The following is a memento for anyone nostalgic for India in the 90s- a decade characterized by its own simple charm and the ingenuinty of being purely indian.

You loved the 90s if....
*You ever considered cricket as your religion and Sachin as your god!

*Every mother wanted to name her son 'Raj', 'Rahul', or 'Prem'.

*(for the girls..) You loved shahrukh, salman, or aamir more than your boyfriend.

*Your bling was shahrukh's "C-O-O-L" necklace from KKHH.

*Aamir's colorful shirts from Rangeela were your way of impressing girls...

*You consider Madhuri the sexiest math teacher ever for teaching you coutning with her latka jhatka styles in "ek do teen....chaar paanch che saath..."

* You considered the Sachin-Ganguly opening pair as the best ever even when India lost all their matches.

* You always had 8 rupees on you for a Frooti.

*Your relatives in India always brought you hip clothing with fuzzy bunnies, and English words that make no sense, in bright colors like yellow, pink, and the ever popular lime green.

*Every wedding in your family lasted a week and included 500 people.

*Bollywood was all about hilariously weird choreography and flashy clothing.

*You thought Ballu Balram was the baddest 'Khalnayak' ever so when Sanjay Dutt went to jail, a part of us died.

*You were around when the word 'bad' became a slang for 'cool'.

*You've had govinda's song "meri pant bhi sexy,meri shirt bhi sexy, meri chal bhi sexy hai" on a cd at one point of time or the other.

*Govinda was your "No. 1". At everything. (coolie/hero/etc.)

*Wicked moves on the dance floor meant pelvic thrusts like Govinda

*No one was more ‘Khiladi’ than Akshay Kumar.

*You thought Shahrukh should dump Gauri for Kajol.

*You thought Kajol should dump Ajay Devgan for Shahrukh.

*After DDLJ, anyone that stopped either of the above deserved to be shot.

*You followed up every cricket session with chhole bature from the bhaiiya on the cycle (instead of a fancy 3 story restaurant)

*Every time you got mad at friends, you broke your friendship with a ‘katti’ only to patch it up minutes later with an ‘abba’.

*Every time you pulled a fast one on your friends, you said “teri jhand ho gayi"

*All your mom’s shirts had big buttons and even bigger shoulder pads.

*Bigger than both was your mom’s hair.

*Ash and Sush were your versions of Pamela Anderson and Cindy Crawford.

*You knew more about the match fixing scandal that axed Azzharuddin and Jadeja than you did about your history books.

*You had every single album of Daler Mehndi in your car.

*Thanks to Alisha, you wanted someone that was “made in india��?.

*You heard the rumors that Prabhudeva had challenged Michael Jackson to a dance showdown.

*And you had no doubts that Prabhudeva would win.

*You woke up early on Sunday mornings just to catch Disney Hour on Doordarshan

*Doordarshan was actually one of the channels your cable guy offered.

*You weren’t sacrificing your sleep JUST on cartoons. Uncle Scrooge, Tale Spin, Mowgli weren’t just cartoons; at that point they were your world of reality!

*Shaktiman was its only saving grace.

*Chacha Chaudhry was the greatest comic book character ever (until ‘Archies’ took over)

*You'd heard the hindi version of mowgli's title song.."jungle jungle baat bani hai pata chala hai....arre chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai phool khila hai

*After Darr released, the alphabets were pronounced as “a,b,c…j,k-k-k-k-k,l,m…x,y,z��?

*( for the NRIs….) Every time you visited India, you took two suitcases full of imported chocolates for your relatives.

*You owned a Maruti 800.

*You were certain that Doordarshan's very own Byomkesh Bakshi was the only detective that could make Sherlock Holmes feel incompetent.

*You caught all the new Friday releases at cinema halls named Priya, Satyam, Chanakya Paras,Sapna,Eros,Natraj and Odeon (All in Delhi) instead of the modern day multiplexes.

*Balcony seats+soda+popcorn+ a burger + a dairymilk = Rs 150

*You spent countless nights of wellagiri with your friends eating chuskis at India Gate or Gateway of India.

*Every single birthday party in 1997 was held at Future Zone or Essex Farms.

*And you went to every single one of them cuz honestly there was nothing funner than shooting creatures,racing cars and bowling.

*And if that wasn’t smart enough then the Tehkikat Gang filled up all the gaps with it’s thrilling and mysterious shows.

*The ‘2 minute Maggi’ became the 2 minute tiffin,lunch,dinner and snack.

*You thought you were worthy of hosting your own ‘Khana Khazana’ because you could make perfect Maggi in less than 2 minutes.

*You’re completely on pace with the current craze of TV shows because you were already eased into the genre with saap-seedhi, double trouble,Kricket with a K etc…

*You were hooked onto and remembered the catch phrases to most of the Indian commercials!

*You’ve heard of the following tag lines (that today would sound funny..lol):
- jab mein chotta baccha tha... badi shararat karta tha
meri chori pakri jaati..... roshni deta bajaj!!!
- vicco TARMARIC(thats how they used to pronounce it)... nahi cosmetic
vicco tarmaric ayurvedic cream.....

- Yeh dil maange more..AaAahAaAaaaaa
- Khao Britannia 50-50, very very tasty tasty
- Dhaara dhaara shudh dhaara
- Saaree pe saaree Parag saaree


*You were obsessed with all the Indian junk food- Gems, FATAFAT, Crax, Center-Fresh, Bar-One…

*The Zee Horror show and Aahat kept gave you ugly nightmares every week and yet you returned to watching the show.

*You followed Chandrakanta every Sunday morning to it’s very last episode(common you can come out of the closet. It might not be the coolest thing but we all watched it).

Hope you enjoyed the above. Ok, I thought I should end this with a bang so after a lot of thought…..BANG!!

Sorry Mods. I forgot to delete an objectionable slang from the above post. You may delete this post if you want. Not to offend anyone here.

Goodone febreet !
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Awesome compilation Febpreet!
Wow was everyone in 90s into this...and i thought it was just...hmm!

Really nice Fabreet

I can identify myself with most of them

TFS

great list! can't believe it is already 2008!!! ...
soon a list for the '00's.

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