Kuttey, Kaminey : The Dharmendra Dialogues We'd Have Never Heard

The list of words that the Censor Board has had chopped from just-released or about-to-release films contain two choice gaalis without which Seventies superstar Dharmendra's arsenal of insults would have been decimated. According to reports, the Board has ordered five 'mildly abusive' words be cut from the upcoming Badmashiyaan. Among these are: Kuttey and Kaminey.

The phrase 'kuttey kaminey' was often spoken on screen by Garam Dharam, in a fit of righteous rage. What, then, would have become of Dharam's extremely Garam career were he to have been censored in films such as these?

Yaadon Ki Baraat (1973):

Dharmendra plays the role of Shankar, one of three orphaned and separated brothers. He grows up to be an angry petty criminal, in search of his parents' killers. And, when he finally finds them, this is what Dharmendra says, quivering with rage and revenge: "Kuttey kaminey, tu mujhse bachkar nahi ja sakta. Main tera khoon pee jaoonga." This memorably bloodthirsty line was repeated ad nauseam in a series of masala potboilers. Many years later, Dharmendra said that the dialogue had been shoehorned into his films by producers wanting to cash in.

Sholay (1975):

When daaku Gabbar Singh asks Basanti (Hema Malini) to dance, a bound and hapless Veeru (Dharmendra) tells her not to: "Basanti, in kutto ke samne mat naachna." It is perhaps one of the most iconic dialogues from the movie.

To save Veeru's life, Basanti doesn't listen to his advice and breaks into the song 'Jab tak hai jaan, main nachungi.'

Loafer (1973):

In this movie Dharmendra is a pickpocket-goon named Ranjit . In one scene, he breaks into gang leader Pratap's place and tells him, "Ye duniya bahut badi hai, apna shikaar khud maarna sikho." When one of Pratap's goons tries to shoot him, the angry Ranjit says, "Apne kutto se kaho, khilono se khela karein."

Ghulami (1985)

Even in jail, Dharmendra didn't forget to use his favourite word, 'kuttey.' As Ranjit Singh Choudhary, who rebels against the zamindari system in his village, Dharmendra tells the police commissioner (Naseeruddin Shah) who asks him to choose between the jail he's in and the Fatehpur thana: "Kya fark parta hai Thakur? Kisi majboor ko kisi Alsatian kuttey ke hawale kardo ya kisi Bulldog ke"

Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011)

A few years ago Dharmendra reclaimed some of his lost stardom with the film Yamla Pagla Deewana, co-starring his sons Sunny and Bobby Deol. Each used his all-time favourite dialogue. Unsurprisingly, Dharmendra paaji said in one scene: Oye, ilaaka kutton ka hota hai, sher ka nahi.