US President Barack Obama gestures after speaking on US - India relations during a townhall event at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi on January 27, 2015. PHOTO: AFP
US President Barack Obama gave everyone a pleasant and entertaining surprise when he quoted a dialogue from one of bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s movies, Indian Express reported.
The US premier was on a two-day visit to India with his wife Michelle Obama. The line he quoted in an endearing manner was from Bollywood blockbuster Dilwale Dulahinya Le Jayenge.
“Senorita, bade bade deshon mein… you what I mean,” Obama said, with a sheepish smile on his face, attempting to speak Hindi.
Watch a clip of Obama’s address at a townhall in New Delhi:
Obama shows hows it done in Hollywood ~~-> https://t.co/WYqZIIRB8b" #DDLJ #SRK
— Nakuul Mehta (@NakuulMehta) January 27, 2015
“Last [time] here, we celebrated festival of lights in Mumbai. We danced with some children. Unfortunately, we were not able to schedule any dancing in this visit. Senorita, bade bade desho mein… you know what I mean,” he said.
Shortly after his winning attempt at speaking Hindi and quoting Bollywood, it was no surprise that it caused a Twitter frenzy.
Moreover, the US president also used actor Shah Rukh Khan and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarti as examples of courage and humanitarian values, adding that these two traits unify India and the US.
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@Sid: Read my reply to Mega and continue to live with your myth.
@Mega: There is no language called Hindi. Like your society it is another denial of facts and history. You speak Urdu, I repeat Urdu and just by adding few Sanskrit words and phrases you don't create a new language. I feel sorry for you people with no history but only Mythology which is also Called Myth. Do read Mr Mohan Lal Gandhi and you will be wiser.
Obama's visit to India is covered more in detail in Pakistani press than Indian press.
@Pakistani: Unity is attained by preaching and implying on the citizens that all humans are equal. Somehow that concept of inequality is ironically missing in Muslim countries who spread lies that in Muslim there is no castism. You do have castism in society of not by religion. There are loalas, mohajirs, shias, ahmadis, ismailis, sunnis, and many more. The whole birth of Pakistan was on the premises of promoting inequality and the imaginary need to have Muslim land. I do not have to repeat something repeated here many times that two nation theory idea had been proven illogical, ineffective and misleading time and again. Biggest rebuttal to that idea was creation of Bangladesh.
@oBSERVER: Being ashamed of name, culture and origin is pretty popular amongst Pakistanis and not Indians. Since your name suggest you like to observe how about giving your fingers a little more pain and research on word Bharat, unless all the links to those articles are banned in Pakistan so that your delusion that the genesis of this sub continent only happened after mughal invasion is much preserved. Bharat was named after a kind who had conquered everything from current day Afghanistan to beyond Burma. All the kings in sub continent had to vow their allegiance to him. This was later repeated by King Ashoka. And the proof is the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan and buddhism in far east which was spread by Ashoka. India is global name given by Britishers when they ruled it and when they left the name stayed. We Indians do not have identity crises that we will forget our heritage just because we are labeled India and not Bharat. Its not our shame but our tolerance and better sense of priorities to things rather than calling ourself Hindu First, Indian second and human last like it is proudly seen across Pakistan. Pakistanis have such a huge identity crisis that even after 67 years you are trying to find how you differ from us. Remove name Pakistan from country and change it to Punjab or Sindh and you guys will surely go made. Infact such is the height of your insecurity vis a vis religious identity that you have to pamper yourself with slogans such as "Pakistan ka matlab kya ....". @ET. This is an appropriate and logical reply to the great Observer here. Please publish
@oBSERVER: Huh? India and Bharat both are same and our official name. Do you even watch television or govt programs? Every Hindi gvt program intro or otherwise it says bharat. Bjp is "Bharathiya janta party". It was Bharat since Ages then Hindustan and from h"indu"Stan india during British. All the three names are indian names and used in our official as well as unofficial communication. When you speak in Hindi its bharat or Hindustan when you speak English its india. Just like Roos/russia , misr/Egypt, Ceylon/Lanka/srilanka, England/Great Britain.
While we are busy in dividing ourselves among Muharjirs, Punjabis and Pathans Indians have shown unity and got the success which Jinnah aimed for us. So Sad!!
@Awais: First of all let me correct you there is no country by the name of India. India became Pakistan and Bharat. Period. Its a different matter that Bharatis are ashamed of their country name given to them by their elders.
@Junaid stop complaining! We can't all act like India doesn't exist, it's a future global power and it's the country that made Obama speak your language (call it urdu/hindi same thing) and it is an interesting story!! Our culture and history is one with them, the Mughal empire extended from Delhi to Lahore, just because the current political situation isn't perfect we can't start ignoring everything that happens in the country.
All the prejudice aside, there's a message for our leaders, gone is the time of reading speeches off script.
dont u have any other news since past 2 days ET? Is your staff mentally bankrupt, This comment wont be passed since it has hit ET's staff. What's with India obsession?
Modi quoted Star Wars in his Madison Sq. Speech. So it is pay back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVtz19Zz0xI
Made my day :-D
So cute! Love it :)