The Matic Tunes

A few poems written in hinglish for some facebook contest sponsored by Samsung washing machine and Surf Excel Matic…

The matic tunes…

Poem 01

Excel sheet to kiya close aur Surf Excel ko ja pakda

Samsung lappy ka switch off, ab Samsung machine mein kapda

I love my Samsung and Excel

They make me live my life so well

Baki sab mein there is some or the other lafda!

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Poem 02

You are a ladka and cannot wash kapda

They asked me to be with Samsung and Excel

Or there will be a great lafda!

I said: OK, baba, I don’t want lafda

So I went out and bought Surf Excel

And, in my Samsung machine, I washed kapda!

Now they silently watch me wash kapda

In Surf Excel and I hop from one Samsung

To another… there is now no lafda!

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Poem 03

“Arre mom nahin, na hoon main female

Bus shauq hai to wear clean kapda

Automatic machine ka sapna apna

Dalo Excel Matic aur dho lo kapda!

But I wash with sabun, bahut hai lafda

Aur phir time spent bhi itna zyada

But what to do, I love washing kapda

Ab jeet jaoon ek machine tab ho fayda!”

This is what mere son ne kaha

Toh maine kaha: Go and do your homework

We have Samsung and Excel matic yahan

You study and stop behaving like a jerk!

But the truth let me tell you ji

Is that we don’t have any of these

We imagine, because yeh toh hai free

Agar hame mil jae, toh we’ll say ‘cheeze!’

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Poem 04

(Note: This parody is based on a popular song from a Hindi film)

Na main dhobi, na presswala

Jo yeh kapde mujhe de diye Senorita

Magar Excelmatic aur Samsung machine

Mein wash karke accha laga hai Senorita

Ab toh baahon mein mujko ghero

You understand na Senorita

Saaf kapde agar mil paayen

Life mein yeh bhi kam hai kya

Surf ki duniya mein aao kho jaayen

Aur Samsung ke sung dhoom machayen Senorita

Suno suno Senorita kehta hain hum kya

Hinglish ke in shabdon se

Kahi sacchi ek kahani hai Senorita

Ab iccha hai kuch jeetne ki

Kyunki na mere pas matic na koi machine Senorita

Ab toh jeetne do mujko

Samjhi na senorita

Arvind Passey
17 July 2012