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25 unusual facts about Hindi


Aaj Aur Kal

Aaj Aur Kal literally means today and tomorrow in Hindi.

Amin al-Hindi

In its obituary, The New York Times described Hindi as being "widely suspected of having played an organizing role" in the Black September attack in Munich that led to the deaths of 11 athletes and coaches representing the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Games who had been taken as hostages at the Olympic village on the morning of September 5, 1972.

Bharal

Its native names include bharal, barhal, bharar and bharut in Hindi, na or sna in Ladakh, nabo in Spitian, naur in Nepali and na or gnao in Bhutan.

CKUT-FM

A great variety of music and spoken-word shows are broadcast daily in a multiplicity of languages, including English, French, Spanish, Korean, Hindi, and Haitian Creole.

Dostana

Dostana is a word in Hindi / Urdu meaning "Friendship".

Durga Malla

“The sacrifice I am offering shall not go in vain. India will be free. I am confident. This is only a matter of time, Sharda! Don’t worry, crores of Hindustanis are with you”, said Malla to his wife.

Farz

Farz (Persian: فرض ) is a word of Persian origin, also used in Urdu and Hindi, meaning one's duty.

Galo tribe

Around 90% of Galo children learn Galo as their first language, although almost all are also bilingual and borrow frequently from Assamese, Hindi and English.

Global Hotel Review

In addition to serving major markets such as the English, French and Chinese speaking travel markets, it is worth noting that Global Hotel Review is the only travel website of its kind to serve traditionally underserved markets such as the Arabic, Hindi, Malaysian and Ukrainian speaking markets among others.

Hindi

Hindi literature is broadly divided into four prominent forms or styles, being Bhakti (devotional – Kabir, Raskhan); Shringar (beauty – Keshav, Bihari); Virgatha (extolling brave warriors); and Adhunik (modern).

Hum Jayega

Whenever the tourists asked who will go to the muddy underdeveloped roads to the hills, he used to answer "hum jayega" (meaning "I'll go" in Hindi) and this is how he got his nickname.

Inkaar

Inkaar is a word in Hindi / Urdu meaning "Refusal".

Judaai

Judaai is a word used in Hindi meaning "separation".

Khandeshi languages

Borrowing and bending the words from Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati, Ahirani has created its own words not found in any of these languages.

Kris Chetan Ramlu

Kris Chetan Ramlu (Hindi: चेतन रामलु, Telugu: చేతన రంలు ), is a New Zealand musician, sometimes known by the stage name Cheats.

Kuppaghat

Kuppa Ghat (Hindi: कुप्पाघाट) is a place located on the banks of the holy river Ganges at Bhagalpur, Bihar, India.

Northwestern India

The region has more than nine languages and sub-languages like Dogri, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Sindhi.

Prabhash Joshi

Recently he had started writing a weekly column entitled "Aughat-Ghat" for Tehelka Hindi.

Sanjay Ghose

A bilingual film inspired by his life was made in Assamese and Hindi, which was directed by Bidyut Kotoky and produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India.

Sarpech

Sarpech (Hindi:सरपेच Urdu:سرپیچ) also known as an aigrette is a turban ornament that was worn by significant Hindu and Muslim princes.

Seersucker

The word came into English from Hindustani (Urdu and Hindi), and originates from the words "kheer aur shakkar", literally meaning "rice pudding and sugar", probably from the resemblance of its smooth and rough stripes to the smooth texture of milk and the bumpy texture of sugar.

Surajpuri language

Surajpuri (Surjapuri) is one of the eastern Indian languages mainly spoken in Bihar (Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Araria), north Bengal, eastern Nepal and north western Bangladesh.It has significant similarities with both Hindi and Bengali languages.

Tüfekçi

Ivan Duridanov has claimed that the river names Arsio, Arse in Old Prussia, Arsen and Arsia in Latvia and Arsina in Germany are derivation of the root ors-, ers “(for water) flow, damp” in the Indo-European language family (Hindi arşati) and ars- in the Thracian language.

Uttar

Uttar means north in Hindi and many other Indian languages.

Zaheer Abbas

Sunil Gavaskar, the former Indian Test captain, once said while commentating that the Indian players would often say to Zaheer, "Zaheer Ab-bas karo", which means "Zaheer, stop it now" in Urdu and Hindi, referring to Abbas' free scoring.


A Short Film About Love

A Short Film About Love was remade in Hindi in the 2002 film Ek Chhotisi Love Story.

Anand Krishna

He grew up with the distinguished art collection of Bharat Kala Bhavan the renowned Indian Art Museum in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, which was founded by Rai Krishnadasa ji and under the shadow of top Hindi littérateurs, painters, musicians et al., a solid base which he later enriched with his own experience.

Armaan Kirmani

Armaan made his Hindi Cinema (Bollywood) debut in Nikhil Advani's Patiala House (2011) alongside veteran actors Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia and Akshay Kumar.

ATN Aastha TV

ATN Aastha broadcasts religious and spiritual programming in Hindi, Gujarati, and English, focusing mainly on the teachings and principles of Hinduism.

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

B. K. S. Varma

He has worked as a staff artist for a Kannada language weekly and at age 15, he entered the movie industry as an assistant art director for a Hindi film.

Bangru

Haryanvi language or Bangru, a dialect of Hindi most widely spoken in the North Indian state of Haryana

Choodalani Vundi

It was later remade into Tamil as Calcutta and Hindi as Calcutta Mail with Anil Kapoor and Rani Mukerji.

Colin Masica

At the University of Chicago, he taught Hindi at all levels, and occasionally other South Asian languages, along with North Indian cultural history and literature, for three decades, and published on both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages.

Crime Master Gogo

Crime Master Gogo portrayed by Shakti Kapoor is a fictional character in the 1994 Hindi film Andaz Apna Apna.

Demographics of Suriname

Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.

Divya Palat

Divya Palat is an Award winning Producer and Director for theatre plays like -"A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks" and was a Hindi actress who has done many films such as Masti with Vivek Oberoi, Dhund with Apurva Agnihotri, Kuch Naa Kaho with Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan, Krishna Cottage with Sohail Khan, Dil Bechara Pyaar Ka Mara with actress Mallika Kapoor.

Ek Ghar

Ek Ghar (The House) is a 1991 Indian Hindi psychological drama film directed by Girish Kasaravalli with Deepti Naval, Naseeruddin Shah and Rohini Hattangadi.

Farishtay

Farishtay is a Hindi film is directed by Anil Sharma.

Ghutan

Ghutan is a 2007 Hindi horror film directed by Shyam Ramsay.

Gulab Khandelwal

While in Banaras, he came into contact with the great luminaries of Hindi Literature, including poets Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Maithili Sharan Gupt, Hariaudh, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Bedhab Banarasi ; critics like Pt.

Hazrat Jandaha

Hindi and English newspapers are easily available in the city, including Dainik Jagran, Hindustan, Prabhat Khabar, The Daily Telegraph and The Times of India.

Hemant Joshi

Famous TV News Reader Manjari Joshi is his wife and he is the son in law of eminent Hindi Poet, Writer and Journalist Raghuvir Sahay.

Hinduism in the Maldives

Hindi songs are the most popular songs in Maldives, especially the older ones from Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Pankaj Udhas, Manhar Udhas.

History of Hindustani

The language went by several names over the years: Hindawi or Hindī ("language of India"); Dehlavi ("of Delhi"); and Hindustani, ("of Hindustan").

Jagraon

It could also be argued that Jagraon actually derives from a source with a suffix -graon being a development of the Sanskrit Grama, meaning Village as found in the Hindi word Gaon.

Juggy D

He, Mehta, and Jay Sean also have guest appearances in the Hindi film Kyaa Kool Hai Hum.

Kala Bazar

:For the 1989 Hindi film by Rakesh Roshan starring Kader Khan and Jackie Shroff, please see Kala Bazaar

Katy Garbi

"Mia Kardia" became a hit in Greek clubs, characterized by a mix of sounds including tsifteteli song, a techno-infused club song, a Hindi inspired song, and a duet with Giorgos Tsalikis.

Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum

It was a big financial success, leading to remakes into Telugu as Letha Manasulu (1966) and Hindi as Do Kaliyaan (1967).

Manav Hatya

Manav Hatya is a Hindi Feature Film released in 1996 starring Akshay Anand, Madhuri Dixit, Shekhar Suman, Gulshan Grover, Sharat Saxena, Dr.Sriram Lagoo, Sunil Thapa, Arvind Deshpande among others.

Meera

Tune and lyrics of a very popular Hindi song 'Rang Barse Bhige Chunar wali, rang barse'(movie: Silsila (film), Music:Shiv-Hari, Lyrics:Harivansh Rai Bachchan ) which is generally played on Holi in urban areas of northern India, are taken from a folk bhajan.

Mudda – The Issue

Mudda – The Issue is a 2003 Hindi Drama film directed by Saurabh Shukla and produced by Daksha Mavani.

Nadodi Thendral

Some critics opine that later movies such as the Hindi-language blockbuster Lagaan and the 2010 Tamil-language movie Madrasapattinam were inspired by Nadodi Thendral.

Operation Cactus-Lilly

Hindustan Ki Kasam a Hindi war movie directed by Chetan Anand and released in 1973 was based on the incidents of Operation Cactus Lilly.

Paras Arora

Paras Arora (Hindi: पारस अरोड़ा) (born 10 January 1994) is an Indian television actor who is best known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the great Maratha Warrior, Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosale, in the award winning historical series Veer Shivaji.

Purva Rana

Rana speaks Hindi and English, she loves singing and modelling, and she is currently a student of Electronic engineering at Himachal Pradesh Technical University.

Rakesh Kumar Tripathi

Many Noted singers of Hindi and Bengali music field have sung songs written by Rakesh Tripathi, such as Sonu Nigaam, Sunidhi Chauhan, June Bannerjee, Vinod Rathore, Srikanto Acharya, Shubhomita, Raghav, Rupankar, Jojo, etc.

Ratlam

Ratlam Junction is referred in 2007 Hindi romantic comedy film Jab We Met.

Rishi Rich

He began his career in the Asian Underground scene and later became internationally known for his Bhangra tracks, his Hindi remixes, and as a pioneer of Indian-R&B fusion music.

Sabras Radio

Although the majority of the schedule is presented in Hindi and English - there are speciality shows broadcasting in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi.

Sandeepa Dhar

In 2010, Sandeepa Dhar made her cinematic debut in Rajshri Production's Hindi film Isi Life Mein opposite actor Akshay Oberoi.

Sanmarg

Sanmarg is a well known popular Hindi daily published from Varanasi which was later published from Kolkata, Burdwan, Ranchi, and Bhubaneshwar.

Sanyasi Mera Naam

Sanyasi Mera Naam is a 1999 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Imran Khalid, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Siddharth Dhawan, Shalini Kapoor, Raushni Jaffrey, Kader Khan, Milind Gunaji and Dhananjay Singh.

Satyarth Prakash

Satyarth Prakash (English title: The Light of Truth) is a 1875 book written originally in Hindi by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati, a renowned social reformer and the founder of Arya Samaj.

Seva Sadan

Bazaar-e-Husn, the first major novel of Prem Chand, published in Hindi under the title Seva Sadan

Sharma Bandhu

The four brothers were born in Muzaffarnagar town in state of western Uttar Pradesh, India, to Pandit Ramanand, son of Pandit Munshiram, in the family of Hindi-Urdu poet and Sanskrit translator Pandit Jyoti Prasad.

Tanveer Zaidi

Kahe Gaye Pardes Piya Hindi/Awadhi feature film released was a superhitin 2009,DVDs released by Venus in 2011

Vanisri

She played dual roles in Iddaru Ammayilu (1972)Telugu Remake of 1969 release Kannada film Kappu Bilupu), Ganga Manga (1973 remake of the Hindi film Seeta Aur Geeta), Jeevana Jyothi (1975), and Chilipi Krishnudu (1978).

Vinod Sukumaran

After his course in FTII he has worked with the eminent Indian Film Editor Late Ms. Renu Saluja in several Hindi films like Papa Kahte Hain by Mahesh Bhatt, Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin by Sudhir Mishra, Pardes by Subhash Ghai etc. within a span of four years.

Zatra

Zatra is the Konkani language term for the pilgrimage festivals celebrated at Hindu temples in Goa; the Hindi and Marathi language equivalents are Yatra and Jatra.