Instead, the dubbing writers employed a strategy of . They translated Gomez’s romantic French exclamations ("Cara mia!") into melodramatic, almost Sharabi (drunken-poetic) Urdu. His famous line, "I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss," became in Hindi something closer to, "Uske liye marna, uske liye maarna—donon hi mere liye jannat hain." This shifted the tone from gothic romance to the passionate, slightly theatrical dialogues of a 1970s Bollywood villain-hero, which fit Raul Julia’s exuberant performance perfectly.