"24.000 FPS" ""it's just that the storm was being respectful to my age"" ""And the world thought my boat was trapped midwaters"" "Writer Manav..." " Shame!" "Shame!" "End..." " insults to women!" ""As you can see, the Women's Welfare Association is staging a demonstration"" "We're standing outside the famous novelist Manav's house... who has written several bestselling novels" "Every page of the novels he has written depict women..." ""as gold-diggers, opportunists and betrayers"" "Looks like these women have reached the end of their patience" "They have thus given up their chores at home... to spill out on the streets" "They're demanding an end to the insults being heaped on womenfolk... and threaten disastrous consequences." "What effect will this have... on the writer Manav?" "Will he be able to face the ire of these women?" "Writer Manav..." " Shame!" "Shame!" "Were you saying something?" "These stones and the broken window panes are testimony to the women's anger" "What is your take on all this?" "This stole-pelting and show of anger gives me extra courage" "They can break my window-panes and stop my car on the streets" "But they can't stop my pen from put ink to paper" ""As long as I live, my pen will also live..."" "and keep holding the mirror of truth to the womenfolk" "What's your source of inspiration?" "Where do you bring these ideas from?" "I don't need to." "What I see gets written on paper" ""Women have always been portrayed as ones that are loyal, helpless and pitiable"" "Behind the facade however... that helpless woman makes men dance to her tunes like puppets l can quote several instances to prove this point" ""l have seen women groveling before god men, instead of God"" "I have seen so-called devoted wives having a nice time with other men" "My novels aren't just imagination." "They're words of truth" "Can you tell us something about your next novel?" "Yet another truth" "This time I deal with a facet of women... which people call their helplessness and plight" ""Women, in the garb of being helpless, exploited..."" "have been deceiving men for years and centuries" "They've been using their bodies like blank cheques" "And now I'm going to expose this wholesale flesh market" "The name of this novel will be Bazaar (The marketplace)" ""Get going, you pimp!" "I wonder where this scoundrel comes from!"" "You take this for your mother's hotel?" "Free food...?" ""it costs money, mister." "This is a marketplace"" "Hey fatso!" " Uncle... who's that?" "He's the number one pimp of this red-light district" "A real bastard" ""What place is this, sir?" " This is where you got to live"" "Here...?" "What place have you brought me to?" "I'll do the explaining!" "When the girls in the world have no other work to do... this is the place they get to work" "Now... don't you also want to work?" "Earn some money perhaps... repay your father's loans and settle down in life?" "That's it then." "You've come to the right place!" "Living here and working here will make sure your dreams are realized" "Hey... you fell down again?" ""You rotten hide, damn you!"" ""Speak up, pimp"" ""Fakira, aren't you ever going to relent?"" ""l will, but not my trumpet"" "Whenever it sees someone evil with evil on his mind... it starts speaking on its own!" " Will you shut up now...?" "or must I beat you with my shoes?" "This sandal!" "No big deal." "Some people live off other people's bodies" "Won't make any difference if I take a knock or two" "Enough of your nonsense!" "Don't ruin my business" ""I'm going to fix Fakira for good..." " Muskaan, let's go!"" "Hey!" "Get him!" "Rangila!" "Save my girl!" "Kill him!" "C'mon!" "This is Anna's area" "Even the breeze in this place blows only with Anna's permission" "Not even a leaf moves without my permission and you... you're running away with a girl from my area?" "You plan on selling the girl elsewhere?" ""I'm the one who brought the girl here, Anna!" "And this cad..."" "he plans on bolting with her!" ""Listen, baby... your first mistake, Anna's going to forgive"" ""But if you do such a thing again, I'll throw acid on your face..."" "and destroy it" "Bring her inside." " Move it!" "You'll now get to know the rules of the game!" ""Here you are. 100,000 rupees"" "You've counted it." "And I've smelt it it's all the same." " Your daughter is now sold!" ""l know, I've sold my daughter to you"" ""Do what you want to." "As far as I'm concerned, she's dead"" ""Father, how can you treat me so shabbily?"" "I loved you more than I'd have loved my own father!" "But you have turned out to be a snake in the grass!" "in this marketplace of butchers... how could you sell your daughter away?" "Would you have done this if it were your own daughter?" "There are bigger scoundrels than me in the world" ""For money, they sell whole families"" "I've only made a deal to sell off a step-daughter" ""And now, your step-daughter curses you!"" "You will never be happy!" ""You will pay with your body for the 100,000 you've got!"" "You'll lie at the square!" "Writhing in agony!" ""Forget a human being, not even a dog will sniff at you!"" "The dogs will sniff at him and even pee on him" ""Now listen careful to me, lady"" "This isn't a temple where you're going around cursing people!" "This is Anna's brothel!" "I've made such a big payment for you" "So go and get ready." "You've got to attend to a very wealthy customer" ""To deflower you, he'll have a nuptial night with you without a wedding..."" ""Anna, I beg you!" "Please don't be so evil"" "Muskaan means the life to me." "I'll die without her" "What a lover-boy!" "But we don't do charity here" "This is Anna's brothel!" ""Didn't you see how I gave away 100,000 rupees for the girl?"" "Who's going to pay me?" " I'll pay you!" ""I'll even sell myself, but return the money to you"" "Can you pay me a million?" " Million?" "Good Lord!" "Out of steam already?" "All right." "I'll pay you a million" "Bring the million rupees within a month" ""lf you can't, just don't come back here"" "You agree?" " l agree" "So what are you waiting for?" "Go and raise the money" "Gulabo... take him away" ""Meet her for a while, okay?" "And go away"" "Whatever's in your heart... tell me" ""Whether you consent or disapprove..."" "do tell me" "Do tell me" "Whatever's in your heart... tell me" "Hey heroine... get up" ""Wake up, heroine!" "Haven't you heard me?"" "Get up" "Sit up straight." "And have this food I don't want this food." "Take it away" ""Why act funny, girl?" "Why ruin your youthfulness?"" "Eat it up I don't want to eat this food." " She won't eat our food" "That lover-boy of her will bring her goodies worth a million!" "He's going to pay a million to take her away" "Forget it." "The mother-f..." "How I get around to cursing!" "Forget about her boyfriend and look at my husband" "He left that day and never returned." " Rather than have such bastards... I prefer the guys who come over for a couple of hours..." ""do their sin, pay their money and leave quietly"" "God save us from such bastards!" "in their greed for money... they dump us in these brothels forever" "Skip the drama and eat the food." "He's left you here in our care" "To die!" "And you're weeping away." "Quietly eat it up" "Don't cry" "Bloody wenches!" "Stop proving who you are!" "Have you forgotten?" "This is just how all of you arrived here too" "How you used to weep!" "What is your name?" "Tell her your name." "Skip the melodrama" "Muskaan" "You have as faint a heart as lovely as your name" "Now wipe your tears and spread a smile" "Misfortune has brought you to this marketplace already" "So forget about the world outside and embrace this one" "No man has ever come to take away a woman from these brothels" "Never." "And that's our biggest misfortune" "Rakesh will surely come." "My Rakesh will surely arrive I believe more in Rakesh's promise than I trust my own fate" "He will surely come" ""lf that's how it is, I too will pray for him to come..."" "and take you away" "How I wish a couple of myths were shattered" "Do not worry." "I'm here with you" ""Where's that faggot Baldie..." " Softly, Shabbo..."" "Why must I talk softly?" "That rotten bastard!" ""lf he comes here again, I'm going to carve him to pieces!"" "Whom?" " Move!" "Who are you talking about?" " That blackie who oils his hair!" "May the dogs get his mother!" "He took me to a hotel" ""He gave me a bride's attire;" "I was his wife, he was my husband"" "What an act!" ""Don't laugh, Pooja!" "My brains are ready to burst!"" "His wife arrived there" ""And I was so scared, Allah..." "I couldn't say a word"" ""She asked who I was." "And he said, I was his sister!"" ""And I said, bastard!" "You said you got married." "Heartiest congratulations!"" "Then?" " As if I'd keep quiet I spilt the beans and his wife got down to thrashing him!" "You can't stop laughing!" "Who's this chick?" " No chick." "This is Muskaan" ""And this is Shabbo, my friend, my confidante... everything"" ""As hot-tempered as she appears to be, she's equally soft at heart"" ""Shabbo, Ali's here." " Ali...?" "Tell him I'm coming"" "So here comes her Romeo!" "Where were you all these days?" " l was held up with some work" "Sit down" "Know what?" "The moment I see you... I forget about all my sorrows and my temper" "Everyone here teases me!" "They say that when Ali arrives..." "Shabbo blossoms fully!" "Like the arrival of the bee... makes a bud blossom!" "And this bee comes to be held captive by this bud l have just one desire." "To make this bud my own... and keep her in the bouquet of my heart" ""Welcome, sir!" "Welcome!"" "in the car!" "The guy's bleeding money!" ""The sights begin here, sir"" ""Splendid sights!" "Welcome, sir, your lordship!"" "I'll show you some beauties in this marketplace... you'll find it difficult to believe your eyes!" "You must surely have heard that English number?" ""Whether you go to China, France, Nigeria..."" "the girls there just can't compete with our beauties" "The trumpet!" ""Get a hold on yourself!" "Every time you see some rascal, you start screaming"" ""Fakira, if I don't wreck your trumpet some day..."" "I won't be Rangila!" "Rangila you are." "With stains on your reputation" ""Whether you live or not, your stains will live on"" ""Before a customer, why must you...?"" ""This is how these guys are, sir!" "But let's not waste time"" "I'll fix you later" "Put that away." "And taste this one" ""New stock, sir." "Come and take a look"" "Please be seated" ""Sit, sit." " He's sitting already"" "I'm Gulabo" "Talk in English" "A sight of fairyland" "Darlings!" "Look!" ""Bored, darling...?" "Wait till I join you"" "And look at Rekha." "Take her" "You won't find one like her." " Nice?" "Nice" "The son-in-law!" "Something tells me things haven't clicked at all!" ""Fairies, beat it!"" ""Fly, get going!" "Make way... move it!"" "is something more to come?" ""This was a teaser, the movie's still coming"" ""So ring the bell, butterfly!"" "Some people are crazy about beauty... absolutely mad about beauty!" "So here are the fairies!" "Look at Meenakshi" "Here's Jayapradha" ""Take a look at the girls, sir!" " Some more movie to come?"" "it's an interval!" "The movie's real fun after the interval" "Here goes the drama" "Sir..." ""Lord, gentleman!" "Where are you going?"" ""Haven't liked anyone, hero?"" ""So, handsome?" "Forgot your wallet at home?"" "Let's manage with credit today" "Let him go" "Didn't I tell you?" "No one returns empty-handed from this marketplace!" ""lf someone does, it'll take the colour out of Rangila's personality"" ""The one you've settled for, sir..."" "happens to be the most beautiful flower in this rose garden" "Let me say something in her praise." "She..." "The son-of-a-gun's eating up a currency note" ""in this very marketplace, he'll take a beating some day"" ""Amen!" "Allah willing, that's what will happen"" ""Madam, neither are you my employee nor am I your driver"" "Sit in the front" "All right?" "How about talking money now?" "Money?" " Yes." "Better decide the rate now I don't like haggling later." " So what is your rate?" "3000 for a short time." "5000 for the full night" "Are you carrying one?" " One?" "Don't feign ignorance." "Lots of diseases being passed around nowadays I won't get into it without that" "What language!" "I'd need a pen of iron to write that" "What?" " Nothing." "How dare I say something?" "Shall we go?" " Let's go" "Such an expensive hotel!" "Listen... where are you going?" "Let's go to a hotel I know." "it'll cost just a thousand rupees" "C'mon." " Listen..." "Wow!" "This is fantastic!" "I have my life made today!" "Sit down." "I'll freshen up and join you soon" "What style!" "Great!" ""Pooja, your life's made!"" "This is real fun!" ""What are you doing?" " Stripping, of course"" "This is part of going to a hotel with a man" "But you needn't take off your clothes if you have come here with me" "You've changed your mind?" "Or don't you like me really?" ""Now look, mister." "We had settled on the price"" "I had told you that I hate to haggle about things later" "But you seem to be a decent guy." "I'll give you a discount of 500 rupees" ""lf you ask me to simply go away, I'll collect the whole fee"" "Not a penny less!" "I have so many things to pay for" ""Anna's commission, Rangila's cut, the rent..."" ""That's okay, but I brought you here for something entirely different"" "What's entirely different?" "What's the job?" ""You aren't shooting a blue-film, are you?"" "I'm not into such things!" ""Please be seated first." " Be seated, my foot!"" ""in our parlance, being seated is to spread out like this"" "This is what we call being seated" ""To begin with, stop speaking that language"" "To be seated is to sit down" "You will talk like me as long as you're with me." "Okay?" "Okay." "So what's the job?" "I'm a writer." " What?" "A writer." "Who writes novels." " So what am I to do?" "What a thick-skinned girl!" " What?" "Nothing I want you to just stay with me for ten days" "I'll compensate you as you wish" ""As you said, a single night costs 5000 rupees"" ""That's 10000 rupees for a day and 100,000 for ten days"" ""I'll pay you 200,000 rupees..." " 200,000...?"" "You will only stay with me for ten days" "And what'll I have to do?" " Just stay with me" ""200,000 to just stay with you?" " Yes"" "What guarantee that you will indeed pay me the money?" "One moment" ""Here's 100,000." "The advance"" "is it genuine currency?" " What?" "Nothing." " Now please go in and freshen up" "So many men steal the money from the under pillow and vanish" "Why take the risk?" "What fun it is to have money!" "They turn the earth into a paradise" "No sound from outside..." "have you left already?" "I'm right here." "Where will I go?" "I wasn't talking to you." "Please send what I asked for" "Let me take a bath!" "Go and wear some clothes" "But I am already clothed." "How much more will I wear?" ""lf this is being clothed, what's nude?"" "Forget it." "I'm famished" ""Wear your clothes, or I won't let you touch a morsel of the food"" "But I haven't brought another set!" " Just a moment" "Here you are" "Wear this." "And tie the towel on your head" ""Else, you might catch a cold" " Big cold!"" "That's like a good girl." "You look good" "Really?" ""When I say good, it means from a distance"" "There's no need to get closer" "Hungry?" "Eat it up." " Food?" "Wow!" "May I?" "Why don't you have some?" ""lf you don't eat, how will you write?"" ""I'll surely eat, if you leave something"" "Eat it up!" "I don't guarantee I'll leave something" ""So you take your sister's earning?" " Talk less, not more"" "Else I'll knock your teeth out." "Okay?" " Get lost!" "How about it?" " What will you take?" "2000." " 2000?" "I asked only your rate." "Not the whole marketplace" "I'll pay 200 bucks." "How about it?" " Get going!" "How about it?" " No" "Why?" " Bank holiday." "Come after 5 days" "Lots of bank holidays nowadays." "Not a single working day!" "Give that to me." " This is Rangila's share" "This is Anna's share" "This is for my expenses." " How much?" "Show me" "And this is for you" "Once you get married and leave..." "I'll be able to breathe freely" "Your ladyship!" "What do you want?" ""Ladyship, my foot!" "it's me"" "Allah!" "What a sight!" "Curse Rangila's mother!" "What's all this?" " Style... what else" "You hit the jackpot in a single night?" "No. I just happened to come across an admirer" ""An admirer, or is he a foreigner?" " No, he's Indian"" "So what does he do?" " That's the best part" "He does nothing!" "He pays for doing nothing" "He pays for doing nothing!" "Here's the money." " What's this?" "Keep it." " So much?" "Rather you keep it it'll get stolen from me." " Not for you... it's for your sister." "Put it in the kitty for her marriage" "What are you staring at me for?" "isn't she a sister to me also?" "Save those tears." "Let them flow when you see your sister leave" "Now what's wrong with you?" "I have realized now" "Kindhearted folks live here too" "Everyone is humane." "Just that circumstances turn them into beasts" ""Times?" "Tonight is auspicious, and I feel like dancing"" ""Of course." "Tonight, we'll sing and dance"" ""in this bazaar, beauty will be extolled tonight"" "So let's dance!" " Dance!" "I cast a variety of spells... when I dress up to the do" "They talk about me... in the marketplace of beauty" "They praise my bindis" "They praise my anklets" "They praise my bindis" "They praise my anklets" "They praise my bangles" "They praise my bracelets" ""No matter what government comes to power..."" "my beauty is hailed" ""My face is beyond compare, my lips are juicy"" ""Ever since I turned sixteen, my gait has been sensuous"" ""They praise when my sway my hips, they also praise my earrings"" "My veil is praised" "My lipstick is praised" ""No matter what government comes to power..."" "my beauty is hailed" ""My style is sensational, my attitude is fatal"" ""Everyone asks me for a memento..." "they all are crazy for me"" "My eyes are praised" "The kohl I wear is praised" "They praise my tresses" "They praise the flowers I wear" ""No matter what government comes to power..."" "my beauty is hailed" "They praise my bindis" "They praise my anklets" "They praise my bangles" "They praise my bracelets" ""No matter what government comes to power..."" "my beauty is hailed" "Where are you going?" " Upstairs. 701" "You can't go there." " Why not?" "You can't stop me." "I was there all night with him" "My staff didn't stop you last night." "it was a mistake" "We have to think about other guests too" ""So do it, it's your duty." "Why stop me?"" "I told you!" "You can't go upstairs." " Why not?" "Reason?" "Reason?" "Your type" "Get that?" "If you want me to put it straight..." "And our hotel doesn't entertain hookers like you" ""Yes, I'm a hooker." "You aren't a saint either"" "You are not an angel. it is your types that visit us the most" ""Managers, leaders and officers, during the day!"" "And by night you come to lick our feet!" "Cowards from a hypocrite society!" "I spit at your hotel!" "What do they think of themselves?" "Money makes them think they are Gods" "Had I someone to call my own...?" "But alas!" ""Spare me a dime, my child." " Sorry"" "Here... and tell your God not to show us dreams" ""lf not, ask Him not to shatter our dreams"" ""May God give you your wish, my child"" "Let's go." " Where?" "To the hotel." " Again?" "And get humiliated and abused again?" ""I'm a whore but I'm not a beggar, nor am I corrupt"" "I can't stand abuses." " You could've called me up" "Called up?" "He didn't even let me talk" "The bastard!" "He had me thrown out!" "The swine" "I'll kick him out." "Come with me" "I'm not going." " Come on" ""No, I said." " Come on, or I'll slap you"" "You think I'm your wife?" "Try touching me" "C'mon" ""Also apologize to the lady." " I'm sorry, ma'am"" ""I'm really sorry, sir." "We won't make this mistake again"" "I apologize to you on his behalf" ""l apologize, lady"" ""The bastard!" "He was raving." "Had I my way, I'd have killed him"" "You are as much at fault as the manager" ""Your make-up, your dress, your style"" "Come to the point." "Why beat around the bush?" "I'm a whore. isn't that what you want to say?" ""lf that's how you take it, fine." " All right!" "I'm a whore"" "But what would you call those men who wear a facade of decency... while they lust from inside?" "it is we who sate their lust" ""Sir, if there are no whores around..."" "womenfolk from decent families would be raped in public" "You must be grateful to us whores." "We drink the poison of lust" "While the elixir of happiness and decency is what the society receives" ""lf we shut shop for two months, your womenfolk will be in trouble"" "They will be kidnapped in broad daylight" "You talk well." " in fact I'm telling you... the fact of life it is not that we like to sell ourselves" ""Forget it." "To gain sympathy, you will spin a yarn now ;..."" ""circumstances at home forced you, or someone conned you into it"" ""Old hat." " You're happy, and circumstances..."" ""haven't got the better of you, that's why it's so easy for you to say that"" "it takes nothing to watch someone drown in the sea" ""lf you dare, try taking on a storm"" "Then you will know how the storm changes your course of your life" "Really?" "What storm have you been through?" "What do I tell you?" "Even I had a happy family once" ""Father was a teacher, and my mother was a housewife"" "We were so happy that sorrows seemed a falsehood" "Exactly like it is to you now" "Suddenly there was this earthquake... the tremor..." "For a while the land rocked" "And the entire town turned into a graveyard" ""Mr. Writer, one moment, the town was full of life, full of joys"" "And the next moment..." ""there was a pile of corpses, death and grief"" "We endured so much" "Relief camps were set up everywhere I found a young officer there..." "he was very sympathetic" "He promised to marry me" "A poor girl is like a hungry bird... that goes to the one who feeds it" "And I too fed on the grain of deceit" ""Not a wife, he wanted to turn me into a mint"" ""To please a minister, he wanted me to sleep with him"" ""Mr. Writer, that was my fiancé, supposed to become my husband"" "I refused" ""But helpless as I was, the lustful minister raped me"" "And I figured one thing" ""Status notwithstanding, every man is a wolf when it comes to women"" "I'd rather charge for sating their lust than be forced do it" ""So I said, to hell with decency"" "Then I wore a low-cut blouse to reveal some cleavage... and also put on a mini skirt and started trading myself" "May I ask a question?" ""You could've done a job, no?"" "A job?" "in a man's world women get jobs only when they give in" "Not every man is a decent chap like you" "A woman has to get laid if she wants a job" ""When a man is possessed with lust, he doesn't even spare a beggar woman"" "Would he spare a poor young girl?" "The poor guy is putting a lot of effort but in vain" ""Help him, Lord"" ""Hey slink, join hands with me"" "Why must you waste your time and Muskaan's prime?" "Trust me." "She is mind-blowing" ""Her beauty can fetch a minimum of 50,000 per night"" "That comes to 1 .5 million a month" ""The million is yours, 500,000 is mine." "Anna keeps a 900,000 of yours..."" ""so you get to keep 100,000." "I have rich clients"" ""Tell me, should I call one now?"" "Hey!" ""Too smart, eh?"" ""l suggest you a business, and you hit me, eh?"" "Bastard!" "What are you doing?" " Bastard!" "You sold off your mother and sister!" "Don't think every girl is up for sale" "Reason with him." "I'll have Muskaan deflowered!" "Swine!" " Watch your tongue!" ""Deflowered, eh?" "Say that again and by God, I'll kill you!" "Get lost"" ""Don't worry, son." "We're with you." "Go on... go"" "Now what makes you gloomy?" "What are you thinking of?" ""l promised you, Shabbo..."" "to make you my wife... and make a new world for ourselves" "Why bring that up all of a sudden?" "My wish seems to go out of reach" "My parents have found a girl for me" "But I'm not marrying her." "I'll talk to them" "What will you tell them?" " I'll tell them I won't marry her" "What excuse will you give them?" "That I'm in love with Shabbo" ""What if they ask you about me, my caste, my parents..."" "my house... what will you tell them?" ""You will tell them that I'm a whore, right?"" ""Look Ali, a girl like me can be someone's wife for a while or so"" "But she cannot live forever as a daughter-in-law of some family" ""No!" "Mine is a different path, and yours is a different world"" ""Henceforth, if you enter this place, if you even step into this bazaar..."" "you will find me dead." " But Shabbo... lf you even love me one bit..." ""l implore you, don't come back here"" ""lf you return, I'll consider that you never loved me"" ""Why, Shabbo?" "Why?"" "I have taken enough deceit in life I have endured enough cruelty" "But I can't take the curse of helpless parents" "Go away" "Go!" "What's he doing with a top-class whore?" "What are you watching?" " The changes" "You used to wolf down your food with your hands" "And look at you now." "Good." "One must change with time" ""Provided, someone helps to steer through circumstances"" "One needs courage to alter circumstances" "What are you doing here?" "Remember me?" "Where are you going?" " I'll be right back" "May I sit here?" "You should've asked before you sat." "What you did amounts to impudence" ""Anyway, what's your problem?" " I'm Rana"" "So?" "That girl..." " So?" "She's exquisite." " So?" "So?" "You can answer better than me" "You have always written against women in your novels" ""With much bitterness, at that"" "And now you go around with a whore..." " How do you know she is a whore?" ""One has to give vent to his anger." "But believe me, sir..."" "when I went to the bazaar to take it out... only Pooja mesmerized me." " Through with your nonsense?" "There's so much to say." "But it seems you care two hoots" ""Please leave, or I'll have to forget that I'm a writer and use my hands"" ""For the first time, I see a fighter in a writer"" "Cut the crap and leave" "Why?" "I'm a free citizen of an independent country." "Get that?" ""l too am one, by coincidence"" ""And, your independence ends where it begins for me"" ""Whether I bed her or write a novel, it's none of your bloody business"" "What are you watching?" "The city." "it looks so peaceful from here" ""However, it conceals so many tremors of the flesh trade"" ""Someone is abusing, someone is listening to it"" ""Someone is causing harm, someone is enduring the pain"" "I know I saw the abuses in that chap's eyes" ""Let alone his eyes, had he even voiced his abuses..."" "I'd have borne it" "I've gotten used to it" "But I didn't want to be humiliated before you" "And I can't take it if somebody points a finger at you before me" "Why?" " I'm trying to find the answer" "No idea where the answer lies I wonder if there is an answer" "Pooja... it's been ten days now" "And these ten days passed so quickly as if they were ten seconds" ""Pooja, our contract ends today"" "Here's the rest of the money" "Shall we...?" "Where are we going?" " To drop you at the bazaar" "No." "You took me away from the bazaar... it was a good feeling I won't like it if you were to personally drop me back" "Pull over." "I'll go by myself" "You want to say something?" " Never mind" "Your look tells me you wish to say something" "The days I spent with you were the most beautiful moments of my life" ""And as long as I live, they shall live somewhere in my memories"" "Thank you" "Here... wipe your tears" "You can stand here and shed tears... but you can't speak your heart out" ""Go on, wipe your tears"" "Go on I lost my mind for a while." "Couldn't you have grabbed my neck..." ""and asked me, Do you take me for a plaything?"" ""For experience's sake, you kept me with you for ten days..."" ""taught me lessons in decency, changed my life..."" ""changed my heart, my mind, my thoughts..."" ""gave me a new lease of life in this world..."" ""made me bold enough to turn down any man, let alone spend a night"" ""And today, you are again dumping me in the hell-hole"" "Couldn't you have told me?" "Can't you speak?" "No" ""l can't." " Fine, wipe your tears"" "How about some tea?" "Cold drink?" "Juice?" " Nothing" "Bhel?" " No" "Ice-cream?" " No" "Will you marry me?" "Answer me." "Will you marry me?" "But..." " No ifs and buts" "My lexicon has no place for those words I want a straight answer for my simple question" "But..." " Not again!" ""Either yes, or no"" "Yes..." " Why sway your head?" "Yes!" " That's like it" ""Try as much as you will, but the heart is beyond reasoning"" ""Only the heart knows how it feels"" "Strange is Godliness" ""Only Love knows what love is all about"" ""I'm restless." "Peace went beyond reach..."" ""ever since love walked into my life"" "Romance gave me a strange high..." ""ever since love walked into my life"" ""May no one suffer this ailment of the heart"" "Solitude just kills me" ""Love gives me a strange feeling of anxiety"" "Passion torments me every moment" ""l can see nothing even in daylight..."" ""ever since love walked into my life"" ""Joys and sorrows are part of life"" ""it takes obsession to endure sorrows"" "I have no complaints against you" "My life is meant for you" ""Joy takes the life out of me..."" ""ever since love walked into my life"" ""I'm restless." "Peace went beyond reach..."" "romance gave me a strange high..." ""ever since love walked into my life"" ""Easy, Pooja." " Careful"" ""So Pooja, are you going to marry?"" ""Well Anna, did she give you in writing that she won't marry?"" "Don't interfere" ""Else, I'll break your legs." " l spit on you"" ""Hear this much from me, Pooja"" ""The flowers bedecked on the palanquin of the bazaar, barely smell"" "Either the man leaves his wife after his nuptial-night" ""Or, he dumps her again in the bazaar for fear of ostracism"" "Mark my words" ""As far as I know Manav, he is not that type"" ""Besides, everyone must die some day"" "But you can't stop living for the fear of death" "Long Live Pooja" ""What say, Anna?" "You got an answer?" " Sure"" "I'll say this before everyone here" "Were she my property and dared to talk back..." "I'd have hacked her to pieces and fed her to the vultures" ""But thank her stars, she only works for me"" ""Pooja, I'll pray to God." "May He never make your husband abandon you"" "But God will certainly do that" "Your man will certainly abandon you." "Do remember your good old Anna then" ""For you, Anna's door will be open round the clock"" ""Do come back, but while you are still young"" "Because it's the rule of the bazaar" "The bazaar welcomes only youth and beauty" "Another thing" "Stale food won't do here" "Sagging bodies won't do." "in case you sag... you'd rather go and kill yourself than come here" "Anna!" "May your tongue burn!" "Let's go!" "Please bring the wedding garland" "Who will give the bride away?" "I will" "Who else will when her father is still alive?" "Please stand up for taking rounds around the holy fire" ""Thank you, Lord." "You have showered mercy on us"" "You have lit up this hell-spot with hope and honour" ""Please, Lord..."" "let this light spread all over the bazaar." "All over the bazaar" "it's an impossible dream" "Pooja is gone." "So what?" "This slink here will bring up hundred more Pooja's" "And listen." "If this bazaar shines... it will only be with the sleazy lights here." "You dig?" ""As long as I'm alive, this bazaar won't wind up"" "it's a promise" "Who made this up?" "Who else?" "I did it myself" ""Really?" " Yes, Pooja"" "When I decided to make you my wife... I bought a book." "How To Make Marriage Work" ""Parents, siblings, relatives..." "I have no one who'd do this for me"" "Come on" "When I used to shun a writer's pride and lie down like a common man..." ""the walls, the windows and the doors would often ask me..."" ""When will the mistress of this house arrive?"" "And I used to say it was impossible" "There was no place for women in my life" ""Like the others, my ears were filled with treachery too"" "My life was a one-seater vehicle that had no space for another" ""But you, and your love..."" "I don't know when it created space for another I run short of words to describe my joy I feel like spending the rest of my life at your feet" "A woman like me..." " Hush." "Pooja... let bygones be bygones" "Wipe out the past like a child wipes his slate" ""Rewrite destiny." "From now on, you are only Manav's wife"" "No other identity." "Right?" ""Pooja, I have never seen you from so close"" "I feel immense love for you..." "I'm so happy" "What are you watching?" "The first morn of my life" "How do you find it?" " Exotic" "But not as pretty as you" ""Pooja, you have changed my opinion"" ""l used to think a woman is a shame, treacherous..."" "and the root cause of all problems" "And that's what I've been witnessing since childhood" ""As a child, I got to know that it was my mother who dumped me"" "People called me vermin" ""One fine day, a woman took pity on me, picked me up from the street..."" "and took me to her house. I was elated I thought I had found my mother" ""But that woman, who masqueraded as a devoted wife..."" "dragged me on to her bed one day... and got the better of me" "Nothing was as disparaging as that" "She kept on kissing me... it was like a sharp blade piercing my body I was so enraged that I shoved her away" "Her head banged on a wall" "Then she framed me for theft and sent me behind bars" ""in jail, I studied." "I studied hard"" "I wanted to pen down the black deeds of women and unmask them" "And I had been doing just that... until I met you" ""And now I feel that, if not for women..."" "life wouldn't have been so beautiful" "Thank you" ""Hammer it there!" "And you, woman..."" "stick those two banners up there" ""And you... man, sweep it clean. it's so dirty"" "Don't clean me!" "Oh no!" "it stinks" ""Damn, this gutter!" "Damn the vermin!" "it stinks"" "I wonder how these paupers live here it's fine now" "Mr. Rangila..." " Aw!" "What is it?" ""No matter how rich a man is, he must not forget his doings"" ""Shut up!" "Mind your own business, fatso"" ""Sure, sir." "But I wish to know why the place is being cleaned up"" "You don't know?" "Tomorrow is Aids Day" "Aids...?" "What's that?" " Hear that!" "You don't that?" "it's a fatal disease" "Those men who come to this bazaar and have sex with the whores..." ""that too without protection..." "I mean, without condoms..."" "I see." " they are prone to this disease" ""They eventually writhe in pain, suffer to their deaths"" ""in that case, you must be already suffering from it"" "Shut up!" "You talk nonsense." "Bloody fool" ""That hurt you." "What I meant is, you've been a pimp since childhood..."" ""you are old now, you've been whore-mongering since so long..."" ""so you should be infected." " Shut up!" "Swine, keep it low"" ""You want it to come in the papers tomorrows, eh?"" "Oh no. I just want to ask you..." "did you bathe today?" "No." "Why?" " You aren't cleansed yourself" "So why the cleanliness drive?" "I'll slipper you!" " Please don't" "The minister is visiting tomorrow." " l see" "He's touring on his helicopter." "That's why I'm having this place cleaned up" "Fine." "But who will clean the souls that are dirtier than the gutters?" ""Who are you hinting at, Fakira?"" ""Look, if you think I meant you, then you are wrong"" ""Actually, it is you I'm hinting at." " Oh, I see"" ""Brother Fakira, don't joke with Mr. Rangila"" "He's not the same old Rangila." "He stands tall." "Up there" "Up there?" "When will he go?" " l didn't mean that" ""What I meant is, he has connections right up there, with ministers"" ""Hardly matters." "On the ground, or on top of a mountain..."" ""no matter where an ass stands, he's still called ass." "What say?"" "Those who are infected with Aids..." ""must be loved, must be taken care of." "They need your love"" "Don't hate them" ""Loving them, embracing them, eating with them..."" "does not spread this disease" "This is not a disease of the untouchables" "And our minister here will prove that" ""He will shake hands with them, take photographs with them..."" "he will also embrace them" "Come here" ""Please, Mr. Minister"" "Give me the garland" "Click!" ""You got them examined, didn't you?" "They aren't infected, are they?"" "They aren't." "I'm not a fool" "The infected ones who the so-called social workers take photographs with... they are really infected." "They are smalltime actors" ""Mr. Minister, he is conning you"" "How come?" " Those girls are not infected" "The infected ones are over there." " He is right" "What?" " True" "He won't let them come up on stage." "Please summon them up there" ""Come on, children, Rangila's sisters..."" ""go on stage, to your father"" "Why are you calling them?" ""This function was organized for their sake, isn't it?"" "Clear out the fake ones and summon the real ones" ""What's going on, Rangila?"" "What the...?" ""Mr. Manav, why did you stop writing?"" ""Can't help it." "Neither my pen, nor my brain works." "What do I write then?"" ""Ever since you stopped writing, my business has been slack"" "Your fans too are waiting for your next novel" "Anyway... here's the royalty cheque for your previous novels it might make your pen and brain work" "Thank you" ""Have breakfast, sir." " No, thanks lady." "I'm in a hurry"" ""Lady, you must urge him to write"" ""Else, his fame and his works will be in danger"" "Bye" "He's right." " Pooja!" ""How are you, Pooja?" " How've you been?"" "I'm enjoying." " Come in" "Hang on..." "Greetings." " Greetings." "How are you?" "I'm fine." "Absolutely fine" ""Actually, I came to invite you folks to my sister's wedding"" ""Your sister?" "She is not my sister, eh?" " Oh no, she is your sister"" ""Not an invite, brothers are given responsibilities"" "it is the brother who carries her palanquin" "True." " We'll certainly come." "We'll enjoy" "Come on in" "Hats off to Shabbo." "Not even landlords give such a grand wedding" "I'm proud of my daughter Shabbo" ""She reared her brothers, got them educated..."" ""got them married, and she is even looking after their household expenses"" "She is amazing." "May God grant everyone a daughter like her" "What does Shabbo do in the city?" "The bridegroom's here with the entourage" "As salaam Aleikom." " Waleikom salaam" "Get the milk" ""Son, please show your face"" "Ali...?" " Shabbo...?" "What's the matter?" " No idea" ""What farce is this, Shabbo?" "Your sister's bridegroom is here..."" "and you come running inside..." "what would people think?" "To hell with people." "Can't you see?" "Ali is marrying my sister" ""l shared a relationship with Ali, you know that"" "Allah!" "Curse my destiny!" "What if my sister finds out...?" "How will I face her?" "No time to think about such things" ""The wedding can't be stopped, you can't complain either"" "Let it happen the way it is." " No..." ""Let alone your sister, no one will ever know..."" "what relationship you shared with Ali in the marketplace l see." " So this is it I won't go into details I sacrificed my love for the sake of my sisters" "Anyway... put everything behind you" "And try not to give anyone a chance to suspect" ""What am I being told, Shamsu?"" "is this what your daughter is doing in the city?" "She's selling her body!" "Goodness me!" "And you thrust her sister on our son?" ""You have humiliated me in everyone's presence, here at the wedding!"" "You have abused me!" "You have spat at me!" "No child in the world must've cast such a slur on her parents' name!" "By getting into such a repulsive profession... you wanted to have your sister married off?" "Do you want your sister's family to be ruined even before she settles down?" "If you have any love and respect for her... if you have any sympathy for her..." ""if you have any sense of shame and modesty, get out of my sight!"" "Go away!" " l will go away" ""l will go away, but just let this marriage be solemnized"" ""lf you stay here, this marriage is not going to be solemnized"" "I'll take my son Ali and leave immediately" ""Hear that, cursed girl?" "Go away!" "Shame on you!"" ""You're neither my sister from today, nor am I your brother"" "You have no parents." "You aren't their daughter anymore!" "Don't set foot in this village ever again" ""lf you try to come back here, I'll bury you alive!"" "Go away!" "Get lost!" "But this is injustice!" " You have no right..." ""to speak in our family matters." "And those that speak, we throw..."" "Oh yes!" "Another word from you and..." "Shabbo's not staying here anyway" ""Let's go, Pooja." "Come on!"" ""Shabbo, listen to me." " They are stone-hearted!"" ""They can't understand anyone's feelings!" "Let's go, Pooja"" "C'mon!" ""Now look, she has left with the burden of her sins"" "But why should my poor innocent daughter be punished for what she did?" "Please say something" "So what are we to do?" " That which we came here for" "There's an offer from a big guy." "For an item dance" "What's the budget like?" " Tall!" "it's a huge budget" ""They'll pay over 100,000 anyway." "But they have a condition"" "The condition is that he needs an absolutely fresh girl." "New girl" "Anna... suppose I'm willing to do this dance... will you adjust this money in Rakesh's account?" "Good Lord!" "Jolly good!" ""There's nothing fishy, is there?" " What fishy...?"" ""Not at all!" "These guys who get the item-numbers done, are decent folks"" "The main guy is a family man" "He has a daughter too." "As charming and beautiful as you are" "He's just been married it's because of the tension that he's getting this dance performed" "The heart's a magnet" ""Stick, stick... it does"" ""Every lover is bowled over by my charms"" ""Goodness!" "What an offense youthfulness is"" ""How it torments me all day and night..."" ""the heart's a magnet, it gets stuck"" ""Oh my God!" "The things that happen to me"" ""The heart's a magnet, it gets stuck"" ""l can't take these cursed distances anymore"" ""Like an intoxication, it clouds my heart"" "A magnet... this heart is" "So silly... this heart is" "it sets my breath on fire" ""the heart's a magnet, it gets stuck"" ""Oh my God!" "The things that happen to me"" ""The heart's a magnet, it gets stuck"" "it's overwhelmed by desire" ""There's no saying when one might lose his heart"" "A magnet... this heart is" ""it stokes the fires in my heart"" ""The heart's a magnet, it gets stuck"" ""Oh my God!" "The things that happen to me"" ""The heart's a magnet, it gets stuck"" ""Every lover is bowled over by my charms"" ""Goodness!" "What an offense youthfulness is"" ""How it torments me all day and night..."" ""the heart's a magnet, it gets stuck"" ""Oh my God!" "The things that happen to me"" ""The heart's a magnet, it gets stuck"" "You...?" "Where's Rangila?" "Rangila struck a deal and left" ""He has even collected 100,000 as per my promise"" ""And here's your 100,000." " What's this for?"" ""Consider it to be your reward." " A reward?" "Of 100,000 ?"" ""People blow up millions for passion." "This is just 100,000"" "What do you mean?" " Just that you are tender" "And I'm told you are also a virgin" ""Which is why Rangila asked for 100,000 for a single night with you"" "What...?" "You talk of spending a night with a girl your daughter's age?" "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" " Don't talk of shame and modesty... to hide in a cloak of silly pretenses." "I know prostitutes like you very well l am not a prostitute!" "Although circumstances have brought me to the brothel... I don't sell my body!" "Do you understand?" "What are you doing...?" "No!" "Let me go!" "Leave me alone!" "Help!" "What is the matter?" "Fallen woman!" "it isn't dancing-bells you tied at your feet for the sake of money" "You've tightened the noose around my neck!" "You have spat at my love!" ""I'm trying to pull you out of this filth, and you...?"" "you're getting deeper into it?" "Looks like you're taking to the colours here" ""Enough!" "That's enough, Rakesh!" "Not another word from you!"" "You could hear the chiming of the dancing-bells at her feet" "But you couldn't hear her shrieks of agony." "Look!" "She had gone out to lighten the burden of money you're carrying" ""Through dancing, that is." "Wonderful, isn't it?"" ""She came back wounded, but she returned with her chastity and her honour intact"" "Who's all that for?" "Only you!" "You get that?" "You make 300 rupees!" "Tie the dancing bells to your feet and dance..." ""all your life, you still won't be able to make so much of money!"" "Do you understand?" "What could you have done even if she had slept with him?" "You wouldn't have known it all your life!" "You..." ""He comes to beat her up, the rotten sonofa..."" "What else can a helpless and defenseless man do?" "He can't have his way." "So he raises his hand on the weak" ""Rakesh, I wasn't as hurt and offended that day when I was orphaned..."" "when my step-father sold in this marketplace... as I have been pained today by your behaviour!" ""Muskaan, please!" "Forgive me." "Forgive me, please... please!"" "Sorry for disturbing you." "But may I sit here?" "Sit down" ""l can't sit here, unless your wife asks me to"" "Please be seated" ""Believe me, Manav-saheb." "I'm proud of your courage"" "All the best on your marriage." " Thank you" "But there's something I can't figure out" "Your pen has always written against the nature of womenfolk... and you start walking their path... how did this sudden change come about?" "it's only after meeting Pooja that I realized how I wrong I was I was caught in a vortex of questions... and Pooja's answers rescued me from it I realized after meeting Pooja that a woman's life is full of tests" ""The path they tread is so full of thorns, they can't take anymore wounds"" "I'm proud that Pooja is my wife." " Wonderful!" ""But people are eagerly awaiting your next novel "Bazaar"" "So tell me when this wait will end" "Never." " What do you mean?" "Maybe this novel will never be completed" "But why?" ""l don't have an answer to this "why" either"" ""That's okay, but your readers are going to be as hurt as I am"" "it's your decision" "All I wanted to say is that I want an interview with you" ""I'm writing a special article on "Women's Day"" "I need an interview with you for that." "Will you give me the time?" ""Certainly." "Give me a call tomorrow, we'll decide when"" "What you just said about the novel never being completed... is it true?" " Yes" ""it is the novel that has brought us together, Manav"" ""lf this novel remains unwritten, it might..."" ""Pooja, neither do I have those views now..."" "nor can my pen write as strongly on the topic" "The venom I had against women has now vanished I won't be able to write it anymore." " Can I read the manuscripts?" "Sure" "I've read the manuscripts." " So?" "You must complete the novel" "What was once poison can also turn into an elixir" "There are women who talk against you today" "This novel will make a place for you in their hearts" "Just as you have a place in my heart" ""Pooja, do you love me?" " More than my own life"" "Can you ever be unfaithful to me?" " Never" "But what has this question to do with your novel?" "I'll explain" ""l actually have two wives, Pooja." "One is you." "The other is my pen"" "And I can't be unfaithful to either of you" "There was a fire in my heart." "But that is no more" ""l used to hate women and thus, wrote against them"" "But now I love women." "And that does not ignite a fire of hatred" ""l can't write lies, Pooja"" ""So I don't want you to bring up this topic again, okay?"" "He needs just a few words to make me keep my mouth shut" "But this novel ought to be completed too" ""is Mr. Manav there at home?" " No, he's not in"" "Who's this?" " This is Rana here" "Any message for him?" ""No, never mind." "I'll contact him again"" "Mr. Rana..." " Yes?" "I wish to meet you." " Where?" "At the coffee shop?" "So what can I do for you?" "I need some help from you." " Help?" ""Yes. I want you to help me in making Manav complete his novel "Bazaar"" ""it's like this, Pooja." "I'm not a writer, I'm a journalist"" "Neither does my pen have the spirit like Manav's... nor his way of thinking." " You don't have to write anything" "They'll all be Manav's ideas" "I'll record this thoughts and give them to you" "You only have to put them on paper." "You can surely do that for me?" ""Yes, I can"" "But I have a condition. it'll remain a secret between you and me" ""Manav mustn't get to know about it." " No, he won't"" ""Shabbo...?" "She's become famous, eh?"" "I keep getting complaints that you're services aren't good enough nowadays it's terrible!" ""Oh yes, everyone has problems." "But listen carefully to what I say"" ""Never mix your family and your business, okay?"" ""All right, Anna." "I'll keep that in mind"" "Take care of the guys in there too." "Patil's sitting in your room" "He's waiting for you!" ""Go on, Shabbo." "Please"" ""isn't he the same guy who bit Chandni, and gave her a thrashing?"" "And he even gave her cigarette burns." " So...?" "Anna!" "Look at her!" "He did all that when he was drunk!" ""Right now, he's not drunk." "So go on." "Go"" ""Anna, I'm going"" ""But look, Rangila." "If he bites me..."" "I'll slice off a part of your body and turn you into an eunuch!" "You dig?" ""Anna, I'll send another girl to Patil"" "Where's Champakali...?" "You have a tongue as sharp as your looks" ""What are you doing, Shabbo?" "Your parents are here"" "Hello" ""For me, the doors of your house and the way to the village are shut, right?"" "But the way to this marketplace and me will always be open to the two of you" "Come with me." "Come" ""No, dear." "How can we come in?"" "Why?" "it'll ruin your reputation?" "Or are you going to be embarrassed?" "You've been living off what I earned here." "You lost no respect then" "And you lose respect to step into the brothel today?" ""Anyway, what brings you here?"" ""My child, whatever happened at the village wasn't nice"" "The way your brother and I behaved wasn't right" ""That's okay, I don't hold anything against you"" "But you were not ignorant about where the money was coming from I was only keeping you and your freeloading sons' kitchen going" "They're freeloaders." "So are their wives and their children" ""l was humiliated and thrown out, Mother"" "Publicly at that." " He's ashamed of what he has done" "Ashamed?" "They ought to drown out of shame!" ""Grown up men sit at home and sire children, thriving on sin!"" "Their sister sells herself in the city to keep their families going" "What could I do?" "One has to toe the line of the villagers it has to do with my respect." "But even if they said something... what difference does it make to our relationship?" "You are my daughter." "We share blood relations" ""And that is why you finished the blood relations, father"" ""Say something, will you?" " What will I say?" "She knows..."" "how helpless and vulnerable women in the world are" "Neither did my husband earn a living nor my sons I was destined to have all the useless men in my life" ""But how will we run the family if you don't send any money, my child?"" ""At this age, I'll have to become a servant in people's homes"" ""My child, my sons wouldn't mind living off even that earning"" ""No, mother." "Don't cry"" "This is the destiny women were born with" "She's compelled to sell herself" ""As long as I'm alive, such a situation will never arise"" "I will sell whatever I can... to feed all of you" ""Yes, my child." "I'm your unfortunate mother"" "I'll never come to the village" "But you'll keep receiving the money" "Go on now." "Go" "May Allah give you the rest of my years" ""Why curse me, mother?" "What will I do with life?"" "Wow!" "What a father and what vulture-like sons!" "They sell a daughter's flesh and buy themselves food with the money lf every father and brother were to become like you... every house of a girl would turn into a brothel" "With sin being committed inside and merriment taking place outside" "What a shame!" ""Secretly, I am recording my husband's thoughts of the novel "Bazaar"" ""Even if what I'm doing is wrong, I'll touch his feet..."" ""seek his blessings and forgiveness, and continue recording for the novel"" "Such a beautiful body in that lovely sari" "And what a killer smile" "My heart's going to be shattered today" "You appear to be in a very romantic mood today" ""With such a beautiful sight, even a coconut tree could bear roses!"" "How did a man who called women opportunists and deceivers... suddenly change his views?" "What do you think about women now?" "A woman's life is like that of a rose" ""Although the rose is the king of flowers, it lives among thorns"" "That's how women are too" "People only look at their faces" "They don't see the thorns their families have laid at their feet" ""Without women, society would be like a body without a soul"" "What's up?" "You appear very lost nowadays." "What's on your mind?" "What else?" "I'm busy doing up your little world" "What do you mean?" " l mean..." "I'm doing up the house." "I've got to go shopping for that" "Didn't you ask me to turn the house into a heaven?" "Can't you see a change in the house?" "I don't know." " How will you notice it?" "You just don't have the time!" ""Anyway, could you drop me at the market?" "I got to do some shopping"" "Get on my back." " Not your back!" "Your car" ""Okay, let's go in the car"" "When did you return?" " What difference does that make?" "One only needs to realize it makes no difference when a man returns" "Meaning?" " Never mind all that" "Where are you coming from at this hour of the night?" "I got delayed while shopping." " Shopping?" "You aren't carrying a single bag." " Where did I do any shopping?" "I met a friend and went over to her place" "What is your friend's name?" " You don't know her" "But she knows you." "She's a huge fan of yours" "Never mind all this." "Take a wash." "I'll lay the table" "You shouldn't have called now." "Manav's at home l called to give you the good news that the sucker has taken the bait" "He has gone crazy like me." " Really?" ""We'll show such a blast to Manav, he'll remember it all his life"" "We'll talk about it when we meet tomorrow." "Bye" ""Manav, are you okay?"" "You've wrecked the Taj Mahal?" "What have you done?" ""Yes, I've wrecked it!" "it was a fake!"" "What's come over you?" " Come..." "Where are you taking me?" " Come with me!" "Let go of my hand!" " C'mon!" "Get out." "Step out!" "Why have you brought me here?" "isn't this the place I took you away from?" "I washed away your stains and slurs!" "I took you as my wife and kept you at home!" "I gave you respect in a society which hated you!" "I loved you more than my life!" "And what did you give me?" "Betrayal?" "You have proved that a woman can give only betrayal and deceit!" ""Especially a woman like you, who can become a lover to many men..."" "but can never be the wife of a single man!" "That is why I have brought you back!" "Sit in this filthy brothel and play with all the men you want to!" "But I..." " Don't use tears... to shield the shameless things you have done!" "I have seen everything for myself!" "I don't want you to even utter my name in the future" "Forget about coming back into my life!" ""Manav, don't leave me and go away"" "Don't leave me!" "What happened?" "You gave her away in marriage." "You called her your daughter" "But she has come back." "Fakira... it's easy to call these whores your daughters" "But they can't ever become someone's wives" "These whores leave these brothels only in biers." "Not palanquins" ""By mistake, she had left in a palanquin"" "And that palanquin has had a burial today" "Won't you play the trumpet to celebrate the burial?" "Know what?" "Take off that garb of decency... apply some lipstick and powder and get back to business" ""Anna, she'll never get back into prostitution"" "She has washed away the slur of sin... I will not let her be stained in sin again" ""Even if she wants to, I..." "I will stop her"" "What for?" "Are you her mother?" " l mean everything to her" ""lf anyone points a finger at her, I'll cut the bloody finger!"" "Men have always suspected women" ""in every age, it's women who have to undergo the test by fire"" "But women have always proved men to be wrong" ""One day, very soon..."" "Manav will rub his nose at her feet and ask for forgiveness" ""Anna, you mustn't do anything till then." "No wrong advise"" ""Don't compel her to sin!" "I beg you, Anna!"" "The trials of love... she could never undergo" "O Unfaithful.... what is loyalty?" "She could never understand" "She has driven me crazy... and torments me" "The trials of love... she could never undergo" ""You were the one my heart beat for..."" ""you were the one I was known for"" "You were one with my soul... you were my very life" "O Unfaithful.... what is loyalty?" "She could never understand" "She has driven me crazy... and torments me" "The trials of love... she could never undergo" "What's modesty?" "What's loyalty?" ""She has forsaken the Eden of Love"" "The memorial of my love... you have wrecked" "O Unfaithful.... what is loyalty?" "You could never understand" "You have driven me crazy... and torment me" "The trials of love... you could never undergo" ""Have this, Fakira." " No thank you"" ""Eat it up, Fakira"" "it's ten days since Pooja returned" "And everyone laments the fact that her family life has been ruined" "But you won't eat or drink anything." "You won't go to sleep either" ""At this rate, you could fall sick"" "When a daughter's life is ruined... her father's life is ruined too" "When Manav left Pooja here it felt as if... my Mumtaz's life was ruined." " Mumtaz?" "Who's that?" ""Speak up, Fakira"" "My daughter." " Your daughter?" "Yes." "She fell for the love of a deceitful man... and got married to him" "And that scoundrel sold her to a brothel like this one and ran away" "I looked in every brothel of the city for my daughter I went to every brothel" "But there was no trace of her" "Helpless and defeated... I came to settle down in this red-light district I started looking for my Mumtaz in every girl who passed by" "But where would I find her?" ""A father with a broken heart will only see false dreams, won't he?"" "When I gave Pooja away in marriage and sent her off as a bride... I felt as if I had sent my daughter Mumtaz away as a bride" "I thanked God a million times" ""But when Manav humiliated her and abandoned her here, I felt as if..."" "my daughter Mumtaz was being thrust into the fires of sin once again!" "I have just one prayer to make to God." "Just one wish I have" ""Lord Almighty, help Pooja return to her family..."" "and I will think both my daughters are happily settled" "That my daughters have found a status of respect in society" ""Bouquet for you, sir." " Bouquet?" "Who sent it?"" ""From this person, sir"" "What's the bouquet for?" "Manav...?" " Yes" "Heartiest congratulations!" " What for?" ""Parcel for you, sir." " Please hold on"" ""Could you keep it there, please?" " Sure"" ""Heartiest congratulations, sir!"" "I had no clue you would return with such a bang to the literary world" "This novel of yours is not just the novel of the year... it's the novel of the century!" ""in just four hours, we've sold 8000 copies"" ""Your novel "Bazaar" has shaken up the whole market!"" "So you've opened the surprise gift?" " Why have you come here?" "You are blindfolded by indecency." "I've come to take it off" "No one can stop me today" ""For this day, my lips were sealed because of a promise I had made"" "I was sworn to silence" "But no one can stop me from speaking up today" "You had made your ideas and thoughts public even earlier" "But it was she who secretly recorded your new ideas and thoughts... and brought them to me." "That which I put on paper" "To complete a novel you could never have finished!" ""in four days, you've won fame..."" ""you wouldn't have earned even in 40 years, Mr. Manav!"" "it's your wife who truly deserves credit for it" "She's the one who took your novel to such heights of fame" "And you dumped her in the marketplace of humiliation?" ""You ought to be ashamed, Mr. Manav!" "You ought to be ashamed!"" "Till recently I thought she just wasn't worthy of you" ""But today, I can loudly say that you're not worthy of her!"" "Don't try to put up a defense" "I've personally seen her going into the hotel with you" "And I know what a man and a woman go to a hotel for l was sure you'd pose this dirty and indecent question" "But I have an answer to all your questions" "One minute" "This is my wife." "She's an invalid I knew it's wrong for a woman to go to a hotel with a lone man" "So I wrote the novel in her presence" ""Ask her, if you can't believe me." " Brother..."" "every word of what he has said is absolutely true lf Pooja has stepped out of the house... it's only to take you to your goal" "May God take my son away if I'm lying!" ""No, sister!"" "No!" ""Don't lower your gaze, Pooja"" "You've done something that has made me proud in the world" "But I've fallen in my own esteem" ""Yes, Pooja." "You were a true wife who went about her duties." "And I..."" "a victim of a perverted mind... I forgot my duties and thought you were a sinner" ""I'm not worthy of being forgiven, Pooja"" "But every sinner is given a chance to atone for his sins" "Pooja... please come back into my life." "I'm very lonely without you" ""Forgive me, Pooja"" "Don't embarrass me by asking for forgiveness" "How I've spent every moment without you... only I know." "However..." "What Pooja?" "Do you have a condition?" "I'm willing to meet every condition." " No conditions. I have a request" "By taking me home from this brothel you gave me the sort of respect... man can rarely ever give a woman" "But the way you threw me out of the house... and dumped me in the brothel all over again..." ""wasn't right at all." " You're right, Pooja"" "There might never be something as despicable as what I've done" "All right." "This is the market I humiliated you and dumped you in" ""in this place, in everyone's presence..."" "You Rakesh?" " Today's Muskaan's birthday I want to spend some time with her" "Every moment of Muskaan's life belongs to Anna" ""She's in his captivity." " lf you could help me, sis..."" "Are you crazy?" "If Anna gets to know that I'm helping you... he's not going to spare me" "Won't a sister do this much for her brother?" "A sister can even lay down her life for her brother" "But what scares me is that my brother might die with me" ""No way, sister." "No one will get to know"" ""This is a brother's promise." " All right, come on"" ""Only for two hours, okay?" "Not a moment more"" ""Else, your sister will walk into the jaws of death"" "Okay?" " Don't worry" "Go on now." "I'll do something about it" "Anna..." "Anna..." "All hell has broken loose!" "Muskaan has fled with her lover!" "What rubbish are you talking?" " Check it out for yourself" "Shabbo... where is Muskaan...?" " l have no idea" "No idea?" "Where is Muskaan?" " I've helped her escape" "Where is Muskaan?" " Muskaan was my responsibility Anna" "Who're they to make her run away?" "I'm the one who helped her escape" "You...?" "Where is Muskaan?" " I've helped her escape" "You helped her escape?" "Where's Muskaan?" "Where?" "So you helped her escape?" "You helped Muskaan escape?" "Lock them all up!" ""Move it, fatso!"" "Ever since you came to my marketplace... things have been souring for me" "My business is ruined." "My market is screwed up!" "Little girl..." ""even if someone gives me 8 million instead of 800,000 today..."" "I'm not letting you go" ""Before everyone in this market today, I, Anna..."" "will deflower you!" "No..." "Anna!" "Don't touch her!" "Don't dare touch her!" "I won't spare you!" "Come on out!" "Get out of this hell!" ""Watch out, Rakesh!"" "Allah!" "These whores leave the brothel only in a bier." "Not a palanquin" ""You're here, Manav...?"" "What happened?" "Shabbo has left us" "Shabbo....?" " Yes" "Shabbo... my sister" "You punish a brother so severely?" "You don't even give me an opportunity to apologize?" ""Forgive me, sister"" "When I moved the shroud and looked at her face one last time... it seemed as if she was peacefully asleep" "Her silence made her anguish clear." "This market has always stripped her" "But death grants her respect today" ""She is clothed from head to toe, in a shroud"" ""Shabbo often used to say, When I go away from this world..."" ""l will surely complain to the Almighty about one thing"" "Send everyone to the world as humans... but do not make women" ""But even if You must make women, don't make them poor and dependent"" ""Even if they are poor, grant them death." "Not the brothels"" "There are few girls as lucky as Pooja and Muskaan... who leave this place in palanquins" ""Else, most of them don't even get a decent burial"" ""Go ahead, son." "Let's carry her bier"" "Allah is the only God." "There is no other God but Allah" "This Eden shall always exist" "Every being shall have his say and fly away"