More on Bengali humour

I am following by a postscript of my earlier article on bengali humor.

Those who are good speakers are called “Bokta”. Those who speak much without content are “Bokbokta”.

Those who have a loud voice which does not require mic(microphone) are said to have a “Omaik” voice.

The next one is from my friend Harisadhan Dasgupta ( he was the first documentary filmmaker of India; though much older when I met him he became my friend). Two Bengali directors made a film jointly and got it selected for an International film festival. They asked Harisadhan how to have a catchy name for the duo. Harisadhan said “ Please choose the name DUI MAAL”. Readers, please remember Louise Malle was the name of an internationally recognized avant garde filmmaker. Hari dadu made a pun of Louis Malle’s name by DUI MAAL. What an apt nomencletaure.

Another I got from Tapan Raychaudhuri’s Bangalnama. In his younger days elders of the family used to chide the younger unemployed ones by this sentence “ Bari te bos e kichu podyo likhteo to paris . Dekh to Dwiju babu r choto bhai likhe kemon du poisa korche ?” Needless to say Dwiju babu is Dwijendranath Tagore and his choto bhai is Rabindranath Tagore.

My friend was watching a recent bangla movie called Anuranan. He did not like the movie at all. He was pissed off with the story line and acting. When asked for a review he told “ are bhai ota to cinema noi….jeno Sikkim r London er noishorgic drishyer powerpoint presentation”.

Overheard in Gariahat mor....looking at the huge chaos of pedestrians and traffic a bhadralok commented " LIC kore rasta par hote hobe Dekhchi" (Requires an LIC policy to cross the road...such menacing traffic)