Oh, Bolly!

A quick one today...

Back in fifth grade, a teacher told my class how we would all have to take a foreign language in high school. We would even be required to write essays in that language. I remember thinking that other languages were like a code. For example, garden would still be garden in Latin, but you just substitute the Latin letters in for the English. I had no idea that there would be totally different structures of speech, and completely unrelated words that meant the same thing. Needless to say, I was very disappointed in my first Latin class.

Anyone who regularly reads Neat-o-Rama or spends a lot of time on YouTube has probably seen some hilarious Indian versions of things, like the Indian Beatles or the Thriller knockoff. The latest hilarity comes in the form of a YouTube member named Buffalax who adds homophonic English subtitles to these videos. It's a new spin on making fun of people who regularly butcher lyrics in English songs--let's put embarrassing words in the mouth of foreigners!!!

I think that both of these were taken from Bollywood musicals (I know the first one was). I found these to be as funny for the dancing as for the lyrics:

The Benny Lava Song

and the newly subtitled Indian Thriller...