Hahaha... what's the joke?

Today we went on set of a TV show called Palampur Express. It's in Hindi so we were a little lost on the dialogue but from what the AD told me it's about two rival school's sports teams. One is the rich snobbish mean crowd and the other is the slightly underprivileged nice guy group who want to beat them in sports. Soo, we've heard the story before but never in Hindi. It was an outdoor shoot so it was pretty hot and a little miserable at times but we got to speak to the director, line producer, ADs, and some actors. We hung out behind the moniter so we could watch the taping and we were allowed to wander around and ask questions. It was pretty cool.

Also, here's the really awesome part, we were cast! Haha, about 15 min after we got on set someone came and asked if they could put us in the TV show. We thought we were just going to be extras in the background but I guess they were excited about having Americans on the show so they spent an hour dollying into our faces and marching us around to get different shots. I also have a speaking line, it is: Sanju! We're impatient tourists sitting at a cafe and I'm calling to waiters name to get him to come serve us. We were brilliant. I'm a little sad because the show won't be online and it's airing two days after we leave Bombay so we won't be able to see it = (. Oh well, I'm just going to pretend that I've become a Bollywood star... ahem tv serial actress... ahem extra...

So as I'm waiting for my delivery of falafel and hummus I'll tell one more story explaining the title of the blog. So 'yes' in Hindi is 'ha' and when people want to say something like "yeah,yeah,yeah,ok" they say "hahahaha...etc". It's said more in a flat, monotone kind of way which almost sounds like a really sarcastic laugh. Took me a while to figure out that I wasn't missing the joke, haha (that was a laugh).