"Long live Mian Tansen!" "Long live the maestro!" "Disperse" "Tell the guards at the door there must be no disturbance" "Tell the constable, there must be no music playing around the palace I need complete silence" "Wonderful maestro, wonderful!" "I could die to hear that tune" "Sounds like thundering clouds." " Thunderous rainclouds!" "Wonderful modulation!" "Wonderful!" "Maestro, you are our Tansen!" "There's music even in the way you cough" "Bless you" "Go on, maestro!" "Stop singing!" " Why should I stop?" "I have my admirers too." " lf you want to sing, go elsewhere" "You are not to create any disturbance." " Not even breathe?" "Mind your tongue!" "The court musician Mian Tansen, is scoring a new Raga" "You will not scream into his ears." " l know all about scoring music!" "Take the Raga Todi, change a few notes and he creates music!" "Mian's Todi" "Twist Raga Malhar, and he scores Mian's Malhar!" "Now he's adding a twist to Raga Kanara to create Darbari Kanara." "Get lost!" "Silence!" "Create trouble, and you will be forbidden to sing in this area!" "Here come the bards." "Let's see you stop them!" "Stop!" "Singing isn't allowed here" "This isn't a song." "This is a prayer." " Whatever!" "Mian Tansen is scoring music" "Singing in this area is forbidden." "By his orders!" "Music is the essence of life." "Never can there be any restrictions" "What are you staring at?" "Stop them!" "We are free men!" "Do not mess with us" "Son..." "Baiju, my son..." "My son... you must never forget what happened" "If ever time favours you... you must take revenge against Tansen for your father" "You must avenge!" "Your word!" "Give me your word, son!" "Revenge!" "That boy is stealing a sword!" "Take the sword" " Thief!" "Let him be" "Why are you hurting a child?" " Who is he?" "He was stealing a sword I'm no thief!" "I am a very learned musician's son" "Understand?" " And what've you learnt but stealing?" "Why not?" "I have learnt all the Ragas" "But why were you stealing a sword?" " l have to avenge my father's murder!" "What an evil thing to say!" "Against whom do you seek revenge?" "A very big... prominent..." "This boy is very dangerous!" "He should be arrested" "Just an innocent child, going wayward because he's angry and unhappy I'll bring him around Come son" "There's our village..." "across the Yamuna" "Mohan" "Nice. lt takes a well-cultured voice to deliver musical notes while talking" "Who taught you singing, son?" "I used to live in Gujarat ln a village called Chapaner" "My father was a bard." "He had mastery over music" "He was taking me to Haridas Swamy... in Vrindavan for studying music." "But..." "Haridas Swamy?" "Tansen's guru?" "Tansen!" "Never mind, son" "So what if your father is no more?" "I will teach you music" "Here comes Gauri" "You always play your fiddle." "Where did you pick up a songster?" "Songster...?" "Whom was he calling out to?" " You answered his call" "He answered yours." "He heard your call and he forgot he's mourning his father" "Come" "Come son" "I won't let him miss his father." "What's his name?" "Baijnath I'll call him Baiju." "Big-sounding names are no good for village folks" "What good will Baiju do?" " Baiju would help me row my boat" "Master Baijnath wouldn't even care to find out... whether Gauri is tired of rowing" "And it's going to be smooth sailing for Gauri" "Careful, my child" "Greetings, Pundit." "Back from Agra?" "With this Tansen in tow!" "No, no!" "You don't know how to swim?" "He knows only how to drown" "In the seas that is music, there are many who will swim... few are they who will dive deep." "You will see it for yourself, Mohan" "Like Mian Tansen, this boy too will become famous for his love of music" "No!" "Not like Tansen!" " We'll even forget Tansen for you" "On this hillock, here by the banks of the Yamuna... we built sand castles when we were children" "And here today in our youth, dreams light up our lives" "Never let the lights go out, Baiju" "Which means that the light is about to go out of your life" "She's engaged to someone, and she's marrying someomne else!" "This is a matter of family honour!" "This is no joke!" "Something ought to be done!" "Say it!" " What more have I to say?" "She has said what she was to have said!" "Use this" "Hurry up!" "Can you make out a stick from a fiddle?" " Want me to tell you?" "One plays music when plucked." "The other plays pluck on your head" "The strings of fiddle win hearts over." "You can't beat Baiju with the stick" "Nor can you win over Gauri." " Forget it, Gauri" "Look at this girl!" "Not ashamed a bit!" "All day, she's with this boy!" "Gauri, these days..." "These days the cow is giving very little milk" "No wonder, she's going wayward lsn't that so?" " No!" "No...?" " Oh all right" "Gauri, you aren't a child anymore." "You're a grown-up now." "Understand?" "What's the big difference?" "Mohan, you better keep your girl on a leash" "All day, she's wandering around with Baiju" "She's going to lead the other girls in the village astray" "Were the other girls to be like Gauri, we'd kill them, wouldn't we?" "But Mohan would also have to lose face" "Did you hear what the difference is?" "And how did this shameless fellow end up in our village?" "No one even knows his caste or his family!" "What are you lost in, son?" "You've taken up the Veena after long time." "Let's hear" "The strings are broken." " You can have new strings I've forgotten my melodies." " Forgotten your melodies?" "Then how on earth will you make a famous musician?" "By dint of your blessings, I surely will lt's this earth that's taking my music away" "Gauri, will you row me over too?" "Are you looking for something?" " Journey's end" "There's a storm raging around us." " And you've lost your way?" "No!" "I want to get away from you." "My father will row you over" "You're back to rowing after so many days." "Where have you been?" "I had painted my hands with henna." "If I rowed, the henna would wear off" "Let me take a look - l want to stay away from everyone!" "For how long?" "Till you've counted all the stars in the skies for me" "Stars?" "Done." " How?" "It's daytime now" "For you." "When you're cross with me, it becomes as dark as the night" "You make me see stars even in the day!" "I know all this." "Stop flattering me" "Gauri, don't stay away from me." "You'll drive me mad!" "They are right when they say that like the Pundit... you know nothing beyond music." " Liars!" "I know everything" "Like what?" " Outside music... you are everything." "Without you, my song is only half-sung" "You are my music, Gauri" "Don't you talk these deep-meaning things. I could drown!" "You know how to swim." "Drowning is my lot" "A drowning man might take a swimmer down with him" "Pundit, everyone in the village knows about Gauri and Baiju" "Time was when he was seething with vengeance." "Now he has turned around" "What has Baiju, that I haven't?" " Everything!" "Nose, ears, arms... stomach, waist, everything." "Only fatter, so what?" "Shut up!" "I lack only one thing." "I cannot sing!" "And Gauri is going for a song!" " What an metaphor!" "Well said!" "The hell with metaphors!" "I'm losing her!" "For Gauri's sake, I must learn how to sing" "My foe!" " Singing, you must learn" "Wait... ln Delhi...?" "No, not Delhi" "Not there... not there either" "Yes, now I remember!" "I know of a maestro in Agra who could teach you" "Never mind... forget it." "Forget what?" " No, he won't teach you" "Now are you going to tell me, or not?" " He isn't going to teach you" "Not teach me... what?" " He won't I got it." "He won't teach me." " Who...?" "Shall I tell you who you're talking about?" "You mean Tansen?" " Who's Tansen?" "I'm talking about another maestro." "What a master!" "He sweeps over the bow" "You moron!" "Will you mention a name?" "He hasn't a single name, so to say" "His mother used to call him Lallu." "His father called him Ghasitu" "The Emperor has given him so many accolades" "The Maestro of Maestros!" "The Creator of Music!" "The Master of the Sarangi!" "Mian Huzoor Khan" "Alias Ustad Ghasit Khan (Ustad" " Maestro)" "Then I shall lay down all my wealth at the feet of Ustad Ghasit Khan" "Now go and get Ustad Ghasit Khan here" "My lover waits on the hillock." "Here I am on the banks of the Yamuna" "But I cannot go to see him My feet are chained" "Gauri, aren't you coming to the well?" "You must!" "Today's the Spring Fest." "Poor thing, she doesn't step out of the house these days" "He's calling you." "Why don't you go?" "You go." "He's calling you" "If I go to him, you'll kill me!" " She's dying, poor thing" "How will she kill someone?" " Poor thing I warn you!" " About what?" "You're nuts!" "Just you wait!" "The jar is empty!" "What's she churning?" "Her own heart" " Don't you tease me!" "Don't you tease!" "Are we teasing you?" "It's he who has been calling you" "Wait" "Go on" "For my sake." " Your sake?" "Get lost!" "If she won't go, we'll bring him here." "Let's go" "No!" "Who are you looking for?" "Well..." "The poor fellow is looking for something he has lost" "Not here." "He lost something on the hillock on the banks of the Yamuna" "And look where he comes looking!" "Then you know what I've lost?" "Basanti is hiding what you've lost." " l'd tell, for a reward" "Are you trying to skin me?" "You want something?" " l just wanted to ask..." "My father isn't at home" "Hello My greetings" "Where's the Ustad?" "Can't you hear?" "He's scoring music" "A new Raga!" "What Raga would this be?" "Yes, the Coughing Raga!" "But why behind closed doors?" " Singing here is forbidden" "Only someone who sings better than Mian Tansen can sing here" "What if there be someone who sings better than him?" "He will have to enter into contest with Mian Tansen" "But if..." " lf he wins..." "Tansen will kill himself." " What a strange law!" "Who is this impudent fool?" " l am, Ustad" "Moron!" "Do you know how deep music can strike?" "Deeper than the shoe bites!" "Don't I know that!" "Shut up, you rogue!" "You've ruined my exercise" "Now what do you want?" " My master is a rich man" "He wants you to teach him music." " To hell with your master!" "Am I a singer sitting in a marketplace?" "If you're looking for a tutor, move ahead" "Out there is Tansen's house" "How am I concerned about Tansen?" "I worship the Creator of Music!" "He looks like a smart boy." "A connoisseur" "Who knows not Ghasit Khan's melodies?" " You will be paid whatever you wish" "Very well. I will come." "Arrange for two horses ls your wife coming along too?" " You moron!" "I ride one horse, and my Sarangi rides the other." "That's my style lf you disagree, then move ahead." "Tansen lives up the sreet I'm no court singer living off the Emperor I'm a singer of erudition." "I will remain what I am" "And I will remain what I am!" "Narpat, are you preparing for the wedding?" "Why not?" "I'm waiting for Ustad Ghasit Khan" "No sooner than he arrives, I'm going to get married" "To the Ustad?" " Get lost!" "Not the Ustad." "Gauri" "Once I've learnt how to sing" "Now when is the Ustad coming?" " Next summer" "Shut up!" "By next summer, I'm going to be married" "And while Ghasit Khan is teaching him how to sing..." "Gauri will be up there on the hillock teaching Baiju new Ragas" "What nonsense!" "Gauri has stopped seeing Baiju." " By day." "Not in the nights ln the nights?" "Where is Gauri's father?" "Mohan!" "So...?" " What happened?" "is that so?" " What's is it?" "What a shame!" " About what?" "Every night, Gauri goes up the hillock to meet Baiju" "Drown in shame!" "I'll break the bones of the man who spreads canards about my daughter" "And never mind who he might be!" "I'm calling in the village council to decide about this!" "Where the hell is she?" "Pundit..." "At this hour...?" " Where's Baiju?" "He should be on the hillock by the river" "Come dusk, and he goes to the hillock with his Veena" "He returns only very late at night." "He is so devoted to music" "Someday, he will challenge Tansen." "You will see" "But Pundit..." " To tell you the truth... more than me, it's Gauri who is to be credited for his success I am the teacher." "Gauri is his inspiration" "Every day, she sits before him." "He composes for Gauri" "And Gauri inspires him to reach for the skies" "So what I am hearing is true?" " True, and beyond doubt I have been there, and I have seen for myself several times" "You yourself?" "But who is to stop tongues from wagging?" "How will I face the council?" "I have to marry Gauri off as soon as I can to Narpat" "Gauri is married already." "To Baiju" "To Baiju...?" " Yes" "Baiju is the composer." "Gauri is his music" "Baiju is the singer." "Gauri is his song" "Baiju is the melody." "Gauri is his Veena" "And where Gauri is his music, Baiju is her crescendo" "The union of the two of them is the doing... of that artiste whose art inspires pure, unbeguiled love" "Consider this a marriage, Mohan." "No one can set them apart" "The council might." "I have given Narpat my word lf you go back on your word, you will have to pay a fine" "But if try to take the light away from the lamp... the lamp will be extinguished, and light will be no more" "And there will be darkness all around" "I'll pay the fine, I will!" "Gauri is the light of my life" "And Baiju is the light of Gauri's life" "No one will set them apart." "No one" "Where are you going so late at night?" "You...?" " Yes" "Caught you!" "Have you lost something on this hillock?" "Your brains is what you've lost!" "All for nothing you told my father... that I come to this hillock every night to meet Baiju!" "Now he's coming after me with a sword!" "I'm running away from this village!" "Listen..." "Wait Gauri, stop!" "What a fool I've been to be carried away with what the villagers say" "Come Gauri, I'll reason with your father" "No!" "He's going to kill you!" "That must be him!" "We've reached our village" "This is called "The Gate to Agra"" "Come" " Stop" "My master's house isn't far away." " Set his house on fire!" "Why?" " He's a cad and a knave!" "lmpudent ass!" " Whom are you all praise for?" "Shut up!" "Your master should've waited outside the village to welcome me" "And he should've bowed before me I'm not a musician... who goes to people's houses asking for bows, like court musicians I'm an erudite musician!" "Understand?" "My master mustn't have expected the maestro to arrive at night" "Fool, don't you know that I was born at night?" "And at night I shall die." " Do not speak of dying Ustad!" "You're still in the prime of your youth I'll inform my master in a trice, while you water the horses" "Gauri, listen!" "Listen to me, why are you getting angry?" "But Narpat..." " Listen to me lf your father comes by, tell him that you're here to hear me sing I'll take care of everything." "Now let me sing a song for you" "Do you know what this Raga is?" ""Sarkari Kanara"" "Damnation!" "Which fool is that, singing out of tune?" "Who the hell is that?" "Moron!" "Mules don't sing!" "Drop that Tanpura!" "Don't be the murder of music!" " You old fool!" "I'm going to smash this Tanpura on your head!" "Bloody ox!" "Am I an ox?" " Am I a mule?" "Undoubtedly!" "A complete ass..." "bereft of any sense of music!" "Uncouth!" "Get lost!" "Or I'm going to hang you upside down!" "Such impudence!" "What a pest!" "My father has said yes!" "Father said yes!" "Father said yes!" "Ya Allah!" "What have I landed myself in?" "2000 gold Ashrafie for our Chief." "Else, we'll burn this village down" "Only last year you looted us of 2000 gold Ashrafie" "We will come every year to collect this tax" "Tax?" "But we pay our taxes to Raja Man Singh" "How can we pay taxes to both of you?" " Say what you want to our Chief" "The tax goes to ones who can collect." "Pay up 2000 gold Ashrafie" "Else, at the sounding of this gun, this village is going to be plundered" "Have mercy on us!" "Please reduce the amount" "Those who rob don't make deals" "Where are we to find so much?" "You will have to come with us" "With you?" " Not a bad deal, singer" "You've saved your village from carnage for very little a price" "What are you thinking?" "You have won everything" "I have lost something" "Say, do you agree?" "Agreed" "No Baiju, no!" "I won't let you go!" "Ever!" "Plunder tha place!" "We aren't staying here forever" "Stop!" "I'm coming with you." " You can't!" "I have to, Gauri." " Never!" "You won't, you won't go away Baiju!" "Father, please tell her I'll be back soon" "Let him go" "Today, Baiju is saving the whole village" "Father... !" " Do not worry, my child" "Baiju will certainly come back" "But I wasn't able to tell him what I wanted to say" "Fortitude, Father." "And give me your blessings" "Baiju!" "Listen to me Baiju!" "Gauri, I'll be back soon" "Sit" "You didn't recognise my voice?" "I do not feel the need to" "For once, try to remember" "What do you want?" " Only a song" "Music that will reverberate through the emptiness of my life ln my songs is a calm that will contain the storms of life" "Leave that decision to me." "Only I know... the storms that lie hidden in your music lf my music be storm, build bastions to withstand the storms" "Bastions stronger than a woman's heart ... have you ever known?" "The heart of a woman!" "But what does it mean for you?" "If at all, you are a fake!" "A bandit, a plunderer" "Singer, is that what you see in these eyes?" "Ones who plunder homes cannot steal hearts" "Bewitching eyes and a black heart!" "Begone!" "For you, I have neither song nor any treasure" "Do not insult my love like this." "I am not a bandit" "Loot and plunder isn't my calling." "Your village was once my father's fief" "Raja Man Singh took it from us forcibly." "He killed my father I was orphaned!" "I was in a rage." "I took to the sword" "And ever since, I have sworn to avenge my father" "Father..." "Father!" "If ever time favours you... you must take revenge against Tansen for your father" "You must avenge!" "Revenge!" "Singer, have I hurt you?" "Tell me, tell me have I said anything wrong?" "No, I had forgotten." " What?" "I was supposed to have avenged someone ln life, it's my prime duty" "Gauri's affections made me forget." "You have reminded me" "Gauri...?" " That girl back in my village" "You sweet words haven't made me forget her affections" "But vengeance fires my emotions now!" " Vengeance?" "Yes" "From Gauri, I picked up the fragrance of love" "From you, I have taken the razor-sharp resolve lf Gauri is my flower, you are my sword!" "Princess, you can give me nothing but this sword ls that an excuse for going back to Gauri?" "If I live, I surely will." "But as of now, I want to forget her love" "My father's soul calls me!" "Let me go!" "Take me along. I might be able to help you" "No, I shall perfom my duty myself" "Stop him!" "He's leaving" "No, wait..." "let him go" "The artiste can never be trapped" "Who are you?" " l want your head" "You are lying lf what you want could've come by beheading me... you would've beheaded me." "Why did you destroy my instrument?" "What want of yours is fulfilled?" "The sound of your music was draining my resolve" "My sword-arm weakened" "You seem to appreciate music" "Music isn't only your fief, Tansen!" "Not my fief, but music is surely my life" "Young man, no sword may end Tansen's breath lf you have resolved to slay Tansen,... sing out the pathos in your soul" "For that, Tansen would die" "Who is this?" "A rebel?" "What do you want done to him?" "Beheaded?" "In this house, only hearts may bleed." "And that too, for music's sake" "How else is he to be punished?" "His punishment is to live for years... to suffer again and again at the hands of life" "Escort him out" "Sing the pathos in your soul" "The pathos in my soul" "Where do I find it?" "In the mountain echoes?" "In the gurgling streams?" "In the dry desert sands?" "No, without a guru, this knowledge I can never imbibe" "Only diamond can cut diamond" "The diamond that was polished at the hands of Haridas Swami" "Vrindavan" "They say that God's world... is full of music" "From all things God created, I have tried to seek music" "And now, I come to you" "For without the Guru, there is no knowledge" "And without knowledge man's quest is not fulfilled" "What do you wish, son?" "I wish to imbibe the entire knowledge of music, for revenge" "Music for revenge?" "You are mistaken, son" "Music relates heart to heart." "Music elevates the soul" "Music turns enmity into love Music doesn't extoll revenge" "No!" "I want revenge. I must!" "And through music" "So long as you nurse the feeling of vengeance in your heart... you can never learn music." "To learn music... fill your heart with love." "Instead of hurting others... fill your heart with pathos." " Love and pathos I have forgotten lf you refuse to teach me, I shall die at your doorstep" "Son, fire cannot quench fire." "Water quenches fire" "Darkness is not dispelled by darkness." "Light dispels" "Hatred cannot end hatred." "Love does it" "I give you the symbol of my love" "Play this Veena" "When the string strike a chord inside your heart... when you find peace of mind, come to me" "Whatever I know, I shall teach you" "Blessed be the name of The Lord" "Lord, I hear of the three reasonances of Aum upon which rests all of Creation" "Aum is the primal sound." "The first to be" "Of these three, have come to be the seven notes ln these seven notes I wish to immerse myself" "But in the fires in my heart all seas are dried up" "Of life, I have received nothing." "My guru has rejected me" "Now I come unto Thee" "Here, I sit before Thee" "To stir Your heart of stone" "Or I shall be silenced forever" "But even after I have died, my ashes will await resurrection" "That day too, I shall tell You the same, Lord" "Give me music!" "Give me music, give me music!" ""You and I, we shall consummate our love"" "Whither consummation?" "Baiju, where are you?" "Here it was that you sang that immortal song of love" "It was here you swore, here you made your promises" "Have you forgotten?" ""Do not lose heart, son"" "I am far away from you." "But my soul is with you" "Rise and sing" "Sing the Lalit imagine the fair maiden bedecked in flowers, with a smile on her face" "Her eyes, like lotus petals, sing the Lalit" "This is the Gaur Malhar" "Sung to the accompaniment of the melodious Sarangi of Gaur" "Sing along with the pattering of the rain, The Gaur Malhar" "This is the Puriya" "Resplendent in regal finery, the bejewelled crown, the halo... he carries his weapons." "In praise of benevolent Kings... the Puriya is sung" "This, the Bageshri... sung to the praise of the conquest of knowledge" "Sing the Bageshri to invoke the Goddess of Knowledge" "Father!" "This is sin!" "is it sin?" "My child, what your thirsting eyes seek everywhere... you cannot bring yourself to speak." "I've already grown old looking for him" "For me too, this is a dream" "What words have I to give you hope?" "Mohan..." " l have heard enough" "I hear Narpat had convened the village council yesterday" "Yes." " What was decided?" "The council expressed gratitude to Baiju" "But they also said that a daughter cannot be given away as a reward" "Her engagement to Narpat cannot be annulled" "Not even if you pay a fine?" " What do I get out of paying a fine?" "Where is Baiju?" "People were giving my daughter a bad name all for him!" "So what if I annul the engagement to Narpat?" "If Baiju doesn't turn up... who else will marry her?" "If I die before my daughter is married off, I will go to hell!" "She gives herself a bad name, and now she weeps!" "Tell me, do I console her, or do I stop people from talking?" "If I care for her emotions, I will fail in my duty as a father" "Have patience, Mohan" "There is so much that man wishes to do" "But what happens, is what God wills" "Come in" "Baiju, you did not return" "And everyone else here has decided my fate" "But I shall refute this decision" "It was here,... that I drank the elixir of love" "And today... it is poison that I am being made to drink" "You!" "You're the one who took my Baiju away!" "Tell me, where is my Baiju?" "Has he come with you?" "No." "He went away long ago." "Where to?" " Some say... he went towards Agra." "Others say, a madman called Baiju... roams the forests of Vrindavan." "Some say that... he has become a disciple of Haridas Swamy, and lives with him I was on my way to look for him there when I heard that... the council has decreed that you be married off" "Baiju spurned my love." "I have come to pay him back" "Are you ridiculing my love?" "No, I have come to help you I had driven out one of a pair of lovebirds in Eden" "If I let this Eden wither away... the lovebird will have nowhere to return to" "For your Baiju's sake, you will have to live. I've come to take you to him" "Come with me" "But..." " Do you not want to go to Baiju?" "Then, have faith in me." "Come away with me, quietly" "Come with me, sister" "No reason for worry, Swami." "Use this salve" "And walk a while every day" "Apothecary, when I step down from the bed,..."" "my legs collapse" "And you ask me to walk?" "Without worship to the Lord, I cannot have any peace." "My soul thirsts for The Lord" "Lord!" "I beg for your grace" "I have scaled the heights of music" "But there is darkness ahead" "Show me light, Guru ln your music,... I have seen my God" "By the grace of Lord Krishna... your name, your music will be made immortal" "The years of schooling... is now bearing fruit lt is all by dint of your blessings" "No." "The one I thought was lost,... now shines as brilliant as a diamond I have only brushed,... burnished and tempered it" "But the talent that was hidden within is God's own gift" "Son, I'll be back" "Till then, practice the Todi to perfection I will" "Now!" "Now is the time come." "Father, I will avenge you" "You haven't gotten over vengeance yet?" "Son, leave vengeance to The Lord" "Forget all that, and put in your best" "Now is the time come." "Father, I will avenge you" "God!" "Cast my heart in stone ... in stone, like yours!" "Turn me to stone!" "Of music, You have forged the world!" "Does my music bear nothing upon Your heart?" "Loveless music has no bearing" "It is with love that man reaches out to God" "And love..." "love lies at your feet!" "Do not spurn love!" "Love is God!" "Do not leave me!" "No!" "God!" "What am I to do?" "!" "Show me the way!" "God!" "God!" "Gauri!" "Go away!" "Go away Gauri!" " Where will I go?" "No one but you can embrace me!" "And I will have my recognition... only when you make me your wife" "For me, marrying you now, would be making a widow of you!" "If I lose against the one I seek vengeance... I will be beheaded" "Vengeance?" "Against whom?" "Tansen" "Tansen?" "How come...?" "By defeating him in a contest of music I can marry you only after I have defeated Tansen" "The power to defeat as great a musician as Tansen... do you have it in you, Baiju?" " l'd rather die... than dishonour the promise I made my father lf l live, I will come directly to you" "But till then, consider me dead" "No!" "I've been through so much to find you!" "I'm not going to let you go!" "Come back with me!" "Have you forgotten the hilllock by the banks of the Yamuna?" "It was there that I foreswore the promise I made to my father" "Go away Gauri, go away!" "If I leave you, where am I to go?" "I have burnt all my bridges." "You are the only one I have!" "Take me with you, Baiju." "Let's sink together, if we must" "No, with you around, I will forget my mission in life" "You have disrupted my schooling" "You and your love will be my undoing!" "I will never be able to defeat Tansen!" "Blessed be the name of The Lord" "Guru!" "I'm going mad!" "This is why I have come to give you one last advice" "Forsake hatred." "Let love blossom in your heart" "Without love, your heart will be bereft of pathos" "Without pathos, your music will not be able to melt stone" "And pathos you will have, once you have been hurt" "Hurt...?" "Why do I not die?" "Hurt..." "Love" "Gauri!" "What happened to you, Gauri?" "How did this happen, Gauri?" "I have removed myself from your path" "Why have you done this?" "Now nothing lies between you and your music" "Now, you.... you will be able to defeat Tansen" "No!" "I'm not going to let you die!" "I won't let you die!" "She sleeps" "She will not talk to you" "She will talk to no one" "She will only talk to me" "What happened to Gauri?" " Snake!" "Get out of here!" "Run!" "Looks like she has been bitten by a snake" "Snake?" "I remember!" "It was this snake!" "The snake that bit Gauri!" "You are the witch who set us apart!" "Have you come to set us apart again?" "No Baiju, I brought Gauri here." " No!" "You brought her ashes here!" "What do I do with ashes?" "I must go and find Gauri!" "Baiju!" "Come to your senses!" "Where are you going?" "Leave me alone!" "With Gauri, I've died too" "But Baiju..." " Aren't you sated yet?" "Go on, put the corpse to fire!" "And revel in the fires!" "Dance, dance!" "The mind takes the toll in a battle between the mind and the heart" "Baiju has gone mad!" "Baiju is insane!" "Laugh!" "You laugh too while I weep!" "This brooks no delay." "We must hurry" "But Baiju...?" " This is no time to talk to him" "We'll come back for him later" "He's here!" "My disciple is here!" "Some lunatic" "Looks like a madman" " Do you not know the law here?" "Somebody stop him!" "Sing on!" "Stop singing!" "Who is this?" "Do you care for your life?" "Don't you know?" "Singing is forbidden here!" "I do not know." "I know nothing" "Nor am I singing" "It's someone else within me ... who is singing... and I have no hold over him" "If you can, stop him" "But..." "let him sing on" "We need his pathos" "Let the hearts be overcome." "Let us weep too... and let the skies, the earth, weep too" "Wonderful!" "Sing on!" "Face the palace and sing!" "I tell you, your voice sings a note deeper by the thousandths than earlier" "What are you staring at?" "My disciple!" "And no joke!" "Disciple... yours?" "And haven't you told him that the one who sings here... must better the royal bard, Mian Tansen?" "Else... he is punished!" " Then let him face this challenge!" "The wheat will be separated from the chaff!" "is that so?" "Arrest him!" "Why are you holding me?" "He's the one who's singing" "The Emperor has decided." "Do you hear?" "Unless you contest within a week, both of us will be hanged!" "We're going to be dead!" "What have I landed myself in?" "This madman doesn't even answer!" "How do I answer, Gauri?" "They won't let me sing" "They haven't forbidden you." "Thay are telling you to sing" "You must sing before Emperor Akbar" "No, I will sing before no one." "I will only sing to Gauri" "I'm no Gauri!" "I'm Ghasit Khan!" "Don't you see my beard?" "!" "Are you a wizard?" " Wizard...?" "Turn me into a firefly!" "I want to burn in the fire!" "Lord!" "There's no escape now!" "Gauri is gone!" "What noise is that?" "is someone being executed?" "Lord!" "Come on!" "I'm here to help you escape!" "You're the bandit!" "You've come back for him?" "Silent!" "Else, you too will be silenced like the guards" "My men are waiting outside for us" "What has come over you?" "We cannot be here for long!" "Come with me!" " No" "Once you had said that, earlier." ""Come with me"" "Don't go Baiju." "She's fooling you I have come to take you to Gauri" "You are a liar!" "Gauri is waiting across the river for me" "Will you take me across?" " Not across" "Here!" "Gauri is alive" "We took Gauri to an apothecary who knows about venoms." "She..." "You are telling a lie, a ruthless lie just to take me out of here" "No Birju!" "I'm telling the truth!" "I went back to that temple in ruins to tell you." "But I didn 't find you lt's true that Gauri lives." "But she keeps saying that..." ""For Baiju, I'm dead." "Don't tell Baiju that I'm alive"" ""Else, my sacrifice will have gone waste"" ""He wants to defeat Tansen." "And for him, I am a hindrance"" "Yes!" "Gauri is alive!" "She is alive!" "She has gone back to her village." " And you want me to escape... so that I can go back to her?" " lt should not have been so" "But this is what the heart says..." "the heart you once called a stone" "Someone is coming!" "Come on!" "This is the bandit queen!" "Arrest her!" "Move Roopmati" "She has been wanted for ages." "Got her now" "Where are you off to Ustad?" " With you." "Home" "Your home is here, Ustad." " Let me go!" " Out of my way!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Gauri is alive!" "Baiju!" "Baiju!" "Baiju!" "Where did he come from?" "He brings my daughter to disgrace, and he brings me to dishonour!" "Come the time to marry her, he absconds!" "Scoundrel!" "Rogue!" " Father!" "Silent!" "Aren't you ashamed?" "All this is your doing!" "Without a thought, you did what you wanted to!" "Had I not used ruse, people would say that Mohan sent his daughter away... because the council gave it's ruling." "Even at my age... you haven't a care for my honour!" " That's why I've come back I'd rather you were dead!" "What do I do?" "Even Death has deserted me" "Kill me!" "With your own hands!" "I'm going to kill myself if you refuse to marry Narpat" "But..." " What...?" "!" "Will you still wait for the madman?" "Everyone looked for him" "Even you went looking for him." "Did you find him?" "Then forget him." "Your wedding has been fixed for the next full moon" "You have only two options." "Marry Narpat, or kill your father" "This is my final decision" "Open the door." " The doors of luck don't open... time and again." "When she was trying to get you out, you were meditating!" "You can see Gauri only if you sing against Tansen" "I must sing!" "God!" "Give me music!" "That I may fulfill the promise I made to my father... that I may have my Gauri I will sing!" "This contest has not ended" "Tansen, the Emperor ordered you to sing the Todi to attract the deer" "Young man, you have done the same" "But you have not shown anything charismatic... to prove yourself a better musician than Tansen" "My Lord, if I may speak without fear, I wish to say something" "You may speak" "My disciple looks like a madman." "But in his music... lies the power to melt stone!" "I ask for my disciple and Mian Tansen are to sing the same Raga ln that crystal bowl filled with water is kept a block of marble" "The Emperor waits." "Prove it that... stories of stone melting to music... is not mere folklore." "Show us that it can be true" "The contest may begin" "Bravo my son!" "You have honoured your Guru!" "My The Lord preserve you!" "Non pareil!" "A miracle!" "The Emperor has a doubt." "The crystal did not shatter. lt was shattered" "Sing again" "Lord, I cannot lie to absolve myself of defeat" "Music has found a new exponent, not an adversary" "Baijnath, The Emperor recognises your victory" "Tansen, I regret your loss deeply ln Tansen's loss lies music's victory!" "The Emperor, Tansen... and all of Hindustan must rejoice!" "For here has been unearthed.... a most precious diamond that will... dazzle the annals of music indeed." "This sparkle of this diamond does proud the court of Emperor Akbar" "The Emperor is pleased with your performance." "Seek what you will if The Emperor so grants, I shall ask for only three gifts" "You may" "First, the freeing of music from the confines of law" "Second, Roopmati's release and repatriation of her fiefs" "And third, the very life of music" "The very life of music...?" "I do not understand" "The very life of music is Tansen" "Lord, grant Tansen life, and save music from death!" "You have the soft heart of an artiste, Baijnath" "But the law is heartless" "Akbar's laws are humane, Your Majesty I beseech You in the name of kindness" "I am leaning towards your principles, young singer" "The one who showed me music in a new light... the one who gave me a new life ... the one who has lit... a million lamps... how can I bear to see him dead?" "You are truly an exponent of art, Baijnath" "The Emperor cannot but appreciate your commitment to art" "Your performance today, and your lofty ideals... forces an Emperor to allow humane consideration... to assume primacy over the law." "Your petitions are granted" "Long live Baijnath!" "Baiju!" "Baiju's voice!" "Do you hear?" "My Baiju is back!" "Baiju!" "You're back!" " Yes, I'm back"" "Gauri is getting married today." " Gauri... getting married?" "Gauri's wedding?" " Yes son" "Row me across!" " l cannot!" "The river is in flood!" "How can I cross?" "My boat will sink" "All my hopes are sinking!" "I have to go!" "I must!" "Baiju is back." " Baiju..?" "My Baiju is back...?" "Baiju is back!" "Don't take the boat into the waters, Baiju!" "Where have you hidden Gauri?" "!" "You scoundrel!" "You have no sense of dignity!" "But I have my honour!" "Tell me!" "Fie on you!" "Don't enter the water!" "The boat will capsize!" "What are you doing?" "!" " Let me go!" "The river is in spate!" " Let me go!" "She'll die!" "Baiju, have you won the contest?" " Yes" "But I'm losing the battle for my life!" "You will not be able to save me, Gauri!" "Swim back to the bank." " l have crossed my forge!" "You know how to swim!" "Go back, Gauri!" "All you know is I can swim." "But with you, I can even drown!" "In the waters then..." "we are to wed, Gauri!"