"Hey, listen." "I will tell you something." "When I return from the operation.." "..to my house, I want it just as I had left it." "Understood?" "It shouldn't be that if I come to the hospital.." "..for two days, you ruin the house." "And yes." "I have kept Munna's cough medicine by the bed." "Give it to him at night." "I have done some corrections in the Air India hotel plan." "See all that." "Write all that on a paper." " Okay." " Or else you'll forget." "Okay?" " I will tell you everything when I come back." "Uncle, you saw Seema's horoscope, isn't I?" "Yes." " Great." "So there is nothing else to worry about." "Mr. Patwardhan!" " Hello!" "Sir." " Hello." "Doctor,this is astrologer Pt." "Bhaskar Pandit Satyanarayan Chaturvedi." "Seema's horoscope is with him." "Who doesn't know you?" "With the newspapers, and from Mr. Patwardhan.." "..and your son, what is his name?" "Yes, Nandu.." "I have heard a lot about you with these." "He has seen Seema's horoscope." "Okay." "Please come." "We will sit in our cabin." "Sir, there is a phone for you from the hospital." "Yes doctor." "I have seen her end in her horoscope." "Did you tell all this to Patwardhan?" " No." "Thank god." " I couldn't tell him." "This isn't a serious operation." "Every week a couple of cases like this." "How many operations you have done.." "..and how good a surgeon you are.." "..all this isn't connected to her death, doctor." "Patwardhan's wife's death.." "..is inevitable." "With due respect to you and your knowledge.." "..that these hands have pulled many from the doors of death." "These are not just my hands." "There is the strength of my talent and science with these." "Not only mine, even those who.." "..have fought against illness for hundreds of years.." "..even their powers are behind them." "I am talking about what has been written.." "..by the hands of time." "I am saying what my math says." "Panditji, it is possible that today.." "You please sit here." "I have to get ready now." "It is a small operation." "Seema will not survive now, Nandu." "And that Doctor?" "Is he mad?" "Didn't you hear what he said?" "He said that it is a very small operation." "Nothing will happen to Seema." "You heard what uncle said, isn't it?" "This can't be possible." "It was a very simple case." "You' heard that the doctor said that it was a simple case?" "Didn't you hear that?" "This can't be." "So many of such cases come." "Uncle had said, but what uncle said that can be wrong too!" "It can be wrong just once." "For once!" "He can be wrong!" "No?" "Oh my God!" "Oh my God!" "Oh my.." "If only my math would lose to your science." "Panditji.." "Please don't blame yourself, nor your talent" "Your success or failure is decided.." "..by him, who decided Patwardhan's wife's death." "You speak about decided and undecided.." "..become estranged." "You shove away the hand." "But what about him who tolerates all this?" "He has to tolerate it." "Whether knowingly, or unknowingly." "I just warn." "Of what use is this warning?" "When you are unable to do anything." "If man doesn't know what is to happen.." "..there is at least a glimmer of hope." "There is strength to fight." "There is faith in him and in others helping him." "But by telling him his future, you.." "..snatch all of his power and his faith." "What has happened, what is about to happen.." "Yes." "This is what your science can catch." "But why this has happened and why will it happen." "Your science doesn't have any answer for that." "Your math is very strange." "It has only half of the answer." "Your time is strange too." "It isn't ready to tell the other half." "What is the need to give this half answer?" "If all this is decided previously.." "..then man's day and night research.." "..his tries to save mankind at every cost.." "..his tries to find new ways to save it.." "..of what use are they?" "What you call as a science, knowledge and math if it.." "..just stops at analyzing and understanding man's sorrow.." "..and it isn't able to show him the path to freedom.." "..then what is the meaning of it?" "Patwardhan.." "How is he now?" " I had gone there." "I can't see it." "You can't see it." "Then why did you go?" "I am a woman." "Not some astrologer." "I will bring tea till then." "Hello.." "Is Pandit Astrologer Satyanarayan Chaturvedi there?" "Why do you need him?" "I wish to speak to him." " You are speaking to him." "Greetings." " Greetings." "I am C A Subramanium." "PA to the chief minister." "Yes." "Please tell me." "The chief minister has just returned from Delhi." "He wishes to speak to you." "See.." "I.." "Please speak over the phone itself." "It is very urgent." "The CM is going to Delhi once again." "If he is going to Delhi, does he want to ask me the plane timetable?" "You felt bad, sir." "But the matter is that.." "See.." "I have left telling the future." "Yes, forever." "For everyone." "I spoke in a high tone." "I apologize." "Would it have hurt you if you spoke a bit?" "Mr. Agnihotri from Allahabad has written a letter." "He has written about his daughter." "For Nandu." " For Nandu." "Where is Mr. Devkinandan?" "He hasn't come as yet." "He must have been stuck up somewhere." "That is what I wished to say since many days." "I think that there is some girl somewhere." "I have told him a lot of times to bring her home.." "..so that we see her too." "But he skirts the issue." "I didn't mean any girl." "I meant the traffic." "The state of traffic today." "Therefore I told you not to buy a bike for him." "What if something happens to him?" "My heart is always in my mouth due to fear." "Forget this morsel of heart and worrying about Nandu too." "He isn't in any danger." " How will he not be under any danger?" "There are so many buses and trucks." "As if they drink and drive." "I have seen Nandu's horoscope." "He doesn't have any danger from vehicles." "Neither do you have a son's sorrow in your horoscope." "Hey!" "He has met with an accident!" " What happened?" "What happened?" "Hey, he will die!" "Quickly.." " No." "He is all right." "He is all right." " He is lucky." "Let him have some fresh air.." "Is he hurt?" " No." "He isn't that hurt." "Where am I?" "Nandu.." "Nandu.. are you all right?" "I have told you so many times to wear a helmet." "Who are you?" "I am Sushma, Nandu." "Your Sushma." "A problem has occurred." " What has happened to you?" "It seems that he has lost his memory." "Who am I?" "You are Nandu." "My Nandu." "That means, I am not Puranmal Chamanmal Singh?" "I am scared Nandu." "What has happened to you?" "Please drop me to my shop, sister." "Shop?" "Where do you have a shop?" "You.." "I sell asafetida, sister." "You must be using it too." "If you don't, please try it and see." "Ghatotkach Brand asafetida." "It is our ancestral business." "Nandu.." "Hey, what are you doing?" "If my wife knows it.." "Are you all right?" "And.. what are you doing here?" "Nothing has happened to me, Please go.. please go.." "And sister.." "I will pull your tongue out if you call me sister again." "What else should I call you then?" "The would be daughter-in-law of the.." "..Astrologer Pt." "Satyanarayan Chaturvedi?" "Rascal!" "I won't speak to you!" "Hey!" "Don't talk if you don't want to." "But.." "..please use that Ghatotkach brand asafetida once." "My footsteps used to walk alone.." "Now, even yours are together." "In a couple of years, there will two small footsteps too." "In a year or two?" "That means, will he start walking before he is born?" "If not a year, maybe two years." "It seems so far away." "Listen, we won't do any planning." "I wish it as early as possible." "You don't it before marriage, do you?" "Bad Nandu!" "Just think about it a bit." "Okay?" "It is our honeymoon night." "This is a seventeen inch moon.." "..outside in the night." "The night queen.." "..has applied intimate on her petals." "And the last local to Borivali has just passed." "That means it is something like one thirty." "One thirty?" "I sleep by ten." "This is the honeymoon night." "It comes only once in life." "If you sleep a bit late, you won't lose anything, will you?" "This is right too." "So, I come in at night." "At one thirty?" "Where were you till so long?" "Madam." "These kind of questions aren't asked in the honeymoon." "They are asked after the honeymoon." "Okay." "It is one thirty." "You come inside." "What next?" "So.. it is our honeymoon." "The bed is in front." "My bed, your bed, our bed." "That doesn't mean that there are three beds." "There is only one bed." "And a silken blanket on the bed." "And you sitting on it." "And jasmine flowers hiding you in their veil." "There is a slight lighting in the room." "There is a slight music on the stereo." "And the Mouse brand mosquito coil burning in a corner." "How did this Mouse brand mosquito coil come in between?" "Because the mosquitoes came in between." "There are many mosquitoes in my house." "Okay." "Further?" "Further, mother calls you." "At one thirty in the night?" "No, tomorrow morning." "So that we can decide when to have our honeymoon." "Hey, listen.." "I have decided.." "About the children that we will have.." "..we will keep the boy's name Akshat.." "..and the girl's name, we will keep Roli." "Akshat Roli?" "Then why not Kapoor lncense?" "Kapoor is a surname." "That means, if I were a Punjabi.." "..my son's name would be Kapoor Kapoor." "And my daughter's name would be lncense Kapoor." "Bless you, daughter." "I should pull your ears instead of blessing you." "Why, mother?" "What did I do?" "What did you just did to my ears.." "You keep quiet." "I will deal with you later." "Daughter, what have you seen in this rogue.." "..that you are chasing him since two years?" "Mother." "She can't sit ahead of me in the motorbike.." "Therefore she sits behind.." " You keep quiet, you good for nothing." "Anyway." "The two of you have wasted two years of mine." "Not even a single minute now." "I will settle everything today itself." "Yes." "Otherwise for mom to become a grandma.." " Shut up." "I said.." "Sushma has come.." " Sushma.." "Nandu's.." "Nandu's.. girlfriend.." "Bless you." "No." "You will have to bless her to be married forever." "See." "I have to go out for a while." "I have to drop a letter." "I have to called Bapu too." "Please talk till that time." "Please sit." "Daddy." "You.. please drop the letter and come back." "The letter will go later too." "First listen to what they have to say." "I will bring something to sweeten the mouth." "Daddy." "We wish to.." "Okay child, do you call our Nand Nandu?" " Yes." "And what does this Devkinandan call you" "He calls me Sushma." "In our time, the name of the wife.." "..was always, ' Do you listen?" "' And the.." "..name of the husband was ' Do you listen?" "'" "Since the husband was god and all that.." "..he used to be referred to with respect." "But between this listening, nobody listened to anyone." "What is your decision, daddy?" "My decision?" "About what?" "You know it very well." "Don't shirk it." "See." "It is the decision of you two." "There is no place for my decision in between." "If not for the decision, at least for the permission?" "These are just formalities, child." "The children ask and the parents agree." "Daddy." "Can I say something?" "It is possible that we are kids.." "..and we can commit some mistakes too." "But we do love each other." "Really." "But I don't want just Nandu." "I want a dad and a mom too." "I liked what you said." "But you didn't like Sushma, isn't it?" "Just because she is not of the same religion as we are?" "Or do you want dowry for me!" "You want my price!" "You said a lot, Nandu." "Now listen to me too." "If this marriage takes place, it will take place without my blessings." "Many things happen without your blessings in this world, daddy." "This marriage will take place like that too." "Surely." "Mind your tongue, Nandu." "Do you think anything about respect or not?" "I have kept a lot till now, mother." "Not any longer." "Do this." "Don't do that." "Go here, don't go there." "Study this, don't study that." "This moment is auspicious." "This moment is inauspicious." "Every moment of my life has danced.." "Because, not only is he my father.." "..he is a maestro in astrology." "He knows the future." "The future is in his fist, isn't it?" "Therefore.. mine.." "Sushma's.. all.." "..our futures are in his grasp." "It is not in my fist, Nandu." "It is in the grasp of time." "It is in the grasp of that time who.." "..has written two wives in your fate." "Impossible." "This isn't impossible." "This is the writings of time." "Exactly eleven months after marriage.." "..your first wife will die." "There will be a kid." "This is the writing of Time." "I am reading in it's closed.." "..pages, that your first wife's moment.." "..of motherhood will be the moment of her death too." "She will die in labor pains." "Hail the strength of time!" "Where are you looking so far away?" "A person seems serious if he looks far away." "Look at me." "Close to you." "I am looking at you itself." "But you aren't where I see." "You believe a lot in astrology and horoscope?" "No." "I believe in my dad though." "The planets about which dad is talking.." "..our rockets, legs and hands have reached them." "Okay." "Think that there is life on some other planet." "Will your planet be the reason for their life and death?" "I don't worry about the planets and stars, Sushma." "I fear dad's prediction." "His predictions isn't related to planets and stars." "It seems that he can see everything." "I have been seeing it since my childhood." "This isn't just the math of stars.." "..or not the words of the planets only." "It is something else." "What he has said has never been wrong." "Never." "What if it is the truth?" "At least we will.." "..have eleven months for ourselves?" "Our own?" "See, rectify it." "Yes, properly." "You do it from down." "Okay." " Yes, tell me." "Look at this section." "And here.." "Leave all this to me, friend." "This is five minutes for Seema." "Okay." " You know, she is.." "Seema." "A cooking spoon in one hand and.." "..a pencil in another." "Ladies fingers.." "..being cooked here and side elevation here." "Sometimes I used to joke with her and tell her that Seema, if you.." "..get a cooking spoon in your hand instead of a pencil, our plan will.." "..become cooked ladies finger medicine." "Which section, Nandu?" "This one." "I cannot bear to see Nandu's problems." "Where is Nandu?" "I don't know." "He has gone out since morning." "He hasn't even had his lunch." "Is there really no way out?" "Way?" "What kind of way?" "This is math, Savitri." "There is no place for emotions in math." "This is the math of time, the math of fate." "The math of zero." "You won't get anything else than a zero as an answer." "You should have seen Sushma's horoscope.." "Maybe there would be.." "I have seeing everything." "And there is a lot to be seen too." "This is the flow of time, Savitri." "We cannot move wherever we want in this." "We can just swim with the flow." "We keep flowing." "I am swimming, you are swimming." "Nandu and Sushma will swim now." "Okay, I will leave now." "It is time for the train." "If only you'd eat something." "What if the train is late?" "No I will bring him now." "Then, we will eat together." "Where did you go since morning?" "What is this state you are in?" "Okay, mother, you tell me." "What does your heart say?" "Can dad not be wrong?" "Can he not be wrong?" "Whatever he has said has been right till today." "Even you know it, isn't it?" "All these planets and stars are so far away." "How have me or Sushma hurt them?" "Whatever is, is." "Son," "But why is it, mother?" "This fire.." "..in my heart is the gift of these planets and stars." "They must have some solution for it's peace too." "Mother.." "Mother, that prayer of Peace that we do.. which.." "Mother, please ask father." "Can nothing be done?" "If something could be done, wouldn't he have told so?" "This quicksand of said and unsaid.." "..will drown me in it, mother." "There.." "..isn't any support." "Not even a twig!" "Oh God!" "This is not a city." "This is hell." "It is good that the name board is still written in hindi." "But, who are you?" "And where is Naru?" "I am Devkinandal Chaturvedi and there.." "..is no Naru or anyone else here." "Naru is your father." "You are my Nandu." "And me.." "Me.." "Me.." "I am your Mishra uncle." "The one of Haldi." "Did you forget that?" "Once, in childhood, you ate my tobacco and.." "Greetings, uncle." " Bless you." "Bless you." "He should.." "Hey, where did he go?" "Indu.." "What are you doing?" "Don't you hear it?" "Come on inside!" "Come on inside!" "Here!" "He has gone to the station to take you." "Greetings." "Greetings." " Greetings." "How was the journey?" "Wow." "How did she think of that?" "What has happened to her brains?" "My child is all right." "Come." "Wash up." "And you have a bath too, brother-in-law." "He must be coming right now,." "Okay?" "Yes." "Come on uncle." "Uncle." "Do you need hot water or cold water?" "Son, can one bathe in hot water?" "You people residing in Bombay!" "God knows why you bathe in hot.." "..water throughout the twelve months!" "If you can do it.." "..you will have rain of hot water." "Come on." "Hello." "Yes." "I was just moving out." "No." "I will wait." "Okay." "Indu." "Where is my towel?" "From that.. from that.." "Why are you not walking?" "Come on!" "Come on!" "She is mad." "God gave her so much beauty, didn't give brains though." "Mother.." "Yes?" "What is the matter, son?" "No mother." "I had a thought in mind." "That the.." "The?" "No, nothing." "Here comes Hamirpur's queen.. queen.." "..the queen of Hamirpur." "Where did this queen come in between?" "Yes?" "Why?" "Should I tell sister-in-law?" "Will you make her divorce her in old age?" "And you." "Even you have a thief in your bundle." "So, this is the matter?" "Sister-in-law." "It is the matter before your marriage." "The queen of Hamirpur invited him." "To read her fortune." "And this man, when he took her hands.." "..in his he didn't leaver her at all." "And was I the one to recite the legends.." "..throughout the night to the queen in her bath?" "No!" "It was not a bathroom!" "It was not a bathroom!" "I used to sing to her in her very special bath." "And it wasn't just any legend, it was the ' Kedar.'" "Hello?" "Yes?" "No, sorry." "Wrong number." "Whom were you speaking to in that?" "With a ghost?" "Yes." "With a ghost." "With a big ghost." "Child." "I was just joking." "This is a phone." "If you speak into it, you get the voice from the other side." "Shall I try?" " Shut up, you fool!" "You will speak on the phone!" "Go!" "Go inside!" "Hey, why are you scolding the child?" "Yes child." "Even you will be able to speak." "But who will speak to you from the other side?" "Will nobody speak to me from the other side?" "Yes." "Someone will speak." "Surely, someone will." "Your groom will speak to you." "Child.." "Groom your hair.." "Wow!" "It seems that lndu has got your voice." "Naru.." "It seems that this unfortunate.." "..girl has eaten up all my tones." "Why?" "Do you not sing nowadays?" "Now, these fingers have forgotten.." "..how the strings of a tambourine felt." "If there is such a big burden on the chest.." "..how will the rhythmic tones come out of the throat?" "My leg is broken." "God has given her everything." "He has given.." "..her beauty and he has given her voice too." "But he didn't give her any brains." "What will we do of this beauty and this voice?" "I didn't leave anything." "I tried all kinds of cures." "Trees, herbs, hymns, magic, worshipping.." "..fasts, customs, medicine and such.." "..but this one remained the fool that she was." "I have dried in her trouble." "All my juice, all my rhythm, it has dried off." "Now, you have written and therefore, I brought her." "There are big doctors here." "Maybe this unfortunate girl will strike some luck." "No.." "No.." "I can't hear it!" "My ears will.." "Shut up, mad girl!" "Shut up!" "Get up!" "Get up!" "What are you doing?" "Are you mad?" "Leave her." "Go down." "Come on, go down." "Shut that down!" "Silent child." "Silent." "Open your eyes, child." "There is nothing to be feared of." "Open your eyes." "Open your eyes." "See" "See, all the ghosts have run away." "Isn't it?" "You have elixir in your hands, uncle." "You are a saint, really." "Therefore the ghosts ran away." "No, child." "That was a scary nightmare." "No uncle." " Yes." "Really, they were ghosts." "I know them quite well." "They are chasing me." "You are a sage." "Therefore they ran away." "Otherwise, you would have blasted them." "You have such brightness in your eyes." "Therefore, they ran away from you, scared." "Will they come again, uncle?" "No child." "They will never come again." "Good." "Everything seems so good." "Just like it is morning." "Fluid, silent, aromatic" "I feel like singing, uncle." "Can I sing?" "Sing child." "Sing." "'Who is the thief?" "'" "' He is stealing the village..'" "' He is stealing the village." "Who is the thief?" "'" "' He cuts sandalwood and makes a vehicle.'" "'The bride waits for him.'" "Hello?" "Daddy." "I am Sushma here." "I have decided to face death." "I accept dying as Nandu's wife than living without Nandu." "Why did you stop, child?" "Sing." "'Get up." "My friend, settle my hair partition.'" "'The groom tells me that I am angry.'" "'When the night falls, he sits on the bed.'" "'The tears fall from her eyes.'" "' Four people together, lift the bed.'" "'They push it all over!" "'" "' Kabira says, listen everyone..'" "'She has left all connections with the world now.'" "Sushma, we will fade in the light quickly." "Just like you said." "The music seemed a bit harsh." "I will make it a bit softer." "I felt the planetary movement to be all right." "I will keep the cutouts too, okay." "And please give the music instructions once again." "It will be all right then." "Miss Sushma, someone has come to meet you." "How is your health, dad?" " I am all right." "Anw how is mother?" "Won't you offer me any tea?" "Please tell me whatever you want to, dad." "You haven't come so far just to drink tea." "Tell me." "Why do you wish to commit suicide, child?" "I can see that well." "That blind valley of death." "In which you wish to fall wittingly." "If you can see everything, why can't you see.." "..that I don't believe in fortune forecasts.." "..planets and stars and inauspiciousness?" "Maybe my disbelief in your math of stars.." "..is as powerful as your belief in them." "The planets and stars cannot change their math for you." "Then, why should I change my love and belief for them?" "No dad." "Love has always lost in our country." "Because they planets and stars.." "..have always been the basis of marriage." "Not love." "Every year, lakhs of marriages take place." "One can compare everything in them." "Horoscopes are compared, sub castes are compared." "But one doesn't get the heart." "What should be got isn't got." "People become husbands and wives, but not lovers." "Kids are given birth to, but not love." "And even then, we say that if marriages.." "..still exist and will continue to exist.." "..it is only because of these stars and planets" "Fighting with the wave of time can be romantic, not smart." "Why do you get dejected, dad?" "For you, my life is more precious than my love." "But for me, my life is worthless without Nandu." "I will leave now." "Won't you have tea, Dad?" "Hey, do you ever dream?" "I had seen her in the market yesterday." "Why?" "Did you wish to speak to her?" "I meant, in the night." "Such an accusation on my character!" "You won't change." "Do you have dreams in the night or not?" "Yes." " He does." "Some of the 'A' certificate." "Some of the ' U' Certificate." "Are your dreams censored too?" " Yes." "After all it is the question of my character." "And more than me, the censor board is worried about my character." "Do I ever come in your dreams?" "Sometimes." "Guest appearance." " Yes, guest appearance." "Is it so?" " Yes, it is so." "The day that I really become a dream.." "..you will yearn for my guest appearance too." "What did you say her name was?" "Indu.. - lndumati" "Miss lndumati Mishra." "The village is Haldia." "The area is Balia, Uttar Pradesh." "Pincode.." "Shut up, you witch!" "I will give you one slap!" "Yes." " Just a minute, Mr. Mishra." "Indumati, do you what your name means?" "Yes." "The moon." "Should I tell synonyms for moon?" "Yes." "The moon." "Should I tell synonyms for moon?" "See, if you scold her like this, I will.." "..be forced to drive you away from here." "Do I feel happy by scolding her?" "But this unfortunate girl is like this.." "Indumati isn't an unfortunate girl." "She is the moon." "It is the no moon night now, but.." "..she will bloom soon like a full moon." "Nandu." "You do the rest of the tests and bring her two days later" "Good." "So, how is Miss lndumati Mishra now?" "The village is.." " Haldi.. the area is Balia, Uttar Pradesh.." "So, lndumati." "I like lndu." "Yes." "Me too." "Indu, will you do a work for me?" " Yes?" "My peon is sitting outside." "Tell him.." "..to make hot and piping tea for all of us." "Can I make the tea?" " Surely, why not?" "This is a common problem." "Nothing to do with spirits." "Indu's body had bloomed, but not her mind." "Therefore, her mind cannot control.." "..the throbbing excitement in her body." "We call this convergent state or disassociation state." "Think this to be a kind of hysteria." "I think that after marriage, to be honest.." "..if she has physical relations with any man.." "..then her mind will be settled all by itself." "Nandu is very late." "He must be coming." "Here, he has come." "Auntie.." "Auntie.." " Child, have you come?" "You are so beautiful!" "Just like that television madam." "Do you work in television?" " No." "Do you know?" "Everyone does like this on television." "And they say, we will meet again tomorrow." "But then they don't meet at all." "What people they are!" "Your clothes are so good!" "How is my saree?" " It is very good." "Did you like it?" " Yes." "Auntie has given it to me." "Has auntie given you all this too?" "Yes." "And these flowers." "Auntie has given that too." "It is so lovely, isn't it?" "We had the legend of Krishna in our village." "Radha used to wear such flowers as well." "You don't wear flowers?" "No." "If you have to become Radha, you have to wear flowers." "Otherwise, Krishna will be angry." "He won't meet after that!" "Your hair is so beautiful." "Your hair is beautiful too." "My hair was more beautiful than this." "But that witch doctor, the one who does magic.." "..he clutched them and twirled them." "Enough." "Come." "Come on inside." "You have come from outside, isn't it?" "So, come on, Change your clothes, okay." "You speak to Nandu." "I will prepare tea right away." "Come on." "Auntie, who is she?" "She works with Nandu." "That means a friend, isn't it?" "No, she.." "Come on." "You come inside, come." "Indu doesn't look behind your motorcycle." "What do you mean?" "I mean, that I called up a lot of times." "After admitting defeat, when I went.." "..to the construction site, you weren't there too." "I was worried as to where is my Mr. Devakinandan." "So I came myself to see." "What do I know that someone is chasing Nandu nowadays?" "I mean, it is a female." "I had gone to show her to a doctor." "To a psychiatrist." "I have full faith in my Nandu." "Yes." "Therefore I was restless and yearning to meet you." "I am going out of town for some days." "On office work." "What do you think about this girl?" "What do you mean?" "What do you think about lndu?" "If you ask me, I felt jealous of her." "No." "Not because she is chasing you." "Just because, at this age too she has so simple and pure eyes." "Looking at her, I understand that.." "..the city snatches so much from us.." "..making us intelligent and smart." "But I had another reason to ask you for." "Why?" "Have you decided to marry her or something?" "Yes." "I thought that listening to dad's story.." "..our Mr. Devkinandan has forgotten all jokes." "I am very happy to meet my old Nandu." "This is not a joke, Sushma." "Really.." "I am.." "Really?" "Means are you really?" " Yes." "But why?" "Why?" "You don't say.." "Yes, Sushma." "According to dad's forecast, my first wife will die in labor." "Not my second wife." "If I do marry lndu, your life, our life, both our lives.." "I" "Nandu.. are you crazy?" "That innocent girl.." "She is mad, Sushma." "She doesn't have a future, as it is." "She doesn't even feel her life." "She doesn't have any dreams." "Nor does she have any hopes." "There isn't anything in her life." "For which she can live ahead." "Therefore, you are snatching her right to live from her?" "Who are you, Nandu, to snatch her right to live?" "Why don't you understand, Sushma?" "I am doing all this for you." "For the both of us." "For the love between us." "You can kill someone for your love too?" "Sushma, someone will die." "Whether it be you or Sushma." "If not both you, me." "And neither you nor me is responsible for this death." "It is time." "Who has written death.." "..on your forehead without any rhyme or reason." "And you know it very well, Sushma." "I can't stay without you." "I don't know anything." "I don't know anything at all." "I just know that if I marry your lndu's death.." "..I will feel like.." "I will feel.." "I will feel as if I have taken you on credit, on a loan." "I don't want you as a loan, Nandu." "I was you as my own." "I demand my right." "' Make me a Radha too, Nandlal!" "'" "'Oh!" "Nandlal, oh Nandlal!" "'" "' I will make Nand's cow move together.'" "' I will be in your arms all through the day.'" "' I will keep you in the palace of my mind." "O mischievous one.'" "' For lakhs of births and lakhs of years.'" "She went away?" "Was she angry with me?" "She didn't like my singing?" "Do you not sing nicely?" "How did you like my song?" "Good." "Very good." "Then I will just sing for you." "Only for you." "For me?" "Your rhythms are mine now." "You are my Radha." "Hey, you are collecting a lot of gold." "It is said that silence is golden, isn't it?" "Do it." "Do it." "Collect some more." "I will use them to make jewelry out of them in my marriage." "Okay." "The two of us will collect it." "Gold." "When are you coming back?" "I asked you, when are you coming back?" " I am going just for a week." "Hey." "We will marry as soon as I return." "We won't think about engagement and all that." "We will marry as soon as possible." "Will you marry that mad girl?" "That stupid girl?" "Yes, uncle." "Son." "Why do you want to disrespect me?" "Don't joke with me." "Please don't." "No." "I am not joking." "I am telling you the truth." "Do you pity this old man?" "I am her father." "Yes, I am her father." "Even then, one day, I was frustrated and went to poison her." "This girl made my life so shallow." "Just like TB and cancer." "She is a illness." "Will you take this illness?" "How will you liver with her?" "I have thought up everything, uncle." "Listen to me." "All this is the excitement of youth." "This isn't there throughout life." "You will repent a lot afterwards." "Forget about you." "What will sister-in-law think?" "What will Naru say?" "That Mishra had come her with the.." "..objective of tying his mad daughter to my son." "No!" "I am going." "I will go to the village with lndu, today itself." "Nor will the bamboo be, and neither will there be a flute." "You will not go back to your village, uncle." "And even if you do go, you will go alone." "See, son." "If lndu would be worthy of you.." "..I would go myself and tell your father." "Yes, I would tell him rightfully." "Naru, make my daughter your daughter-in-law." "But I know that in her fate.." "How do you know her fate." "What if I am there in her life?" " Nandu." "Indu is an unbloomed flower, uncle." "She will bloom if she gets a bit of love." "Her aroma, her tones aren't made.." "..to be lost in the unknown roads of the village." "Well, I.." "And then.." "And then lndu won't be crazy throughout her life." "See." "She has changed so much after coming here." "She will change after the marriage." "Yes." "Even the doctor has said the same thing." "Son.. you really made me a father-in-law." "I have got my rhythm back." "See, how they are flowing in my throat." "Just like water being sprinkled on a famine land." "The stone is turned from my chest." "See, how the spring is flowing now!" "See!" "See!" "'Raghuvar, my dignity to you now.'" "'l have always fallen at your feet'." "'You look after the poor.'" "'You look after the poor, Raghuvar.'" "'You uplift the fallen ones.'" "'Shravan heard the voice.'" "'Not only do you uplift them'" "'But bestow deliverance upon them as well'" "I was quenched by drinking your tones." "Your tones are still the same." "Oh, brother-in-law, what are you doing?" "This house is more than a temple for me." "Really, Naru." "I will sit at the doorstep of this.." "..house and do whatever you say from now on." "Nandu, what can I tell you?" "You are so grateful to me, I can't speak to you." "Indu is immature." "She is simple." "And now.. and now she is yours." "After all, Nandu decided to sacrifice lndu." "You please refuse." "How can this marriage take place?" "How can I say no?" "Have you seen Bapu's face?" "I have seen greenery on his face after many years." "If I refuse, the whole pouring monsoon will burn." "Like his leg, his tones and his music.." "No." "I don't have to see that face of his." "And then lndu." "She will have to go back to those spirits?" "In that hell?" "But she will have to go back." "I have even told her." "She can't stay here." "Uncle!" "Did you see that?" "You kept your hand on my head and ran away." "I have seen him run away." "His whole body was on fire." "He ran so fast that.." "You are a big saint, uncle." "Really." "I like it very much here." "I like this house too." "I feel it to be mine." "You too seem to be mine too." "And I feel Nandu to be mine too." "Auntie, do you what he told me?" "He told me that I am his Radha." "I felt it so good when his hand.." "I will live here itself now." "I won't go anywhere from here." "Never." "There, every one calls me a witch." "They call me a witch." "And that.." "..black priest of the temple!" "And that old woman.." "That old woman.." "She used to be taken over by spirits." "I will die!" "He will catch me again." "He must be sitting on that banyan tree." "He will kill me." "On my whole body.." "Uncle, please don't send me." "No," "I won't send you child." "I won't ever send you." "This is your house now." "I bow to time." "Truly, Savitri." "The light of our life has.." "I am tired, Savitri." "I am tired of carrying my fate and others on my shoulders" "Pt." "Satyanarayan Chaturvedi.." "The great astrologer." "He has shattered today, Savitri." "Who used to see the future in the closed pages of time." "To whom the planets and stars used to speak.." "..used to tell their secrets to whom that me.." "..have become blind and deaf and begging time today." "Give me." "Give me one ray of light." "This marriage cannot take place.." "Should not take place." "'Having mercy on Tulsidas.'" "'Raghu gave boons to a devotee.'" "'Raghu, my respect in your hands now."" "'l prayed to you always.'" "'Raghu, you are the friend of the poor.'" "'Raghu, my respect in your hands now.'" "See friend.." "For a whole month?" "My wife has gone out for just thirty days." "But it seems there is nothing in life." "Nothing!" "It is empty." "Just like you." "Hey, bring one more." "Yes." "So I was speaking of the tragedy of a married man." "It is difficult with a wife, it is difficult without a wife." "When the wife was there, I would fight everyday.." "..and come here and have a drink." "Now, when the wife is not here, there is nothing to do." "Therefore, I come here to have a drink." "Therefore, prohibition didn't work." "I can bet.." "Ask anyone." "All of them drink because of their wives." "Wait.." "I you with the cigarette.." "Brother, why do you drink?" "Because his wife is dead." "See.. see, didn't I tell you." "Brother.. brother why do you drink?" "My wife is alive yet." "One.." "Two.. three.. four.." "What is happening, lndu.." " Auntie, come here." "Yes.." "Here.. here here.. quickly, come.." " Yes." "Hey, what happened?" "It will be fun." "Both will play." "That is enough." "I am tired." " What!" "Tell me." "Does Nandu.." "Does Nandu speak with you or not?" "Properly.." "I mean.." "Between you two.." "Has he ever.." "He.. comes close to you, isn't it?" "Close?" "Means?" "Means.." "He sleeps on your bed, isn't it?" "Where does he sleep?" "He sits on the chair." "Really?" "He doesn't sleep with you." "No." "But.." "I don't know why.." "I don't like it." "Sometimes, when he touches me, I like it." "I like it a lot." "Like.." "like.." "The whole body trembles, auntie." "I like this tremble." "I feel that he should clutch me, tie me." "A sweet pain arise in my body." "I feel as if this body should break.." "..someone should break it." "What is all this, auntie?" "Why does all this happen?" "Does this happen to you too?" "Yes.." "Whatever happens, happens for the best." "But listen.." "If Nandu comes and tries to sleep close to you.." "..don't let him sleep." "Why?" "You will die otherwise.." "I mean.. he will die.." "Nandu.." "Oh God!" "I will never let him sleep with me then." "Never!" "If he dies, who will call me Radha?" "Please keep the respect of this unfortunate one, God!" "Sushma!" "How are you, child?" "I am all right, mother." "I came just like that." "Daughter Won't you offer any tea to Sushma?" "I will bring it right away." "Did Nandu meet you?" "He has started to drink nowadays too." "Why don't you.. why don't you.." "Mother, Nandu at least has alcohol with him" "What do I have?" "All my threads were tied to Nandu." "All of them are broken now." "Nandu broke some.." "..and I broke the rest." "But somewhere, someone a couple of threads are left." "They call and tug.." "Therefore, I didn't wish to meet Nandu." "Even then, I came." "It is good that you came." "But I won't be able to come now." "Maybe never." "Why?" "Why?" "Indu's eyes.. in her clear crystal like eyes.." "..my face seems to be so dirty.." "..now as soon as I think about Nandu lndu comes too.." "..standing with all her innocence she says.." "Tea." "Sushma." "No, Nandu." "Sushma's name won't lose in lndu's sacrifice." "This was your own decision." "After this.." "..your life will be yours." "There won't.." "..be any of part of my life in your life." "And neither will there be any part of your life in min." "You think that everything is so easy?" "To just cut and separate?" "It isn't easy." "You made it easy." "I was ready to die and live with you." "But now.. when someone is paying this price.." "..I am not ready to live with you." "My wife has come back from her home." "Therefore, I am drinking." "Oh, brother.. did your wife come alive?" "Sorry." "You don't have life and death and neither going to your house.." "Brother.." "Is your wife still alive?" "No." "I didn't drink in your sorrow" "I just drank so that the man inside me.." "..dies and only Nandu stays alive." "Yes, your Nandu." "My Nandu is dead." "He was dead.." "..the day he sacrificed someone." "It is so strange, isn't it?" "I am living with lndu as a dead body.." "..and when I wish to live with you, I am dead for you." "Sacrifice." "Sacrifice." "Is there sacrifice of only the body?" "I die every night." "My eyes look for you." "My embrace ask of for you." "My body, my life, my every nerve.." "..as for their well known to them Sushma." "But there is some lndu there." "Slowly, everything starts dying." "My eyes, my embrace, everything." "There is just a dead body left there." "Nandu's dead body." "Nandu." "Devkinandan Chaturvedi." "Who loves Sushma." "He dies every night." "He dies, because the man inside him wishes to stay alive." "He is scared." "He is scared of touching lndu." "He is scared whether lndu gets pregnant!" "Every night, every moment, this man has won." "He is winning all the time." "But no more." "No more." "I won't stay like a dead body anymore." "I will put this hatred in that body and conjure it alive." "I will love lndu with this hatred, her body.." "I will put the seed of this hatred in her womb.." "And.. and the seed of her death." "'Make me Radha too, Nandlal.'" "'l will call out in Yashoda's gardens.' 'l won' abuse your flute.' 'l will loot the whole pot of curd.'" "'On the banks of the river Jamuna.." "..I will keep it decorated, the brownish beautiful body!" "'" "'l will stay at your feet.' 'l will tolerate the pain and happiness you give.' 'l won't stay anything to you if you con me too.'" "'O flute player!" "'" "'O flute player.. o Kanhaya!" "'" "'Decorate me too!" "'" "Sushma, there is a call for you." "It had come a couple of times." "Hello.." "Hello, Sushma.." "This is Nandu here.." "Wonderful" "All this is your handiwork." "You are more responsible than me, Nandu." "You did a gutsy thing by marrying her." "I admire you." "I really admire you.." "Please see what is outside the window.." "Oh!" "Really." "It is the fool moon night today." "So, Mrs. Indumati Chaturvedi.. you remembered the full moon day." "But when the time for distributing sweets arrives.." "..please don't forget us, okay?" "Just a minute." "I will be right back." "Didn't I catch you?" "Why didn't you come home since so many days?" "Indu.. how are you?" "Did you come here alone?" "No.. he is with me too." "Are you shopping?" "Yes." "Please come." "I will show you." "Come." "Come." "Here." "Hold this." "I will show you right away, okay.." "See this.." "Here.." "See, this border is so nice, isn't it?" "Do you know.." "I bought five sarees." "And look at this." "You will like it a lot." "Isn't it good in one fifty rupees?" "Did the shopkeeper con us?" "He doesn't bargain at all." "He gives whatever they ask." "This dress set.." "I will feel so ashamed wearing it." "But he says that it is the fashion nowadays." "And I didn't show this to you at all." "Look at this." "This sandal." "It seems golden, isn't it?" "Only twenty-five rupees." "I stood my ground." "He said twenty-six." "I said, I wouldn't give anything more than twenty-five." "Am I new to Bombay?" "Didn't I act smart?" "You didn't see this even." "You have shopped so well." "Shall I go now?" "Please come home some day." "You come please." "You haven't come since a long time." "I have come so many times." "It is your turn now." "Did you listen?" "Shall we go?" "Now?" "Okay." "Not today." "But I will surely come some day, okay?" "Indu!" "Oh God!" "Why will God forgive you, Nandu?" "Have you read our marriage bureau's.." "..rules and everything before signing?" "Your phone number too.. if.." "These are the photos of boys." "Their details are written below their photos." "See them." "Like this.." "Mr. Dilip Gujrati.." "Make arrangements for me to meet him." "You decided it so soon, daughter?" "Marriage is a life long decision." "I have some mother photos too." "Should I show them too?" "No." "This one will do." "Can I ask you something, daughter?" " Please do." "Are you doing this marriage by your own will.." "..or due to some helplessness?" "Sometimes in life, one has to make.." "..helplessness into wills, Mr. Mhatre." "I will take your leave." "'Kabira says.." "listen to it people..'" "'..she has no relation with the world now.'" "'The thief has looted the whole village.'" "'Who is the thief?" "'" "Indu.." "Indu.." "Indu.." "I.." "What is the matter?" "Something.." "I.." "See.." "Touch me and see." "He is moving such." "It seems so strange." "He is moving in the stomach today." "Tomorrow, he will move about in the house." "He will ask for chocolates and piss." "So many of his diapers will dry on ropes in a line." "The whole house will be filled with his diapers." "No.." "No.." "This house will never fill up." "It will never be full." "Why do you speak such inauspicious things?" "This isn't what I have said, lndu." "These are the words of yours and mine fate." "This is what daddy has said." "You don't let this be true." "I.." "You.." "For my love I.. have sacrificed you.." "I loved Sushma." "I was to marry her too." "But there are two wives written in my fate." "My first wife will die while giving birth to the first child." "He has said such." "Therefore.." "I married you instead of Sushma." "So.. was I not your Radha?" "Indu.. but now.. but now.." "..whatever is, that is you, lndu." "I swear." "You have to stay alive." "You have to stay alive for me." "For this house, for the child who will tomorrow, in this house.." "Mother.." "Indu.." "Indu.." "Indu.." "Enough." "If you bend normally too, it will do." "Hey.. where are you?" "Is everything all right?" "Everything is all right." "I got Naru's letter very languidly." "But I ran and came here." "Hello?" "Yes.." "No." "He has gone out." "I don't know till when.." "Yes." "You please call back later." "Yes." "I will tell him." "I am Mrs. Indu Chaturvedi." "His wife." "Yes." "Okay." "Here comes Hamidpur's queen.." "queen." "What is the matter?" "You seem so skinny." "Does my daughter give you proper food or not?" "If not, tell me.." "I will repair her right away." "No." "Indu is.." "Whatever." "How are you?" "You are asking a peacock in monsoon, how he is?" "Really, Naru.." "You, Nandu and sister-in-law gave a new birth to lndu." "Daddy.." " And now she too.." "Daddy, won't you have a bath?" "Yes." "Yes." "Come on." "The poor hot water must be waiting for me." "Now, you tell me." "Do you have a bath in cold water?" "Or have you become someone from Bombay?" "Sister-in-law, you really seem a grandmother now." "Why did you call him here?" "My eyes are lowered due to shame." "If I didn't call him, I couldn't face.." "..myself in the mirror throughout my life." "Whatever will happen, will happen in his presence." "I bow to the Lord of Time." "See, what grandpa has made for your boy." "Or is it a girl?" "Uncle." "Are you.." "I am all right." "I am all right." "What has happened to me?" "What is to happen to me?" "I have come.." "..with the age of everyone, I think." "Please don't say like this, uncle." "It is just because of you that a unfortunate.." "..girl like you had a stroke of good luck." "What has this house not given me?" "You.." "Auntie.." "Him.." "What have I not got?" "The respect of being a daughter-in-law." "The love of being a wife." "And now.." "..the pride of being a mother." "What else can a woman want?" "Indu.. child.." "Wherever I am uncle, where I am swimming.." "..in the unlimited ocean of happiness.." "..even if I even drown into it, I won't have any sorrow." "I won't have any sorrows at all." "Take it back." "Take back these.." "..secrets of planets and stars from me." "This math of zero, this voice of the silent." "Just this time." "Just this time.." "..render what this Master astrologer said wrong." "Just once.." "Indu.. you.." "Didn't I tell you?" "I will surely come to your house once.." "Will come today." "Maybe if I didn't come today, I wouldn't be able to ever." "What are you saying?" "Just what you knew." "What everyone knew." "And now, even I know it." "No." "I haven't come to complain." "I got your eleven months." "This was my good fortune." "I lived my entire life in these eleven months." "A wife.. a daughter-in-law.." "..and now.." "This will be one sorrow that I will have." "I wouldn't be able to live the complete life of a mother." "You live this life now." "Being the mother of my child." "Being Nandu's wife." "Indu.." "Don't think this to be debt or gratefulness." "I am returning your right to you." "I cannot give you back your eleven months." "They will go with me." "What is left will be yours." "Yes, Sushma." "I will leave now." "You really are very beautiful." "Careful.." "Is someone here?" "You.." "Indu.." "Yes." "I am Nandu here." "I have reached lndu to the hospital." "Come there quickly." "And I will not be there." "I will come right away." "Yes, right away." "'Dancing, and wavering, with silent feet, you have come.'" "'You have come to make me forget my life.'" "'You have come to seduce my eyes.'" "'Come Hari.. come Hari.." "'You have come with dancer's feet.'" "'With a lotus and as flute in your hands..'" "'You have come to play the flute..'" "How is the mother-in-law of my would be daughter-in-law?" "Do you know?" "I have arranged for a rope from.." "..Rajabai Towers to the Gateway of India." "And all the water of Bombay monsoons to wash them." "Mr. Chaturvedi.." " Yes?" "You have been called in the office." "Right away." "I will come right away." "Radharani." "I will see you in a moment." "Congratulations." "How is she.." "My crazy.." "Mr. Chatuvedi.. do you know Sushma Chattopadhyay?" "There is this letter in your name." "She has committed suicide." "This is not my suicide." "This is my refusal." "To all those bondages that were put to my neck." "In the name of love, and blind belief." "I have broken all those ties today." "My death is my proof." "Because life took away my right to speak." "Someone wanted my love, for himself." "Someone wanted to force me to leave.." "..my right and need for the math of time." "Nobody cared what I wanted." "I could have lived fighting against the math of fate." "But I couldn't fight against the pure eyes of lndu." "I could live by forgetting my love, with someone else too." "But my whole life became a crime in front of those eyes." "And I couldn't stay without punishing myself for this crime." "Therefore, my death is not the result.." "..of some forecast." "This is my own decision." "And choosing my own death all I want to say is that.." "..life is man's own decision at every step."