India in 2000s

People who lived their lives during the period of 2000nds can hopefully relate themselves to most of the points here.

1) You remember watching Cartoon Network in Hindi and missing the normal English cartoons.

2) You remember walkman being an ancient gadget from the nineties and iPods taking over your life.

3)You remember how you started watching the EPL/La Liga, loving it, and also picking one of the big four to support.

4)You remember watching the 03 Cricket world cup that sad afternoon, knowing that India would lose, but still not losing hope.

5)You remember the rise of Pokemon, DragonBall Z and those trading cards.

6) You remember laughing your head off at the High School Musical songs when they were dubbed in Hindi.

7)You remember the rise of cellphones and Hindi texting.

8) You remember the Y2K/2000 Doomsday rumors and now wait for 2012

9)You remember buying pirated Playstation and PC games which you could only get in India :D

10) You remember the Papad-wale song from Makdee

11)You can sing the Hutch “You and I” song forwards and backwards.

12)Hutch is now Vodafone!

13)You remember yourself or your friends watching bullshit like Son-Pari and Shaka Laka Boom Boom. You also remember the stupid Sanju’s pencils and Son Pari’s wands :P

14)You remember your grandparents, etc watching those excruciatingly dramatic K-serials.

15)You remember watching Roadies from season 3 onwards

16)You remember Abhinav Bindra/Vijender Singh/Sushil Kumar at Beijing 2008

17)You remember how Cartoon Network became a 24-hour thing and how TNT died \m/

18) You remember ZooZoos and the Hutch/Vodafone Pug.

19)You remember thanking God for Vh1 India.

20)You remember Virender Sehwag’s random but awesome form and that 300 that he made against Pakistan \m/

21)You remember Cheese Burst Pizzas & those greasy garlic bread sticks from Dominoes.

22)You remember Indian Idol and Aapka Abhijeet :P

23)You remember watching WWE as WWE and not WWF

24)You remember the Harry Potter, Pirates Of The Caribbean and Lord Of The Rings films being some of the Hollywood films that provided House-full theatres.

25)You remember Jassi from Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin.

26)Video Parlors were close to extinct. Playstations were the shit.

27)You remember Cheetos giving competition to Lays. Especially that cheese stick flavour.

28)You remember the cool Bat-man, Superman and action-man action figures that replaced GI Joes.

29)You always wondered why Bangalore was re-named "Bengaluru"

30)You remember that brief period in which everybody was addicted to Takeshi's Castle and Javed Jaaferi's commentry.

31)You remember Shin-Chan.

32)KFC is in INDIAAAAA!!!

33)You remember the National Anthem being played in Movie halls, before the film started.

34)You remember the IPL.

35)You’ve forgotten the ICL. See?

36)You remember watching and comparing Zee Café and Star World and wondering why Zee Café was always so unclear. :S

37)Why the hell did they change it from Zee English to Zee Café?

38)You remember Full House, and watching its re-runs again and again, and again.

39) You remember shows like Yes Dear, Still Standing and My Wife and Kids on Star World, which were good, but no match for Friends.

40)You remember the retarded Bingo Po-Ta-To chips ads.

41)Many of you remember a majority of your childhood being wasted on capturing virtual Pokemon on your game-boys.

42)You obviously remember Kamaal R. Khan and the other retards in the Bigg Boss house.

43)You remember Himesh Reshammiya and his nasal shreaks. You also remember Rakhi Sawant and her excessively exaggerated publicity stunts.

44)Damn! Whatever happened to Orkut?

45)You remember the spellings of the titles of films being changed to these weird words which you could probably not even pronounce. Screw numerology.

46)You remember Super-Hero movies like Spiderman and Batman and Iron Man and Superman and Transformers and Daredevil and even Krrish.

47)You know who Kanta Ben is.

48)You remember yourself or your friends being in love with 'Konvicted', that Akon album with “Smack that” and “I wanna Love You”

49)You remember India winning the 2007 T20 World Cup and screaming at the TV while MSD and his men ran around Johannesburg

50)You remember Pepsi taglines like "Oye Bubbly" & "Yeh Hai Youngistan Meri Jaan"

51)Many of you know who Russell Peters is.

52)You remember Animated films like Shrek, Finding Nemo, The Wild, Chicken Little and Kung Fu Panda

53)Wii consoles are AWESOME!!

54)People watched Hannah Montana and That Wizards of Waverly Place, even if they were dubbed in Hindi.

55)You remember how guys failed to understand why most girls loved Edward, Zac and the Jonas Brothers.

56) You remember Slumdog Millionaire and the 2009 Oscars

57)You remember watching at least one episode of CID.

58)You’ve sung Kabhi Kabhi Aditi to at least one Aditi you know

59)You know what LOL, GTG/G2G, ROFL, LMAO, BRB, OMG mean.

60)You think/thought Gandhigiri actually meant something.

61)You remember how Sania Mirza was supposed to be the next best thing in tennis.

62)You remember cheering for Barack Obama and almost completely having no interest in national politics :P

63)You love Google and you have definitely tried “Pages from India”

64)You remember Dhoom and Dhoom 2 and thought that they were as good as Hollyood films. But now you don't.

65)Most guys played and were addicted to CounterStrike & FIFA.

66)You remember the rise of Radio Stations like Radio Mirchi, Go, Red FM, Fever 104 and Big

67)You remember Vanilla Coke, Pepsi Blue and Chocolate flavoured Pepsi :P !! WACKAO!

68)You want your original Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network back. BADLY. You miss the afternoons spent watching Legends of the hidden Temple, Global Guts, Rocket power, The Wild Thornberries, Kenan 'N' Kel, Drake & Josh, all That, The Amanda Show and Figure it Out.

69)You remember that phase where every third person you met would be having a Jolly Rancher.

70)You remember "Britannia Treat - OPEN, LICK, EAT!"

71)"Bob the builder, kar ke dikhaayenge! Bob the builder Haa bhai haa!" was an anthem once.

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