

This is always a phavourite phassion of the Kolkattan. The Bengalis believe that a touch of mustard oil will cure anything from cold (oil in the nose), to earache (oil in the ear), to cough (oil on the throat) to piles (oil you know where!). It is the most interesting naked word in any language! These are dangerous half buses whose antics would effortlessly frighten the living daylights out of all James Bond stuntmen as well as Formula 1 race car drivers. Now there is talk of a lungi expedition to Mt Everest. People in Kolkata manage to play football and cricket wearing it not to mention the daily trip in the morning to the local bajaar. L is for Lungi, the dress for all occasions. K is for Kee Kaando! It used to be the favourite Bengali exclamation till eeesh took over because of Aishwarya Rai.Kee mushkil is a close second. Jhaamela and Jachhetai are distant 3rd and 4th Even as you read this there are two million jholas bobbling around Kolkata, and they all look exactly the same! Note that ‘Jhol’with mysterious condiments. It is a shapeless cloth bag where he keeps all his belongings and he fits an amazing number of things in. No selfrespecting Bengali is complete without his Jhola. This is a feeesh with 10,987 bones which would kill any ordinary person, but which the Bengalis eat with releeesh!

Take four Bengalis and a Harmonium and you have the successors to The Bheatles! This Bengali equivalent of a rock guitar. While every Bengali girl will have pet names like Tia, Tuktuk Every Bengali boy will have a good name like Debashish or Deboprotim and a pet name like Motka, Bhombol, Thobla, etc. If not, he will say ‘eeesh what feeesh is theesh!’ Despite the fact that a fish market has such strong smells, with one sniff a Bengali knows if a fish is all right. These are creatures that swim in rivers and seas and are a favourite food of the Bengalis. ‘Ei Morechhey’ is a close second to Eeesh.į is for Feeesh. It is estimated that on an average a Bengali, especially Bengali women, use eeesh 10,089 times every year.
#Bangla jokes in english movie#
This is a very common Bengali exclamation made famous by Aishwarya Rai in the movie Devdas. thrown in at times….as creations of God himself !!Į is for Eeesh.

So you have a Debashish everywhere and trying to get creative they are also called Deb, Debu, Deba with variations like Debopriyo, Deboprotim, Debojyoti, etc. By an ancient law every fourth Bengali Child has to be named Debashish. In the night mothers put their kids to sleep saying, ‘Na ghumoley ebar Chappell eshey dhorey niye jabe.’ĭ is for Debashish or any other name starting with Deb. Currently, this is the Bengali word for the Devil,for the worst form of evil. depending on the Beauty of fairer sex…are close …almost in a tie for second spot….Ĭ is for Chappell. though means opposite …used for same situations. In fact in Kolkata most people are wearing spectacles all the time….Bhishon Bhalo and Bibhotso…. For some reason many Bengalis don’t have good bhision. And if he works for the ‘Vest Bengal Gawrment’ he will arrive at 10, wipe his forehead till 11, have a tea break at 12, throw around a few files at 12.30, break for lunch at 1, smoke the 7th unfiltered cigarette at 2, break for 5th cup of tea at 3, sleep sitting down at 4 and go home at 4:30. This is where the average Kolkakatan goes and spends a day hard at work. We call it Bengali Alphabetical Humor.Ī is for Awpheesh (as in Office). Here’s a whole list of interpretation of English Alphabets.
