Here! Take this.
You may ward off the evil eye from Saheb Jaan on my behalf.
Who is it?
Hey! Didn't you recognise me?
I'm the contractor.
Listen to me.
I've been summoned.
Why're you so worried?
How strange!
What happened?
Perhaps somebody has been run over by the train.
It's an accident.
"Really, when God protects, nobody can kill a person."
- Take the train behind. - It's God's miracle!
You're right. But the engine driver too has stopped the train rightly.
Where were you lost?
I wonder where I roam around.
I don't remember anything.
You happen to meet me automatically...
...and sometimes you get distanced again.
"I wonder if it's my dream, or have I gone mad?"
I don't know when this dream would be shattered...
...and which desolate place would I end up in?
I wonder where I'll regain consciousness.
Wherever you'll regain consciousness...
...my eyes will be watching you.
And the key to your dreams will be found in my eyes.
Yes.
Stop crying. Or you'll get a severe beating from me.
"Greetings, grandmother."
"Greetings, Mother. Greetings to everyone."
May you live long.
Please come and be seated.
Everybody is so surprised.
Yes.
We're indeed surprised.
About who this person accompanying me is?
Yes. Who is she?
I too don't know who she is.
She's an oppressed girl who has lost her memory.
Come over here.
She appears to belong to a decent family.
That's why I've brought her here.
"And till she remembers her identity, she will stay here."
"Of course, why not?"
- How're you? - Come on. Take breakfast now.
I'll take breakfast. Let me refresh myself.
Come on. Help me wash myself.
When are you offering bracelets to your sweeper woman?
Get married first. Then I'll offer you several bracelets.
I've already got married. How could I've waited for you to marry?
You've already selected the girl. You should get married now.
"Stop, will you?"
Where's grandfather?
He's gone to Hyderabad to fetch your Uncle?
- Hyderabad? - Yes.
He's lying sick in the government hospital.
Why do you've to weep? He's going to return home.
There should be celebrations to mark his return.
"Don't weep now. After all, grandpa will be fetching him back."
- Open the door. - Who is it?
It's us.
"Greetings, Mother."
My son!
Uncle has arrived!
- Greetings. - God bless you.
"- Greetings, Uncle. - God bless you."
She has grown up very fast.
Arrange the food.
"- Greetings, Uncle. - Oh! So you're here too!"
"When I arrived here, I was told that you were in Hyderabad."
- Be happy. - I hope you're fine now.
Who is she?
- Greet him. - May you live long.
Is she your bride? - No. She's Arif's bride.
I see. So Arif got married!
We had to marry him. We searched for you a lot.
But we didn't find you anywhere.
It's nice that he married. My congratulations.
- You've married too? - How can he marry?
"Till he doesn't choose a girl himself, he wouldn't marry."
Then select a girl. I'm very keen to see you married.
"Moreover, I'm not sure how long I'll live now."
Why do you say that? You'll live for many more years now.
It would be better if you select some girl.
- He has already selected a girl. - Is it?
- She's sitting there. - Be seated.
Who is it?
"- Greetings, grandpa. - When did you come?"
- I too arrived today. - Be seated.
Who's that girl?
She is with me.
"Girls, you may go."
Yes. - Who is she?
She's an unknown girl. - She's with you?
- Yes. - What do you mean?
Even I don't know who she is.
She's an oppressed girl who has lost her memory.
"Incidentally, she has come into my refuge."
But who will believe what you're saying?
I don't care.
You may not be worried. But I'm worried about you.
Those who get burnt with milk...
...they even drink curd-milk with caution.
It's a pity that people get burnt with milk too.
Do you want to enter into an argument with me?
You need not argue with me.
A girl who doesn't have a name or an address...
...why is she in your company?
It's because she is under my care.
And it's not a crime.
It's not a crime. But it will bring me disrepute.
No. You cannot lose any reputation.
"If anybody will lose his reputation, it will be me."
Who're you? Don't I have any relationship with you?
You've a relationship. But you've no connection with this matter of mine.
I've no connection?
"If I don't have any connection, why've you brought her to my home?"
"Undoubtedly, I've made a mistake."
I'd forgotten that people in this family have to...
...seek permission from you even before taking every breath.
And your progeny doesn't walk on the ground which is created by God.
"Rather, your progeny crawls on your palm."
Let's go away from here.
This mansion is built with quicksand...
...and it cannot provide shelter to anybody.
It's a very dangerous place.
Wait!
Perhaps you've forgotten about yourself for ever.
I'm convinced now that you're nothing but my destiny.
Look over there.
The entire world is bowing at your feet.
And they're all saluting you.
O Lord! Please remain quiet.
Don't kill me so lovingly.
I confess that I remember who I am.
Who are you?
- I'm an innocent woman.
That's what you'd told me.
"You came, you wrote a note..."
...and then you never let me sleep peacefully thereafter.
"Every night, you have been calling out and passing through."
"Every single day, you've been pulling away my soul from my body."
I would have died aspiring for you.
But you never let me die too.
I would've run away.
But your tent surrounded me.
"You came, and your heartbeats didn't even let me say..."
...that I'm a prostitute.
Please stop the carriage.
- Make one garland. - A garland?
All right. Please be seated.
Make an attractive one.
You mean you're not recognising me?
How wonderful!
But why so much displeasure that you're not even greeting me?
Who are you?
I see... so she's with you!
Come here.
"- Yes, Sir. - Who're you?"
- Tell him my name. - He's Hashim Khan.
"No, Sir."
Now you'll have to reveal your name too.
I'm a stranger here. And I'm a decent person.
Come on. Proceed.
Who's he?
How many people's name will you ask me?
What's your intention? - I want to ask you your name.
Please stop the carriage.
Let me introduce myself to him.
You were asking me my name? Get down.
Leave the reins. Leave the reins.
- Who's he? - He's some ruffian.
She's some whore.
She's a heady stuff.
What's your name?
What's your profession?
I asked you your profession.
Is it important to tell you that?
"- Yes, it is. - I'm a forest officer."
Constable... you may go.
It doesn't befit an officer of your rank...
...to have had to come to a police station.
It's a matter of regret.
"Anyway, you may go."
Bring in Mr. Hashim Khan.
"Wherever you take me, my notoriety will follow close behind."
This sky is my enemy. It'll never come to an end.
Where are you taking me so that you may hide me?
To the place where your sky ends.
- Greetings. - Greetings.
- What can I do for you? - I've come to marry her.
All right.
"Gentlemen, please attend this marriage."
And what's your name? - She's some whore.
Her name is Pakeezah.
Do you approve of your...
...marriage to Salim Ahmed Khan?
Do you approve of your...
...marriage to Salim Ahmed Khan?
- Say yes. - You may remain quiet.
Let me ask her.
I'm questioning you for the final time.
Don't feel shy. Say yes or no.
Do you approve of your...
...marriage to Salim Ahmed Khan?
No! No!
"Has Saheb Jaan returned? - Yes, she has returned."
Yes. My vagabond dead body...
...has returned to be buried in this colourful tomb.
Hush! What dead body?
Yes. Every whore is a dead body.
I'm a dead body. And you too!
This marketplace is a graveyard...
...of women whose souls are dead...
...but the bodies remain alive.
These mansions are our tombs...
...in which the living coffins of we dead women...
...are kept after being decorated.
Our coffins are left open...
...so that...
Keep quiet. Keep quiet.
I'm a restless dead body of one such open coffin...
...which is lured by life again and again.
But now I've got fed up of my waywardness...
...and this treachery on the part of life.
I've got tired of it.
What has happened? Did he reject you?
No. I left him.
I afflicted him with a serious wound...
...and made my exit from his heavenly heart.
Why?
I got scared.
The ground of that world was such that...
"...wherever I set foot, the ground used to sink at the same spots."
Look over there... that kite is so much like me.
"It's cut away, like I am."
This gentleman has brought for you a letter from some Mr. Salim Ahmed.
On the 26th of this month...
...I'm celebrating grandly the ceremony of forgetting you.
It's also the day when I'll be married.
You're requested to perform a dance on this auspicious occasion.
I hear that you're known all over for your dancing and singing.
Your's Salim...
The feet which remained hidden in my heart...
...I'll see those feet dancing in everybody's presence.
Will I be able to see?
Come and see the sight of you being insulted.
She's your own honour...
...which is dancing amidst people of your community in your own home.
It's an assassination of your self-respect.
"It's your daughter's blood, on which you've put your feet."
My daughter's blood! My daughter...?!
My father!
Did you see how that oppressed woman's blood has bloomed...
...whose blood had dried up on your sleeves?
What nonsense!
You cannot defame me by making this allegation.
It's not an allegation.
It's the punishment for your false pride.
- Recognise her. - Move away!
- Brother! - What're you doing?
O Lord! My son!
Uncle!
How did this happen?
She's my daughter.
"No, Shahabuddin."
She is still the daughter of Nargis.
She cannot be called your daughter until...
...a marriage procession doesn't come for her marriage...
...and until her marriage palanquin is lifted by you from my brothel.
I'll take the marriage procession.
My procession will go there.
Take me along with you.
Take me at all cost... alongwith your marriage procession!
Uncle! You'll go alongwith the marriage procession.
The palanquin will be lifted at your hands.
I assure you. You'll surely go with the procession.
Her palanquin will surely be lifted at your hands.
Do you approve of this marriage?
Yes.
Silence!
Give your daughter the permission to leave.
Give her the permission.
"For thousands of years, a flower withers away without any recognition."
"Only then comes the one, truly worthy of praise."