""The hour has arrived..."" "...let's shake!" "You're already dressed, Sir?" "You're too much, Badri!" "My son's returning from America after ages won't I go to the airport to receive him?" "Do you want the aircraft to land on our courtyard?" "Well, Salim?" "But the flight lands tomorrow morning, Sir." "It's already morning..." "what say, Salim?" " What's wrong with him?" " Look at your watch..." "Well... what's wrong with it?" "My wristwatch isn't working!" "The watch is working all right." "It's you who's racing ahead!" "It's after ages that my son is returning from America." "I feel as if all time has come to a standstill." "Isn't that right, Salim..." "now what's wrong with him?" " He's fast asleep, Sir." " Really?" "Let's go!" "Go?" "Your eyes are open and you're snoring!" "That's how my eyes are, Sir." "They don't shut, when open..." "don't open, when shut!" "I dozed off since I've got to keep awake at the airport." "But I will step on it, the moment you order me to!" " Uncle?" "!" "Greetings!" " German?" "!" "You?" "Here!" "How wouldn't I?" "My best friend is arriving." "Tell me something." "How have you come to be called "German" ?" "Haven't I told you the story so many times earlier?" "My father once went to Germany, when I was a small boy." "He didn't get me anything from there." "And he said, you will henceforth be called German, not Nathu!" "I'm glad your old man didn't go to Porbunder!" "Or you'd be called a "bunder" (monkey)!" "Well, German?" "When are you returning it?" "After I'm dead?" " What are you asking him for?" " Nothing, Sir... nothing at all!" "Well, anyway... you will recognize your friend, won't you?" "How could you say that?" "I have his photograph!" "There he is!" "My son!" "Welcome, my son..." "May you live long!" " You look like a proper Yankee!" " You've put on lots of weight, dad." "Everything will be fine, now that you're here!" "How was your journey?" "This is for you, young master..." "Welcome!" "Ditto here, mister!" " Who's he?" " Don't you recognize me?" "I'm German!" "Your childhood friend!" "He's latching on to me, isn't he?" "But he's been boring us to death with tales of your friendship!" "Has he?" "I'm sorry..." "I'll never call you a friend again." "German, old boy... where the hell are you going?" "!" "He's an old friend... how can I ever forget him?" "He's the family priest..." "take his blessings." "May you live long!" "You've arrived at an auspicious time." "Master!" "After my mother's death it was you who brought me up." "Master... do come in." "You've started the scooter all right!" "But when do you start giving it to me?" "That's exactly what I'm going to arrange." "But at least tell me when you will pay me!" "Not after I'm dead, will you?" "!" "Looks like he borrowed the money from me at little interest and lent it out at a higher rate!" "Hello Mr. Sunny Goel!" "Shooo!" "Go away!" "German?" "!" "Oh, come in!" "Thanks for the loving welcome, mister." "But, of course..." "come and sit down." "I can very well sit on my sofa-set at home, mister." "You can embrace me later..." "but repay my loan first." "Of course, I will." "Be patient." "What's the hurry?" "Looks like my patience will take me to my grave!" "Really?" "very well." "I'll reach the money to your grave, then." "Stop kidding!" "Please!" "The money I've given you doesn't belong to me." "I borrowed it from Salim to give it to you." "That wasn't for free, was it?" "You borrowed it at 2% per month and lent it to me at 5%." "Right?" "But how are you connected with what I make?" "Just return my money with interest." "Period!" "very well... how much do I owe you?" "You owe me a principal of 1 lakh." "Together with 50,OOO as interest..." "That makes it 1.50 lakh, right?" "Have you brought the documents we had signed?" "There were no documents!" "You said my word was enough!" "Then go and bring the witnesses to the transaction." "There wasn't even a dog there, except you and me!" "Not even a dog..." "I see." " Who the hell are you?" " Whom are you talking to?" "It's you I'm talking to!" "Who the hell are you?" "Just return my money, or else..." "Money?" "You scoundrel!" "Wait till I call the police!" "Why call the police for something so trivial?" "Whether my money remains with you or in the bank, it makes no difference." "Now you know how to ask for your money, don't you?" "Oh sure." "One must do it with respect and politeness..." "Not when people are around." "Whisper the request in the ear!" "Vijay!" "Young man!" "Welcome to India!" "How's Anita?" "She's here... with a rose in hand." "Make sure she doesn't flee heartbroken to Punjab!" "Talk to her..." "It's Vijay." "I've always believed in surprises, Anita." "How have you been?" "Absolutely fine." "Now that you are here, I'll be better!" "He's okay." "But listen carefully to what I have to say!" "I've been working in Vishwanath's factory, not for the alms I get but to see you married." "When the time is ripe I want to change our relations with them for keeps." "I want you to be daughter-in-law of that household." "Business is tops, son." " But I'm not keeping good health." " Why's that?" "I have to deal with all the hassles in business which is why my Blood Pressure has risen." "I'm not supposed to eat cashew nuts..." "you know that!" "I have sugar... oh no!" "No whisky!" "Keep it away." " Why not, dad?" " I told you I've problems of Sugar and B.P. The doctor has forbidden me!" "Let me have your hand..." "Now that you're here, I've decided that I'll hand over the business to you and take it easy henceforth." "You want me to settle here?" "And not return to America?" "You want me to busy myself in multiplying your millions?" "You're a smart man, aren't you?" " You called me a smart man?" " What else?" "What have you got out of working 24 hours a day?" "Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar?" "You can't even enjoy a drink..." "nor a piece of sweetmeat." "You went about multiplying grandpa's millions and you now want me to go about doing the same with your money." "Who's going to enjoy the money if every generation earns so much?" "No, Sir!" "I'm not going to repeat the mistakes you've made!" "I'm going to work, when I want to." "And enjoy life when I wish." "All said, you don't realize your responsibilities." "No responsibilities, no business..." "All I want is happiness!" "Could you understand what he said, while he went channel surfing?" " No, Sir." " Neither have I!" "What do you want me to understand?" "That everyone in the family will enjoy himself and I alone will work for a living?" "You want me alone to slog and suffer all day!" "Oh shut up, Maya!" "You're always talking nonsense." "Why must I?" "I got you married with such great difficulty." "And your husband dumped you back in just 3 months of marriage!" "And why must I pay for your heart surgery?" "Why must I care if your husband deserts you or even hangs you?" "I'm going to get married and..." "Go on..." "I'll get married and go away on a honeymoon." ""All of you can go to hell"..." "Isn't that what you will say?" "Do you really think I'm so selfish and self-centered?" "Well, Mom?" "Does she imitate me like this everyday?" "Absolutely!" "You have to step out of the house, and her act begins!" "Sorry, sis... forgive me." "No forgiving you..." "you monkey!" "You mean a female monkey!" "You're right!" "You must be punished for the mistake you've made." "Now what punishment do we give her?" "Oh yes!" "You will wash all the clothes today." " Sis!" " No Sis..." "Hurry up!" "Well, lady?" "!" "Do you intend to continue play comedy here and not come home?" " Brother-in-law?" " Oh yes." "The man you've stabbed in the back!" "You didn't say she had a hole in the heart and got her married to me!" "I couldn't even enjoy my nuptials!" "You have conned me!" "And you pretend that you didn't know anything about her illness!" "My mother can't swallow your reply!" "She has asked me to divorce her and mary another woman!" "Don't, please... we will surely have our sister treated." "We just want you to bear with us for another 2 or 3 months." "Dialogues!" "Not again..." "This is what you always do!" "I'll decide things today!" "Have her heart operated upon, and we'll have a happy-ending." "Or she's in for a divorce!" "Listen..." "Hold my bag and give me a hand, too." "You're too clumsy!" "Remember the delegation of businessmen from Canada?" "They've liked the quality of cables we manufacture, so much that they've promised to import all their requirements from us." "I hope you have sent them a quotation." "What quotation?" "The quotation for the Canadians!" "I had told you, of course!" " When did you tell me?" " I signed the papers, damn it!" "I'm sure you are forgetting something." "So?" "What am I paying you for?" "To make merry?" "!" "Give me that bag... a bunch of useless guys is what I have!" "He's always scolding me..." "I'll have to go take a break in Kulu Manali." "Damn fools is all I have in this bloody office!" " But this is too much!" " What's wrong, sir?" "We could land such a big order from the Canadians!" "And that idiot, Khairatilal, forgot to send them a quotation!" "But I've already dispatched the quotation, Sir." " Did you, really?" " Yes." "You had signed the contract and left it lying on your desk." "And I thought I'd just dispatch it." "That's a good thing you did, dear." "You've saved us from a great loss." "I had lost my temper..." "I just didn't know what to do." "Anger isn't good for your B.P." " But I'm not angry, dear..." " No!" "No sugar for you." "Here are the saccharin pills." "I used to boast that my son would return from America and help me and that I'd take it easy after that." "But he's just not bothered!" "Naturally, sir." "This generation needs time to take over responsibilities." "He'll enjoy life, he says!" "He's not your uncle too, is he?" "My uncle?" "Oh no!" "He's my dad..." "The red mark on his cheek, Badri..." "that's lipstick, isn't it?" "Sir...!" "The young master was simply wonderful at the party!" "The whole thing stinks." "Looks like I'll have to do something about it." "Well... all right." "Now look at his girl!" "By day, she looks like Manisha Koirala!" "Her name is Tara and she's from Satara." "Chant the glories of..." "Lord Satyanarayana!" "She's been rejected..." "Let's see the next." "How about her?" "By day, she looks like Madhuri Dixit." "She's the daughter of the King of Hiranya!" "Sing glories of..." "Lord Satyanarayana!" "Rejected!" "Next?" "Look at this girl!" "She looks like Juhi Chawla by day!" "She's the only heiress to a billionaire father!" "Chant glories of Lord Satyanarayana!" "Well, Pop?" "Looking for models for the company's next ad. ?" "No..." "I'm looking for a girl to marry." " Will you marry at this age?" " Not me!" "I'm looking for a bride for your marriage!" "Why must you look for a bride for "my" marriage?" "Isn't he a character, priest?" "Let's have your hand...!" " And show him the album." "Go on!" " Of course...!" "Look at her." "In the darkness of the night, she is Urmila Matondkar!" "Now sing glories of Lord..." "The name is Pandit Ramprasad..." "From the signs he's making, I think he's asking me to leave." "Sing glories of the Lord..." "I'm sorry, dad, but I don't want to get married." "What does that mean?" "Not now?" "Or ever?" "So long as I don't find the sort of girl I want to marry I will not get married." "And when will you find the girl you want to marry, my son?" "How can I answer that question?" "We must understand each other fall in love, and then get married." "That might take days or years..." "how can I say?" "very well, then...!" "What are you doing, sir?" "Don't eat that!" " Please don't eat that!" " Let go, Badri!" "The doctor has forbidden you!" "Don't!" "It's not good for your Blood Sugar!" "Dad!" "What are you up to?" "You wanted me to enjoy life!" "So... here goes!" "But you're suffering from diabetes and Blood Sugar!" "Sure!" "I know I'll die if I eat the stuff!" "So alright!" "Your mother died when you were born." "But, for your sake, I didn't mary again!" "I couldn't bear the idea of being separated from my only child!" "But I gave in to you and let you go to America for further studies!" "You didn't work at the office despite all your degrees but I still didn't mind it!" "I tolerated your late nights, your bouts of drinking and partying!" "But I'm over 50 !" "And the way you are, I don't think I'll ever play with my grandchildren!" "Then what do I live for?" " Give me those sweets...!" " No, dad!" "Please!" "Hear me out, Dad..." "Yes!" "I will get married, dad!" "I'm willing to marry any girl you choose for me." " Let's have your hand..." " I have a condition." "What condition?" "I will get married only for a year and review the experience." "One year?" "What does that mean?" "In the one year of our marriage if I feel that I can spend the whole of my life with my bride and she feels the same too it's fine and okay." "But, should neither of us feel the same way..." " What then?" " We divorce." "Are you out of your mind?" "!" "Which girl would ever be willing to mary you for a year?" "!" "I'll marry her, if she's willing." "Or I won't." "See that, Badri?" "He just does not want to get married!" "No wonder he's setting these strange conditions!" "Actually, he just does not care for his father's reputation!" " Why not?" "Of course he does." " My foot!" "Suppose he deserts the girl after a year, she'll be out on the streets!" "Her life be ruined!" "Nothing of the kind will happen, Sir!" "Nothing!" "Weren't you too against marriage in your youth?" "But, once you were married, and the young master was born weren't you the one who was most overjoyed?" "Just find a nice girl, Sir." "The girl will herself manage the rest." "We want our elder daughter Megha to get married first." "We can't get the younger one married first, you see." "You're right!" "We are in no hurry." "We are progressive-thinking folks, you know." "Let's settle the dowry now, to avoid problems later." "What say?" "You're right." "Alok holds a masters' degree." "There are many people who have sent us feelers for him." "One of the brides' father even offered 3 lakhs as dowry." "What are you talking about?" "What's money before love and relations?" "No way!" "We are progressive thinking people, you see!" " You can pay us just 2 lakhs." " 2 lakhs?" "!" "We'll arrange the money, if you could wait for 2 or three months." "Why, of course?" "Let's finalize the alliance later, too." "Right?" "..." "Let's go." "It's tough for us to even pay our rents." "And how could you agree to pay them 2 lakh Rupees?" "If we get the younger daughter married first, won't finding a groom for you, be difficult then?" "Sure!" "No one will marry me, taking it for granted that there's something wrong with me." " Isn't that what you think?" " Why won't anyone marry you?" "Megha darling!" "For all the flaws you may have...!" "...even if you are partially blind and gray-haired even if you are lame and crippled you'll find Yashwant Kumar at your service, all 24 hours!" "Haven't I told you to build a wall between our families, Mom?" "A wall's not going to help, darling!" "Because I'll wreck the biggest of walls to come to you!" "That's because, when we were both small children your old man had proposed your marriage with me, to my father!" "But Megha does not approve of you!" "I'm no ordinary guy..." "I'm a 7 times Boxing Champ!" "Should someone come seeking Megha's hand I'm the first person he will have to encounter." "Here..." "Look at my size!" "Look at my physique!" "Look at my muscles!" "You're not going to find a son-in-law of my physique, lady!" "Your physique's okay..." "how about your brains?" "What does that mean?" "Nothing..." "I'm the one who's doomed!" "Hey!" "German!" "This chap has landed up early in the morning for his money!" "Let me shut the door and latch it!" "My brother's not in." "He's away at the ground, playing an international match." "very well." "I'm going away now." "But do tell German that I will return tomorrow." "The fading footsteps!" "He seems to have left." " Mr. German...!" " Who's that?" "!" "My name is Mona..." "I stay in the neighborhood." "I watch you driving around on your scooter every day." "I've always wanted a ride on your scooter where I'm tightly clutching you from behind!" "Now..." "Mona!" "Where's the problem then?" "Here I come... where are you?" "Gotcha!" "You?" "!" "But you had left!" "And I've returned...!" "Now... out with my money!" " At least let go of my collar." " All right." "Here goes." "Well then... how much of money had you lent to me?" "A lakh in principal and 2O,OOO in interest." "1.2O lakh in all." "Are you carrying the documents we had signed?" "But there were no documents!" "Then at least get the witnesses before whom you had paid me." "There wasn't a soul in the room!" "So... who are you?" "Who are you talking to?" "You!" "Who are you?" "I don't even know you!" "I get it!" "With the loan I have given you, you..." "You mention the loan again!" "Get the hell out of here!" "Or I'll call the cops and have you thrown in the cell!" "Speak softly, German!" "I have a reputation to protect!" "I have nothing to do with your reputation!" "Now don't flare up, buddy...!" "And let go of my collar." "Whether my money lies in the bank or with you, it makes no difference!" "That's nice!" "Now you know how to ask for your money, don't you?" " Politely!" "And softly..." " Whispered in the ear, that is!" "It's a nice thing that you have posed the question to me directly." "I can now answer you without any hesitation or reservations." "I can't even think of getting my son married to Anita." "Don't say such things, Sir..." "I'll have to run to Nainital." "Ever since Anita's parents passed away you're the only support she and I have known." "And Anita has always dreamed of having Vijay as her husband." "All dreams need not necessarily be true, Khairatilal." "I know what nature of a girl would suit my son." "And frankly speaking, I've even chosen the bride." "I suggest you find a nice groom for Anita." "And just don't worry about the money." "I'll bear the expenses and get her married, as if she's my daughter." "I've brought the salary statements." "If you could take a look..." "That won't be necessary." "And you don't need to report for work, from tomorrow." "Why not?" "You've lost your job." "Can you tell me why I've lost my job?" "That's because my future daughter-in-law cannot work in my office, can she?" "This is too much!" "I haven't even asked you!" "Well, let me ask you now." "Will you marry my son?" "Isn't this fantastic?" "!" "Give me a hand, dear...!" "...as if India had scored over Pakistan in the Sharjah cricket!" "You'd better rush to my farmhouse at Mehrauli now." "Vijay's already there." "Talk it over with him!" "I know the result of your chat!" "I'll have the date finalized!" "I have it made...!" "To hell with the file!" "This is fabulous!" "So you are my dad's personal secretary, right?" " Yes." " My future wife... right?" "So you agree to abide by the contract, don't you?" "The agreement of our marriage, of course." "An agreement of marriage?" "That's the agreement according to which, we will be married." "The two of us will be married for a year." "It's okay if we feel like spending the lifetime together in the initial year of our marriage." "Or, we will separate." "So you want me to play your whore for a year." "Now what's that?" "Sorry!" "You've been educated in America, haven't you?" "What I alluded to was a "keep" in English." "I will put the "mangalsutra" around your neck and make you my wife." "And I know for sure that one who marries is not a keep, but a wife." "So that is why you are using the ploy of the mangalsutra!" "But this is not America where a few dollars will make any woman sleep with you!" "We are Indians!" "Money makes no difference!" "...I'm not planning on jumping into bed with you." " It's okay if you agree, or..." " I'm no plaything that you will discard after a year of use!" "Do you think I'm a whore you can call into bed anytime you wish or throw me out?" "I have my self-respect!" " Even in times of difficulty..." " But I'm not forcing you!" "...we can sell everything in the house and even the mangalsutra!" "But women in this county still do not compromise their honor and their self-esteem!" "Do you understand that?" "Good-bye!" "Let's go." "I thought you had appreciated a good quality in me." "Because of which you wanted to have me as your daughter-in-law." "But as I see now... you have valued my looks, not my integrity!" "That's not true, Megha..." "When a child insists on having the moon his parents appease him by making the moon appear in a dish of water." "To let your son have the woman in the office, whom he likes you are the first ever father I have ever met!" " Please listen to me..." " Please let me complete, Sir." "You didn't tell me how I would have to please your son." "Would I have to be a slave at his feet?" "Or would I have to play the whore in bed?" "You are justified in what you are saying, dear." "But that son of mine thinks that the mangalsutra is just a string of beads and vermilion." "The fool does not realize its importance!" "And I know that you are the only one who can make him turn a new leaf." "It's because of my belief in you that I thought of getting the two of you married." "I know that once he sees how you talented you are he'd want to spend not just one year with you but a thousand years!" "I'm sure of that!" "I was so sure that I didn't mention the contract to you." "There are many lives already depending on me, Sir." "I'd be glad, if I could improve some of them." "Stop, Maya!" "No, Maya...!" "What the hell are you doing?" "!" "What madness is this, Maya...?" "What are you doing?" "Let me die, sister!" "Why?" "What's wrong?" "!" " I..." " What's wrong?" "Tell me!" "I'm three months pregnant!" "Wretch!" "You'd rather have killed yourself out of shame!" "You'd rather die, you bitch!" "Let me talk to her, Mom!" "As if you're any better!" "This girl goes and gets pregnant before marriage." "And your husband has dumped you here after marriage!" "The two of you have already ruined this family!" " Go away!" "Go to hell!" " Mom...!" "What's wrong with you?" "Are you out of your mind?" "You're acting as if you're possessed!" "It's not I alone..." "we're all possessed!" "We've turned cannibals!" "That poor girl slogs away like the man in the family and all we do is to tear her to shreds!" "I was always afraid that you'd die out of your heart-disease." "But now, I am eagerly waiting for you to die!" "We can never be at peace, so long as the two of you are alive!" "I'd be grateful to you for the favor!" "Please!" "Go and end your lives!" "Go on!" "You've stripped us of all our honor!" "You've brought us out on the streets!" "Who will ever mary an unwed mother?" "I wish I could burn you alive!" "Manju!" "..." "Sister!" "Manju!" "Mother!" "Manju's setting herself on fire!" "Sister!" "Open the door!" "Open the door, Manju!" "What are you up to?" "!" "This is how Mom speaks when she's angry!" "It wasn't because of what Mom said, Megha." "I thought I'd at least reduce some of the burden on you." "That's a very nice thing to say, Sis." "You can very well make your own decisions and end your lives." "But I live only for you." "And what happens of me?" "Has anyone thought of that?" "Actually, I'm the most unfortunate one at home I've never been able to fulfill anyone's desires." "Shouldn't I be the one to die first then?" "I still haven't given up, Sis." "If only I can't have you operated and sent to your husband's house if, and only if, I can't unite Maya with her lover if only I fail in helping Sudhakar stand on his own two feet only then will we all die together." "But till such time,..." "I don't want anyone of you to give up!" "Don't you dare do such a thing again!" "Don't you dare!" ""I will take the vows with you and make you my wife"" ""I'm the unfortunate one who has not been able to meet anyone's needs"" ""Either have the heart-disease cured..."" ""...or I'll divorce her"" ""Once he has seen what a talented girl you are..."" ""...he'd like to spend, not one, but a thousand years with you"" ""I will take the vows with you and make you my legally wedded wife"" ""Take this gamble in life, Megha"" ""It will at least make the lives of the others in the family"" "You truckers are at the limit!" "You're always harassing us!" "Why must I listen to you?" "You'd rather listen to me!" "I'll talk to you later." "I came over to hand in my resignation." "I've already apologized to you." "So, why the resignation?" "Your future daughter-in-law can't possibly work in the office, can she?" "My word!" "This is fantastic!" "Give me your hand!" "This is extra-ordinary!" "Like a double-century from Sachin's willow!" "This is fantastic!" " But, Sir..." " What's that, dear?" "I can very well leave my house to be your daughter-in-law." "But who will attend to the problems and difficulties of my family?" "All your problems are henceforth my problems, dear!" "Just make sure that you handle this silly boy of mine." "I want this matter to remain confined to the three of us." "Of course!" "Don't you wory about that!" "I'll go and discuss this matter with your Mom right away!" "I'll plead with her to let me have your hand for my son." "Let's have the engagement ceremony at your place." "The wedding itself can be held in our house!" "Mr. Saigal once asked me where a road led to." "I said, "It's here by day..."" ""...but I can't say what happens after I've gone to sleep!"" "I've brought the agreement of our wedding." "We'd better put our arrangement in writing." "Will you sign this?" "I am probably the first woman in the world who's signing her divorce papers on the day of the wedding itself." ""May this happiness not be short lived, O Lord"" ""May this last a lifetime"" ""So bless me, O Lord"" "Hey!" "Why are you touching my feet?" "My mother had told me to touch your feet and seek your blessings." "You seek blessings only from elders and the Gods." "As Mom says, even husbands are Gods to their wives." "What are you doing?" "!" "Just what you were doing." "Why can't I touch your feet, when you can touch mine?" "But you are my husband!" "And you are my wife." "Husbands are not angels, are they?" "Man and wife must live like friends." "As equals." "In fact, right now, it would help in touching my wife's feet!" "You're calling me "Sir" ?" "!" "Good Morning, my dear!" " Here's your cup of tea." " And that's sugar for me!" "No... here's the sweetener." " Sugar?" " Half a spoon." "Here you are, Daddy..." "Steaming hot puris!" "I've had enough, dear!" "I'm coming apart!" "I know I'm a fat man..." "but I can't hog like this!" "I had asked you for something, mister!" " Here you are, Sir." " Here are the keys, dear." "The household and the kitchen now belong to you!" "Will you just eat quietly?" "Won't you say something?" "Haven't you liked what you've eaten?" "It's wonderful, dad... simply great!" "This is the best food I've ever had." "In that case, give her a fitting gift, too!" "A gift?" "What for?" "It's a custom in our community that when the daughter-in-law cooks for the first time she's given a gift." "Are you telling me that Megha has cooked all this great stuff?" "You don't think I've made it do you?" "My daughter-in-law!" "No.1 in cooking, household work and sincerity!" "Now you know why I chose her for you!" "That's great, dad." "But make sure to keep her under wraps." "If the guys from 5-star hotels get to know of her culinary skills they're going to whisk her away." "And Megha will be the Head Cook!" "In fact, why don't we start a hotel of our own?" "We'll have Megha in-charge..." "There's a call for you, Sir." "He's one hell of a strange character!" "But, know what...?" "I love you!" "Don't mention it!" "Why are you saying that?" "We can't reach out to God you see..." "So you will say that angels in disguise, like myself..." "She earned herself a name with her hard work." "I hope you will do the same, too." "You do?" "So let's shake..." "all the best!" "Here's a woman who went around in cheap 80-Rupee worth saris." "And here she is today, clad in expensive silks!" "She's the one I wanted to service round the clock!" "But in her greed for money, she's let someone else do it to her!" "Before you cling to the chap or kiss him, Megha make sure he has a medical check-up." "For all you know, he must have brought AIDS from America!" "Do not stop the ceremony..." "Get on with it." "Who dared hit Yashwant Kumar..." "the 7 time Boxing Champ?" "!" "It wasn't me!" "Was it you?" "See the muscles?" " See the left arm?" " Have you seen this?" "Please remain seated." "He's indeed raining blows!" "The poor chap looks headed for hell!" "Take him to the hospital." "Right away!" "We'd better take a dozen guys with us." "If he regains consciousness..." "we might land in hospital!" "He gave the guy a sound thrashing!" "He's my son, after all!" " I'm proud of you, my son!" " And what for, dad?" "You thrashed the man who teased your wife!" "I'm glad you have realized what your wife's respect means..." "Had he teased a street-walker there instead of Megha I'd still have beaten him as much." "Hang on now...!" "There's a difference between a street-walker and the wife!" "It has to do with the respect a woman deserves." "A street-walker is as much a woman as the wife." "When this guy was born, it took the doctors a good 1O minutes to find out whether he was laughing or crying!" "So how will we know whether he's cracking a joke, or..." "Let's shake!" "Could you call Mr. Sharma, the travel-agent, from the neighborhood?" "Please wait." "I'll call him." "Why have you disconnected the line, mister?" "He asked me to wait, you see." "German asked me to whisper my request for repayment in his ear!" "So I'll make a call to him!" "German?" "This is Salim here!" "Salim!" "How are you?" "What makes you call me so early in the day?" "Just like that!" "I thought of congratulating you on the nuclear tests of our county." "Why must you congratulate me for something so trivial?" " There's something else, too." " What is that?" "There's been an explosion in my house, too." "My wife beat me up black and blue and said that the money you've lent to German..." "She asked me to get a repayment of the loan I've given to you." "There seems to be something wrong with the line!" "But I can hear you loud and clear!" " Can I make another call, mister?" " Sure." "Make ten, if you wish." "But pay me the money in advance." "Why?" "Don't you trust me?" "How can I trust someone whose wife beats him up every day?" "Well, all right!" "Here's the money!" "This is Salim again!" "Salim!" "I'm sorry, the line got disconnected." "So how are things?" "My wife gave me a beating and ordered me to get back the money I've loaned to you..." "I can hear only "German" !" "But I can hear everything else!" "Don't you want to pay me...?" "May I make another call?" "Back there in the queue, buddy!" "We aren't here for a photo session!" "It doesn't look like Salim will stop bothering me." "So let me get a repayment of the loan l gave and repay this chap." "That's a nice idea!" "Sunny?" "This is German here!" "He must've called for his money!" "He said "hello" first... and asked me to call later!" "So let me dial again!" "This is German speaking!" "Please wait!" "You are in queue!" "I'm now supposed to be in queue!" "What's all this about?" "!" "The number you have dialed does not exist." "Please check your number again." "And have yourself checked, too!" "Why must I have myself checked?" "Out to recover money from me!" "The shameless man that I am!" "Looks like I'll owe the telephone department a fortune in this process!" "German!" "My wife's beaten me up and said..." "All lines on this route are busy." "Please dial after a couple of months!" "After a couple of months?" "!" "Haven't you gone to sleep?" "Won't you eat?" "I've already eaten..." "haven't you?" "How could I have eaten before you?" "Exactly in the same way as you'd have eaten after me." "Shouldn't a wife eat after her husband?" "Which idiot taught you that?" "Can't the husband eat after his wife, too?" "But he doesn't do that." "I've yet to meet a man who starves to respect his wife." "How can there be different sets of rules for the man and his wife?" "These customs have been made by man, to keep their wives under a leash, and hold them servile forever." "You've got to wait for hunger to eat." "Not wait for the husband." "Now go and eat." "Shake... hurry up!" "Uncle?" "This is Sudhakar here." " How are you?" " I'm fine." "Wait a minute, okay?" "Megha..." " There's a call from Sudhakar." " I'm coming, Dad." "Hold on, son." "She's on her way." "Wish her on my behalf, too, son." "How will you hold the receiver with those hands?" "Let me hold it for you while you talk." "Go ahead." "Many happy returns of the day!" " Thanks a lot!" " What are you thanking him for?" "Actually, today's my birthday." "Really?" "This is fantastic!" "Let's shake!" "Not just like that!" "We must have a party!" "Slow down and come here!" "Come on, son!" "Today is your wife's birthday!" "Won't you wish her?" "I must leave, dad." "My friends are waiting for me." "Strange!" "How can your friends be more important on this day?" "!" "I've met Megha only recently, Dad and those guys have been my friends for 15 years!" "That's the loose-mouthed chap he is!" "Always confused and worked up." "He just said that his friends are very important." "When he returns, he'll say that the wife is more important!" "Talk to him..." "Go on." " Yes, Sudhakar?" " Mom wanted to know if..." "Let me ask." "Mom wanted to know if I could..." "Of course you must visit your mother on your birthday!" "Go on!" "Tell him you're coming." "Tell Mom that I'll be there this evening." "My little girl!" "Do convey our regards to everyone at home." "Of course, I will." "Make sure you're "three" when you visit us next." "I can't handle one wife!" "What will I do with another?" "!" " She's talking about a child!" " Really?" "I leave that to God." "Will you father the child or will God do it?" "Your sister gets funny whenever she visits you folks!" "Well, Badri?" "Did she tell you that she'd be late?" "She didn't say anything to me, sir." "It's midnight already!" "Is she following in my son's footsteps?" "This is too much!" "There she is, Sir!" "You're still awake, Daddy?" " I've been waiting for you." " For me?" "Why?" "Has my husband already returned?" "That's exactly the point!" "That character has returned home at 7 this evening!" "If he asks where you were..." "tell him that you had my permission." "I got held up at my Mom's place." "Are you very angry with me?" "Where were you all this while?" "Whom were you going around with?" "What is your relation with him?" "Answer me!" "Isn't that what I was expected to say?" "We ought to have faith in each other." "Neither will we suspect each other nor will we assert our rights." "Go and get some rest." "I had already told you not to take his words to heart." "Did he say something nasty?" "No, daddy... not a word." "Then what are the tears for?" "No matter how nasty he was before our wedding but he's a gem of a person." "...that I'd like to spend a lifetime with him." "Go on, Khairatilal!" "What is it?" "The truck-owners have turned devils, Sir!" "Looks like we'll have to move to safer pastures." "Yes... do always give me the bad news!" "You want me to die of a heart-attack!" "They're asking for a hike in their fees, Sir." "So tell them that their fees can't be hiked!" "You love your father very much, don't you?" "Of course... which is why I even obeyed him and got married." "When you can get married to keep his heart you can even go to the office to help him in business, can't you?" "A nagging wife!" "This is why I wasn't marrying!" "Why should I be nagging you?" "And, in any case, I'm not your wife, am I?" "So what are you?" "Didn't you tell me that we're just friends?" "Aren't you ever bored of this bar-to-club routine of yours?" "Should you spend an hour at the office everyday not only will you kill time, but also know what's happening there." "There you go again..." "lecturing me." "I'm not lecturing you." "I'm talking to you, as a friend." "Or else, how am I concerned about your business or your clubs?" "I've brought some juice for you." "Have it." "What's all this about, wrestler?" "You're always running out of diesel or having flat-tires!" "Are you tying to blackmail me?" "It's not the question of blackmailing anyone, Sir." "Our rates will increase, when the price of diesel is hiked." "If you don't want to pay us, say so." "I'll have the loading stopped." " Watch how you speak, or else..." " Relax, Sir!" "Stop playing tricks that will send us packing, wrestler!" "I want to remain in your service all 24 hours a day, Sir." "But we won't ply our trucks if you don't heed to our demands." "All right." "Do not ply your trucks." "How many trucks do we need, Papa?" "About 50 of them." " What's the rent per truck?" " A thousand Rupees." " How much would 50 trucks cost?" " 50,OOO Rupees." "How many months do we use the trucks every year?" "Are you tying to quiz me?" "It's no quiz, Papa!" "How many months do we use the trucks every year?" "About 9 months." "At the rate of 50,OOO a day... you pay 1.35 crore as rent alone?" "!" " How much does a new truck cost?" " Half a million." "50 trucks would cost 2.5 crores." "We'd rather buy 50 trucks of our own." "We'll use them during the season and rent them out in days of slackness." "Not only will we recover our investment in 3 years  but the trucks will belong to us, too." "Let's shake on that!" "Khairatilal!" "Throw that man out!" "Didn't you hear the boss?" "We're buying 50 trucks of our own!" "Throw this guy out!" "...and shake hands!" "He has dared to mess with Yashwant Kumar!" "Seven times Boxing Champ!" "Will he buy trains, too, if the railways hike their fares?" "Is he going to buy aircraft's if the airfares are increased?" "But he's buying trucks... just because I'm increasing my fare!" "I'll fix him!" "You'd better forget all that and beat a hasty retreat, wrestler." "He went and married Megha." "What could you do?" "He rendered your name to dust in the truckers' association." "What did you do about that?" "He beat you up mercilessly at the wedding... what could you about it?" " Mr. Khairatilal..." " Yes?" "He then happened to strike me physically and morally." "But he has today struck at my livelihood!" "I will not tolerate that!" "I will kill him!" "And let's see where he buys his life from!" "Bravo, my boy!" "Do something soon..." "and send him packing!" " This is Megha here." " Yes..." "Go on." "Speak up." "Anuradha Paudwal and Kumar Sanu are performing at Shivani Hall today." "I see... your favorite singers, eh?" "Yes..." "I've had two tickets arranged for this evening." "If you could return early..." "I'm busy with something else, Megha." "Buy you may go, if you wish." "Okay?" "There's no danger to your son's life, Mr. Vishwanath." "No danger to his life!" "Shake, doctor!" " But..." " What is it, doctor?" "His spinal-chord has been severely injured." "He'll need proper bed-rest and..." "Hello!" "This is German speaking!" "There he is again!" "Is Mr. Sunny there?" "The train bound for Bhangdanagar from New Delhi will leave from platform No. 5 with all due noises!" "I seem to have got through to the railway station this time!" "This is German here!" "Health-care tips for children." "Give your children a nice massage, twice every day." "Give your child the polio-vaccination and save him from the disease." "Save your child from mosquitoes and therefore, from Malaria." "Thank you!" "Welcome to the program "Your Choice" !" "Thanks for the welcome!" " Pardon?" " This is German here!" "Lovely name!" "Where are you calling from?" "Right now, I'm speaking from my home!" "Lovely house!" "And what would you prefer?" " Cash!" " Lovely preference!" ""I'm the tender rose-bud of Kashmir;" "do not mess with me, mister..."" ""I'd never blossom again, once I wither..." "Never!" "Where's the song coming from?" "This is the Sunny Photo Studio, isn't it?" "No!" "This is the ZEE TV!" "You could even call this a miracle, Mr. Vishwanath." "Damage to the spinal chord can cripple a man for life." "But he has fully recovered." "And so quickly at that!" "It's all thanks to your efforts." "You must thank your wife." "Not me." "She has served you round the lock to give you a new lease of life." "You could even say that it wasn't my medicine but her prayers and hard work that have borne fruits." "You've got to be lucky to find such a companion in life." "Well, I must leave now." "My son!" "Did you hear what the doctor had to say about my daughter-in-law?" "He was absolutely right." "Megha has really served me well." "Like a nurse... a friend." "Were she to work in a hospital, I'm sure she'd earn a name like Mother Teresa or Florence Nightingale." "Tomorrow's the first anniversary of your marriage." "Do you remember that?" "Or have you forgotten?" "How can I forgot?" "Our agreement comes to an end tomorrow." "Agreement?" "What will you do with that agreement?" "Tear it up!" "And throw it away, my son!" "What do you mean?" "Megha's a wonderful girl, dad." "She has qualities of tolerance, self-respect and compassion." "She has all these qualities; and yet, I see in her only a friend and not a wife." "I don't think I can spend my entire life with her, Dad." "Feel?" "Where will you get the feel from?" "Not when you have ideas so strangely different!" "You're getting serious for no rhyme or reason, Dad." "Won't I be serious?" "!" "You admit that Megha is a good girl that she is self-respecting and compassionate!" "But she's not worthy of being your wife!" "And why not?" "!" "I have seen couples separating because they can't get along!" "Or because they don't agree with each other." "But you're the only man deserting your wife, because you're not getting the "feel" !" "You ought to be ashamed of yourself!" "Marriage isn't just about taking the vows." "It's a sacred union that ties you in wedlock for many births!" "Do not do this injustice to that poor girl." "You will incur her curse!" "I beg of you..." "I beg at your feet!" "What childishness is this, Papa?" "I had told you of my conditions even before we were married." "And you had agreed to them..." "don't forget that!" "It was only after you agreed that I made the agreement." "So why must you be upset, if we're separating as per our agreement?" "I am upset because I had unshaken faith in the institution of marriage." "I believed that marriage would change you for the better." "I never knew that you would not accept even Megha as your wife!" "Let's concede that you're not in love with her." "But she served you during your illness!" "She gave you a new lease of life!" "Have you forgotten those obligations, too?" "What have those favors to do with my settling down?" "Love is a matter of the heart, dad." "Only the heart!" "Why aren't you getting the point!" "The doctor did me a favor, too." "So must I mary him?" "Shut up!" "Not a word more!" "All right!" "I can now see what a thankless man you are!" "But just remember this!" "Your sins will not spare you, me and our entire family!" "I will do just what I think is best for me." "You're confused..." "You'd better go and rest." "You're sending me home tomorrow, aren't you?" "The one year of our contract comes to an end, isn't it?" "You're the only one who has understood me." "The keys to the kitchen." "Don't forget to use these pills instead of sugar in the master's tea." "No matter how late the master arrives in the nights do not let him go to bed without his dinner." "Do look after the elder master." "Should I have made a mistake in this one year forgive me, as you would your daughter." "She's giving us things as if she were leaving house, Kaka!" "May I leave, Sir?" "You're calling me "Sir" again, dear?" "Your son has snatched away my right of calling you "Daddy"." "I'm going to the club, Megha." "I'll drop you home, on my way." "May you live long, dear." "We've spent a year together and we're now separating." "I hope you won't refuse to recognize me in the future." "You're not angry with me, are you?" "We could not be man and wife for a lifetime but we will certainly be friends forever." "If you ever need my help, call me up immediately." "Why did your husband return from outside, Megha?" "Why didn't you call him in?" "You've come without sending us word." "Everything is okay, isn't it?" "What's up, Megha?" "Something special?" "Yes, Mom." "This is indeed special." "They have given me the sack." "Sacked?" "But you had quit your job before your marriage." "They've now sacked me from the job of being a wife." "A wife's job?" "What are you talking about?" "They had drawn up an agreement with me." "I was to be his wife only for a year." "For a year?" "What sort of custom is this?" "That isn't a custom, mom." "It's my misfortune." "When you knew about it... why did you enter into such a contract?" "It was partly because of our conditions at home and partly because of my own hopes and dreams that my marriage would last a lifetime." "And I tried to make it work..." "I tried my best." "But I still lost." "I've lost, Mother!" "Maybe there was something lacking in my efforts." "Is Mr. Sunny Goel in?" "Damn this fellow!" "Sunny's not in..." "but who are you?" "This is German here, Sir!" "That's no name, is it?" "I'm Japan, if you're German!" "Where has Sunny gone?" "Where else?" "To a shooting!" "Hang up now!" "To a shooting?" "Has he started acting in films to repay my loans?" "Since when has Sunny Goel started acting in films?" "Bloody ass!" "He's been doing films for the last 15 years!" "Any problems?" "What language are you using, sir?" "I'm using a language that befits the Lion of Punjab!" "Keep that bloody receiver down!" "I'd made a local call to Sunny Goel in Delhi!" "How did I reach Sunny Doel on the STD line in Mumbai?" "This is Sunny Goel's photo studio, isn't it?" "This is no studio..." "This is Sunny Goel's residence." "And who are you?" "This is Sunny Deol himself." "Mr. Sunny Deol!" "Greetings, Sir!" "I saw your film "Ghaya" I and went crazy about you!" "What are your father Dharmendra and brother Bobby doing?" "My father's asleep;" "Bobby's having a bath." "But why are you calling me again and again?" "Who's that, son?" "Someone's bothering me, dad." "Give that phone to me!" "You rascal!" "Swine!" "Scoundrel!" "I'll have your blood!" "If you dare call again I swear, I'll kill you!" "God Almighty!" "Dharmendra seems to have blown a fuse!" "Send me a cup of tea, Megha!" "Gently, Badri Kaka." "What kind of tea is this?" "I'm only a servant!" "I'm not your wife!" "I'll go away too, if you wish." "Strange!" "I only asked what tea it was, and the old man flared up!" "But he was okay only yesterday." "Why am I not getting hot-water in my bathroom?" "I'm no plumber to look into problems like that!" "And don't scream at me, okay?" "When did I scream?" "We can't pay you the salary you were paid by your last company." "That's okay." "I'll accept whatever pay you've decided for this job." "very well then." "You can report for work from tomorrow." "Make sure to bring your original certificates along." "Must say... the food was great today." "Never mind the food." "Look over there." "Who's that?" "Don't you know?" "She's the boss's ex-daughter-in-law." "Is she the one who married by a contract?" "Exactly!" "What brings you here, madam?" "I came to collect my certificates." "But angle for just one of the guys in there, madam." "Either the father or the son, that is!" "She tried to ensnare both, and they slipped out of her hands!" "What's your rate nowadays, madam?" "I mean, what do you charge for a year?" "But don't you get bored with a single man, all through the year?" "Suppose you spend 6 months with me, another 3 months with this chap and another 3 months with him what fee will you charge us?" "Hurry up!" "Not before you tell us some of your tricks, madam." "What would you charge for 2 minutes of fun?" "Just two minutes with her?" "You spend just two minutes with a woman and in a God's temple!" "Two minutes of heavenly bliss!" "Oh yes!" "I'll be in New York on Friday positively!" " Have mercy on my sister, sir!" " What are you doing?" "What injustice have I done to her?" "If a man were to send his wife into exile, in this county or even banish her, she obeys his writ with a smile." "But when a man leaves his wife in her parents' house life for her is worse than death, sir!" "But I've left Megha only as per our agreement." "And she had married me after considering everything, too." "My sister married you, not for her own comfort and luxuries but to rescue us from poverty." "Only to find me a job, to have my elder sister operated and to save my younger sister from hanging herself Megha has sacrificed her own life, Sir!" "But why are you holding me responsible for all this?" "No... not you!" "It's my sister everyone is holding responsible!" "Ever since it was known that she had a contractual-wedding every man on the street stops her and asks her what will she charge for an hour?" "Or for 30 minutes!" "They've turned my angel-like sister into a whore, Sir!" "I will be a slave to you all my life!" "If that still does not repay you the whole family will be beholden to you, Sir!" "But do not disown my sister like this, Sir!" "Please don't do this injustice to her, Sir!" "Here's some holy offering, Sir." "Is something wrong?" "Your wife hasn't been attending the prayers." "Everything is fine, I hope?" "She undertook a very difficult penance for you, Sir." "I've seen it all for myself." "She invoked every idol, tying to find God in them." "So you would be saved." "There was blood oozing from her feet but regardless, she climbed the stairs of the temples bare-footed." "You're a fortunate man to have found a wife like her." "Sir..." "Please help me!" "I have to have my wife cured." "The poor woman broke her back in an accident." "Why carry her around and break your own back?" "Dump her at home and go beg for a living." "Don't say such things, mister." "I had taken the holy vows with her, Sir." "God forbid, but if something were to happen to us would our wives have deserted us, too?" "I maybe a pauper, Sir." "But I'm not a scoundrel." "Wow!" "You've floored us with your dialogue!" "Aren't the beggars in India better than those from abroad, Sir?" "I wasn't talking about you!" "It was a general statement." "May God bless you, Sir." "Had something happened to us would our wives have deserted us?" "Regardless of the blood, she climbed the stairs of the temples bare-footed." "Marriage is a holy union that ties you in wedlock for many births!" "They've given my angel-like sister the label of a whore, Sir!" "You're a fortunate man to have found a wife like her." "I need her." "I've realized that I've treated her very badly." "Let's go and bring her back, dad." "Why?" "To draw up an agreement of another six months with her?" "We can always bring home another girl, if Megha doesn't agree." "There's a typist in my office..." "and she's yet not married." "I could talk to her if you wish." "She won't take it badly like Megha, if you dump her after marriage, too." " Dad!" "How..." " You must have monthly agreements." "You can find another, when you're fed up in a month." "What do you think?" "Why are you hurting him when he's already hurt, Sir?" "Who's hurt?" "This man?" "It's that girl who made the mistake of marrying him that girl who served him day in and day out it's the poor Megha who has been hurt!" "You can't imagine how she had looked at me." "It was as if she were saying..." ""Daddy!" "How could you have ruined my life?" "!"" "It was I who was hurt then!" "What's all that to him?" "He'll hurt us and go away to America." "Go on, son... may you be happy." "We will manage with you." "Go on." "No." "I will not return." "Here's my passport." "Tear it up, if you wish." "I regret what I've done, dad." "I'm a changed man, dad..." "I swear it!" "If you have really changed go and convince her;" "not me." "Because I don't have the courage to see her in the eye anymore." "I'll go there on my own." "Will you go away, or do I slipper you?" "Slipper me?" "Slipper me, aunt!" "To show Yashwant Kumar, the 7 times boxing champ, your slipper, means you're really upset." "But when you've cooled down, your temper is all right you'll find this man at your service 24 hours a day!" "Megha darling!" "Won't you get lost?" "!" "Forgive her." "She thought it was Yashwant." "It's you folks you must forgive me, mother." "Let's go home." "Home?" "To your own house." "He's rubbing insult to injury, Mom." "He's already broken my heart." "Now he's tearing up the papers." "I'm not the same Vijay, Megha." "I've changed." "It's not you, it must be your mood that has changed." "You wanted to throw me out then;" "you want me back now." "Must I get up when you want me to?" "And sit down, when you wish?" "And sleep when you want me to?" "I'm no whore, Mr. Vijay!" "I have an identity of my own!" "You're not the only one with feelings!" "I have mine, too!" "You make a Head Cook out of me when I prepare food for you." "You call me the Head Nurse when I nurse to you." "When a mother tends to her son she ought to be respected!" "She mustn't be equated with the maid!" "A woman deserves love in return for the things she does for her husband." "She does not need medals and certificates!" "But I know it for a fact that you are just not capable of loving." "The day you said that you had no feelings for me my feelings for you died, too." "They were finished!" "No!" "You are my guest right now." "Do have tea, before you leave." "But please don't talk of taking me home." "I know, what I've done is not worthy of being pardoned." "But I seek forgiveness..." "my mother died, when I was born." "Had she been alive, perhaps I'd have learnt what women are." "Ever since I can remember I've lived in America where I met mostly those women who helped men amuse themselves." "I never had the time to realize that it is the woman who helps man realize himself." "It is she who makes a better human being out of him." "And now.. now that I've realized this..." "But I've still not given up." "I will convince you someday that I am really a changed man." "I will wait for the day, Megha." "I will wait for the day when you once again fall in love with me." "I hope this endeavor doesn't misfire, Mr. Vijay." "P.R. Corporation was in the red." "And you bought it for 18 crores!" "18 crores is too small a sum, Khairatilal." "I'd have bought the company, even if it cost me 28 crore." "My boy... you're racing ahead!" "Don't end up in the hole!" "German!" "This is Salim here!" "Looks like Salim has called for his money!" "My wife beat me up again!" "She says when I can give loans, why can't I recover..." "Hi!" "This is German..." "I'm not at home right now." "You may leave your message after a long beep." "That was an extra-ordinarily long beep!" "This man won't let me live in peace till I repay his loan!" "very well then!" "I'll contact Sunny, too." "Is Sunny there?" "It's German again..." " This is German here!" " German?" "Who's that?" "This is Kashinath here!" "How are you, buddy?" "Where have you been?" "We've missed you so much!" "How have you been?" "!" "Looks like a Maharashtrian has picked up the phone." "I want to talk to Sunny, mister!" "What sunny?" "Speak in Marathi..." "I don't know your language!" "Could you speak my language, please?" "I don't know Marathi!" "Can't speak Marathi?" "What have you called for, you idiot?" "I could kick you in the butt!" "Hang up, you nincompoop!" "...Glory to Maharashtra!" "Gloy indeed to Maharashtra!" "Hold on... this is German here!" "So he has learnt Marathi too!" "Who's that?" "Is Sunny there?" "This is Dinesh Shah Bharat Gandhi here!" "Dinesh Shah Bharat Gandhi!" "Looks like a Gujarati out there!" "Mr. Gandhi?" "I wish to speak to Mr. Sunny!" "I don't follow you... speak in Gujarati." "I don't understand Hindi!" "How am I going to speak in Gujarati?" "Listen, ass!" "Hang up if you can't speak Gujarati!" "Don't bother me!" "Dineshbhai!" "My name is German!" "Is Sunny there?" "He's picked up Gujarati too!" "My God!" "Now what language is he speaking?" "Where will I bring a book from for this language?" "Long live, the young master!" "This is Mr. Chaudhay." "Please come with me..." "This is Megha;" "your personal assistant." "The M.D. stands with his head bowed;" "go ahead and garland him, madam!" "Greetings, Sir." "The M.D. wants to shake hands!" "Go ahead, madam!" "By Jove!" "That's a handshake worth 18 crore rupees!" "Go and check out what mood Megha is in." "Well, well!" "We are doomed!" "You've lost 18 Crore Rupees in just a handshake!" " What's wrong?" " She's writing out her resignation!" "She's one stone-hearted lady!" " My God!" " Hide under my desk!" "very well." "Why don't you join me, too?" "Give it to me... it's your resignation letter, isn't it?" "Why must I hand in my resignation?" "Because you've got to remain with me every day." "Perhaps you're not sure of yourself:" "maybe, some day, in a weak moment..." "Perhaps you've forgotten that you had even come to my house and I had still turned you down." "You had, of course." "But to think that I'm just your boss, not your husband and you're just my P.A. Could you muster the guts to work here?" "Then what are you here for?" "I came to warn you against treating me like the way you did today." "I'm just your P.A., not your wife, that you can take liberties with me!" "She isn't resigning!" "Congrats!" "You've had a great beginning to your love story!" "What are you up to, Megha?" "You're saving the worm-eaten vegetables and throwing away the nice portions." "I didn't take a proper look." "This wonderful evening with your favorite singing stars has been brought to you by Mr. and Mrs. Vijay Vishwanath." "I will now request the top producer Mr. D. Rama Naidu to ask Mrs. Megha Vishwanath to felicitate the stars." "Let's have a picture together." "Let me, madam..." "Please go ahead." "How did you find the program?" "It must have been difficult for you to believe that you have personally felicitated your favorite singers." "You even have a picture with them." "All that you did today, Mr. Vijay, was just a farce." "Please stop the car." "I'll take a bus." "I can drop you home." "How can you be trusted?" "You dumped me after a year of marriage." "You might dump me midway." "I won't let you do that again." "The young master is always upset without his wife around, Sir." "He has even apologized to her." "But your daughter-in-law keeps insulting him." "You must have a chat with her, Sir." "I'm sure she'll come here if you ask her to." "I know Megha will come here, if I ask her to, Badri." "She'll even live in this house as my daughter-in-law." "But she'd never live here as my son's wife." "It's like this:" "It was my duty to get them married." "But it's up to them, to make it work." "Till such time as the wounds inflicted on Megha, heal we can do nothing but wait, Badri." " Hadn't I kept a brown-colored..." " Yes." "I changed it." " Why did you?" " Because I love blue." "I think this will look terrific on you." "This looks so gaudy and cheap!" "I'm going to wear my brown." "Will you wear this, please?" "I had specially made for you." "I have my own tastes, Megha." "And I don't compromise them for anyone." "The M.D. has sent for you, madam." "Get cracking, mister!" "I want everything in my cabin to be blue, German." "Blue chairs, blue tables blue sofa-sets I even want blue doors and blue walls." "Blue fans..." "I get it, Sir!" "Your wife likes blue." "And so you want everything in your office to be blue-colored." "You're a great personality, Sir!" "You consider your wife's tastes to be your own; her happiness... your joy." "Her sorrow is your sorrow;" "her blues are your blues!" "I am compelled to raise a hand to the forehead in salute to you!" "Please don't thank me!" "In fact, I would advocate blue talks, blue ideas and blue deeds." "It's not funny!" "We must even change the name of our county from Hindustan to Bluestan!" "You may leave now, German." "I will leave." "But before I leave I must have my say." "This is blue tea; and here's a blue good-bye!" "Now what does a P.A. mean?" "Which means a couple of personal matters are permissible." "What do you think of my dress?" "My wife thinks blue looks good on me." " She says I look good in it." " She's wrong." "When a man does not possess a good heart, nothing looks good on him." " Sudhakar here, brother-in-law!" " Hi." "How are you?" " Any luck?" " No." "Not yet." "I can't say how many days it will take to win over your sister." "It's Megha's birthday tomorrow!" " See you!" " Yes... see you soon." " Get moving, curs!" " Hurry up!" "Don't drag your leg, fellers!" "Or I'll be sent packing" "Looks like someone has tattled about us, Khairatilal!" "Let's fix him, wrestler!" "And let's send him packing!" "O God Almighty!" "He has beaten the daylights out of me!" "What's happening here so early in the day?" " It's a birthday!" " Whose?" " It's the boss's wife!" " And know what?" "The boss has given the staff a month's salary as bonus!" "But there's something I can't understand." "The bonus comes on festivals, not on a wife's birthday." "You're absolutely right, ladies." "But, as far as the boss is concerned his wife's birthday is the mother of all festivals." "So here's the bonus, and here's a box of sweets." "The boss seems to be madly in love with his wife." "That's an understatement." "In fact, for the boss everything in the world centers around his wife." "What kind of stupid behavior is this?" "It's not good to be so arrogant, Megha." "Haven't I said that I've made a mistake?" "I'm sorry?" "But I won't even make the mistake of trusting you again." " Let go of my hand!" " Please hear me out!" "Let go my hand, I say!" "Can't you get that?" " Let go of her!" " You're teasing a girl in a temple!" "Mind your own business, mister." "Hey, mister..." "don't act funny, okay?" " Give it to him...!" " Of course!" "He deserves it..." "Hold it... hey, wait a moment!" "This is between the two of us, please leave us alone." "There you are!" "This is between the two of them!" "Then she should have told us as much." "Let's go." "I wonder why they bring their affairs to the streets." "You have at least admitted that this is between us." "I didn't do it for you." "It's for your father." "He would have been ashamed to know that his son was beaten up in public." "There's a limit to being stubborn, Megha!" "Pull a string too much and it will snap!" "You will have nowhere to go in life!" "Stop worrying about my life, I'll do that for myself." "He has admitted his mistake?" "Do you want him to fall at your feet now?" "If he goes away to America and marries another woman there will you keep living here all your life, ruing your fate?" "There are men who even beat up their wives." "Once they send their wives away, they don't even think of them." "And this poor man has been begging you to return." "It's difficult for us to move around in the city anymore." "We just can't attend a marriage or other functions anymore." "Everyone has the same question..." ""Has your sister left her husband?"" "One wishes the earth would split and consume me!" "We're only thinking of your own welfare, my dear." "We're not tying to hurt you." "Only unmarried girls and widows live with their parents." "Married women staying like this lead people to suspect things." "If this is how much you hate him, why did you marry him at all?" "Why didn't you turn him down in the very beginning?" "I had turned him down, Sis." "But I agreed to the marriage so you and Maya wouldn't spend the lives of widows forever!" "I ruined my own life, in order to give you a better existence." "Or else, he had already told me that he'd check out marriage for a year." "Who else, but a mad girl like me would marry him?" "And you... you think you're a big man now, don't you?" "You couldn't even find yourself a low-paying job and you're out to advise me!" "What did you say about behaving with the husband, Sis?" "You rotted in this house for 3 years and couldn't return to your husband without an operation." "Why didn't you bring your husband around, with your behavior, then?" "And you... you wish the earth would split and consume you, right?" "Your husband had hid behind his parents after impregnating you." "Weren't you ashamed of yourself, then?" "I came here, taking this to be my own house." "It was alright if my husband had driven me out after a year." "At least those who had spent 22 years with me, would support me." "But how was I to know that my own brother and sisters would hurt me!" "And my mother would take up for them, too?" "When the mother, who has borne me has chosen to turn a deaf ear whom will I pour my heart out to?" "Had my husband insisted on staying abroad alone I would have still spent my entire life as his wife." "But I can't live with a man..." "who could throw me out anytime." "I would have managed with a man I could meet only once a year." "But I can't tolerate a man who deserts me after a year of marriage." "I could have tolerated a man who lived apart from me." "But how can I live with a man who says, he has no place for me in his heart?" "I can't..." "I just can't!" "What sort of a mother am I?" "I couldn't understand her grief!" "Have patience, Mom." "Everything will be fine." "Congratulations!" "Your daughter is pregnant." "Pappa" "This is German speaking, Sir!" "Who's that?" "This is Sanjay Dutt here..." "the film star." "Mr. Sanjay Dutt!" "Hello, Sir!" "When is your next film being released?" "I don't know... why don't you look up the magazines." "Why are you bothering me?" "I've got to attend a shoot..." "I must rush." "Bye." "I think Sunny's changing his voice to make a fool out of me." "All right!" "I'll have this matter settled today." "This is the film-star Shah Rukh Khan's secretary here." "I'm told that Sunny Goel is a very good photographer." "Mr. Shah Rukh Khan now wants to do a photo session with Sunny Goel." "Is Sunny there?" " Yes." "This is Sunny here." " Sunny Goel?" "Yes." "This is Sunny Goel." "Sunny from Sunny Photo Studio?" "That's right." "This is the Sunny Photo Studio!" "There!" "I've caught you today!" " Who's that?" " I'm no secretary, mister!" "This is German here!" "German?" "How are you, old chap?" "Where have you been?" "Listen, Sir." "I'm tired of whispering my request for repayment." "Now please return my money." "That's all." "Drop in this evening." "I'll return your money to you." " Is that okay?" " Okay, Sir." "Thanks a lot for your promise without any inducement!" "Let me run away before he lands up here!" "Why have downed the shutters?" "Where are you going?" "Where am I going?" "I've oiled the shutter..." "I saw how it works!" "Here goes... up and down!" " It's smooth now, isn't it?" " Absolutely!" "Well?" "You're dressed in new clothes today?" "I had to be dressed to take back my money, you see." "I see... that's good!" "You there... come here." "And you, too,... come over!" "What have you called these guys for?" "I'll pay you the principal..." "but they'll pay you the interest." "I see!" "I can't pay the whole amount, you see!" "I understand!" "C'mon, guys..." "give me the interest!" " Have you got your money?" " Oh sure I've got "double" my interest!" "But I still haven't got my principal amount." " Must I give it to you?" " Thank you." "That's not necessary." "I've been "given" enough!" "So what lesson have you learnt?" "Never lend money to someone stronger than you are." "You're right." "German?" "Salim speaking!" "Oh hello, Salim..." "What is it?" "My wife beat me up again." "That loan I gave you..." "Don't worry, my friend." "I've got my money back today." "Just come over." "I'll return your money to you." "very well." "I'm coming there right away!" "Yes, come over..." "Do hurry." "What have you done to yourself?" "Let's talk about you instead." "All right." "Tell me now..." "Is my money ready?" "What do you want first?" "The principal or the interest?" "I'd like the interest first!" "Gentlemen...!" "Who are they?" "These are the guys who will give you the interest." "I see." "Wait here then..." "I'll be back in a moment!" "So, guys..." "Let me have my interest!" "Well... have you got your interest?" " Sure, I have!" " Do you want the principal?" "No thank you!" "I don't want it!" "What lesson have you learnt from this episode?" "Always get the documents signed before you give a loan to someone." "You must also have some witnesses to the transaction." "Excuse me... mister!" "I'm going to the office." "Come with me." "It isn't right for you to travel in buses in this condition." "... I don't want my child to be betrayed like its mother." "He will not lead the life of a rich man's son but that of a poor woman's." "And this is one of his lessons." "Eat on time." "And don't be depressed in this condition." "Megha!" "Hurry up!" "Look!" "Mr. Vijay has introduced a bus for the entire staff!" "C'mon, madam!" "You're not going to travel in those cramped DTC buses anymore!" "You will henceforth travel in this bus!" "That's what the boss has said!" "In any cases, they keep pushing you around in those DTC buses and they hit you if you question them." "This is a great thing the boss has done by starting this bus." "You need not go upstairs, madam!" "Your desk has been arranged here, downstairs." "Why?" "This is the ninth month of your pregnancy." "He says it's dangerous for you to climb the staircase." "Where are you off to?" "You can very well run upstairs!" " Why?" " When you are pregnant, too your desk will be arranged downstairs, too." "Will I have to get pregnant to avoid the staircase?" "That's right." "What I said was true..." "but why did she slap me?" "She must've just felt like slapping someone." "Could you give my husband these keys when he returns?" "I've got to attend a friend's ceremony of pregnancy." "You haven't had a ceremony of pregnancy for me, mom." "Because we stay apart, isn't he my husband anymore?" "Am I not his wife?" "The ceremony is held in the seventh month of pregnancy..." "We can still have it in the ninth month, can't we?" "Sure!" "I'll invite everyone from the locality tomorrow." "Will you invite only people from the locality?" "I'm Mr. Vishwanath's daughter-in-law." "We must have a grand function." "Why, of course!" "I'll invite my colleagues at the office." "And you go over and invite my father-in-law." "And don't you forget to invite my husband, too." "Where's your husband, Megha?" "Won't you introduce him to us?" "We ask her where her husband is..." "and she smiles like a Goddess!" "May you be blessed..." "May you have a baby-boy!" "Let's shake...!" "Greetings." "When you gift your personal secretary with such an expensive gift on her ceremony of pregnancy people are bound to think that we share a relationship." " Don't we?" " Then tell them about it yourself." "Let me do it for you, since you're hesitating." "We are man and wife." "Our M.D. has taken the vows with me and made me his legally wedded wife." "Listen..." "They must now be wondering why your wife is not staying with you and why she's living with her mother." "Won't you answer that query?" "There... he's feeling shy again." "So let me tell you." "Just as he has taken over our company that was in the red he had also bought a girl who was in trouble." "That's me." "I've forgotten the most important part!" "Some people marry according to customs, some in courts..." "But our M.D. had a contractual wedding with me." "An agreement for one year." "He told me that in this one year, should he fall in love with me I'd be his wife forever." "Or else, he'd leave me." "He didn't fall in love with me, so he left me." "The love-making that was inevitable in the one year we spent together has given birth to our baby." "What is surprising is that he has once again fallen in love with me." "Which is why he purchased a sick unit." "...paid the staff a bonus on my birthday and arranged for a luxury bus when I became pregnant." "And now, he's giving me a diamond-studded necklace!" "Whether he gave a bonus or arranged a bus... it was all for you!" "He is a changed man." "He's in love with you." "But I have no love for your son anymore!" "The intention behind inviting you folks over was not to boast at being Mr. Vishwanath's son's wife!" "Then why did you have stage this farce?" "!" "To insult them before all these guests?" "!" "No!" "I did it only for the baby I'm carrying in my womb!" "Nobody is going to ask me who my husband is!" "But my son might be asked who his father is!" "I called everyone over..." "so they know the truth." "I'm grateful to you for having come here." "But you may leave now." "You are carrying my heir..." "my grandson in your womb." "Let's put all this behind us, Let's go home." "In the agreement, neither was it mentioned nor did I clarify what would happen of the child that might come of this union." "This baby is a receipt of our time-bound love!" "It's a copy of the life I have ruined in this contract marriage!" "This child is therefore, mine..." "and it will always be mine!" "Well said... well done." "Under the pretext of holding a ceremony of your pregnancy you've shown everyone how decent and nice you are and what a fiend I am." "I'm sorry, but you are no celestial-beauty I was dying or going mad to sleep with!" "I had made things very clear in the agreement." "And neither had you agreed to the marriage out of love for me!" "You had married me out of our own selfish reasons and solved your domestic problems in the process." "So what are you cribbing out?" "I have told you that I made a mistake that I understand a woman's position in our society." "I tore up the agreement..." "and you slapped me instead!" "You invited me to tea since I was a "guest" in "your" house!" "You call our child a receipt of our time-bound love?" "!" "You call it a copy of your ruined life?" "What do you mean by that?" "Had I forced myself upon you?" "Had I raped you?" "!" "I can buy women like you by the hours... not years!" "I am capable of doing that!" "And you know that well!" "But I still love you alone..." "know why?" "In all the days you spent with me, you thought of me alone." "But since you have left..." "I've thought only of you!" "You must support someone who wants to change for the better." "You mustn't torment him instead." "If I really wished to ruin your life I could do it at the snap of my fingers!" "I can get married again and claim that the child you're carrying, is not mine!" "But that's not how I am." "You're still the only one I truly love, Megha." "You have spurned me, insulted and humiliated me." "Anyone else in my place would have cursed you." "But I still wish you the best." "May you be happy,... forever." "Stop it, brother-in-law..." "I beg of you!" "I admit, I wasn't in love with her when I married your sister." "But I was in love with her when I had left her." "How I begged and pleaded..." "but she always rejected me!" "Did you see how she treated me today?" " Please, brother-in-law..." " Leave me alone, Sudhakar!" "Stop it, my friend!" "I implore you in the name of our friendship!" "What will I do with friends and my own people?" "No one can take Megha's place, can he?" "I've come to realize it now." "Once a woman is heart-broken..." "she can never be the same again." "Don't say such things, sir." "You will unite again, like the Divine Couple." "This story is going to end without our union, Salim." "Not at all!" "We will rest only after you have come together!" "We will prove it that you rule her heart!" "Let's go!" "Megha...!" "Madam!" " Was Vijay here?" " No." "Ask him not to step out if he comes here." "Please!" "What's wrong?" "Yashwant Singh and Khairatilal have escaped from jail and they're planning to murder him!" "I don't know what to do..." "I must find him!" "Madam..." "Yashwant and Khairatilal are going around with a knife for the master!" " Where is master?" " He is not here." "Not here?" "Then where is he?" "Where must I look?" "But I must...!" "It's no good talking to you!" "Yashwant and Khairati are out to kill her husband!" "I managed to escape." "But her husband..." " What happened to him?" " His life is in danger!" "He's not going to escape!" "Hurry up!" "Please!" "Hurry up!" "What's wrong?" "it's a traffic jam." "There seems to have been an accident." "Here's your money..." "Megha!" "Where are you going in that condition?" "To Vijay's farmhouse!" "Your uncle and Yashwant are out to kill him!" "Wait a moment..." "I've just met them at the prison." "I must make a move now." "Vijay!" "I'm leaving this message on your answering-machine!" "Our little drama has had a tremendous impact on Megha!" "She's coming to you..." "with tears in her eyes!" "You've got to pretend that Yashwant and Khairatilal have stabbed you to near-death." "I've left a bottle of red-dye on the table." "Spill some on yourself." "The moment Megha says that she can't live without you you can reveal the truth to her." "I must hang up now." "All the best!" "I could service your wife!" "As for you..." "You sent me to prison, broke Anita's heart!" "I'll send you packing in a while!" "Looks like someone is coming, wrestler!" "Leave him alone!" "He's dead!" "So Khairatilal and Yashant have finally stabbed you, haven't they?" "But you're still not dead because you've been waiting for me to arrive!" "How disgusting!" "Stop this bloody drama!" "You know I'm 9 months pregnant!" "And yet you make me run this far!" "The way you have been chasing me I began wondering if you had really fallen in love with me." "But you have convinced me today!" "Indeed!" "I have been suffering from delusions!" "How much more do you want to betray me?" "To think of the big speech you delivered at the function!" "You had compelled me to think it over again!" "You had awakened my love from its deep slumber!" "But now, that love is dead forever!" "If you ever ty to follow me again I will kill not only myself, but even the baby in my womb!" "No, Megha..." "Look at him, Megha..." "he's taken after you." "No, mother..." "I want to meet my husband first." "Where and how is he?" "Please take me to him." "Look, Vijay Megha has come back to you." "With both of you here... where will my grandson sleep?" "He's cute, all right!" "Shake, son...!" "Shake, dear..."