Dil gira kahin par dafatan…”, wrote the inimitable Prasoon Joshi in Delhi-6. ‘Dafatan’ in Urdu means ‘suddenly’. How do we know? Bollymeaning.com, a handy website provides English translations of Bollywood songs. Neatly organised and regularly updated with new releases, the website is a treasure trove of information.

Bollymeaning began in July 2010. Its founder, Harshit Gupta, who works with TCS Bangalore, says, “I am a Hindi medium student, and studied Urdu till class five. Also, my father’s friends are poets, so I’ve grown up among poems. I have always tried to understand their meaning.” The website began after readers of Harshit’s blog on music reviews, started asking him for the song meanings.