Bharatham Puns

On January 23, 1991, I was all set to start the shoot of a new film in Kozhikode, and its switch on was to happen at 7.30 am. While I was getting ready, Lohithadas arrived, and I casually narrated the story to him. That’s when he asked, “Isn’t this the story of a released film?”

That’s when it hit me. Our tale was quite similar to that of Oru Painkilikatha by Balachandra Menon. But we already had the crew ready and waiting for the switch on. What were we to do?

We just let the switch on happen and after the function, I called Mohanlal, who was the lead actor and producer, and explained the situation to him. He said, “Let’s wait for a week. If we get a new story, we will go ahead or else drop it.” Something hit me at that time. I said, “We will arrange a story by 1pm today.” Amused, he asked, “It’s 9 am already. You will do it in 4 hours?”

Cinematographer Anandakuttan, Lohi and I left the hotel for Kozhikode beach. There, we started going over the various stories we had discussed earlier. And then Lohi mentioned something, which was very personal to me.

Two weeks before that, we had a situation in our family where we got the unconfirmed news about the death of a family member, on the day of another function. But, as we didn’t have details, we went on with the function and the guests knew nothing about the stress the family was going through. I had told Lohi, who was at the function, about it the next day and he had told me, ‘I can make a story out of this.’ But I had discouraged him as it was a personal matter. Now, he asked, “Why not take that one element, change all the characters and settings, and work on it, weaving in the Perumthachan complex in the life of two brothers?” We started thinking on those lines.

At first, he suggested, “Let’s make them two engineers.” But we weren’t sure how to cinematically show that one brother scores over the other, in a way the common man would understand. That’s when we thought we should make them musicians. We sat right there and made a scene order in an hour and at 12.30 pm, we went to the hotel.

I called Lal, and he said, “If you have come with a half-baked story let’s not do it.” I asked him to hear us out. When he heard it, he asked, “If you had this story with you, why haven’t we made it yet?” “We just cooked it up now,” we chuckled and said.

Making the film was a challenge. Lohi would write two or three scenes in a day, and we would shoot them. We used the artistes hired for the earlier film. The only add

What language is Uvach?. uvacha is past perfect third person singular . So then too it becomes India spoke. Bharatham Vadathi is the correct word .वदति, वाचयति , वचति or वक्ति . or the options. (Vadathi, Vaachayathi, vachati or vakthi)

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob