Saturday, January 23, 2010

A Screenplay

(Strains of shehnai in the background. Ashok Kumar and his wife welcome Shammi Kapoor to their home).

Shammi Kapoor (beaming, the air of a royal): Baaraat theek aath baje pahunch jaayegi. Magar hum ek baat to kehna bhool hi gaye...

(Ashok Kumar's face falls. He looks at his wife.)

Shammi Kapoor (in an assuring tone): Nahin, nahin, ghabraiyye nahin, humen kuchh nahin chahiye. Hum sirf itna chahte hain ki baaraatiyon ka swaagat Pan Parag se kiya jaye!

Ashok Kumar (relieved as well happy that someone shared his choice of pan masala): Oh, oh, Pan Parag. Humen kya maloom ki aap bhi Pan Parag ke shaukeen hain (reaching for a tin in his kurta pocket). Yeh lijiye!

Shammi drops a spoonful of the masala into his mouth. Jingle begins: Pan Parag pan masala, Pan Parag!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ha ha.... very good

Zig

Soumya said...

:D Remember this one from the good old days of only DD! There was one more with Mr.'Not getting his name at the moment' handing out PP satchets to people according to their height, right?

janani sampath said...

oh ho that good old ad...and archana joglekar's 'shaadi aur tumse kabhi nahin' for Pan Pasand :)

hardik mehta said...

till now if someone says: "hum ek baat kehna to bhool he gaye..."

i reply them back in the same Dad Munim tone...Pan Parag Ad has been an essential part of growing up when the television had just entered our drawing rooms...