"Meghe Dhaka Tara Cloud-Capped Star" "Production, Screenplay, Direction:" "Ritwik Ghatak" "Story:" "Shaktipada Rajguru" "Cinematography:" "Dinen Gupta" "Art Direction:" "Rabi Chattopadhyay" "Editing:" "Ramesh Joshi" "Cast:" "Supriya Choudhury" "Anil Chatterjee" "Bijon Bhattacharya" "Gita De" "Gita Ghatak" "Dwiju Bhawal" "Niranjan Roy" "Gyanesh Mukherjee" "Ranen Roy Choudhury" "Music:" "Jyotirindra Moitra" "A film by Ritwik Ghatak" "Yes!" " Come here" "Go tell your father, at month end, it'll be two months" "I will" "Just this time Banshi'da." "I can't do without a shave" "So, you and your father will give me a clean shave!" "Any idea how much it adds up to?" "Dark girl" "Dark complexion, that's what?" "Now don't start a tangle go to school" "Her tuitions would be over, what if she suddenly turns up?" "She will be hurt if she hears us!" "Such a responsible girl!" "Doing M.A. Classes - and not one but two tuitions brings home forty rupees every month" "What is more " "Heard at the meeting evictions are on the rise again" "They might even stop the school grants" "Do I get you a mat to sit down and gossip" "Your slipper's torn, Khuki?" "I've had it fixed" "Teacher, Sir, your subscription for the colony" "Hey!" "Listen." "I've to talk to you" "Into the room came the bumblebee humming" "You're late for college go bathe" "A love letter - so late in life?" "At first sight I didn't recognise you" "I thought you just one of the many" "But now I see you in the cloud..." "perhaps a star, cast over with clouds of circumstances," "Your aura dulled and scratched over" "Stop it!" "Let's have a look at the name" "Sanat - that idiot!" "Hey, where did you find him?" "Haven't seen him for ages" "Poking your nose in a woman's personal affairs" "If you're a person, some day someone will find me a genius!" "You know that very well, and that's what makes you so proud" "If only Banshi Dutt would understand if only he'd understand what a genius I am!" "Can you spare some money, dear?" "The beard's itching!" "For the time being, two annas, or may be four " "Or may be eight_ I'd like to buy a good 7arda" "Or why not a whole rupee" "You seem to have got your tuition money" "Why don't you take up a job, brother?" "It's beneath an artist to take a job" "In just two years, money will come raining through the roof" "Know how much Amir Khan Sahib makes per concert?" "D'you know, Ma, Manashi of our college, the dark girl," "Her sari had a cowgirl motif" "Ma, don't listen to her!" "Tomorrow's the college football final" "I can't wear these gunny saris daily" "This heiress has been three years in one class, why more?" "I've just got to get spiked boots by tomorrow!" "Can't get two square meals, he makes demands like a prince" "It's hard to feed you the last 15 days of a month" "The first of the month!" "Sister must have got paid" "You didn't buy your sandals, did you?" "The money went in buying clothes for Brother" "I'll buy them later." " I've seen someone" "After all these years!" "Still recognised him" "Isn't he Father's pupil Sanat babu?" "Can't you recognise me!" " Aren't you Montu?" "Why gape!" "You've changed so much over the years" "Why don't you visit us?" "You write all those letters" "Haven't forgotten the handwriting" "I give those letters to Neeta" "With her tuition and college, when is she ever home?" "Let's go home." "Ma will scold us" "Geeta's grown truly lovely" "But she can't ever afford decent clothes" "Need some cash to print the diagrams this month" "It's spent this month, Sanat" "Can't even buy my kid brother and sister what little they ask" "See, knowing everything, I still sing you my woes" "One feels so powerless." " This is your struggle!" "Won't I share it with you?" "Next month I'll find a way I'll contribute" "But do drop in sometime Father speaks so much of you" "Yes I'll come, but only when I've money" "Your spoilt darling will spend money by the fistful" "It's her earning she spends" "The bird-faced hussy!" "She must have spent it all... my entire month's shopping money" "I ought to give" " I don't." "So how can I obstruct?" "No sympathy in the whole world!" "And no one who'll understand!" "Ungrateful!" "Khuki, won't you eat?" "Not feeling well" "Don't be angry with Ma " "Sheer want... it's destroyed her mind" "I'm not angry" "Khuki, remember that poem by Yeats?" "Seeing on, somewhere At some new moon" "We shall learn that sleep is not death" "Hearing the whole world change its tune" "I've got a headache" "Here's another precious prodigy!" "A god in a devil's clothes don't wear such hair - cut it off!" "Nice cloth you've bought, Khuki" "Going to bed already?" "Won't you eat?" " No" "Mother must have said something!" "Let people say what they like." "You do what you think best" "That's life's motto." "Get up " "What!" "Your eyes are brimming with tears " "They'll descend if invited" "Okay." "I'll utter a spell." "Shall I?" "I'm not feeling well." " Okay, so I'm uttering it" "Mother, your baby's such a child!" "She wants to catch the moon!" "Can't ever utter the words" "She can't make out anything," "She's such a child, mother!" "But one rupee, tomorrow, please" "There's nothing left" "Spent it all?" "Okay, next month then" "From next month, all of it goes straight to Ma" "Whoever gives up money is a full scale idiot!" "I can't wait till the morning" "Slightly bovine!" "There's pleasure in practising" "Sold nothing yet - new month, very busy right now" "Just send last month's bill" "Going to settle it?" "What was it you wanted?" "Just the bill" "Not going to college?" "Botching your tests, for novels and films" "In this house, it's scarcity always" "You don't have this, you don't have that" "So make a paradise, and all dress up like fairy's" "I'll rest and twirl my big toe and smell heavenly fragrance" "You're needed desperately." " Why?" "This year you and Shankar just've to sing in the function" "I've given up singing" "And brother's maestro won't let him." "Why not ask Geetu?" "But who will be the invitees we need to talk it over" "We'll discuss this when we meet at the library" "Hello Shanti." "I hear your rehearsals are going on fine?" "Oh no, we're in a fix." "We can't get a good prompter" "The way you all shout." "Enough!" "Forget the prompting" "The tuition money" "All of it?" "I've asked Banshi to come." "He's so insulting everyday" "Keep five rupees - pocket money" "Have you no shame?" "Dining off your old father" "And the little girl works the day long to foot your bills" "And you spend your time in singing" "I'll be earning too" "Ever since the radio audition I get so many calls" "It's got my maestro furious" "He'll let me perform after two years' solid practice, see?" "Hasn't your maestro a hennaed beard?" "Why notjust grab it and hang like a midget." "Why do you come here?" "Does any young man sit at home?" "My bread doesn't come so cheap" "When women say things I can't lift up my eyes" "No food for you here from now." "Pay cash and eat" "Won't you have something to eat before you go?" "Have you told Ma I'm imposing on the family relations?" "He can't make out anything, he's such a child, mother!" "Why do you listen to nonsense?" "Destroy the future for a day's words?" "Just grit your teeth for two years" "Look Khuki, only you know my worth" "If you'd gone you'd have missed out on tomorrow" "Tomorrow's Jagatdhatri Puja" "Oh, tomorrow's your birthday!" "Father's going to take me on an outing, like before" "Father... where?" "Not decided - anywhere?" "Okay, count me in, I'll come too" "Brother, you're such a child!" "Father'd refuse if I told him" "Sunrise!" "Didn't Keats have a poem" "Poetry of the earth is never dead" "This crop field!" "To perceive its beauty costs no money" "And there is no money" "But this is here." "Very much here" "You know the real truth?" "Living is an art" "You'll have stomach trouble" "Will you remain a glutton all your life!" "Ignorant lad, you shouldn't say things like that" "Won't you give us too" "Could we get a drink of water near by" "Sir, you're three months subscription overdue" "Please give me at least something" "Okay, come tomorrow, I'll see what I can do" "Hey, I don't hear your voice... at the rehearsals." "What are you doing nowadays?" "They aren't giving me a proper role lately" "Proper roles, acting, actor!" "Sir" "Who are you?" "I'm Sanat" "You the one who's got a high second class in pure physics?" "Someone said so." "Yes, Khuki did" "Yes." "We do get to meet" "You've gone so sickly and dark, auntie" "What do you plan to do now?" "I'm looking for a scholarship to do a doctoral research" "Monkey!" "For a D.S. C?" " D. Phil's are all too common" "Swine!" "What is your thesis about?" " The Reynold Number... of the Supersonic Vibration of the Lower Gangetic Plain" "Ape!" " Yes" "Not you, it's about Shankar." "I was comparing the two" "He's done nothing all his life" "Come son, have a bite to eat" "So you're immersed in studies?" "No other way out in life" "What a lovely place" "I won't be able to do any sort of work." " Go and serve this tea to Sanat" "Oh mother!" "Sanat has come?" "What the " "What're you staring at?" "Hold this!" "I'm late" "How come you sit indoors all evening" "Bye" "You've come so I'll go late for tuition" "Let's go out for a walk." "What happened?" "Let's go" "Where's the one inside?" "Get out!" "Are you all right!" " Yes" "You know this is the guru I was telling you about" "And when was that?" "Bring home all the vagabonds Can't feed oneself" "Beginning's a bit troublesome" "What a lovely voice!" "You'd be spellbound if you heard it" "If you bring such a nuisance home again..." "Just wait." "I'm coming" "Quick, bring some money" "Ma, we're going out." "I'll do the tuition on the way back" "It's hard to get the scholarship" "Just a few month more" "And then" "And then just get a job" "And with your earning's I'll" "You're free to tear down the distance" "Your genius is so large" "That picture you've seen in my room..." " Those two kids?" "Me and Brother" "You know Sanat, we once went walking on the hills there" "Waking up while it's still dark to see the sunrise from a peak" "What suffering!" "But when the sun came out..." "I just can't explain to you..." "As kids, brother'd tease me." "She wants to catch the moon!" "He still does" "Neeta, you're just not cut out for this" "So much to suffer " "Well then make glass case and inside it, keep me like a wax doll" "I'll be late for tuition." "Bye" "No need to panic, just a bone fracture" "Neetu, come out" "An injury in old age, it'll be hard to cure" "Now she'll have to run the whole household" "Neeta!" "What brings you here?" "Weren't you sitting for M. A this year?" "I couldn't go on studying." "I work now." "Bye" "You'd better spin a new yarn on your dues" "Didn't tell you yesterday..." "You'll get it as soon as I do?" "That's a stale one" "D'you take us to be your community father... and feel free to rest on us?" "Why not get a job." "Get settled in life" "You'll never understand something called an ideal" "Your friend Sarojbabu came I asked him the answers" "What did he say?" " National Chemical" "Joy Engineering" "Jagat Hosiery" "Three jobs just waiting for you, and you're researching the air?" "Sir, the lady's here..." " Bring her here" "Your ideal is here..." "A really hectic time I've had, luckily I got a job" "The way things are after Father's accident" "I can't say I like it." "Why did you give up studies?" "What can I do?" "There are so many at home..." "And they are all waiting, looking up to me..." "Let's go" "Praise be to the goddess of learning bestower of perseverance" "Give us prosperity..." "Four annas for me to buy a shave..." "Goddess of learning" "Mother of the Universe" "It's quite unbearable" "I'll work, and you do the studying" "I can easily get a job" "Then our wedding..." "Can't happen now" "Why not?" "How can it?" "If I leave that household..." "My old Father, younger brother and sister..." "Shankar's a rascal, why should you bear his load?" "You can't read him at all!" "He'll be big one day, as you will too" "I pin my hopes on you two" "After that I may have time" "That means, till then..." "We'll have to wait." " Why should we wait?" "Don't be crazy" "I'll drop by in a day or two" "I have a question" "Come..." "For a singer you certainly can afford a shave" "Shorn all shame as well?" " What shame?" "The whole clan eating off the labours of one sister." "Destroying her future" "Any idea how the whole colony's talking about it?" "Aren't you the older brother?" " Look here Banshi-da..." "Your giving me blades on credit has nothing to do with my family affairs" "Oh, come off it!" "I call Neeta Sindbad the sailor" "They're all on her shoulder like the old man of the sea" "That'll be her fate till she drop dead" "Wasting my time all these days" "I've now come to the river at the wrong time" "I don't know your name, O boatman!" "Who shall I call for?" "Who'll row me across?" "The boat is here, but there's no boatman" "There's no man on the banks" "Sir, I've finished the lesson" "It's quite late." "You'd better go home" "Montu's skipped college a month now" "Heard today, he's failed" "His name has been struck off the rolls because... he couldn't pay the fees" "What good would college do him any way?" "Good that girl has a job" "Just as well, isn't it?" "Father, you know about Montu?" "You don't need to bring bad news, everyone knows" "Everyone also knows you're the happiest to see us harmed" "And you, and your young man!" " Wife!" "Montu's got a job in a factory as a sportsman" "He was too scared to tell you" "He's brought his first pay" "Everything kept secret!" "As if I were an enemy" "Like father, like children" "I won't touch this money" "Now on, run the household and face the music yourself" "Job in a factory?" "Labour!" "So what?" "These jobs have better prospects nowadays" "Just see where middle class life descends!" "Take me to the other room" "You all think I just quarrel, you see me quarrelling all the time, you think me a harridan" "How different I've become during the last 10 years" "I'm growing so strange" "You don't have to explain, Ma" "Really, I can't take the load of this household any more" "Please set me free" "If Shankar had been a man... you wouldn't have to take all the burden" "Brother's really very good" "Don't count on your father any more, dear" "May be he'll stand up again, walk again" "But something seems to be going wrong right in the head" "He won't be able to earn again" "After all, I've known him from the age of seven" "Don't worry, Ma, I'm here" "You have your own wishes too, may be a lot else" "Any way, you're all I have" "You know, one can't seem to calm the mind" "The truth is, you are my sole support" "But even you scare me" "My own daughter and still, a distant being" "What if you too go away" "I still don't know you, after all these years" "Will you say something?" "Sorry, I've interrupted you" "Come and eat, it's late." " You've still not eaten!" "No." " Why?" "Because you haven't eaten" "I really impose on you all, don't I?" "Sentimental slob!" " No, really" "Your whole future your marriage" "People are getting nasty" "It hurts your male ego?" "Don't you have a male ego?" " Something much bigger - my training" "Right now, of course, I'm exploiting you" "Really disturbs me deep down" "Are you serious?" " Yes" "I love you all like crazy" "You all do too, but you're too shy to say so" "If anyone else loves me... he'll surely wait for me" "It doesn't worry me" "Right now I just won't marry" "When you become a star, then I'll marry" "Don't I exist till then?" "Then all my suffering will vanish" "Don't you vanish as well?" "Will you take me to the hills then?" "In the open hill side I'll play around merrily" "I will." "You're such a child" "Drive away sadness and poverty" "Give happiness to all" "Adarang makes plea" "Listen O Being" "I'll take your name you Suzerain Being" "I spoke like Father..." "don't fall!" "You haven't come for so long." "Why?" "Can't seem to make it" "What about... that question you were going to ask?" " Probably won't be necessary" "I'll just do a tuition and come" "Ma, shall I give him the tea?" "Yes" "Ma!" "He's sitting all alone." "Shall we talk?" "Or shall we go out?" " Don't know, anything you like" "Let's stroll around the pond" "Sister won't be coming you know" "Let's go" "Fire-fly!" "Man doesn't have pity for you!" "Your voice is lovely" "Don't be stupid." "Since it's a good job, take it" "Leave the mess, take a nice flat" "And find yourself a nice match" "Let's see" "The way you stare, your life will pass in staring" "Don't wake me, my kind, I'll chide you" "Here are my slippers!" "Quick, take them off!" "Look Montu, mine can't be worn any longer" "You see, I'd gone with my maestro to a concert..." "So you can earn and wear what you like" "Dear Montu!" "Give me some money" "What?" " About eight annas, may be four!" "How much can one scrounge off Neeta!" "Yet my hair's grown so long..." "If you're a beggar, you should look like one" "Brother, you go to your room" "Are you hurt?" "Well, you've all grown up in my arms" "Oh, Let him talk!" "Get some clothes made" "Get a haircut and look decent" "Buy a pair of slippers." " No" "You certainly have a dark future ahead" "Look, those who suffer at the plight of others are doomed to suffer forever" "You're a complete idiot!" "In Banshi Dutt's words, you..." "Our Sindbad the sailor!" "Or else how'd a fool like me make a fool of you?" "What sort of boy is Sanat?" "That boy has no principles" "Sister, here's the money" "Only fifty!" "Yes, had to put on a month's deposit at the Mess " "He's decided to stay in the factory Mess this month on" "Leaving home?" " Yes, I mean... going to work from here is tough, you know" "Also, one needs good food to keep the body fit for sports" "If you'd said so, something could've been done right here!" "No sister, that couldn't be" "But whatever I can spare I'll come and give to you" "Young chap - he also has wants of his own" "And his elders at home just sit and eat" "Saw Sanat'da at our Head Office today" "He's in the Stores Department." "Imagine!" "A science student ends up" "At what salary?" " Three hundred at least" "The boss is his pal, you see" "Sanat babu isn't here." "He left only last month" "Oh, it's you." "You want his address, I suppose?" "I took a job" "Have you thought about getting Geetu married?" "I shall in continuation of Neeta's marriage" "One should think serially" "You've educated her, that's why she can run the household" "Finding a groom for a working girl is less difficult" "Get her married fast, you'll have all the time to suck your big fat toe" "If she leaves, what will happen to this household?" "But for that, to exploit this innocent daughter all her life" "Without her what will you eat?" "Where have you been?" " For a stroll" "You've your exams now." " Exam's not for me" "Then what?" "I'm getting married" "Does Ma know to whom?" " Sanat'babu" "Rushing out in the heat all at once won't help" "Everyone doesn't have the patience to wait" "There's something you should know" "Did you ask about Montu?" "He's gone to Delhi" "Geeta was talking about your ear-rings and bangles " "You know what she is like!" "Let her have them." "She needs them more" "What I mean is, this isn't how I wanted it" "How much curd we should get?" "At one time, they married off their daughter to the dying" "They were barbarians!" "And now we're educated, civilised!" "We educate the girl... to wring her dry and destroy her future" "There's all the difference" "It's tea time." "I'll get your tea" "Who all want sweets?" "They haven't given you any sweets?" "Childhood seems so far away!" "And those hills..." "Don't seem to be of this earth" "No one climbs hills any more - They go to the whether regions" "I've got a job on a singing school." "Don't tell Ma" "Do your M.A. Too." "I'll organise it" "Will you teach me one of Tagore's songs?" "I used to sing well before" "It's soft-hearted idiots like you that get hurt most" "Good - make a glass case, and inside it keep me like a wax doll" "I'm leaving this household" "Even though I'm a nobody" "I can't bear this any more" "I'm leaving with a protest" "You go on suffering silently, and get crushed to death" "Want to learn singing?" "I'll have to sing at the wedding" "I didn't know you'd come in" "Everything went black" "The lamp went out" "For whom did I reach out on high?" "I didn't know you'd come in" "In darkness I lay dreaming" "How could I know the storm was the pennant of your triumph?" "Only in the morning did I see" "There you were, standing" "There where emptiness had filled my room" "Haven't you gone to office?" "Not feeling well." "Feverish" "Don't you go to the library nowadays?" "Letter from Montu's factory" "What about?" "On last night shift." "Montu..." "not dead!" "Hurt badly!" "The machine didn't devour him" "It was expected" "I'm going to the hospital." "Don't worry about me" "This was expected." "This is the rule" "The house surgeon has said he'll need blood transfusion" "Will it need a lot of money?" " Yes, by tomorrow" "The crisis isn't over yet" "Hey - your skin's very warm!" "Moving about with such a fever?" "I get it quite often." " Does it come on every evening?" "Have an x-ray taken" "Khuki is bit shy she won't say anything" "But I apprehend some trouble..." "I hear she get's fever" "And she's taking care of Montu who's in the hospital" "And we have no money" "If you can, please check her once" "I haven't had anything the whole day." "Please give me some water" "Where's Geetu?" " She's taking her nap" "You didn't go to the office?" "No." "I don't go quite often" "Doesn't feel like going" "Montu had an accident." "He's in a hospital" "For the last two days I'm not feeling all right" "I'll have to arrange blood" "I couldn't even inform you" "Neeta has come" "How long!" "I'm getting late." "Bye" "You let her go." " She hasn't come to see me" "You could've asked her to stay" "Without knowing her reason how can you assume" "I don't feel it is necessary" "Montu is admitted to a hospital" "I couldn't even ask Neeta why she came to see us" "What is your name, young bride?" "You could've done your X-Ray" "If you come here I can organise it" "What if I'm really ill?" "I'm the only earning member" "Any way, the blood is needed immediately" "How's Montu?" " Well" "Can you help me get some money?" "For blood, for medicines" "Can't get anything anywhere." "That's why I went to Geetu" "How much?" " About 150 will do" "Try to get a little rest." "For your own benefit" "Benefit - for me?" "Looking like one of hell's ravens" "I do a hard day's work for my bread" "Where?" "Come" "I'll give it to you at the hospital tomorrow" "150 rupees... where've they gone?" " I gave them to Ma" "You mean Neeta" "Yes, I did." "It's my money" "Can an old flame really be forgotten?" " Will you stop it!" "Getting nasty won't help at all." "I'm warning you" "Come, my daughter Uma, to me" "Let me garland you with flowers" "You're the soul of my sad self, Mother deliverer!" "Let me bid you farewell now, My daughter!" "You're leaving my home desolate, for your husband's place" "How do I endure your leaving, my daughter?" "Have you heard about Shankar?" "They're saying he's made quite a name in Bombay" "What's happened to you?" "Making your bed out here so late, in the outer room?" "In this friendless house... what do inner and outer rooms mean?" "Will you hide it even from me, tell nothing at all?" "When there was time, Ma, you didn't listen!" "There's such a void between us now..." "This tongue of mine... has gone out of control" "The world has been cut off by a great wall..." "Spare me a sob story so late at night." "I've work tomorrow" "What can you do about it?" " Can I go on acting a part?" "Not acting" "Probably it's penance" "Penance?" "Have you sinned?" "Of course, I have." "I've made no protest against any injustice" "And that's my sin" "I shouldn't have been so ordinary" "You go home" "Have you nothing else to say?" "What should I say?" "Come to think of it now, I've come very far from it all" "Now there's only work" "Neeta, you're completely cleansed" "I'll leave my job, go back to a life of struggle" "Whatever obstacles come up I shouldn't back away" "However rotten I might be, but still I'm something" "I can't go on banging my head against a wall, Neeta" "What's happened?" " Just tripped up a little" "I can get the Office Super to grant you leave" "Don't." "He won't grant it" "A poor Brahman in Mathura... who knew no happiness ever" "Begging for a whole day once... returned without a grain" "He sat depressed under a tree... and wept by himself... till the sage Satyanarayana... approached in the guise of a fakir..." "God doesn't hit you from all sides" "If by the Guru's grace one bears up to it, one stands up again" "The boss himself reached him home" "My Montu still has his job" "And they'll pay good" "Compensation." "Over a thousand rupees, isn't it?" "On this auspicious day... you're happy with your lord and friends!" "Shankar!" "Isn't it you?" "The papers carry your pictures." "Made it big in Bombay!" "Have you?" "You certainly are the pride of Bengal." "Let me see Bengal has tigers, too" "Do you really get 500 per concert?" "No, not less than 1200" "Your body scented with perfume, forehead marked with sandal-paste!" "Doe-eyed, breeze-swept lashes" "May your wisdom be for your people" "And be happy with your lord and friends" "I told you so many time." "But you came so late..." "Made quite a name!" "A lot of people talk about you" "If it's a boy, you must give me a necklace!" "Will you never live at home?" "If this house is so bad, change it" "We're never going to be rid of the problem of eviction" "Yet even here people do take heart, and build home." "Forget their troubles" "Please, tell him" "I've always wanted a two-storey house" "Demolish the house and build two storeys" "The clay-wall room can stay." "It can be easily fixed" "But can you cure my mind?" "So that I can read Wordsworth again, and enjoy him" "Remember?" "Swan and Shadows float double!" "Where's Khuki?" "In that room" "Goes to work, then back to that room." "Eats there too" "Communicates with nobody." "Keeps everything hid" "Falls ill, runs a fever - tells nobody" "Even washes her own dishes" "Love letters in old age?" "Brother please " "I was just watching you all" "How well you've all established yourselves!" "Now again, as in childhood..." "I have no burdens" "Khuki has T. B. A very bad stage" "Poor thing!" "I accuse" "Whom?" "Nobody at all" "I'll see about her treatment and then get back" "I'll stay here tonight" "I've packed your clothes..." "You go away" "They're dreaming of two storeys" "You're successful!" "Why stay on now" "They pity you today!" "You weren't up to carrying the burden" "But you were the one who carried it" "Now you're the burden yourself" "There's poison in your breath" "This room is for the new born" "Go away, dear" "Come, my daughter Uma, to me" "Let me garland you with flowers" "You are the soul of my sad self..." "Mother deliverer!" "Let me bid you farewell now, my daughter!" "You are leaving my home desolate" "For your husband's peace" "How do I endure your leaving... my daughter?" "Where're you off to?" "I just made arrangements." "A sanatorium at Shillong" "At last you'll see the hills" "She likes the hills?" "Very much." "Right from childhood" "But remember, don't excite her." "She may have a relapse" ""The Cloud-Covered Star"..." "Sanat's letter" "I wonder why I kept it so long" "D'you know, the house has a second storey now" "Geeta's son is walking." " Naughty, is he?" "He's made life hell for Father" "The way he climbs straight up the stairs by himself..." "The kid's so full of life... gets such a thrill just climbing up the stairs" "Brother, you know I really wanted to live" "I love so much to be alive" "Brother, tell me once that I'll live" "Brother, I want to go home" "Khuki!" "Have you gone crazy!" "Shankar - have you got back from visiting your sister!" "How is she now?" "Why don't you speak?" "No one remembers her anymore " "Going in and out daily, slippers flapping... such a quiet girl, why should she have to suffer so much!" "Come, my daughter Uma, to me" "Let me garland you with flowers" "You are the soul of my sad self, Mother deliverer!" "Let me bid you farewell now, my daughter!" "You're leaving my home desolate..." "For your husband's place" "How do I endure your leaving, my daughter" "Translation:" "Probir Ghosh"