While we are on the subject of things burning, I should mention an expression we use sometimes.
 

Johnny Lever used to be funny in the late 70s and early and mid-80s. At that point of time, he had released a recording of his live performance from, perhaps, Shanmukhananda Hall (Matunga, right near my college), titled Hansee Ke Hangaame. One of the sketches considered what would happen if some famous movie stars of the time all lived in the same building and it caught fire late one night while everyone was asleep. At one point, Dev Anand is supposed to call up the Fire Brigade and inform them about the fire.

He ends up calling someone who listens to him say he is Dev Anand, and then is excited about the fact that Dev Anand is on the phone.

Man (excited): Hello! Woh film ishtar Dev Anand, wohich bolta hai kya?
Dev Anand (quite impatient): Haan, main film star Dev Anand bol raha hoon, dekhiye yahan building ko aag lagi hai, aap log jaldi se yahan aa jaaiye.
Man: Hello! Woh... woh... Lootmaar film banaaya wohich Dev Anand bolta hai kya? (Lootmaar, for those of you who don't know, was a very "famous" movie of the early 80s starring DA and Tina Munim, where DA's first wife - I forget who it was - gets raped and killed by the bad guys - a standard scenario of a revenge movie in the 80s, God Bless Them. The inspirational song featured in the film was, Has tu har dum! Khushiyaan ya gham! Kisise darna nahin! Dar dar ke jeena nahin!)
Dev Anand (quite irritated): Haan, main Lootmaar film ka hero Dev Anand bol raha hoon, dekhiye, yahan building mein AAG lagi hai, aap log jaldi se aaiye!!!
Man: Sahab, AISA BHANKAZ PICTURE BANAAYEGA TO AAG NAHIN LAGEGA TO AUR KYA LAGEGA?!?!

This is another one of the expressions that Raju and I used to use occasionally, and after hearing the Johnny Lever tape, Raghavan and Subroto got into it.

Example of usage of expression (this is taken from a real conversation that took place in IISc between 1997 and 2000, though I don't remember exactly when, I'm sure it happened quite a few times)

Sundar: I read this in some magazine about the movie [Ek Duje Ke Liye]. The magazine said that after watching this movie, more than a dozen couples inspired by the tragic love story committed suicide in
[Ahmedabad's] Kankaria Lake.
Subroto: Saala, aisa picture dekhega to suicide nahin karega to aur kya karega!

Comment: Yes, its true. If you have seen the movie Ek Duje Ke Liye,

Anyway, that mentioned, this page is about the great great great great great magaaaaaaaaan movie, The Burning Train (1980). One of the first STAR-STUDDED (and WHAT STUDS! WHAT STUDS!) extravaganza movies of the 80s, God Bless Them.The cast consists of mammoths like Dharmendra, Danny Dengzongpa, Jeetendra, Vinod Khanna..... the list goes on and on (what's the use of adding female names to the list, they were useless because they weren't magaan, they were only there to cry and do stupid shit anyway. What I mean to say is, Nirupa Roy wasn't in the movie, was she? If I'm wrong, if she WAS in the movie, please let me know) ....

Was this movie ripped off from The Bullet Train  (1975)? I will never know.

There's so much that we can say about this movie, that maybe I should watch it once before I write more about it! Let me just mention one magaan scene that Subroto told me about.

This scene stars Dharmendra and it takes place inside the train, probably a while before... yes, it burns. He's sitting peacefully inside his compartment, when the whole cabin is suddenly overrun by hippie stereotypes, with their sunglasses and long hair and headbands and colourful dresses (probably rented from Raju Dresswala for the whole length of the movie). The hippies start bothering the travellers by jumping around like monkeys and playing (yeah right) their guitars and disturbing the women. Dharmendra is silent until he can stands no more, and turns into Popeye and punches a hippie and says, with his typical nose-shrinking style - "Don't sho aaf!"