Maya Oo

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About

Maya Oo refers to memes and discussions about the catchphrase "maya oo," attributed to a dialogue delivered by Bollywood actor Tusshar Kapoor's character "Lucky" from the 2006 film Golmaal. Lucky is a character with a speech impediment, and "maya oo" is a non-intelligible delivery of the Hindi swear word "Maderchod" (translation, motherfucker). The phrase came under renewed popularity after Tusshar Kapoor tweeted a joke alongside an advertisement featuring a mute character, and various internet users began making edited screenshots of movie dialogues where "Maderchod" is replaced with "Maya Oo."

Origin

The film Golmaal: Fun Unlimited was released on July 14th, 2006. The movie followed a cast of bumbling characters as they get into various comedic hijinks. One of the main characters in the film is a man named Lucky, played by Tusshar Kapoor, who has a severe speech impediment, causing him to utter the phrase "maya oo" in an agitated state, which likely was meant to be "Maderchod," which is Hindi for "motherfucker." A clip of the dialogue can be accessed via upload to YouTube^[1] by the channel Shemaroo Comedy, where it gathered over 1.8 million views in the 4 years since its upload on December 17th, 2018 (seen below).

On January 25th, 2023, actor Tusshar Kapoor took to his Twitter^[2] to share an advertisement for STOA, a program that offers MBA-type professional training. The actor accompanied the video with a tweet that read, "could have just said 'maya ooo' and moved on!" gathering over 100,000 views and 700 likes in a day (seen below).

Spread

Various Twitter users replied to the aforementioned tweet with edited movie screencaps from various movies using the cuss word "maderchod." On January 25th, 2023, Twitter^[3] user @sagarcasm posted a reply with a meme from Munna Bhai MBBS that read, "if bhai said to say maya oo, then say it," gathering over 100 likes (seen below, left). Also on January 25th, Twitter^[4] user @criccrazyjohns posted a reply saying, "Virat Kohli literally said 'Maya ooo' to all his haters with his comeback," gathering over 200 likes in a day (seen below, right).

Also on January 25th, 2023, Twitter^[5] user @UmdarTamker posted an edited screencap from the film Hera Pheri, where the word "maderchod" was replaced with "maya oo" (seen below, left). Twitter^[6] user @iamChakku posted another screencap from Hera Pheri on the same day (seen below, right), with both tweets gathering over 20 likes in a day.