Here is the identity of the now dead guy from Pakistan in Hell is other people episode 3, he wrote in Hindi. @greenfields



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    Is he Pakistani? No wonder.

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      Woah can i get a little background on this? This comment (though vague and I’m not sure what it’s about) , is seeming a little stereotypical. I apologize if I didn’t interpret it correctly that is why I am asking for a little background. I’d love DB to be our universal happy place.

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        *the discussion is based on hell is others dairy entry in Hindi and we were wondering where the previous roommate was from that he wrote diary in Hindi! We talked a lot about it in ep 2 recap

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          Thanks for telling me and I’m sorry for drawing it out of context.

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        Haha I’m not discriminating or trying to be anti-Pakistani.

        Like OFG says, there’s a scene early on in which the main character finds a diary and flips through it. The first few pages had the Hindi script on it, and it then became Korean. So we wondered about the origins of the original owner of the diary. I dropped the show so I didn’t know they’ve revealed his origin. He’s Pakistani. No wonder the script is familiar. I didn’t try to read it, but OFG did – OFG, it must be urdu words then, not hindi? (wapz – same alphabet, in case you’re from another part of the world)

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          I am so sorry. I know I was looking way too much into this. On the other hand idk if the Koreans got it right lol, I’ve never met a Pakistani who knows how to read and write in Hindi, maybe Pakistani Hindus in Sindh do but obviously if that much information was revealed about him. Sorry again for randomly intruding your post without context.

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            Hehe no problem. I can see how it may sound out of context, given the fact that I am Indian and India-Pakistan don’t get along. I think the Koreans didn’t get it entirely wrong – OFG read it. It apparently reads like something from a Bollywood movie, about a lovesick guy.

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            I was wondering the same, the name of the guy is not a usual Hindu name. For example the following guy is the only guy on earth which turns up for this name. (Also they forgot the surname, being happy that the name had three syllable unit, so Korean)
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumail_Nanjiani
            But here is some interesting thing: the guy above also has the same name and is from Sindh. Just that he did not grow up in Hindu family but then maybe he picked it up from TV and friends. I doubt that this language would be taught in schools since its not an official one.

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          It was super cheesy bollywood lines, not in urdu words (okay for me this is a very sophisticated way of talking and I know only Lucknow dialect) but really in Hindi.
          See here:
          http://www.dramabeans.com/members/oppafangirl/activity/865188/

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        i.e. No wonder…. the diary was in the Devanagari script.

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