireball" or something like
(manage) that.
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9/23/2006 5:18 PM delete
Ramalingam, read the thread. Fireball XL5
was already mentioned.
Just Read
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9/24/2006 12:13 AM delete
MALGUDI DAYS
raji
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9/24/2006 4:46 AM delete
HEY isn't baba sehgal also history ... hahaha
raji
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9/24/2006 11:33 PM delete
Nah he is not.. He just sang a song for a
movie Saali tu mani nahi kabhi toh manegi,
Hibernating saali phechani nahi....
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9/24/2006 11:49 PM delete

old rappin days were fun... dil dhadke mera
dil dhadake!! cool song , pooga bedi sucks
raji though!
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9/25/2006 12:49 AM delete
does she suck good?
Raghudon
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9/25/2006 12:56 AM delete
@Raghu
lol...although dat song was the first one in
india to have a video...if im not mistaken.
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9/25/2006 1:04 AM delete
yeah... baba was a trensetter in his own way
though... ice-ice baby.... thanda thanda
paani... he broke the barriers of inspirational
plagarism :-)
Raghudon
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9/25/2006 1:11 AM delete
"ek chidiya" ... anek chidiya...
the cartoons of films diision!
also remember "gotya" ./... was the only
marathi program i ever watched i think!
Raghudon and the comedy serials - ramayan and
(manage) mahabharat
i used to freak out on the costumes and
sspecial effects! though all f india used to be
on a standstilllllll ppl iused to worship the tv
when ram or sita came on the tv!
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Bombay
(18,321 members) also read this once... the female
playing sita "deepika or something"
● view profile was acting in another movie and
there was scene she was gettin
● view forum Raghudon raped...
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● view events the whole lot of bhaiyas invaded the
poor villans house and broke it down
for violating "Sita Maiyya"
lolz...
9/25/2006 1:27 AM delete
down south, villains in telgu/tamil
movies ask for police protection after
the movie release !!
<G:a:u:r:a:v> and thats not for extortionists but

(manage) fanatics who wud pound him for any
wrong doing against the hero.
9/25/2006 5:02 AM delete
i just wrote it for the kicks of
completing the 2400th entry!
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9/25/2006 10:29 AM delete
I lemembel!!!
**6σ~TheShrew~** Giaaannnttt robot...Must see.=)

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http://youtube.com/watch?
v=69Vg_wyhLFc

9/25/2006 10:30 AM delete

Disney hour and AXN Animation are
more heavier in my mind...
Ready Coddie
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9/25/2006 10:42 AM delete
luv u for that link.... wow..... love it!
Raghudon
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9/25/2006 11:32 AM delete
I remember how popular Hamma,
Hamma was and the other song from
Roja - cant remember it but it was
sung by baba sehgal....
Poonam Oh yes, this reminds of 'Amma dekh,
(manage) dekh' song - who sung that one?
9/25/2006 11:40 AM delete
@poonam
it was bali brahmabhatt....he's the
one i think who sung patel-rap.
Ramalingam
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9/25/2006 2:24 PM delete
Yeah and also tht video featuring
Bikram Saluja and Anupama Verma
-=||-|ë W|-|ö (/
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This is Great!!
Amod I was remembering about the BEST
Canteen Bus. They served great Vada
(manage)
Paav with leftover chutney from Dosa.
The Bus would circle around fountain
and Prince of Wales Museum.
Anyways totally random.....

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Bombay
(18,321 members) @poonam
its was remo, not baba sehgal!
9/25/2006 8:13 PM delete
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@coddie
hey uncle scrooge and launchhpad, i used to
raji love disney our!!!
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9/25/2006 8:59 PM delete
Oh yea.. Disney Hour Sunday's morning 9.00
am onwards. I still watch it.
Hibernating
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9/25/2006 9:23 PM delete
hehe, me too!! papa bear
raji
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9/25/2006 9:37 PM delete
@Poonam and Raji
Both of you right in some respect... Humma
Milind Humma was sung by Remo, while Baba
(manage) Sehgal sang Rukmini Rukmini from Roja,
along with Shweta Shetty.
And amma Dekh was Bali Bhrambhatt

9/25/2006 9:40 PM delete

I watched the same Disney cartoons
(Talespin and Duck Tales) here in the US...
Milind its funny how they translate names... and
(manage) how Rebecca Cunningham becomes Ritika
Mahalingam in Hindi and Kit Cloudkicker
becomes a very Parsi Kit "Cloudwalla"
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For some reason Cartoon Netword had named
the lead actor of Mask (Stephen or Steven)
as Sachin.
Ready And the Captain Planet guys as Omkar, Vijay,

Coddie etc.
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9/25/2006 10:14 PM delete
Wasn;t the lead in Mask Stanley Ipkiss?
Milind
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9/25/2006 10:25 PM delete
For some reason Milind Coddie mixed up the
names!
Hibernating
(manage) 5 planeteers were: Kwane, Wheeler, Linka, Gi
and Ma-ti!
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jungle book, mowgli....had advertising ppl
giving away free stickers in my school, still on
my cupboard.
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(18,321 members) Yeah I remember that.And they also
had wwf tatoos.
● view profile **6σ~TheShrew~** Those were so cute and quite the
(manage) rage then.
● view forum I had stuck an undertaker onto the
TV.
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@Shrew
The tatoos did not actually have so
much fame (least not in my pre
teenage tenure)
Ready Coddie
(manage) There were way more famed WWF
stickers.
We used to stick them on our school

bags, the then famed ones were: The
Rock, Undertaker, Mankind, Kane and
Stone Steve Austin
There were also frequently stuck on

drawers nd the sort.
All the guys coming in the classroom

would start talking about WWF.
Also there were this WWF Labels

which you could stick on your
notebooks.
We even used to try stunts on each

other in the recess and were named
after particular fighters for the stunts
which we could give.
Also very few of you must have done

this... trading of stickers... I think the
most famous and wanted one was
Stone cold Steve Austin giving a

stunter to The Undertaker.
We used to go in the Park and play

with those WWF Cards.
Here the caller names an attribute of

a card and the one with the highest
wins the other cards.
9/25/2006 11:30 PM delete
i remember those cadbury lollipops..
with teh paper stick.. by the time you
came to the centre of the pop, the
paper bega to peal and it used to
Shweta
taste yuck...
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9/25/2006 11:36 PM delete
when DD Metro was launched, they
had kids programs from 8pm. used to
love Fairy Tales.
<G:a:u:r:a:v> wats the name of the one where 2

(manage) kids wander off in the forest and
enter a house made from cake, then
get captured by a witch...
9/26/2006 12:52 AM delete
@ gaurav
hansel and gretel
Raghudon
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9/26/2006 3:08 AM delete
hey kisme toffee bar still exists!!
raji
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9/26/2006 11:37 AM delete

something arbitrary n
viswanathan random ............but true
(manage) Local train.without ticket virar fast.
window seat machi wali,TC,Ladies
special,Pickpocket, Midday,Times of
India,Traffic jams,bumper 2 bumper,
signal @ hajihali,Red FM, Go, Mirchi,
city,stockmarket,scams.cutting lanes,
have a cutting chai,Marine drive, gully
cricket,oval maidan, kamatipura,
DabbaWallah,Ragda Pattice,Bhel puri,
Regal Morning show,Hot samosa,
Beer @ A/C Mondegar,Item number
@ chamiya bar,jumbo vada pav wid
miss nimbu pani,pav bhaji @ juhu
chowpati,Athena,olive,Especial
biryani@ kau galli,Kababs @
bademiyan,climax @ badshah falooda,
Colaba causeway,prince of wales,
jahangir art gallery,Whankade
stadium, vengsarkar,Gavaskar,
Tendulkar,4 'n 6ers,Bulls'N Bears,
Dallal street,BMC,MTNL,Munna
mobile, pappu pager, Bhaigiri 'n dada
giri,Hafta, Rokda, Peti' N Khokha,
Ramu's company,Filim city,Bollywood,
angry amithabh,stammering sharukh,
Main Madhuri,Pretty priety,Its all abt
loving ur family,Borivali,vikhroli,
kandivali,pasta lane,queen's necklace,
churchgate D'road,shewri kalbadevi,
chinchpokli,antophill,shivaji park,
Nagpada, agripada, andheri (E),
andheri(W),Nariman point,mumbai
central,santacruz,Hajihali,MIDC,BARC,
lower parel,upper worli,R.C church,
Parsi colony,Horniman circle,jacob
cicle,sion, powai,fort,matunga,chira
bazar,masjidbundar,cuffe parade,
dharavi, but bandra babes a quite
lovely,Band stand,pali hill,joggers
park,Yet most hariyali at National
park,Mumba devi,afgan church,
siddhivinayak,Masjid, Jhaveri bazaar,
Bomb blast,yet unity in diversity,
Harsh 'n avanthi, Raja 'N Quinnie,
Kishen Mulchandani,Bombay Times
Page 3,R.K Lakshman,shopba de,
manish,hemant,rocky,mumbai's own

fashion street,tata,birla,bajaj,godrej,
ambani,they all made their money in
the city that never sleeps ZARA
HATKE ZARA BACHKE YEH HAI
BAMBAI MERI JAAN!!!!!!!!
9/26/2006 2:06 PM delete
We used to go in the Park and play
with those WWF Cards.
Here the caller names an attribute of

Aditi a card and the one with the highest
(manage) wins the other cards.
coddie u mean trump cards?? i

remember playing those. hulk hogan
was rank number 1, yokozuna highest
weight, bret hart was rank 3 or 4,
widest chest was 52cm.. i dunno who
it belonged to.
9/26/2006 2:26 PM delete
^^that was Yokuzuna as well, Lex
Lugor I think had the biggest guns
(biceps)
RoDz
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9/26/2006 6:54 PM delete
@ vishwanath - nice stream....
WWF cards... then u used to also

have the useless cards whose no
Raghudon attributes could win u the game.....
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those days it was such a craze...
boys, gurls, everyone played them!
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Bombay
(18,321 members) aah not to forget the Ono {or Uno}
cardz az well...
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9/27/2006 2:12 AM delete
I remember those wwf cards too!!
Anyone remember the way Tatanka
**6σ~TheShrew~** used to come all hopping in the ring
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Embarassingly he,Hulk hogan and
shawn michael were my fave.Sean
michael caz he looked like Akshay
kumar.I remember Akshay kumar
was once such hot stuff.
haha But those tattoos were in for a

while too.
Also ono cards?They are still around.
Though Pikachu had taken over for
the recent few years.
9/27/2006 2:15 AM delete
There was Cricket Trump cards!
Hibernating Anyone remembers playing Mikado

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9/27/2006 9:54 AM delete

I remember when regurgitations and
repeats were only occasional... but
then again better a re-run of
nostalgia than loads of mindless crap.
Bhavik
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9/28/2006 6:47 AM delete
hey these days we don't see much of
double decker buses
raji
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9/28/2006 7:58 AM delete
NOW A DAYS WE DO NOT SEE
USUALLY CLEAR SKY.....(IN CITY)
dipesh
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9/28/2006 8:20 AM delete
has Indus Creed been mentioned
earlier?
Aditi
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9/28/2006 8:45 AM delete
Raji, yes. They are being phased out,
and this was discussed earlier.
Just Read
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9/28/2006 11:02 AM delete
@aditi
indus creed... uday benegal... wow!
thats a thought to remember...
also parikrama were god ..they
Raghudon recently became commercialized...
(manage) and are diminishing!
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Bombay
(18,321 members) i remember indipop... alisha, shaan, and even
before..
● view profile Mohit
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● view forum
9/28/2006 1:32 PM delete
● view events I remember this outrageously funny show
called snakes and ladders ...
and another one .. Tol Mol Ke Bol

Nishank plus a few really old ones on sony .. silver
(manage) spoon .. different strokes ..
damn .. i've watched too much tv aint it .. !

9/28/2006 1:42 PM delete
crystal maze?
Mohit
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9/28/2006 2:31 PM delete
dil dhadke..mera dil dhadke....koi nahi jane
mera dil dhadke!
Comfortably
(manage) also serials on zee TV "Tara"'
"Parampara","banegi apni baat".....i know
sounds sissy.....

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Remember watching this serial - bombay
lajawab. Where a family would participate and
you had answer question on bombay. I
remember my mum took me for a audition or
Poonam test - and they asked me questions and I
(manage) couldnt answer anyone of them cause I was
so freaked out.
My grandma and my mum where chosen for
the show - and they won in the end. The prize
was random clothes from United Colours of
Benetton!
9/28/2006 6:41 PM delete
HOME IMPROVEMENT...........
for me this was he bestestttt stand up comedy
show... tim allen is just marvellous in his
sense of humor! all his kids (bill, ), jill his
Raghudon wife, sidekick Al Borland, wilson wilson...
(manage) HEIDI - Lisa(pamela andersons first screen
job)... ... when the last show was
announced... it felt like a close friend going
off....
a synopsis:
Stand-up comic Tim Allen, who specialized in
macho humor,
brought his act to television in this comic saga
of a man
and his tool belt. Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor
was a local
celebrity in Detroit with his cable TV show Tool
Time, a
cheerful mix of fix-it advice and humor
sponsored by Binford
Tools. His answer to every problem: more
power! At home he
was a bit of a klutz, however, and when he
strapped on his
tool belt and whipped out his drill like a six-
shooter, the
kids cleared out. Frustrated wife Jill tried to
keep him
away from the appliances but to no avail;
sons Brad, Randy,
and winsome little Mark offered varying
degrees of help;
and neighbor Wilson, never clearly seen over
the backyard
fence, philosophized about the meaning of

everything.
Al was Tim's knowing helper on Tool Time,
along with
Lisa, the buxom "tool girl" (succeeded by
Heidi in 1993).
any other fans of Home improvement?

9/28/2006 9:15 PM delete
Maut Ka Kua
I remember first seeing Maut ka Kua in some
Hibernating movie of Vivek Mushran with Pooja Bhatt
(manage) (Guess it was something Savan ka Saatwa
Ghoda). I have been to a circus plenty of time
while I was kid. I guess all the time it was
either Royal Circus or Rambo Circus. But I
dont remember seeing Maut ka Kua live in a
circus. Does anyone remember seeing it?
@Raghu
Indus Creed did visit I-Rock last year. I dont
know about this year tough.
Parikrama arent diminishing. You can catch

them at college festivals. They have their gigs
regularly happening in the city. I saw them
last at D.J College of Engineering. Their
originals are some the best music to come out
of Indian Rock Scene. They also had
performed at Azad Maidan sometime back and
yea the entry was free of cost.
9/29/2006 1:19 AM delete
Kinky Ski Munky.
Kooky
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9/29/2006 4:37 AM delete
@Kooky
When Naked earth had a 55 year old drummer
and played MIND blowing music.
ghatis dancing the lezium at Kaleidoscope in
Romanticus tune to Metallica's wherever I may roam...
(manage) Deep Purple Highway Star keyboard solo on a
guitar...
when we drank whole bottles of corex to get
high

9/29/2006 10:04 AM delete

still miss i rock at rang bhavan!!
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9/29/2006 5:16 PM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) Was it Gary Lawyer who sang the famous anti-
smoking tune "with a cigarette in my hand i
● view profile Neville felt like a man ..... with a cigarette in my
(manage) hand i was a dead man" ? He had a couple of
● view forum other hits too during the Danny McGill/Sophia
era ...can't remember any though. Anyone
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9/29/2006 5:31 PM delete

dunno if it was discussed earlier...anyone
remember french cricket...
batsman standing inside circle...if ball hits the

Ramalingam leg, batsman's out...batsman cannot turn
(manage) around in the circle and nor can he step out of
it...all fielders throwing ball at the batsman's
legs to get him out...
that was absolute kiddish FUN!! I'm almost

transported to the days of yore!!!
9/29/2006 8:14 PM delete
We still play french cricket .... batting on stool
with your back towards the ball is a fine art.
Neville
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9/29/2006 8:47 PM delete
Rama...I'd seriously suggest you read the first
few pages (say about 20)!
Irshad
(manage) Gary Lawyer had this ohter huge hit called
Nights on Fire...shot at an old parsi bungalow,
of course.

9/29/2006 10:25 PM delete

anyone remember uncle chips saturday date
on radio????? it was on saturdays between
10- 11 at night i think, on 100.7 fm.
Janhavi some of the best english songs i heard for the

(manage) first time there
9/30/2006 12:10 AM delete
KAI ZHALAAAAAA
few ads i remebr
some grip water ad in marathi goes like
"kai zhala baal radat hota..agaa dash de
Shruti tyalaa" ahahaa zhakaas stuff..
(manage) wannabe javed crashing thru the glass
entering his office..
yeh bichara kaam ke bozh ka maara..inhe
chahiye humdard ka tonic sinkaraaaa
"shaan se bolo chal meri luna"
"jab mein chota baccha tha badi shararat
karta tha"
(remake of this ad sucks though)
liril babe dancing on la la la la
laaaaaaaaaaaa...
lagao lagao aur jor lagao yeh fevicol ka
mazboot jod hai tootega nahi
mind blowing work..wish i was working in this

industry that time....................
9/30/2006 12:18 AM delete
@Shruti
it was Woodwards Gripe water.. a glass bottle
with that whiskey type of screw on cap with a
sticker in dirty yellow with dark brown words...
Romanticus
(manage) this book could be judged by its cover... it
tasted as awful as it looked...
9/30/2006 1:24 AM delete
we should give some to cody ahahha
raji
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9/30/2006 1:25 AM delete

oh yaah right....
Shruti
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9/30/2006 1:28 AM delete
Romanticus
Wasn't it an ORS water?
Hibernating
(manage) You tasted it?
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Bombay
(18,321 members) dast ki bimaari ke liye baccho ko den
achahiye..pani mein namak and
● view profile sugar..yeah! ORS..as said in the ad..
anther javed wannabe's ad ...maggi
● view forum Shruti tomto kchp. its diffrnt..
(manage) mona yeh lo sona..
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michel tum cycle chalo...something
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like tht
9/30/2006 1:33 AM delete
hey anybody mentioned mouthful of
sky before!! i havent gone through
raji the entire thread boss!!
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9/30/2006 1:34 AM delete
aye sexy shabana azmi " aids chuney
se thodi hi felta hai!!!!"
raji
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9/30/2006 1:37 AM delete
isse toh pyaar failata hai....
Shruti
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9/30/2006 1:38 AM delete
lol...
raji
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9/30/2006 1:46 AM delete

hey there was that captain cook ad
with that karamchand girl
raji
yeh haii sadharan namak...... aur yeh
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captian cook superb ad!!
9/30/2006 1:48 AM delete
*Ting tidi ding*
**6σ~TheShrew~**
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9/30/2006 1:51 AM delete
school picnic used to be generally at
chota kashmir, national park, jijamata
udyan
and most of the time in chota
Shruti kashmir...
(manage) they used to run live soft porn
movies..
couples sitting under over inside the
bushes kaise bhi..
expressing there love..
sippin gold stop one by one
n kids.. least interested in playing....

puri bhaji dabba and waterbag..yo!
9/30/2006 2:01 AM delete
hey movies sey yaad aya. there was a
drive in theatre at kalanagar, which is
raji demolished now,
(manage) wonder wats happenin over there
now???
9/30/2006 3:05 AM delete
i think that drive in theatre has been
demolished .. its a flat ground now..
Kaotic last heard that one mall would come
(manage) up there...
it used to be called the open air
theatre:)
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Hey school picnics.By Chota kashmir
you mean the one at powai near vihar
● view profile **6σ~TheShrew~** lake no?
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● view forum I remeber they used to take us to
that place often and then to the
● view events beaches.Repetitively gorai,sometimes
aksa.And from the time I went in the
7th grade,our picnics went to
esselworld EVERY YEAR!!
9/30/2006 4:22 AM delete
yeah school picnics.......
it was gorai, uttan, aarey (yucky milk
smell), powai, chotta kasm=hmir...
and in our final year fantasy land...
Raghudon yippie that was such a kick for us...
(manage) almost a month we were tom-
tomming around....
also remember the fantasy land picnic

day as the day the first blast of march
1993 tok place.... we were shocked
and scared beyond reason.... also
years later still blood bils at that act
of cowardice and terrorism... those
bastargs responsible for sit should be
castrated. made naked, smeared with
honey and sugar and thrown into an
anthill to suffer a slow and agonizing
death..............
9/30/2006 4:36 AM delete
hey raghu, some coddie influence eh!!
raji
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9/30/2006 4:38 AM delete

Just skimmed through the thread
along with my sis.. Pardon me if this
Hibernating is being mentioned before!
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She reminded of Langdi, where in
there were 8 blocks and you throw a
clip in each of the 8 blocks.
Also aa meena, super sheena, big

boy, razy girl,.......
I remember Ajooba masks were a

rage sometime and talwars and gadas
and bows and arrows that you used
to get outside a hall.
I also remember whuping (Tajji)

friends after they had a hair cut and
before they could say Ram Ram.
9/30/2006 4:49 AM delete
@lost
hmmm taaji was amazing... especially
i used to be the one doing most of the
hitting :-) this one time... a guy hit
Raghudon another guy after a haircut... and he
(manage) just fell forwrd and fainted! we were
all so worrid nd the principal banned
"TAAJI".... we followed the ordrs for
amonth... then we stared calling it
"champi" :-)
@ raji...
it was a little off topic... but those are
my sentiments exactly... i guess
those were developed when cody was
not even born! anoter thread to get
those up!

9/30/2006 7:20 AM delete

mention of 93 riots ..
i was a small kid, all streets empty
due to curfew
tried and sneaked and played cricket
Nirav on the man roads,
(manage) also older guys (college guys, i was in
school then) kept making plans on
how they would defend our housing
colony .. and in retrospect i realised
they were even more scared than me
9/30/2006 10:36 AM delete
Okay, must admit.. This community is
fantastic.. Just like the city.. Loved
Shweta reading the posts.. Not gonna add to
(manage) it.. Alot been covered already.. N'
btw, good stuff, Salil :)
10/2/2006 4:38 AM delete
Pee ke saab khe umm __________ ?
Hibernating Finally something that isnt mention in

(manage) the thread before!
10/2/2006 6:05 AM delete
old ad jingle's
hey among all the old ads anyone
Kaveri remembers the everyready jingle.... i
(manage) briefly recollect something like lal
everready..... write in if anyone
does....
10/3/2006 11:25 AM delete
talking of school picnics... there was
the annual school cross country race
at jamboorie maidan - aarey milk
colony! wonder whats left of the
Shamit place... i think it was in the same
(manage) place where the royal palms country
club stands now! vividly remember it
being under contruction when i ran
my last cross country race in std. X
around 8 years ago...
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Bombay
(18,321 members) oh, I remember the cross country race! with
hot cocoa afterwards
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10/5/2006 3:43 AM delete
● view events Patel rhyme
We used to say it to any kid named Patel, e.g.
Ashok Patel
Ash Khopdi ma tel
(manage) Char ana ni bhel
SSC ma fail.
Not very exciting.

10/5/2006 3:53 AM delete
@Poonam
"I remember way back when the only flavour
of ice cream you could get was vanilla - in
really small cups and that was a treat at all
Ash other times you would get pepsi"
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You must be over 100 years old! I left in 1973
and we had all the usual simple flavours -
raspberry, chocolate, vanilla, mango, pista,
and at special locations, tutti frutti. Joy Ice
Cream used to sell vanilla ice cream in paper
tubs as did many other no-name brands.
Spoons were a wooden paddle and later a
plastic spoon.
Kwality was the more popular brand and it

made my favourite - a Choc-Cream bar and
also the choc coated vanilla. Did all the
flavours disappear along the way?
In a previous sub-thread we also covered

Vibgyor, an ice cream shop facing Chowpatty
beach where you got a slab on a plate and it

was a mosaic of different colours, each

supposedly a different flavour. Not that I
could tell the difference. It is no more.
There was also a place called Cream Centre

which had ice creams but also regular snacks.
Outside Brabourne Stadium was a sorry-

looking department store called K Rustom
which also sold fruit drinks and fruity ice
blocks.
10/5/2006 3:58 AM delete
Shell Accounts
"The boyfriend n I got round to discussing
'Shell' accounts."
Ash Not in Bombay but here in Melbourne I was

(manage) on the Internet (sort of) since 1985, but in
1993 I got my first subdomain and ran a
UUCP site at home with 300 users. They had
email and newsgroups over a 9600 bps line. I
had to poll a site every few hours to exchange
email and news articles.
During the 80s I also ran a BBS.
Shell accounts - well, yes. Had one at

university in 1987-89 and later at work. I run
my own Internet server now so I still have
one.
10/5/2006 4:07 AM delete
K Rustom's still exists and is still very sorry
looking, but the ice-creams are still to die for!
Irshad My dad would actually take us to town when
(manage) were kids just so that we could have masala
milk at Anandos, ride the escalator at
Chowpatty and then go to K Rustom to have
ice-cream!

10/5/2006 4:17 AM delete

Ink pens
When I was a wee lad, some people still used
nib pens. Not sure what they are called
properly, but there was a cheap wooden stick,
Ash usually with advertising and you pushed in a
(manage) steel nib, dipped it in an ink well and then
wrote a few words before needing to dip it
again. After a few weeks the nib was
damaged and would rip the paper so you
chucked it out and got a fresh nib. Eventually,
they were used only on Lakshmi Puja day,
when your local Kutchi danawala would give
you one with his branding on the pen.
We used fountain pens at school and would be

severely punished for using a ball pen (called
a ball point pen in the West), as these would
"spoil" our hand writing. In primary school we
had "copy books" by Vere Foster where we
had to trace copperplate writing with a pencil
and later a pen. There were often ink leaks in
the shirt pocket and occasionally ink fights.
Parker used to sell Quink and there were
many poor imitations. My servant used to buy
some powder to mix with water and make
cheap ink, but it would take ages to dry.
I owned a Parker 21 and lusted after a Parker

51, which had a better feel.
Some people such as my doctor still used

blotting paper on a curved roller which was
applied on top of anything he had written, as
inks didn't dry quickly. He also had a large
leatherbound blotting pad as a writing surface.
By the 1970s, ball pens had become more

prevalent.
10/5/2006 6:45 AM delete
some people still used nib pens. Not sure
what they are called properly, but there was a
cheap wooden stick
it was called 'boru'
•••••• ••
(manage) when we switch over from pencil to pen in std
7th we were first trained on this boru during
drawing classes the we are told to write by
fountain pens in note books!

10/5/2006 6:48 AM delete

just remembered...in courts whenever they
pronounced a death sentence...they always
broke the nib...do they still do that??
Ramalingam
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10/5/2006 6:49 AM delete
the ice cream sandwich at K Rustoms!!!
Saurabh aaah! I'm dying here! People keep reminding

(manage) me of things I can't get....
sitting outside K Rustoms on a summer

evening, with the perfect, fat ice cream
sandwich.... heaven!
10/5/2006 6:50 AM delete
Rambhaii..
eye have jzt seen dem in moviez m8
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yeah...maybe its a scene i remember from
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Ash, I remember using ink pens too, those
"Hero" ones with the golden pen-cover that
were actually pretty darned good with
minimal ink leakage. I used them up until std
Bhavik 10, perhaps the story about ink pens enabling
(manage) better hand-writing is true...
Cream centre still exists and is awesome, I

didn't know it was that old.
10/5/2006 6:55 AM delete
Bhavik..
Guess what! Last weekend, I happend to
Its the catch up with the Cream center owner! the
End... guyz now goin to London n Manchester this
(manage) year on his other branch - Sankalp or
somethin.. err damn eye keep forgettin
10/5/2006 6:58 AM delete
my dad had a shaeffer ink pen...but when i
was young...i wanted to see whats inside so i
dismantled it...and couldnt get to re assemble
it...and i threw it away in frustration...and i
Ramalingam
got badly punished for it...
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10/5/2006 7:02 AM delete

aah ~ not sure if its been discussed earlier ..
but remmeber those 1 rupee pepsiz (colored
Its the sweet ice in tight plastics) which we used to
End... have as a kid.. splly after a cricket, bazktball
(manage) or a futball match! awesome fun...
10/5/2006 7:11 AM delete
then they were the 50 paisa ones... the ones
with 1 rupee were either the pepsas (BIG
PEPSI) or the milk flavoured ones!
Raghudon
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10/5/2006 7:13 AM delete
then they were the 50 paisa ones... the ones
with 1 rupee were either the pepsas (BIG
PEPSI) or the milk flavoured ones!
Raghudon
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10/5/2006 7:15 AM delete
aah yesh Raghu,,,.. 50 paise ones were the
smaller ones!
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10/5/2006 7:22 AM delete
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10/5/2006 10:29 AM delete
The show fun time at 1 pm during summer
holidays on DD, Nukkad at nights, 8.35 am
Malad local (apparently the most dangerous
train on the Western Railways during the
Neil morning rush hour), Satkar restaurant and
(manage) the maska pao guy outside Churchgate
Station, 'A' Road walked for 3 yrs towards Jai
Hind......
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Doordarshans 34yrs - Oct 2nd
Doordarshans 34 yrs
● view profile hey anybody watched sahyadri channel on
2nd oct 8 pm onwards , it was 34th
● view forum •••••• •• aniversary of doordarshan Mumbai, and it was
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who have contributed in DD over those yrs ie.
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from 2nd oct 1972!, could see sarita sethi

(first hindi news reader) , yakub sayeed etc.
they have mentioned all those old programs
names,we have mostly covered in this thread!
i remembered this i remember thread at that
time
10/5/2006 10:39 AM delete
2501 and counting...
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10/5/2006 10:49 AM delete
Hi Guys !!!
@ Ramalingam....
Ravi
(manage) The Sheaffer fountain pen reminds me of one
my uncle had...i flicked it to show it off in
college and while coming returning stuffed in
the back pocket off my jeans....many things
turned blue when i sat in the train after
that... ...
@ Raji...
The open drive in space has been bought by

Reliance (thts wht i have heard)...
@ Everyone...

Do u feel that our city deserves a park like the

central park in new york, hyde like in london...
may be i shld put up a thread for this one to
keep the nostalgia alive here and other topics
outta this...
10/5/2006 12:00 PM delete
mungeri lal hasi sab ne is misssing
and also mungeri ke bhai.... how can we
V.S forget that man
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10/5/2006 12:02 PM delete
bombay
mungerilal serial
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10/6/2006 2:37 AM delete
@Ash and Irshad
K Rustoms Icecream sandwhich.. Awesome!
Hibernating Irshad I remeber Anando also.. is it stil there?
(manage) As a kid I used to be more excited Candy
Floss that hawkers used to sell at Girgoan
Chowpatty!
Ash, Lmao Patel Jingle.. Patel kids used to

hate from their guts!
My dad and grandad still use that "nib" pens

on Diwali during the "Chopda Pujan". Have
tried writing with it, its nice feeling of using an
antique thing!
10/7/2006 2:44 AM delete
Yes, I also dismantled things that could never
be reassembled. My parents had a Mont Blanc
and a Shaeffer pen each. One of them had a
lever on the side that folded out, while it
Ash pressed on a rubber tube inside. I didn't know
(manage) that the rubber inside had gone brittle (1940s
rubber was terrible in quality) and cracked. It
could have been repaired with a clear plastic
equivalent of the 60s, but no, I had to
dismantle the pen beyond repair.
The Shaeffer, Mont Blanc and Movado watch

dealer was near the Sukh Sagar end of
Hughes Road (Hujhis Road in Bombay).
On a related note, I commandeered my dad's

gold Movado watch bought in 1939 as it has a

timeless face with just strokes for the major
hours and not the ugly numerals of the
period. It also had a flat glass front. I was
hanging on to a BEST bus which braked and
my weight pressed the watch face on the
handrail, breaking the glass. My dad had it
repaired with some cheap plastic face and it
has not looked as nice ever since.
In my local papers there is often a full page

ad from a company that buys old watches for
hundreds or thousands of dollars - Rolex,
Patek Philippe, Movado, Omega - from the
50s and earlier. If you have one in the family
and want to sell it, beware of getting ripped
off.
Speaking of which, my house had a room with

a "jali" door so that people could see the
furniture inside. For years a jaripuranawala
used to pester my dad to sell two 19th
century matching side tables with intricate
carvings - he sold them for Rs 500, thinking
he had done well. I see such tables going for
tens of thousands of dollars now.
10/7/2006 2:56 AM delete
Thanks for reminding me of the K Rustom ice
cream sandwich. The ice cream was wrapped
in paper, which was peeled off before placing
between two wafers.
Ash
(manage) There was also a short lived chocolate bon-
bons in cardboard tubes. Can't remember the
brand. Little dark chocolate containers with
vanilla ice cream inside. They were always
cracked when we bought them, so they would
begin melting quickly. Perhaps this is why
they didn't catch on.
10/7/2006 3:12 AM delete
Yea... I remember those bon-bons! Kwality
had something like that... Nutrine had a bon-
Irshad bon variant but I'm not sure it was Vanilla ice-
(manage) cream inside chocolate.

10/7/2006 4:19 AM delete

a central park like nyc....
for all those who dont know we have a
Kaveri national park in the city and one which needs
(manage) to be fiercely protected from all those eyeing
it and wanting to apoil it.... its the Sanjay
Gandhi National Park aka Borivali National
Park and is an absolute treasure trove and the
green lung for the city. have trekked there
fair no of times and know that...
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(18,321 members) K Rustoms is just super... love those
icecream sadwiches.. aahhh heaven!
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our school bus used to pass k
● view forum Shamit rustoms on the route home, and we
(manage) made the driver and conductor stop
● view events the bus outside. a few ppl would get
down and buy icecreams for all those
who wanted.. ofcourse everyone paid
for their own! we were kids, and no
one had enough to treat the whole
bus but yeah, we had to buy the
driver and conductor an icecream
each as a bribe to stop the bus and
keep it waiting there
10/7/2006 6:30 AM delete
Turn selection rhyme
There was another nonsense selection
rhyme like eenie meenie - not sure of
the words - there could be a verse
Ash missing:
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iring miring
lavanga chiring
ukka jikka
shesh naag
kilvar, dalimb, fulla!
Who knows the proper version?

10/7/2006 9:43 AM delete
we used to say
aadam tadam
tad tad baza
•••••• •• ukka tikka
(manage) tej majha(something)
karwand , dalimb, fulla!

10/7/2006 2:33 PM delete

ip dip dip
my blue ship
sailing in the water
like a cup and saucer
Shamit ip dip dip
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10/7/2006 3:52 PM delete

anyone remembers the comedy show
called flop show by jaspal bhatti ??
he's completely disappeared now...
Ramalingam
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10/7/2006 7:20 PM delete
I remember the Lijjat papad ad with
the Rabbit laughing...eheh ha lijjat
Anuj papad!!...
(manage) then there was the Surya ad...jab
mein chota bachha tha...badi shararat
karta tha....~~
10/8/2006 6:41 AM delete
Hell yeah flop show.lolll
Well he's based in punjab so I guess
**6σ~TheShrew~** thats one reason.
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I remember when Gurudas mann was
always on TV.
Only punju singer I liked for real.
10/8/2006 8:12 AM delete
flop show by jaspal bhatti, it was gr8
show
i liked those ,It was only TV show
where they showed sarcastically
•••••• •• Chemists /PhD students life , how
(manage) Research guides exploits their
students to give them PhD.
10/8/2006 8:27 AM delete
the talkies at bandra (globus
Hemant corner)
(manage) ah the movies that I watched here
and then went to elco market ...
though not childhood, thats still a
good 17 years back !!!!

10/8/2006 5:15 PM delete

doordarshan
the one thing i remember was some
sort of documentary..animated one
mike ran by the central govt dept...one of
those rashtriya jan hith main jarith.....
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the animated feature about...ek anek
the song started with 2 kids....a boy
asking his elder sister about ek &
anek..
ek chidiya..anek chidiya....&
something else...
yet another feature was the animated
feature about people saving trees...i
liked the way th characters ate the
apples...
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Think the song's been mentioned someplace
earlier in the thread. :)
● view profile Brings back memories.
Num I remember when Zee TV just started out
● view forum they had a show for kids in the evenings
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called-Junglee Toofan Tyre Puncture(a hairy
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purple puppet and his friends..and an
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effervescent teenaged host)

*Yes I watched too,blush*
Around the same time that Crystal Maze was
showing on Star,
the different zones-Industrial,Aztec,Future
etc.
(I believe this show also found mention
earlier)
Zee had it's own gameshow,called(I think)
Saanp Seedi?
starring someone called Mohan(I forget the
name and the show,later,saw a string of
different hosts) where the participants got
dunked into water/drenched,for wrong
answers-buckets,
slides et al.
10/9/2006 2:32 AM delete
That saanp seedi chap was mohan kapoor
and saanp seedi was quite ahead of its time
Irshad in Indian TV... The other big show on Zee
(manage) then was Ek minute, which was the closest
we could get to a Crystal Maze ripoff!

10/10/2006 7:42 AM delete

i remember in 80s we used to have kojagiri
purnima (last sat was there) celebrations at
night in our building ,once all memebers
parents and children were present and we
•••••• •• had games , antakhsahri , dance food and
(manage) funs till 2 am !! now a days these
celebrations are missing , may be exam time
etc.
10/11/2006 1:40 PM delete
you are right Pravin Da, Khojagiri has really
lost its charm in Mumbai.
WAH! kya khojagiri ki raat thi

Just Ashu
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10/11/2006 1:41 PM delete
Our Pledge
India is my country and all Indians are my
brothers and sisters. I love my country and I
am proud of its rich and varied heritage. I
Just Ashu shall always strive to be worthy of it.
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I shall give respect to my parents, teachers
and elders and treat everyone with courtesy.
To my country and my people, I pledge my

devotion. In their will being and prosperity
alone, lies my happiness.
10/12/2006 12:19 AM delete
@this thread
dunno what came over me today....just
started reading this thread from the 1st
post...and...it took me about 5 hours for me
Ramalingam
to read this thread until post 1700 or so...
(manage) (thats when i started posting on this thread)
WOW!! Yeah I am crazy....missing home like
crazy...
okay...here are some stuff i remembered

when reading through this thread...
jordache jeans....i used to own it way back...i

dont remember when..
this play toy made from bottle caps...making

a shrill tick-tock...tick-tock sound....dunno if
you still get it...

Honee Anhonee...cant seem to remember if

its been mentioned before...
forget the name of this serial on Sony

Television hosted by sajid khan about
bollywood movies copied from hollywood....
oooh yeah i remember....its "Kehne Mein Kya
Harz Hai"...
this old marathi serial called shwetambara...

not quite certain..somebody's already
mentioned it...used to get scared seeing it...
this white ghostly dame...vikram gokhle was
he in this??
Big Fun bubble gum....i remember there used

to be a scheme...when you returned 5
wrappers you got one big fun free.
tatamobile...the indian pickup truck?? or was

it just a name coined by locals??
a black and white TV we used to have called

standard TV or something
the serial shanti...mandira bedi's first serial??
tobu cycles...havent seen it being

mentioned...
Aao khelen,
lekar apni,
Tobu cyclen
Apni tobu cyclen...apni tobu cyclen...
suppandi of tinkle...big head...few strands of

hair...
the english serials...great expectations....and

yes minister (havent seen this being
mentioned before or maybe im sleepy)...
wasnt there a hindi copy of this??
havent read this...(maybe my its my sleep

catching up with me...its 03:00 am here)...
chunauti.....(..etc..etc..ek chunauti hai....)
balsara ka odomos.....i forget the name of

the lady who used to come in this ad...i can
picturize her face but dont know her name...
*ab main chain ki neend so sakta hoon*

10/12/2006 12:30 AM delete

the english serials...great expectations....and
yes minister (havent seen this being
Hibernating mentioned before or maybe im sleepy)...
(manage) wasnt there a hindi copy of this??
Ji Mantri ji, it had Fraoque Sheikh. The other

guy name was Mathur Sahab. I cant recollect
his real name. I think it is mentione
somewhere before on the board
Hoone Anhoone yea I remember that ghost

stories. Then there was Aahat too
10/12/2006 1:49 AM delete
My favourites...
Smash T-shirts
Indrajal Comics, STAR Comics, Amitabh
Anirban Bachchan Comics (Supremo) (still available
(manage) second hand if you're willing to look hard
enough)
Groucho glasses available on the streets,
Star-Trek (Flip phone's are still cool)candy
floss, ice-cream in plastic cricket balls...
Tintins & Asterix considered expensive cuz

they used to cost 35 bucks or so, no cable
TV.. which meant more or less every kid in
the complex played football/ cricket in the
evenings and read a lot...
10/12/2006 1:51 AM delete
There was also this Farookh Sheikkh show
called Chakraview or something where he can
read minds...
Ready and also this one called: Family no. 1 and an

Coddie even older serial about this chubby boy who
(manage) keeps leaving his home.

10/12/2006 8:46 AM delete

and also this one called: Family no. 1 and an
even older serial about this chubby boy who
Hibernating keeps leaving his home.
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Coddie I am sure the Uncle log here wont
even know what you are talking abuto!
Anyways,
As kid I remember that anything eatable
when feel on the ground we used ask Ram
aur Bhoot? If the answer was Bhoot you are
suppose to throw it away and if the answer
was Ram it could be eaten.
I also remember new course "Scientific

Temper" was introduced in SSC in 1996(I
guess) to prevent school kids from having
such stupid notions!
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10/12/2006 10:31 AM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) Shrji...
'Scientific temper' err wats dat! naah
● view profile Its the definitely not in 96...
End...
The best attempt to popularise science,
according to me, was the series Turning Point
Milind - Naseeruddin Shah presented it, and it used
(manage) to be Sunday evenings - where they would
give simple, easy to understand explanations
for various phenomena, as well as tell you
how you could conduct small experiments at
home, and learn from them... pretty cool
stuff...
10/12/2006 5:46 PM delete
@Pravinda
That's it. I was mixing two rhymes.
Ash aDam taDam

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ukka jikka
lesh maas
karwand, daLimb, fulla!
10/12/2006 5:50 PM delete
emergency
this question directed at pravin-da & ash...
and others too...
how was it during the emergency...one of my
Ramalingam
friends' dad said that it was the best time...
(manage) apparently everything worked well during
that time...
P.S: i dunno ash if you were still in mumbai
around that time or had gone to phoren-land.

10/12/2006 5:58 PM delete

Ramalingam :It was very true , good for
common man but havoc for all others
(politicians etc), opposition members were
put in Jail, it was too much went against
•••••• •• meadia and all ,so later was like dictatorship,
(manage) censorship so people rebelled.
10/12/2006 6:02 PM delete
Ash : there many more like this, I might have
mentioned early
taaj kallu
•••••• •• peejan sawan
(manage) tamoro bhamero
atak matak
chavli chatak
chavli jhaali
god goud
jibele aali
phood phod
jebecha phod
Phutey naa
ghar cha pavuna
uthey naa
10/12/2006 6:27 PM delete
@Pravin Da and Ash
I've only read in books about it , but are any
of these stories true?
There was a Parsi army or navy guy
Bhavik sometime in 1950s who killed his wife's
(manage) lover. In those days the state had a jury
system comprising citizens who all acquitted
that guy in spite of his confession to the
crime. (This was in Midnight's children)
Now that emergency was discussed a while

back... I think I asked once somewhere, is it
true there was a mysterious hair-cutter in
that time who would cut peoples' hair,
especially womens' long chotis? People
apparently even got murdered for their hair...
(Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance)

10/12/2006 7:46 PM delete

yes i have also heard this story. the name
was nanavati na..
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10/12/2006 9:19 PM delete
emergency
my dad used to tell me that rice was scarce
aroud the time of emergency. It used to be
not really available even in hotels. There was
Raghudon a rationing of chapatis... he rememberes a
(manage) time he went to a hotel and asked for ore
chapattis.. they refused saying all should gt!
the bomb sirens...for lights out, etc sound

surreal now! must have been scary during
the time
10/12/2006 10:44 PM delete
I remember my dad mentioning the 'lila
sabarmati'(i guess that is the name) case
Vadapav at too, before i even read the book(midnight's
last! children).
(manage) My dad used to say he used to have his lunch
in 20 paise, a big banana and pav, back in
the late 60's.
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Bombay
(18,321 members) Raghu: what u say is true
During 1969-70 my uncles got married and
● view profile before marriage we have to store rice as it
was not easily avalable and during marriage
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food served in closed rooms in a marriage Hall
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(on fear of inspector may visit to check there

was ban on serving food more than 25 people
if u r caught u will be jailed or fined)so turn
by turn everybody used to have lunch.
It was during this period that places like

titvala , trombay and vasai became famous
for rice , as there were rice fields and locals
were selling Rice in 'sher'(unit in volume) not
Kg , Titvala Ganapati became famous during
this period as people used to visit those
places for rice and during this time they found
that ganesh temple and many people started
visiting this during this trip.
about war siren etc i have mentioned this

early.we used to hide below the table or cot a
home or below the benches in school.It was
scary!
10/13/2006 8:00 AM delete
ganne ka ras .. sugar cane juice for the
uninitiated ..
i've been obsessed with getting some ganne

Nishank ka ras for the last few days .. lets hope i can
(manage) get my hands on some ...

10/13/2006 12:03 PM delete

something i remembered today...SevenSeas
Cod Liver Oil...and those golden see-through
Cod tablets.
Ramalingam
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10/13/2006 8:20 PM delete
what about the first escalator that was put up
near chowpatty and all the people went there
R wishes all on sundays just to step on it...
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it was like a thrilling ride better than all the
othere stuff , a novelty
10/14/2006 12:42 AM delete
@ bhavik... found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Kawas_Nanavati
Salil
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10/14/2006 12:47 AM delete
atak matak
chavli chatak
Hibernating chavli jhaali
(manage) god goud
jibele aali
phood phod
jebecha phod
Phutey naa
ghar cha pavuna
uthey naa
PravinDa there is a Gujurathi version of the

same. I dont remeber it tough. Maybe Ash
knows it?
@Rama
Yea Cod Liver tablets.. I still the feel wobbly
feeling in mouth while you gulped it down.
Anyone knows what were those tablets for?

10/14/2006 2:09 AM delete

shreeji: the guj version is above it in that post
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10/14/2006 7:34 AM delete
Thanks a ton for the link Salil, it was very
informative... I'd only read the brief
dramatised version of the incident.
Bhavik
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10/14/2006 9:11 AM delete
Cod liver oil is rich in vitamin D
Just Read
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10/14/2006 10:34 AM delete
Cod liver oil not rich in vitamin D but vitamin
A
•••••• ••
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(18,321 members) It contains both, A and D.
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10/14/2006 11:37 AM delete
Look what I found!
You can play any original nintendo game online.
Simply select the game from the scrollbar on
Num the left hand side of your browser and then
(manage) prepare for flash backs.
http://vnes.thatsanderskid.com/
10/14/2006 11:50 AM delete
Today at temple I was very thirsty , took water
from cooler tap , there was no glass kept so i
took water directly on my palm and sucked it by
mouth, (this was common in our school but no
•••••• •• cooler)
(manage) i remember
we used to run near tap for drinking water after
games in recess at school , those days we never
bothered on quality of water and used to drink
from hand palm directly by mouth, there used
to be pulling pusshing during these time as rush
was so much and only one tap!

10/14/2006 1:02 PM delete

i remember long ago....there used to be this
baba/fakir type character who used to sell ganja
Saleha/ right outside babul nath......
Alia i remember alps bar in colaba was a lesser
(manage) known after college hangout with madonna
posters..and nows its frequented by whores and
coke peddling africans..
i remember when you used to have great sales
at strand and could pick up really rare and fine
books on film making...
i remember when Andheri was considered the
back of beyond....
and now my recent memories of bombay since i
left it 2 months ago..
i remember how safe i felt in it as a woman...
i remember the spirit of ppl....
i remember the energy with which it always
buzzes....
i remember it as home...
i remember the pani poori waalas who cater to
my whim of sirf teekhha pani, aur bhaiyya
kaanda daalna......
sigh i remember everything that bombay has
offered me, and i am grateful for it...
forgive the rambling..but i have gotten really
nostalgic..and morose as u can notice..
10/17/2006 12:00 AM delete
i think salil should write a book now!! ur too
much!! Designed, Edited, Illustrated by salil
raji sojwal
(manage) wow sounds like fun!!
10/17/2006 1:26 AM delete

Man this threads making me nostalgic
Finrod
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10/17/2006 9:10 AM delete

I remember!
Diwali and lot of phatkdis !!wow kya din they!
me and my brother fighting for our share of
phatakis which was baught week before diwali
•••••• •• from Masjid bunder and we used to keep in
(manage) gallery exposed to sunlight till diwali day ,so
that it is more effective in sound and
performance.
also while burning those phatakis (lavangis and
damris mala)we use to do one single at a time
from mala (thup thup ) than the whole
'mala'( phad phad phad phadd)to last longer!!
to be continued !later dom dom dom dus

phussssss!
10/17/2006 12:37 PM delete
Memories of moments celebrated together.......
Moments that have been attached in my heart,
forever.......
Make me Miss You even more this Diwali.
Just Ashu Hope this Diwali brings in Good Fortune &
(manage) Abounding Happiness for you!
!!!HAPPY DIWALI & PROSPEROUS NEW

YEAR!!!
10/17/2006 12:45 PM delete
just rem ...........
• Deepak karamchand........gaajar n d Shutup Kitty

•
Mungeri Lal Ke Haseen Sapne ...
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Chimanrao....... my old neigbhours kahan gaye
voh din
10/17/2006 2:46 PM delete
I remember Lokhandwala all lit up in its full
glory for Diwali.....alas, no more Diwalis at
Lokhandwala for me.
Poonam I will miss home a lot this week!

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Bombay
(18,321 members) I remember
... when pants had four buttons to pop,
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... when we used to request neighbours not to
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smuggling.
10/18/2006 9:28 PM delete
I remember...
Two folks at Shivaji Park arguing what stood
Mohit out about Sachin- his agressive style v/s is
(manage) correct defense.
Sachin was still in school. This was around the

mid-80s. :-D
10/18/2006 9:29 PM delete
Had to bump it up. Wondering where the olde
guard went. :-P
Mohit
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10/19/2006 9:33 AM delete
Anyone remember Bombay Dyeing printed
cloth calenders? They had good designs, and I
remember seeing thelis made out of outdated
as well.
Bhavik
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10/19/2006 9:52 AM delete

of course i remember those bhavik. my mum
designed one of them. i think it's still
somewhere at home. it had a kalamkari style
painting on it. dad used to work for bombay
Salil dyeing those days. another memory from the
(manage) past related to my folks is the intricately
deisgned air india sarees (my dad's work.) it
was sad to see the stewardesses grow older
and plumper in them. and as the years
went by the cost cutting forced air india to
start dropping screens from the sarees,
leading to a loss of detail that pissed off my
dad plenty.
10/19/2006 10:09 AM delete
speaking of sarees...i'm sure this has been
mentioned before...nonetheless...i just
remembered the garden advt...the jingle
composed by A.R.Rehman and he went on to
Ramalingam
use the same in Roja.
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@salil
a few thousand posts back, i remember to
have seen a message from you which
contained a link to a PDF version of this
thread. Could you please post it once again?
for the benefit of late joiners like me..
10/19/2006 10:12 AM delete
why hello, mohit!
Sat
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10/19/2006 10:14 AM delete
sure thing. but it'll have to wait till tomorrow.
it's on the other computer. unless anyone who
downloaded it is nice enough to save me the
trouble. you're right about the garden theme
Salil music too. mahesh mathai of highlight films
(manage) gave rahman his break with those.. a lot of
early rahman is des raag based tunes. but his
one in the ad is almost identical to the roja
theme.

10/19/2006 10:16 AM delete

some things I remember...
Babloo and Dabloo and Mummy on UGC
rhea countrywide classroom in the afternoons,
(manage) teaching basic English.
Frolic syrup, the Dipy's cowboy, Campa Cola,
Didi's Donuts on Hill road...
Magic Lamp and Aloo Pulu and the Panna
club :)
Bhel puri for 40 paise on Bandra Bandstand....
Boiled sweets for 5 paise each..
will add more as I remmber...
10/19/2006 10:21 AM delete
btw, i was slightly uneasy with that music. it
reminded me of 'satyajit ray presents' a serial
garden used to sponsor. one of those
episodes had a horror story which would have
Salil given any of the so called horror serials today
(manage) a good run for their money. if featured amol
palekar, who spends sleepless nights because
of a light shining on his face from another
house through the window. he goes one night
to complain and finds a crazy old painter,
played by shreeram lagoo wo only likes to
work at night. turns out he likes to paint dead
people. or rather, their spirits. the episode
ends with palekar leaving, but lagoo says,
"you know you have an interesting face.."
then they spoiled it by showing him trying to
run away, and a skeletal hand falling on his
shoulder.
anyway, the reson that disturbed me, was

because i had the same problem of being kept
awake by a strong light in my face.
hey, now i can say it. whoever lived on the

8th floor corner flat of building number 9 in
navjeevan society was an asshole. they kept
that light on at night, and turned up the radio
loud, early every morning.
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Bombay
(18,321 members) we have similar problem here staying next to
bus depot and depots sodium light flash on
● view profile our rooms , we dont need night lamps , we
need curtains for that to cover!
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10/19/2006 4:22 PM delete
this is like the longest (in time too) thread ive
ever seen..anyways...for all of us who grew
up with all of the above, have seen the best
days of Bombay. not a place in the world like
Pawan this. what a change its gone through. Cheers
(manage) to Bombay.
10/19/2006 5:25 PM delete
@Salil
I remember that story with Amol Palekar and
Milind the painter very vividly... It was a terrific
(manage) example of how fear is mostly in the mind...
loved the way it all built up...
There used to be some good serials in those

days, featuring short stories.. Satyajit Ray
presents was one, Kathasagar was another,
which had stories based on works of Leo
Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, etc... still
remember some of those...
10/19/2006 5:30 PM delete
Amongst the earliest Rehman tunes I
remember is the theme music for "The Spirit
Milind of Unity Concerts for national Integration"
(manage) every Sunday morning... loved that tune...
also remember a much thinner Adnan Sami
performing in one of those concerts, which
featured musicians from all SAARC
countries...

10/19/2006 5:49 PM delete

Milind, I remember Katahsagar I clearly
recollect an episode about the Quest for God
or something... a boy wants to find God, he
gets visited by random people throughout the
Bhavik day whom he helps out.. an orphan, a
(manage) handicapped person, an old woman etc. A
wise man (as in wise man, not a wise guy)
explains those people were God visiting him...
The above horror story reminds me of another

one, in Marathi. It was a show called
"Aabhaas" where a rich heiress' sanity is
attempted to be invalidated by her husband
and her conniving best friend. The heiress
sees dead bodies and ghosts in the house
across hers and when one of these other two
people who also live in the same house show
up, the "pret" is gone. I think an investigative
journalist helps solve the case.
I remember how items were salvaged, reused

in a different form and if made of a durable
material, they would be seldom discarded.
Like the Bombay Dyeing calenders used to
stitch carry-bags, I also remember those tin
dabbas of Cadbury's little chocolates being
used to store stuff. And a thousand or so
posts before I think a mention was made of
Postman or Saffola tin dabbas being used to
pot plants in.
Now this may seem stupid. But anyone here

collect tin foil of Cadbury's Dairy Milk to be
used later in Craft ? You had to make sure
there was no melted chocolate on the foil, if
so, you'd have to refrigerate the chocolate for
a bit. Then you smoothed out the foil with the
back of your finger nail.
Remember messy liquid glue in the pre-
gluestick days?
10/19/2006 7:46 PM delete
A bit off the track from I remember
It was a terrific example of how fear is mostly
Hibernating in the mind
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Seen Darna Mana Hai 2 intro scene?

10/19/2006 8:36 PM delete

cadbury's Krisp...
Caramello, Orangello, Double Decker, Plus,
rhea Amul Chocolates!!,
(manage) Then there was Kickapoo....the most foul
pineapple flavoured drink, by Rogers, Mr. Pik
soda, double seven Cola, Thril, Do It, Cola Lite
from Campa, Wimto from Dukes and Rogers,
more recently there was Tango, also from
Dukes...
Two in One Cassette players :)
Black and White TVs in wooden cabinets..with
sliding shutters....we had one from Nelco
10/19/2006 8:53 PM delete
Crafty kids
I remember that messy glue from craft class.
(stank too)
Num We started getting nifty tubes of scented/
(manage) odourless glue later.
Found that glue again in a post office some
time ago.Brought back so many memories.
Remember making funny figures out of that
foil and of aluminium foil and dolls out of
broken shuttlecocks and toffee wrappers..
icecream sticks and matches.
Mom once used jackfruit peel to help make
the roof for a house!
Egg shell and paper collages.
Getting glitter and waterproof ink all over
your hands which wouldn't get washed off for
days..
The favourite desk in class..
The favourite corner in the art room,in a
patch of sunlight..
Origami and glazed paper.
Relief work and ivory paper.
Fevicol mixed with ink.
Coloured rice and painted pebbles.
Paper flowers and rag dolls.
Clay masks and murals.
Stone chips and tiles..
The scent of oil paint.
Bottle green poster colour
and crimson tubes that always leaked in my
bag..
Dirty fingers from paint that wouldn't wash off.
Stacks of palettes and paintbrushes.
The grin we bore,using an easel for the first
time as kids..

Remember painting cartoon characters on the

window panes of a classroom,at ten maybe
and a whole wall of the art room some years
later..
Props for plays and dances.Backgrounds and
offstage humour..
Painting faces in greenrooms.
Mixing shades for younger kids.
Making charts every week for the "class
board" or the "house board"
and summer projects-feathers,leaves,travel
brochures,magazines.
Visits to the zoo,the museum and galleries..
Remember a summer spent sketching plants
and people..
trying to get the tones and shades right..
One spent painting the world map on a plastic
ball for a lazy cousin
Tricked into painting a volcano on clay for
another..
Thank you for reminding me of all this.
Beautiful days.
10/19/2006 10:26 PM delete
@salil n milind
yeah i remember that episode of satyjit ray

presents...and also the kathasagar serial.
Ramalingam
(manage) speaking of crafts...one of the "projects" we
had to do in school was wall hanging...where
there are 3 circular cardboards each smaller
than the other and we had to cover them with
some velvet paper and stick some glass
pieces on them...
another such "project" was to make a

kaleidoscope....and i remember for the first
time going to a glass cutting shop on station
road in goregaon and asking him to cut 3
equal rectangular pieces of mirrors for it...
once in the middle of such a craft project...i

ran out of Joker GUM and my mom made
some home made gum with some cooked rice
starch or something..
still trying to remember the name of the lady

that used to come in the advt for balsara ka
odomos...can anybody help me???

10/19/2006 10:32 PM delete

odomos? what was the ad like?
balsara's promise toothpaste, however made

an icon out of maya alagh with her trademark
Salil "of-o.."
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Bombay
(18,321 members) @bhavik
yeah i've done that..in fact i
● view profile remember i also used to collect these
leaves and keep them inside
view forum Ramalingam
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notebooks...and this certain type of
(manage) leaf got so dry that you could only
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see the veins in the leaf...i felt so
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happy showing it off to my school

friends...until one guy ruined it by
crushing the leaf..
also speaking of using ur fingernails...

i remember when i was young...mom
used to drop me off at a creche and
there was this old grandpa at the
creche and he used to make potraits
of people on a small piece of paper
using his thumbnail...that was
awesome..have any of you seen
people do that??
10/19/2006 10:37 PM delete
cooked rice as glue was a quick fix for
torn kites too.
Nikhil
(manage) which reminds me, we had a fiat
padmini that had a perenially leaky
radiator. so stopping by the roadside
to let the steam off and top up was
normal. until we met a mechanic, who
brought a bar of 505 soap, soaked it
in water for a bit, and stuck it to the
tiny hole. the radiator didnt leak ever
again.

10/19/2006 10:39 PM delete

@salil
yeah u r the man! maya alagh...
maybe i got mixed up with odomos
and the promise toothpaste ad...
Ramalingam
sorry...
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10/20/2006 1:08 AM delete
REMMEMBER BELA KE PHOOL THE 11
30 SHOW ON AAKASHWANI
nsha
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10/20/2006 1:10 AM delete
I STILL REMEMBER MY MOM TELLING
ME THE WAY IT USED TO SEEM AS
nsha CURFEW WHEN RAMMANAND
(manage) SAGARS MAHABHARAT AND
RAMAYAN USE TO B AIRED ON DD
10/20/2006 1:19 AM delete
WHEN I WAS TO YOUNG I LOVED
SOME SERIALS LIKE PHULWARI ...
nsha DISNEY ...
(manage) THE WAY WE USE TO SING LAKDI KI
KATHI.....
REMMEMBER RAJNI ONE OF

PROMINET MODEL OF OLDEN
BOMBAY...
THOSE WOMEN ORIENTED SERIALS

LIKE RAJNI DAMINI UNLIKE
NOWADAYS SAAS BHI ND ALL THAT
CRAP IREEALLY MISS HUM PAANCH,
DEKH BHAI DEKH,ON DD
THAT O 7' S NEWS MISS THOSE
DAYS LIKE HELL
THOSE HAND INDICATORS TOO..
REMEMBER WRITTING THOSE

LETTERS AND VISITING POST OFFICE
FREQENTLY

10/20/2006 2:22 AM delete

once upon a time
change is the only thing which is
constant they say, its so true with
bombay.
prajakta i dont really remember lota of things
(manage) but i surely miss the chocolate called
break.
i hv been hunting it since like years
now.
10/20/2006 9:29 AM delete
I remember smoothing choclate foils,
collages,Rice as glue =D
**6σ~TheShrew~**
(manage) Ramalingam,You're talking about the
leaf of a peepal tree,aren't you?
There were a couple where we lived.
I remember being told once,
"there are ghosts and betal's on

peepal and 'ramphal' trees so you
shouldn't sit under or climb them
ever!".
(I wonder if it was because I was a
tomboy who climbed and talked to
trees.)
I used to get so freaked whenever I

passed under them.
And I got the feeling that someone
was watching me from them.
Kept thinking "omg now a ghost with
red eyes and bad hair will jump on
my neck,suck blood,strangle me and
I'll die".
Jesus christ those ghost stories had
made me paranoid for a while!
10/20/2006 9:36 AM delete
The Shrew - r u talking on Ramlingam
or Bhootalingam!
i remember there was one
Bhootalingam committee appointed
•••••• •• by govt!!
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10/20/2006 9:51 AM delete

I remember my grandparents lived in
a house at a streetcorner.Incidentally
there was a temple close by and a
Num jungle of sorts separated from the
(manage) residential area by a wall,no more.
Outside the temple was a huge
banyan tree with roots like rope.In
the dark it made for quite an eerie
sight.
Older cousins would try to scare us
kiddies with tales of the ghost who
lived on the tree and the strange
noises that would be heard coming
from the jungle every night and the
priest in the temple who went quite
mad one night after he saw
something strange..

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10/20/2006 10:17 AM delete
Bombay
(18,321 members) Haha Pravin da,
But seriously,Was there really such a
● view profile **6σ~TheShrew~** committee? :O
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● view forum Num!We had a banyan tree too and
we used to swing on those
● view events whatevertheyare called that hang
from it.It was fun!
One fine day the municipality
chopped that huge tree.Hated that!
I swear they look eerie at night

though.
They and one lone cypress on a
hillock thingie I used to pass by on
my way home.
Cypresses look like humans bent at
various degrees.
And Creepy at night.
10/20/2006 10:43 AM delete
Shrew: with bhoot topic i cant joke, i
m serious!!
there was Bhootalingam committee ,
•••••• •• Committee for Rationalisation and

(manage) Simplification of Tax Structure
(Bhoothalingam Committee).

10/20/2006 12:03 PM delete

@shrew
yeah pepal tree it was...absolutely...
@pravin-da
Ramalingam if we can have bhoota singh...then
(manage) there can be a bhoothalingam too..
the one time i really got scared was

when i visited my ancestral house in
Kanyakumari...it wasnt being used
and nobody was there to take care of
it...so we went there to clean it up
and found bats in one of the rooms...
gawd...i was shit scared..and never
ever entered that room again...
10/20/2006 12:32 PM delete
I've no use for memories.
Monks
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10/20/2006 12:36 PM delete
Strange now that I think of it..
There has always been a tree/several
by my window everywhere I have
Num lived.The dark shadows and the
(manage) rustling leaves in the wind caused
many a night hiding under the covers
and random trains of thought.
There has always been a mosque
near my place.Love the sound of the
azaan waking up the skies at dawn,
birds chirping outside.
I remember the trees outside my
place that had green bark and
strangers often asked if we'd painted
them green
The leaves disappeared in winter and
beautiful pink flowers covered the two
trees..Many a hummingbird appeared
every hour seeking nectar..Those
trees had to be cut down earlier this
year..
Once the roads in the capital were

lines by trees of neem and amaltas

and gulmohar.Summer was a riot of

colour.Now there's too much ginkgo
planted by the roadside..
10/21/2006 3:08 AM delete
Theatres in Bombay
1. No apple trees grow in (Paradise)
2. The residence for kings (Palace)
3. Goddess of Fine Art (Minerva)
Just Ashu 4. Pounds, Snilling and Pence
(manage) (Sterling)
5. Motorist loves to be on it.
(Broadway)
6. The Holy Rivers. (Ganga Jamuna)
7. Academy Award. (Oscar)
8. Chinese Underground. (Metro)
10/21/2006 3:17 AM delete
Diwali..
I remember the house being scrubbed
down and marigold garlands being
Num twined around bits,fresh from the six
(manage) o clock flower market.
Being nagged to wake up early on a
holiday.Mom getting coconuts and
ghee and various things ready for the
pooja later..Painting rangolis in poster
colours outside the house.Wrapping
gifts and opening some.Making polite
conversation with strangers and
making merry with friends and
relatives.Lighting candles all over the
house twice in a night.Refilling the
diyas with oil.Getting the laundry in
before the neighbourhood kids
decided to start their fireworks,the
rockets being more a danger than
others.The smell of gunpowder and
charred paper.Gay laughter and
terrible things on the TV.Smoke and
bits of paper that remained the night
after.Rain that invariably came teh
next morning,settling the smog.
Exams almost always around the
same time.Nibbling on sweets,head
buried in books after the festivities
were wrapped up..

10/21/2006 12:29 PM delete

from the old dairies
of this cityy
i wish ..wud get..
"collection old chocolate packegings" n
Shruti "comlilation of malgudi days"
(manage) ahh whhhh..i wish...
10/21/2006 9:16 PM delete
Khitto
That was the the wodden nib pen is
Hibernating called which was mentioned by Ash
(manage) and Pravin Da. Confrimed it yesterday
with my Dad.
10/22/2006 1:03 AM delete
As time passes by,
Memories still there,
As fresh as dew,
And they are so strong
Just Ashu
(manage) Whenever I recollect of you,
Your voice still echoes
Words may lie, voice cannot
I still remember the last time we
spoke
Tears followed by then, cries unheard
I cried alone, no one near me,

no one to hear me
But the memories,
And the time passes by
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Bombay
(18,321 members) @Hibernating
● view profile No, I have not heard that rhyme or the

Gujarati version. We used Marathi in my lane.
● view forum Ash I have asked my Guju side of the family about
(manage) such rhymes.
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10/22/2006 5:12 AM delete
i remember
whenever in friend circle some one farts (non
sound one and smelly called phuski) we used
to confirm who maroude that phuski so
•••••• •• immediately we used to make circle and say
(manage) aada paada
goad paada
mama ji ka
ghoda pada
aam daam dus
phuski mare tus!!
10/22/2006 5:12 AM delete
Diwali
@Num
Rain at Diwali time? Maybe the seasons have

Ash shifted but Coconut Day was usually the time
(manage) that the monsoons ended.
The highlight in my lane was at midnight after

Diwali when a long chain of firecrackers (called
a "kot") stretching about 15 houses was set off
from one end. It had some branches but it was
usually a good 5 or 10 minute continuous
series of bangs, interrupted with the cubic
"atom bombs" which were illegal but everyone
knew how to obtain.

10/22/2006 5:31 AM delete

Calendars and diaries
In late December there was always a scramble
to get the new year's calendars. Usually
companies stuck to a theme, e.g. paintings of
Ash gods, photographs of scenic places, medicine
(manage) paintings (Parke Davis), etc. The cloth mills
were still running, so some of them would
release calendars on various types of cloth.
Nothing could match the quality of a phoren

calendar or diary, so the poor expat manager
at a multinational would be pestered for
supplies for the employees and friends of
employees, and their friends. A religious image
meant that most people would never throw out
old pages for years. Some were framed, others
were just tucked behind the current calendar.
The best kind had a new picture each month

and the worst had 12 months on one sheet.
Ditto diaries - the best had pictures and
assorted extras such as metric conversion
tables.
Even the small shopkeepers issued their own

utilitarian calendars at Diwali time to match
the Hindu calendar. These had the Hindu
holidays and religious observances, so they
were relegated to the puja nook.
10/22/2006 6:01 AM delete
Emergency
@Ramalingam,
Don't know which emergency you mean but

Ash Pravin Da has recounted one I had forgotten -
(manage) the max number of meals you could serve at
weddings. I don't recall it being the "best time"
because as a kid I was shielded from the toil of
going to work, feeding a household, etc.
The 60s were a continuous emergency and

everything was in short supply. Smuggling was
common. I last visited in 2003 and what I saw
on the footpaths of DN Road was pretty boring
compared with the 60s and early 70s. Indian-
made goods were of very poor quality and
imports were forbidden, so most people did
their best to buy smuggled goods. I had a
Philips EL3302 mono portable cassette

recorder that cost (I think) Rs 600 on the

street and you had to be careful that it wasn't
a cheap copy. The stalls had a wide range of
consumer electronics, sunglasses, cigarette
lighters, pornography, etc
One could also buy smuggled bubble gum,

chewing gum, chocolate etc, but the prices
were so high that we kids could only try them
as a special treat. In particular, the chocolates
had melted and were messy to eat.
I have mentioned the rice exchanges - swap

the brown ration rice for white basmati at
some absurd exchange rate. Sugar was also
rationed, so it had to be supplemented with
unlicenced sugar and jaggery was used to
make tea for the family - sugar for guests.
If one left India for a trip, one could only

convert US$10 legally during the 60s. When I
left in 1973, I was allowed to take US$100.
10/22/2006 3:16 PM delete
- Diwali atom bombs were to be handled with
care. I used to live in the same building where
Neville most of the teachers from our school lived for
(manage) "Khunnaas" sake we'd make a "time-bomb"
outside the window of the bad ones.
Anyone else tried "time bombs" -> "atom
bomb" + Agarbatti
- The glossy phoren calendars (one side blank)

were saved and used to cover books the next
academic year.
- I remember the first year they invented the

annoying firecracker that made the sound of a
passing airplane. Damn ... weren't they
annoying.
- Anyone else tried tying a "chota fountain" to

a rocket?
Hmmm ... good times at Diwali

10/22/2006 6:45 PM delete

Diwali crackers
i remember this one time i was in the 4th
standard and after going through a round of
firecrackers (my kid sister - sparklers) I went
Raghudon to sit on the water tank. I didnt realise that my
(manage) stupid sis had kept the burnt sparklers there!!!
what followed was a record scream even

louder than the crackers of that time. My
bottom was burnt with the shape of 3
sparklers embossed on my butt! i was taken
home... burnol, ice , humiliation!
I could not sit for the next weeek!
Also when i was in the 7th standard, I

happened to visit a firecracker actory. I
stopped bursting crackers since then and
instead buy sweets of that woth and send it to
an orphanage and old peoples home.
Now i dont like crackers that make sound too!

10/22/2006 9:41 PM delete
I remember being told about an uncle who got
married during the Emergency..You could
serve only a certain number of meals
Num consisiting only(?) of potatoes and extra things
(manage) had to be obtained on the sly..
10/23/2006 5:28 AM delete
Ash those Hindu calendars are still around.
Some mills which are still fuctioning make it
Hibernating point to send them to their dealers. We have
(manage) one from Tha S. Kantilal, which till date
delivers tp us the Hindu(Gujju) calendars.
Emergency times, I remember my granpa

telling me that all the windows were to be
covered with black paper. And one was not
suppose to light more than one bulb in the
house.
On crackers I guess those "bhit bhadaka" has

already been mentioned before. You have
rockets which make sounds like "air plane"
passing by. But I remember the days when
diwali was all about Sparkles, Flowe Pot,
Jhamin Chakra and Badam.

10/23/2006 7:43 AM delete

Diwaleee...
The week before diwali, separate maska
maraoing of dad, mom and then uncles and
aunts to collect as much cash for crackers.
Shree The only day we dint need alarms or parents to
(manage) wake us up.. the first one to burst bombs had
reasons to be proud of that feat.
The silly experiments with crackers - small
series tied to a rowdy dog's tail, 'laxmi' bombs
half buried in sand and covered with coconut
shell, time bombs strategically placed on
'cricket-banning' aunty's window AC around
midnight, Rockets mounted on the ledge of
terrace, etc.
On a more sober note, i still remember how i

used to be in awe of newsreaders... bloody
crap.. i used to think they were all first
rankers!! for a 4th grader, the way they could
mug up so many things and just glance once
or twice on their notes was.. simply
unbelievable
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Bombay
(18,321 members) :O :O :O
small series tied to a rowdy dog's tail
● view profile **6σ~TheShrew~** Wtf!?!It's not silly It's cruel!What
(manage) mean kids.
● view forum
10/23/2006 12:21 PM delete
● view events grrr dogs also have good memories.
they will remember their tormentors
for a long time to come. I remember
there was a guy in my coloney who
Raghudon used to go around harraing the stret
(manage) dogs and used to kick them and
abuse them loudly as "son of a bitch "
<DUH!> then one day 6 dogs got
together and bit him. He had to take
the full dose of rabies injections.
10/23/2006 12:40 PM delete
@Hibernating
Emergency times, I remember my
Milind granpa telling me that all the windows
(manage) were to be covered with black paper.
And one was not suppose to light
more than one bulb in the house.
Was that during Emergency or during

War time?
I remember being told about quite a

few relatives who got married during
the emergency getting married on
May 1 (Maharashtra din) coz on that
day the restrictions on the meals
were relaxed and sweets could be
served as well...

10/23/2006 10:47 PM delete

Milind, my mistake. It was during war
time.
Hibernating
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10/23/2006 10:53 PM delete
calendars and diaries
Nikhil @ash. You reminded me of this tel
(manage) diary i once got. it had the alphabet
scale on the right, and a sliding
pointer. you moved the pointer to the
right alphabet and pressed a neat
button, and the diary would open to
that page. we didnt even have a
phone, but the diary was a prized
possession.
10/23/2006 11:14 PM delete
@ Nikhil
My boss still has one of those on his
Jitesh table as i type this
(manage) hehehehehehehehhehehhe
there quite cool ... atleast he loves

them!
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Bombay
(20,042 members) grrr dogs also have good memories. they will
remember their tormentors for a long time
● view profile to come. I remember there was a guy in my
coloney who used to go around harraing the
● view forum ***Raghudon stret dogs and used to kick them and abuse
*** them loudly as "son of a bitch " <DUH!>
view events (manage) then one day 6 dogs got together and bit
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him. He had to take the full dose of rabies

injections.
23/10/2006 12:40 delete
@Hibernating
Emergency times, I remember my granpa
Milind telling me that all the windows were to be
(manage) covered with black paper. And one was not
suppose to light more than one bulb in the
house.
Was that during Emergency or during War

time?
I remember being told about quite a few

relatives who got married during the
emergency getting married on May 1
(Maharashtra din) coz on that day the
restrictions on the meals were relaxed and
sweets could be served as well...
23/10/2006 22:47 delete
Milind, my mistake. It was during war time.
Hibernating
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calendars and diaries
Nikhil @ash. You reminded me of this tel diary i
(manage) once got. it had the alphabet scale on the
right, and a sliding pointer. you moved the
pointer to the right alphabet and pressed a
neat button, and the diary would open to
that page. we didnt even have a phone, but
the diary was a prized possession.
23/10/2006 23:14 delete
@ Nikhil
My boss still has one of those on his table as
i type this hehehehehehehehhehehhe
Jitesh there quite cool ... atleast he loves them!

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25/10/2006 00:47 delete
sorry i'd forgotten..
but here's the link to the updated pdf of this
thread..
Salil http://rapidshare.com/files/588322/
(manage) i_remember_1430_and_later.pdf.html
15mb! damn, we've been talking!

25/10/2006 01:00 delete
@prajakta
OOH ya ****CADBURY BREAK***
raji Superb thin matt plastic wrapper, with some
(manage) horizontal stripes on it,
amazing combo of crunchie, 5 star and some

crumbly biscuit thing.... available only for
Rs.5... WOW
25/10/2006 01:01 delete
salil
WOW SALIL this pdf file is awesome!!!
raji This thread was one of the reasons why i
(manage) joined this community!!! SERIOUSLY!!!
ur too good!!!

25/10/2006 01:46 delete

@RAJI
YAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH !! cadbury's break i
gues it has taken a break long time back
haha but i also remeber tht suberb
prajakta packaging with lines on it ya ya!!!!
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actually i still hv the a taste memory of it !!
hehe
25/10/2006 01:55 delete
the thing is cadbury stopped manufacturing
it four years ago, ramnik meh khatey they
raji yaar,
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25/10/2006 02:13 delete
Bombay
(20,042 members) @salil... hats off man! what enthu to
combine all those pages... i do that to
● view profile archieve my scraps... it makes a nice
document to keep
● view forum ***Raghudon u r the one .... neo!
*** THANK YOU!
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25/10/2006 07:18 delete
Salil
Thanks a ton buddy! I'd also like to have a
PDF from 1 to 1430....if its available...please.
Ramalingam Thanks once again.

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25/10/2006 23:16 delete
@ election campaigning...and loud-
speakers
i remember that earlier during elections
there used to be auto-rickshaws fitted with
Ramalingam amplifiers speakers...and these used to
(manage) roam around in the streets campaigning
about the candidates and also using some
real deft poems...
one particular poem i remember is in

marathi...it goes...
Tai, Mai, Akka,

Vichar kara pakka,
_____ lya dya dhakka
_____ war mara shikka
The first blank used to be the ruling party

and the second party used to be the
opposing one...
I really think the high courts (or was it the
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supreme court?) which banned all such

election campaigning using loud-speakers.
25/10/2006 23:17 delete
I mean the courts did a great job in banning
such campaigns...LOL
Ramalingam
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26/10/2006 00:04 delete
During vacation time, a specially aired series
of kids' programs on DD titled "FUN TIME"
Shows like He-Man, Spiderman, Giant robot,

Swapnil Ek-do-teen-char, nd da likes....all kids in da
(manage) whole bldg used to quit all our games nd
gather up to see these...was real funtime!!!
26/10/2006 01:03 delete
does anybody have a link for the doodh ad
the famous jingle "doodh hai wonderful peeh
raji saktey hai rose glassful doodh"
(manage)
hey anybody also know which agency did
that ad
26/10/2006 01:10 delete
raji
all i knw its sung by kunal ganjawala
n he still boasts on it...on n off!!
Shruti
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26/10/2006 01:11 delete
oh n also
the shoot ook plety of days to wrap up..
Shruti
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26/10/2006 01:14 delete

solo candy introduced by walls
guess a buck or two..
similar non branded pepsicola was very
polular among
Shruti school kids
(manage) (am sure it still is)
also
bon bon ice creams
yummmaa!!
filled wih vanilla n covered with thick
chocolate layersssssssssssss
sahi tha yaar!

26/10/2006 01:20 delete
yeah! pepsi cola, we use to call "ozo" in our
school canteen
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Bombay
(20,042 members) bon bonssss
yaaaaahhhh i use to ;luuuv them!, i also
● view profile remeber some brand of ice creams called
GOKUL or was it go cool ... ?
● view forum prajakta
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26/10/2006 08:22 delete
... still not done with it...
i remember a magazine i used to subscribe..
'childrens world' does any one know tht???
i still remember an illustrators name from tht
prajakta i guess some guha
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wow this thread has got me started thnnxxx
salil
26/10/2006 08:28 delete
yeah, chocolate covered Bon Bon ice creams,
and there was a ball ice cream which came in a
rhea plastic ball, and there was the Push Up
(manage) icecream...pink and white ice cream in a long
plastic cup which had to pushed up and out to
be eaten :)
26/10/2006 08:29 delete
talking of icecreams...does anyone remember
Dollops from Cadbury's? they had a couple of
rhea favour wheels and you could turn them and
(manage) come up with any combination of ice cream...
There used to be an outlet at Juhu.
26/10/2006 08:32 delete
hi rhea
wow, this sound like fun!!
raji
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26/10/2006 08:33 delete

@ Rama, During election time I used love
having the "billas" of a particular party. I
Hibernating remember they use to have a procession of
(manage) sorts in our area with mic and all. We used to
flock the party memnbers to get the "billa" or
the flag of the party.
Shruti, I remeber Solo icecreams. Sadly Walls

dont make those anymore. :(
26/10/2006 08:34 delete
ya ya
i remember, we had visited dollops factory in
kolahpur, Maharashtra.
prajakta
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26/10/2006 08:43 delete
i know they don make it anymore
istead they sell tht five ruppee candy
prajakta
Shruti guess gokul ice cream is still ther
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26/10/2006 08:55 delete
shru
areee i remember they had these plastic balls
with colored caps in which they served the ice
cream
prajakta
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26/10/2006 09:00 delete
they still do re
i knw one shopp..
par kabhi expiry nahi dekha..hahahah

Shruti (porbably the left over stock)
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Bombay
(20,042 members) vadilal mango dollys were the best,
donno why they suddenly stopped sales
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vadilal (ithink) had a premium brand of
icecream called dairy fresh. they were
Nikhil
the first to come out with the nothing
(manage) synthetic USP. their strawberry
icecream was the best i have ever had.
they had an outlet next to where the
tamnak thai at shivaji park is. it didnt
catch on, and eventually shut down.
26/10/2006 09:10 delete
i love vadilal!!!
raji
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26/10/2006 09:12 delete
i know. i was heartbroken when that
shop shutdown
Nikhil
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26/10/2006 09:15 delete
lays was earlier "ruffles" and they used
to give away tazos, wat fun , i still have
raji a few hundreds of them
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26/10/2006 09:29 delete

n tht "bole mere lips i love uncle chip"
ads
Shruti
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26/10/2006 10:38 delete
few hundred tazos = few hyndred packs
of ruffles! wow.. raji do u know the
address of guiness book?
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26/10/2006 11:55 delete
i remember there being ghoda waalas
on my street and taking rides every
evening... wish they were there now!
smriti
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26/10/2006 12:03 delete
hey smriti sis you live around khar too?
**~TheShrew~**
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26/10/2006 12:25 delete
live in bandra...u used to hav
ghodawaalas too?
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haha .. ghodawalas ..
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that were fun .. im
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Ghodas rock!!!
I used on sit on one,

didnt know to ride it,
**The Wolf** told the fellow to leave
(manage) for a moment and took
pictures as if I was
riding the horse :D.
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Ghodas at Juhu !!!
There were ghodawalas
R@VI at juhu who used to
(manage) make "mamu" out of
everyone....They wld
say ek round ka 20
Rupiya.....take u
around, for say 100 or
200 and return back
and demand 80 bucks....
When one argued, they

said ek round sirf wahan
tak hota hain(pointing
to a distance hardly 25-
30 mtrs away...)....
wahan tak (the place
where he took u...) 4
round hota hain.....
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i still remember a
friends dad, when we
were kids and at juhu,
got into a massive
fight....
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hehehehehehe does
anyone remember
Alia / Saleha campa cola and campa
(manage) orange??
i mixed the 2 together
when i was little to
make a magic potion...
had a solid tummy ache
after that...
27/10/06 delete
hey anybody remember
anchor cross sticth,
raji wonder if its still a
(manage) timepass for
housewives, there's no
hope after thos k serials
though!!! hahaha
27/10/06 delete
i remember watchn
dekh bhai dekh nd den
zabaan sambhalke on
vivek thursade on sme
(manage) channel name of which i
dnt remember.. also
watchn chinese kung-fu
serials like zu mountain
saga et cetera on home
tv..

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i remember when auto
fares were 5 rupeess as
the minimum fare ..
Nishank i remember ppl in
(manage) school keeping count of
the number of times
they have visited mc
donalds yet...
when half the buildings

on linking road were
bungalows ..
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cadbury adddddddddd
girl runnin in the middle
of the
stadiummmmmmmmmm
Shruti swayinnnnnnnnn
(manage)
kya swaad hai jindagi
meinnnnnnnnnn
superb stuff!
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doodarshan
shruti...
remeber tht marathi
docu film on how family
prajakta plannins imp
(manage) the one in which there
are 4 tomatos getiing
stuffed in a jar and one
more on a alcoholic dad
where in he comes
home and starts beating
his child or something
and then the child
screams..
NAKO BABAAAA
NAKOOOOO
hahhahaha..
i guess the voice over

was of ameen sayani
and u know wat i
discovered some days
back tht he stays some

2 mins frm my
house !!!!!
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do u remember the
tyme...wen a landline
(mtnl) call cost only
ruppe one.....?????/.
*~*~Daksh~*~* no matter how long u
(manage) spoke ?????????????????
there was no devil of
the pulse rate .......
gosh i miss those
days ..
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I remember when we
● view profile didnt have landline and
giving some neighbours
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or 2 - 3 floor down
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PRAVIN neighbours tel no or a no

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DA at the gate and the
(manage) person calling me that my
friends/relatives phone
has come , immediatly
running to recive the call
and attending it was more
thrilling and used to be
proud that my friends/
relative calling me etc and
those people watching me
attending call , hearing
my talk and discussing
later on the topic , whats
the problem or anygood
or bad news etc
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I remember when we
actually wrote letters on
RöÐZ the blue "inland
(manage) letters"...65 paise did it
cost? not sure......long
time since I saw/used
those

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When Surabhi started the
competitions where you
Vikram had to answer questions
(manage) on postcards, so many
millions of people relied
that the Postal Dept. had
to come up with special
"competition use
only"postcards that one
had to use.
Remember Siddarth Kak

and Renuka Shahane
plunging their arms into a
mountain of postcards to
pull out the winner?
I sent in several answers

when I was younger...
never ever won.
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I remember watching
Rangoli, sunday
Archana mornings. Dad and all
(manage) three of us kids would be
still lying in the bed,
having tea, watching
those programs on DD
one after the other. The
last one used to be
Indradhanush.
I had a big crush on that
guy.. Bala.
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should i say... welcome
back, vikram!!
Archana
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this will sound really
stupid but taking vikram's
post one step further, i
used to be so taken up by
Crazy the hosts on surabhi
(manage) 'plunging their arms into
the mountains of letters
sent to them', that i used
to collect all the mails in
the house and have a lil
show of my own at home.
thrilled i was back then.
02/11/06 delete
i remember my pre-teens,
waiting for the summer
Siddhant vacations and spending
(manage) time b4 my 8-channel tv.
DD had these host of
shows in the afternoon...
dunnno how many of u
rem.. he-man, the stone-
man, g.i.joe, etc.
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I remember there used to
be a marathi program on
TV named Gajra and once
they called artist and told
PRAVIN to do different roles than
DA their Normal professional
(manage) fields in that program ,
though the program went
well , it was not as
interesting as used to be ,
so i wrote a strong letter
with my ideas and
sarcasm and pun and one
of my neighbour helped
me for writing in strong
Marathi words and
grammer, on that gajra
program. There used to
be a weekly letter reading
program (on some day)i
dont remember the
name , Vinay apte and
one lady used to be

there , I told my friends

about my letter and was
sure that they will read on
that program, mostly they
used to read just name
and say 'so and so people
have written letters' thats
all , as the programme
was on , they took my
letter and started
reading ,'here is a special
interesting letter from
Pravin Kamath ....' Vinay
apte was holding my
letter and reading it and
as he read I was excited
and all my family membes
and neighbours lated
congratulated me
hehehe.. and at office
next day everybody were
talking on that!!
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Just a random thought... I
remember once when the
filmi song Oye Oye was
really popular... all over
Bhavik the place. Which movie
(manage) was that? I also have a
strong memory of a spoof
of the song used in some
sort of anti-itch cream, B-
tex.
Anyone remember tacky

toy snakes made from
bamboo sticks and
cardboard, assembled
with small nails, that
could be lengthened. You
got them at Juhu, also at
Juhu were paper pankhas
which rotated under the
breeze.
Anyone familiar with the

hotel Jal International
which faces the highway
in Vile Parle East? It's
been a venue for many

film and TV shootings.

Now sometime in the
early 90s, they had a
nude three-storery tall
Buddha-like statue at
their front entrance. By
the late 90s the statue's
vital areas got covered up
so you now have a
mammoth statue that
looks like it's wearing a
towel.
My grandmom would tell

me of charlatan women in
the old days who would
roam around residences
of gullible housewives
supposedly being able to
miraculously produce
kumkum from a
Goddess's picture. ANy
still around?
Another story my
grandparents told me
sounds uncannily like the
"Forward this email to 5
others for good luck, or
else evil will befall you"
kind of emails. Apparently
the movie Jai Santoshi
Maa was popular once
upon a time, following
that, postcards bearing
the Goddess' blessings
would be mailed to people
with the same message.
"This will bring you luck if
you send 5 postcards to
others, or else severe
misfortune shall befall
you".
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Oye Oye was in the movie
Tridev...
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Bhavik: kitna confusion!!
● view profile the big staute /idol was
not of buddha its of
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mahavir
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PRAVIN
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here were mails forwards
●
DA
(manage) in those days too like e
mail forwards
if u dont send to 10people
etc , the main part is one
has to write whole letter
by his/her own hand
writing no photocopy or
print
sender was annonymous
but we used to catch
among our friends by
handwriting
that kumkum also Ash

(Vibhutee)I have heard
and seen in Mulund
comming from photoframe
fo satya sibaba when i was
small , but no body
challenges that , now i
think it had stopped ,later
came to know its all
chemical tricks.

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Rodz - Tridev it was...
comes back now.
Pravin Da - Thanks for the

Bhavik correction, I didn't know
(manage) the statue was Mahavir.
Another question, I
remember when I was a
kid, there was another
scam that people could
hear about sometimes.
This also happened to a
close family friend of my
parents. Some guy would
show up at your door,
generally in the afternoon
and claim he had a
solution which could polish
gold ornaments and make
them shine like new.
Sometimes people would
let him try to polish some
jewellery, but the chemical
solution was one which
could dissolve gold .( Is it
called aqua regia?, high
school chemistry ?)
Many people ended up
with shinier but lighter
gold ornaments.
03/11/06 delete
Dont know about the tale,
but Aqua regia is the
correct term.
Raj And I have some very

(manage) faint recollection of this,
but anyone remember a
cine magazine called
"Picture Post". This was
not as glossy as the
current ones. Saw one
from 1971 posted on
ebay. Starting bid was 4$.

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Bhavik : u r right , we also
heard that
I remembere similar thing

PRAVIN on brass vessels , earliear
DA many people used to have
(manage) tamba , pittal vessels in
house before steel became
popular and these vessels
needs to have
'kalaee'(shine from inside)
if not done tha food
poisoning takes place if
cooked in that.There used
to be kalai wala around
who used to do these , it
happened one day he took
vessels from many houses
and vanished!
'sab ko kalai laga ya'
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Apparently the movie Jai
Santoshi Maa was popular
once upon a time,
following that, postcards
Shreeji bearing the Goddess'
(manage) blessings would be mailed
to people with the same
message.
Apparently the movie Jai

Santoshi Maa is being
made again or probably its
being re-released. I saw
trailor of it few days. And
its was in the news too.
I also have a strong

memory of a spoof of the
song used in some sort of
anti-itch cream, B-tex.
The ad have Dilruba Uncle,

Tiku Taslania and Reema
lago. I remember the
version where I saw Jatin
Kanakia not Tiku Taslanai.
Anyone remembers about

it?
The Ad went:
Oye, Oye! Khujali karne
wale B-Tex lagle,
B-Tex laga ke apni khaj
kujali mita de!
Oye, Oye!
Anyone familiar with the

hotel Jal International
which faces the highway in
Vile Parle East? It's been a
venue for many film and
TV shootings.
Tara was the serial that

made it famous. Its was
probably the longest
running serial before Kyoki
broke its record.
03/11/06 delete
remember the version
where I saw Jatin Kanakia
Milind
(manage) I remember Archan
Joglekar and Ravi
Vaswani... never Jatin
Kanakia in this ad
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Bhavik it was a stutue of
Bahubali one of the jain
Kurush tirthankaras and not
(manage) mahavira. BTW its no
longer thr. its been gone
for the last 5 yrs or so.
The stue was a copy of the
worlds largest monolithic
statue, the one of bahubali
at shravanabelgola in
karnataka.

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aqua regia is 3:1 conc
hydrochloric acid and nitric
Nikhil
acid, and dissolves gold.
(manage) and platinum too. coolest
part is that neither of the
two acids will individually
dissolve the metals!
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Kurush: ya u r right ,I was
under impression till now
that Mahavira an Bahubali
are same!! , thanks for
PRAVIN correction , I was to write
DA Bahubali since I felt
(manage) people will not no this so i
wrote the other name ,
some more info on that:

we have many Bahubali
statues in karnataka one
right in front of my native
place ,karkala , one at
dharmashtala and
shravanabelagola , i have
seen all.
The one made for
Dharmasthala I have seen
making of that from a big
single white stone in 1969
near my native place ,
there was a famous
shilpakar Ranjal Gopal
Shenoy! who made this,
and taking the statue from
karkala to dharmasthala
and placing there was a
big event and technology
of modern times (longest
trailor)!

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This one is fairly recent -
another memory of my
second stint in Bombay ia
"Independance Cafe" at
Neville linking road used to have
(manage) a Rs 99/- menu where
everything from a pitcher
to butter chicken was the
same price. It used to be a
nice decent hangout that
shut down too i heard.
Can anyone confirm this
too ?
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O.K. people are speaking
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bharat writing or simply scribling
view forum (manage) on graphite boards with
●
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cylindrical), after reaching
school, you yourself dont
know when did you finish
that chalk by eating it up,
B&W t.v. with rotatory
channel switcher,
transistors with 107.1 Mhz
for news, songs, then
going to school with your
pre booked cycle wala, no
ticket for me to ticket of
Rs. 4.5 for minimum dist.,
rickshaws taking 5 people
to 3, minimum rickshaw
fare Rs. 4, getting a bread
for Rs. 4/-, for 5 bucks you
used to get 3 bhels or
buttas(corn), getting
sharpener for free with box
of pencils worth Rs. 8 or 9,
Chandmama story books
read by parents for kids &
delivered by newspaper
guy, having hand pumps to
extract water in flats &
water comes in the
morning for 2 hours from
5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.,
parents waking you up at
early hours & filling water
for you & making you take
your bath, on

Independence Day group of

people going through some
route playing the band &
lazim, people watcing them
from their windows,
balconies, or from building
galleries, & from the road
but giving them way,
parents throwing five rupee
note wrapped around a
steel sharpener from
second floor for you
waiting down to buy
something..
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Neville, Independace Cafe
is still there. Tough the
prices have definately gone
up.
Shreeji
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@dakshata,
1 rupee public phone booth

calls? Highway robbery! I
Ash vaguely remember 1 anna
(manage) calls, 10 paise calls, 20
paise, 25 paise calls.
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Postcards
Reply-paid postcards used
to cost 3 np, then 5p, then
6 p, etc. Great marketing
Ash idea - you put your own
(manage) address on the attached
reply card and then the
other party didn't have any
excuse not to reply.

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Monsoon tricks
Before and during the
monsoons, kids along the
seashore used to offer to
Ash colour car hubcaps (the
(manage) Indian made ones used to
rust badly). So you would
see cars with brown or blue
hubcaps. This colour would
fade by the end of the
monsoons.
Many cars didn't have

hubcaps because they were
easily stolen.
You had to remove wiper

blades after the monsoons
and lock them in during the
rains so that they didn't
get stolen.
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Ash
heheheheh why wud
Alia / anyone wanna steal wipers
Saleha after the monsoons??
(manage) makes more sense to steal
them while u can still use
em innit???
hehehehehehehehehehe,
no sense the public has...
crime requires brains...
damn i shud sleep am
rambling......
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Saleha : What Ash is telling
is absolutely right
Because after monsoon if it

PRAVIN is stolen the owner wont
DA come to know till next
(manage) mansoon and the rober will
be forgoten or no enqiry
will take place , if they
steal in monsoon
immediatly one can
enquire and can be caught!!

robers are very smart dont

underestimate them!
Anyway its the fact of old

days I have witnessed too!
and it was the trend of car
owners.
Now a days people keep

wiper because autocleaning
of glass can be done as
there are water sprinklers
in it.and if u see cost its
peanut for owner compared
to in those days it was
pinching pocket!
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i am not for one moment
doubting the authenticity of
Alia / what Ash says...no sir!
Saleha im just wondering at the
(manage) sanity of this whole
masterplan....
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I remember getting a
spanking new shiny cycle
in X std. in june only to
take all the shine away in a
Neville week after coating it with
(manage) the "dinchak" anti-rust Ash
spoke about.
Many years later after

graduating to a bike from a
cycle.... my bike mirrors
got stolen when i parked it
in town. Never bothered
getting new ones after that
they were pretty useless in
bombay traffic anyways.

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talkin of cars
hey wen did we (the whole
Jitesh.. city)first graduate from
(manage) premier padmini or fiats to
better cars...
which was the first 'better

car' 118NE or the maruti
1000... ??
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which was the first
● view profile 'better car' 118NE
Milind or the maruti 1000
Neither.. I would
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say it was the
●
Maruti 800
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You had Contenssa
of Hindustand
Motors too. As a kid
I used to love its
Shreeji length.
(manage)
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ofcorse 800 n the
contessa!! man if
Jitesh.. you had one of
(manage) those drop u to
school u were so
cool... LMAO!!!
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And before 118NE
yuo had "dukar"
FIAT.
Shreeji
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hey one of my
bosses still drives
raji one dukkar fiat, its
(manage) nice!! hehehe
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If I hear ek anek or
giant robot on this
It's a beautiful thread again, I will
(manage) scream. Really. And
most likely, find
myself in a padded
cell when the
tranqulizers wear off
Why can't people go

through the
archives beore
posting? N00bs!
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sowwy
hmm u do realise
Alia / Saleha there are like 2000
(manage) plus posts right??
but i am sorry
nevertheless.....will
delete it now
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I remember when
this comm used to
RöÐZ have just one
(manage) MOD...sigh, those
were the times...
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does anyone
remember jumbo
circus?????
it used to be around
*~*~Daksh~*~* so often !!
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J-49 was one of the
hottest clubs..
Warren
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Catching a bEST
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***Raghudon
Story dated to 8
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years ago
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I remember running
●
and catching a
BEST bus ... (well in
the days of being in
physical prim shape)
there was this one

time I was getting
really really late for
college and i ran
behind the bus like
mad. almost 300 m
i think. there was a
cadbury perk in my
pocket which also
fell off in the
bargain.. still i
ran.... finally I
caucht the bus...
just a jump in slow
motion (somewhat
like my namesake
DON in the movie)
and then caught the
handlebar and my
foot magically finds
the footboard... and
voila I AM
IN................ it
was extacy
what followed was
anticlimax. I heard
a distinct tring... of

the bell being

rung... the
conductor comes in
a huff and says he
wil not allow people
who climb the bus
dangerously to
climb in ..i gave
him some of my
choiciest 4 letter
words and did not
relent and climb
down. In fact also
saw a seat and sat
down with a 10
upee note in my
hand for the ticket.
He was really
bugged by this
behavior (sounds
like ghandhigiri)
finally after 10
minutes of being
parked in the side
of the road with the
beeping horns et
al... a cop comes
in.. i jump in and
give him my side of
the story first and
he called the
conductor a
"ghadva" and told
the driver to move
on.... it was a small
victory for my
athletic abilities to
not go in waste...
more valuale than a
price. Anyways
bottomline was I
was late for the
lecture also! haha

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@ raghu
hey nice story!!!
@warren !!J49 is
tacky now!!
*~*~Daksh~*~*
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^^^^ ya i kno
Warren havin ma cell

(manage) flicked in a BEST
bus
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I also remember
Kababs at Bade's at
Kushal "Bamboo" 3 in the morning,
(manage) bhurji at cooper
hospital at 2 in the
morning, wasting
an entire day at
just around the
corner in Bandra,
wasting the rest of
the night at 7
bunglows in
versova, speeding
like a maniac on the
roads of film city,
getting caught by a
pandu for talking on
the phone while
driving and then
telling him i had to
go the the passport
office to get my
visa stamped casue
i was going to
sydney for studies,
and then being
wished best of luck
by him as he left
my car without any
hafta, early
morning show at
Fame adlabs for 45
bucks....etc

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I remember enjoy
the cool n calm
RöÐZ early morning
(manage) breeze by the
Queen's necklace at
Marine drive...used
to reach ealry
morning for my
college prax, and
had some time to
kill...the sunrise,
the breeze, the
serenity...broken
occasionally by the
laughter club or
some walkers...
priceless!!
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smokin pot on the
beach..
Warren
(manage)
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anyone remembers
bikes...yezdi...IND
Ram
Suzuki...and those
(manage)
mopeds which you
had to pedal like a
cycle to get it
started..
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late night cofee at
thakur
Warren
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Chal meri luna!
80 km/ ltr they
It's a beautiful claimed....
(manage)

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@ ramalingam....
Those were Luna
R@VI days...the Ad
(manage) said.."Chal meri
Luna".... ...
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Sunny--- the first
● view profile scooterette.... Ugly,
It's a dinky little thing that
view forum beautiful needed a prayer to
●
● view events
(manage) move. Then Scooty
happened and there's
been no looking back.
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does anyone remember
this series from star
Ram
plus of Yore..."Yan Can
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Cook"....this chinese
chef Yan...i loved the
way he chopped
onions...
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yah i remember yan
can cook, hey there
raji was one more cooking
(manage) show, some sardar guy
used to host it the
recipes were damn
tedious and were
translated in english

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when kinetic came ... it
***Raghudon was such a rage!
yeah the luna and M8
***
were preposterous..
(manage) but useful and in the
budget i guess
yesdis and enfields and

javas ...wow... i learnt
to ride on a yesdi.
havent yet ouched a
100cc since!
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Speaking of Enfield...
anyone remember the
Anirban 50CC MOFA that they
(manage) brought out... I'm sure
even they're doing
their best to forget it...
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Remember Yan's cute
accent when he said "If
It's a Yan can cook, so can
beautiful you"
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Raji, If I am not
mistaken you are
Bhagyashri talking about 'Daawat'
(manage) which used to come on
DD on Sunday
afternoons I think.
They used to invite
some celebreties to
taste the dishes, I
distinctly remember
the episode featuring
Kapil Dev & his wife
(Wasnt her name
Romi?)
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4.50RS was the
minimum rickshaw fare
Warren
(manage)

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the coffeewala u can
find after midnight on
any flyover. amazing
coffee...
Krunal
(manage)
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ya......also the guy
who sells anda bhurji
Tushar near cooper
(manage) hospital.......damn
good!!
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u know i counted once
● view profile when he starts making
Jitesh.. the burji on that big hot
view forum
tavaa! he breaks 60
●
(manage)
● view events EGGS at once! and it on
a good night it takes him
more time to make it
then it takes for it to
reach the hurngry janta..
Does any1 remebrer the

rest Tavaa in bandra..
what happ to that??
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Tavaa is still pretty much
there on the corner of
24th and Turner...
Irshad
(manage)
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i remember there was
something called the rose
thread which was one
Rama hilarious laugh out here
(manage) in bombay

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I find myself singing the
ad songs to all three
Vikram major cookers.
(manage)
Marlex Pressure Cooker
Hawkins
Prestige.
And yes, my office people

are sick of me singing
"khana jaldi pakaye kaisi
seeti bajaye"
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I remember an ad for a
'lighter' cooking oil,
though I can't seem to
'Num
remember the name.
(manage) Mom in the kitchen in a
sari,little kid(literally)
doing acrobatics around
giant platters of food..
Sunflower was it?
Lots of jingles/lines
popping into my head..
Mother Dairy's ad not so
long ago-Peeyo glassful
doodh..
(think it's been
mentioned earlier)
"I'm a Complan girl..I'm
a Complan boy"
"Tan ki shakti..man ki
shakti Bournvita!"
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@ Num
U forgot the boost ad
Jitesh..
(manage) Boost is the secret of my
energy.... says a kid
and then the bigger kid
in a even more childish
voice says " OUR
ENERGY"
the bigger kid was sachin

tendulkar..
.............. talkin of

sachin... does any1

rember the ala sachin ad
it had him sit on a big
pile of pepsi and hit
cricket balls with a
stump... I may b wrong
but i think pralad kakar
did the ad..... it was
sachin larger than life!!!
AWESOME STUFF!!
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The 'lighter' oil was
Sundrop & the jingle
Bhagyashri went something like this
(manage)
Sundrop ki duniya mein
sehat sabhi ki
The healthy oil for
healthy people
With Radha Seth as the

mom. This ad has been
changed a couple of
times but the format
remains the same with
only the actors
changing...
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hey i distinctly remember
the lijjat papad with
Sagar those bunies singing and
(manage) dancing....he he he lijjat
papad
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Remember the ad:
Jab main chota baccha

Rain tha badi shararat kartha
(manage) tha, meri chori pakdi
jaatiiii....jab roshan hotha
bajaj!
2 more paragraphs....Im
too lazy to type it out
right now.
The weird part was I

went to Bombay recently
for a vacation and saw

the same ad with new

folks on it. BUT - it didnt
feel the same.....I can
still remember the cute
Parsi couple at the end of
the ad.
Man, this thread has

made me all nostalgic....
why couldnt time have
just stopped still? All this
technology and
innovation is wonderful,
but nothing can compare
the joy of living in the
days of simplicity and
contentment! Right?
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Naam kya hai?
Sunil Shetty.
Ghar ka pata do?
Jhopharpatti.
Shreeji Kya karte ho?
(manage) Gunda gardi.
Iska nateja?
Jail ki chakki.
Rememder such remakes

of hit songs from Hindi
movies?
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Jadooooo teri nazar,
● view profile Badboooo tera badan
Aditi
● view forum (manage) And then there were
faaltu jokes like:
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Q.What did Sanjay
●
Kapoor say when he had

constipation?
A. Aati Nahi, Aati Nahi
(song from that super
flop movie, Prem)
Q.What did Tabu say

when she had loose
motions?
A. Ruk ruk ruk arre baba
ruk (heck i cant believe
tabu actually wore that
horrendus polka dot
rednwhite dress with
cycling shorts
underneath outfit!)
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oh my god i just realised
i know the words to the
Aditi chorus of Ruk Ruk ruk!!
(manage)
Ruk ruk ruk
Arre baba ruk
Oh my darling
Give me a look
Dil mera dhadke tere liye
Dil mera tadpe tere liye
Gussa tera vallah vallah
Nakhre tere uff uff uff!

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Aditi, you missed the
chorus!!!
Love, love, love, love,

Bhavik love , love; tumse love
(manage) hua!!
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roflmao!!!!! the love love
part was priceless! fuck i
Aditi cant stop singing the
(manage) song now!
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F%$# i just realised i
know the rest of the
Alia / Saleha lyrics to that
(manage) godforsaken song.......
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh...
horrible.....
hey WARREN......
yeah i miss smoking pot
on the beach too.....
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I remember when 11th
std xams were used 2 b
Vishal ®Joshi d board xams in bbay...
(manage) n scorin a mere first
class was considered as
90% of nw...
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Jitesh,
The boost ad originally
The .L. Shrew had Kapil dev in it.The
(manage) one with sachin came
much much later.
Someone mentioned J49.

J49 and Razz were
pretty cool a long long
time ago.I went there
some 4 years ago last
and they were shitty.J49
was jampacked with a
really weird underage
crowd and Razz was
empty except for this

aunty uncle group of 4

with tight clothes that
was dancing like they
had a bit too much of
vodka.
But obviously we fled.
I remember velocity and

mikanos were so hep
way before FnI was in
the picture.Does either
of them still exist?I think
pheonix mills changed it
all,no?That reminds me,
a model friend was
going on about Ra being
the hottest place to be
and I thought about
checking it out.We went
in to find no place to
stand leave alone sit.
They do have good
wines though.
I remember not so long

ago when loud music
and dancing crazy was
my idea of fun.I'd pick
mondy's or leos over
any of these hot places
now.Maybe I'm just
getting old or does
anyone else prefer
lounges and pubs to
discotheques too?
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pubs are anyday better
***Raghudon places to sit... though
there should be more in
***
the suberbs..
(manage) surprisingly aroud seepz
theres only the tunga
sports bar... nothing
else!

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how can u guys 4get
Ghetto its been around
Kurush almost forewver and still
(manage) plays music i can
recogfnise, went thr last
week after a year and
thenplace still looked,
smelt and felt the same.
ps for those who want to
shake a leg and listen to
familiar 'old' stuff
Polyesther from 930 to
1130 plays sum really
retro stuuff and its
almost always empty,
the crowd really gets in
at 12 and rocks or shud i
say raps till 4 -5 am.
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drinkin pitchers at totos
Warren getting stoned n hoggin

(manage) on bhurji..
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Appointment ..
● view profile pre Totos
I remember the
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manchurian at
●
Nishank
view events appoitment .. i dont
●
(manage) know how many of
u remember it ..
it used to be the
restaurent where
Totos stands today.
mainly mughlai
food.. but it had the
tastiest most spicy
manchurians .. !!
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remember wen
Cyber cafes had jus
started ....?
u wud have to book
*~*~Daksh~*~* the comp Three
(manage) hours in
advance !!!!!!!!!!!11
Gosh !!!!!!!!!
1internet was only
on the rich mans
platter !

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cbercafes and the
***Raghudon "students
connection" anyoen
***
who had tcpip was
(manage) like a stud in college!
(internet began
when i was in
college)
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Hey!!!
I remember!!!
Nishant Student's account
(manage) OR Shell account --
no graphics, only
text!!!
And it took ages to
load a single page
-- and that too only
with text!!!
At that time
computers were
considered a luxury!!
And telephone lines
were rare and hard
to get too!!!!
I used to have a
shell internet
account on my 486
laptop!!
yeah, 486 processor
-- 4 mb ram -- 245
mb HDD - 12kbps
modem!!! -- and
that was the latest
pc then!!!!
hehehe!!!!
To connect to VSNL
was like getting into
a 8.30 virar fast
train from andheri
today!!!!! Almost
impossible, and if u
could succeed, then
it was like winning
the nobel prize!!!!!

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Random memories!!
I remember playing
volley ball on
PRAVIN DA holidays or Sunday
(manage) morning , tieing
net , pumping air in
volley ball from
hand pump , there
used to be separate
detachable tube and
cover , a lace wala
ball earliear then
came lace less ball
what one see now ,
people from colony
used to watch
games, matches
from their open
gallery (which is
now missing).No
grills in galleries ,
I remember when
we were small
playing cricket with
tennis ball and
matches with prizes
like Rs 10 and a
ball , there used to
be always fight bet
2 teams on umpire
decisions and some
times matches
ending half way due
to no compromise
fights and umpire
decision .
Some times during

vacation we used to
play cricket in one
of the five gardens
at wadala , it was
called love garden
since many couples
used to sit behind
the trees and it was
at corner isolated
place and the

demand for fielding

was more than
batting (surprice)
near the trees ,
where couples used
sit and some
naughty friends
purposely used to
throw balls near the
tree to have
glimpse of the
couples and their
positions!! And the
fielder used to give
commentary on that
while playing ‘aab
kya ho raha lai … us
ney us ka haat
pakda hai…. Kiss
kar rahela hai…. etc‘
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I remember
drinking water from
Mumcipal garden
pipes , after
PRAVIN DA playing , requesting
(manage) Mali’s please ,
please , while he
watering the
plants ! it used to
be so sweet and
chilling experience
during summer
vacation in the
afternoon hot sun
never had second
thought to drink or
not to drink!! Also
never imagined in
those days that one
day we will question
the purity of water!
And will have
bottled water like
today!
Similarly we used to
drink water directly
from taps keeping u
r palm below the

tap and sucking /

drinking directly
running water.
wow!! kya majja
aata tha ! the water
some times drips till
elbow and some
times full shirt used
toget wet!
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Gardeners water!
***Raghudon wow... pravin da
those were some
***
memories for me
(manage) also...
We used to go
ransack the
buildings tap which
was actually used y
the gardner to
water plants. They
usd to also lock the
tap but we brooke it
down
mali finally used to

keep a danda to
beat and chase us
away... we then
went to the
secretay of the
building and got his
written approval ...
we carried the leter
proudly to show the
mali
next day when we
were drinking water
and he came
chasing us... i
showed him the
letter... he looked at
it from 4 diff angles
and i was beaming
like a superstud....
then the
inevitable .. he said
"areee mereko

c**utiya banata
hain... mujhe to
padne hi nahin aata
hain"
i got one big whack
on my but and had
to practice my best
imitation of carl
lewis in the 100m
dash!
hahah
i was in the 6th

standard then....
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I remember the
days when Aama
dekh a dekh tera
munda bigda jaiye,
Shreeji a dekh tera munda
(manage) bigda jaiye.
Huuumaah! was a
rage!
Also there were

plenty of Devang
Patel songs which
were spoof of HIT
songs. One song
which I vivdly
remember is Aye
Raju.... .... De De.
Hame jo mare
dhake, chuda unke
chake, na lena
hamse pange, hu,
toh karte hai dunge.
Humm bin bolaye
ate phati awaaj
mein gate aur paisa
le ke jate. ..... ..... I
dont remember the
original artist of the
song. Something
Alan was it?

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GHETTO
oh i didnt realise
Alia / Saleha that ghetto had
(manage) become one of
those things that we
refer to as a fond
memory of the the
past.
i used to go there
till about july.after
which i started
travelling..
Ghettos was fun.....i
loved their french
fries cuz they added
chaat masala on it,
not just pepper...
razz is really sad.....
i agree......
shrew....i know
what u mean...i
mean these
discotheques are
filled with kids..for
the lack of a better
term...people we
used to be eons ago
it seems like now.....
now i cant make the
effort to get dressed
up every weekend..
i'd sit and drink
anyday.... though
there are days when
i like putting on a lil
something sexy
along with my
dancing shoes...but
on most days i'd
just wear my
oversized kurtas/
men's shirts...with
jeans, smoke my
cigarette and chill
over many many
drinks.....
i hate what Toto's
has become..the
management is so

snooooooty. i mean
we used to go there
every single day for
2 years....everyday,
out of 9 of us,
atleast 5 wud be
there on any given
day. suddenly when
it started getting
crowded, they
started letting all
the hep kids get the
tables while us poor
working class
people, who drank
with our hard
earned money,
would have to wait
for an hour
minimum to get a
table, and the worst
one at that.....
WTF??
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@Hibernating
Aditi that devang patel

(manage) song was a spoof of
the song Alane by
Wes... i think they
were african or
something. i
remember he did a
spoof on that other
song too which
went something like
baachi baachi
jumbo hey chiki
chiki chiki ta
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Wow, Aditi your
● view profile memory for tacky
songs is cool...
● view forum
Bhavik I remember a time
view events
when ramps/fashion
●
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shows in shcools and
colleges only played
"Pari hoon main", I
remember when we
were ragged we had
to do a paraa hoon
main...
Whatever happened
to those singers from
then - Shweta
Shetty, Suneeta Rao,
Alisha Chinai ?
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the pavement
bookstalls all the way
from churchgate
station to flora
Malvika fountain - really miss
(manage) them!!!
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shweta shetty with
jhony jhony joker...
raji khelo naa.. ahaha
(manage) eeuu

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Mile sur mera
tumhara...at dd
Under And that animation,
(manage) ekta mein anekta ...
han it was like
" dekho dekho ek
gilahri, dekho dekho
anek gilahriya "..
chutti chutti at DD
during vacation
times..humming
those current hindi
movies songs like ole
ole and hai huku..
hahaha
( PS, i've got that

"ekta mein anekta"
video and this mile
sur wala song kisi ko
chahiye to scrap mar
do )
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thanks bhavik, i take
that as a
Aditi compliment :)
(manage)
& guys plsss read the
the previous pages!
this ek titli-anek titli
stuff has been
mentioned over and
over again!
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Bhavik, Alisha Chinai
did a song for a
movie recently.
Though its ironic, I
Shreeji can't remember the
(manage) song in this thread.
I remember watching
the fliming of Kaseriy
hai roop maroo, the
Suneetha Rao song.
The shoot location

was at Balganga. I
also remember
boasting abuot it to
friends and
suprisingly it was one
of favourite song for
quite some time.
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alisha did... kajara
***Raghudon re... nice one too...
***
(manage)
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i remember alisha
struttin hr stuff in
Kurush total 80's pop dress
(manage) and pouting "main
bhi madonna".
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I Rock at Rang
Bhavan....\m/
Warren
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On my last trip to
Bombay, I was
introduced to a place
called Hawaiian
Neville Shack which was
(manage) supposed to be a
lounge by some
stretch of
imagination... the
place was packed like
a can of sardine and i
think i even asked a
couple of people
"Dadar utharna hai
kya?"... I missed
Indy Cafe on linking
road, though
@Hiberating says it
is now re-open for
business.
Speaking of post-

drinking eating
binges .... while Bade
Miyan is "the" place
while in town, but
back in the suburbs,
is anyone else here a
fan of a hole in the
wall somehwere in
Andheri (near
Cinemax) called LPs,
the letters expand to
something but i don't
know what it is. But
what i do know it
best joint for piping
hot neer dosas and
curry at 3 a.m.
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Then there was Magic Lamp on DD which I

How can I forget, 'hello hello hello – inspector

There are these ads on radio which I still

2) jeevdaya netra-prabha netra-prabha!

3) tv ad: jab mein chota ladka tha, badi

I suppose these are generic for the country.

Restaurants mein I remember Dasprakash

Shit, how can i forget Yankee Doodle. I still

Another thing I REALLY miss about the city is

Aur kya, abhi yaad nahin aa raha. But this

Jai Orkut, Jai Bambai.

Will write in when I think of more!

One was collecting those things from under

The second one was collecting cricketer's

And the coolest thing was EVERY kid in the

I don't see any kids playing downstairs

The Cadbury's contest thingie. Remember.

Ruchi I still have the brochure at home. Will check it

Also does anyone remember another couple of

One thing I miss is the trailer buses... sort of

And yes, I remember Bisca... we used to call

Gosh, it really takes me back to childhood

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Poonam wow this takes me back....

thing is i cant diffrentiate b/w what was and what is - i havent

I remember it all, from gold spot contest to thumbs up flickers.

From TV land, I still remember the sannata on all the mumbai

More later as i remember it!

Check this out!

Courtsey: Vishal Patel

Poonam i loved giant robot!

and fraggle rock

Salil, remember those products because of the 'different' (in

Wow! Literally, the daze of our lives!

* Riding on double-decker trams and watching the driver turn

* Kala ghoda (King George V, not Shivaji)

* The period between the departure of Coke and the arrival of

* When the Gateway of India was pristine and not surrounded

* When the only disco in town was Slipped Disc at Colaba.

* When the bands played at Band Stand near the Oval.

* When the only sign of Shivaji was at his park.

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topic: i remember.. warning: totally

The original Kalaghoda statue is now in the Victoria

Re: The Gateway of India..the square in front of

How many years before the Gateway is renamed?

Btw, does anyone remember Sunday mornings

And aah... only the Bombay Gang would

Bon Jovi concert and Deep Purple concert.

Ghaseetaram, Saroj, Geeta Bhavan, Grand Central

Nishant We'd take the path to Jupiter,

Lets add 92 ltd and 6 ltd to that list of buses from

Nishant Did anyone attend the free all-night Indian

i still remember, yokozuna was the heaviest, andre

yesterday i was in a mall, and saw these 4 kids