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Celebrating creativity, typos, and expert image-and-word juxtaposition in subtitles in Indian cinema, plus some perfectly good translations that just don't work in English.

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"Even nobody can even what you have done." (Aah, 1953)

nobody can EVEN

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Not wrong, I suppose, but "Alex the Great" doesn't quite work.

(Sikandar, 1941)

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Gulaab Gang (2014): “Sawan ka mahina, pawan kare shor.”

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A self-confident Chichi in Swarg (1990).

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Dil Bole Hadippa! (2009)

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Happy Ending (2014). That’s not how the aphorism conventionally goes, but perhaps it ought to be.

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Hatyara (1977). This construction reminds me of when my Latin prof stated that English has no future pluperfect tense, and the whole class started chorusing elaborate sentences along the lines of “When class will have been over, we shall be grateful.

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Naalayak (1978). “Sat sri akaal,” not ordinarily construed as a question.

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Guns of Banaras (2020). “Sher ke bhai ho.”

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Zanjeer (1973). Well, as long as it’s only a few omamonb…

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Qila (1998). Even in your anguish, please dispose of trash appropriately.

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I don't know what film this is from; I stole it from a Facebook discussion thread because it was too good to leave.

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Nagineedu suffers collateral coconut damage in Maryada Ramanna (Telugu, 2010).

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Biradari (1966). There was no dialogue here; he literally just screamed!

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Humse Badhkar Kaun (1998), Midway through a song titled and frequently reiterating "Line Maar Le," the subtitler has apparently had enough.

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Blackmail (2018) offers a novel description (?) of bhangra.

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Aarop (1974, not a snake movie).