Some of my friends told me that there is this comedian called Russel Peters who was too good. They even made me watch a couple of clips from one of his shows. Initially I didn't like him and didn't find him funny enough.
Russel Peters is an Indian stand up comedian born & brought up in Canada. All his shows are based on different ethinicities in the world and if you are sportive you'll enjoy the show else you'll be upset and curse him for the kind of stuff he says about different races. The surprising part is, all that he says about different races are so ture a bit exagerated in order to make it humourous. A few days later I tried to watch one of his shows and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it, I then started watching his other shows and enjoyed most of them.
In one of his shows he talks about some cultural names (mostly indian) that sound really funny, wierd and sometimes offensive in english. I'm not going to reveal any details of those names but after watching that I've started paying more attention to names. I'm in a profession where I constantly keep reviewing multiple reports with hundreds of names in it. I have come across some such funny / wierd names on those reports and thought will share it with the general public.
Mallus and Tamilians are known for coming up with funny names for their kids. I wonder how those kids put up with the rest of society with such names.
There is this mallu guy I came across whose parents decided to give him two similar sounding names. His name is suresh ramesh! First I thought its two different people and was later surprised to know its actually one guy. Imagine you are introducing this guy to someone, they'll be wondering where the other guy is or they will wonder why you are calling them ramesh, "Hi I want you to meet my friend suresh ramesh!"
There was this other guy I came across who had a name similar to that of James Bond! His name is Subramaniam Balasubramaniam like Bond Jame Bond! ta-da-ta.. ta-da-ta... ta-ta-da-da-ta...
I saw this other guy, I don't remember his first name but his last name was so funny that I laughed in regular intervals for the next three days. His last name was, Gaanduram! Who the hell names a kid gaanduram? (BTW gandu means ass in hindi. Not the animal, the buttocks). Gaanduram!?!?!? I can't imagine the kind of humiliation that guy would have gone through in his life.
There is another mallu guy I came across his name is Jobey Joy (again jobey in hindi means whatever). So his name in hindi would become whatever joy... who cares...
Another name that I came across in one of the reports is Manchester Rani. Not sure if her parents were die hard ManU fans when she was born.
There is this other girl who never says her complete name anywhere at any cost. Don't really remember her first name but her last name is chutia. This is a very bad word in hindi and she knows that very well. So every time you ask her for her complete name you can hear the frustration in her voice.
I also heard that there is an actor in kerla whose name is Innocent. Imagine this guy is convicted for some crime, he just need to say his name and cause confuion, ''My Lord. I'm Innocent.''
My sister once said that there was a girl in her school whose name is White Rose! I'm sure if those parents had any more kids they would have used other color roses as names.
There is one name that is way too common in Bangalore and if you ever happen to be in bangalore and can't remember the name of the person you are talking to, just call them by this name and most probably you'll be right. The name is Manjunath. Don't trust me, stand in any busy street in Bangalore and shout Manjunath or Manju and see how many turn around and say 'Yes.'
The tamil equivalent of Manjunath is Manikanta or Mani and Saravana. Manjunath in Bangalore and Manikanta and Saravana in Tamil Nadu are equivalent to a Smith in the english speaking world.
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