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Balle Balle in Delhi

Started by sidin · 6 months ago

This weekend I began to get a hint of why the Delhi natives in Mumbai crib so much. Delhi has big wide roads that seem to never get narrow. They just go on and on in long wide loops of pothole-free cement and tar. And there seem to be no slums anywhere. And I dont [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • A punjabi friend of mine is going to get married to a mallu girl..man that will be fun :D
  • ROTFL!! free booze, great food and PYTs... that really does sound like mallu heaven.
  • Reading your blog after a long time. That was a very nice post!! I have decided I might be Christian... but I am definitely having a Sangeet when i get married... anything to watch my aunts dance :D he he
  • LMAO


    U hv made me hungry n thirsty



    Well the food and beverages in a mallu christian wedding can surely give the Punjabi wedding a competition.



    TC
  • "I too will carry the calamari." They have simple ambitions those waiters.


    Simply hilarious...!!Great going sidin..though i have a doubt,were u having a hangover when u wrote this?
  • That was one awesome post dude. I thought its going to be a repeat of "north-indian" wedding fun-making (fun nevertheless) - but I must admit this was one of the funniest reads ever.
    Your punch-lines are immaculate - on both timing and tone!

    Keep making us ROTFL dude.



    -Venky
  • am planning my own wedding to my hyd fiance, ( am northie, but not punju). Sent ur blog link to him as a warning....


    been laughing ever since
  • Hilarious!!! Will have to stop reading your blog from work, or else risk other finding me laughing madly at the screen... ;-)
  • Picture perfect, punjabi wedding.
    ROTFL
  • LMAO!!!
    Too Good dude...no one can write like you...you r the besht!!
  • Have missed your posts. so my loyalty has shifted to other bloggers. Keep blogging. I dun need to tell u that you rock!!
  • a very hilarious read, as usual. had a great time reading and giggling to glory, er,,, in the apis.


    wanna invite you for my wedding, will see what you have to say about the long, i mean real L-o-n-g rituals.
  • too good.....
  • The car running around the block was my fav part. Remember ragging my bro about a similar stunt; even though he is neither mallu nor punjabi.


    Did the Himesh songs play ?
  • The narration is as rich and humorous as a Punjabi Wedding. A treat to read :)
  • nice nice nice.
  • hey sidin..


    wat are u a wedding specialist???



    loved the description...



    hav never seen a punju wedding except for in movies...and good lord now u say it is actually lik dat!



    i prefer mallu weddings...jaane kaise kab ...shaadi ho jaati hai...u can meet the couple..or just ask ur mom dad to meet em...

    and den strait head to the food counters...i always eat so much dat i hav to miss out on payasam!!



    mallu..Up and punju..wat next??

    i'll wait



    Deppnair
  • Remind me to invite you to an Assamese wedding. You will know what true dedicated marriage ceremonies are all about. I kid you not!
  • I most sincerely hope that we will get a (minimum 2 part series)similar blog on a "couple of weddings" coming in the later part of the year.
  • nice nice...but u would have been funnier describing mallu weddings...or even the War of the Waiters. Calamari vs samosa snack was ossum!


    Much of the rest....we've seen in all Hindi movies, and really even we mallus know about the shoe-stealing part and dont need to be told ad nauseum



    Balle balle
  • sidin sidin sidin
    ur really are the best

    loads of laughter this one..



    u rock mallu boy..keep it up
  • This was so nicely written, I feel bad that I could not attend this wedding.
  • Lol! Good one Sidin!
  • not to be read after lunch.




    when will blogger give actual words in word verification.kbgzcxy' wtf.
  • Deadly post! Reminds me of the movie Monsoon Wedding...
  • hi...just a fwd i thought you'd enjoy - if you haven't read it a hundred times already....


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    He zimbly jembd out of the vindow.



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  • Lol :)
  • man, you shud do a la big fat mallu wedding kinda thingy ...
  • I have NEVER laughed so much!
  • Hillarious man! Being a Punjabi myself and married too, I could recount living every word of your post myself. But you have to agree 'PunjabiyaN di shaan vakhri' he he he I jest! :)
  • Great Post. A few inputs about weddings in UP:


    In UP the weddings are a bit less energetic on the Sangeet part, but you get to see (and hear) a lot of booming guns during the Barat. All the near and distant uncles take out their rusting dunalis or rifles and oil them for the whole day, so that they are fighting fit during the night of the wedding!

    And then, as the Barat proceeds towards its destination, all these bravehearts take position, and start shooting away to glory. Mostly they are aiming towards the sky, but after a few shots of whisky/rum or whatever, they really don't care which way the direction of their dunali is! The Groom (much to my horrer) is perched up on a horse, right at the front of the procession, with stray bullets whistling away all around him. But ofcourse, he is not really bothered as he is too petrified sitting on the mare and wishing that the Bandwalas in front do not blow the trumpet so hard and so near to his stead!
  • Surely you didn't forget Sidin....Malaika Arora is half Mallu!
  • Hey! Reading your blog for the first time- absolutely fabulous!! Very impeccable timing- it was a hilarious read!! Jo.
  • Hey Sidin, that was hilarious and interesting!
  • interesting post....cldnt stop laughing...


    loved the bit abt the waiters....how on earth did u come up with that????



    these days champagne parties are also an important part of such weddings....status symbol of sorts....



    wonder why u didnt get to go to one????
  • fyi malaika arora is half mallu. her mom is a mallu.
  • I just loved the 'bathe' bit about the mallu weddings ..decades back i had a malayalee roommate who would arrive from Kerala in the middle of the night and promptly take a cold 'head bath'..i also went to her wedding..wake up, bathe, see wedding(dont be even a minute late or you might miss it) lunch, get on the train, go back home :-)
  • awesome! the post rocks!! funny as hell. had me shaking with controled ( via a hanky) laughter.
  • good one!! but a bit too lengthy...
  • just awesome dude!
  • Gawd level post man... reading ur blog after a long time... but now i'm sorry to have missed it! :)
  • Sidin dude stop writin blogs n start making movies man ur too gud!!!!!!
  • amazin man..simply rockin..
    ur linkz goin to my 'see-asap' list..
  • Sidin!!! u got me all cracked up man!!! A Mallu Xtian in Delhi knows just what u r talking about!!
    Aaahsum!!
  • great story!
  • just to correct tess and desichic, malaika arora is actually fully mallu...her dad was also mallu...but then her mother married an arora...and malaika also took on her step-dad's surname....so she is as syrian christian mallu as sidin himself....and amrita arora is her half-sister...


    i have no verifiable sources for the above information...but the person who told me this, said it with great conviction....
  • So good, I want to cry. Please make a movie. Or a cartoon-movie atleast. Call it Winter Shaadi. Or My Big Fat Old Monk or Punjabi Champagne.
  • defly one of your best :D brilliantly written! cracked me up even upon repeated reading :D haha
  • Eppozhanu Kalyanam ? Hope that the screenshot doesnt end with jasmine flowers on the bed .....
  • Sidinji, tusi great ho :-)
  • Malaika Arora is half Mallu Christian.

    I don't think she can sit quite so high on that list.

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