"Clenched jaws are paining in impotent rage." "How long the boiling "Larva" Inside can be contained." "Before the head becomes a crator." "The excruciating torsion has to be get rid of." "The best defense is attack." "There's no better option." "The factory in which the sword was cast is immaterial." "The important point is..." "Who's holding it  who is facing it?" "Who's holding the reins of that magic city makes all the difference." "Where drops of sweat produce pearls." "The guardians of human beings." "Have handed over truth  justice to the computer  feeling satisfied." "It is going to decide." "Tons of Naplam bombs dropped on unarmed hamlets." "Or a single hand grenade thrown on the bullet proof car of the dictator." "Which of the above two crimes is more heinous against humanity." "Actually." "There is no bigger crime then the human interference in justice  truth." "Power." "Does power emanate from the barrel of the gun." "Or from the paper bullets of poetry." "Is dictionary says that is words are prophetic." "And fight to make the prophesy come true." "Its words are more powerful than any power." "And which are there to fight on every front." "Dangerous journey had its own attraction." "And attractive journey had its own danger." "With the notes of these dangers, friend." "We've to produce our music like a double edged sword." "Clenched jaws are paining now." "How long are you going to suppress the boiling "Larva"?" "Don't Sing." "Why?" " You know why?" "I don't feel like going to the party today." "You give some excuse to Damyanti." "Like, I'm having fever of I'm rehearsing the play." "Tell here that, I've started acting again." "Leave all this, don't go to the party also." "Stay with me, talk to me." "I'm writing." "Don't drink." "Don't sing, don't drink." "What do you want?" " Open the door." "What do you want?" " Give me the car key." "I won't." " Give I say." " No." "Whas happening?" " She's not giving me the car key." "You take my car." " Why's she insulting me time  again?" "When you know, then why do you ask?" "Take my car." "Listen, don't drive rashly." "Open the door, child." "I've already said 'No'." "Is enough." "Open the door." "Open I say, Sona." "Both of you, don't fight atleast today." "Put on a "Sari"." "I'll not come down for the party." "Sona, atleast today." " Okay, I'll come." "Why do you behave with me like this?" "Agashe is going to come?" " Yes." "Don't let that man come near me." "I'm going to the club." "You're coming to the party tonight, aren't you?" " Party?" "Don't act." "Didn't Damyanti call you?" "Not even Sona?" "Don't you want to see your child?" "He looks a rowdy like you." "She refused." "I was ready to get married." "Me  Sona can't get along even for 2 months." "Do you know what she told me?" "Whatever happened has no logic." "It shouldn't have happened." "Every person loses discretion once in life." "You happened to be there in my case, forget it." "Child belongs to me, I'll bring him up." "You haven't arranged the flowers yet its long since I had told you." "Laxman, bring those flowers to the library." "I'll take care of everything inside." "You shocked me." "When did you come?" "An hour ago." "And nobody told me..." "You were probably taking rest." " I was trying to." "Did you take sedative?" "I've to, every time before the party." " And I've to take after the party." "Don't joke!" "I can't comprehend!" "Why do you throw these parties?" "Otherwise, people will talk." "Barve is known to us for a long time." "He might feel." "He has received such a great honour." "I've thrown parties for smaller reasons also." "There're still 3 hours." "Sona is again irritated since morning." "She has locked herself in the room with the child." "I don't know what is in store for this girl." "She heard about the party  gave me a mouthful." "She feels, I'm not concerned about her." "Try to understand her, Damyanti." " Try to understand her." "I'm her mother, am I not?" "If Amrit was here, she woulïve been communicative with him." "He is roaming with the tribals in the jungles." "Come to my cabin." "Come, sit." "Will you've tea?" "Actually, I came to meet Avinash." "When is he returning from Andhra?" "He musve come this morning." "Did you learn anything about the tension there?" "Do you've some acquaintance there?" "He is a great poet, I'm his fan, sit." "No, give my message to Avinash as soon as he comes." "I'm going to Mrs. Rane in the evening Ask him to contact me there." "Better send him there." " Why?" "Anything important?" "Mrs. Abraham is bringing a friend with her this evening." "Why do you want to take the trouble of escorting me?" "Who told you that I'm going to the party." "I may not go also." "I'm not a daft to go with you." "You had sent the tickets for your stage show, many thanks for that." "Yes, I've seen." "By our Savitri sister saw it with her husband." "Both were very pleased." "In the life of every artist a moment comes." "When everything appears frivolous." "Fame, wealth  love seems meaningless  the artist loses interest in this world." "And he becomes restless." "Deeply restlesss to know himself." "And philosophical pursuit starts from here." "Nonsense." " Why did you read it?" "Was it confidential?" " Every article is confidential, till is completed." "You've written all nonsense." "What else can you say?" "Love appears meaningless  hollow, what does this mean?" "Come on get ready." " Love appears hollow what does it mean?" "Why does it appear hollow?" "Don't you love me?" " I do." "Okay, I accept." "Look, I'm still pretty." "Why're avoiding to look?" "You used to watch me for hours after undressing me." "Mohini, put on your dress." "No, whare you doing...?" "I'm still pretty..." "Still young." "Whare you doing?" "Why don't you kill me..." "I wonder whether everyone will come on time." "Ill be better if this dinner finishes early." "Tea?" "I don't know why I'm feeling..." "That some very bad thing is imminent, really." "I'm feeling a bit uneasy." "A strange fear, never mind." "And he is wedded to social commitment." "He donated the entire amount of his award to the "Leprosy Home"." "He may not be in need of so much money." "We know each other for 25 years." "Why should we pretend not to know each other?" "We don't." "You might be the doctor of philosophy." "But you haven't understood me..." "Neither anyone else." "Get lost." "I say get lost." "This prayer has no merit." "This prayer is meritless." "This Julius Ceaser doesn't seek anybody's kindness." "Who responds with kindness to the beseeching of someone." "Ceaser is steadfast." "Like the North Pole Star." "This star is watched by other stars." "The sky has millions of fire dots." "Each fire dot is burning  shining." "But the North Pole Star remains fixed at its own place." "In this vast sea of humanity I know of one person." "Who is steadfast at his place  that is me." "I'm Julius Ceaser." "I'm Othello." "I'm Pratap Rao Sudhakar I'm Hamlet." "And I'm Ganpat Rao Deolkar Emperor of the stage." "All great personalities have merged in my body." "And all great personalities have been murdered." "Invariably." "Look, murderers have pulled out their daggers." "To kill me, to kill this Julius Ceaser." "They've encircled me." "They're shouting "kill him"." ""Pull out your daggers, kill him..."" "Who is it?" "Brutus!" "You too." "Me..." "Me..." "Ceaser is dead..." "Baba." "This is called stage play, my dear..." "Baba..." "He is very much involved in his job." "He must be tormented a lot." "You're yet a kid." "I'm his great fan." " Who isn't?" "He's a great actor." "Acting is his..." "Kolhatkar, how're you?" " I'm fine." "Ravindran, she is Prabha Joshi." "Greetings." " Greetings." "She's a great fan of yours." " Really!" "You're so involved in your acting." "You must be tormented a lot." " I'm not tormented." "But the character in me is tormented." "I'll make a move." "Mrs. Rane's house." "It is full." "Don't enter." "Leave the bus." "One person..." " I said no, isn't it?" "Mr. Agashe, if your plays are staged hundreds of times." "Don't think you're a great talented play writer." "Shall I tell you the secret of your success?" " Yes." "Your pornography" "Thick, sticky, shameless pornography." "If I get success with that whas wrong in it?" "Mr. Agashe, you must be watching your plays, isn't it?" "Sure  I like them." "Vrindaji, I'll tell you one thing." "When people see the plays written by me with so much interest," "Believe me, it is very satisfying." "Entire middle class females of Maharasthra," "Identify themselves in your juicy characters." "You people have double standards." "You talk about average persons  yet degrade them." "And that too living in the opulence of a posh bungalow." "Great!" "When we cater for the taste of average persons," "You mock at us." "If we entertain an average person," "Take him out of his daily drudgery for 2-3 hours." "How can we be faulted, actually that is what he looks for." "Oh!" "Greetings." "Where're you going?" "To Mrs. Rane's house." " Come, sit." "I read your new poems I liked them." "When is next show of your play?" "I want to see it once." "I wanted to stage it, but I lost heavily in the beginning itself." "Something has to be done." "For the experimental theatre," "Some permanent financial arrangements has to be done." "I'll give you the script." "Is it published?" " No sir, it is cyclostyled." "Give it to me sometimes." "I'll read it in one of my flights." " Yes, sir." "Hope we didn't keep you waiting for long?" "Greetings." "Congratulations." "Forget it." "When youngsters join party, ill be fun." "Come child." "Yes uncle." "Get one orange squash." " Yes sir." "Good you came down." "Why do you come in these parties?" "There're many things child..." "Which we don't like but indulge in." "You're doing the same at the moment, isn't it?" "What do you mean by donating the entire amount to "Leprosy Home"." "Will this one gesture of humanism solve the entire problem?" "Here, Vrinda has started..." "When people like you adopt cheap  easy methods..." "I really feel very angry." "Until you praise "Marx" inspite of living in opulence." "You can't be a true radical." "That bungalow belongs to my father." " On Lord!" "Give similar father to all." "Vrinda is right Agashe." "Probably we become too romantic sometimes." "Amrit for instance." "He is a poet." "But abandoning his poetry, he has becomes a political activist." "This is also a type of romanticism." "You musve got tired dialing the phone." "Its out of order." "Such affluent people." "So much culture here." "This's the advantage of working in the theatre." "You get a chance to come to such big parties." "And with culture, you make lot of contacts." "Why don't you people be normal?" "Why do you distort romanticism?" "What you term as distortion, It may be truth for me." "A woman's observation may not be acceptable to a man." "Its not necessary that only man must accept everything." "I had told you, come on les go." "We've not been invited here Malvi." "Invitation may not have reached us." "I'm going in she is our friend." "I'm feeling sleepy." "When do you not feel sleepy." "You're a great sleeper." "You won't do anything to please me?" "You're not angry with us for coming uninvited?" "Karan was dying to meet me." "Its good you've come, I tried my best but these Bombay telephones..." "Amrit knows about it?" " He knows everything." "Man can understand a woman better than a woman, Neena." "The way upper caste man has a detailed knowledge of untouchability," "There's not much difference between you  Mr. Barve." "Mr. Barve." "What does he know about a woman?" "He has already reached his what do you we call it." "Creative menopause." "To tell you the truth Mrs. Abraham." "You English speaking people stand on a different pedestal." "You're superior actors." "Come, les go home." " We've come just now." "It looks odd." "Come, les go." "This party has been given for our sake." "For your sake!" "This party is for your sake." "We'll go after sometime." " For your sake." "The crowd has swelled in no time." "Consider it the affection of friends Barve." "This award may be a trifle for you." "This party is for his sake, isn't it?" " For you both." "We can't consider you 2 as different entities." "Mohini is feeling a bit tired." "She wants to go house soon." "Don't feel offened by Vrinda." "This is not my first meeting with her." "She is a nice girl but..." "She is a bit outspoken" " Who?" " Vrinda." "Why only a bit, a bit too much." "If she finds all this a farce," "Then, why doesn't she go to the jungles like Amrit?" "For the resurrection of tribals." " Whas the news of Amrit?" "His poems are not to seen these days." "What a promising poet." "We pampered him a lot, when he used to write." "But I won't be emotional like others." "I won't praise him wholesale." "Is a fashion these days." "Social Commitment etc." "He may not have anything worth while to write now." "Any letter from Amrit?" " There was one 6 months ago." "Are you worried?" "He wrote..." "His letters are also scrutinized." "I sent parcels of some important medicines for them." "I wonder whether they've received them or not." "You gave up research halfway!" "Amrit won't appreciate it." "I haven't given up." "It woulïve made a difference if Amrit was here." "So you act in plays." "No, but I've seen Don Juan." "Hello Malvika, how're you?" "Whas cooking these days?" "Nothing much." "Why?" "Have you given up modeling?" " What?" " Modeling." "Where has your husband disappeared?" " Where has he gone?" "Have you concealed him in your purse." "Malvika, will you drop me?" "Indeed, Narendra is a proletariate." "Come Bharat come..." "Because drinking is fashionable, thas why?" "What do you mean drinking is fashionable?" "Hindi, speak in Hindi Bharat." "As it is your English is half baked." "When you get irritated you murder the grammar also." "I'm genuine in whatever, I do." "Where's Mr. Barve?" " Fighting." "How many times are you going to say sorry?" "Why're you teasing him?" "Poor fellow." "Mrs. Rane, I'm not poor fellow." " Don't call him poor fellow." "Like Mr. Barve, Bharat is also a super writer." "He must be dreaming of an award, right now." "And why not!" "He'll also get an award when he'll write like Mr. Barve." "Don't drink so much, Mohini." "Have we met before?" " What?" "Yes sir, 3 times." "Really?" " Yes." "Why should I not drink?" "Everybody says the same thing, even Divakar." "Don't drink..." "Don't drink..." "Why?" "Madam..." "Shall I get you some more?" "Will you..." "Will you act in my play?" "I've stopped working..." "Even in the theatre." "I only drink." "Why've you abandoned the theatre?" "For Divakar, for your Mr. Barve." "What were you drinking?" "Les go home." "Now only, the party is warming up." "I've to get up early tomorrow morning." "No." "How is your research progressing?" "Strange, everyone's suddenly interested in my research." "I've dropped it." "Would you take care of Mohini?" " Okay." "You seem to be loner." " I'm posted here." "I can't evade you." "I feel you're constantly watching me." "Do you love someone?" "It wasn't wise of Mohini to leave the stage, isn't it Mr. Barve?" "It was her decision." " We've lost a good actress." "You feel so?" "Thas another matter." " Are they two different things?" "Many criminals have a good literary record Vrinda, like Zeney." "If you so decide, you can become a good human being." "But only resolve can not make a good artiste." "Amrit won't subscribe to this view." "Amrit has given up writing since long." "How can you be so sure." "One day he'll return  write." "Amrit felt that without conviction emerging writings won't impress." "He always quoted Lodka..." "Who sacrificed his life in Spanish civil war." "History has 100's of such examples," "When writers threw away their pens  picked up the gun." "And they were good people also Mr. Barve." "One example of Zeney doesn't prove the point." "What happened Mohini?" "Sona, what happened?" "Sona, I'll take her to your room." "Come, Mohini." "Mohini, what happened?" " Nothing..." "You didn't come to our 100th." "show day before yesterday." "Weren't you feeling well?" "Have you started the research again?" " No..." "Why this indifference?" "Whas it?" "I have asked you a question!" "You know my reply." " I don't accept it." "What did you do to Sona?" " What?" "Did you propose?" "Why don't you propose to me?" "I'm special." " My father is also that." "Where to?" " Inside." "There all of them..." "Scared of me?" "I won't seduce you, believe me, really." "No, I..." " You got annoyed." "You're very sensitive." "And these days it has become part of their life." "Whare you drinking?" "What should I give you?" "Any news of Amrit?" "Did you see Subhash anywhere?" " No..." "And finally like King Lear's death on the stage." "Ill be a very challenging role." "The characters that I've been doing so far." "Its entirely different from them." "You were in my mind when I was writing it." "This character is feeling that he is void." "Art, life, existence are without substance." "He is confronting only the hideous melancholy of solitariness." "To do justice to such a sensitive role a matured actor is needed." "I feel its me in it." "Mr. Barve, your character is hidden inside me." "Maturity is not the criterion." "All the characters flourish inside me." "What happens is that at the right moment particular one shows up." "Others hibernate." "And you blossom into a new character." "Many a times a strange confusion sets in." "On the stage, I'm confident that I'm doing this." "And when I'm off stage." "I can't comprehend whether, I'm acting or I'm being myself." "I'm not referring to the characters hidden inside you." "But, this is truth." "All the characters are present inside me." "Which one of them is me?" "We're on two different wave lengths." "Come." "Please come." "A delegation of writers is going to America, Mr. Barve." "You're sure to be in it." "Agashe, delegation is only a rumour." "If someone talks something in Delhi, he starts imagining." "At the moment I shall not be going anywhere." "Till my play is completed, I don't want any diversion." "Actually on such tours boys like Amrit  Bharat should be sent." "Bharat has started writing recently!" "Yes." "Is true." "Why don't you send me Mrs. Rane?" "He sleeps in every party." "He looks so fat  ludicrous." "I'm very scared of plumpishness." "You can never put on weight," "Till that fire burns inside you," "You'll look handsome  smart like this." "Don't take me wrong." " Not at all." "I can see people objectively." "Thas why, I don't hide anything from you." "Like an open book." "No, is not that." " Really?" "Promise?" "Are you embarrassed?" " No." "Forget it." "You might imagine so many things." "Bharat, why do you waste your time with these shallow people?" "But Mrs. Rane doesn't think so, she says." " What?" "She says, I'm a beginner." "She hasn't written a single sentence till now." "And she says I'm a beginner." "People are scared to recognize the real talent." "Why do you give them so much importance?" " No." "Is not importance." "But, they don't hesitate to be unjust." "A literary delegation is going to America." "Mrs. Rane doesn't want to include my name in it." "Will you go to Russia?" "Will you go?" "I want exposure to everything in life." "Suppose we both go together?" "Oh no!" "You'll accuse me of seducing you." "No." "Be careful!" "What happened Mohini?" "What happened?" "I vomited again." "Why do you drink so much that..." "Drinking won't solve any problem." "Will it be solved without drinking?" "Did your's got solved?" "Forget about problems." "Where's my glass?" " Don't drink, Mohini." "Show me your hand." "I didn't know that Marxist like you believe in such things." "Marxists are also human beings." "Anyway I've no illusion about Marxsim." "Thas why, this new illusion." "You profess to be very rational." "Put out your hand like this." "Sorry, I forgot to cut my nails." "So what?" "You don't belong to that clan." "Bharat, there're big cheats in Bombay." "Be careful." "These people will not allow you to come up." "Even Mr. Barve." "There's something like professional jealousy." "When the career is involved they'll try to eclipse you." "They'll involve you in the glitter of glamour  finish you." "You won't even know about it." "I've seen all this." "Your hand is very sensitive." "Amrit faced the same music?" "He's not here." "Thas why, they revere him in tandem." "I remember one of Amris poems." "'Scratches on the face." "Body fully bloodieï." "'Bruised temples, hoary voice'." "'How, when  through what turmoil I've reached here'" "'I'm not in a position to give the details' 'ls enough if I say that I walked slowly, but steadily. '" "'Pressure, opposition, etc." "Which started on that explosive momen." "'When I had confuseï." "'On their microphone'." "'By announcing my frank decision'." "'Under any circumstances in their glamourous journey'." "'I refuse to play the joker. ' 'ln the crevices of the teeth of those people'" "'Fresh human flesh is filled like the fiber of sugar cane'." "If I can write 4 such lines my life will be successful." "I was very keen to meet Amrit." "But, when I came to Bombay, he had left." "Bharat, you recite one of your poems, please recite." "'I'm also passing through a confused time'." "'I don't get time to think to compose something'." "'Fineries are elusive'." "'Only liquor bottle, fire emitting bodies of women'." "'Puffs of cigarettes, hollow pain of unsuccessful people' 'ln the ear shattering vibrations'." "'Same old things, arguments'" "'Which have no mention of any special things of future'" "'Meaninglessness of Life' 'lncapabilities of original thinking'" "'Why can't I come out of this third-rate era of life?" "'" "'Escape from the half baked sick minds'" "'Who sell their torment, some of it noble  decen" "'Why can't I escape from all these?" "' 'ls a peg necessary'" "'Or is the cheap need of worthless me necessary'" "'Or my worthless ego is necessary'" "'Which rots after seeing these crawling  whining personalities'." "'Feels happy, pats its back, saying, I'm better than them'." "But, I feel I'm very crude." " Thas your real charm, really." "Sometimes my confidence, gets shaken." "I worry about people's comment." "Shall I tell you the truth?" "I write to earn, name  fame." "Isn't it ridiculous?" "But is true." "I feel with fame, I'll be in the cocoon of safety." "If people mention my name, I'll have the confidence that I exist." "People are my mirror." "You don't know yourself simpleton." "If you had wanted fame, wouldn't you've written plays like Agashe." "Tell me." "Today, all that is happening around us." "I feel hurt by it." "Rotten politics." "Cynicism, apathy of politicians towards public." "And indifference of public for everything." "I feel angry after seeing all this." "I feel like giving a violent jerk to everyone." "I feel, it could be termed as propaganda." "But I also feel, I should write about all these things." "Because these things disturb me." "How far social  political commitment  literature," "Can be merged to-gather?" "Should they be related or not?" "After all... after all why do we write?" "To get fame?" "To express our disatisfication about social injustice." "Or to reveal soul stirring experience?" "Shall I tell you onething?" "In your writing there is an ardour, a storm." "But, there is also something which doesn't effervesce." "When you write about sex I feel you know very little about it." "As if you're fantasizing it." "Look at me..." "Look at me." "I love children." "But, Divakar says no." "He thinks that children are a plan to pin him down." "I say you're free." "I never insisted on marrying me." "But, if I do have a child." "I'll forget everything." "This pricking  pain." "Why do you live with Divakar?" "Where am I to go leaving Divakar?" " Go anywhere." "I've become a bonded slave." "Whatever he likes, I hate it." "I hate his friends." "...His books." "Then, I get drunk." "He too gets drunk and sleeps." "When I see him asleep." "A fire enrages inside me." "Even after getting drunk, I don't get sleep." "I go near him..." "Sleep next to him naked... throbbing!" "May be..." "He might get interested in me." "Then, I fear even to touch him." "Scared..." "Scared..." "Every moment of life scared." "I'm starting to appear ugly, am I not?" "Mohini, take rest for sometime." "Dark circles around my eyes." "I've started to look old, haven't I?" "Look at young girls, how nicely they get dressed up." "How fresh they look." "And how old I look compared to them." "I've no idea of how much the world has changed in 7 years." "How much I had become a part of Divakar's life." "What did I gain from it, despite giving such a high price?" "Just this..." "This old age!" "Don't give into such thoughts." "I used to sing." "I used to sing." "I used to practice vocals 4 hours a day." "Now, I don't even have a voice." "What am I to do with my life?" "You start acting again." "Go back to stage." "I too wish the same." "I've tried many times." "I've been thinking since a long time to escape from this whirlpool." "And live a life of my own." "But, if Divakar loves me." "Though it might be just for a moment, but true love." "I'll restart my career." "But... he..." "Come on, get up." "Les go outside." "I feel ashamed." "Don't know what people would think about me." "Forget about them." "Are my hairs well groomed?" "Get my purse, please." "Will this shade match with my sari?" "No." "I never had earlier." "I feel strange." "I never had earlier." "I feel strange." "What happened?" "What happened?" "No... nothing." "No... no... nothing." "Sitting alone here." "I want to talk to you," "Please, don't block my way." "What do I lack?" "If like Sahni..." "No need to take anyone's name." "We're indebted to this society." "Is our duty to give something to this society." "Is an obligation." "I always ask myself." "Ask myself, what can I do for this society?" "Right now, you can stop drinking." "Come with me." "I told you to keep this Agashe away from me." "What happened?" " Do you want to hear?" "What was he saying?" "How many people's mouths can you shut?" "We're at fault." "I never committed any mistake, got it?" "How can you commit mistake, when people are fools." "Agashe has asked me again." "He knows my reply... you too." "Whas wrong with Agashe?" "You don't interfere, Rahul." "Rahul is no more a kid." "I know Agashe doesn't love you." "But, Sahni's love wasn't also true." "Somehow we've to solve this problem." "He knows Nana is a Cabinet Minister." "These marriages of convenience happen and they're successful." "Your father too did the same." "Yours was a love marriage." " I felt like that then." "I realized it very quickly." "But, I never deserted him." "Your grandpa was a famous Lawyer and a State Leader." "And your father married me after considering all this." "Father is no more to put forth his opinion." "Not a night passed when he didn't come heavily drunk." "Did you ever ask yourself?" "Why did he do like that?" "I did ask." "A question that is after me all my life." "Whas that I didn't do for him?" "Literature, Music..." "Art." "I introduced to him everything that is beautiful." "You nagged him." "I'm very angry on you." "If father had been here, he woulïve shot everyone." "Will that solve your problem?" "You had created the problem." "I'm ready to live with my child holding my head high in this society." "Whas the problem in it?" "Earlier, you were ashamed of father." "Now, is me." "I don't dress up." "I don't socialize with your friends." "You're responsible for all this." "Do you want to punish me?" "Punish me." "But, stop this grumbling." "Tell your boy friend not to come after me." "What did you say?" "Their glamour will never work on me." "They're all talented creative people." "And you?" "You live like a parasite on their fame  reputation." "Where're you calling from?" "First, come here." "You're not spoiling my evening." "You straight away come here." "I don't want to hear any excuses." "In 15 minutes you be here." "Mohini, whas this?" " I'm alright." "This is..." " No... no." "Whatever I've heard about Mohini, is it true?" "It is..." "She's becoming a regular alcoholic." "I've even stopped thinking about her." "Mr. Barve, getting some one who loves you truely is also a rarity." "This is not true and Mohini too has understood this." "I no more love her." "Damayanti, sometimes it does happen like that." "But, she even gave up her career for you." "Why do people deceive themselves?" "You know, she was a mediocre actress." "As an actress she didn't have any great future." " But, Mr. Barve..." "She understood that very well." "So, she never took any risk." "Using love as an excuse, she always ran away from challenges." "Now, she'll enjoy bliss." "Bliss of cursing me all her life." "I'm telling the truth." "She doesn't know the consequences of what is happening now." "Refusing to accept truth  drinking..." "Thas all." "She has become a heavy drinker." "All night I sleep next to her." "Closing my eyes..." "Pretending to be a sleep." "In constant fear!" "If I move even a little she might touch me." "Hug me and cry." "Leave him, Mohini." "Leave him." "I love you." "How much?" " Rs 9" "Did you read about encounter details in yesterday's newspaper?" " I read." "A feel ashamed that such things are happening." "More shameful than that is, is being allowed to happen." "A film should be made on this subject." "Will Government allow it?" "How are you?" "Oh!" "What happened?" "Let me get back my breath." " Tell me, what happened?" "I'll..." " Tell me, how's Amrit?" "Whave you done to yourself?" "Nothing much, just a little fracture." "Nothing serious, isn't it?" " No." "Come." "What happened?" "Animosity will increase hatred  bitterness." "How can you forget that?" "Problems can't be solved with just flowing blood." "In which world are you living?" "Don't you know anything?" "Newspapers don't report much." " Thas also true." "No one has courage to publish truth." "Police have arrested Amrit." "This development was unexpected." " Do you really think this is unexpected?" "Mr. Barve, so much is happening there." "You would never believe if you hear it." "Come out of Bombay and go there." "See it yourself." "Situation there wasn't deteriorated to that extent." "Pressure was building up inside." "When Amrit reached there." "But, why do people like Amrit resort to violence?" "Mrs. Damayanti, I didn't say Amrit started the violence." "Tribals had already created chaotic situation there." "Processions were being taken out, unrest was spreading all over." "If Government sends police as a safety measure in such a situation." "Whas wrong in it?" "Do you believe that Police was sent there only to maintain law  order?" "Avinash, with whom are your sympathies?" "I'm a not partisan to anyone." "I'm a journalist." "I'm on look out for news." "I bring it." "I'm not after the meaning of entity, experience of life... etc." "Stop being sarcastic Avinash." "Give all the details." "The eruption which broke out just now." "Reason for that is very simple." "But, no one knows how fire was simmering at its base for centuries." "The fight broke out for the land." "Tribals say the land belongs to them." "...And that is true." "They've been doing agriculture for centuries on that land." "And Government wants that part of land." "Police are camping there for the past 5 months." "700 soldiers are also on guard." "700!" "Amrit leads a procession." "Suddenly a stone comes from no where." "And a Policeman is injured." "After that tear gas, lathicharge, firing..." "Same age old technic." "12 Tribals have died." "Nothing in Newspapers." "What?" " Revolutions don't happen just like this." "Amrit too says, this is not revolution." "This is not at all revolution." "Before Amrit left here, we had an argument." "With just a few Tribals in a remote area." "No revolution can be ushered in." "The type of organization, the type of arrangement needed for revolution." "Our country hasn't yet seen anything like that." "Romanticism like this can never take the place of revolution." "Amrit says this is just a fight against injustice." "He says injustice must be opposed at any cost." "It is necessary to create awareness against atrocity." "You're telling us Amris view point." "There must be some logic in Governmens stand also." "Governmens logic got lambasted, in the last Assembly itself." "This was reported in Newspapers also." "Government was lambasted, but is unrelenting in its stand." "Government wants to establish a large industrial project there." "Businessmen, contractors will run on knees." "And the forest pie will be shared." "Power Houses will spring up." "Roads will come up." "Large bull dozers  trucks will ply there." "With these black marketing of licenses heftybribes." "Everything had happened there." "When a Tribal has to trek 5 kms for a pot of drinking water." "This is the dilemma." "On one side, is Human rights of Tribals." "Which is a valid reason." "On the other side Industrialization is also necessary for this country." "Certainly, it is necessary." "But, why is the Government adamant on that piece of land only?" "There're no special advantages for that region also." "But, Government is hell bent on acquiring that land only." "Why?" "Because, Chief Minister has won his election from that constituency." "He must show some development in that region." "The agricultural land adjoining the forest." "If it belongs to Chief Minister's wife." "What can anyone do?" "When this project starts, value of that land will increase 50 times." "An acre of land will be sold for Rs.25,000 instead of Rs.500." "For the last 5 years, is famine there." "Government didn't do anything." "Now, crores of money will be spent to dig canals." "Built dams." "An expert committee has been already appointed for the purpose also." "But, Government will compensate Tribals, won't it?" " Yes, ill." "Very generous Government, isn't it?" "Rs.500 cash for every person and free rice for a month." "Where have they taken Amrit after arresting him?" "Actually, what had happened there?" " Do you really want to know?" "An incident that happened before my eyes." "A local MLA  a Minister, they came a week earlier there." "They tried to lureTribals." "Amrit  his associates protested this." "They invited Amrit for talks." "Talks was just a pretext." "He was called inside and threatened in different ways." "Did anyone ever saw Amrit getting angry?" "As if a volcano had erupted." "Minister too got angry." "His associate, MLA started threatening." "He said you talk too much." "2 days later, I and Amrit were returning evening." "We were attacked in the forest." "This is a prize of that incident." " And Amrit?" "He's fine." "Mildly injured." "He's in the hospital." "Police have taken him into their custody." "And are guarding him there only." "At Hospital." "What happened?" "How will Amrit look like?" "How?" "You mean..." "I mean... his eyes." "His complexion." "Why don't you meet him personally?" "I do want to meet him but..." "His injuries are not serious, isn't it?" " No." "He's fine." "There's something, which you're hiding it." "You've not revealed the entire thing." " I've told everything." "No." "I've told, Sona." " Really?" "Whatever it might be, please don't hide anything." "I'll not hide." "Hearing Amris news has shaken my heart." "Is common in political movements." "What will you gain from it?" "This is the price you've to pay for living with notions." "I'm growing old." "Barve, we both are of same age." "Look, how fast I've grown old." "Whatelse can happen to a woman like me?" "I never think of it." "You all are creative artists." "You live every moment afresh." "Your heart will never rot." "Barve, you're standing on the peak of fame  success." "How do you feel there?" "How's the air there on the peak?" " There's no air." "Don't you feel like the entire world is at your feet?" " No." "I feel, whas next?" "Is it climbing down?" "You'll never climb down from the top place you had reached." "There's something..." "Which is in your fist today." "Your fist isn't empty like mine." "I can't say confidently." "I'll die." "Nothing will remain as my remembrance." "Do you know, what did Sona say today?" "She said, I'm a Parasite." "She said, I suck your name  fame to survive." "What have I done all my life?" "What did I gain?" "What will I leave behind?" "This is ego." "Happiness of being one with the supreme soul is just a word." "It has no Meaning." " Aren't you also happy?" "You know the truth." "You know it..." "I too know it..." "But, we're not ready to face it." "Actually, we are people who run away from life." "Why're we disintegrating within ourselves?" "I'm not able to understand it." "I'm awake all night." "A day before yesterday, a strange incident happened." "All day I was wandering aimlessly." "Libraries, Muzeums, Art Galleries, Shops..." "Don't know wherelse." "I stopped at a traffic signal." "Green signal came on, but I didn't move." "Suddenly, I found myself sobbing." "So much so that tears were running down continuously." "Entire traffic was surprised." "And tears were rolling down continuously." "Don't know what happened?" "An eerie of silence spread over of my heart" "Not even a leaf is moving." "A canal of dirt is flowing from you to me." "So much unfamiliar, so much unsaid." "A prosperous time will come for all the worlds' pain." "From you to me." "From me to you." "Yes." "A canal of dirt flows eternally from me to you." "May be this is the relationship." "To define it, a girl looking into mirror is distressed for hours." "I might not be able to come, swimming in the canal of dirt." "But, my song can reach you." "It can feel the touch of your solitude." "This is... yes." "This is the maturity of our relationship." "A canal of dirt flows from you and me." "I think I'll go to America with a delegation." "At least 2-3 weeks will pass of peacefully." "Mohini will insist on accompanying you." "There's always that foreign exchange problem." "I'll talk to father tomorrow." "Bharat also wants to go." "Decide it yourself." "Decide it yourself." "Bharat is virtuous." "But, he must abide by time." "He must put up some effort." "If he gets into a vortex of fame  foreign trips." "He'll lose himself." "He feels we've not noticed his dramas." "One day I had to tell him." "That Mr. Barve had to struggle a lot." "Struggle?" "No, Damayanti." "I got fame easily." "I'm a clever man." "Don't talk like that." "Actually, I rarely speak truth like this." "I do everything carefully." "I'm ruling the roost for 20 years, just because of my cleverness." "By the way what great invaluable experiences do I present in my works?" "Why?" "Lmagination is also an experience." "All writers put themselves into this false notion." "Judging the new trend earlier." "Use it before others." "Narrating difficulties faced in life with most difficult words." "Suddenly making it very easy and end it with a great drama." "This is my fixed style." "Surprise the reader." "Wait for few more years." "You'll see that even if they read my words." "The straw heaped on their minds would fall off with a great thud." "Straw!" "That is my earning." "Why're you telling me all this?" "Because you're also a partner in my conspiracy." "In search of truth all the life..." " Is fraud." "Search of truth is hypocrisy." "Whas truth?" "Did we ever find truth?" "And then, one day when I had to face truth." "I didn't have courage to see it eye to eye." "I was proceeding to Delhi to receive an award." "Suddenly my car broke down somewhere deep inside the forest." "It was raining heavily outside." "I saw..." "An old Tribal man  woman getting drenched in rain." "Shivering in cold..." "They were looking at my car." "There was a strange feeling of alieness in their eyes." "There wasn't any relationship between us." "Me, my literary works, my fame  name." "My treasure of 5000 year old tradition." "They didn't have any connection with all these things." "In their ordinary lives." "All these appeared like dishonesty in a moment." "Whas the meaning of that Art  tradition?" "My literary works didn't share any of their sorrows." "Do you feel I'm being melodramatic..." "I'm telling you the truth." "Before writing, in the enthusiasm of writing, we write too much." "Ill become famous." "With that as Principle amount, we enjoy all our life interest on it." "Whatever the new things we write." "They're just repetition of the original" "We do it cleverly." "So, an illusion of originality is maintained." "Look!" "Naren has fallen down." "Didn't get hurt, did you?" "What happened?" "How?" "Didn't get hurt, did you?" " He needs some water." "My glasses." "Naren, you've not hurt yourself, haven't you?" " No, I'm fine." "We got anxious." "I'm fine." "It does happen sometimes." "Would you like to have dinner now?" "No... not now." "Okay." "Look child." "The path Amrit has chosen." "All these dangers are part of it." "I know it, uncle." "Amrit is not alone in this." "There are people like him." "With him." "Songs written with fire in heart will lit fire." "Ill burn it." "A burning charcoal taken out from a firing kiln." "Why is it cold like ice?" "I'm writing the song." "With courage of women raped before her own family members." "I'm writing the song." "With the throb of leaders killed in public." "Whose only crime was hunger and demanding food." "Whose only sin was the desire to live like ordinary human." "Then, why does this song hurt you?" "If you do really still have a sensitive heart." "My song will shake him up..." "ill prod him to move forward." "My song which has conquered the peak of sorrows  holding it." "It can never be neutral, never impotent." "Why should it give anyone a glimmer of happiness?" "Either you're mine or my own or my enemy?" "The battlefield into which I've entered." "My song is also a weapon there." "Good!" "Good try." "Mr. Barve, Amrit wrote this poem." " Is it?" "Amrit is still alive, Mr. Barve." "If only I could write atleast one poem like this." "Bharat, Amris poetry isn't just poetry." "Is a weapon." "For me, first is a poem." "In my opinion any art creation..." "Poem, Drama, Novel or even a film." "Through which if you're able to concur with public opinion." "Is a weapon in social or political struggle." "In a way this is correct." "But, why're you insisting in having it every time?" "This is not insisting, this is truth." "Art can never be separated from politics." "If you observe carefully." "Government of every country, ...is using Art media to establish is rule." "If we want to bring fundamental changes." "We've to use our Art  Media as a weapon." "Even then, if we are not able to achieve our set goals." "Then, we've to make weapons as our medium." "In your opinion..." "Motive of Art is to become a weapon of politics." "Isn't there any independent entity for art?" "If the artiste isn't politically committed, his art is irrelevant." "What do you say, doctor?" "Why do you pull me into this argument?" "An artistes' belief in any political ideology." "Or becoming a member of any political party." "Is his personal decision." "Is personal choice." "I don't believe is a precondition for the relevance of his art." "But, one thing is clear." "Good Art  Literature." "Particularly in 20th century is born under some form of a protest." "Whether the protest was political, social or philosophical." "It isn't very easy to analyze it." "But, in the artiss mind..." "The power of protest and revolt was very strong." "Let it be any political system." "Is prime duty of all artistes to protest against injustice  oppression." "First time in all these years, I've seen you talking so much." "Thanks to Avinash." "By the way, doctor." "Don't you feel that to make an artiste's protest." "Into a wide spread rebellion." "He needs a political organizations' support." "I don't think so." "In an historic moment, when many artistes join together." "...A special consciousness." "When they articulate a special sensibility." "Ill develop into a movement on its own." "Which will reach the common man's heart  soul." "But doctor, what about a man's personal happiness or sorrow?" "But, your view scorns it as absurd." "All our happiness  sorrows should be connected socially  politically." "Why do you insist it every time?" "I've no enemity with a man's personal happiness or sorrow." "But, as an art form, if it fails to reach the state of an epic." "If it fails to show a new path, whas the use of it?" "Doctor, sometimes I've a doubt that..." "When we go with a condition of social commitment." "Won't the class of Art get lowered?" "How can we decide which is more important aesthetics or commitment?" "Then, I think all these questions are unfair." "Because, we don't have the freedom of choice." "We write because we can't survive without writing." "Amrit has become a political activist." "Because he sees his path there." "Most important thing is..." "The path that we've chosen for ourselves." "Whether we do it honestly or not." "Bharat, answer my one question." "The injustice thas happening around us." "Do you want to take a moral stand on it or not?" "As a human, I'll definitely take a stand." "And as an artiste." " Not necessarily." "That means one man will have 2 sets of moral commitments." "It can happen..." "If that man is an artiste..." "He'll live differently in 2 different strata." "You're scared of taking a moral stand." "And cleverly twisting the words." "No, actually my stand is more moralistic." "If I make an error in keeping 2 sets of moral commitments." "Then, as a human I'll fall from grace." "As an artiste also I can't be honest." "How many artists can you find who're honest with 2 sets commitments?" "Without compromising." "This is different issue." " This's not different." "Some day the soul  the artiste would come face to face." "And start searching for the answer of the same question." "Then, we've to take a decision." "We've to take a decision whatever to live as a human or artiste." "If you ever face such a question what will you do?" "Phone for Mr. Avinash." "I don't understand why do you break heads with such arguments." "If a writer wants to write, let him do it." "Is there any dearth of matter?" "Famine, crime, problems of young girls, corrupt Ministers." "We had left such themes for you." "What happened?" "Whas the matter, Avinash?" "What happened?" "Amrit is no more." "He has been killed." "When?" "..." "How?" "Today morning." "A body was found near a stream in the jungle." "Now, 2-3 Tribals will be arrested." "They'll be charged with murder and they'll be found guilty." "And they'll be hanged... thas all." "Amrit is liberated." "Earlier I didn't reveal it." "Now, I'll reveal it." "When I  Amrit were returning that evening." "6-7 people attacked us on the way." "Before losing consciousness." "I saw Amrit pinned down by few rowdies." "And one had drawn out a knife." "Later, when I regained my consciousness." "I found Amrit lying on grass, a little away." "His face was covered with blood." "You talk too much that MLA had said." "He had cut Amris tongue." "Today morning he was discharged from Hospital." "He was returning to the village hideout." "And... ." "On the way..." "someone with a stone." "I think we must arrange for a condolence meeting." "What do you say, Mr. Barve?" " Definitely." "I wish to say something." "After all he was a good poet  a great man" "Why do you want to create this drama?" "Amrit is not the only one to be affected like that." "Why do you want to make him a Martyr..." "What happened?" "Clenched jaws are paining in impotent rage." "How long the boiling "Larva" Inside can be contained." "Before the head becomes a crator." "The excruciating torsion has to be get rid of." "The best defense is attack." "There's no better option." "The factory in which the sword was cast is immaterial." "The important point is..." "Who's holding it  who is facing it?" "Who's holding the reins of that magic city makes all the difference." "Where drops of sweat produce pearls." "The guardians of human beings." "Have handed over truth  justice to the computer  feeling satisfied." "It is going to decide." "Tons of Naplam bombs dropped on unarmed hamlets." "Or a single hand grenade thrown on the bullet proof car of the dictator." "Which of the above two crimes is more heinous against humanity." "Actually." "There is no bigger crime then the human interference in justice  truth." "Power." "Does power emanate from the barrel of the gun." "Or from the paper bullets of poetry." "Is dictionary says that is words are prophetic." "And fight to make the prophesy come true." "Its words are more powerful than any power." "And which are there to fight on every front." "Dangerous journey had its own attraction." "And attractive journey had its own danger." "With the notes of these dangers, friend." "We've to produce our music like a double edged sword." "Clenched jaws are paining now." "How long are you going to suppress the boiling "Larva"?" "Don't Sing." "Why?" " You know why?" "I don't feel like going to the party today." "You give some excuse to Damyanti." "Like, I'm having fever of I'm rehearsing the play." "Tell here that, I've started acting again." "Leave all this, don't go to the party also." "Stay with me, talk to me." "I'm writing." "Don't drink." "Don't sing, don't drink." "What do you want?" " Open the door." "What do you want?" " Give me the car key." "I won't." " Give I say." " No." "Whas happening?" " She's not giving me the car key." "You take my car." " Why's she insulting me time  again?" "When you know, then why do you ask?" "Take my car." "Listen, don't drive rashly." "Open the door, child." "I've already said 'No'." "Is enough." "Open the door." "Open I say, Sona." "Both of you, don't fight atleast today." "Put on a "Sari"." "I'll not come down for the party." "Sona, atleast today." " Okay, I'll come." "Why do you behave with me like this?" "Agashe is going to come?" " Yes." "Don't let that man come near me." "I'm going to the club." "You're coming to the party tonight, aren't you?" " Party?" "Don't act." "Didn't Damyanti call you?" "Not even Sona?" "Don't you want to see your child?" "He looks a rowdy like you." "She refused." "I was ready to get married." "Me  Sona can't get along even for 2 months." "Do you know what she told me?" "Whatever happened has no logic." "It shouldn't have happened." "Every person loses discretion once in life." "You happened to be there in my case, forget it." "Child belongs to me, I'll bring him up." "You haven't arranged the flowers yet its long since I had told you." "Laxman, bring those flowers to the library." "I'll take care of everything inside." "You shocked me." "When did you come?" "An hour ago." "And nobody told me..." "You were probably taking rest." " I was trying to." "Did you take sedative?" "I've to, every time before the party." " And I've to take after the party." "Don't joke!" "I can't comprehend!" "Why do you throw these parties?" "Otherwise, people will talk." "Barve is known to us for a long time." "He might feel." "He has received such a great honour." "I've thrown parties for smaller reasons also." "There're still 3 hours." "Sona is again irritated since morning." "She has locked herself in the room with the child." "I don't know what is in store for this girl." "She heard about the party  gave me a mouthful." "She feels, I'm not concerned about her." "Try to understand her, Damyanti." " Try to understand her." "I'm her mother, am I not?" "If Amrit was here, she woulïve been communicative with him." "He is roaming with the tribals in the jungles." "Come to my cabin." "Come, sit." "Will you've tea?" "Actually, I came to meet Avinash." "When is he returning from Andhra?" "He musve come this morning." "Did you learn anything about the tension there?" "Do you've some acquaintance there?" "He is a great poet, I'm his fan, sit." "No, give my message to Avinash as soon as he comes." "I'm going to Mrs. Rane in the evening Ask him to contact me there." "Better send him there." " Why?" "Anything important?" "Mrs. Abraham is bringing a friend with her this evening." "Why do you want to take the trouble of escorting me?" "Who told you that I'm going to the party." "I may not go also." "I'm not a daft to go with you." "You had sent the tickets for your stage show, many thanks for that." "Yes, I've seen." "By our Savitri sister saw it with her husband." "Both were very pleased." "In the life of every artist a moment comes." "When everything appears frivolous." "Fame, wealth  love seems meaningless  the artist loses interest in this world." "And he becomes restless." "Deeply restlesss to know himself." "And philosophical pursuit starts from here." "Nonsense." " Why did you read it?" "Was it confidential?" " Every article is confidential, till is completed." "You've written all nonsense." "What else can you say?" "Love appears meaningless  hollow, what does this mean?" "Come on get ready." " Love appears hollow what does it mean?" "Why does it appear hollow?" "Don't you love me?" " I do." "Okay, I accept." "Look, I'm still pretty." "Why're avoiding to look?" "You used to watch me for hours after undressing me." "Mohini, put on your dress." "No, whare you doing...?" "I'm still pretty..." "Still young." "Whare you doing?" "Why don't you kill me..." "I wonder whether everyone will come on time." "Ill be better if this dinner finishes early." "Tea?" "I don't know why I'm feeling..." "That some very bad thing is imminent, really." "I'm feeling a bit uneasy." "A strange fear, never mind." "And he is wedded to social commitment." "He donated the entire amount of his award to the "Leprosy Home"." "He may not be in need of so much money." "We know each other for 25 years." "Why should we pretend not to know each other?" "We don't." "You might be the doctor of philosophy." "But you haven't understood me..." "Neither anyone else." "Get lost." "I say get lost." "This prayer has no merit." "This prayer is meritless." "This Julius Ceaser doesn't seek anybody's kindness." "Who responds with kindness to the beseeching of someone." "Ceaser is steadfast." "Like the North Pole Star." "This star is watched by other stars." "The sky has millions of fire dots." "Each fire dot is burning  shining." "But the North Pole Star remains fixed at its own place." "In this vast sea of humanity I know of one person." "Who is steadfast at his place  that is me." "I'm Julius Ceaser." "I'm Othello." "I'm Pratap Rao Sudhakar I'm Hamlet." "And I'm Ganpat Rao Deolkar Emperor of the stage." "All great personalities have merged in my body." "And all great personalities have been murdered." "Invariably." "Look, murderers have pulled out their daggers." "To kill me, to kill this Julius Ceaser." "They've encircled me." "They're shouting "kill him"." ""Pull out your daggers, kill him..."" "Who is it?" "Brutus!" "You too." "Me..." "Me..." "Ceaser is dead..." "Baba." "This is called stage play, my dear..." "Baba..." "He is very much involved in his job." "He must be tormented a lot." "You're yet a kid." "I'm his great fan." " Who isn't?" "He's a great actor." "Acting is his..." "Kolhatkar, how're you?" " I'm fine." "Ravindran, she is Prabha Joshi." "Greetings." " Greetings." "She's a great fan of yours." " Really!" "You're so involved in your acting." "You must be tormented a lot." " I'm not tormented." "But the character in me is tormented." "I'll make a move." "Mrs. Rane's house." "It is full." "Don't enter." "Leave the bus." "One person..." " I said no, isn't it?" "Mr. Agashe, if your plays are staged hundreds of times." "Don't think you're a great talented play writer." "Shall I tell you the secret of your success?" " Yes." "Your pornography" "Thick, sticky, shameless pornography." "If I get success with that whas wrong in it?" "Mr. Agashe, you must be watching your plays, isn't it?" "Sure  I like them." "Vrindaji, I'll tell you one thing." "When people see the plays written by me with so much interest," "Believe me, it is very satisfying." "Entire middle class females of Maharasthra," "Identify themselves in your juicy characters." "You people have double standards." "You talk about average persons  yet degrade them." "And that too living in the opulence of a posh bungalow." "Great!" "When we cater for the taste of average persons," "You mock at us." "If we entertain an average person," "Take him out of his daily drudgery for 2-3 hours." "How can we be faulted, actually that is what he looks for." "Oh!" "Greetings." "Where're you going?" "To Mrs. Rane's house." " Come, sit." "I read your new poems I liked them." "When is next show of your play?" "I want to see it once." "I wanted to stage it, but I lost heavily in the beginning itself." "Something has to be done." "For the experimental theatre," "Some permanent financial arrangements has to be done." "I'll give you the script." "Is it published?" " No sir, it is cyclostyled." "Give it to me sometimes." "I'll read it in one of my flights." " Yes, sir." "Hope we didn't keep you waiting for long?" "Greetings." "Congratulations." "Forget it." "When youngsters join party, ill be fun." "Come child." "Yes uncle." "Get one orange squash." " Yes sir." "Good you came down." "Why do you come in these parties?" "There're many things child..." "Which we don't like but indulge in." "You're doing the same at the moment, isn't it?" "What do you mean by donating the entire amount to "Leprosy Home"." "Will this one gesture of humanism solve the entire problem?" "Here, Vrinda has started..." "When people like you adopt cheap  easy methods..." "I really feel very angry." "Until you praise "Marx" inspite of living in opulence." "You can't be a true radical." "That bungalow belongs to my father." " On Lord!" "Give similar father to all." "Vrinda is right Agashe." "Probably we become too romantic sometimes." "Amrit for instance." "He is a poet." "But abandoning his poetry, he has becomes a political activist." "This is also a type of romanticism." "You musve got tired dialing the phone." "Its out of order." "Such affluent people." "So much culture here." "This's the advantage of working in the theatre." "You get a chance to come to such big parties." "And with culture, you make lot of contacts." "Why don't you people be normal?" "Why do you distort romanticism?" "What you term as distortion, It may be truth for me." "A woman's observation may not be acceptable to a man." "Its not necessary that only man must accept everything." "I had told you, come on les go." "We've not been invited here Malvi." "Invitation may not have reached us." "I'm going in she is our friend." "I'm feeling sleepy." "When do you not feel sleepy." "You're a great sleeper." "You won't do anything to please me?" "You're not angry with us for coming uninvited?" "Karan was dying to meet me." "Its good you've come, I tried my best but these Bombay telephones..." "Amrit knows about it?" " He knows everything." "Man can understand a woman better than a woman, Neena." "The way upper caste man has a detailed knowledge of untouchability," "There's not much difference between you  Mr. Barve." "Mr. Barve." "What does he know about a woman?" "He has already reached his what do you we call it." "Creative menopause." "To tell you the truth Mrs. Abraham." "You English speaking people stand on a different pedestal." "You're superior actors." "Come, les go home." " We've come just now." "It looks odd." "Come, les go." "This party has been given for our sake." "For your sake!" "This party is for your sake." "We'll go after sometime." " For your sake." "The crowd has swelled in no time." "Consider it the affection of friends Barve." "This award may be a trifle for you." "This party is for his sake, isn't it?" " For you both." "We can't consider you 2 as different entities." "Mohini is feeling a bit tired." "She wants to go house soon." "Don't feel offened by Vrinda." "This is not my first meeting with her." "She is a nice girl but..." "She is a bit outspoken" " Who?" " Vrinda." "Why only a bit, a bit too much." "If she finds all this a farce," "Then, why doesn't she go to the jungles like Amrit?" "For the resurrection of tribals." " Whas the news of Amrit?" "His poems are not to seen these days." "What a promising poet." "We pampered him a lot, when he used to write." "But I won't be emotional like others." "I won't praise him wholesale." "Is a fashion these days." "Social Commitment etc." "He may not have anything worth while to write now." "Any letter from Amrit?" " There was one 6 months ago." "Are you worried?" "He wrote..." "His letters are also scrutinized." "I sent parcels of some important medicines for them." "I wonder whether they've received them or not." "You gave up research halfway!" "Amrit won't appreciate it." "I haven't given up." "It woulïve made a difference if Amrit was here." "So you act in plays." "No, but I've seen Don Juan." "Hello Malvika, how're you?" "Whas cooking these days?" "Nothing much." "Why?" "Have you given up modeling?" " What?" " Modeling." "Where has your husband disappeared?" " Where has he gone?" "Have you concealed him in your purse." "Malvika, will you drop me?" "Indeed, Narendra is a proletariate." "Come Bharat come..." "Because drinking is fashionable, thas why?" "What do you mean drinking is fashionable?" "Hindi, speak in Hindi Bharat." "As it is your English is half baked." "When you get irritated you murder the grammar also." "I'm genuine in whatever, I do." "Where's Mr. Barve?" " Fighting." "How many times are you going to say sorry?" "Why're you teasing him?" "Poor fellow." "Mrs. Rane, I'm not poor fellow." " Don't call him poor fellow." "Like Mr. Barve, Bharat is also a super writer." "He must be dreaming of an award, right now." "And why not!" "He'll also get an award when he'll write like Mr. Barve." "Don't drink so much, Mohini." "Have we met before?" " What?" "Yes sir, 3 times." "Really?" " Yes." "Why should I not drink?" "Everybody says the same thing, even Divakar." "Don't drink..." "Don't drink..." "Why?" "Madam..." "Shall I get you some more?" "Will you..." "Will you act in my play?" "I've stopped working..." "Even in the theatre." "I only drink." "Why've you abandoned the theatre?" "For Divakar, for your Mr. Barve." "What were you drinking?" "Les go home." "Now only, the party is warming up." "I've to get up early tomorrow morning." "No." "How is your research progressing?" "Strange, everyone's suddenly interested in my research." "I've dropped it." "Would you take care of Mohini?" " Okay." "You seem to be loner." " I'm posted here." "I can't evade you." "I feel you're constantly watching me." "Do you love someone?" "It wasn't wise of Mohini to leave the stage, isn't it Mr. Barve?" "It was her decision." " We've lost a good actress." "You feel so?" "Thas another matter." " Are they two different things?" "Many criminals have a good literary record Vrinda, like Zeney." "If you so decide, you can become a good human being." "But only resolve can not make a good artiste." "Amrit won't subscribe to this view." "Amrit has given up writing since long." "How can you be so sure." "One day he'll return  write." "Amrit felt that without conviction emerging writings won't impress." "He always quoted Lodka..." "Who sacrificed his life in Spanish civil war." "History has 100's of such examples," "When writers threw away their pens  picked up the gun." "And they were good people also Mr. Barve." "One example of Zeney doesn't prove the point." "What happened Mohini?" "Sona, what happened?" "Sona, I'll take her to your room." "Come, Mohini." "Mohini, what happened?" " Nothing..." "You didn't come to our 100th." "show day before yesterday." "Weren't you feeling well?" "Have you started the research again?" " No..." "Why this indifference?" "Whas it?" "I have asked you a question!" "You know my reply." " I don't accept it." "What did you do to Sona?" " What?" "Did you propose?" "Why don't you propose to me?" "I'm special." " My father is also that." "Where to?" " Inside." "There all of them..." "Scared of me?" "I won't seduce you, believe me, really." "No, I..." " You got annoyed." "You're very sensitive." "And these days it has become part of their life." "Whare you drinking?" "What should I give you?" "Any news of Amrit?" "Did you see Subhash anywhere?" " No..." "And finally like King Lear's death on the stage." "Ill be a very challenging role." "The characters that I've been doing so far." "Its entirely different from them." "You were in my mind when I was writing it." "This character is feeling that he is void." "Art, life, existence are without substance." "He is confronting only the hideous melancholy of solitariness." "To do justice to such a sensitive role a matured actor is needed." "I feel its me in it." "Mr. Barve, your character is hidden inside me." "Maturity is not the criterion." "All the characters flourish inside me." "What happens is that at the right moment particular one shows up." "Others hibernate." "And you blossom into a new character." "Many a times a strange confusion sets in." "On the stage, I'm confident that I'm doing this." "And when I'm off stage." "I can't comprehend whether, I'm acting or I'm being myself." "I'm not referring to the characters hidden inside you." "But, this is truth." "All the characters are present inside me." "Which one of them is me?" "We're on two different wave lengths." "Come." "Please come." "A delegation of writers is going to America, Mr. Barve." "You're sure to be in it." "Agashe, delegation is only a rumour." "If someone talks something in Delhi, he starts imagining." "At the moment I shall not be going anywhere." "Till my play is completed, I don't want any diversion." "Actually on such tours boys like Amrit  Bharat should be sent." "Bharat has started writing recently!" "Yes." "Is true." "Why don't you send me Mrs. Rane?" "He sleeps in every party." "He looks so fat  ludicrous." "I'm very scared of plumpishness." "You can never put on weight," "Till that fire burns inside you," "You'll look handsome  smart like this." "Don't take me wrong." " Not at all." "I can see people objectively." "Thas why, I don't hide anything from you." "Like an open book." "No, is not that." " Really?" "Promise?" "Are you embarrassed?" " No." "Forget it." "You might imagine so many things." "Bharat, why do you waste your time with these shallow people?" "But Mrs. Rane doesn't think so, she says." " What?" "She says, I'm a beginner." "She hasn't written a single sentence till now." "And she says I'm a beginner." "People are scared to recognize the real talent." "Why do you give them so much importance?" " No." "Is not importance." "But, they don't hesitate to be unjust." "A literary delegation is going to America." "Mrs. Rane doesn't want to include my name in it." "Will you go to Russia?" "Will you go?" "I want exposure to everything in life." "Suppose we both go together?" "Oh no!" "You'll accuse me of seducing you." "No." "Be careful!" "What happened Mohini?" "What happened?" "I vomited again." "Why do you drink so much that..." "Drinking won't solve any problem." "Will it be solved without drinking?" "Did your's got solved?" "Forget about problems." "Where's my glass?" " Don't drink, Mohini." "Show me your hand." "I didn't know that Marxist like you believe in such things." "Marxists are also human beings." "Anyway I've no illusion about Marxsim." "Thas why, this new illusion." "You profess to be very rational." "Put out your hand like this." "Sorry, I forgot to cut my nails." "So what?" "You don't belong to that clan." "Bharat, there're big cheats in Bombay." "Be careful." "These people will not allow you to come up." "Even Mr. Barve." "There's something like professional jealousy." "When the career is involved they'll try to eclipse you." "They'll involve you in the glitter of glamour  finish you." "You won't even know about it." "I've seen all this." "Your hand is very sensitive." "Amrit faced the same music?" "He's not here." "Thas why, they revere him in tandem." "I remember one of Amris poems." "'Scratches on the face." "Body fully bloodieï." "'Bruised temples, hoary voice'." "'How, when  through what turmoil I've reached here'" "'I'm not in a position to give the details' 'ls enough if I say that I walked slowly, but steadily. '" "'Pressure, opposition, etc." "Which started on that explosive momen." "'When I had confuseï." "'On their microphone'." "'By announcing my frank decision'." "'Under any circumstances in their glamourous journey'." "'I refuse to play the joker. ' 'ln the crevices of the teeth of those people'" "'Fresh human flesh is filled like the fiber of sugar cane'." "If I can write 4 such lines my life will be successful." "I was very keen to meet Amrit." "But, when I came to Bombay, he had left." "Bharat, you recite one of your poems, please recite." "'I'm also passing through a confused time'." "'I don't get time to think to compose something'." "'Fineries are elusive'." "'Only liquor bottle, fire emitting bodies of women'." "'Puffs of cigarettes, hollow pain of unsuccessful people' 'ln the ear shattering vibrations'." "'Same old things, arguments'" "'Which have no mention of any special things of future'" "'Meaninglessness of Life' 'lncapabilities of original thinking'" "'Why can't I come out of this third-rate era of life?" "'" "'Escape from the half baked sick minds'" "'Who sell their torment, some of it noble  decen" "'Why can't I escape from all these?" "' 'ls a peg necessary'" "'Or is the cheap need of worthless me necessary'" "'Or my worthless ego is necessary'" "'Which rots after seeing these crawling  whining personalities'." "'Feels happy, pats its back, saying, I'm better than them'." "But, I feel I'm very crude." " Thas your real charm, really." "Sometimes my confidence, gets shaken." "I worry about people's comment." "Shall I tell you the truth?" "I write to earn, name  fame." "Isn't it ridiculous?" "But is true." "I feel with fame, I'll be in the cocoon of safety." "If people mention my name, I'll have the confidence that I exist." "People are my mirror." "You don't know yourself simpleton." "If you had wanted fame, wouldn't you've written plays like Agashe." "Tell me." "Today, all that is happening around us." "I feel hurt by it." "Rotten politics." "Cynicism, apathy of politicians towards public." "And indifference of public for everything." "I feel angry after seeing all this." "I feel like giving a violent jerk to everyone." "I feel, it could be termed as propaganda." "But I also feel, I should write about all these things." "Because these things disturb me." "How far social  political commitment  literature," "Can be merged to-gather?" "Should they be related or not?" "After all... after all why do we write?" "To get fame?" "To express our disatisfication about social injustice." "Or to reveal soul stirring experience?" "Shall I tell you onething?" "In your writing there is an ardour, a storm." "But, there is also something which doesn't effervesce." "When you write about sex I feel you know very little about it." "As if you're fantasizing it." "Look at me..." "Look at me." "I love children." "But, Divakar says no." "He thinks that children are a plan to pin him down." "I say you're free." "I never insisted on marrying me." "But, if I do have a child." "I'll forget everything." "This pricking  pain." "Why do you live with Divakar?" "Where am I to go leaving Divakar?" " Go anywhere." "I've become a bonded slave." "Whatever he likes, I hate it." "I hate his friends." "...His books." "Then, I get drunk." "He too gets drunk and sleeps." "When I see him asleep." "A fire enrages inside me." "Even after getting drunk, I don't get sleep." "I go near him..." "Sleep next to him naked... throbbing!" "May be..." "He might get interested in me." "Then, I fear even to touch him." "Scared..." "Scared..." "Every moment of life scared." "I'm starting to appear ugly, am I not?" "Mohini, take rest for sometime." "Dark circles around my eyes." "I've started to look old, haven't I?" "Look at young girls, how nicely they get dressed up." "How fresh they look." "And how old I look compared to them." "I've no idea of how much the world has changed in 7 years." "How much I had become a part of Divakar's life." "What did I gain from it, despite giving such a high price?" "Just this..." "This old age!" "Don't give into such thoughts." "I used to sing." "I used to sing." "I used to practice vocals 4 hours a day." "Now, I don't even have a voice." "What am I to do with my life?" "You start acting again." "Go back to stage." "I too wish the same." "I've tried many times." "I've been thinking since a long time to escape from this whirlpool." "And live a life of my own." "But, if Divakar loves me." "Though it might be just for a moment, but true love." "I'll restart my career." "But... he..." "Come on, get up." "Les go outside." "I feel ashamed." "Don't know what people would think about me." "Forget about them." "Are my hairs well groomed?" "Get my purse, please." "Will this shade match with my sari?" "No." "I never had earlier." "I feel strange." "I never had earlier." "I feel strange." "What happened?" "What happened?" "No... nothing." "No... no... nothing." "Sitting alone here." "I want to talk to you," "Please, don't block my way." "What do I lack?" "If like Sahni..." "No need to take anyone's name." "We're indebted to this society." "Is our duty to give something to this society." "Is an obligation." "I always ask myself." "Ask myself, what can I do for this society?" "Right now, you can stop drinking." "Come with me." "I told you to keep this Agashe away from me." "What happened?" " Do you want to hear?" "What was he saying?" "How many people's mouths can you shut?" "We're at fault." "I never committed any mistake, got it?" "How can you commit mistake, when people are fools." "Agashe has asked me again." "He knows my reply... you too." "Whas wrong with Agashe?" "You don't interfere, Rahul." "Rahul is no more a kid." "I know Agashe doesn't love you." "But, Sahni's love wasn't also true." "Somehow we've to solve this problem." "He knows Nana is a Cabinet Minister." "These marriages of convenience happen and they're successful." "Your father too did the same." "Yours was a love marriage." " I felt like that then." "I realized it very quickly." "But, I never deserted him." "Your grandpa was a famous Lawyer and a State Leader." "And your father married me after considering all this." "Father is no more to put forth his opinion." "Not a night passed when he didn't come heavily drunk." "Did you ever ask yourself?" "Why did he do like that?" "I did ask." "A question that is after me all my life." "Whas that I didn't do for him?" "Literature, Music..." "Art." "I introduced to him everything that is beautiful." "You nagged him." "I'm very angry on you." "If father had been here, he woulïve shot everyone." "Will that solve your problem?" "You had created the problem." "I'm ready to live with my child holding my head high in this society." "Whas the problem in it?" "Earlier, you were ashamed of father." "Now, is me." "I don't dress up." "I don't socialize with your friends." "You're responsible for all this." "Do you want to punish me?" "Punish me." "But, stop this grumbling." "Tell your boy friend not to come after me." "What did you say?" "Their glamour will never work on me." "They're all talented creative people." "And you?" "You live like a parasite on their fame  reputation." "Where're you calling from?" "First, come here." "You're not spoiling my evening." "You straight away come here." "I don't want to hear any excuses." "In 15 minutes you be here." "Mohini, whas this?" " I'm alright." "This is..." " No... no." "Whatever I've heard about Mohini, is it true?" "It is..." "She's becoming a regular alcoholic." "I've even stopped thinking about her." "Mr. Barve, getting some one who loves you truely is also a rarity." "This is not true and Mohini too has understood this." "I no more love her." "Damayanti, sometimes it does happen like that." "But, she even gave up her career for you." "Why do people deceive themselves?" "You know, she was a mediocre actress." "As an actress she didn't have any great future." " But, Mr. Barve..." "She understood that very well." "So, she never took any risk." "Using love as an excuse, she always ran away from challenges." "Now, she'll enjoy bliss." "Bliss of cursing me all her life." "I'm telling the truth." "She doesn't know the consequences of what is happening now." "Refusing to accept truth  drinking..." "Thas all." "She has become a heavy drinker." "All night I sleep next to her." "Closing my eyes..." "Pretending to be a sleep." "In constant fear!" "If I move even a little she might touch me." "Hug me and cry." "Leave him, Mohini." "Leave him." "I love you." "How much?" " Rs 9" "Did you read about encounter details in yesterday's newspaper?" " I read." "A feel ashamed that such things are happening." "More shameful than that is, is being allowed to happen." "A film should be made on this subject." "Will Government allow it?" "How are you?" "Oh!" "What happened?" "Let me get back my breath." " Tell me, what happened?" "I'll..." " Tell me, how's Amrit?" "Whave you done to yourself?" "Nothing much, just a little fracture." "Nothing serious, isn't it?" " No." "Come." "What happened?" "Animosity will increase hatred  bitterness." "How can you forget that?" "Problems can't be solved with just flowing blood." "In which world are you living?" "Don't you know anything?" "Newspapers don't report much." " Thas also true." "No one has courage to publish truth." "Police have arrested Amrit." "This development was unexpected." " Do you really think this is unexpected?" "Mr. Barve, so much is happening there." "You would never believe if you hear it." "Come out of Bombay and go there." "See it yourself." "Situation there wasn't deteriorated to that extent." "Pressure was building up inside." "When Amrit reached there." "But, why do people like Amrit resort to violence?" "Mrs. Damayanti, I didn't say Amrit started the violence." "Tribals had already created chaotic situation there." "Processions were being taken out, unrest was spreading all over." "If Government sends police as a safety measure in such a situation." "Whas wrong in it?" "Do you believe that Police was sent there only to maintain law  order?" "Avinash, with whom are your sympathies?" "I'm a not partisan to anyone." "I'm a journalist." "I'm on look out for news." "I bring it." "I'm not after the meaning of entity, experience of life... etc." "Stop being sarcastic Avinash." "Give all the details." "The eruption which broke out just now." "Reason for that is very simple." "But, no one knows how fire was simmering at its base for centuries." "The fight broke out for the land." "Tribals say the land belongs to them." "...And that is true." "They've been doing agriculture for centuries on that land." "And Government wants that part of land." "Police are camping there for the past 5 months." "700 soldiers are also on guard." "700!" "Amrit leads a procession." "Suddenly a stone comes from no where." "And a Policeman is injured." "After that tear gas, lathicharge, firing..." "Same age old technic." "12 Tribals have died." "Nothing in Newspapers." "What?" " Revolutions don't happen just like this." "Amrit too says, this is not revolution." "This is not at all revolution." "Before Amrit left here, we had an argument." "With just a few Tribals in a remote area." "No revolution can be ushered in." "The type of organization, the type of arrangement needed for revolution." "Our country hasn't yet seen anything like that." "Romanticism like this can never take the place of revolution." "Amrit says this is just a fight against injustice." "He says injustice must be opposed at any cost." "It is necessary to create awareness against atrocity." "You're telling us Amris view point." "There must be some logic in Governmens stand also." "Governmens logic got lambasted, in the last Assembly itself." "This was reported in Newspapers also." "Government was lambasted, but is unrelenting in its stand." "Government wants to establish a large industrial project there." "Businessmen, contractors will run on knees." "And the forest pie will be shared." "Power Houses will spring up." "Roads will come up." "Large bull dozers  trucks will ply there." "With these black marketing of licenses heftybribes." "Everything had happened there." "When a Tribal has to trek 5 kms for a pot of drinking water." "This is the dilemma." "On one side, is Human rights of Tribals." "Which is a valid reason." "On the other side Industrialization is also necessary for this country." "Certainly, it is necessary." "But, why is the Government adamant on that piece of land only?" "There're no special advantages for that region also." "But, Government is hell bent on acquiring that land only." "Why?" "Because, Chief Minister has won his election from that constituency." "He must show some development in that region." "The agricultural land adjoining the forest." "If it belongs to Chief Minister's wife." "What can anyone do?" "When this project starts, value of that land will increase 50 times." "An acre of land will be sold for Rs.25,000 instead of Rs.500." "For the last 5 years, is famine there." "Government didn't do anything." "Now, crores of money will be spent to dig canals." "Built dams." "An expert committee has been already appointed for the purpose also." "But, Government will compensate Tribals, won't it?" " Yes, ill." "Very generous Government, isn't it?" "Rs.500 cash for every person and free rice for a month." "Where have they taken Amrit after arresting him?" "Actually, what had happened there?" " Do you really want to know?" "An incident that happened before my eyes." "A local MLA  a Minister, they came a week earlier there." "They tried to lureTribals." "Amrit  his associates protested this." "They invited Amrit for talks." "Talks was just a pretext." "He was called inside and threatened in different ways." "Did anyone ever saw Amrit getting angry?" "As if a volcano had erupted." "Minister too got angry." "His associate, MLA started threatening." "He said you talk too much." "2 days later, I and Amrit were returning evening." "We were attacked in the forest." "This is a prize of that incident." " And Amrit?" "He's fine." "Mildly injured." "He's in the hospital." "Police have taken him into their custody." "And are guarding him there only." "At Hospital." "What happened?" "How will Amrit look like?" "How?" "You mean..." "I mean... his eyes." "His complexion." "Why don't you meet him personally?" "I do want to meet him but..." "His injuries are not serious, isn't it?" " No." "He's fine." "There's something, which you're hiding it." "You've not revealed the entire thing." " I've told everything." "No." "I've told, Sona." " Really?" "Whatever it might be, please don't hide anything." "I'll not hide." "Hearing Amris news has shaken my heart." "Is common in political movements." "What will you gain from it?" "This is the price you've to pay for living with notions." "I'm growing old." "Barve, we both are of same age." "Look, how fast I've grown old." "Whatelse can happen to a woman like me?" "I never think of it." "You all are creative artists." "You live every moment afresh." "Your heart will never rot." "Barve, you're standing on the peak of fame  success." "How do you feel there?" "How's the air there on the peak?" " There's no air." "Don't you feel like the entire world is at your feet?" " No." "I feel, whas next?" "Is it climbing down?" "You'll never climb down from the top place you had reached." "There's something..." "Which is in your fist today." "Your fist isn't empty like mine." "I can't say confidently." "I'll die." "Nothing will remain as my remembrance." "Do you know, what did Sona say today?" "She said, I'm a Parasite." "She said, I suck your name  fame to survive." "What have I done all my life?" "What did I gain?" "What will I leave behind?" "This is ego." "Happiness of being one with the supreme soul is just a word." "It has no Meaning." " Aren't you also happy?" "You know the truth." "You know it..." "I too know it..." "But, we're not ready to face it." "Actually, we are people who run away from life." "Why're we disintegrating within ourselves?" "I'm not able to understand it." "I'm awake all night." "A day before yesterday, a strange incident happened." "All day I was wandering aimlessly." "Libraries, Muzeums, Art Galleries, Shops..." "Don't know wherelse." "I stopped at a traffic signal." "Green signal came on, but I didn't move." "Suddenly, I found myself sobbing." "So much so that tears were running down continuously." "Entire traffic was surprised." "And tears were rolling down continuously." "Don't know what happened?" "An eerie of silence spread over of my heart" "Not even a leaf is moving." "A canal of dirt is flowing from you to me." "So much unfamiliar, so much unsaid." "A prosperous time will come for all the worlds' pain." "From you to me." "From me to you." "Yes." "A canal of dirt flows eternally from me to you." "May be this is the relationship." "To define it, a girl looking into mirror is distressed for hours." "I might not be able to come, swimming in the canal of dirt." "But, my song can reach you." "It can feel the touch of your solitude." "This is... yes." "This is the maturity of our relationship." "A canal of dirt flows from you and me." "I think I'll go to America with a delegation." "At least 2-3 weeks will pass of peacefully." "Mohini will insist on accompanying you." "There's always that foreign exchange problem." "I'll talk to father tomorrow." "Bharat also wants to go." "Decide it yourself." "Decide it yourself." "Bharat is virtuous." "But, he must abide by time." "He must put up some effort." "If he gets into a vortex of fame  foreign trips." "He'll lose himself." "He feels we've not noticed his dramas." "One day I had to tell him." "That Mr. Barve had to struggle a lot." "Struggle?" "No, Damayanti." "I got fame easily." "I'm a clever man." "Don't talk like that." "Actually, I rarely speak truth like this." "I do everything carefully." "I'm ruling the roost for 20 years, just because of my cleverness." "By the way what great invaluable experiences do I present in my works?" "Why?" "Lmagination is also an experience." "All writers put themselves into this false notion." "Judging the new trend earlier." "Use it before others." "Narrating difficulties faced in life with most difficult words." "Suddenly making it very easy and end it with a great drama." "This is my fixed style." "Surprise the reader." "Wait for few more years." "You'll see that even if they read my words." "The straw heaped on their minds would fall off with a great thud." "Straw!" "That is my earning." "Why're you telling me all this?" "Because you're also a partner in my conspiracy." "In search of truth all the life..." " Is fraud." "Search of truth is hypocrisy." "Whas truth?" "Did we ever find truth?" "And then, one day when I had to face truth." "I didn't have courage to see it eye to eye." "I was proceeding to Delhi to receive an award." "Suddenly my car broke down somewhere deep inside the forest." "It was raining heavily outside." "I saw..." "An old Tribal man  woman getting drenched in rain." "Shivering in cold..." "They were looking at my car." "There was a strange feeling of alieness in their eyes." "There wasn't any relationship between us." "Me, my literary works, my fame  name." "My treasure of 5000 year old tradition." "They didn't have any connection with all these things." "In their ordinary lives." "All these appeared like dishonesty in a moment." "Whas the meaning of that Art  tradition?" "My literary works didn't share any of their sorrows." "Do you feel I'm being melodramatic..." "I'm telling you the truth." "Before writing, in the enthusiasm of writing, we write too much." "Ill become famous." "With that as Principle amount, we enjoy all our life interest on it." "Whatever the new things we write." "They're just repetition of the original" "We do it cleverly." "So, an illusion of originality is maintained." "Look!" "Naren has fallen down." "Didn't get hurt, did you?" "What happened?" "How?" "Didn't get hurt, did you?" " He needs some water." "My glasses." "Naren, you've not hurt yourself, haven't you?" " No, I'm fine." "We got anxious." "I'm fine." "It does happen sometimes." "Would you like to have dinner now?" "No... not now." "Okay." "Look child." "The path Amrit has chosen." "All these dangers are part of it." "I know it, uncle." "Amrit is not alone in this." "There are people like him." "With him." "Songs written with fire in heart will lit fire." "Ill burn it." "A burning charcoal taken out from a firing kiln." "Why is it cold like ice?" "I'm writing the song." "With courage of women raped before her own family members." "I'm writing the song." "With the throb of leaders killed in public." "Whose only crime was hunger and demanding food." "Whose only sin was the desire to live like ordinary human." "Then, why does this song hurt you?" "If you do really still have a sensitive heart." "My song will shake him up..." "ill prod him to move forward." "My song which has conquered the peak of sorrows  holding it." "It can never be neutral, never impotent." "Why should it give anyone a glimmer of happiness?" "Either you're mine or my own or my enemy?" "The battlefield into which I've entered." "My song is also a weapon there." "Good!" "Good try." "Mr. Barve, Amrit wrote this poem." " Is it?" "Amrit is still alive, Mr. Barve." "If only I could write atleast one poem like this." "Bharat, Amris poetry isn't just poetry." "Is a weapon." "For me, first is a poem." "In my opinion any art creation..." "Poem, Drama, Novel or even a film." "Through which if you're able to concur with public opinion." "Is a weapon in social or political struggle." "In a way this is correct." "But, why're you insisting in having it every time?" "This is not insisting, this is truth." "Art can never be separated from politics." "If you observe carefully." "Government of every country, ...is using Art media to establish is rule." "If we want to bring fundamental changes." "We've to use our Art  Media as a weapon." "Even then, if we are not able to achieve our set goals." "Then, we've to make weapons as our medium." "In your opinion..." "Motive of Art is to become a weapon of politics." "Isn't there any independent entity for art?" "If the artiste isn't politically committed, his art is irrelevant." "What do you say, doctor?" "Why do you pull me into this argument?" "An artistes' belief in any political ideology." "Or becoming a member of any political party." "Is his personal decision." "Is personal choice." "I don't believe is a precondition for the relevance of his art." "But, one thing is clear." "Good Art  Literature." "Particularly in 20th century is born under some form of a protest." "Whether the protest was political, social or philosophical." "It isn't very easy to analyze it." "But, in the artiss mind..." "The power of protest and revolt was very strong." "Let it be any political system." "Is prime duty of all artistes to protest against injustice  oppression." "First time in all these years, I've seen you talking so much." "Thanks to Avinash." "By the way, doctor." "Don't you feel that to make an artiste's protest." "Into a wide spread rebellion." "He needs a political organizations' support." "I don't think so." "In an historic moment, when many artistes join together." "...A special consciousness." "When they articulate a special sensibility." "Ill develop into a movement on its own." "Which will reach the common man's heart  soul." "But doctor, what about a man's personal happiness or sorrow?" "But, your view scorns it as absurd." "All our happiness  sorrows should be connected socially  politically." "Why do you insist it every time?" "I've no enemity with a man's personal happiness or sorrow." "But, as an art form, if it fails to reach the state of an epic." "If it fails to show a new path, whas the use of it?" "Doctor, sometimes I've a doubt that..." "When we go with a condition of social commitment." "Won't the class of Art get lowered?" "How can we decide which is more important aesthetics or commitment?" "Then, I think all these questions are unfair." "Because, we don't have the freedom of choice." "We write because we can't survive without writing." "Amrit has become a political activist." "Because he sees his path there." "Most important thing is..." "The path that we've chosen for ourselves." "Whether we do it honestly or not." "Bharat, answer my one question." "The injustice thas happening around us." "Do you want to take a moral stand on it or not?" "As a human, I'll definitely take a stand." "And as an artiste." " Not necessarily." "That means one man will have 2 sets of moral commitments." "It can happen..." "If that man is an artiste..." "He'll live differently in 2 different strata." "You're scared of taking a moral stand." "And cleverly twisting the words." "No, actually my stand is more moralistic." "If I make an error in keeping 2 sets of moral commitments." "Then, as a human I'll fall from grace." "As an artiste also I can't be honest." "How many artists can you find who're honest with 2 sets commitments?" "Without compromising." "This is different issue." " This's not different." "Some day the soul  the artiste would come face to face." "And start searching for the answer of the same question." "Then, we've to take a decision." "We've to take a decision whatever to live as a human or artiste." "If you ever face such a question what will you do?" "Phone for Mr. Avinash." "I don't understand why do you break heads with such arguments." "If a writer wants to write, let him do it." "Is there any dearth of matter?" "Famine, crime, problems of young girls, corrupt Ministers." "We had left such themes for you." "What happened?" "Whas the matter, Avinash?" "What happened?" "Amrit is no more." "He has been killed." "When?" "..." "How?" "Today morning." "A body was found near a stream in the jungle." "Now, 2-3 Tribals will be arrested." "They'll be charged with murder and they'll be found guilty." "And they'll be hanged... thas all." "Amrit is liberated." "Earlier I didn't reveal it." "Now, I'll reveal it." "When I  Amrit were returning that evening." "6-7 people attacked us on the way." "Before losing consciousness." "I saw Amrit pinned down by few rowdies." "And one had drawn out a knife." "Later, when I regained my consciousness." "I found Amrit lying on grass, a little away." "His face was covered with blood." "You talk too much that MLA had said." "He had cut Amris tongue." "Today morning he was discharged from Hospital." "He was returning to the village hideout." "And... ." "On the way..." "someone with a stone." "I think we must arrange for a condolence meeting." "What do you say, Mr. Barve?" " Definitely." "I wish to say something." "After all he was a good poet  a great man" "Why do you want to create this drama?" "Amrit is not the only one to be affected like that." "Why do you want to make him a Martyr..." "What happened?"