# Parveen Babi & Amrish Puri both dead **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635 "2005-01-25T20:27:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/1 "2005-01-25T20:27:13Z")
For the Indian Dopers, or anyone who watches Bollywood movies. [Parveen Babi](http://www.apunkachoice.com/happenings/20050122-0.html) [Amrish Puri]]([http://www.apunkachoice.com/happenings/20050112-0.html](http://www.apunkachoice.com/happenings/20050112-0.html)) Lots of people know Amrish Puri as the villain in **Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom.** “Kali Maa! Kali maa, shakti de, bali chadaoon tere aage.” (Kali Mother, give me strength so I may sacrifice for you.) “Maaro maaro sewer ko, chamdi nocho peelo khoon.” (Beat the pig, rip his skin, drink his blood." ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/2 "2005-01-26T01:12:56Z")
So do you know what the _entire_ Temple of Doom chant means in English? I tried writing to Lucasfilm, but they never replied. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/3 "2005-01-26T02:37:20Z")
> [@ricksummon](#): > > So do you know what the _entire_ Temple of Doom chant means in English? I tried writing to Lucasfilm, but they never replied. I do! Sometime if I’m in the mood I’ll write it down, but if you have questions about a specific line, I’d be glad to answer. The only thing I don’t know is the village - sometimes they speak Sanskrit, which is akin to Italians speaking Latin, and sometimes Hindi, which is OK but they are really too dark to be North Indians which mostly speak Hindi. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/4 "2005-01-26T04:39:10Z")
A couple of years ago, I watched the DVD of [Mr. India](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093578/) (1987) at a friend’s house (with English subtitles turned on for my benefit). The title character is sort of a cross between James Bond and The Invisible Man, and also takes in orphans for good measure. **Amrish Puri** played Mogambo, a megalomaniac supervillain in the best James Bond tradition (complete with private island and nuclear missiles), in a superbly over-the-top performance. I rate it at least four samosas out of five, and would recommend the movie to any other Bollywood fans. You only need to look at his [IMDB bio](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700869/) to see how prolific he was: 221 movies since 1971! [By comparison, [Christopher Lee](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000489) has 224 movies under his belt, but he started in 1948.] ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/5 "2005-01-26T04:45:17Z")
Mr. India is one of my fave movies because Anil Kapoor is so HOT. He’s my favorite actor! ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/6 "2005-01-26T05:14:48Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Mr. India is one of my fave movies because Anil Kapoor is so HOT. He’s my favorite actor! He’s great, I admit, but the eye candy in that movie (for me at least) was definitely provided by [Sridevi](http://www.bollygals.com/sridevi/pictures.html). To each his/her own, **Anaamika**! ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/7 "2005-01-27T22:24:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Sometime if I’m in the mood I’ll write it down, but if you have questions about a specific line, I’d be glad to answer. How about that line that the choir sings just as Mola Ram is walking up to the sacrificial victim? The one that ends with “yaamo” or something like that. And what does Mola Ram say just _before_ he says “Kali Maa!” Also, I’d just like to say that I’m very happy to find _someone_ out there who knows this. Thank you for your assistance. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/8 "2005-01-28T01:22:10Z")
> [@ricksummon](#): > > How about that line that the choir sings just as Mola Ram is walking up to the sacrificial victim? The one that ends with “yaamo” or something like that. And what does Mola Ram say just _before_ he says “Kali Maa!” Also, I’d just like to say that I’m very happy to find _someone_ out there who knows this. Thank you for your assistance. Hang on. Ok, I’m back. I just put the movie in, I knew if someone just asked I couldn’t help but translate the whole thing! Amrish Puri is henceforth known as AP. Here goes: During the first sacrifice, when the guy comes out: > [@Victim](#): > > “Mujhe Baccho!” (Save me!) > Om Nom Shivai (A prayer to Shiva) > [@Amrish Puri](#): > > “Bali chadoge. Bali mangthi hai Kali Maa. Kali Maa! Kali Maa! Kali Maa, shakti de. Bali chadaoon tere aage.” > [@translation](#): > > You will be sacrificed. Mother Kali demands a sacrifice. Mother Kali! Mother Kali! Mother Kali, give me strength. I will sacrifice for you. Then he reaches for the heart. This is indistinct, but it sounds like > [@Amrish Puri](#): > > “Khoon ka karo” (Sacrifice of blood). Then he yanks the heart out. > [@Amrish Puri](#): > > Ab iski jaan meri muti mein hai! Ab iski jaan meri muti mein hai! Ab iski jaan meri muti mein hai! > [@translation](#): > > Now his life is in my fist! Now his life is in my fist! Now his life is in my fist! > [@Victim](#): > > Om Nom Shivai Then later, they give blood to Indy: > [@Amrish Puri](#): > > Main tumhari aankryion mein shaitanon ka khoon baddoonga. > [@translation](#): > > I will fill your veins with the blood of demons! Then, Indy fights back. And they bring out the voodoo which neither I nor any Indian has ever been able to figure out. There’s no voodoo in India! > [@Amrish Puri](#): > > (to the prince) Mahraj! Tyag kardo isse! > [@translation](#): > > My king! Sacrifice him! Then my favorite line, where they get ready to beat him: > [@Amrish Puri](#): > > Maaro, maaro sewer ko. Chamdi nocho, peelo khoon. > [@translation](#): > > Beat the pig, rip his flesh, drink his blood. Also, later he says more things. When they’re escaping, he says: > [@Amrish Puri](#): > > Peecha karo! bhagne na paye! > [@translation](#): > > Chase them! Don’t let them run away! When Indy is on the catwalks: [quote=Amrish Puri] Isko goli se maro! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/9 "2005-01-28T01:27:47Z")
Frug! Damn. Oh well. Let me finish up. When Indy is on the catwalks: > [@Amrish Puri](#): > > Isko goli se maro! > [@translation](#): > > Shoot him! And another favorite line, when they’re releasing the water: > [@Amrish Puri](#): > > Ye log chuye ki moth mare!" > [@translation](#): > > May they die the deaths of mice! Also, the kids say bacchao! (save me) and stuff. But most of the kids are little British Indians, and don’t seem to have the proper accent! The large man who gets pulled into the roller is not Indian, his accent makes me wince. And Indy himself does a fairly decent job of saying “You betrayed Shiva!” in Hindi at the end, although the word they use for betray is not truly Hindi, sounds like Sanskrit. The villagers are really much too dark to be speaking Hindi. They look like South India. They should be speaking Tamil, Telgu, or Malyali. But then they are near the mountains. And sometimes they even speak Sanskrit! 😕 All in all, it’s a great movie. Oh, and we don’t eat monkey brains or snakes or any of that stuff. 😉 Just had to make the point! ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/10 "2005-01-30T23:12:44Z")
Wonderful! I have waited a long time to find out what all that meant! Thank you! > [@](#): > > Bali mangthi hai Kali Maa. Kali Maa! I think Mola Ram says another sentence between these two, something that sounds like “Mook di de di Kali Maa.” Also, do you know the words that the choir sings before Mola Ram makes his entrance? (For that matter, does “Mola Ram” mean anything? There’s a part where they chant “Mola Ram, suga ram”.) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parveen-babi-amrish-puri-both-dead/286635/11 "2005-01-31T00:20:07Z")
> [@ricksummon](#): > > Wonderful! I have waited a long time to find out what all that meant! Thank you! > > I think Mola Ram says another sentence between these two, something that sounds like “Mook di de di Kali Maa.” > > Also, do you know the words that the choir sings before Mola Ram makes his entrance? (For that matter, does “Mola Ram” mean anything? There’s a part where they chant “Mola Ram, suga ram”.) Oh yes, it’s “Mukti deti hai Kali Maa.” “Kali Maa gives freedom!” I’m sure Mola Raam & Suga Raam mean something, but I’m not sure what. Raam is the name of one of our gods, so it may be a play on that. You know, bow to the new Raam. I’m not sure what the choir chants, either. And if it made you happy, then I’m happy to do it!