The men behind B-Town's famous one-liners

Highlights

• If the 'Hinglish' of Ajay Devgn in Bol Bachchan or the crocodile biting John Abraham in Housefull 2 could tickle the funny bone of the audience, then that's because of brothers Sajid and Farhad Samji, who have become Bollywood's bankable movie writers.
• The goofy lines in films like Bol Bachchan, Housefull 2, Ready, Golmaal Returns, Golmaal 3 may not sound logical, but Sajid and Farhad are happy that they have been appreciated by the audience.
• "We are happy with the reception that we have got from the industry. To see our punch lines getting applauded, one-liners getting whistles from masses is a great thing. We are delighted we have reached here. We hope to receive the love and affection that writers Salim-Javed got," the duo told PTI.
• "People used to go to especially watch films that were written by Salim-Javed. We hope it happens with us as well," they said.
• For the duo, it all started towards the end of 80s when the Mumbai-based Samji family moved to Bangalore. There, Farhad's knack of writing parodies and songs won him praise from family and friends.
• In 1999, both the brothers set off for Bollywood and decided to team up and write lyrics. For this, they returned to Mumbai.
• Their struggle began as they tried to find a foothold in B-town. The duo used to carry a plastic bucket and sticks to give instant demos of their songs to directors or actors with bucket-drumming.
• "We wrote all sorts of songs, only the tapori ones were appreciated," Sajid said.
• Their meeting with Salman Khan earned them their first break, who fixed up a meeting with director David Dhawan.
• In 2002, the duo got their first break in David's film Hum Kisise Kum Nahin with the song Munna Mobile Pappu Pager.
• Their next big break came in the form of Raju Hirani's Munnabhai MBBS in which Farhad co-wrote the song M Bole To with Rahat Indori.
• Their major writing assignment came when Ram Gopal Verma offered them to write the screenplay and dialogues for Mohit Ahlawat-starrer Shiva (2006). "This was our first writing assignment and since then there was no looking back," Farhad said.
• Then Rohit Shetty approached them for dialogues of his 2006 film Sunday. Though it was a flop but it brought a string of hit movies from Shetty for them - Golmaal Returns, All The Best, Golmaal 3, Singham and the recently released Bol Bachchan.
• "Rohit is like family to us. It is always great fun to work with him. We have a good tuning," Sajid said.
• "Writing dialogues for Bol Bachchan was a big challenge as we were touching up on a classic film Golmaal. But if the story is well written and characters are etched out well then it becomes easy," Sajid said.
• The brothers also wrote dialogues for comedy films like Double Dhamaal and Anees Bazmee's Ready and the screenplay for Sajid Khan's Housefull 2, along with Tushar Hiranandani and also the dialogues.
• Though the audience may have an instant hearty laugh at the comic lines, the duo feel that tickling the funny bone of the audience is not an easy task. "Writing for comedy films is not a joke. To make people laugh with every dialogue is not at all easy. This is the toughest genre," Farhad said.
• For the writers, the inspiration comes from mingling with common people. "We meet people from various walks of life, especially youngsters and borrow their lingo. We go to single screen theatres to gauge the reaction of public, as in what makes them whistle... roll out of laugher. We hope the humour quotient will continue to entertain the audience," Farhad added.
• The duo is now looking forward to the remake of Chashme Buddoor by David Dhawan, releasing on August 24.
• They are currently working on Rohit Shetty's most talked about film Chennai Express starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, Sajid Khan's Himmatwala remake, Akshay Kumar starrer Boss and Sanjay Dutt-Prachi Desai's Hindi remake of hit Tamil film Saamy.