Chant the name Hari.
Go slow, brother.
Chant the name Hari.
My... My...
Hold yourself together, sister. Be calm.
I have no one else left.
Don't feel that way, sister. We are all with you.
I have lost everything. How will I live now?
We are all with you, sister. - How will I live?
Get down.
Go on, right.
Sit down there.
Is this your first interview? - No.
Are you aware of the type of questions they ask?
It's not very predictable.
Will they ask in English? - They may, probably.
Then the answer should also be in English... - Yes, English.
Yes, naturally.
Do you do mending? - Why?
I have trousers that need mending. - No we don't do...
...mending. - Why? - We don't sew used clothes.
I'll leave them here and go. - No you can try some small shop.
Here you are. - How much? - Ten rupees.
Your name, please. - Siddartha Choudhury.
Could you show us your papers, please? - Yes, sir.
Would you like to? - How old are you? - I'm just over 25, sir.
You are a B. Sc? - Yes, sir. - When did you graduate? - 1966.
Have you been idle ever since?
No, sir. I was at the medical college for 2 years.
What were you doing there? Studying, sir. - Only for two years?
Yes, sir.
What made you give up medicine? Did you suddenly...
...lose interest in medicine? - No, sir. I lost my father.
I see. - What's your aim in life?
Right now it's to find a job, sir.
But the job you've applied for has nothing to do with medicine.
No, sir. But I also did botany for my science degree.
Do you like flowers? - Not unconditionally.
Some I like, some I don't.
Does the term mitochondria suggest anything to you?
It's a botanical term, sir. Mitochondria are small threadlike...
...bodies in cytoplasm.
Who was the prime minister of England at the time of independence?
Whose independence, sir? - Our independence.
Atkins. - What would you regard as the most outstanding and significant...
...event of the last decade?
The war in Vietnam, sir. - More significant than the landing...
...on the moon? - I think so, sir.
Could you tell us why you think so?
Because the moon landing...
You see, we weren't entirely unprepared for the moon landing.
We knew that it had to come some time. We knew about the...
...space flights, the great advances in space technology.
So we knew it had to happen.
I'm not saying it wasn't a remarkable achievement...
...but it wasn't unpredictable.
The fact that they did land on the moon.
Do you think that the war in Vietnam was unpredictable?
Not the war itself. But what it has revealed about the...
...Vietnamese people. About their extraordinary power...
...of resistance. Ordinary people, peasants and...
...no one knew that they had it in them.
This isn't a matter of technology, it's...
...just plain human courage, and takes your breath away.
Are you a communist?
I don't think one has to be one in order to admire...
...Vietnam, sir.
That doesn't answer my question. However...
...you may go now.
Listen.
This is broken.
Hey! - I've been watching you for some time.
Why do you look so depressed?
No, I've been walking in the sun and I've got a headache.
Don't you have a job yet?
Are you still applying? - Yes.
In the end, the time will come when you'll start believing...
...that you don't have a goal within yourself. And that's not true.
I know you. While you're still unemployed why don't you...
...come to our place sometime?
You were active in the union in your college days.
If you are with us then you will be able to do something.
The party has a lot of odd jobs to be attended to.
If you remain like this and roam in the sun then both...
...your mind and your health will be undermined.
What? Will you come? Or is it that you've no faith in politics?
No, brother Naresh. I need a job. Otherwise the problem...
...is that... - Your sister is employed, isn't it?
Is it hurting your pride? - No, papa didn't leave much for us.
That's true. It is not possible for a honest man to do...
...business and leave something.
I know.
Why don't you join some factory?
Do some work as a labourer. What's wrong in that?
These days... - No more advice please. No more advice please.
So many people have given me so much advice that my mind...
...is stuffed with advice and is choking.
You're a nice person and I admire you, but still...
...l'm telling you.
Either stop your lectures or go away. I don't like hearing...
...your speeches any more.
Would you like to get out of Calcutta?
Would it be okay if I get you a job outside Calcutta?
What job? - Medical representative.
Outside Calcutta! - That's why I didn't tell you before.
Dr. Suren Das. Do you know him?
National Pharmaceuticals. I know him well.
If you want, I can give you a letter.
Let me talk with him.
One tablet, please.
Can I get some water? - Water?
How much? - 60 paise.
What do you want?
The 1970-71 budget comes up with proposals to stimulate...
...growth, export drive and import substitution. Additional taxes...
...on certain luxury and consumer goods and an...
...increase in wealth tax and income tax rates for higher...
...income groups.
Relief with the rise of the exemption limit to 5000 rupees...
...on income tax and a greater sense of security to low...
...income groups through revised pension proposals.
New taxes are expected to fetch an additional revenue...
...of 1700 million rupees.
An explosion! Let's run!
Look what happened to this watch. It fell from my hand.
The balance has broken. - How much will it cost? - 850.
Okay give it to me.
The lymphatics of the female breast, if you remember, begins...
...with the flexes around the gland itself.
Now this flexes which we note is quite different from the lymphatics...
...which drain the central region of the gland.
But the gland at its central region is...
Oh! What a beautiful place.
Wow! This is wonderful.
This is where the world started.
This is where the magic is.
Great.
Look at the cow. Delightful!
Wow! What a place! - Fantastic!
We come to Calcutta and we like every one of you people.
You are truly our friends.
Who's that? - Open the door, this is Siddartha.
Who is Siddartha? - Stop playing the fool and open the door.
Come in. - Where is Sibu? - He has gone to get cigarettes...
...he will be back soon.
Oh! What a day! - What happened?
What can happen? The same routine.
That's the problem. Time doesn't want to pass at all.
Walking all day in the sun.
Tell me, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
This is a highly skilled job.
You're stealing the funds meant for the Red Cross?
Hey, Siddartha. This is not good. Give it to me.
Where did you think your Red Cross got the money?
All day I walked in the sun.
Don't I have a share in it?
All of you... Hell! All of you.
I come here only so that I can relax for some time and you...
You relax. Who is stopping you?
If you want to sleep then I have a drug.
How low you've stooped. - The whole country is going...
...down, brother. If I don't stoop down then do...
...you want me suspended in space?
You're already the son of rich parents and you hail from...
...a famous family.
What do you know about my family? Do you know about...
...my uncle. Do you know about my grandpa? Moreover, what...
...relationship is there between this and my family?
Two books have been stolen. - What books? - Yes, the books...
...on those two subjects.
If I don't get the books then I can't pass the exams.
How will I get so much money in such a short time, now?
How does he play, Baren? - Left out. - It's Sibhu. Open the door.
Kleptomaniac number one.
Hey, how long have you been here? - Just now.
Stop standing and chatting there. Close the door.
Take this.
You also have one. - Thanks.
Are you still on it?
What 's wrong with this chap? It is becoming more difficult day by day.
I'm thinking of vacating the house.
Vacating the house! He can't move a step and he is thinking...
...of vacating the house. - Are you his advisor? - Ask him.
Is that so, buddy? - Leave that. You too!
Is that so? He is trying to hook a girl.
He is asking me, how do I proceed. Tell me step by step.
Listen friend, this is too much. This is gross injustice.
Then what did you tell him? - I told him...
Hey don't say anything. Stop. - Leave me.
If you play the fool with me then I will spill all the beans.
You carry on with the work. Don't tell him anything.
Wait, another 2 rupees.
2 rupees, Stop all that nonsense and do it fast.
Come soon, I'm getting impatient.
The delay did help. Look at this. Some more money.
You can have them if you like.
What's that? - Hey. - Tell me. - Will you lend me this? - What?
This magazine. - Buddy, this has resale value, do you know that?
Ten rupees per copy.
If I give you that you'll sell it and pocket the money.
Why do you take everyone to be in your category?
Look, I don't believe the unemployed.
So you don't intend to come out it seems.
No, sir. I've important work to do.
Hey, will you buy me lunch? Then we'll go to a movie.
A movie again? - Why, have you already been to one?
I went into a cool place and started catching up on some sleep...
...and suddenly from nowhere there was this boom.
A bomb! - Another explosion? - Yes, in the Light House.
Then the movie got interrupted. - Was anyone injured?
I didn't see. I walked out and came over.
In our place there will be no explosion.
Oh! It's your film club.
A Swedish film. No cutting.
Shall we go in? - We won't get a seat.
Come, let's go in and see.
Let's go.
Without my watch, I can't keep track of the time.
Why? Are you in a hurry to go somewhere?
I've to meet Naresh Pal.
Are you trying to get into politics?
Only that's not included.
Then why go to brother Naresh?
His friend seems to have a pharmaceuticals company...
...and probably is hiring people. He'll give me a letter.
Let me see.
I don't understand your situation at all. Your sister got a job...
...but you're not able to find one.
Have you seen my sister? - Have I not?
Then? Why wouldn't she get a job?
Academic qualification is not the only qualification.
In that case what is wrong with your personality? It has...
...the stamp of intelligence. - Who wants intelligence?
You understand everything and pretend to be a fool.
These days the weaker sex is the stronger sex.
Have you seen how confidently they walk?
There you're right.
At times they give us an inferiority complex.
Do you know? If I do something then I'll get a job.
I have to answer the questions in the interview in a calculated manner.
To date I haven't done those calculations.
From now on I'll do that.
For the last year I've had these doubts.
I was only waiting for proof.
If I hadn't gotten proof then I wouldn't have come to you.
I have come so that you can know about it.
I don't know what impression you've gotten about your daughter.
I don't know how you've brought her up.
She has destroyed my house, my family and shattered it.
I've endured this enough. No more. I can't. I can't bear it...
...anymore. Whatever it may be, you find a solution for this.
Otherwise I will have to do something about it myself.
What's the matter?
Why are all of you so gloomy?
Is your interview over? - Forget my interview.
Who was that woman?
Mama!
Who? - Ask him.
Uncle.
Mrs. Sanyal. - Who is she? - Wife of Topu's boss, who else?
Did she come complaining about her?
It's ten and still she is not home. What else will she do?
Does that mean that she's doing something with her boss?
It could be the pressure of work.
If there is the pressure of work then why doesn't she inform us...
...when she's leaving the office?
How long can a woman wait alone?
That is different. But if you tell me that you believe that...
neurotic woman, then I will portray a different character.
Just like that a woman can walk in and talk all rubbish...
...about my sister, this will not be tolerated.
I'm telling you all one more thing. Don't bring up this...
...topic at all when Topu comes back from work.
All these problems come looking for us. That is no evidence.
Now the boss's wife comes complaining about her.
It is all because of you. If the daughter has some pressure...
...then what is the son's excuse? Can't he come home early?
Maybe he is going for his studies.
But all I know is that he has stopped his studies.
Still he may be doing some studies. He was the best boy in his class.
He will not remain the best boy for long.
Politics is not for students. There is a time for everything.
You stay in the house because you like it.
What happened?
You had an interview?
Tell me how it went.
I will not.
Tell me.
Why were you late coming home today? - I will not tell.
My not telling you and your telling are not the same.
No one comes here and spreads scandal about me.
Oh! What did that woman say?
Did you know that woman would come? - No.
I've heard about her and know what type of a woman she is. - I see.
What did she say, let me know.
I only heard the last of it and that's enough.
Don't you know what was discussed? - No, and that is not the issue.
How would I know? I'm not responsible.
Are you not responsible?
Not at all.
Okay. You may not be the person to blame but...
...someone is to blame which you're not disclosing.
But if he is responsible then straighten it out.
How? - There are many ways to do that.
For example he can be given a good thrashing.
I feel like laughing when you talk of thrashing.
You don't have to laugh now, I'm dead serious.
What's the advantage in thrashing an innocent person like him?
Innocent! A manager in such a big private firm and innocent?
Whom are you fooling?
Okay, then do whatever you like.
Aren't you feeling bad about it at all?
Can't you see how ugly the issue is?
Aren't you able to sense how mama must be feeling about it?
Does mama want me to leave the job?
Naturally. Anyway, the job keeps you working till ten at night.
...you must leave that job anyhow.
Today the office closed at five thirty. - Five thirty?
Yes, He took me to Narendrapur to see his new house.
He, meaning your boss? - Yes. - Why?
There were three others with us.
Why did you go to see that house?
What do you mean by why? He called me so I went.
After a hard day's work?
What can I do? - What do you mean by what you can do?
Can't you refuse to go? - No.
What do you mean by no? Is it some slavery or compulsion?
Starting next month I'm becoming the boss's PA. 200 rupees increment.
The rascal is taking advantage of that.
That bloody son of a pig and a scoundrel.
Brother!
Brother, what a beautiful bird this is.
Where?
There!
Wonderful!
What's the name of that bird?
Let me freshen up first. I'll take exactly five minutes.
Don't get worked up over everything. - Okay.
Tell me first, how was the interview?
Horrible.
Topu?
Is your boss staying in Alipore?
I won't say.
What happened? - Nothing.
A fight.
Do you have a cut? - Something like that.
Listen.
Do you have some money?
Why? - I need it.
What for?
I have to finish someone. An antisocial element.
Why ask me? Go and make your own.
It is necessary. Otherwise the crisis will worsen.
Crisis! - Nothing political.
You have become strange.
Always searching for a job has turned your life into something.
Let me do what I'm doing.
Have I ever lectured on anything concerning you?
Do you remember this?
You gave this to me.
You don't know that I had to sell two medical books to buy this.
You don't know how much you've changed in these two years.
Two years ago I didn't need a job. - Job?
Do you know what will be your condition if you get a job?
I will be a copier in the bureaucratic machine.
I feel when I think about that.
You know very well what you're doing is not correct.
Getting a job is not my ambition.
But can one only follow a single path?
Exactly, that is what is required.
You don't have a path at all.
You yourself don't know which way you want to go.
You're standing in one place and wasting your time chatting.
Tonu.
Do you remember that bird?
Bird! - Let it be.
You're not supposed to know it.
Whom do you want? - Is Mr. Sanyal home?
This slip... - Okay.
Come inside and sit down.
Why are you standing? Sit down.
Are you Sutopa's brother? - Yes.
Is she sick?
No, but she is feeling the strain.
Feeling the strain?
Yes.
Your sis, she says that she is feeling the strain?
No, but we can tell.
She is getting frail.
But I didn't notice that.
You always see her hence you may not have noticed.
Doesn't the word 'always' sound a little aggressive?
Anyway, we can tell.
Whatever you're trying to say if you don't say it...
...clearly it's difficult to understand.
She never told me that she is feeling the strain.
In fact, she seems quite happy.
She is very smart, hard working. As for overtime...
...she may have had to do it for a few days, that I don't deny...
...but doing it for more than one hour, I don't think so.
Have you gotten a job?
Instead of your sister leaving her job wouldn't...
...it be better that you find a job?
In your company.
No, I can recommend somewhere else.
You sit down. I'm due to get a trunk call at ten.
You wait and I'll give you a letter.
Who? Yes, I'm well.
Hello. This is me, Sanyal speaking.
Yes. Oh no.
I've told him already.
Everything is settled.
Catch that fellow.
He hit the child.
Catch him and beat him.
Why did you stop studying to be a doctor?
There was problem in the house.
Naresh has written to medical representatives...
...but there are no vacancies for medical representatives at present. We...
...are taking salesmen. - Salesman! - It seems your heart is sad.
I started as a salesman myself.
If you work properly there is always the opportunity to prosper in a job.
Are you thinking that you're to carry medicines...
...in a bag and move like a hawker? - Is that not so?
No, it's not like that.
Actually what you've to do is go to hospitals...
...and dispensaries and note down their requirements in a note book.
There is a lot of traveling.
From a central place you travel around 70 to 80 miles daily.
Where is the place?
Balurghat. Do you know? It's in west Dinajpur.
The fact is that I don't want to leave Calcutta at present.
That you decide. I can give you around ten days to make up your mind.
Yes, Siddartha.
It seems you have left everything at its pace.
What to say? It seems that I'm to leave Calcutta at last.
Why are you bothered about that?
You say that you like it outside Calcutta.
That is when I go to places like Deohargh...
...and spend a vacation there for 15 to 20 days.
But this is not like that.
It is some corner of the world...
...and that too as a medical salesman. I don't like it.
I don't know about you but...
...I can't even stay for a minute outside Calcutta.
I know.
There is something about the city.
Tell me what it is?
It's life.
It may be a tough life but we like it.
In other places either you're dead or you're burnt out.
What a condition. When I think of leaving Calcutta I feel sick...
...however they will not permit us to stay here.
Tunu is right.
There is no way out other than a revolution.
You will start a revolution. - No, I will not but...
...if it starts then I will fight in it.
Will you fire a gun? Will you throw hand grenades?
At times when my head gets hot...
...then I think that I should do all that.