You called me? - Yes.
Mr. Vishal, these are publicity points of Swastik Foam.
Read them, see them, study them. - Okay.
You are a poet. Write such a jingle...
that people forget every other product and use only this.
Alright, I'll do it by tomorrow.
Where are you going? I want it right now.
I have an important appointment right now, Mr. Chattopadhyay.
Appointment? What appointment? Mr. Vishal, first work, then fun.
Sorry Mr. Chattopadhyay, office hours are over.
You could have given me this task an hour ago. Were you sleeping?
Sleeping? How did you know?
But Mr. Vishal, that is my personal matter. Who are you to question me?
That means, you can ask me to work any time?
Ofcourse I can. You will have to follow my orders.
Or you will dismiss me? - Exactly!
Mr. Vishal, you have to hold on to your job tight. And forget your appointment.
I can forget yourjob. Here are your papers.
And here are the keys to your drawer.
You are fortunate that I worked for you for two months.
Or you are not good enough for me. Good day!
'As the banana peel came under the foot'
'Her beauty scattered on the street'
Mr. Shola, why this dropping of bombs?
Vishal! Sit down. Two poets together will make good company.
Two? - Yes two.
What will you have?
No thank you, someone else has invited me today.
That's not done. Waiter!
Coca cola, papad, pakoda, get everything quickly.
Where did he go? Idiot! He left?
He insulted me.
Darling, can I know why you have invited me to such a big hotel?
Because I am very happy today.
It is a full two months that you are working in one place.
It seems you have started liking your job. Come on, order whatever you like.
I'll pay.
Do one thing. You order, I'll pay.
Why? - Because I have quit my job.
You quit yourjob?
Darling, what comes between you and me...
Oh, what do I do with you! I'll never talk to you, never meet you.
The way you are getting angry like I've quit my job the first time.
You can never do anything in life. Can never understand the facts.
"Ask me what the fact is"
"The one who you give your love"
"Why does he need money?"
"Ask me what the fact is"
"Seeing you, O my love..."
"if they don't get excited, they are not feelings"
All feelings die when there is no money.
"Money... money... money!"
"Money! There is no bigger enemy of love than money"
"If I take up business for money"
"It will all come from speculation, race, clubs, whiskey"
"Speculation"
"The innumerable telephone calls won't allow me to hear what you say"
"Our lockers will be full, but our hearts will be devoid of love"
"Think of some other way"
"What have we got to do with speculation, club & whiskey?"
"Money! There is no bigger enemy of love than money"
"Assume I become a leader and siphon off donations"
Brothers and sisters, the country is in trouble.
I request you to donate generously.
If you are hiding money somewhere, dig into it and donate.
I am tired of screaming.
I donate my wife's real diamond necklace.
It is not real. - I know it is artificial.
"Assume I become a leader and siphon off donations"
"And join hands with people who are into illegal businesses"
"The day I get exposed, people will kill me"
"I'll return home sitting on a donkey and people beating me"
"Think of something else"
"Being a leader and getting beaten is a stupid idea"
"Money! There is no bigger enemy of love than money"
"Assume I become a famous hero in films"
"Shootings all day and night, don't let me come home"
"I hug a new heroine everyday and sing romantic songs with her"
"I have gradually fallen in love"
"The one I've fallen in love with is standing besides me"
"I dropped my earring. - Let it be"
"I lost my ring. - Let it be"
"My scarf blew away. - Let it be"
"Why fear? - I'm young"
"Stop making excuses. - No... no!
"I hug a new heroine everyday and sing romantic songs with her"
"You will feel jealous and pity yourself, and I'll show you money"
"That is why I say that money!"
"There is no bigger enemy of love than money"
Mr. Shola, recite something new today. - I'll recite something absolutely new.
I have written it today morning. You'll hear the couplet...
your heart will rip open, your heart will stop beating.
I don't want to hear such a dangerous couplet. My business will be ruined.
Where are you going? This is just a phrase.
Like they say, your heart will bloom.
Then does a garden really develop in the heart? Do flowers really bloom?
Then recite the couplet. - Want to hear? Then listen.
'Ask me... ask who? Ask me what the fact is'
"The one who you give your love"
"Why does he need money?"
Great! What a couplet!
Only Mr. Shola can write so well. What say, Mr. Shola?
Even I was telling them what a nice couplet Vishal has written.
Vishal?
Come aside. I have some work with you.
Can you come home? - Tell me here.
Not in public, it is a secret.
Tabla, give me the card.
I'll give you my card. Come on that address.
Not playing card, give me the visiting card.
He is absolutely stupid. That is why he is my servant too.
Here, this is my card.
Alright Mr. Shola, I'll come some day.
Nice, isn't it? Want it? - No.
Ice-cream.
Give two ice-creams. - Which flavour, sir?
Chocolate, Rasberry... - No, plain. Hurry!
Rs.2.60. - Take.
It's beautiful. How much is it for? - Not much, only Rs.3000.
3000!
Keep it back where you removed it from.
The ice-cream is very good today. Eat.
Mom! What are you doing!
How many times have I told you not to do these things?
You may hurt yourself.
Ramu! - Yes sir?
Where had you gone? - Madam told me to make tea for you.
But I have told you to stay with mom. Go get milk for mom.
Okay.
If you care so much for me, why don't you bring me a daughter-in-law?
I can bring you a daughter-in-law today itself, but there is a problem.
What problem? - That Aruna...
She's a very nice girl. - She's as bad as she is good.
Why is she bad? - She is always lecturing me.
Become responsible, take up a job... - And you don't want to work.
Why don't you tell her you have 3-4 shops.
And the rent of Rs.600-700 that you get every month, is enough.
If Aruna also understands me as much as you, my life will be made.
Whose letter is it? - It's a call for an interview.
But I didn't apply anywhere.
I know who is behind this.
Making arrangements for the interview? I'll give you a hand.
You never give me a chance. Though destiny does, to serve you.
Go to your cabin and do your work.
I have come for work. Boss is taking their interview.
You take my interview.
Mr. Pal, I don't like such behavior. If you misbehave with me again...
I'll complain to Mr. Anand. Get that?
No... 50000. - 50000 copies? In the first edition?
As a publisher, it is our duty to encourage a good writer.
Take, send it for printing.
Aruna, I finished my work early today. I am leaving.
You are going? - Why, what happened?
You have to take interviews today. The candidates are waiting.
Oh damn! I thought I'll go to the club, do some boating.
How many are they? - Only ten.
Ten! Send them.
Hello sir.
I'm sorry.
My name is Pichkari Panchotia. I am a Masters in literature.
Sit down. - Thank you.
Being so highly qualified, why are you interested in this small job?
Because every big thing in this world has small beginnings.
Yes, you are right. Tell me...
Pardon me, but do you mind if I ask you a few questions?
Have you come to give interview, or take an interview?
Madam, I consider a job and marriage alike.
Both are lifetime involvements.
Like you cannot change your wife, it is difficult even to change jobs.
It is always better to know about your boss.
Would you like to know about my ancestors, or me?
I'll be happy to know about you, I have to work with you after all.
My name is Anand Kumar. - Nice name.
I go to the club sometimes. - I go everyday.
I play cards. - Even I love to.
I am debauch. - Even I have that weakness.
I don't take work seriously. - I don't work at all.
I think God has made us for each other.
Our union will be blissful. - Not at all. You can leave.
Sir, how did the atmosphere change suddenly?
You can go home and think about it. Please go!
Sir, you are losing a good opportunity in hand.
Masters in literature!
'O, her mesmerizing style! From head to toe... '
Your poetry is going to ruin me too.
That's nice. We'll die together.
Why didn't you come for the interview? You would surely get the job.
That is why I didn't come.
Oh Vishal! When will you realise? See how times have changed.
Where has it changed? It's the time that comes everyday.
I've had enough now. I have no hopes from you.
I won't marry you. - You will love me atleast?
Keep pushing my words aside as a joke. You'll regret it.
I will... I will marry some rich guy.
Even the thought scared you?
Aruna, don't ever say that again.
Never.
I have brought something for you. - What?
Hey! This is the same necklace. - You like it very much, don't you?
Very much. But it is very expensive. Rs.3000.
Where did you get so much money from? - You think I don't have money?
Where is your bike? - It got stolen yesterday.
Many thefts are taking place in the city these days.
Lair! You sold it for me. Now you will have to take trouble.
Vishal, don't love me so much. - Is that in my hands?
Can't I give you even that much happiness?
There is one thing amiss. Sit here... and close your eyes.
You! What behavior is this?
It's my good luck darling, that I met you here.
Look Mr. Pal... - I have been looking since years.
And to see is no crime.
Who are you? - Don't you know me?
Shall I tell him who I am?
Why are you asking her? I'm asking you.
I'll tell you right now.
Something was missing. Now you look good.
Found it... found it!
Found it? Is the author unknown? - Absolutely.
No name is mentioned? - Not at all.
Up, down, you checked everywhere? - Everywhere.
Well done! Here's your reward.
'No one can control love. It is that fire, says Ghalib... '
What happened? - Ofcourse there is a name here.
But sir, there was no name above or below the couplet.
Hereafter, check in between the lines too.
You would have embarrassed me.
Go find another, there is a gathering in the evening.
Wow! What a couplet.
Mr. Shola, now you recite something.
Look, I do love writing couplets, but I don't like to be praised.
So I don't recite my couplets to anyone.
As you wish, we'll leave.
Sit down. You have come to my house, how can I disappoint you?
Or you will say, as good a poet Shola is, he is an equally bad human.
Ofcourse not.
Then listen.
'I asked her if I loved her, was that a crime?
' She said, 'keep quiet, my father is standing behind you'
Wow!
What a father standing behind you!
Listen further.
'On this expression of love, her father reprimanded me so much'
'I got so angry... '
'I got so angry, I tore my shirt'
Wow!
Once again!
'On this expression of love, her father reprimanded me so much'
'I got so angry... ' - What did you do?
'I got so angry, I tore his shirt'
Mr. Shola, calm down!
Mr. Shola, my shirt tore. - My heart tore writing this couplet.
He is crying over his torn shirt.
Tabla, give him a new Jama. - Pajama? But my shirt tore.
Stupid! I said Jama (shirt).
Can I come in? - Mr. Anand. Come in.
Did I disturb you? - Not at all. Sit down.
I even have cough.
Open your mouth... more.
It is a mixture. Have it thrice a day. And come again after three days.
Nice profession my friend has chosen.
Hands on the cheeks, fingers in the hair...
eyes locked, and you look into her mouth.
You can never grow old.
It is you who has all the formulas of youth.
Your receptionist is a girl, your typist is a girl...
Have you opened a publishing company or a fairyland?
Atleast I don't behave like you.
It's some patient.
Hello Doctor uncle. - Hello.
You leave your work and come everyday, & she has to run after you.
What do I do? The moment it's 5:30...
someone's bald head floats before my eyes.
I left something pending? - Yes.
How is your eye sight now, Aruna?
Sorry, but your medicine is not working.
I still feel dizzy while reading, still see dark spots before my eyes.
Do you put those drops? - Everyday.
Recommend her to some good doctor. - Keep quiet!
Aruna, show my card to Dr. Mathur. He is the best specialist in town.
He is my good friend too.
He is available in the municipal hospital everyday between 8 and 10 am.
Aruna, whose photo was that?
Photo? Nobody's. - It must be someone's.
Yes, it is. It is my friend's photo.
Friend's? - That means, a girl's.
It is not of a boy, is it? - Boy? Yes, I mean, no.
Then we can see it. Right, doctor? - Ofcourse. Show us.
Show you? Doctor uncle, this girl doesn't show her face to anyone.
But we can surely see her photo.
Yes, why can't we? Right Anand? - Ofcourse. We will see the photo!
Look... actually... I should not show it without asking her.
You are unnecessarily worried. We think that photo is not of a boy.
Right Anand? - Yes.
Can I leave now? - Okay.
Doctor, she was exposed. I'm sure she's romancing.
Aruna is my secretary, she will feel shy to speak to me.
You find out details about the boy so that we can get her married.
Right. The poor girl is alone in the world.
Doctor, until I am alive, she is not alone.
On this board you will see different coloured lights.
Whatever colour you see, tell me.
I'll send your report to Dr. Abraham.
Mr. Vishal! My friend! - How are you, Mr. Shola?
Fine. I want to discuss something in private with you. Come.
Even I want to know that secret between you and me.
First sit down.
When you grow vegetables at home, do you just keep them at home?
No. If you just store them, they will rot.
Yes! So why do you want to keep the creations of your brain to yourself?
Mr. Shola, you compare poetry to vegetables?
You don't understand.
That is nature's creation, this is your creation.
When the creation of nature is sold, why do you feel shy?
So you want to buy my poetry?
Exactly. I crave for fame. I want popularity.
Your brain will give a couplet, and my pocket will give you money.
Like they say, both parties are happy.
But Mr. Shola, how can I sell what is not mine.
Not yours? Do you also steal? I thought you write yourself.
I do write myself, but for someone else.
My poetry is my love. Only one person has a right to it. Only she.
'You are the colour of flowers'
'You are the music of musical instruments'
'How do I say what you mean to me? '
Great! A song on the lips, lost eyes... where are you coming from?
From office.
So he has started coming to office too.
Who?
Whose songs are on your lips, and music in your heart.
Wonder what nonsense you talk.
Wonder what he saw in you. You are not that beautiful.
Why? Are you envious? - Envious? I'm green with jealously.
There was just one eligible guy, you trapped him.
Come, I'll put drops in your eyes. - Damn the drops.
Hear what he says about my eyes.
'Brightness showers from your eyes'
'Like stars beaming'
Doctor, tell me, how many more years will I live?
Why? - Tell me.
You won't die for another 30 years atleast.
That means, I will have to live alone for 30 long years.
What do you mean? - I mean, do you know any girl?
Don't you feel ashamed? Look at your age.
I'm just 52. - Not 52, 62.
Alright, 62. Maybe not a girl, even a widow will do. Atleast look for one.
If I find one, won't I marry her myself?
You are a very selfish friend.
All letters have been typed. Even Mr. Sinha's agreement is in this.
It has to be sent today.
Mr. Anand, we must decide on this today.
Is this my dispensary, or your part time office?
After 5:30, you shut your office and open it here.
I will shift my dispensary.
You will regret it. - Why?
Your shop runs because of proximity to my office.
You are right. Whoever comes to work in your Press...
all fall sick after a few days.
Mr. Sinha's contract is not in this. - I had kept it in this.
Check. - Where did it go?
Help!
There is no one to hear you here. The office is closed.
Help! - Call your boyfriend now.
Help!
No Aruna, there is no need to be afraid now. Calm down.
I'll get him for this!
It's good Pal was put behind bars, or I'd have killed him.
Aruna, I won't let you work now.
You won't let me work, you won't work. Then how will we survive?
We will live, and live very well.
I will take up a job now.
Really? - Yes.
I will work hard and make a place for myself...
where we will live in our own world, our own life.
In which...
"We'll have a mansion of dreams"
"Where there will be a courtyard full of blooms, and dear ones close"
"We'll have a mansion of dreams"
"Flying clouds will become our floor, and mist, our walls"
"The stars on our roof will call out your and my name"
"We'll have a mansion of dreams"
"In this mansion will spread pearls of our smiles"
"And the fragrance of my love, the brightness of your beauty"
"We'll have a mansion of dreams"
"I can surrender everything I have for your eyes"
"I can forget the whole world hiding in your arms"
"We'll have a mansion of dreams"
Can I come in? - Come Anand, I was waiting for you.
Why not? We desperately wait for each other.
It's not that. It's something else. Something important. Come inside.
What is the matter, doctor? - Come inside.
You look upset. - It is something upsetting.
What happened? - Dr. Mathur's report has come.
What does it say?
Is it something serious? - Yes.
It is a condition where the nerves joining the eyes to the brain don't work
Within 6-7 months, Aruna will lose her eye sight forever.
What are you saying! Show her to some other doctor.
There is no scope for doubt.
Dr. Mathur is a renowned eye specialist of the country.
If there is no cure in India...
there must be a cure in Europe, America, somewhere?
Listen doctor, take her abroad, I'll spend whatever money required.
Anand, if money could buy eye sight and life...
no one would turn blind, nor would anyone die.
Aruna will lose her eye sight forever within 6-7 months.
Blind... blind!
The world dreams with their eyes closed...
and you are dreaming with open eyes?
Come, I'll put drops in your eyes.
No Sudha, I don't need the drops anymore.
My eyes have been cured forever.
So the poetry worked better than the medicine.
Recite once again what he had written about your eyes?
'Brightness showers from your eyes'
I have come at the wrong time. Your poet is coming.
Sudha, tell him I am not here. - Why?
Because mischief is fun sometimes.
Why are you being cruel to your heart because of me?
I will leave. - You won't understand.
My sweet Sudha. Please!
Is Aruna in? - She hasn't returned yet.
She must be in office. - Office?
She left from office long ago. I had called.
Is it? She is not in office either? She must have gone out.
She seems to be going wayward these days.
She loves to flirt and play mischief.
Sudha, either you are joking, or you don't know your friend.
Good bye.
Crazy girl! You were committing suicide?
No, leave me! I don't want to live.
Fearing the darkness in the future, you want to end your life?
Aruna, the fear of tomorrow should not make you destroy your today.
What are you worried about? I am there for you.
I don't care about myself, but my love.
Did that boy leave you?
Had he left me, I'd accept every curse of destiny.
Then?
He loves me so much, he will willingly accept this helplessness of mine.
Then what more do you want?
You are not aware, but his mother is an handicape
An invalid mother on one hand, a blind wife on the other.
What will he do? Who will he look after?
He will go mad. To save him, I must die.
By dying yourself, you are killing him too.
The one who loves you so much, do you think he'll be able to take your death?
The path you've chosen, tomorrow, even he'll chose the same path of suicide.
And then will die his mother. And you will be responsible.
Then what do I do? How do I change his heart, so that he forgets me...
begins to hate me?
If you want him to hate you, you have only one option.
Marriage. - Marriage?
I'll get you married to some good guy.
Who you love, will assume you cheated him.
No, I cannot even think of anyone else having a right on my heart or body.
Okay, no one will have a right over you.
You will be called a wife, only in the eyes of society.
You will be married, but not be a married woman.
How is that possible? - It is.
You will live in my home. This marriage won't be a marriage...
it will just be a refuge, a companionship, shelter.
Aruna has not come. - Not come?
Do you know where she has gone? - No.
Aruna has not come even today? - She has not been coming these days.
She is not home either. Where must she have gone?
What is this? - Marriage invitation.
This is not possible. Say this is not true, it is just a joke.
It is true.
There comes a time in one's life when one becomes helpless.
Helpless? What is your helplessness?
Eyes. - Eyes?
Yes, your eyes, that have never seen life as life.
You always saw dreams, drew lines on sand.
Those lines have become my destiny, Aruna.
I have lost everything to you, my happiness, my sorrow.
How am I at fault? - Then am I at fault?
I loved you, I made a mistake? I trusted you, was it a crime?
Why did you keep me in the dark? Why did you walk along with me?
What would I get if I continued to be with you?
Dream mansions? Illusionary roof?
Walls of words within which would be hunger and poverty?
Vishal, your only wealth is your poetry...
which is worth nothing but praises.
I believe in facts. You cannot wear a necklace of poetry.
Songs cannot become earrings.
You can make me fly in air but not provide me with a car.
Aruna, I...
Vishal, you don't care for your future.
But I care for my future. - What nonsense are you talking today?
I always kept telling you that life cannot run only on love.
I accept this fact. Nothing is lost yet, Aruna...
change your decision. I have even taken up a job.
Job? How much will you make? 500... 600... 700?
Will you be able to fulfill my demands with that much?
It's enough if you and your invalid mother manage to survive...
with that much money.
Shameless woman! You don't need a man, but a money making machine.
Forgive me, Vishal.
Forgive me.
Shola, you wanted to buy my songs, didn't you?
I have come to sell them today. - Very good. But you spoke of love...
Love is nonsense! Only one thing is important in this world, money!
Tell me, how much will you give me for my songs?
100, 200, 300... - No, 1000.
Rs.1000 for every song, and you will pay!
You cheat in gambling?
Know who I am?
Green Hotel, room number 11, dinner with me.
Yes, tonight, you will be my guest.
The price for your time.
Wine and women, there is no difference between the two.
The job of both is to light a fire.
Only to set afire.
Please! Why do you talk like that?
I am right. Until yesterday, I respected women a lot.
I used to adore them, worship them.
But today, I hate all women!
First you tell me, how are you?
Seeing me, does anyone need to ask how I am?
You have become very smart. - Whose daughter am I?
How is my magazine doing? - It's doing fine.
I could not run it like you were.
Doesn't matter. Watch what heights I take it to now.
I have learnt latest trends from America.
I'll introduce such features, people will be shocked.
They are shocked already.
Daddy, you look weak to me.
Anyway, now that I am here, I'll have full control over you.
Life in complete control.
Tonic in time, boating in the evening, getting up early...
Enough! Have you done journalism from America, or medicine.
Every person there has some medical knowledge.
They are a very lively community.
The atmosphere there, clubs, functions, beaches, colleges was all fun.
There was everything over there dad, but not you. I missed you very much.
Really?
Honestly, there's nothing like home.
Daddy, you must have become very lonely without me.
Now there'll be you, me and no one else...
Aruna, over here? - She is your mother.
Mother?
From an ordinary secretary to a millionaire's wife!
You covered such a long distance in such a short time.
Sonia please!
'Don't you feel ashamed to talk like that to your mother'...
isn't that what you want to say?
You should feel ashamed...
for taking advantage of my father's simplicity & goodness.
You have brought disgrace to our family.
Wonder what people must be thinking about my father...
what they must be talking about him.
A woman who married a man her father's age only for money...
however much one hates her, it is not enough.
You live in this house, I cannot.
Where are you going? - I have not decided that yet.
But you have decided you don't want to live in this house.
Yes. This home is no more mine, it belongs to your wife now.
I needed a wife when you were four years old.
I gave you the love of both the parents and reared you...
To see this day when a girl my age becomes my mother?
The world can say that, but not you.
How could you believe I can stoop so low at this age?
Then what is all this? Why? She was blinded by money...
but what happened to your eyes?
Nothing has happened to my eyes, something has happened to her eyes.
Forgive me. I was very rude to you without knowing the facts.
I did not know there is such a big tragedy in your life.
I will call you mother, but my heart will always treat you as my sister.
Even when lifeless furniture comes home, everyone comes to know.
But no one comes to know when I walk in.
I... - I know what you were thinking.
What?
You were thinking what dress you should make Sonia wear today...
what food to give her, what drink to give her.
What about the trouble I'm into? - What trouble?
There is a special party organized in the club.
No one raised their hand for dance, I did.
How foolish I was! Now I am stuck. See how I look.
What's so funny? - You sometimes look like a comedian.
Not comedian, call me a fool. Here's one more proof.
I brought this for you, and forgot to show it to you.
This is the same necklace. - You liked it very much, didn't you?
Very much.
Didn't like it?
Very much. It will look very good on Sonia.
That is wrong. What is true is that life moves on.
No tragedy can stop it.
Can I come in? - Mr. Shola! Please come in.
What are you looking? - Let me see you.
My eyes were craving to see you since a year.
Look at the effect you have on me. Seeing you, I thought of a couplet.
'I got a message from Holland'
'Sonia has returned from her tour of England'
But I had gone to America, not England.
It's the same thing. You had gone aboard.
I have returned from aboard. But you are where you were.
What is a man who moves?
Qutub Minar stands in its place, Taj Mahal has not moved.
That reminds me, in this one year, your heartache must have reduced.
Your separation made it so bad, it got worst.
Whose proof is a few couplets. If you permit, should I recite them?
Yes.
Hurry.
These are a few couplets? - Yes.
And you will recite all these for me? - Yes.
Excuse me Mr. Shola, I don't have time this year.
That's my misfortune. Neither do you have time for me...
nor place for my poetry in your magazine.
It's not that.
Actually, your poetry is too refined for our readers to understand.
I can even do poetry your readers can understand.
I'll read it for you. Where is the paper?
Here it is. Read this.
Mr. Shola, is this couplet really yours?
It is mine, it is my property.
'This failure, this disappointment, this desolation, this silence'
'With what thoughts do people create a dream world? '
Sudha, you?
Hello Vishal. How are you? - Fine, very fine. Why?
I thought after what Aruna did with you...
Forget the past. It happens.
I didn't like it one bit. I did not even attend her wedding.
You missed a very good party by doing that.
Now don't miss the ice-cream. ...Give.
Take... how much? - Rs.2.
Good bye.
Aruna was unfair. But why don't people understand that I can live without her.
"One needs a companion to spend one's life"
"If not a beauty, then wine"
"Since she has gone, a new period has come into my life"
"Tell her someone even more better than her has entered my heart"
"Beauty is unfaithful"
"So what if I have no one today"
"I'll make liquor my companion"
"One needs a companion to spend one's life"
"If not a beauty, then wine"
Mother! What is this? You are crying?
Who made you cry? Who?
Who should I blame? You, me, or destiny?
Vishal, what have you done to yourself?
You neither care for the house, nor for yourself.
You don't even eat properly.
What have you done to yourself? What pain is hurting you?
The pain is over. You think I cry for Aruna who ditched me?
What happened was good. Had I been with her longer, I'd go astray.
You think I miss her? Not at all. I don't think of her at all.
I am very happy, mother. Very happy.
I am very happy.
Mrs. Anand Kumar! Such a big personality in my humble home?
Where do I make you sit?
You don't have to be so formal. I am what I always was.
Is it? What brings you here?
Memories drew me here. Have you ever met Vishal?
Oh, so you have come to inquire about him?
Exactly the opposite of what you had thought happened.
Being separated from you, he has learnt to live.
I have never seen him so happy before.
I won't get them brushed. My hair is okay. This is the today's style.
Come. - No!
Sister please. - Sit here.
Why do you trouble me so much?
Because I love to tease you.
So this is what you learnt in America.
I didn't get a chance. I didn't have such a loving mother over there.
You care so much for me. - I have a selfish motive.
Selfish motive?
After a few months, when I will falter in the dark...
atleast you will hold my hand.
Don't say that. I hope instead of your eyes, my eyes...
Shh! Don't ever say such an inauspicious thing again.
Queen, king, ace.
Damn! I have ace, two, three.
How lucky he is. He is winning every hand.
After losing that one hand, I am winning at everything else.
All these are embers. Until I don't burn them, I won't feel at peace.
Waiting for a cab? You won't get one today, they are on strike.
Where do you want to go? - Hill road.
Even I am going there. Come, I'll drop you.
What? - Don't worry, I'm a decent guy.
Trust me... come... come.
I love this modern method.
An agent is not required, it's a direct deal.
What?
Green Hotel, room number 11. - What are you saying?
What I have been telling every woman.
I understand... I have lots of money in my pocket today. Take.
Stop your nonsense! I am not that kind of woman.
Trying to raise your price on the pretext of decency?
Rs.500 is not less, I won it in gambling.
Shut-up! Stop the car!
Now, neither will the car stop, nor will the price increase.
Stop, or I'll jump from the car.
Everyone says so, but no one can actually jump.
Even if you are not, you will have to become one today.
No one will even hear your voice here.
Let me go. If this happens to me, I'll commit suicide.
I won't have any other option left but to commit suicide.
Please let me go.
Madam, remember this.
Whenever you feel like loving someone...
do tell the fool when you are going to ditch him.
What happened? Why do you look so afraid?
Don't ask me! God! I met a ruffian.
What! - Yes. My car broke down.
On the pretext of giving me a lift, he wanted to take me to a hotel.
He was paying me for it.
Oh my God! - I pleaded, begged before him.
I tried jumping out of the car. - What happened then?
Wonder what made him change his mind, he dropped me home.
Goon... ruffian!
No Sonia, if he was a goon, you would have been ruined forever today.
He was not a goon.
Hello. Please sit down.
So you are holding a poetry recital. Sure, go ahead.
My good wishes are with you. - We have come to take donation.
Sure I'll give you donation, but on one condition.
You will not invite me for the recital.
Just come for some time. - Not at all.
A condition is a condition. I won't come.
You are disappointed? Okay, I'll come.
But I won't recite anything. That's final!
I'll give you Rs.2000. - Rs.2000!
We promise we will neither invite you, nor make you recite anything.
You seem to be very cunning.
You finally made me give consent.
Don't I know that the one who gives donation of Rs.2000...
if you don't invite him, your committee will lose face?
You will invite me, and also make me recite poetry.
I'll give Rs.3000.
Friends, I didn't want to come for the recital; I was forced to.
I didn't want to become President, I was made one.
I didn't want to recite, I was forced to recite.
But I won't recite. - Saved!
Then why are you standing?
Disgraced!
I may be standing, but my throat is down.
Then you also sit down.
No. Because I know that you have come from far to hear only my poetry.
So I won't disappoint you.
Damn!
I request my friend, Vishal, to come on stage and recite my poetry for you.
Come Mr. Vishal.
This goon over here?
He's not a goon, but a famous poet of this city. You don't know him.
Please recite my poetry.
"A lamp of someone's love burning in my heart"
"The storms of the world will not be able to blow it off"
"The heat of breaths will ensure it continues to glow"
"Along with the heart, it will continue to live in my chest"
"Whether she pleases me, or is cruel to me, it is now her decision"
"I have lit the flame of love in my heart"
"A lamp of someone's..."
Excuse me, I won't be able to recite any more.
Waiter, how many pegs have I had? - Four, sir.
Four? Looks like even a high is shunning me today.
I had four pegs, but they didn't hit me.
Give me a double, neat.
Wait. Let me see if my pocket permits me.
Where to, sir?
How nice it would be if I had a destination.
Sorry?
Except for hell, take me anywhere else.
Even I won't go to hell sir, I have a family.
Cabbie, just a second. - What happened?
Problem. My pocket is empty.
Good I remembered, or you would thrash me.
Though I promise, the day I have money in my pocket, I'll hire your cab.
For a whole day.
Waiting for a cab? You won't get any today, they are on strike.
Come, I'll drop you. Where do you want to go?
Don't worry, trust me, I am a decent girl.
Strange man you are. Sometimes your pocket is full, sometimes, empty.
Those people think and spend who worry about tomorrow.
I don't even think about today.
If you stop roaming the streets, you are not a bad man.
What you call roaming the streets is life.
Buying women with money, is that your life?
To sell, get sold, is the job of women.
If they get good money, they sell themselves for life.
I think you have met only one type of women.
You have not met women who can sacrifice their lives for someone.
Such women are only found in stories and books.
My home has arrived. Stop the car.
Thank you for the lift. - You don't have to thank me.
I owed you one.
Yet, thank you.
'You, who adorns my dreams'
'Do I come in your dreams? '
Wow!
"A lamp of someone's love burning in my heart"
Who are you, dear? I didn't recognise you.
But I have recognised you. You are Vishal's mother, aren't you?
Have you come to meet Vishal? - No, this is his diary.
He forgot it in my car, I came to return it.
How different you two are.
You have come to return an ordinary diary...
and there was this girl who took my son's life...
and didn't even turn back and look...
what became of my son after her.
Who was she? - Her name...
I don't even want to bring her name to my lips.
She has broken my heart.
Honestly, my Vishal was not like that.
He never used to drink, never gambled.
Never roamed the streets.
She's the cause of all this ruin.
She ruined my good son.
I'm sorry, I hurt you by asking you this.
No dear, it's okay. See, I'm telling you my sad story.
I didn't even offer you tea.
No, I am leaving. - How is that possible?
I won't let you leave without having tea.
No, I'll be going. - I won't take no for an answer.
Go to that room, and read some magazine. I'll get tea.
See the pictures later, have tea first.
It is easy to straighten wool...
but very difficult to straighten a knotted life.
So even you have begun to feel like that. I think you have lost your heart.
Is he that same goon?
No, you were right, he is not a goon, he is a decent guy.
All this is his frustration.
A girl ditched him. - Who was that girl?
I don't her. - You know the boy. What's his name?
His name is...
You will tell daddy everything, and I won't be able to leave home then.
Don't trust me? - No. If I trust you, I'll be ruined.
Our relationship is very delicate. - Why?
You are my mother.
Forget that, tell me clearly what you want.
I don't know.
I only know that love has spoilt him, and love only can reform him.
Yes, you are right.
Sonia, don't move back, you'll fall.
Crazy girl! What if you had fallen?
'The evening had set'
'The moon was about to rise'
'The hero called out to the heroine'
Mr. Shola. - Why did you interrupt?
I didn't open my mouth. - Then?
Tabla, am I dreaming?
Bite my finger.
It is true. She has come! Ramu, get snacks, tea, cold drinks!
She came drawn towards me. Saw the effect of my poetry!
Yes, it is the effect of poetry that has brought me here.
Where is Vishal? - Who Vishal? I don't know any Vishal.
What has Vishal got to do with this poetry?
Where did I say he had to do anything with it?
But Mr. Shola, buying poetry doesn't make one a poet.
Buying poetry...
What a bad position!
I'm sorry, Mr. Shola. Atleast tell me now where Vishal is.
If he has less money, he'll be in Nathu's gambling den.
And if he has lots of money, then in Picnic cottage.
"A lamp of someone's love burning in my heart"
"The storms of the world will not be able to blow it off"
"The heat of breaths will ensure it continues to glow"
"Along with the heart, it will continue to live in my chest"
"What is that image whose existence can be erased"
"What is that pain which can get suppressed when subdued"
"A lamp of someone's love burning in my heart"
"The storms of the world will not be able to blow it off"
"What is this life but her gift"
"Even my poetry is thanks to her"
"Whether he pleases me, or is cruel to me, it is now his decision"
"I have lit the flame of love in my heart"
"A lamp of someone's..."
This song? - I love it.
And I even know it is composed by you.
Me?
Such a beautiful song by a drug addict, drunkard, ruffian...
That's not your true face.
Vishal, there is so much goodness, so much talent in you.
How long will you run away from it?
You cannot cheat yourself like that. You will have to come back one day.
Hello Anand Kumar here. I'd like to speak to Raja... Mr. Raja!
Anand Kumar here. I regret I won't be able to attend your function today.
I am not keeping well, so I am not attending any functions.
My condition is a little too bad today.
Accept my congratulations.
You are still here? Don't you want to come?
Where? - To Mr. Raja's place.
His son is getting married today. - You are already dressed?
Yes. - But you don't go anywhere.
I will go everywhere with you now. - Really?
I've bought a gift.
This man is Anand Kumar.
And this beautiful girl with him? Is she the one he has married?
Yes. See his age, and the shameful deed he has done.
It's all the game of money. It's not a marriage, it debauchery.
They don't even feel ashamed to do this.
It is you who should feel ashamed for slinging mud at someone...
without knowing the truth about it.
What do you know about Mr. Anand? It is not easy to understand him.
He is too great.
What will you take, sir?
People have recognised you. Now they are asking me to request you...
to come on stage and sing your new composition.
I haven't written anything new. - Then recite something old.
Old? I have forgotten the old.
Okay Mr. Vishal, every poet has a mood. I won't force you.
No Vishal... no.
It was real fun. Mr. Raja was surprised to see me at the party...
instead of in bed. He thought I must be in bed taking medicine.
"I have seen life so closely"
"All faces seem strange to me now"
"The one who I was looking for to tell her how I feel"
"Has coincidentally come to the party"
"I have seen life so closely"
"A beauty's love was being sold"
"A poor man could not afford the price"
"I have seen life so closely"
"Come, let me only cover the corpse of your loyalty..."
"with this silken pall which you have got from my enemy"
"I have seen..."
What brazen behavior is this? Apologise right now!
I said, apologise!
What is this? The standard of your hotel has fallen so much...
that you allow such men in?
I'm very sorry, sir. I apologise to you on his behalf.
Mr. Anand, if you hear his story, even you will forgive him.
What do you mean? - I know Vishal very well.
He is a very good and decent guy. But he loved a girl very much.
Since that girl ditched him, he's got into this state.
But that doesn't mean he should insult any girl.
He is not in his senses. Gambling, liquor, women, he is falling.
It's not his fault, it's that girl's fault who ditched him.
She ruined him totally.
It's not his fault, it's that girl's fault who ditched him.
She ruined him totally.
No! I won't let Vishal be ruined.
I will tell him that whatever I did was to save him...
from my curse of blindness.
I was not unfaithful. That my marriage is just a pretense.
I will tell him everything.
They damaged my whole shop.
Is there anyone else?
Who is Vishal here? - I am Vishal.
What's your problem? - Your bail has been paid.
Bail? Destiny! You cheated me here too.
Tell me, who has become dear to me?
Can I ask why this favour? - Because I've fallen in love with you.
What? - Yes. And why not?
You have so many qualities.
You can gamble, you can drink, you can sleep around, you can fight.
Who will not fall in love with you?
Get off, your den has arrived.
I thought you must be having some decency left in you, but I was wrong.
You'll never change.
Get off! This is where you belong.
No Vishal, I won't let you ruin yourself like that.
I will bring you back into normal life.
Then whatever I have to do for it.
My friend, why don't you try to understand?
I have stopped buying poetry, I've got into business now.
Talk to me only if you have gold, silver, iron.
But Mr. Shola, I wrote these songs in the solitude ofjail, only for you.
Whether you wrote them in jail, or in the lap of death...
I don't want to deal in this any more.
It breaks my heart and I don't even make money.
I will not buy your poetry. - I will.
You will? - Yes.
You are only concerned with selling your poetry...
then whoever the buyer.
You are disgracing me. You come to my house and cause me heartache?
You sell, she buys, strike a deal. Eat whatever you like.
I can't tolerate this!
I badly needed money. - I know why you needed it.
Beauty and wine make such a heady combination.
The moment wine goes down, it reminds me of a girl.
Come with me. - Where?
To a girl.
You will take me?
Why? The girl who can get you released from jail, buy your poetry...
serve you liquor, can also take you to a girl.
Come! - Come, let's go to a girl.
Where is the girl? - Right before you.
What! - Why are you staring? Give me money.
You want to take revenge? Take it from me too.
Your enmity is with entire womanhood.
Why do you care about who the girl is...
whose sister she is, whose daughter she is?
I don't like such jokes. - But you like such a life.
Selling poetry for money, buying girls with money...
playing with their honour, drinking yourself silly...
is that your life?
Shut-up! - Took offense?
I have not come here to hear all that. - You will have to!
A small failure in life has made you go mad.
And you want to make every girl a target of your madness.
Then why are you sparing me? Move ahead and quench your thirst.
Fulfill your desire, take your revenge.
This is your report?
What is the matter, doctor?
130 here, and even here?
One report to two people?
Please doctor, tell me what happened.
Due to the strike, the report you got was wrong.
Report was wrong?
Then?
The giddiness you feel, the reason for it could be something else.
Nothing is wrong with your eyes.
Nothing wrong? I will not turn blind? - No.
I'll always be able to see? - Ofcourse.
Really? Doctor, you have given me new life.
I'll get back my love, my happiness. Those days will return.
Vishal will belong to me.
Call Vishal quickly. I have urgent work with him.
He's gone to the club.
Okay.
'I had turned away from the world, when I suddenly met you'
Come all dressed up tomorrow. - Why? Am I giving a screen test?
Stop joking. I'll introduce you to my mother tomorrow.
What if she rejects me?
Lmpossible. Because my choice and my mother's choice is one.
Aruna, I will work now. - Really?
Yes. I will work hard and make a place for myself...
where we'll live in our own world, our own life.
In which...
"We'll have a mansion of dreams"
Stop it! Such songs will not be sung in my house.
Did you hear me? I don't want to hear a word of it from your mouth.
What are you saying? What is wrong with you?
You used to like songs.
Yes, I love them. Wonder what I said.
What is happening to me? As my condition is worsening...
I am losing my senses.
Sonia, forgive me.
As long as I am around, these songs won't be left incomplete.
You?
Over here? - Yes.
Why?
I want to tell you something.
That you cannot sleep on a heap of gold?
That you feel suffocated, you regret your decision, you made a mistake?
Is that what you have come to say? - No Vishal.
I am happy where I am.
Then why have you come here to show me yourjinxed face?
No one knows you here now.
I have come to ask you for something.
Why? What is it your buyer could not give you?
Not for myself, I've come for Sonia... - Sonia? How do you know Sonia?
I am Sonia's mother. - Sonia's mother?
You? - Yes.
I have come to tell you not to take the mother's revenge from the daughter.
Revenge? I had once imagined hell. I still hold that image in my thoughts.
That image exactly matches yours.
A selfish and opportunistic woman like you...
is not worthy of being called Sonia's mother.
Sonia is as great as you are cheap.
She doesn't need your recommendation.
You can leave.
So that boy was Vishal for who you sacrificed your life.
And I stepped into his life.
What have I done!
You did good. You did what I wanted.
No, why didn't you tell him that you are not an image of hell...
but the epitome of sacrifice...
who ruined her life and gave him a new life.
He has no right to abuse you. He will have to apologise.
I'll go right now and... - Don't be stupid, Sonia.
You know very well why I did this.
I wanted Vishal's hatred, which I have got.
I wanted to make his life, which you have done.
No, this is not possible. I will leave Vishal.
You cannot do that. I won't let you do it.
One disappointment had turned him mad.
Another disappointment will kill him.
Promise me you won't tell Vishal anything. Promise me.
If you like the boy, Sonia likes the boy, assume even I like him.
I want to get Sonia married at the earliest...
because I have very little time left.
I understand. Let's go and fix up an auspicious date.
What are you thinking, Aruna?
I want to have a grand wedding for Sonia.
We will have a grand wedding, but not for Sonia, for you.
With Vishal. - With Vishal? My marriage?
Have you forgotten I am going to turn blind?
That I have a problem with my eyes? - Nothing is wrong with your eyes.
What?
Dr. Mathur told me your report was wrong.
I am taking you to Vishal. - No, I will not go.
I am married.
You know very well that marriage was just a pretense.
Whatever, but Vishal is out of my life now.
He was out of your life, he's come back in it.
What are you saying! You want to play with Sonia's life?
I won't let that happen. I am Sonia's mother.
That relationship is over. There is a limit to making a sacrifice.
I won't listen to you. Vishal belongs to you.
No. Stop the car. - Why?
I don't want to go there. - You'll have to go there.
Please! Stop the car, or... or I'll jump.
Aruna! - Then stop the car.
What's this? - What happened?
The brakes have failed.
I've taught Anand a lesson. He sent me to jail.
What happened now? - The gear box broke.
What do we do?
There is only one solution. Jump out.
And you? - Don't worry about me, jump out.
Mr. Anand's car?
Mr. Anand!
Vishal... eyes... Aruna's eyes... - What happened to her eyes?
What happened to her eyes?
No!
No daddy... why... why?
Doctor, how many more years will I live?
Why? - Tell me.
You won't die for another 30 years.
Mr. Anand did so much for me. He accepted taunts, slur...
and even gave up his life trying to save mine.
Isn't it my duty to keep his daughter happy?
Yes, why not? Who else does she have now apart from you?
Then I want your help for this.
My help?
You will have to tell everyone I have lost my eye sight forever.
Lost your eye sight? What do you mean?
Sonia also loves Vishal. If she comes to know my eye sight is fine...
she will never marry Vishal.
So... - No doctor uncle, please!
You have my promise.
You would fall now. Don't walk alone like that.
I must get used to walking alone now.
Why? I am with you.
I want you to leave the house very soon now.
I want to get you married.
I'm sorry Mrs. Aruna, if you knew the truth about me...
you would not give consent to this marriage.
I earn very little. So little that it's not enough for me & my handicape mother.
Vishal, money is not everything in life.
You don't know what all people do to get money, Sonia.
Their heart, their conscience, infact, they even sell themselves.
Though it is a result of their bad deeds that even after getting money...
they don't find peace.
Result of deeds? No one can understand what the truth is.
How much sorrow lies behind one happiness, who knows?
Some people, trying to save others, drown themselves.
What will you call that? The result of the deeds of the one who drowned?
Forget all that, let's have tea.
Sonia, even poison given by you will turn to elixir for me.
Aren't you talking too much today? - Only the clean hearted talk too much.
Those who have cunning hearts talk very little.
Right Mrs. Aruna?
If I try to push away the scorpion, they'll know I can see.
I will give up my life, but not let the secret of my sight be known.
Why have you turned pale? Reminded of forgotten memories?
What? No. - But you do look upset.
No, I am not upset.
Oh my God! - What happened?
It was a very big scorpion. Vishal saved you.
Sonia, when will the marriage cards get printed?
By day after tomorrow. - Madam, your milk.
You go.
Just a minute, I'll get your medicine. - Okay.
Sit here.
Hold this end tight. I have to open the whole ball of wool and check.
What do you want to check?
There is a knot in between. If not opened, the whole yarn will get knotted
Knotted?
Didn't I tell you it's nice and breezy up here?
See what a cold wind is blowing.
I forgot to tell you. I am writing an article these days.
On what? - On today's situation.
There is so much restlessness all around.
No one knows what to do.
The rising unemployment, increasing expenses, decreasing incomes.
The shortages. The result of which is these everyday strikes...
Sonia stop! You'll fall!
This was the knot I'd come to open.
Despite having eyes, you keep getting hurt, I won't let that happen.
Where are you going? - You know where.
Let me go. - Sonia, I won't let you go.
I am your mother.
But I have always considered you my sister.
I won't let you make any more sacrifices.
I won't let you go. - No one can stop me today.
Sonia stop!
What! Such a big sacrifice? And the opinion I had about her!
How much I abused her. How much I taunted her.
I will never be able to forgive myself.
Come with me.
Where is sister?
She went out. She left this note for you.
'Lf you want my soul to rest in peace, you and Vishal get married'
'No point looking for me'
'Because by the time you get this letter, I will have gone far away'
Where can you escape now?
Help!
Boss, a jeep is following us.
Let him come, we'll deal with him.
No.
What happened? - Nothing. Go and save Aruna.
Don't worry about me, go.
No... no!
Mr. Shola, give me your car, my sister's life is in danger.
In danger? I won't give my car. - What?
You think I am so cheap? I won't let you go alone.
I'll come with you. Get in.
Go save her!
Just a minute. The thermos. I am very tired.
Hold this.
Give me. You also drink.
Sister!
Sonia, don't move, you'll fall!
No!
Give me the rope.
Sonia, are you alright? Come. - Hurry! The car is going!
You go first. - You go first, sister.
Sonia hurry!
Hurry!
No!
No Aruna, no power in the world can separate you from me.
But I won't let you snatch Sonia's happiness.
If you want to see me happy, you will have to marry Sonia.
Marry? But I am married.
Married? To whom?
What have you done? - Whatever I did, I did right.
I have corrected my mistake.
The moment is gone, things have changed.
Give me your blessings, sister.
I cannot believe someone can make such big sacrifices so happily.
Sonia, you truly are great.
Won't you give me your blessings?
Bless me too, congratulate me too.
See Vishal, true love is so strong.
You truly loved Aruna, you got Aruna.
I truly loved Sonia, I got Sonia.
Romantic pairing happened in romantic atmosphere.
Let's have a romantic couplet on this romantic occasion.
"I can surrender everything I have for your eyes"
"I can forget the whole world hiding in your arms"
"We'll have a mansion of dreams"