Water

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00:01:14 (mellow Hindi theme playing)
00:01:18 (birds calling)
00:01:36 (cow mooing)
00:01:39 (anklets jingling)
00:02:10 (birds tweeting)
00:03:16 My child.
00:03:18 Child.
00:03:27 Do you remember
00:03:33 No.
00:03:36 Your husband is dead.
00:03:39 You're a widow now.
00:03:42 For how long, Father?
00:05:59 (fire crackling)
00:06:13 (dog barking in distance)
00:06:34 (knocking on door)
00:06:48 (door creaks)
00:07:04 Chuyia!
00:07:06 Chuyia!
00:07:13 (parrot squawking)
00:07:30 Let's go home, Father.
00:07:33 This is your home now.
00:07:36 Then where is Ma?
00:07:42 Where is Ma?
00:07:46 Where is Ma?
00:07:54 Come on.
00:07:58 Don't leave me here!
00:08:02 (yelling continues)
00:08:10 Let me go!
00:08:12 I'm not staying here!
00:08:16 Quiet.
00:08:18 Shut her mouth.
00:08:27 Hey, you whore,
00:08:28 you haven't fed
00:08:31 Didi, there are no lentils.
00:08:34 What, no lentils?
00:08:35 Then go buy some.
00:08:38 No lentils!
00:08:40 Kunti, let her go.
00:08:43 You. Come here.
00:08:45 Go.
00:08:47 You poor thing.
00:08:48 How I feel for you.
00:08:51 I was also young...
00:08:53 when my bastard husband died.
00:08:56 Come sit here.
00:09:01 In grief, we are
00:09:05 and this house is our refuge.
00:09:08 I want my mother.
00:09:10 (tsking)
00:09:11 Our Holy Books say,
00:09:13 a wife is part
00:09:16 while he's alive.
00:09:20 Right?
00:09:24 And when husbands die,
00:09:26 God help us,
00:09:29 wives also half die.
00:09:32 So how can a half-dead woman
00:09:35 Because she's half alive?
00:09:38 Don't try and be
00:09:40 or I'll throw you
00:09:44 I don't want to be
00:09:46 What did you say?
00:09:47 (yells)
00:09:49 She bites a like a little bitch!
00:09:51 What are you staring at?
00:09:52 Ass lickers!
00:09:56 Are your arms and legs broken?
00:10:09 Let her go.
00:10:09 But, Madhu, Didi...
00:10:11 Leave.
00:10:31 Come here.
00:10:36 Come here.
00:10:43 Turn around and sit.
00:11:03 It's turmeric.
00:11:05 It cools the head.
00:11:08 You saved me like
00:11:13 Sharp teeth
00:11:19 Go, sit in the sun.
00:11:23 Are you deaf?
00:11:26 They'll throw me
00:11:28 Only if you bite someone else.
00:11:41 Come here, little one.
00:11:43 (crows cawing)
00:11:51 What's your name?
00:11:55 Chuyia.
00:11:56 Chuyia the mouse...
00:11:59 ...the mouse with sharp teeth.
00:12:05 What's your name?
00:12:08 My husband embraced eternity
00:12:11 and left behind Patiraji.
00:12:15 You can call me Auntie.
00:12:20 You really made
00:12:32 Do you have a sweet?
00:12:39 Awake or asleep,
00:12:42 even in dreams,
00:13:45 (loud snoring)
00:13:47 (parrot squawking)
00:13:52 Mitthu, Mitthu.
00:13:58 (snoring loudly)
00:13:59 (high-pitched squawking)
00:14:09 (indistinct conversation)
00:14:14 (women clapping and chanting)
00:14:21 (bells jingling)
00:14:47 You're back?
00:14:49 Water?
00:15:16 Up here!
00:15:34 (creaking)
00:15:44 An angel.
00:16:04 Close your eyes.
00:16:07 Close them.
00:16:23 His name is Kaalu.
00:16:25 Kaalu.
00:16:28 You can play with him anytime.
00:16:32 You feed him.
00:16:40 Kaalu.
00:16:42 He has fleas.
00:16:45 Downstairs?
00:16:46 No, silly.
00:16:48 Dogs aren't allowed there.
00:16:50 They're a bad omen.
00:16:52 Don't tell anyone about Kaalu.
00:16:55 But I'm not staying here.
00:16:59 My mother's coming to get me.
00:17:02 If not today,
00:17:14 (puppy whines,
00:17:21 Krishna, this is my friend.
00:17:24 What's your name?
00:17:26 Chuyia.
00:17:29 Can he hear you?
00:17:31 Of course.
00:17:39 What did he say?
00:17:41 He says you won't
00:17:46 I told you so.
00:17:48 In a day, chant jai
00:17:52 a hundred and eight
00:17:54 ...you'll fly away!
00:17:56 But I can only count to ten.
00:18:03 This has one hundred
00:18:10 Why don't you
00:18:15 (praying)
00:18:21 (woman coughing)
00:18:28 (Chuyia praying quietly)
00:18:31 (Auntie chanting)
00:18:52 (Auntie coughing)
00:18:56 (Auntie coughing)
00:18:58 (chanting continues)
00:19:04 Mat...
00:19:17 While the priest
00:19:20 I started to laugh.
00:19:23 Ma slapped me hard,
00:19:29 and then until the end...
00:19:31 ...not a squeak from me.
00:19:34 Afterwards...
00:19:35 I know what happened.
00:19:39 What?
00:19:40 The wedding feast.
00:19:43 You should have
00:19:45 Plump white rasgullas,
00:19:50 piping hot gulab jamuns.
00:19:53 The saliva was drooling
00:19:57 Yellow ladoos,
00:20:00 made with pure butter.
00:20:02 Cashew-nut sweets,
00:20:04 covered with gold leaf.
00:20:08 Life is so disappointing.
00:20:16 (praying quietly)
00:20:23 (puppy yelping)
00:20:29 Good, fleas and sins
00:20:39 Chuyia. Stop laughing.
00:20:41 Why?
00:20:42 Why what?
00:20:43 Give me the towel.
00:20:51 Let me.
00:20:57 (yips)
00:21:04 Kaalu.
00:21:05 Kaalu!
00:21:07 Chuyia.
00:21:08 He'll come back!
00:21:11 Chuyia!
00:21:17 Kaalu!
00:21:19 What are you doing?
00:21:21 Widows shouldn't run around
00:21:23 You've polluted me!
00:21:31 (barking)
00:21:40 Kaalu!
00:21:49 (clucking)
00:21:53 (Kaalu panting)
00:21:55 (barking)
00:22:01 Kaalu!
00:22:04 Kaalu! Kaalu!
00:22:08 Kaalu! Kaalu!
00:22:11 (barks)
00:22:12 Kaalu! Kaalu!
00:22:13 Catch him.
00:22:18 Is he yours?
00:22:21 Yes.
00:22:24 He doesn't like to bathe.
00:22:33 What's wrong?
00:22:34 I'm... I mean... Kalyani's lost.
00:22:39 We should find her, then.
00:22:41 Yes. Poor thing.
00:22:54 Do you know I'm a widow?
00:22:57 Yes.
00:23:00 What's your name?
00:23:01 Chuyia.
00:23:03 What's your name?
00:23:05 Narayan.
00:23:06 Narayan?
00:23:09 Yes.
00:23:12 CHUYIA:
00:23:15 Kalyani!
00:23:16 (cow moos)
00:23:22 Kalyani, I found him.
00:23:25 Always running around...
00:23:26 like your namesake the mouse!
00:23:28 Narayan found Kaalu.
00:23:41 Let's go.
00:23:45 Where do you live?
00:23:48 I mean, I'm not asking
00:23:51 asking if you are lost...
00:23:55 ...then I could take you
00:23:56 She lives in a house of widows,
00:24:00 I'm just visiting her.
00:24:01 Chuyia, tell him not
00:24:06 ...it'll be a sin!
00:24:07 But where is the
00:24:08 I don't know.
00:24:10 Ask her if she knows.
00:24:12 Ask her if she knows!
00:24:14 Dharma Ghat.
00:24:15 Next to the river.
00:24:25 Ma!
00:24:30 Ma?
00:24:47 God bless you.
00:24:49 I've been waiting the whole day.
00:24:56 How did your exams go?
00:24:58 Pass or fail?
00:25:00 Double fail.
00:25:02 Rascal!
00:25:03 Live long... be happy.
00:25:12 Master, should I
00:25:17 No.
00:25:18 Sadhuramji.
00:25:27 (coins clink)
00:25:29 Don't get drunk with this.
00:25:31 My hands haven't touched
00:25:36 Make sure your lips
00:25:59 (singing Hindi song)
00:26:17 My husband the old bastard
00:26:22 the minute he climbed on me...
00:26:24 instead of coming...
00:26:27 he went straight to Heaven.
00:26:28 Bastard!
00:26:30 Pleasing himself in Heaven.
00:26:32 And left me stuck in Hell.
00:26:36 (tsking)
00:26:37 Poor man.
00:26:39 Poor who?
00:26:42 Poor you, I mean.
00:26:45 (chuckles)
00:26:46 Didi, have you heard?
00:26:48 What?
00:26:49 That Mohandas...
00:26:50 Mohandas who?
00:26:53 No. Mohandas Gandhi.
00:26:56 He's come from the jungles
00:26:58 He doesn't drink,
00:27:00 Why? Doesn't he
00:27:02 No. He doesn't sleep with women.
00:27:05 For discipline, he says.
00:27:08 Why are you still here?
00:27:10 Take her to Seth Dwarkanath.
00:27:12 Standing there and gossiping.
00:27:14 Hand it over.
00:27:36 (resumes singing)
00:27:42 Long live Lord Shiva!
00:27:47 (playing quiet melody)
00:27:49 (thunder rumbles)
00:27:57 (singing Hindi song,
00:28:03 There she goes.
00:28:06 (singing continues)
00:28:07 There goes who?
00:28:09 A whore.
00:28:10 To meet a client.
00:28:12 Perhaps my father.
00:28:14 Does she look like a whore?
00:28:17 She's a widow, you fool.
00:28:19 I know.
00:28:21 The gentry here
00:28:23 have an "unnatural concern"
00:28:30 (singing continues)
00:28:38 Gulabi...
00:28:42 Does Lord Krishna
00:28:46 Of course
00:28:49 Haven't you seen us reenact
00:28:52 He plays himself,
00:28:53 while I play
00:28:56 (singing Hindi song)
00:29:04 My father doesn't even bother
00:29:08 There's the old one,
00:29:10 the fat one,
00:29:12 the new one,
00:29:14 the young one.
00:29:18 Rabindra,
00:29:20 you should get your
00:29:23 Seth Bhupindernath
00:29:27 hand in hand...
00:29:29 ...liberate the
00:29:31 You can laugh,
00:29:33 you don't have an oaf
00:29:35 No, definitely not.
00:29:45 Rabindra.
00:29:50 Have you thought of
00:29:53 Are you crazy?
00:29:54 I happen to like English ways.
00:29:58 Their cricket, their whiskey...
00:30:03 and what poets they have!
00:30:07 She walks like a beauty
00:30:09 "She walks in beauty
00:30:11 If Gandhi can free India,
00:30:16 how Byron would sound,
00:30:21 recited by a free man.
00:30:25 You haven't become a
00:30:33 Passive resistance.
00:30:37 An intriguing concept.
00:30:40 Forget it.
00:30:42 Romantics make
00:30:47 (chuckles)
00:30:54 SHAKUNTALA:
00:30:57 Radiant like the moon...
00:31:03 Home of the Eminent...
00:31:07 Home...
00:31:08 When do we stop praying?
00:31:14 (cow moos)
00:31:20 (cow moos)
00:31:34 Don't you have a dry sari?
00:31:36 It's inyourhouse.
00:31:37 Bring it tomorrow.
00:31:39 Tomorrow I'll be
00:31:42 (man chanting)
00:31:58 A new widow.
00:31:59 Sit up straight!
00:32:01 MAN:
00:32:02 She's just a child.
00:32:05 Child indeed!
00:32:06 She's turned the
00:32:12 (chanting)
00:32:23 (chanting continues)
00:32:27 Didi.
00:32:29 CHUYIA:
00:32:31 Where is the house
00:32:34 WOMEN:
00:32:35 What a horrible
00:32:38 God protect our men
00:32:41 May your tongue burn.
00:32:44 Pull out her tongue
00:32:48 (women grumbling)
00:32:50 (man starts chanting,
00:33:00 (parrot squawking)
00:33:05 MADHU:
00:33:13 Coming, Didi.
00:33:28 Didi, where is Kalyani?
00:33:34 You and your questions.
00:33:37 Witch.
00:33:38 Shut up.
00:33:41 Black tongue.
00:33:42 Chuyia, eat slowly.
00:33:47 Chew each grain.
00:33:51 Your next meal
00:33:56 With her uncut hair
00:34:00 eating with Kalyani
00:34:03 Right?
00:34:37 (yipping)
00:34:40 Kaalu.
00:34:43 Kaalu.
00:34:45 I don't remember being seven.
00:34:48 What did you say?
00:34:50 She says, she doesn't remember
00:34:55 Ask me,
00:34:57 I remember.
00:35:00 I got married
00:35:07 Plump juicy rasgullas,
00:35:11 piping hot gulab jamuns,
00:35:14 cashew-nut sweets,
00:35:17 covered with gold leaf,
00:35:21 yellow ladoos,
00:35:24 dripping in butter.
00:35:26 I ate them all
00:35:43 (bleating)
00:36:19 What do you want?
00:36:21 Uh, is... Chuyia here?
00:36:23 Are you a relative?
00:36:26 A friend.
00:36:28 Men are not allowed here.
00:36:29 (window slams shut)
00:36:31 Chuyia.
00:36:40 Can't you watch
00:36:44 Please forgive us.
00:36:46 No... it's all right.
00:36:49 You can do it again if you want!
00:36:57 Where did she go?
00:36:59 She's hiding.
00:37:06 Kalyani.
00:37:08 Gone!
00:37:19 (thunder rumbles)
00:37:22 (thunder cracks)
00:37:34 (thunder cracks)
00:37:39 (male vocalist singing
00:38:40 (female vocalist sings)
00:39:14 (male vocalist
00:39:34 (laughing)
00:39:59 (song ends)
00:40:01 (playing festive tune)
00:40:12 Watch it!
00:40:14 Don't let your shadow
00:40:45 Such ignorance.
00:40:47 It's this ignorance
00:41:13 Shakuntala, you've been doing
00:41:19 So many years of sacrifice
00:41:26 Do you feel closer
00:41:54 If...
00:41:57 self liberation means...
00:42:00 detachment from worldly desires.
00:42:03 Then, no, I'm no closer.
00:42:09 Whatever happens,
00:42:13 never lose your faith.
00:42:16 Never lose your faith.
00:43:02 I hate you!
00:43:08 She's still not used to this.
00:43:16 (goat bleating)
00:43:33 Get lost.
00:43:36 I have money.
00:43:38 Widows don't eat fried food.
00:43:47 What do you want?
00:43:52 Speak up.
00:43:53 (sizzling)
00:43:58 Hail Lord Shiva!
00:44:25 Auntie. Auntie.
00:44:29 What is it, little mouse?
00:44:32 A ladoo!
00:45:00 WOMAN:
00:45:04 Where are you?
00:45:12 (festive music playing)
00:45:32 MADHU:
00:45:35 Do my feet now.
00:45:38 Yes, Didi.
00:45:45 Gently.
00:45:46 My skin is like satin.
00:45:48 If a mosquito sits on me,
00:45:53 Ask Gulabi,
00:45:54 I always keep my promises.
00:45:56 GULABI:
00:45:57 If she says
00:46:00 then she will.
00:46:03 Did you know?
00:46:04 Know what?
00:46:05 This Gandhi is going
00:46:08 What's he done now?
00:46:10 He says the Untouchables are...
00:46:14 children of God.
00:46:15 Disgusting!
00:46:17 GULABI:
00:46:21 BOTH:
00:46:24 tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-...
00:46:26 (singing in German)
00:47:08 You'll be seen.
00:47:13 Take me back.
00:47:15 Are you insane?
00:47:17 I want to go back.
00:47:19 Then you can tell the client.
00:47:27 (continues singing in German)
00:47:42 is an insult, Nara
00:47:51 Narayan?
00:47:55 Who's that?
00:47:58 A eunuch.
00:48:01 My father's pimp.
00:48:04 In English... a procurer.
00:48:10 There's a famous saying.
00:48:13 Widows, bulls, slippery steps
00:48:16 Avoid these,
00:48:33 "Romeo, oh, Romeo...
00:48:43 Wherefore art thou, Romeo?"
00:48:52 Can't you ever be serious?
00:48:56 Say you had a wife...
00:48:57 I'm not married.
00:48:59 Just imagine you were...
00:49:03 and everything you've cared for
00:49:09 If you hadn't met that widow,
00:49:12 you wouldn't be such a
00:49:16 I don't even know
00:49:21 Stand beneath her balcony,
00:49:24 but don't quote Romeo.
00:49:25 People here
00:49:29 You really are
00:49:32 I'll tell you one thing,
00:49:34 your precious English
00:49:38 And who's going
00:49:40 Your Gandhi?
00:49:46 Of course.
00:49:49 (Auntie coughing)
00:50:02 (wheezing and coughing)
00:50:09 Auntie.
00:50:12 Take me outside.
00:50:15 You'll be all right.
00:50:18 Take me outside.
00:50:23 I want a ladoo.
00:50:27 Try to sleep.
00:50:34 (coughing and wheezing)
00:50:37 Do you want water?
00:50:43 I want to die
00:50:45 No.
00:50:48 Didi.
00:50:52 We should take
00:51:23 MADHU:
00:51:25 Brahmin widows keeping vigil,
00:51:28 and that, too, for free.
00:51:35 Shakuntala,
00:51:38 Holy Water.
00:51:45 Get some water
00:51:48 Hurry!
00:51:57 (man chanting)
00:52:22 Chuyia.
00:52:24 Remember me? Narayan.
00:52:27 Yes.
00:52:28 Is Kalyani inside?
00:52:31 Yes.
00:52:32 I have to go.
00:52:34 Chuyia, wait.
00:52:53 Give this to Kalyani.
00:53:10 Didi, water!
00:53:14 You're too late.
00:53:24 Chuyia!
00:53:25 Didi, the money
00:53:32 Every penny that we have
00:53:34 goes for the rent.
00:53:37 Go get Auntie's things.
00:54:08 Nothing.
00:54:12 Didi.
00:54:15 Didi.
00:54:21 I was saving these
00:54:25 MADHU:
00:54:43 (cow mooing)
00:55:04 SHAKUNTALA:
00:55:06 Chuyia.
00:55:08 Where do you run off to?
00:55:09 Don't you listen?
00:55:10 I've told you...
00:55:11 You're always angry.
00:55:33 I was going home.
00:55:36 You can't go home.
00:55:40 I know.
00:55:46 Forget that life.
00:55:56 Didi, Auntie ate a ladoo.
00:56:03 Don't worry.
00:56:06 After eating the ladoo,
00:56:10 God willing,
00:56:20 (chanting
00:56:37 (crickets chirping)
00:56:47 Didi.
00:57:16 "Kalyani, I would like
00:57:21 "At Karam Ghat.
00:57:25 "I will wait for you.
00:57:28 Yours, Narayan."
00:57:31 I meet him with Chuyia.
00:57:36 I didn't ask.
00:57:40 What should I do, Didi?
00:57:44 Don't ask me.
00:57:59 (crickets chirping)
00:58:24 (women whispering)
00:58:26 (female vocalist singing
00:59:32 (flute playing)
00:00:46 KALYANI:
00:01:04 (speaking foreign language)
00:01:15 (speaking foreign language)
00:01:18 (owl hooting,
00:01:22 "On the banks of the river,
00:01:25 where the kadamba
00:01:30 The kadamba is a flower
00:01:38 the people swoon
00:01:43 It's from Kalidas's
00:01:47 I can't read.
00:01:50 Shakuntala Didi read
00:01:54 Did you know
00:02:02 In Sanskrit,
00:02:06 and "doot" means a messenger.
00:02:09 (thunder rumbling)
00:02:14 The poem is about
00:02:16 the pain of separation
00:02:23 Continue.
00:02:26 The lover tells the cloud,
00:02:28 it resembles Lord Vishnu...
00:02:31 in Krishna's guise,
00:02:34 gleaming with peacock feathers.
00:02:51 And the cloud heard him?
00:02:54 How is that possible?
00:02:58 If we believe that a salute
00:03:01 why not a cloud?
00:03:09 (thunder rumbling)
00:03:22 Are you gentry?
00:03:24 Would it matter
00:03:27 Yes.
00:03:29 I just finished
00:03:35 Kalyani, when did
00:03:40 I don't remember.
00:03:42 Maybe...
00:03:43 when I was nine.
00:03:45 Was your husband
00:03:47 I never met him.
00:04:05 Anyone else in your house?
00:04:09 My mother,
00:04:11 my father,
00:04:12 Sadhuramji.
00:04:17 No, I'm not married.
00:04:21 Good God!
00:04:22 Why not?
00:04:24 My father says,
00:04:26 childhood is a time for play,
00:04:29 not for marriage.
00:04:32 And your mother?
00:04:35 If she had her way,
00:04:37 I'd have a daughter
00:04:40 Your mother's right.
00:04:41 That's how things are.
00:04:45 That's how things were.
00:04:48 Times are changing.
00:04:50 All the old traditions
00:04:56 All of them?
00:04:59 But what is good
00:05:08 And who will decide what is good
00:05:12 and what is not?
00:05:15 You!
00:05:38 (women chanting)
00:05:47 (chant continues)
00:06:00 (thunder rumbling)
00:06:02 (thunder cracks)
00:06:10 Didi, when do we get food?
00:06:16 Today we fast.
00:06:18 No food, no water.
00:06:20 Come in.
00:06:30 What's wrong?
00:06:32 No tantrums?
00:06:37 You're getting used
00:06:41 Come sit here.
00:06:43 I have to go.
00:06:44 Kalyani's reciting Kalidas.
00:06:46 What?
00:06:48 A poem.
00:06:51 (laughs)
00:06:53 "Megh" means cloud,
00:06:57 and "doot"... messenger.
00:07:00 The Cloud Messenger.
00:07:03 The Cloud Messenger.
00:07:05 Mm.
00:07:06 Come on, let's send a message.
00:07:26 Did you send a message?
00:07:27 I don't want to send one.
00:07:34 KUNTI:
00:07:40 Kalyani!
00:07:42 Why won't you
00:07:44 Kalyani!
00:07:47 Have you gone deaf?
00:07:50 Didi wants you.
00:07:53 (thunder crashing)
00:08:03 (squawking)
00:08:06 you don't have to fast.
00:08:09 KALYANI:
00:08:10 Come on in, child.
00:08:14 Here, this is for you.
00:08:22 Wait, child.
00:08:25 You must take care of yourself.
00:08:28 You are the jewel
00:08:31 If you are happy,
00:08:33 And when they are happy,
00:08:36 This is an ashram, Didi,
00:08:42 (horse whinnies)
00:08:53 This is the edge of the city.
00:08:55 Where the British live.
00:08:59 They don't care
00:09:02 Why not?
00:09:05 Don't they have widows?
00:09:08 Of course they do.
00:09:10 But not like ours.
00:09:16 It must be hard for you.
00:09:21 Sometimes yes,
00:09:22 sometimes no.
00:09:24 "Learn to live like a lotus,
00:09:27 untouched by the filthy water
00:09:31 Krishnaji said it in the Geeta.
00:09:34 Krishna was a God.
00:09:38 Not everyone can live
00:09:45 Yes, they can.
00:10:03 It's ink.
00:10:05 I didn't have time to change.
00:10:08 I was applying for a job
00:10:13 What's wrong?
00:10:17 When do you go?
00:10:19 As soon as they call me.
00:10:27 And when will you be back?
00:10:36 I'm not going anywhere
00:11:20 Are you asleep?
00:11:22 Yes.
00:11:24 Wake up.
00:11:25 What?
00:11:27 Speak softly.
00:11:34 (giggles)
00:11:37 (gramophone playing
00:11:45 Did you have a fight
00:11:47 He's never here
00:11:50 What does he preach?
00:11:55 That's Gandhiji,
00:11:58 So, what does he
00:11:59 He talks about freedom,
00:12:03 To talk
00:12:06 but to live by it is not.
00:12:09 The girl's father
00:12:14 (ballad continues
00:12:17 What?
00:12:18 Turn off that gramophone!
00:12:23 (gramophone clicks off)
00:12:24 I want a yes, or a no.
00:12:27 No!
00:12:29 Huh?
00:12:33 Don't you want
00:12:36 It's not like setting yogurt.
00:12:39 Who am I going to find for you?
00:12:42 You don't have to.
00:12:45 I found her myself.
00:12:47 Really?
00:12:49 (flute playing simple melody)
00:12:53 Who is she?
00:12:55 Do I know her?
00:12:57 No.
00:12:59 Is she fair-skinned?
00:13:01 Yes.
00:13:02 Tell me quickly, who is she?
00:13:06 She's a widow, Ma.
00:13:07 (playing simple melody)
00:13:14 Gandhi has turned you
00:13:17 Marry a widow?
00:13:19 How can you even think of it?
00:13:21 This is a sin.
00:13:25 You should get a gold
00:13:28 Raja Ramohan Roy says
00:13:32 And Raja whoever Roy,
00:13:35 what does he know
00:13:38 What will your father say?
00:13:39 He'll be pleased,
00:13:42 Ma...
00:13:45 (sobbing)
00:13:48 Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma.
00:13:52 Stop it!
00:13:57 (Madhu moaning contentedly)
00:14:01 Have some, Didi?
00:14:03 I've been farting non-stop
00:14:08 I ate too much last night.
00:14:11 Hey, Chuyia.
00:14:13 Here, eat some.
00:14:16 Are you mad?
00:14:18 Giving a widow forbidden food.
00:14:20 I'll eat a
00:14:23 Whose wedding?
00:14:24 Kalyani's wedding.
00:14:27 And when is her wedding?
00:14:29 Don't know.
00:14:30 She'll get married
00:14:32 Widows don't get married.
00:14:34 But she will.
00:14:36 No! She won't!
00:14:38 She will get married.
00:14:39 She will. She will. She will.
00:14:40 Drown yourself, liar!
00:14:42 Madhu Fatty! Liar Fatty!
00:14:43 Madhu Fatty! Liar Fatty!
00:14:46 Get off the old bitch,
00:14:47 (Gulabi yelling,
00:14:49 (shouting)
00:14:50 (Gulabi yelling,
00:14:55 Get this devil off me!
00:14:56 (shouting and yelling)
00:15:00 Madhu Fatty! Liar Fatty!
00:15:01 Madhu Fatty!
00:15:03 Madhu Fatty! Liar Fatty!
00:15:05 Madhu Fatty! Liar Fatty!
00:15:08 Madhu Fatty!
00:15:10 Madhu Fatty!
00:15:12 Chuyia.
00:15:14 Madhu Fatty! Liar Fatty!
00:15:16 Madhu Fatty! Liar Fatty!
00:15:17 Madhu Fatty! Liar Fatty!
00:15:19 Chuyia, that's enough.
00:15:21 Chuyia, Chuyia...
00:15:24 Chuyia, stop.
00:15:25 Chuyia, Chuyia, enough!
00:15:28 (panting)
00:15:35 Kalyani.
00:15:37 Oh, Kalyani.
00:15:38 Come here.
00:15:42 Kalyani, Chuyia says
00:15:48 Yes.
00:15:50 Have you gone mad?
00:15:52 Nobody marries a widow.
00:15:54 He will.
00:15:56 Shameless.
00:15:57 You'll sink yourself and us.
00:15:59 We'll be cursed.
00:16:03 We must live in purity,
00:16:05 to die in purity.
00:16:08 Then why did you send me
00:16:10 For survival.
00:16:12 And how we survive here,
00:16:14 no one can question,
00:16:16 not even God!
00:16:17 Didi, no!
00:16:51 We would have burnt in Hell
00:16:53 MADHU:
00:16:55 I've saved you all.
00:16:57 Let's see the whore
00:17:00 Is this true?
00:17:02 Yes.
00:17:07 Didi,
00:17:09 you'll get Kalyani out,
00:17:13 To even think of
00:17:16 Why?
00:17:18 Ask God.
00:17:30 (parrot squawking in distance)
00:17:48 How will you get married now?
00:17:50 You've become bald.
00:17:54 Don't worry, I'll get married.
00:17:58 I hope
00:18:03 MADHU:
00:18:07 Let's see
00:18:15 (high-pitched squawking)
00:18:22 (panicked squawking)
00:18:30 (squawking)
00:18:32 (squawking stops)
00:19:01 (female vocalist singing
00:20:01 WOMAN:
00:20:03 If one widow
00:20:07 all the widows of India
00:20:10 A catastrophe!
00:20:13 Do you know what he says?
00:20:15 Who?
00:20:16 Gandhi.
00:20:17 He says widows are
00:20:20 and nobody should be
00:20:24 (sobbing)
00:20:28 Didi,
00:20:30 I miss
00:20:34 Mitthu.
00:20:37 My Mitthu.
00:20:40 (wailing)
00:20:44 MY Mitthu.
00:20:47 Are you in heaven
00:20:51 (crying)
00:20:53 (whispering):
00:21:18 Chuyia.
00:21:20 Hey, Chuyia.
00:21:23 I know you're not asleep.
00:21:30 I won't ask about Mitthu.
00:21:40 Tell me, what do I look like?
00:21:42 Old.
00:21:59 (water rippling)
00:22:01 (female vocalist
00:22:37 You have studied
00:22:45 Is it written
00:22:47 that widows should
00:22:54 The Scriptures say
00:22:58 that widows have three options.
00:23:01 They can burn
00:23:03 or lead a life of self-denial,
00:23:07 or, if the family permits,
00:23:13 marry their husband's
00:23:22 However...
00:23:27 a law was recently passed,
00:23:30 which favors widow remarriage.
00:23:38 A law?
00:23:41 Why don't we know about it?
00:23:45 We ignore the laws...
00:23:53 that don't benefit us.
00:24:12 Keys to her room.
00:24:13 I won't give them.
00:24:15 The keys.
00:24:18 I told you I won't give them.
00:24:26 If you open the door,
00:24:28 you destroy us all.
00:24:36 Imbecile!
00:24:37 Don't open the door.
00:24:43 (crows cawing, birds tweeting)
00:25:07 Leave.
00:25:15 (Kaalu whines softly)
00:25:23 Go.
00:25:35 If you go to him,
00:25:37 I won't let you come back.
00:26:54 NARAYAN:
00:27:22 I love you very much.
00:27:32 Will you marry me?
00:27:42 (female vocalist
00:28:03 Chuyia, come and play Holi.
00:28:07 for his Festival of Color.
00:28:09 Stop sulking.
00:28:13 (male and female vocalists
00:29:28 (song fading out)
00:29:38 (water rippling)
00:29:45 What's the first color
00:29:49 Blue.
00:29:50 The color of Lord Krishna.
00:29:54 A blue sari with
00:29:57 You'll look as beautiful
00:30:09 You really told your mother?
00:30:11 Yes.
00:30:12 What did you say?
00:30:18 I said I wanted to marry you.
00:30:19 And what did she say?
00:30:22 She began to cry.
00:30:24 Good God!
00:30:26 Father and I will convince her.
00:30:36 Look... my house.
00:30:42 What's your father's name?
00:30:45 Dwarkanath.
00:30:48 Seth Dwarkanath.
00:31:01 Turn the boat around.
00:31:03 What happened?
00:31:09 Turn the boat around.
00:31:15 Sit, Kalyani.
00:31:21 At least tell me what's wrong.
00:31:28 All right, you don't
00:31:31 But I do need to.
00:31:35 Then please try.
00:31:37 I can't.
00:31:41 Ask your father.
00:31:46 What?
00:31:47 Kalyani?
00:31:52 (crickets chirping)
00:31:59 What happened was unfortunate.
00:32:03 However...
00:32:13 However what?
00:32:16 So you've found out
00:32:22 Don't marry her.
00:32:25 Keep her as a mistress.
00:32:31 I respected you so much.
00:32:33 Brahmins can sleep
00:32:42 and the women they
00:32:51 Do you know Lord Ram
00:32:53 never to honor
00:32:58 who interpret the Holy Texts
00:33:02 You're not a hero
00:33:04 ready to wage war for love.
00:33:09 You disgust me.
00:33:44 Did you put butter?
00:33:46 Yes.
00:34:04 Didi?
00:34:08 So, you've come back.
00:34:16 Your father-in-law
00:34:23 Didi.
00:34:26 Wait there.
00:34:29 Gulabi will be here soon.
00:36:11 (knocking)
00:36:13 (ominous music playing)
00:36:22 (insistent knocking)
00:36:37 I've come for Kalyani.
00:37:20 The Holy Texts say
00:37:25 Kalyani's death
00:37:34 Have faith.
00:37:40 Why is your faith so strong?
00:37:43 I don't know.
00:38:07 Why are widows sent here?
00:38:14 There must be a reason for it.
00:38:18 One less mouth
00:38:22 Four saris saved,
00:38:25 one bed,
00:38:29 and a corner is saved
00:38:35 There is no other reason
00:38:39 Disguised as religion,
00:39:07 MADHU:
00:39:11 don't I?
00:39:12 Everyone knows you do.
00:39:15 But she doesn't even
00:39:22 I want to go home.
00:39:24 All right, then,
00:39:27 You know where my home is?
00:39:30 Gulabi does.
00:39:33 Gulabi knows everything.
00:39:35 But if you don't want to go,
00:39:39 After all, I'm also
00:39:48 Can I take Kaalu?
00:39:52 PRIEST:
00:39:57 fire cannot burn it,
00:40:00 eternal and all pervading,
00:40:03 is this soul.
00:40:10 Holy Water.
00:40:35 WOMAN (shouting):
00:40:42 He's free, on his way
00:40:44 Gandhi is on of the few
00:40:49 who listens to the voice
00:40:57 But...
00:40:59 what if our conscience
00:41:09 (grunting)
00:41:15 Whose house is this?
00:41:17 This is Kalyani's
00:41:20 Play here for a while,
00:41:23 No.
00:41:25 Huh?!
00:41:27 Don't you want sweets
00:41:33 Let's go!
00:41:33 (clock chiming)
00:41:39 (anklets jingling)
00:41:41 (birds cheeping)
00:42:07 (gramophone playing
00:42:14 (door closes)
00:42:38 I've come to play.
00:42:52 SHAKUNTALA:
00:43:02 SHAKUNTALA:
00:43:07 Chuyia!
00:43:21 Have you seen Chuyia?
00:43:25 Ask Madhu, Didi.
00:43:29 (dog barking in distance)
00:43:37 Madhumati?
00:43:39 Madhumati, where's Chuyia?
00:43:47 Madhumati?
00:43:49 Madhumati, have
00:43:52 What?
00:43:55 Have you seen her?
00:43:59 Have you seen her?
00:44:01 Madhumati, have
00:44:04 I've sent her.
00:44:08 Where did you send her?
00:44:12 Madhumati?
00:44:14 Where did you send her?
00:44:15 Madhumati,
00:44:18 your eyes, Madhumati!
00:44:20 Where did you
00:44:21 With Gulabi.
00:44:28 Wake up! Wake up!
00:44:33 Wake up! Take me
00:44:40 Gulabi!
00:44:40 SHAKUNTALA:
00:44:47 Gulabi!
00:44:53 Gulabi!
00:44:59 (gasps)
00:45:09 (murmuring)
00:45:25 (male vocalist
00:45:49 (female vocalist sings)
00:46:12 (male and female vocalists
00:46:26 (song trailing off)
00:46:28 What are your plans?
00:46:34 Narayan?
00:46:36 To take the train
00:46:43 "The absent are the dead
00:46:53 I'm sorry, Narayan.
00:46:56 (male vocalist begins
00:46:59 MAN:
00:47:02 He's here at the train station
00:47:04 He's holding his prayer meeting.
00:47:08 If you want his blessings,
00:47:10 (male vocalist intoning
00:47:23 (male solo segues into
00:47:34 (flute playing)
00:47:40 (upbeat song resumes)
00:49:02 (song ends)
00:49:03 Live long.
00:49:05 Be happy.
00:49:05 GANDHI:
00:49:09 for a long time,
00:49:15 But today I know
00:49:20 The pursuit of Truth
00:49:25 I trust it will be
00:49:29 blowing)
00:49:35 Long live Gandhi!
00:49:38 CROWD:
00:49:41 Long live Gandhi!
00:49:44 andhi!
00:49:46 Long live Gandhi!
00:49:48 Long live Gandhi!
00:49:50 Long live Gandhi!
00:49:51 Long live Gandhi!
00:49:53 Long live Gandhi!
00:49:54 Long live Gandhi!
00:49:58 Long live Gandhi!
00:50:02 Long live Gandhi!
00:50:04 Long live Gandhi!
00:50:08 Long live Gandhi!
00:50:11 Long live Gandhi!
00:50:15 gh.
00:50:17 (train chugging)
00:50:24 Brothers, please
00:50:26 Please, give her to Gandhiji.
00:50:28 Brother!
00:50:32 Help her, please help her!
00:50:38 (train whistle blowing)
00:50:40 Take this child with you.
00:50:41 Why doesn't anybody listen?
00:50:43 This child
00:50:45 Narayan!
00:50:47 Didi!
00:50:50 Narayan! Narayan!idi!
00:50:52 Make sure
00:50:56 CROWD:
00:50:59 Long live Gandhi!
00:51:02 Long live Gandhi!
00:51:11 Don't be afraid.
00:51:18 Give her to Gandhi!
00:51:24 (train hissing and chugging)
00:51:49 (train whistle blowing)
00:52:02 (flute playing somber theme)
00:52:51 (theme ends)