Uru
Growing up, almost every household in Bangalore owned a mechanical wristwatch manufactured by this iconic, local public sector undertaking, often gifted to students for passing their 10th-standard board exams.
HMT (Hindustan Machine Tools)
Embrace me, for this beautiful night may never come again. Perhaps in this lifetime, we may never meet again.
Lag Jaa Gale
The most dangerous and functionally useless item in a standard geometry box
Divider
Led by the legendary late Australian spinner Shane Warne, this massive underdog franchise won the inaugural IPL tournament back in 2008.
Rajasthan Royals
Two grown men go on a massive road trip across India to track down their old college roommate just because he was a better engineering student than them.
3 Idiots
While everyone knows MTR and CTR, this historic, heritage bakery in VV Puram is legendary for inventing the iconic "Congress Kadlekai"
VB Bakery
He was just like the flowing, drifting wind, He was just like a flying, soaring kite, Where did he go? Go and search for him
Behti hawa sa tha woh... Udti patang sa tha woh... Kahan gaya usse dhoondo...
The heavy, dramatic phrase drilled into your head by every parent, teacher, and tuition uncle starting from the first day of Class 10, implying your entire future hung in the balance of a single exam.
Turning Point
This veteran Indian leg-spinner stands alone at the top of the IPL record books for taking the most hat-tricks in tournament history, pulling off the feat three separate times for three different franchises.
Amit Mishra
A guy follows a girl he barely knows all the way from Europe to Punjab, crashes her wedding, and wins over her terrifying father by helping him feed pigeons.
DDLJ
This fictional town's name was created by its author by blending the names of two of Bengaluru's oldest neighborhoods.
Malgudi
When you are here, the winding paths and nonsensical conversations seem perfectly straightforward. When you are here, even false promises and the intentions of enemies seem genuine.
Tu hai, to tedi-medi raahein, Ulti-pulti baatein seedhi lagti hai, Tu hai, to joothe-moothe vaade, Dushman ke irrade sache lagte hai
This mandatory social currency forced your peers into awkward, multi-page interrogations, requiring them to formally document their lifestyle
Slambook
Playing for RCB in 2013, this legendary power-hitter smashed an unbelievable 175* against the Pune Warriors, which remains the highest individual score in T20 cricket history.
Chris Gayle
An insomniac office worker starts an underground support group where men punch each other in parking lots, blows up a city's credit card infrastructure, and shoots himself in the face just to get rid of his roommate.
Fight club
This former Dewan of Mysore was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire, also a Bharat Ratna awardee
Sir.M. Visvesvaraya
The evenings are carefree like a mystic, and the nights are deep and dark. Oh God, this is where my heart truly wishes to stay.
Shaamein malang si, Raatein surmayi, O ilaahi mera jee aaye aaye
If you wanted to pretend you were a sophisticated adult during a 90s/2000s birthday party or school social, you begged your parents to buy a specific pack of chalky, minty white candy sticks. They tasted terrible and dissolved instantly, but they were universally used by school kids to mimic the exact physical gesture of a bad adult habit.
Phantom Cigarettes
While playing a brilliant knock for the Royal Challengers Bangalore during the 2009 tournament in South Africa, this batsman became the very first Indian player to score a century in the IPL.
Manish Pandey
A talented musician fakes a visual disability to get cheap rent, accidentally watches a wealthy homeowner get murdered, gets genuinely blinded by the killer’s wife, and barely escapes an illegal organ-harvesting ring.
Andhadhun
Before founding his world-famous training academy at the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Learning Excellence in 2017, badminton legend Prakash Padukone spent over two decades running the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy inside the historic, colonial-era courts of this specific 138-year-old heritage club on Residency Road.
Bowring Institute
Everything comes from you, everything returns to you every single time. It feels like every time I experience life, it is only because you are right here by my side.
Tumse hi, tumse hi, har baar, har baar, Hai jab tu ho saath
This specific, arbitrary regulatory cap—introduced around 2011 to curve pesky telemarketing spam, accidentally crippled the entire social life of Indian teenagers by turning text messaging into a highly rationed daily currency.
100-messages-per-day limit
In a 2013 match for the Kolkata Knight Riders, this explosive all-rounder made bizarre history by becoming the first player in the IPL to be dismissed for "obstructing the field."
Yusuf Pathan
A man uses his late father’s custom electronics to send a repetitive audio broadcast into deep space, causing a solar-dependent squatter to get stranded in the woods. The squatter performs unapproved neurological and physical alterations on the man, allowing him to humiliate local athletes before escaping a government task force.
Koi mil gaya