ALL IZZ WELL
When things fall apart, put your hand on your heart, exhale and say "All izz Well...."





I was under the weather this weekend, and on Saturday spent $4.99 to watch the 2009 Hindi megahit 3 Idiots on pay-per-view.

It was worth every rupee.

Here're the lyrics - followed by the English translation - from one of the movie's hit videos, above:


ALL IZZ WELL

Jab life ho out of control
Honthon ko kar ke gol
Honthon ki kar ke gol
Seeti bajaa ke bol

When life goes out of control,
Draw back your lips,
Whistle and Exclaim!!
Aal Izz Well!!

Murgi kya jaane aande ka kya hoga
Aree life milegi ya tawee pe
fry hoga
Koi na jaane apna future kya hoga

How can a hen know the future of its egg?
Will it get life or get fried on a pan,
No one knows what our future will be.

Honth ghuma
Seeti bajaa
Seeti bajaa ke bol
Bhaiyaa aal izz well
Aree bhaiyaa all izz well
Aree chachu aal izz well
Aree bhaiyaa all izz well



So Draw back your lips,
Whistle and Exclaim,
Brother, Aal Izz Well!!
O Brother, Aal Izz Well!!
Uncle, Aal Izz Well!!

Confusuin hi confusion hai
Solution kuch pata nahin
Solution jo mila to saala
Question kya tha pata nahin


Confusion Prevails,
Nobody knows the solution
When a solution is found,
We lost the track of ‘What was the question?’

Dil jo tera baat baat pe
Ghabraaye
Dil pe rakh ke haath usae tu fuslaa le
Dil idiot hai pyaar se usko samjha le

When your heart is restless everytime,
Keep a hand on your heart and console it,
The heart’s an idiot, knock sense into it with kindness

Honth ghuma
Seeti bajaa
Seeti bajaa ke bol
Bhaiyaa aal izz well
Aree bhaiyaa all izz well
Aree chachu aal izz well
Aree bhaiyaa all izz well

So Draw back your lips,
Whistle and Exclaim,
Brother, Aal Izz Well!!
O Brother, Aal Izz Well!!
Uncle, Aal Izz Well!!

Scholarship ki pi gayaa daaru
Ghum to phir bhi mitaa nahin
Agarbattiyan raakh ho gayi
God to phir bhi dikha nahi

I guzzled te liqour of scholarship,
but the despair, didn’t lessen.
The incense sticks burnt to ash,
But we didn’t see the God!!

Bakra kya jaan uski jaan ka kya hoga
Sekh ghusegi ya saala Keema hoga
Koi na jaane apna future kya hoga

How can a goat know what happens to it (life)?
Will it be skewered or will it be minced?
No one knows what our future will be.

To Honth ghuma
Seeti bajaa
Seeti bajaa ke bol
Bhaiyaa aal izz well

Aree bhaiyaa all izz well
Aree chachu aal izz well
Aree bhaiyaa all izz well

So Draw back your lips,
Whistle and Exclaim,
Brother, Aal Izz Well!!
O Brother, Aal Izz Well!!
Uncle, Aal Izz Well!!



The other megahit song from 3 Idiots is "Zoobi Doobi," which has a funny, sophisticated video that makes our American ones look rather sad. Like the fillum, it stars the great Aamir Khan, along with Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani and others:



The song is a sendup of Italian crooner Paolo Conte's "Via con me." I saw Mr. Conte perform at Symphony Center some years ago and he was all that and then some. Chips! Chips! Chips! Da-du-du-du-du!. See for yourself:







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from Moira G. Weigel's WSJ review of "3 Idiots":

Directed by Rajkumar Hirani, with a screenplay he adapted from a novel with Abhijat Joshi, “3 Idiots” satirizes elite institutions of higher education in India. Set at the fictitious Imperial College of Engineering, which it depicts as mere a way-station where rote learning ushers students toward corporate advancement, the film relates the story of three rebels against this system, who become friends while living in a hostel (residence) together. Aamir Khan, whom American viewers may recognize from the 2008 hit “Ghajini,” (or from the critically-acclaimed 2001 film “Lagaan”), plays the protagonist “Rancho” Chanchad. The most gifted of the trio, he is a wealthy student who pursues knowledge for its own sake, while his compatriots Farhan (R. Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman Joshi), struggle under pressure from families of humbler origin. Rancho’s cheeky idealism brings him and his comrades into conflict both with his more cynical rival, a fellow student nicknamed the “Silencer” (Omi Vaidya), and with the professor they dub ViruS (Boman Irani), who in turn labels them “idiots” and seeks ruthlessly to destroy their bond. Add to this the fact that Khan’s character falls in love with ViruS’ daughter, a toothsome medical student played by Kareena Kapoor, and you have the makings of some two hours and forty minutes of tuneful capers.