"Don't forget to wish the lawyer." ""Come here, Nathu." "" " Yes, sir."" "You're so very late!" ""l'm hungry." "Let's go, Gopal." "" " Come on, Sunder."" "Sunder hit Gopal and he's bleeding." "They're fighting again." "Will you say that again?" " Yes." ""What happened, Gopal?"" "Did Sunder hit you?" """ " No, father."" "I fell on a stone and started bleeding." "But Radha said Sunder hit you." "She's lying." " Yes he did!" "He did hit him!" ""Shut up, Radha!" When did he hit me?" ""She's lying, father!"" ""Well done, my son."" "You're bleeding but you won't tattle on your friend." ""Look, Radha. I've built a house" big enough for Gopal too." "Will you live in my house now?" """ " No, I won't."" "Why not?" " lt's my wish!" "I don't like your house!" "Had it been someone else in your place..." "Let me go!" ""Well?" "Don't you know, I was" a Captain in the army?" ""Let him be, sir" He's a kid." ""Keep him under control, Nathu." He's getting out of hand." "You're being like a child yourself." ""Go ahead and play, children"" ""Play with Gopal, Radha." Always play with equals." "He has a car." "But I have a plane." "I'll fly Radha all over the world." "I'll take her away one day." "No..." "Come down here and I'll show you!" "Sunder!" "What are you doing?" "!" "I threw the hook in the water and it fell on the ground." "Return my clothes to me!" "They won't get off the hook." "Like myself." "Say that again..." "I like my name on your lips." "Don't tease me." "Return my clothes to me!" "I will." "But answer my question first." "I have a hundred times." "You've refused a hundred times Say `yes' just once... or you won't get your clothes" " This is ridiculous." "Imagine for a moment that I'm not Sunder... but Gopal." "And Gopal asks you something." ""Your heart is the river Ganga" "and mine is the river Yamuna"" ""Tell me, Radha..." "will they ever find union?"" ""No!" "Never!"" ""l've spend eons" "pleading with you"" ""You'll find no other man" "as persistent as I am"" ""Will this burden" "l carry, ever lessen?"" ""Tell me, Radha..." "will our hearts ever meet?"" ""Get lost!"" ""l thirst for you as" "the earth does for rain"" ""Every breath that I take" "seems to chant your name"" ""The stones melt," "but will your heart?"" ""Tell me, Radha,..." "will our hearts ever meet?"" ""Yes, they will!" "Now go away"" ""Radha, listen..."" "Gopal's returning from London tomorrow!" "Do you hear?" "Gopal's returning from London!" "Aunty!" "She's in the prayer room." "What happened?" " Gopal..." "What happened?" "He was okay..." " Not just okay." "He's great!" "He has stood first in the whole of the University!" "Really?" " Of course." "I'm the one who tutored him!" ""Read this, if you can't believe me."" "I'll go and tell everyone." """ " Sweeten your tongue, at least."" "Later!" "Raghu!" "Look at this..." "Sunder isn't here." ""He knows, doesn't he?"" "Of course." "He's been telling everyone." "Why hasn't he come then?" "He will." "At least to the party." " Party?" "Yes. ln your honour." ""Well, lawyer?" How are you?" "Why didn't you come to receive me?" "I did." "On my bicycle." "But you sped away in your car." "I kept calling for you but you wouldn't hear me." ""You're wearing garlands," l see." "This one?" "I brought it for you." ""l wore it, because I didn't meet you."" "What's the difference between the two of us anyway?" "I feel as if I've turned a lawyer after you got the degree." "" But now that I meet you," "here you are, my friend."" "You've been away for so very long." "Let's sit here." "Have you quit the Air Force and joined flight work?" "Yes. I train people in flying." "But I don't get the one I want to take to the skies." "I can't tell you what I went through when I met Gopal today." "Mustn't you ask Gopal too?" "Do you mean?" " No." "To play together as kids "is one thing, Radha."" "But to live together as husband and wife is another." "All right. I will say it to him at the party tonight." "Congratulations." "You're one of us lawyers now." "Thank you." "Please sit down." ""Why're you hiding here, Captain?"" "I'm watching how the game goes." "Fine." "But you've glass is empty." "Let me get you a drink." "What shall I get you?" " Don't I get a drink?" "What can I get you?" " Ask what I've got for you." "What've you got?" " Look there." "I'm here for the fun of it." "But she's here to say something to you." "What?" " Only she knows." "I forgot..." "Let me get you a drink." "Don't bother - l'll get it..." "Not you." "There's no dearth of servants in this house." "Let her. lt's time she learns the ways of this family." "After all she has to come here as a bride." "You look lovely." "Who's it all for?" "What was Sakina saying?" " The truth." ""l mean, what did she say?"" " That you wanted to speak to me." ""Congratulations, Gopal."" " Thanks" "You look lovely." "Sunder hasn't come yet." "Strange fellow!" "Did you speak?" "How could I?" "There're too many people around." "Your friend Sunder isn't here?" " Must be on his way." "Here he is!" "Can't you ever be on time?" "Not even today?" "I can't hide things from you." "I have only one suit." "My pants were torn and I had to sew them." "I wanted to dress well." ""Radha's coming, you know."" "is she here?" " Yes" "Where's she?" " There." "Tell Gopal everything you want to." ""How can I, with that fool" hovering around him?" ""Stay close, Gopal."" "My heart could stop beating..." "And my pulse?" "Go and say `hi'." "I'll join you later." "Must I?" " Go on!" "Oh no!" "He's coming here." "I'll take care of Sunder." "Go and find Gopal." ""Welcome, Sunder."" "Say mister Sunder." "I'm suited and booted" "Right." "mister Sunder." "We don't meet nowadays." "Quite right." "We hardly meet." "Talk to Sakina. I'll be back." "So talk to me." "About what?" " About Radha." "Radha?" "Go ahead." "I'm told you love her." " ls it public knowledge?" "May I suggest something?" " Please do." "Ask Radha what she wants." "Suppose you both want different things?" "That's why I'm here - to confess my feelings." "I'll ask her today." "Don't worry." "Will you have a drink?" "Excuse me." "Do you see how different Sunder and Gopal are?" ""One, a worthy son of" a worthy father." "He's a lawyer and will be a judge one day." "The other one's a good-for-nothing." "And he comes here today like a band-master." ""Say whatever you will," but Sunder is a gem of a boy." ""Which is why, Captain," he's my dearest friend." "You're always biased against him." "Never mind his appearance." "He's the life and soul of any party." "What is it?" "Did you meet Sunder?" "I came to say something to you." "I've never dared to say it to you before." ""The Judge wants you, son." Come on." "I'll be back." "Your friend isn't eating." ""Sunder, won't you eat?" - l can't. I'll choke." "Why?" "Not unless I speak to her." "I'm incapable of anything." "How will you speak?" "Will you play?" "Yes. I'll play and sing." "Very good." "Music gives life meaning." ""Which is why, a heart that" "loves, will speak in song."" "Wonderful." " Such poetry." "Then develop the poem." " Go on." "Every heart that loves will speak out in song." "and a lover in a crowd will stand out." "Wonderful!" ""A heart that loves" "will speak out in song"" ""A lover in a crowd" "will stand out"" ""Having stolen my heart," "you hide yourself from me"" ""Though my love is unrequited," "my feelings for you abide"" ""This is what love is about;" "although you do not know it"" ""The candle-flame that burns" "will draw the moth to it"" ""Forgotten memories" "of our happy childhood"" ""come to trouble" "my dreams at night"" ""l've never dared" "to speak my heart"" ""Though countries seasons" "have come and gone"" ""When will these eyes" "be brave enough to speak?"" ""A lover in a crowd" "will stand out"" ""Everyone has spoken..." "but I cannot speak my heart"" ""The story of my heart" "shall remain forever untold"" ""Having united two hearts," "this outsider will leave"" ""A lover in a crowd will be" "recognised, without doubt"" ""Sakina, won't you dance?"" "Forget about me." "Ask Radha." "You wouldn't know how much I have waited for you." "I'm writing this to answer your question." "But I don't know myself what the answer is." "Shameless!" "Reading another's letter?" "Another?" "So you've discarded all of us for him?" "Never mind. I'll deliver the letter for you." "As if I couldn't do it myself." " So why did you keep it here?" "I thought I'd give it to him." " Really?" "Now wait.." "I'm taking this paper along." "I'll send you the draft notice." "Mr lawyer... could you come upstairs please?" "Sakina's calling you!" "Let me accompany you..." "Where are you going?" "Sakina called him." " lt was Radha; not Sakina." "I'm not bothered. I'm going too..." " Why not?" ""The army captain, aren't you?" Come on now!" "All right..." "let's go." "Did you call me?" " Not me. lt was Radha." ""Well, Radha?"" "Tell him!" " What's bothering you?" ""ln that case, I'll tell him."" ""Actually, Radha has..."" "Looks like you've been joking." "And I got taken in." "You didn't give him "the letter, Radha."" "What's the hurry?" "I will give it to him." "He's sitting downstairs." " He's leaving!" "I'll give it to him." "C'mon!" "My God!" "What do we do now?" " Deliver the letter?" "Hurry up." ""Coming, father."" ""Come, let's go. lf father" "comes up, it's the end."" "It's in Hindi." "My teacher always said one should learn Hindi." "I wish I had learnt it." "Gopal!" "I've got it!" " Got what?" "A priceless treasure!" ""That is, this letter."" "Letter?" " Yes!" "It will decide my fate" ""l'm at your mercy, Gopal!"" " What are you doing?" "Only you can read and tell me my fate" ""Tell me, friend, if I'm" on the Everest or in the hell ?" "What does it say ?" "Beloved ..." "Beloved ?" "Say it again." " Beloved." ""Take this cup away," for l am drunk." "What kind of a joke is this ?" " You won't understand." "Read on ln your eyes I have seen a question." "Am I right ?" "Absolutely!" "Read on I am writing to answer your question" ""Go and, give me my answer!"" ""The answer is, I don't know" what my answer is I dream of the things I would tell you" "" But I stand before you," and my tongue is tied" "This is an ancient story... that has inspired poets" "Maybe this is love" ""Yours, Radha"" "My...?" "Radha ?" ""Hold me Gopal, ere I fall"" ""What's melodrama is this, Sunder ?"" " This is love" "This thing called love ls a river of fire that drowns the lover I've seen my share of drowning lovers" "Happens only in poetry." "Have you ever been in love ?" " Yes" "With whom ?" " Radha." "is there only one Radha in the world ?" "Which other Radha ?" "There was one Radha." "She was Lord Krishna's beloved" "Oh...that Radha ?" ""For a moment, I almost died"" ""Look, my hands have gone cold." My blood seems to have turned to ice" "I'm madly in love with Radha!" "I can't live without her" "" But believe me, if you were in love" "with my Radha, I would've given her up"" "It'd break my heart." "But I'd sacrifice my love for friendship" "What are you lost in?" "I'm right here with you I was thinking..." " You think more than you do" ""Tell me, what do I do?"" ""You just do what I say," and no arguments" ""All right, no arguments." "" " First, we go boating tomorrow"" ""Yes, it's a Sunday"" "But I have work" "Can't you give a day for me?" """ " For you, I'd even give up my life"" "Then give your life." "Come with me" "Pick up the phone" "Dial a number" "This is Radha's number." " Right." "Tell her that... you're going boating tomorrow" ""Hello, Captain." "Gopal here."" " You pick up Radha at three..." "How are you?" " Doesn't matter!" ""Captain, tomorrow being a Sunday," we're going boating" "Very well." "Radha will come too" "Gopal called." "He has invited us to go boating with him tomorrow" "Us ?" " And Radha too" "Radha too?" "Or Radha only?" "I don't know... but I'm going!" """ " But of course, you won't"" ""Leave her alone." "For her, it has" just begun." "Let it happen" "What better a match for Radha?" ""Now, how would I know all that?"" " How would you?" "All you know..." ""is that in 1916, you were a Captain."" " Was I not ?" "Big party?" " No." "Small party." "For two" "Get lost" "Radha sits here" "Here's Gopal" "And here I am" "Radha of the intoxicating eyes" ""And Gopal, the friend in need"" ""My friend, and my lover"" "is this any time to come ?" "I've been waiting all my life" "Did you invite Sunder too ?" " He's the one who invited us" "The phone call ?" " He made me call you" "What're you waiting for ?" "Come along" "How are you Radha ?" "I hear you've bought a boat ?" "Yes. I'm sailing today." "It's a sight lt's a lovely boat" " Show me" ""Go on Gopal, take a look" - l'm coming too" "Where are you off to ?" "I'm showing you my boat." "Come" "Who are you looking at ?" "Gopal ?" " No..." "Mothing wrong." "Not a friend like him in the whole world" ""When I'm in pain, he cries"" ""When I'm happy, he rejoices." Like yesterday" "What happened yesterday ?" " Read your letter" ""You read it, too ?" "" " No, Gopal did"" "Gopal and I share all our secrets." ""Nice, isn't it?"" "Where's your boat ?" "How is it ?" "Such a small one ?" "How many can sit in it ?" " Two." "You and I" ""Two's a pair, three is a crowd," and four makes a gang of thieves" "Which is the pair ?" "There's only one pair." "You and I." "I'm right." "Am I not ?" "Tell me" "How do you like my boat ?" " Beautiful" ""Come over, then"" "Radha won't sit in your rotten boat." " Then will she sit in your tub ?" "She who sails with me sits in my heart" "That's a bloody lorry." " She's a nymphet" "Nymphet ?" "She's a paper boat." "And those girls are paper dolls" "Don't you show off." "Take that junk out of the waters" ""He puts a lorry in the water," and he goes begging for passengers" "Good riddance !" "So what were you saying ?" "Can you say how deep the lake is ?" " Maybe 20 or 30 feet ls there anything deeper ?" " Why not?" "The ocean" "Deeper than the ocean ?" " l don't know" ""Your eyes, Radha, your eyes." Let me drown in them" ""Sunder, this is what I don't like." "You" always make a joke out of everything" ""Sometimes, you're fun, but..." "I know" you're good at heart." "And I like you." "But everything has limits and sometimes you cross the limit" ""Tell me then, what are my limits ?"" "I don't know." " Tell me Radha!" "What are my limits?" "I don't know !" """ " Tell me, what are the limits ?"" "I don't know!" "I don't know!" ""Oh, my beloved..."" ""Oh my beloved"" ""To reach your heart" "is my only goal"" ""There is no corner in my life..."" ""that you do not invade"" ""Why are you angry ?" "Why so sad ?"" ""There is no need, for our hearts" "shall know union"" ""l shall take you in the" "circle of my arms"" ""l shall carry you away, someday"" ""Oh, my beloved"" ""To reach your heart" "is my only goal"" "Radha ?" "Gopal here" "is the Captain at home ?" " No" "And your mother ?" ""She's out, too." "Can't you tell me ?" - l'm coming this evening to see them" "Tell them it's important." "We have to discuss something" "Discuss ?" " Yes." "About you" "About me ?" ""Sakina, do you know" who called ?" "Gopal" "He's coming to meet father about something important" "About me." "What could it be ?" ""Tell me, Sakina"" ""He'll say, I don't like Radha!" She's ugly and she's foolish" "Marry her off to Sunder" "Don't you ever say that again!" "Don't even joke about it" "Serve the drinks and leave." "Girls mustn't be present on such ocassions" ""Why not, Ma ?"" "He won't be able to talk freely" "Be seated" "How are you ?" " Fine." "And you ?" ""Fine, thank you"" "How are you ?" """ " Fine, thank you"" "And your mother ?" """ " Fine, thank you"" "How are you ?" ""Fine, thank you." "And you ?"" ""Fine, thank you"" "You... here ?" "What madness is this?" "Why did you have to scale the wall?" "For you I could wade through "a river of fire, the sea of death"" "What kind of a joke is this?" ""Sunder, please go away"" "" But, why ?"" ""Downstairs, they're discussing" something important." "About me I know" "Gopal is here." " Naturally." "Who else do I have ?" ""Oh, why don't you understand?" Go away now" "Till death do we part You look beautiful" ""l tell you again, Sunder" is a wonderful match" "You expect me to give my Radha away to that oaf?" ""He has neither education, nor wealth" How will he maintain my Radha ?" ""lf someone asks what he does," what am I to say ?" "That he left the Air Force to join a flying club?" "No way" "Marriage will make Sunder a responsible man." "He's a gem of a person." " But I am no jeweller I'm sorry to be refusing you I know you're his friend and you've come here for his sake" "But I'm helpless" "May I suggest something ?" " Yes ?" "We'd be willing to let Radha marry you" "Me ?" "Consider it - l can never" "Are we so lowly ?" " l didn't mean that" "There must be a reason" "is Radha unworthy ?" " What are you saying?" "The man who gets to marry her will be very lucky" "Then what's your objection ?" " Objection ?" "Not a matter of objection." "A matter of obligation" ""l'm just as helpless," as you are" ""Out of my way, Sunder"" "How can I ?" "My fate is to be decided today" ""Then, hear me out !" "I don't like you." Have you ever seen your face ?" "I see it now. ln your eyes." "And it looks all right" ""No, it doesn't !" "A man must" be more than just a funster" "What must he be ?" " Let me go" "Tell me what a man must be and I'll become that I don't know !" "Don't tell Radha that Gopal came for Sunder" "Just say he came to talk of marriage... and we said we'd think it over" "One can't say 'yes' at the very beginning I'm sure Gopal will be back to say that he'll marry her" ""l tried everything, Sunder, but..." "" " Say no more, Gopal"" "" Believe me, I tried"" " Why are you repeating it?" "I don't want you to think that..." " Does it remain to be said that... you'd leave no stone unturned for me?" "I have to become something." "Radha said that too" "A man must make more of himself than just a clown I will. I'll make myself worthy" ""Don't be sad." "Come on, smile" Keep smiling." "Always" "You have a beautiful smile" "Only Radha's smile can match the beauty of your smile" "Her smile is as radiant as all the sunflowers in the world" ""Well, then..."" "Where are you taking me?" """ " Come with me, I'll explain"" "What is the matter?" "Where are we headed?" "I don't understand this" "You'll come to know" ""So boys, you have been briefed about" your mission." "Only one more thing I've to tell you." "Don't forget... that you are flying the Indian Air Force" "And the Air Force has full faith "in your courage, and your patriotism"" "Sunder... you... here ?" "What's this Sunder?" "This uniform..." "these planes...?" "What's all this?" "It was you who told me that there's more to life than being just a clown" "A man must make something of himself" ""This is an Air Force uniform," and I fly that airplane I'm flying off today." " Where ?" "I'm not allowed to reveal that" ""Just a minute, Gopal"" "I'm leaving. I don't know when I'll return" "" Before I leave, I want" to tell you something" ""Go ahead, Sunder"" "You're everything to me..." ""mother, father, brother and friend"" "While I am gone no third man must come between Radha and me" "Say you promise" ""Tell me Gopal, you promise" "l promise, Sunder"" "It's another matter if I die" " Die ?" ""What are you saying, Sunder?"" ""l won't die, Radha. I won't die."" "I'll come back to you... for you" ""Sunder, listen..."" ""Sunder, listen to me" l have something to tell you" "Don't get the wrong idea "l don't love you, Sunder"" "I don't love you !" ""Take care, Sunder"" "I won't die Radha I'll come back to you... for you" ""Gopal, I can face every danger" in this world" "What I can't fight is the darkness in my mind... which seem to grow when I don't hear from Radha" "A darkness that not all the light in the universe can quell" "Go to Radha today." "Tell her to write to me" ""Else, I'll go mad"" "Go to Radha today." "Tell her to write to me" ""Else, I'll go mad"" ""Remember, how we used to play family" when we were kids?" ""You and I, and Sunder"" "You would insist that I stay with you" ""And Sunder used to say," Radha will live with me" "He says that even today." " Even today ?" "Why haven't you answered his letters ?" "I just haven't." " Why not ?" ""Child's play is one thing, and making" a family is quite something else" ""For me, Sunder is no more" than a childhood friend" "If you had a woman's heart you'd know my feelings" "What are your feelings ?" "I love someone else." " Whom ?" "You" "Are you mad ?" " No." "But you're driving me mad" "Even hearing this is a sin for me!" " Then I shall pay for your sins" "" But tell me, for once," have you never loved me ?" "No!" " You're lying!" "Lying" "Your relationship with Sunder has always silenced you" ""Were it not for my friendship," l would've told you something today" ""l plead with you, tell me" what you want to say I want to talk of Sunder who's battling death" ""Day and night, he lives" in the shadow of death" "He has only one image before his eyes" "Yours" ""lf he wanted to suffer, why" did he have to choose you?" "I have enough pain of my own." "Why did I choose you ?" "Kishan..." "What is it ?" "A letter. ln Hindi." "From Radha." "Read it out for me" "Dear Sunder..." "Take care of yourself." "You said you'd return to me I wait for that day." ""Yours, Radha"" "Mine." "Radha" "You're lucky to have Radha's love and Gopal's friendship" ""Yours, Radha"" "The teacher was right." "The knowledge of Hindi is necessary" ""Sing something else, won't you?" You're always singing that sad song" "There's much in life to be happy about" "You have reason to be happy." "Your girlfriend didn't break your heart" "Your friend didn't betray you." ""Else, you too would've said it too"" ""My friend, is a friend no more." "My love, is my love no more"" ""My life, I trust you not"" "Nothing can be done." "Our men are besieged" "We can't even send them supplies" "Why not ?" "The planes can't reach them" "The opening to the valley is narrow... and every inch is being held by the enemy" "Give me permission sir." "Let me try" "You're a bomber pilot." "This needs a Dakota" "No job is too small in times of war." ""Give me the permission, sir."" "You're asking for death" "Death for myself." "Life for my brother soldiers" ""Give me a chance, sir. I promised" someone I'd do something worthy." "Let me go" "I told him he was asking for death" ""He said, it would mean life" for his brother soldiers" "Just what I feared What a man he was" "We regret to inform you that "your friend, Flt.Lt. Sunder Khanna..."" "met his death while fighting the enemy" "This award is presented posthumously..." ""to Flt.Lt. Sunder Khanna," 35 Squadron... who risked his life to drop supplies to soldiers at the front" "He gave his life to filfill his mission" "but he battled death as he continued to drop supplies" "Flt.Lt. Khanna has upheld the highest ideals of the Air Force" ""His courage, his spirit of sacrifice" and his sense of duty will go down in the annals of the Indian Air Force in golden letters" "For selfless service to the country... the Government of India presents this award to Flt.Lt. Khanna" "Flt.Lt. Khanna's dear friend" "I won't die. I'll come back... to you... for you" "His words still echo in my ears" ""l'll return, Radha. I will." To you...for you" "What a man he was." "So full of love" "He'd sacrifice his life for a friend... and the world for his beloved" "While leaving he entrusted something to me" "His beloved ?" "You knew ?" "I told him... not to misunderstand..." "that I didn't love him" ""l loved you, Gopal..." l love you" "Tell me the truth." "Don't you love me ?" ""You do, don't you ?"" ""Do I write ""My beloved""?"" ""Do I write ""My Beauty""?"" ""Or do I say ""My sweetheart""?"" "I'm at a loss What should I write?" "Let go of my dress!" " Give me my letter" ""Let go, I say" "" " First, my letter"" "Why ?" "Aren't you ashamed of reading someone else's love-letter ?" "Aren't you ashamed of writing love-letters ?" ""Do not be angry" "when you read my letter"" ""For you are my life," "you are my very own"" ""l could call you the moon," "but the moon is flawed"" ""l could call the sun," "but the sun is not perfect"" ""The only thing left to say" "is that I love you"" ""You're as pure as the Ganga," "as pristine as the Yamuna"" ""You're so close to my heart" "that you are my very being"" ""l fear that I might die" "waiting for you to be mine"" ""Do not be angry" "when you read my letter"" ""For you are my life," "you are my very own"" "Gopal!" "My son!" "My darling!" "Come with me." " What is the matter?" "Take your father's blessings What's happening ?" "Do it." "Pay him your obeisances." " But what's it about?" ""Ask for your father's blessings," Mr Magistrate" "Magistrate ?" " You've become a magistrate" "May you live long." "Ask for his blessings" "Your son has fulfilled your wish" ""Son, vow that you shall" always do justice" ""l vow, I shall always do justice" "" " First of all, give me justice"" "What...?" " Get a daughter-in-law for me" "As you wish." "Have I ever disobeyed you?" "Go ahead and do what you want" "Then I'll go to her house to finalise the match right today" "" But, who's the girl ?"" " As if you don't know...?" "How would I know ?" "I practise law." "I don't chase girls" "Radha" " Who ?" "Radha ?" ""Oh, well ..."" " Why?" "Don't you like her ?" "How does that matter ?" "A noose is "a noose, be it of silk or cotton"" "I know everything" ""When you read my letter," do not be angry" ""For you are my life," my very own" ""That I am, for others." "But for you," l will always remain the same." "Your willing prisoner" " Prisoner ?" "My mother will go to see your mother very soon" "Why ?" ""She'll say, ""You have a queen" "in your house, and I have a slave"" "Then the queen will buy this slave" "And your mother will take home a devoted maid" "Gopal !" "Come here" "I've been waiting for you." """ " What is it, Ma ?"" "I nearly went mad with joy when I heard the news" "What news?" " You'll be overjoyed to hear it" "Read this." "Sunder is alive" "God be thanked !" "What else could I want?" "You've become a magistrate." "I'm getting a daughter-in-law" ""And now, God has given me" Sunder back too I'm going to the temple." "I must thank The Gods" ""l didn't know this, Sunder"" "You don't know what a terrible thing I was about to do" ""l was about to betray you," usurp your place" ""Had it happened, how would I" have faced you ?" "What man would've trusted a friend then?" "What man would swear by friendship then?" ""Thank God, you're alive"" ""Did you hear, Gopal ?" Sunder is alive !" "I'm so happy I can't tell you" "How could we have got married without him ?" "Our wedding would've been incomplete" "Hurry!" "It's time for the train" "Get up !" "Move I'm not going." " Why ?" "If he doesn't see you with me at "the station, what will he think?"" "That's what I'm wondering. lf he sees "you with me, what will he say?"" ""He'll say, ""Congratulations Gopal," "Radha is yours"" "And what do I say ?" ""Say, ""Meet Radha" "My Radha"" "He's your best friend." "He must be the first to know of our marriage" "He should be the last to know." ""ln fact, he shouldn't know at all"" ""Who knows what dreams, what desires" he comes with ?" "What dreams ?" "What desires ?" "Dreams about you" "Now my mother will never go to meet yours" "Why not ?" ""Why not, I ask you?"" " What would Sunder think ?" "What about what I think ?" "What will my parents think ?" "Sunder is my dearest friend" "And I am to be sacrificed for "your friendship... my life, my love"" ""First, I am sacrificing" my own love and my happiness" ""And next, I shall ask for yours"" "I won't sacrifice myself !" "I won't!" "Do you hear me ?" "Go away !" "Go away from here !" "May The Lord preserve you !" "We received your wire today lsn't Gopal here ?" "Where is he ?" "Mr Magistrate !" "How are you ?" ""How are you, Sunder ?"" " See for yourself." "All in one piece I'm not an easy man to break." " You've come at the right time" "We were so upset." "And look at you now" "Stand straight." " What're you doing ?" "I'm casting away the evil eye" "Do it to Gopal instead. I'm tough." "I'd come back even from death" "To meet Gopal." " Death to your enemies" "What are you doing with the papers ?" "Here's a man back from the dead." "You can't have bigger news" "And the dead man is sitting right in front of you" "Come off it" "You're still the same ebullient self" "" But you've changed, Gopal."" " What do you mean ?" "You aren't the Gopal I knew." "You don't even seem happy at that I've returned I thought you'd go wild with joy" "What a thing to say ?" "How can I not be happy to have you back ?" "Maybe I'm just too old to break out into a jig" ""Tell me, how's Radha ?"" "She's well." "Very well" ""Look, I still get the gooseflesh" when I even think of Radha" ""And my heart says, when she sings," let me play on" "Come Gopal." "Let's go to Radha's place" "There can be no hurdle now." "I've become worthy" "Why not?" "She's been waiting for you" "See her... ?" " l've things to do" "You haven't yet done the most important thing in life !" "What's that ?" """ " Falling in love, you fool"" "I've been away for two years." "And what've you done in two years ?" "Couldn't you even find yourself a Radha ?" "Shame on you" "Yes." "The good-for-nothing oaf." "Sunder" ""Janki, look who's here"" " Who is it ?" "Sunder !" "My son !" ""Radha, look who's come home"" "Sit down I cried so much for you" "We got terrible news" ""How are you, Sunder ?"" "I promised I'd return." "See?" "I'm back" "All in one piece" "Why is everyone standing ?" "Sit down I'll get some drinks" ""Excuse me for a moment, please"" ""l want to see, to feel, the one" thing that didn't let me die" "We had heard..." " And it was true" "Death was certain" "My plane turned into a fireball." "I don't even know where l fell" "For 2 years I was neither dead nor alive" "Dead...?" " Yes." "Head injury. I lost my memory I couldn't remember a thing I was moved from one hospital to another" "Do you know the first word I spoke when I came around?" ""Your name Radha, your name"" "Only your name stood between me and my death" "A drowning man will clutch at anything. I clung on to your name" ""When I was sinking, drowning" in the dark abyss of death... I clung to your name..." "your memories" "Do you know what saved me ?" "What ?" " Your letter" "My letter ?" "But I didn't ..." " Have you forgotten ?" "You gave me the letter and you asked me to post it" "I read the letter over and over again I usually keep my wallet inside my right pocket" "But your letter was in the wallet." "So I kept in in my left pocket... close to my heart. lt's as if my death bounced off your letter" "" Believe me Radha, I've crossed" the river of no return... to come back to you." """ " Not the letter, Sunder"" "That isn't what saved your life." "It was her prayer" ""And her unwavering love, that stood" like a wall between you and your death" "You're crying?" "Just because you hear this?" "What's there to cry about?" ""Here I am, in front of you." "Alive"" "Here you are." "With me." "Please don't cry" ""Don't cry, Radha." "Don't"" "Death I've left behind." ""Ahead, life lies"" "A life to be lived together." "In happiness." "Please smile" "Tell her to smile" "She couldn't even bear to hear it." "This is painful" "Her smiles give me life." "But her tears could kill me" "If that is the way she broke down after hearing my story... how she must've pined for me" "How much Radha loves me" ""Yes, she loves you very much"" "Still standing?" "Sit down." "Have something to eat I must go now" "But I'll come everyday." ""Say what, Gopal?"" "Did you see how Sunder has changed?" "And he looks so gallant in uniform" ""An officer, after all." "Like me."" "Why hasn't Gopal's mother spoken to us yet ?" ""Rather than jump to conclusions," we should speak to her first" "We must" "Ma "" " What is it, son ?"" "Please get me married." "Fast" "I'll go and see Radha's mother" " Don't go to Radha's mother I'll even marry the ugliest girl in the world" "But don't mention Radha ever again" "What's wrong with Radha?" "I don't like her anymore" "But consider the fact that I have given my word" "They didn't come to me." "I went to them asking for her" "Because you said so." "For your sake." " Refuse them." "For my sake" "Tell them that Gopal is a changed man" "Just make it clear" "Captain ?" "I heard everything" "Please do not go by what he says." "He doesn't know what he's saying" "So speaks the boy's mother" "You are girl's father" "Will your daughter be happy married to a man ... who doesn't want her ?" ""Forgive me, but this is true"" "I won't marry Radha." "Come what may" "I didn't stay to be insulted anymore" "Naturally." "Did they expect you to beg ?" "I'll confront Gopal." "I'll ask him" "Not Gopal." "Meet Sunder" "He's no less." "He's an Air Force officer" "And he has always loved Radha" ""He even asked for her hand," but we refused" "And what does he lack ?" "He's young and handsome" "Weddings must be don with due dignity" "What is this ?" " My wedding invitation" "You're a lucky man I have something for you too" ""What's this, sir ?"" " Your posting orders" "Where am I being posted ?" "Air Adviser's Office." "London" "So you can honeymoon in Europe" "Bring her quickly." "They're waiting" ""What's this, Radha ?"" "Nothing." "Your joke has come true." "I'm marrying Sunder" "Wait." "The knot's undone" ""Go on, Gopal." "Tie it so tight" that it never comes loose" "I am born anew" "I am entering a new life" ""l have left my house, my home," far behind" "Now I want to forget everything I want to hold you in my eyes forever ln my heart" "Are you praying to me already ?" "I'm still alive" "Promise me" " What madness is this?" "Keep me with yourself always." " Get up." "That isn't your place" ""No, give me your word" "" " What are you doing, Radha?" "Get up"" ""Your place is in my eyes," in my heart" "Promise me you'll always stay by me" "Never let anyone come between us" "No one will" "Isn't he handsome?" "Our photographs look so lifeless without his" "These two mean so much to me" "Gopal's friendship and your love I can't live without either" "What's this ?" "Sadness?" "On such a day ?" "I'm smiling" "You look lovely when you smile" "As though a million stars are dancing with bells on their feet" "As if the Moon itself sings of love" "You love me so much?" "Yes" "You love me so much?" "What are you looking at?" "You" "Remember what I said?" "I'd take Radha around the world" ""Someday, I'd take you away," and the world would see" "Where did it fall ?" "What did you wish for ?" "Happiness for you and peace for myself" "You must make a wish too" "What could I wish for when I have you ?" "I dare not ask God for more" "Happy ?" "Very happy." "And you ?" ""l'm in Europe with Radha." "lt's like being in Heaven"" ""But there's something missing...." "your presence"" ""When you get this we'll" "be in Paris"" ""Couldn't you join us there ?"" ""Do come, if not to Paris," "then at least to Switzerland"" "Give me some money." "I'm going to the hairdresser" "What's that?" ""Oh, for a bird's nest" on top of your head?" "Costs 80 francs Eighty?" "Hindustani wives look fine in plaits" "And you can use flowers from the flower-pot in the anteroom" "No. I want a bouffon." " Let me make it for you I'll make you a nest for all of Paris to see" ""Say what, I could put in" a few sparrows too" ""For 80 francs, I'd willingly" become your hairdresser" "That I won't have" "All this window shopping is going to kill us" "Staying alive is as important as shopping" "Sit down and listen" "Did you see the price tag on that bag ?" "780 francs" "What about the silly bagpipe ?" "575 francs" "So we'll skip the dinner" "Great." "We've already skipped lunch." "How will we survive ?" "On the wind in the bagpipe ?" "You must understand." "We're tourists." "We can't spend too much" "Let's buy one thing" " The purse" ""No, the bagpipe. lt's as" beautiful as a woman" "They both have music" "Such poetry !" "Let's forget both" ""You're cross." "Well, men have" always been martyrs I'll be a martyr too" ""Go on, buy your purse"" "They must be bombs in real life" "Let's hurry or the show will start by the time we get there" "Get this clear." "Only I am going to the show" ""Oh, no." "We are" "No, only I"" "So you want to see this alone lt's no place for decent women" "But it is for decent men ?" "It's different for men" " Sure!" "No matter what happens... men will always be men." "Narrow minded and outdated" "Outdated" ""And remember, where l don't go," you don't lf l do ?" "I've seen the likes of you" "Marriage...." "Huh !" "Wives think marriage is a prison" "And they the jailors" "" But remember, Madame jailor," prisoners can escape" ""Here, tahe your bag"" "What's going on?" "The show has begun." "You can take the front seat" "I feel ashamed just watching this" "But you don't mind watching them?" "They're different." "Their job is to entertain men" "Can't a wife entertain her husband ?" "She'll lose him otherwise What a shameless thing to say!" "Shame on you and your outdated ideas" "Who says my ideas are outdated ?" ""l do, your wife." "You and" your ideas are old I'm old...?" " Yes !" "Old" ""God help me, I've got myself" "an old man"" ""He goes to the garden" "with everyone else"" ""But they bring flowers," "and he gets me a cabbage"" ""Oh what do I do" "with my old man ?"" ""l'm young and pretty and" "graceful as a bird"" ""He's old and greying" "and reaching dotage"" ""What is to become" "of me and my old man ?"" ""He brings me here" "to the land of fairies"" ""But is cross with me" "when I drop my veil"" ""My life is ruined" "because of my old man"" ""God help me, I've" "got myself an old man"" "I'm so cold" "I'm freezing" "Drink this." "You'll turn into fire" "Look" "Shall we go out there?" "What do we do now ?" "What happened ?" ""When the bells rang," my pulse seemed to stop" "Your pulse should racing today" "Why?" "It's your birthday" "Happy Birthday" "What do I give you today ?" "You've given me all your love" "But I'll give you something more ... something incomparable" "You'll agree when you see" "Get dressed quickly." "I'll answer the phone" "What kind of a joke "is this, Sunder ?"" "" But, why ?"" ""Oh, all right." Near the waterfall ?" "Close your eyes" "This is my gift !" "What have you to say ?" "have I kep you waiting ?" " No" ""Well, how is my present ?"" ""Gopal, you've brought a warmth" to these icy mountains" "Many happy returns" "Thank him." "He has come all the way from Bombay for you I'm sorry I've come here empty-handed" "But you have a teeming "heart, don't you ?"" ""My friend, we believe in" trading in hearts" "Keep yourselves company while I organise lunch." "See me at the restaurant" "How are you ?" "How do I seem ?" "Don't I look happy ?" "Or can't you bear to see me happy ?" "What are you saying ?" "Why have you come ?" "Ask Sunder that" ""He phoned me, sent me" letters and telegrams.... urging me to come" "He pleaded with me." "I couldn't refuse him" "That's just it." "You never can refuse" "One look from you could give awa the truth and end this story" ""Those who make sacrifices, don't" come back to destroy others" ""Whatever you may think," l've come only for Sunder's sake" ""Then leave for my sake, and don't" come into my life ever again" "A married woman's life is a rainbow in a storm... and can end like a line drawn on water..." ""which is and, yet isn't"" "No there." "Sit here. lt's been ages since I saw you two together" ""Go on, strike up a conversation"" ""Radha, how are you?"" " Fine." "How are you?" ""Fine, thank you"" "The end of the conversation?" "is there nothing more on earth to talk about?" "Are you corresponding with your mother?" "Yes ls my mother back from Hardwar?" """ " She will, surely !"" "Enough!" "Now it's my turn" ""Tell me, where have you been" in Europe?" "What have you seen?" "Nowhere" "Then I'll take you around." "We're going to travel together" ""Well, Radha?"" "Only two things I treasure in life." "You and him" ""Without either of you," life would be miserable" ""Good you're here, Gopal"" "Made my day" "Let me order for something to eat" "Here sits Gopal" "" Beside Gopal, Radha"" "And I... there ln front of Gopal and Radha" "You're lost again." "Come in and see the arrangements" "The three of us are together again after ages." "Celebrating your birthday" ""That, too, here in Europe." Now here's the programme" ""First, we go to the casino"" ""Now that he's here, he must" see the casino" "Then we eat dinner here" "How does it sound ?" " Lovely" "Will Gopal like it ?" " Why not ?" "He hasn't come yet." "Let me call him up" ""Strange, she says he has left"" ""l'm a married woman, Gopal"" ""Those who make sacrifices, don't" "come back to destroy others"" "I couldn't bring much for you." "Just a few things..." "All this wasn't necessary." ""Tell me, how was Europe?"" "Great!" "I didn't even realise how fast time flies" ""You are happy, aren't you?" Yes" ""l'm very happy, Sakina."" "" But once, Gopal dropped by."" " Gopal ?" "In Europe ?" "Sunder had called him over for my birthday" "So what?" "Whatever happened between you and Gopal is a matter of the past" ""No Sakina, I'm afraid."" " Of what?" "Sunder can't live without Gopal just as he can't live without me" ""He would breathe a sigh," and he would tell me..." ""Sunder, you've very lucky..."" ""to have a friend like Gopal" "and a sweetheart like Radha"" "Then he'd start humming." "The same song every time" "Heart rending" "What song ?" "It still gives me gooseflesh." "Want to hear it ?" "I'll sing it" ""My friend was no friend"" ""My beloved was not true"" ""l have no faith left in life"" ""The one I gave my love"" ""Was it not you, my friend ?"" ""You were the one"" ""The one who walked with me" "You were the one"" ""There are no more secrets"" ""l have no faith left in life"" ""The soft embraces" "The throaty whispers"" ""Were you not the one ?" " You were the one"" ""Tears in her eyes when we parted" "Were my pearls"" ""Were you not the one ?"" ""That night of passions is spent"" ""l have no faith left in life"" ""Sunder, what's wrong ?"" "Nothing" "I remembered the singer." "How he must have loved her" "Whom ?" "She left him and she married his friend" "I'm not surprised about "the girl, Radha"" "" But about the friend, Gopal"" "How could he have declared love to his friend's fiancee ?" "He should have killed himself !" "Like the poet did... with the girl's name on his lips" "The poet expressed his pain in song" "But there are some who suffer in silence" "They can say nothing" "Bye" ""l asked you once before," and I ask you again" "Don't come to my house." "Not even if Sunder insists I beg of you" ""Don't come to my house." "Not even" "if Sunder insists. I beg of you"" "Mrs Mehra has called several times." "She wants you at the party by eight I've laid out your clothes." " l'm not going to the party" "Listen..." " Yes ?" "I'm not at home for any caller." "Also Sunder" "Always late." "You'll never change" "Have you thought of those who wait for you ?" "What happened ?" "You didn't even notice my saree" "Nice." " You didn't even see it I've seen it now." "It's very nice" "Don't sit now." "We're late already" "A while longer won't matter - lt will" "Wing Commander Mehra is throwing this party for us" "Get ready." "Fast" "Lots of people are coming I'm in no mood for partying" "You're sitting again?" "What's come over you today ?" "Don't even ask." "This has never happened before" "Gopal saw me." "And he ignored me." "I called out for him." "And he pretended not to hear" ""l went to his house, and he was at" home then." "They said he wasn't in" "I was stunned" "He's my friend" "You are his friend I will have nothing to do with him anymore" "There are other places we can go to." "There are others we can meet" ""Get up and go change, While you're" "about it, change your mood, too"" "Why is my eye twitching ?" "Listen..." "How does the necklace look ?" ""Nice, but isn't this a mismatch?"" " Why ?" "You look as gorgeous as a queen." "Not the soldier's wife you are" "What do I wear then ?" " How about that set..." "Here's the key." "Choose what you want" "Don't be cross." " Why not ?" "You never like my choice" "No!" "It's beautiful!" "First class!" """ " Go on, get it"" ""When you read my letter"" ""Don't be angry"" ""For, you are my life"" ""You are my very own"" ""You're pure as the Ganga" "As pristine as the Yamuna"" ""You're so close to me," "that you're my very being"" "Don't read this" "Who wrote it ?" "Who wrote that letter ?" "No one..." "I don't know who !" "I haven't even read it properly I'll take it." "You get ready." "They've already called once" ""Mrs Mehra?" "Yes, it's me"" "He came home late "Yes, we're just coming"" "We'll be there in 15 minutes" ""Yes, we're coming"" ""l told her, we'd be there" in 15 minutes" "But we must start now" "Mrs Mehra's parties are like a parade" ""You're standing ..." "Do sit." "Oh no," "why are you sitting ?" "...stand up"" "And she loves to feed people." "You should make her run the mess" ""Still not ready?" "Just think," everyone will be waiting for us" "You look so handsome" "Shall we ?" "I've forgotten my handkerchief" "Why the excuse ?" "I was wondering why you had to tear the letter" "What else was I supposed to do ?" "Preserve it all my life ?" "You have preserved it." "Till now" "To show it to you" "To show me ?" "Why did you tear it up then ?" "Why did you tear it ?" "I was scared" "Of whom ?" " You !" "Why ?" "In case you misunderstood" "Who wrote it ?" " l don't know" ""Tell me the truth, who wrote it ?" - l tell you I don't know" "I got it before we were married." "You were at war" "So what if I weren't here ?" "Why didn't you show it to him ?" "To whom ?" " Gopal" "That which I am going to do now !" ""No, Sunder !"" ""Till I know who wrote this letter," l will be walking on hot coals" ""When I get to know, I will" put a bullet through his heart" "This toast is not for Sqn Ldr Sunder." ""His squadron, his wings..."" "the Indian Air Force and the entire nation are proud of his bravery" "This toast is for the one whose name wasn't in the papers" "The one who wasn't awarded the gallantry medal" ""And she is Sunder's girlfriend," and now his wife." "Radha" "Everyone had accepted that Sunder was alive" "Radha was the only one who refused to accept it" "Your love and your loyalty snatched Sunder back from the jaws of death" "We're proud of women like you" "Don't drink anymore" "Why don't you drink too?" "This is "to you, your love and loyalty"" "What are you doing ?" "Today is our anniversary too" "Today was the day we got married" "Joined in matrimony" ""Now after a year, for the first time," we understand each other" "We know each other now." "Don't we ?" "Let's drink to the new understanding" "Radha will sing for us l can't sing" "Have you forgotten how to sing ?" "" But, I..."" ""Come on Radha, sing for us"" "Please help me out of this" "How can I sing now ?" "Why not ?" ""She'll not only sing," but she'll dance for us" "This is the right time and the right place" ""lf not today, when" are you going to sing?" ""Right." "When, if not now?"" "I'll do whatever you ask me today." "For your sake" ""Oh my love, my beloved"" ""We're two bodies but one being"" ""Like two wishes in one heart"" ""This is the holy union of" the Ganga and the Yamuna" ""The truth lies before us"" ""The past was just a dream"" ""We mortals have made" "this earth our home"" ""lf nothing else we are human"" "Once I know who wrote that..." "Once I know who wrote that letter... lf l could tell you just once who wrote it...." "l knew the letter would create trouble someday." "But you wouldn't listen" "He keeps asking who wrote the letter l don't know what to say" " You should've said Gopal wrote it lt wasn't so easy." "He was holding a revolver. lt was loaded" "He wanted to kill." "Not me." "But the one who wrote it" "Let him empty his revolver today I'm going to Sunder." "To tell him it was I who wrote the letter" "But Radha is yours." "Only yours" "You... here ?" "I have something to say" "Go ahead" "Do you love me ?" "Need I say how much ?" "How much ?" "So much that if you were to ask me for my life... I'd tell you it's a trivial thing to ask" ""lf you were to kill me, I'd write" a suicide note before I died" "Will you hear more ?" "I will never be able to repay your debt" "Anyone else in your place would've married Radha" "Stop this nonsense." " Let me say it" "No friend can do as much as you have done" "Radha's parents liked you" ""For a while, I was taken for dead"" "But you stood true to your promise" "You promised me... you wouldn't let anyone stand between me and Radha" ""lf you hadn't kept your promise," it would've killed me" "Remember?" "I used to say that you need a friend's shoulder to weep upon" "And you need a friend to be your pallbearer" "Now you know how much I love you" ""Anyway, forget all this"" "What did you want to tell me?" "Nothing" "I couldn't even tell Gopal" "Come here" ""Tell me, just once, tell me," "l am your life, your everything"" "Say it" "You are my everything !" "You are my life" ""The soft embraces" "The throaty whispers"" ""Were you not the one ?" "You were the one"" ""Tears in her eyes when we parted" "Were my pearls"" ""Were you not the one ?"" ""That night of passions is spent"" ""l have no faith left in life"" ""The heady night is past." "Dreams are no more"" "Why do you blame life ?" "Why don't you say that you don't trust me ?" "Say there's no place for me in your life" ""That's what you mean, don't you?" "Go on, say it"" "There's no place for me in this house" "Kill me if you want to !" "Throw me out if you wish" "" But for God's sake," don't sing that song" "I can't bear those poisoned barbs" "You don't like the song ?" "Then I won't sing it" "I'm leaving" "Where to ?" "I don't know" "Leaving your home ?" "Are you leaving me ?" ""Don't leave, Radha"" ""Don't leave your home, Radha"" ""You know that my happiness, my life," "my love, everything is in this house"" "It's all about your love" ""Without you, I cannot live" " But now, I can't live with you"" "I can't bear your pain I married you to make you happy." ""Not to give you pain." "But, if you..."" ""You haven't given me pain, Radha." l've brought this upon myself" "But why ?" "Do I need to say ?" "Then what can I do to end your suffering ?" "How do I make you believe me ?" ""l swear, ever since we got married" l've thought of no-one else" "Look at me..." "look into my eyes" "What do you see ?" ""l see only love, Radha." Love and the truth" "" But when I touch you, I feel as if" "someone before me, also touched you"" "The thought makes my heart burn with jealousy" "Doubt lurks in the dark shadows "of my heart, and tears me to pieces"" "You look like a dark apparition !" "And then I begin to doubt you" ""l become desperate, uncontrollable !" My whole life seems to flounder I don't know what to do I can't be angry with you nor can I blame anyone else" "Tell me what to do." "What can I do ?" "I feel like picking up this gun and shooting myself" ""He shot at himself." "Somehow," "l clung to him, and he missed"" "What should I do ?" "I can neither live without him nor can I live with him" "That letter is like a dagger in his hands with which... he stabs at his own heart and he stabs at my heart" ""l could bear my own pain," but I can't bear his pain I wish...." "Have you gone mad ?" "I came to ask you to take care of your friend" "All he has is my love and your friendship" "The pall of suspicion clouds my love for him" "Maybe he can still cling on to your friendship" "Take care of him" "Radha has left !" "Radha has gone away somewhere" "Gone away ?" "Why don't you say she has escaped ?" "Yes !" "She has escaped" "She has escaped from you !" "And she has come here" "Radha has escaped the cluthes of your cruelty" "Cruelty ?" "How would you know who was cruel to whom ?" "What a hell she left me to live in" "You don't know what wounds I carry in my heart" "Today these wounds have been rippen open I've been betrayed" "She has betrayed me!" "Radha !" "My wife" "That's a lie Lie ?" "is it a lie ?" ""Ask her, who is man" who shadows our life?" "Who is he ?" "Ask her who he is" "I know who's more precious to Radha than anybody else on earth" "And I know the shadow that darkens your lives" "Gopal !" "No !" "You know ?" "And I know who wrote the letter" "Who wrote it ?" "I wrote it" "Now listen to why I wrote it I was in love with Radha" "Lie !" "That's a lie !" "Tell me that's a lie" ""At least, lie to me !" And tell me it's a lie" "A pity is it isn't a lie" ""Till today, I never found the courage" to tell you the truth" ""And today, you haven't the courage" to hear the truth" "The truth is that I loved her dearly." "Just the way you loved her" "The only difference was that "you spoke of it, and I couldn't"" ""For years, I stifled my love." But I never brought it to my lips" "Only because you loved Radha And you were a friend" ""For the sake of our friendship," l stayed silent" ""As with the news of your death," my love for Radha was true too" "We were even to get married" "Then we heard you were alive I retreated" "I sacrificed my love for my friendship" "And Radha became yours." "Only yours" ""When she entered your home," she was pure as the Ganges" ""And today, when she has left" "your house, she is still as pure"" ""Now take your gun," and pump it into my bosom" ""Well done, Gopal" "A sacrafice, again ?"" "Just like throwing a tip at a beggar I'm not a beggar" "I am your friend I was your friend... but you never understood me" "Or this need never have happened lf only you had revealed your feelings... if only you had spoken your mind... three lives would've been spared this torture" "If only you had let me do what you have done... lf only you had told me once... I would've have stepped out of your way" ""Well, better late than never"" "It can still be done" "No !" "It cannot be done" ""l ask you, and I ask you"" ""You who loved me, and" you who married me" "Who gave the two of you the right to decide about my life again ?" "What do you think I am ?" "It is true that I have loved" "Not that I was the first woman to fall in love" "Love can't be helped." "It happens" "Marriage is an article of faith." "One nurtures a marriage" "And I have nurtured my faith" "Desire is like a flame." "Love burns" "But faith has to stand rock solid I am no wax-doll or some commodity to be passed on from one to another" "Bravo !" ""One makes me his sacrificial lamb," and now the other too ?" "There will be no more sacrifices" ""The one who must, leaves"" "" Before you leave, tell me" where do I go ?" "What about my marriage ?" "Am I to ask someone else to marry me again ?" "Am I to ask someone else to make me his bride again ?" ""Tell me." "Look at me, I'm the bride" you married and took home" "Remember those marriage vows you and I took before God?" "Does one swear by the holy fires only to be punished like this ?" "is a one supposed to suffer a lifetime for it?" "No Radha" "Reading a few sacred cantos together does not make a marriage" "Conjugal love is not the union." "That union is the union of hearts" "The mating of souls that climaxes in a bliss" "Ours was no real union" "The union was between you and..." "What have you done ?" "This is nothing" "One of us had to leave" "The one who should have left is leaving" ""Remember, you used to say that one" needs a friend's shoulder to weep upon" "And you need a friend to be one's pallbearer" ""My friend, you only left this city." l'm leaving the world" "" Before you left, you took" a promise from me" "Now I ask you for a promise" ""Sunder, give Radha back" The Heaven that was hers" "That the Rivers Ganga and Yamuna may unite and flow... the River Saraswati must be sacrificed"