[nukkad] yadi

["Homi Kaikobad" <>]

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WHEN IN LOVE ...

When in love a man is likely to say to his Love that he is in love. Here are
the words he is likely to use if from urban India:

"I love you." - He opts for Anglo-Saxon usage, which make the point but
leaves much in terms of the 440 volts of charge and rampant lightening.

"Yadi mei aap se pyar karta hun." - Leans on Hindi with a Sanskritik "yadi"
and a weak "pyar". H'm. Won't cover much ground if Honey is all plutonium
laced lightening.

"Mei tum se muhabbat karta hun." - Wow. OK. Seems more to the purpose, and
carries power. Notice the casual "tum" which displaces the formal "aap". He
will be made to pay a price for that though, because there have been obvious
bridges burnt. And the diction leans to Urdu, which is the lingua amore most
brought into use on the Screen, unless it it is in Pali.

Imagine Amitabh going "yadi" to Rekha in Silsila which careened real close
to profligacy, which every woman worth her salt despised publicly but
secretly longed for to happen to her.

So if we are children of celluloid, and a long line of heroes young to not
so young have gone "maei tum se ...", we too, when the chips are down, will
avoid "yadi" and go Amitabh.

Unless we are Gujerati, in which case we will have to skirt close to
blasphemy if opting for "mei tum se ...". For there the tame parlance would
be "Pritam, hu tara thi pyar karun chun." OK, if you say so. Gujerati is no
language to make love in. For kavita as in Narsi Mehta, OK, but affairs of
love, uh huh, it's best to pass. Unless love is happening in Gindal.

Persian lovers never stop short at I love you but throw out an incredible
four score of quatrains. Their love has a large dark streak for they go
murder and mayhem by the in laws who for some reason al ways seem to be from
an enemy sect, much like the Montague's. For fun's sake pick up a random
Persian movie with lovers on cover and grit through it and you get the
point.

Parsi men by and large act mute when the grim moment arrives, because if
they open their mouth something like, "Deeyer, hu tune ghano pyaar karunch."
spills out and next moment he is in irons, gone for life. Remember, there is
no divorce in Parsis.

Wonder what true blue Maharashtrians take to when declaring undying love, if
they don't opt for the very obvious English."I love you?".

Any takers?

Arya.















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