In the second and concluding part of Hindi cinema's most memorable dialogues, here are more lines that have stayed with us, becoming entrenched in our daily speech

Last week, while signing off from the first installment of my piece on popular and ponder-worthy Hindi film dialogue, I quoted Shah Rukh Khan's flamboyant line from his recent Om Shanti Om: "Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost". This week, I am beginning the second installment, about post-1970s quotes, with lines from a film that made me wish, "Kaash, picture abhi baaki hoti, mere dost."

I am talking about Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anand, a bittersweet film about a determinedly cheerful cancer patient, Anand (Rajesh Khanna), who, while dying, gives us an insight into the art of living. In the film's climax, when Anand's best friend, Babu Moshai (Amitabh) returns home, he finds that Anand has passed away. But eerily, Anand's voice, recorded earlier at a theatre, floats out of a tape-recorder just then: "Babu Moshaiu00a0... zindagi aur maut uparwale ke haath mein hai jahanpanah. Hum sab toh rangmanch ki kathputliyan hai jinki dor uparwale ki ungliyon mein bandhi hui hain. Kaun kab uthega koi nahin bata sakta." (We are all puppets in the hands of the supreme being who holds the strings of our lives. We will never know which string he will pull next). Theatrical and Shakespearean, yes, but lines immortalised by their positioning in the film.