“Before marriage, she looked so.. (Pu La completes) Thin!”

— P. L. Deshpande

In his hilarious work 'Mi ani majha shatrupaksha' (Me and my enemy party), Pu La criticizes people who bore others by telling them accounts of their travels, showing them pictures of holidays or discussing their housing construction plans. This particular quote is from a situation when the author is forced to sit through a painfully slow and boring display of old photographs by a husband and wife.
It is a play on the English word "looked" and the Marathi word "thin", which is pronounced "lukdi". The character who speaks the first part of the quote is intermingling English and Marathi in the lines.
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लग्नापुर्वी शी न लूक्ड सो … लुकडी!

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Marathi writer, humourist, actor, dramatist 1919–2000

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