As a person puts on new garments.
Giving up the old ones.
The soul accepts the new material bodies.
Giving up the old.
And the useless ones.
No weapon can cut the soul into pieces.
Nor can it be burnt by fire.
Nor moistened by water.
Nor withered by the wind.
Om.
- [chanting prayers] - Peace to the soul.
Biru, take your spectacles.
Sister, perhaps aunt from small Taluk has come.
Call her once.
Okay.
Aunt, please come.
At last you have come.
- We thought. - I can't help coming.
Sister-in-law was our favourite.
Baisakhi, my son's wife.
None of you could come for the wedding.
Mother was suffering so much.
Really so?
Moreover Barasat is far away.
Give it to her. Come on.
I could only come because my son has got a car from the office.
Oh, Suchita!
Biresh, Debesh two brothers. Havent not shaved their heads?
After all she was the mother.
No, actually brother has got to attend the office..
..and Biru is often going out for business.
That's why priest has told to pay a price for it.
Sister!
I can't recognize her.
She is Dipa, Biru's wife.
What is the matter?
Khuku is asking for food.
What? The priest will call her as soon as brothers' work is over.
Sister, please come for once. She is not listening to anyone.
Okay, I will see it.
Aunt, you please wait for a while, I will be back shortly.
Yes, you may go.
Here comes younger aunt.
- Talk with her. - You please go ahead.
You have a lot of work today.
- Go. - Yes.
How are you younger aunt?
I am fine.
She is my son's wife, you had seen her before.
Yes, once on the day of wedding.
Biru's wife seems to be good.
Yes, very good girl.
What about her? Has she come too?
Yes, longtime back.
Hello! Now you all tell what kind of a daughter-in-law I have chosen?
- She is extremely pretty. - See my choice.
Tic tac toe.
Have you seen? Do you like?
Jojo, it's late at night. We must go now.
Oh, God! Listen to her.
- Call her, sister-in-law. Come on. - Sister-in-law.
- Look at him. - Sister-in-law.
Sister-in-law.
Mother, I want to be dressed as a bride.
- Mother, I want to be dressed as a bride. - Nonsense.
Mother.
You please give me your ornaments.
Please give me.
- Give it. Please give me. - Keep quiet.
Give it.
I only know the pain of living with this girl.
Get up! Move Tuktuki. Move away.
Get up quickly.
Adorn ornaments! I will show you! Take.
You can never be a bride. Never.
Do you understand?
Let's go. It will never happen.
- Leave me. - Mother! Why are you beating her, why?
"This night belongs to you and me."
"This moon is for you and me."
"Only for both of us."
Brother!
Can't I get married?
What a mother! Do you know?
She did not give a single ornament.
But in case of wedding, ornaments are required.
Hey! Brother!
Will you buy ornaments for me?
Will you?
Okay, I will.
Why mother told that I can never be married?
What a nice make-up I have done.
How can I get sandalwood so late at night?
So I have done make up with lime from mother's beetle container.
Am I not looking nice?
Yes, you are looking good.
Now let's go, it's late at night.
You must go to sleep.
Has mother not given you medicine today?
Perhaps she has forgotten.
Articles of special night after wedding are sent today.
She has got a lot of work.
Yesterday she gave me medicine.
Brother!
Who will give me medicine after marriage?
They will not allow me to take mother to my in-law's house.
What will happen then?
Why?
Your husband will give you medicine.
We will make him understand everything.
Now let's go. You should go to sleep.
Go. It's late at night.
"Khuku will go to in-law's house, who will accompany her?"
"The house cat will be prepared to go."
Oh, God!
You are already feeling sleepy.
Change the habit.
I go to sleep late.
How are you feeling here?
Something different.
Yes, it should be.
You are from South Calcutta.
South Calcutta.
It is quite different from here, Isn't it?
Why so?
Uncle and aunt lived at Jamshedpur all along.
I came to Calcutta only recently,
At the time of studying in college.
It's all the same.
Probably you are not feeling at home.
..in this old wrecked house's small damp room.
I have not said so.
What has happened to Khuku?
Have you not realized what has happened?
Are you pretending to be ignorant?
Brain does not work, hence she behaves like mad.
It's 'Chronic Schizophrenia'.
Initially no one could diagnose.
A beautiful girl laughing, playing all day long..
..learning to sing, rehearsing with the teacher regularly..
At her twelve or fourteen years of age we could realize.
She started to fail.
She refused to take bath, did not want to wear clothes.
She whispered on her own.
Only could still sing.
So many doctors attended. So many medicines applied.
..but nothing fruitful happened.
You will not realize. Only he who suffers, realizes.
Are you angry?
I am also a member of this family.
No, I am not angry.
See, Baltu, Faltu forced me so that I consumed alcohol a little more.
Leave all these useless talk.
Come close to me.
Come.
What happened?
Are you feeling shy?
[playing on TV continue]
I did not ask whose it is.
But you will not take anything from the hotel.
I haven't.
I will hand you over to the police.
I will not tolerate.
Hey Khuku, sit properly.
Leave me.
Don't spoil the food. Do you know how many people do not get food.
Khuku!
You know about it.
I want all this.
Hey Khuku..
Everything is gone.
How long will I stay here?
Take two more Luchis(Chappati). Please.
Oh, dear.
There Luchis have been spoiled.
- I am bringing fresh hot ones. - No need really.
You all are of modern age.
You can't make these.
Half of the year I remain outside.
Touring!
Always want to eat good food while at home.
I am already saturated.
- What are you saying? - Mother!
Surprising.
Please wait, I am serving fresh.
Here you see, please take the medicine and oblige.
Doctor forbids but still takes Luchis everyday.
Man cannot obey all.
Then he cannot remain alive.
Can you obey?
Can you obey? For long I am telling you to stop watching all these rubbish.
Do you listen?
Damaging the eyes.
Suffering from migraine as well. Are you listening?
Paromita..
Switch off the TV.
Father, please come with me.
I want to tell you something.
Sister come.
Please
Come.
Will Luchi ever be soft if fried at this high flame?
Do you want to fry?
Do you think, I can't?
Oh , God.
What Luchis I fried in the college social?
You had no existence then.
Such full blown Luchis they were. Yes.
See, he has come.
- Grandfather, please tell me story. - Keep quiet!
Stop talking. Eat food quickly.
Somebody go. Go down.
Have you not heard the sound?
I shall go.
First let the Luchis be fried.
Here. Take it.
My debt on you is increasing day by day, Sanaka.
Pay back in your next life.
If anybody knows.
Fine then.
Then face death without taking medicine.
I will be relieved putting you on the pyre.
You are getting angry, Sanaka.
Listen, this is my money.
My elder brother made a policy in my name before his death.
So, I don't bother if anybody knows.
But still I feel ashamed.
Two lives have been spoiled for your reluctance.
Have you forgotten that?
Khuku! Hey, Khuku.
Get up and take the sleeping pill.
See again, can't you lie properly.
Can't even get up.
Get up and take the sleeping pill. Hold it.
Oh! What unbelievable state of the room?
Where is your hair lace?
Where were you all the evening?
Your music teacher left after waiting for long.
Where were you?
On the roof.
Done a lot.
Now come to the bed.
Leave it. Shameful demand at this old age.
Why did you bathe at this late night?
What a mania?
For a million bucks.
Hello!
Are you ready?
How long will you take?
If I had a million bucks.
I would take it easy.
I would take it easy when we got 20.
Or you.
Here it is.
Oh, God!
Mother!
Just a minute. I am ready.
Will she have lunch?
Who? She?
Who is she?
She is.
She is Paromita Sribastav.
What do you think?
How is it possible?
So many relatives at home.
People of in Law's house.
Moreover relatives from Dipa's house will come too.
Really so?
I don't know.
Tell the grandmother to ask her.
[chanting prayers]
Take.
Sit down!
Here. Take something.
No, I don't want to eat.
What? Are you not supposed to go to the office now?
No, I won't go to the office today.
I have informed them.
I see.
Then you will stay for some time.
Yes.
I have told to send my car at 2 pm.
Oh!
Why that gentleman did not come?
Who? Oh!
No! He will not get time to come.
Okay, sit down.
What has happened?
I shall go to the toilet.
Okay, wait a while.
Paltu! Paltu!
- Show her the bathroom downstairs. - All right.
All right. I know.
Come on Younger Sister-in-law. Welcome
- Climb the stairs slowly. - Give me the bag.
Be careful.
Don't touch, keep aside. Don't disturb. Keep away.
Be careful. Stairs are there.
Stairs are in front.
- Slowly and carefully. - Get down carefully.
- Come along. All right! - Yes. Come.
They have come.
- See, how he looks. - Let me see.
Whom does she look like?
- Looks like Paromita. - Looks like Paromita. Not like me.
Keep away, don't tease him.
Wait. He is my brother.
- How nice to look at. - Let me see.
My brother.
Give me. Wait.
Here see. The grandchild has appeared.
The grand child has appeared.
Wait, wait.
Very impatient.
Will you see the grandchild empty handed?
Take it.
Why, I have already seen him at the nursing home.
You give this to him now. Go.
"The child is okay."
- The child is okay. - Very good, very good.
Now you tell..
The child is okay taking milk of mother.
Say it!
The child is okay taking milk of mother.
Now go. Come on.
- "The child is okay." - Now go from here.
Ring a ring a roses.
"The child is okay."
The oddities be removed.
First boy child of the generation.
- The child is fine. - "The child is okay."
Sikha! Madhusri!
Your Bengali copy should be corrected.
The boss does not like it.
Bengali of flavor has to be changed.
What?
Exact pronunciation is to be made?
I don't know all that. According, to the Flavor of English is lost.
Correct the Bengali! Correct the Bengali.
That kind of Bengali will not do.
But Paromita gave me this one.
See, this is the handwriting of Paromita.
Paromita was in haste. Possibly that's why.
Catch her on the mobile.
She may advise verbally.
She told that she was going to a condolence meeting.
Will it be right to disturb her there?
Where have I kept the paper with mobile number?
I think I kept here.
Oh, God! So many papers here.
What is the matter?
Your copy-chief. Her mobile number you have forgotten.
Finding the paper.
Keep silent. Roaming here and there all day long.
Paromita just only moves from home to office and office to home.
Just taken the cell phone.
Where it has been kept? I can't remember.
Quick then, we listen from Indrani.
Everyone is taken in frame. Okay.
Come on, the first position.
- Quick. - These lights are bright.
Dim the lights.
Where is Indrani?
- Put out all the lights. - Whose phone is ringing now?
- ..leaving the lights from this window. - Your cellphone.
Go out with the cellphone. Go. Come on.
- Call Indrani, quickly. -Hello, Rajiv is restless.
You can do the make up later.
Take your positions. Santosh.
I shall give you.
..Paromita's cellphone number after collecting the same.
What are you saying? Where?
Please be a little louder.
What?
What is that? Adventure?
Okay. This is the name of your agency.
You please tell me the number.
Yes. 4 4 0..
Bapi, Rajibda is calling.
- Coming quickly, it is in the trunk. - I am coming..
It is in the trunk.
8,0,9,2..
I am coming.
It is in the trunk.
Grandmother! Grandmother!
Spastic. Spastic.
Grandmother! Grandmother! Brother is Spastic.
What are you saying?
Really, doctor told that..
..he will not be able to talk clearly..
..he never will he be able to go to the school.
Paromita aunty is crying.
Can't understand what he says? Can you?
Paromita is crying.
Why?
What the Doctor has said?
Why Sailen came suddenly?
If Bablu has got fever ?
No! Not heard anything.
He was okay.
Paromita was talking about the Doctor.
She was telling that Bablu is taking more time to learn walking.
How it is late?
He is just eleven months old.
Brother, father, nothing he has learnt to say.
Going to be one year old.
Never walks, never talks, Only swinging.
What an incident!
Nothing could be understood first.
Just a little late to walk.
That's true.
It would be better to take a second opinion.
Two other specialists has also told the same what the Dr. uncle said.
He has got Cerebral Palsy.
He will never be a normal child.
He is the only representative of this generation.
You were proud of your choice at the time of wedding of younger son.
A girl who lost her parents.
Brought up by uncle and aunt.
You were very much sympathetic.
Several times I told you to take information correctly..
Don't hurry up.
Now you face
What an heir really?
- Spastic! Spastic! Bablu swings. - Spastic! Spastic! Bablu swings.
Spastic! Spastic!
Bablu swings. Spastic! Spastic!
It's really a hell.
- Bablu swings. Spastic! Spastic! - Really a hell!
- Spastic! Bablu swings. - Will you all go from here?
Jojo, Tukituki..
Laughing away.
It you enter here again, I shall crack your face beating.
What has happened to you?
Why you talk like that with those small children?
Hell! Hell and Hell. It's really a Hell.
- Hell! Hell and Hell. It's really a Hell. - Why are you behaving madly?
- Hell! - Is the grief only yours?
Laughing! They are laughing.
Everyone will laugh!
All sympathy will vanish with passing of days.
Bloody.
Pointing him the people will say, he is the son of Biru Sanyal.
Handicapped!
No one should be allowed to come to this room.
I say no one should be allowed to come here.
Don't want any neighbors.
Don't show sympathy. Why not walking, why not talking?
If anyone asks, tell the son is dead. Got it?
I understand your sorrow.
You also try to realize mine.
Being mother how can I?
Think once about Bablu.
We should be strong. Look at Bablu's face.
- Bablu has got no fault.. - Then, whose fault?
Whose fault?
My fault?
Tell me. Have I got any fault?
Have I got any fault? Show me.
Have I got any fault?
Show me.
What is the matter, Tuku, Sona, Why are your crying?
Younger maternal uncle scolded.
- No, no.. Don't cry.. - Biru has scolded you?
- No, no.. Don't cry. - Why has Biru has scolded you?
He has told, "its hell here, not to laugh."
He has warned of beating us, on face if we entered.
If really so.
What is this?
It's okay. Something abnormal has occurred. They have some sorrow.
- But the small children will not laugh. - What is this?
Crack the face, beating on entering.
The girl has come to uncle's house to enjoy.
If Srijukta knows, she will never send her.
Tuki, you don't go to that room.
Every time talking against him.
Moreover beating the small girl.
He has not beaten.
But he can. Your brother is bad tempered.
What language these children are learning?
I told several time let us go to a flat.
You company has already offered you a flat.
I don't like to stay here for a single moment in this atmosphere.
Don't cry, Tuku dear. No. No.
What you want to say?
What more is there to say?
In our family nobody is born any handicapped.
Do you want to say, in our family it has happened?
How can I say? It is not love marriage.
What disease is there in one's family, how can I know?
Listen, I don't know if this has happened ever in our relatives family.
If it is happened, it is a tragedy.
- It's not a deliberate offence. - I don't know this.
Before marriage more information should have been taken.
Bloody.
If happens from the hidden disease of the family..
Be careful.
- Never make such ugly remark about our family. - Hey!
What you say? What did you say?
What did you say? Be careful.
Whom are you shouting at?
What do you mean? Bloody.
The whole family should be taken to the Doctor for thorough checkup..
..To trace out the hidden disease.
Yes.
You do that. Do that.
In laws are dead.
Now you drag the maternal in laws to Doctor's chamber
Listening to you for a long time.
Your wife could have pointed towards you long ago.
You are lucky she has not done so.
Khuku is also born to us.
Why Khuku has become so? Tell me.
Tell why you are silent now.
Quiet! Keep quiet.
Don't say anything more regarding this.
Don't cry..
[chanting prayers]
See, she is crying. Why won't she?
Relatives for a long time.
- She served much during the illness. - Yes. Fake.
Something is ringing in your bag for long.
Oh!
Yes, Madhushri.
Tell!
Who did not like?
I mean Mr Sengupta or Mr Khaitan?
What? A problem? In this occasion house..
Tell, exactly which word is creating problem.
Tell the word.
Flavor.
It is a Bengali word.
Okay, I am telling just write down.
Oh, God! She has a mobile, look.
Why not? She is working in advertising company.
- So much work! - No...
Maybe it is her husband's phone.
That very Sribastav, who makes documentary films.
Now he is producing a cinema.
Can't live without him.
Could not bring him to the old-in-law's house.
But it's not fair to phone from others house frequently.
If married twice, there remains so many loving words.
You have married once you will not understand.
Okay. Bye.
[chanting prayers continue]
Yes. Here comes Manimay Biswas.
When father goes on tour, he comes more frequently.
Why you tell so?
He is the neighbor of mother. He may come.
Listen, Biswas can never be brother by a Brahmin girl nor be the husband.
Brother in relation to village.
Village relation should have been left in the village.
Why is it drawn to Kolkata?
Okay, maybe not a brother.
But at least a friend.
Mother feels good when Mani uncle comes.
Mother is feeling unwell all the time.
High pressure, migraine, moreover this time of Menopause.
What? What did you say? What pause?
Menopause. Change of life.
Mother is becoming old.
This time is not good for a woman.
Yes.
You have got it from your school.
How can you tell so about the elders?
Why? What did I say?
Human body must obey the nature's rule.
Okay, I am feeling ashamed listening to all this about mother.
How strange!
You hinted about mother and Mani uncle a little while ago.
Then you did not feel ashamed?
You could not remember than that they are superiors.
Such double standards.
Haru's mother.
Sister-in-law went away with the little girl deserting the house.
The house is empty.
Haru's mother. Where is mother?
She is sleeping.
Call her once. Mani uncle has come.
Oh, God! I can't call her.
She could not sleep at night for Khuku.
That's why sleeping now.
If you want, you may call.
She becomes angry waking early.
Mani uncle.
Paromita, how are you?
Oh!
Why you took the pain?
You could have told Haru's mother.
It's okay.
Today I prepared some sweets.
Taste it and tell me how it is?
Why all this.
Biscuit was enough.
In the afternoon generally, I don't eat much.
Eat! Take a little.
With the departure of Tukituki..
Yes, the house is deserted.
Haru's mother also was telling so.
Where is Sanaka?
Mother is sleeping.
Just now she has slept.
- So.. - No, No, don't call her.
I..
I rather wait a while.
Now the bus is very much crowded.
Okay, you sit. I am switching on the fan.
The sweet is very tasty.
Went away?
Went away, means?
He waited long.
You are sleeping. Hence.
So you couldn't call.
I was just sleeping. I was not dead.
No. Haru's mother told.
Oh! Do you always follow Haru's mother?
You have no sense of your own?
I am suffering since elder daughter-in-law has gone.
No need to wait. So went away.
Listen! Tell Haru's mother to give me the medicine for headache.
See the result of showing respect to the mother-in-law.
Gave so much advice on not remarking about superiors.
Now see..
I am wrong.
I don't want to take part in any matter of your house.
Don't cry, my dear.
Now younger daughter, Sanjukta..
Sanjukta, where is she?
- Come. - Leave me.
- Come on.
- Don't do so. Come. - Leave me.
- It will be done. - Leave, Leave
Come with us.
Do you know what the time is?
See sister, this sister-in-law has given me nothing to eat.
- No. - How can I take medicine?
Mother will scold me.
How many times shall one tell that mother is not there?
Do you understand?
Mother isn't there.
- Leave me, leave me mother. - Where are you going?
Don't do this.
No don't.
Take her away.
No.
Don't do this.
What is this?
Wear your clothes.
Everyone is watching.
Just look, such a crazy sister.
Yes, Khukhu.
Oh God, what is this?
What is happening?
Wait.
What are you doing?
Listen to me. Khukhu.
What will happen, aunt?
No, now something should be arranged for Khuku.
Are you crazy?
Otherwise who will take care of her?
Khukhu.
Listen to me.
Don't behave like this.
Hey Khukhu. Where will you go?
- Leave me. - Khuku!
Listen to me.
Sister-in-law!
Sister-in-law where is mother?
Call mother fast! Where is mother?
See I am undressed.
- Everyone is looking at me. - Okay, nothing has happened.
New sister-in-law is waiting with your Saree.
Give the Saree.
See, if you can dress her.
- She listens to no one. - Give it to me.
I will help her to dress.
You sit down.
Yes.
So nice..
So nice you have put on the clothes.
You are looking so nice, wearing new Saree.
Now go and sit before mother's portrait.
Otherwise, mother will be annoyed. Why should she?
You will not go away.
No, I am here.
Go and finish your work.
Then I shall eat.
Certainly.
Will you help me to take medicine?
Yes.
Okay, now leave.
The priest is calling. Come.
- Come, come. - Come.
Come on.
- Let's us go. - Come.
A big teeth, big nail..
Then the demon told..
- ..that she was getting.. - Mother..
..the smell of a man..
..and it turned into a wolf..
Yes.
Mother, come quickly.
- See how nicely Khuku is feeding Bablu, telling stories. - What happened?
She can't.
It's not easy to feed that weak boy.
Why? He is eating nicely.
Moreover Doctor uncle has told to engage Khuku in normal work.
See she has got big nails and they are dirty.
If Bablu falls ill them?
I, myself, have cut the nails and washed them.
- Come. You see a little. - She is telling such wonderful stories.
I can't do more.
- What is the matter? - I am telling you.
- Red riding.. - Just look.
It became wolf..
Bablu.
Take the food quickly, Bablu.
Don't waste it. Many people do not get food.
What is this?
You are taking the food of nephew. You are the aunt.
Let her eat, mother. Bablu can't eat so much.
I don't know.
Look at me.
See how I do.
What you have done? Thrown all?
- Khuku! - Naughty boy..
Why thrown all? Mother.
- Mother.. - Leave.
What are you doing, Khuku?
What going on? Leave.
I had told you.
She is not sane.
Trying to be a mother.
Go. Faking it all.
What are you doing, mother?
- She did not do it consciously. - Give him.
- Have you also gone mad? - Give him to me.
Khuku, you go to your room.
- Nothing has happened! - Nothing has happened?
Everything is okay.
- You go. - You have gone crazy.
I have gone out of my head.
I warned you earlier. Take your sister in law away.
You devil. Can't you die?
Did you give Khuku medicine?
How long is she without medication?
Shall I have to show you reason for it?
How long are you here in this house?
Who gave her medicine so long?
Have I got nothing else to do in my life?
Just only feed this mad girl. Cloth her, comb her hair.
I have been doing this for long twenty five years.
Should I have no wish?
To go on vacation or to watch movies. Nothing.
Only to remain inside the house.
God, I can't bear it any more.
Okay, when you can't you hand me over..
..the charge of giving medicine to Khuku.
Will you take water? Water?
Bablu you take food to Haru's mother.
Haru's mother I am coming after giving medicine to Khuku.
"My heart has been exposed to the joyful sky."
"Sorrowful flute plays in the air.."
"My heart exposes such light and urges it knows my feelings.."
"It comes back to my heart, I become sad.."
"My heart has been exposed.."
"To whom did I offer my garlands"
"Now peeping within my souls."
"I found each around your neck."
"And that you submit yourself."
With a huge fissure on your modesty.
"This is the revelation that spreads across the endless sky."
"I don't know.."
..whom I have garlanded.."
"Today I realize that all the garlands are on you.."
"After taking everything you surrendered.."
"..in the ultimate disaster."
"My heart has been exposed to the joyful sky.."
Somehow the flavor was not coming in Bengali.
Is it?
What did you say?
Flavors of flavor.
You have told nicely.
Flavor of flavor.
You can be a copy writer.
Paromita has changed the line.
Don't you like it?
Yes, taste and flavor are not same.
Where is Paromita?
Is she not coming to the office?
She has not informed
Oh, my God!
It's a problem.
Yesterday was the deadline.
Don't think over it. It will be fine..
..I shall meet Paromita at Rajarshi's exhibition.
- Rajarshi! Oh that artist? - Yes.
Yes, this is his first exhibition at Sima Art Gallery
Will you go by 3 pm today?
- Opening today by Hussain.. - Yes.
Really! Very good! Very good!
Is Paromita coming there?
Yes, she has gone to attend a ceremony.
Rajibda will pick her from there.
Shall I try her once again over phone?
Take this.
Hello!
Yes, from where are you calling?
Oh! Wait.
Daltonganj!
See what the matter is
Yes, tell me. I am her daughter-in-law.
What?
What did you say?
What happened?
Please speak a little louder.
Accident?
Hello! Who is talking?
Burdas speaking. What has happened?
Tell loudly. I can't hear you.
What is the matter?
At what time?
Are they hospitalized?
Oh!
Received certificate!
Don't bring here. The mutilated body.
Keep the factory closed for three days. My elder brother and I are coming.
Yes, yes, we are leaving immediately
Okay, bye.
Everything is over.
Yet it is not a dream.
My supreme truth.
..Which is eternal.
..is my love.
I left her in your honor.
I become a floating weed in the flowing time.
You go upstairs, Sanaka.
What one will think?
Here. I, 2 and gone.
Now your turn.
Debu, Biru have not yet returned, isn't it?
No, they went recently.
So many hazards.
It is an accident.
- Definitely there will be police case. - Really!
What has happened? Sejda was the patient of heart.
Unruly about food.
There was always fear, if something happens.
Who knew he will be killed like this?
Poor Sanaka, could not see his last
That girl is on her shoulder.
On top of that this incident.
How old is your son?
- Four years. - Yes, he can't walk or talk.
No, he can't do anything.
Will you take sweet?
No, I shall leave now.
I will have to go to Barasat.
You all stay..
-I will leave.- No, no..
You sit for a while. Won't you see mother?
See where grandmother is.
I am finding out, you all play.
I don't want all this.
How long will you be there?
Tell me, it isn't mine.
Everything is mine.
Today I have lost everything.
Everything.
- Can I ask you something? - Tell me.
What happened?
Tuktuki
What? Come on play.
Oh, my God! Aunt, when did you come?
A long time back.
My maid servant didn't come.
So after doing all household work, I have come..
Mother has just slept.
For somedays she was very busy.
Shall I call?
No, need for calling.
Patient of blood pressure.
- We are now leaving rather. - Yes, mother.
You please keep a watch on her.
You are now at this house.
She has become all alone.
- Okay? - Yes, leave the thread.
Take this.
Yes, have the thread. Leave it.
See Bablu, the kite is going up.
The kite is going up..
See it will be cut.
I can't. Air.
See they are losing the thread. Pull it up.
You are not able to.
Give me my thread.
Give it. Come on.
- Cut, cut. - Cut, cut.
Strange, you know how to fly the kite!
Only flying kite?
Used to catch fish with fishing line in childhood.
Swim across the lake with brothers.
Also, I know how to make crackers.
Play.
How long?
Two minutes more.
Great pull.
Okay.
Can't wait a little.
Mother.
Oh, God! So hot. Can't sleep.
So thought of coming to your room.
What are you hiding?
No. it's nothing.
Nothing.
I saw you writing something. What were you writing?
What are you writing?
Poem or love letter?
Just poem only started..
Poem!
Read the poem!
It will not suit you.
Why? Why not?
I am not educated like you, that's why?
Okay?
- You don't have to tell me.. - Mother..
- Mother, I have not said that.. - I did not say such a thing.
No use calling me mother.
- No matter of forcing. - I have not told so.
- You must listen! No, you must listen! - What do you mean? I shall not listen!
You must now listen to it. That's it.
I also used to read Poem in my childhood.
That poem of Sattyen Dutta. I could recite fluently.
"Three boats, three boatmen.."
"..all day long floats."
"Crosses bushes, woods.."
"Water is full of moss.."
"There is the land.."
"Silently kingfisher dives, also the woman.."
Oh, God! Still you have memorized it?
Then!
Now, read what you have written.
Son!
What did you say, soul?
It means son..
"It was long day."
"The road was hard."
"Shin to bring you alone.."
"Bore the blooded wound.."
"Fierce was the storm.."
"Fearing black night.."
"Nowhere found any stay.."
"None hold the head in the lonely path.."
"Now at your sun shining branches.."
"I forget to blink.."
"Still a long way to go.."
"Yet today I am not alone.."
Who? Who is there?
I am here..
Mother is sleeping.
I know.
I don't allow mother to sleep at night.
So she sleeps at noon.
I feel afraid at night.
So I call mother..
If you are afraid sleep with your mother..
Father will be angry.
Father is not good.
He can't stand me.
I disturb when father hug my mother.
I knock on the door.
That's why..
I also want to hug my mother.
Mother is so nice.
How soft.
Everyone likes to hug mother. Why father alone will hug her?
You also like to hug, isn't it?
Promotesh is no more..
Oh yes, father is dead.
I am ill. I can't remember.
Not cough and cold.
But brain. Illness of brain.
Does others also have illness of brain like me?
Will you sit?
Come and sit. Come.
Come. Come.
Sit down here. Sit!
Do you want to listen to the Radio?
When I don't go to roof, I listen to the Radio.
There are songs, there are music..
And what is that called? News..
Brothers know how to change the center.
I can't do that. So, I listen to whatever is tuned.
Will you listen?
'This is spreading everywhere.'
'They number of deceased is more than 700.'
'The number of deaths are expected to increase.'
'Nariman point.'
I am ill and so I can't change station.
Is the brain's illness mine only?
Has no one else got it? Please tell, No one else?
You listen to the news, I am going to the roof to eat puffed rice.
I only get hungry.
That's way sister-in-law has kept puffed rice for me.
I eat up all.
So mother gets angry. Fridge is under lock and key.
Will you eat anything now?
Want to eat puffed rice?
Okay you listen to the news, I am going to the roof.
Shall I go?
Okay.
'Gun shot noises.'
'In other news.'
'It is expected.'
Mami uncle, when did you come?
Just now.
Who opened the door?
Khuku.
Then the door remains open till now.
I am going to close the door.
There were so many casualities.
The dead bodies were strewn around.
At the exchange center mainly.
No idea about the people who died the wounded are more than 10.
And many are critical.
Oh, God! You are sweating.
[indistinct news on radio]
Who tuned the Radio? Khuku?
Often she comes to this room to listen to news on Radio.
What she understands, only she knows.
Shall I switch off?
What we understand?
You told anything.
No, I can't understand anything now.
What is happening all around?
Everyone has changed!
Once, we wished if the British leave..
Yes, switch off the Radio.
What is the use of listening?
'Next year they are..'
'Expected to vote again..'
May I smoke?
Yes, please.
Increasing pollution!
Why did you come down?
I have made you wake up..
..by knocking on the door.
I have no habit of sleeping in the afternoon.
Let me make some tea for you.
No, need. You sit down.
What do you do all day?
When everyone sleeps..
..when Khuku listens to Radio, what you do?
Write poems, isn't it?
"Long! Long was winter."
"Road was difficult."
"Still while bringing you alone."
"Bore the wounds at heart."
Very nice rhyme you have.
Did mother tell you?
She memorizes poem very quickly.
Especially if at the end there is a symmetry.
Sanaka.
Sanaka, was not such in the early days..
Sanaka, earlier was different..
Such irritating..
Bad tempered..
Actually Khuku's illness made her so.
How old is she?
Oh, yes!
She will be twenty seven on coming month.
What was I saying?
Oh, yes!
Sanaka liked listening to poem..
If I would write anything new, she would listen..
She was like a small child and become angry..
..if I someone else heard the poem first..
Somu, her elder brother was my friend..
You used to write poems, Moni uncle.
Once, as others write.
Thought of changing the world by writing poems.
Is it possible?
Brother.
You, now?
Yes.
It's my house, I have come to. Timely or untimely.
Strange.
Leave it.
Why?
I am not feeling well.
Bloody.
You never feel well.
You are becoming cold day by day.
- Again all this.. - Okay.
I shall never tell again.
Now we should try.
What?
Another child.
Bablu will never..
Nearly six years gone.
Again if anyone comes like Bablu, will you accept?
Walk a little. Walk. Walk.
Yes.
Can only walk this much?
Make him sit.
That's it.
How old is he?
Five years.
Well. Did no one advised you to bring him here earlier?
No, actually we consulted with neurologists.
They told Cerebral Palsy.
Will not be able to lead a normal life.
What is the definition of a normal life?
We only judge normalcy by our perception, right?
If they get right training, they may lead a happy life, useful life.
Dr. Gupta, Electrical connection..
Hey!
I was searching for such a face.
Where had you hidden him?
He has come here for the first time.
They want to admit him here.
I was just assessing.
Wonderful!
It will be very good.
My same is Raju. Raju Srivastab.
Raju is making a film for us on handicapped children.
You see, they are Paramita and Sanaka Sanyal.
Arjesh's mother and grandmother.
Arjesh!
Such a nice name.
Arjesh come with me.
See through this.
Arjesh!
Actually we call him Bablu..
Hey! Strange..
Why didn't you tell this earlier?
Aunt, you could have told me that actually his name is Bablu.
What is that?
Bablu!
[prayer continue]
"We shall overcome. We shall overcome some day."
"Come in the ditch!"
"Live here for four days.."
"With care we will keep you all day and night.."
"I have club in my hand.."
"My club is very light.."
"You will not get hurt.."
"Don't be afraid still not listening.."
"Shall I catch the legs?"
"If I hold the head, then you will understand.."
"I am here, My wife is here."
"Nine children are also here.."
"We all will bite you.."
"If you are afraid wrongly.."
Thank you.
Actually our problem is we can't play bouncer..
..which pass over the head. That is called 'No ball'.
That is never normal.
It is beyond cricket's rule. We call it no ball, wide ball.
"We shall overcome.."
The film is very nice isn't it?
I like Mr. Srivastab. I like him.
He speaks Bengali nicely.
No one can tell that he is a Non-Bengali.
Yes. He behaves with Bablu so nicely.
See, we are so selfish..
We just only think of ourselves..
If Bablu was not born to us..
..we would not even know that there are so many like him.
We would never care for them.
I felt lonely earlier..
Look at God's justice..
First Khuku, then Bablu..
All ill luck for only us.
But after coming to this school everything looks different.
It seems that so much these kids can do.
Wickedness.
Naughtiness.
Will to learn.
Love. Curiosity.
Only mind for understanding is absent.
Come mother.
Let's sit upstairs.
- Let's go. - Please come.
Be careful.
Come!
Please sit down.
Very hot.
Please order for two cold coffee.
Two cold coffee with ice cream.
Rest I will order later.
What you want to have, mother?
Shall I order fish fry?
Nobody is watching here.
Order.
Okay.
I used to like eating fish.
Grandmother used to cook Carp fish with pasted mustard seeds.
Oh! So delicious..
How strange?
You and me sitting in the Restaurant.
We were so busy with Bablu.
Bathing him, feeding him, making him sleep.
Now after admission to this school, we have so much of time.
Paro, will they not take Khuku in that school?
If admitted the girl might have a new life..
Isn't that Biru? Who is with him?
You are wrong. Take your cold coffee.
Paromita..
Where are you going?
We came to leave Bablu at the school.
Okay, now where are you going?
Searching for an Auto Rickshaw.
Then to metro station. Then back home.
Auto driver will not be able to take such pleasure.
He may die.
Come with me, I am giving you a lift.
No, I live for away. In North Calcutta.
It's good, we can gossip longer.
All day long. Stay at home, what do you do?
Previously, I had so much of work.
All day long I would have to look after Bablu.
His bathing, feeding, making him sleep..
..giving medicine, everything.
That occupation is gone.
I enjoyed your movie.
Very sensitive one.
That was a rough cut.
Final editing is still left. Music will be added.
Titles will also will be there.
Well, you have seen my picture.
Suggest a title. I can't find a suitable title.
Did you study at Jadavpur?
How do you know?
English Honours.
Comparative literature.
Are you also from Jadavpur?
Gradually it will be exposed.
After graduation what did you do?
I did 'MA' in Mass Communications.
Then?
Thereafter Marriage, then Bablu was born.
What about Bablu's father?
Very busy with business. Family business.
And Bablu's mother after passing..
..'MA' in Mass Communications sits at home silently.
Very nice I shall take you somewhere.
- Where? - To adventure.
Adventure?
- It's the name of an advertising agency. - How much will I give?
- 10 Rupees. - Okay.
They need a good copy-writer.
Will you not be able to learn it?
Steps.
Did you say anything?
Steps.
You told me to suggest a name for your film.
See, who is there!
Someone left these flowers.
Oh!
Cut it! Okay, lunch break.
- Was it right? - Excellent.
- Sure? - Very good.
- Hello! Just a minute. - Thank you.
Your wife.
Hello Paromita, tell me?
- Make-up! Make-up! - Have you finished?
I have just announced lunch break.
We will discuss.
Bapi listen.
After break, I will take two shots, then pack up..
I can't make it by 2pm. Will reach by 3pm. Okay?
Paromita?
Where are you?
I am getting the sound of water.
Listen, do you remember..
..the day when you first offered me a lift in your car?
That day how could you know that I studied at Jadavpur.
You never told me that.
You are asking me this question spending money on mobile phone?
You are totally mad.
- Red ones. - Bablu, your mother has went away.
Red ones..
Your mother has gone. Eat this.
Come on.
No.
My balloon.. Look at this..
Just a minute. Don't move.
Don't move.
My balloon..
Stop, don't cry.
Why you let his balloon fly? Why?
My wish!
Later.
Did you eat anything?
You should not fast till this time of the day.
Come on, Paromita.
This is not at all a new for you.
What is it?
Eat something.
Sweets!
Paromita!
What has happened to you?
Paromita!
[chanting prayers continue]
Meenakshi, what is this?
What is this?
This?
Let me wipe your mouth.
Show me the mouth.
Okay look here. Show me the color.
Throw the ball.
Ball.
Who has thrown this?
Shudham.
Leave him, I know its him.
You are here. I mean..
You for any work?
Another movie?
Tape of 'Steps'.
Mr. Kar had called.
They need you, I am coming.
Really coming back immediately.
Don't go away.
I am meeting you after a long time.
Actually there were so much work.
I could not go to the office of the Adventure.
How are you feeling there?
Good.
Time passes nicely.
Do you go to the Spastic Society regularly?
Yes, at times.
If I get time from the office.
Want to see the picture once again?
Bablu's work?
Paromita!
What did you say? Divorce?
Biru has asked for divorce?
Not him. I myself asked for it.
You?
Why? What problems you are facing here?
No problem here.
When relation between two persons breaks..
Oh, then for Bablu only you were here for so long.
As Bablu gone, relation with this house has also vanished.
Why are you talking about home, mother?
With your son I have now got no relation.
You understand me so much, can't you understand this?
Was there any relation between you ever?
I understood within months of your marriage..
..that you don't have any bonding.
So what?
You spend these many years like this.
Think about myself.
Could never felt mentally close to your father-in-law.
Still the years passed by.
Had children..
Marriage need not always end in happiness.
Tell me what is in your mind.
Is it that Sribastab?
Rajib has offered to marry me.
I have agreed.
- Has Biru agreed? - He has no objection.
Wow! Amazing!
Then what are you waiting for? Go.
Do whatever you want.
Only the old lady she'll be left with this mad girl.
Holding the ancestral property.
Everybody is selfish.
Listen! Listen, Paromita!
You are making a mistake.
I'm older than you, I am more experienced.
I tell you that the males cannot give the females anything.
Never.
Here, I got no peace for a single day after my marriage.
Brothers kept me so happy at my father's house.
In the in-laws house, I became a maid-servant.
Mani, my lover.
He was a coward.
Once.
If only once he would have told me.
I would leave my family. Husband. Child and everything.
Would never think about my past life.
But he could not tell. No.
He was not brave enough.
You are thinking that marriage with Biru is not a happy one.
With Srivastab will it be happier?
It's your wrong thinking. Completely wrong.
After marriage you will see, everyone Is same. There is no difference.
I am not telling you that you should stop keeping relation with Srivastab.
As a mother-in-law have I ever forbidden you?
What more you want?
Still want to get married once more?
I don't want all that ceremony mother.
I just want to call some friends to have the registration of marriage.
That's all.
What do you want to say?
Shameless woman.
Are you not ashamed to talk about another male in front of mother-in-law?
That's why so frequently you go to the school.
Biru is such a fool. Thinks that you go for the child.
Actually you are going for all this.
Actually you are wicked, shameless woman.
I am leaving.
Okay, you go away.
You should leave in a single cloth.
Never ever come back.
Paromita.
Paromita, stop.
Please, don't go.
Do what you desire.
You do whatever you want.
But, don't leave this house, Paromita.
You have your office and your friends.
But I have none except that mad girl.
That boy has become so close to you in just a few days.
I, we are no one to you!
We are just nothing for you.
Mother! Mother!
Mother!
Paromita!
What happened?
- Paromita.. - Sister-in-law!
What did you say to mother?
Why are you crying, mother?
Don't you know that mother's health is poor.
Please, don't cry. Don't cry. Don't cry mother.
Mother I have come.
"My boat sinks suddenly."
"Who knows where?"
"Ripped apart by which rock."
"My boat sinks suddenly."
"The blow when truly reaches the heart."
"The boat floating and struggling."
"Against the furious waves."
"Sinks at last."
"My boat sinks suddenly."
"Who knows where?"
"Ripped apart by which rock."
"My boat sinks suddenly."
"Alone at the helm,I had set out with the tide."
"A gentle breeze on my sails."
"Blissfully lost in myself."
"Not a cloud in the skies."
"I had hopes of reaching."
"A shore of floral joys."
"My boat sinks suddenly."
"Who knows where?"
"Ripped apart by which rock."
"My boat sinks suddenly."
[chanting prayers continue]
Will you take some sweet?
Are you listening?
Aunt?
Jojo!
How are you?
I can't recognize you.
Mother told you ate nothing.
Will you take some sweet?
Mother! Which Mother?
Elder aunt!
You can't recognized her. She is Tuktuki.
Oh, God! Tuki!
Wearing "Sari" you are looking so cute.
No at this late hours, I shall not take anything.
Rather, serve me a glass of soft drink.
When grandmother was ill, I came here several time.
You possibly did not notice.
Maybe.
Wonder, when.
Oh, my God!
It's still so high!
There was some bleeding from the nose yesterday.
Yes, that saved her.
Did she urinate today?
Here is the problem.
Never wants to use bedpan.
No strength. Can't be taken to the bathroom. Even supporting.
Only spoiling the bed.
I am not worried whether she is urinating in bed or else.
Has she urinated?
Today still there is no urination, yesterday she had once or twice.
So many changes..
Where should I get so many bed covers to change again and again?
Take this chart.
Where mother keeps her bed sheets?
Dipa knows it.
No, I don't! Actually mother herself kept it all arranged.
Can't we buy a big oil cloth for mother?
Brother!
Do you want to kill mother?
Why don't you call sister-in-law?
Doctor uncle, please tell them to call sister-in-law..
..to settle everything right.
Khuku, keep quiet.
Can't you see your sister-in-law's are standing here.
Okay you go inside, we are taking action.
I know sister-in-law's office number, let me call.
I will call her.
I am leaving today.
I am going. Do what you think best!
Urination is very much essential.
Condition of kidney is not good.
Taking the medicine of blood pressure for long.
It has side effects.
And!
If you can bring Paromita, it will be helpful for her.
Okay, bye.
Is this advertisement office?
Is sister-in-law there? Sister-in-law?
"Friend has come after a long time."
"Can't stay without meeting."
"Friend has come after many days."
"Can't stay without meeting."
"I have to meet."
Now you try to sleep a little. May I switch off the TV?
Mother are you telling anything?
What are you saying?
I want to go to the bathroom
She wants to go to the bathroom?
Telling so, but it is absurd.
Never wants to use bedpan.
Wants to go the bathroom, but no strength for walking.
See urine pot is there inside the room.
So many times she is taken to the bathroom, but no urination.
Just looking foolishly and wetting the bed.
How much can I manage? Tell me.
Get up! Get up for passing urine!
Let's go. Put down the leg. Lower the leg. Yes.
Yes. Get up, cautiously.
Slowly!
Come on.
Walk.
Why do you stop? Go two steps more.
See once.
Am I to do this all day long?
Stop!
Let mother be seated on this chair.
I am holding mother. Be seated.
Yes.
Sit!
Is there some fresh clothes?
Old sarees will do.
Don't mind!
Your mother-in-law is my senior too.
Do you know?
Do you know where old clothes of this house are?
Please get that trunk down.
Not the upper one, get the lower one?
Mother!
Wanted to go to the bathroom.
See this is bathroom?
Will you not go to the bathroom?
- Yes. - Yes!
Come on.
Come on. Come on.
This.
Okay.
Have you done that?
Come on, let's go to bed.
Come on.
Mother, come please.
Mother.
Crying.
What's the hell done!
Biru!
Get up.
Be strong.
We have so much to do now.
Ashok!
You and Jojo..
..make a list of the persons who are to be informed over telephone.
Tuki!
So many people are there in the downstairs.
They also should be informed.
I am going, brother.
And!
One insertion is to be given in the newspaper?
You write the insertion.
I am informing the people.
Yes. And the..
Death Certificate.
Okay. Yes, I'm writing it.
Dead body should be touched by someone.
Aunt!
Would you please do it?
Now, I am leaving.
Okay, you may leave now.
Take rest after returning home.
You have done a lot at this last moment.
God bless you.
- Give me my bag. - I am giving you.
- Jojo, please call everybody and inform. - Yes, I'll do it.
Brother! Biru!
We got to take a decision.
Body will have to be carried to the crematorium.
If you want to use a car for the same.
Why car? We'll carry her on shoulders.
How has it happened?
She is gone.
Open the window a little.
Mother is gone.
What to say?
Kidney perhaps has failed.
Sister, may I go today.
But how will you go?
We have got our Driver.
- He will drop her. - Don't bother.
I will be going.
I will drop her.
Let's go, Paromita!
Come.
Should it not be informed to Khuku.
Oh God, Khukhu.
"Mighty waves this is, O dear."
"Set the sky rolling. Defusing the past and future."
"Brilliantly shining in life. With a wonderful wave of joy."
"Mighty waves this is, O dear."
"Jolted, thrilled is the stream of my perception."
"The sun, moon the stars, all are in swing hence."
"Jolted, thrilled is the stream of my perception."
"The sun, moon the stars, all are in swing hence."
"Waves dance throughout the world."
"The heart tweets."
Hello! Your car has arrived.
Aunt!
Your car has arrived.
He is waiting in the car.
Yes.
I'll leave now.
Won't you eat?
No.
At this late hour, I'll not take any food.
You rather tell everyone.
[chanting prayers continue]
Mani uncle, cautiously.
Who is there?
Paromita?
How are you?
Quite good. What's about you?
Just passing.
Will you go by bus now?
May I drop you?
I can't go by bus nowadays.
I told Budhayan earlier, he'll drop me by Rickshaw.
Bye.
You be good!
Sorry. I am very late.
Are you waiting for long?
Let's go.
Did you eat anything?
Did you?
Yes, I have taken a glass of soft drink.
Only that? That's all.
What the doctor said?
Then, was everything okay?
I mean, any hazards..
..in front of so many people present in that house.
No.
Really, we are so late.
About what?
Oh, God! Rajasri's exhibition is today.
They are waiting for us.
Oh, yes.
Madhusri, had called.
Some problem is there regarding the copy for Khaitan.
They were not getting you.
You have switched off the Mobile.
Subhas brother, Paromita speaking.
You please tell Mr. Khaitan to wait a little for me.
I am on my way. I am coming shortly, okay?
Really, are you not hungry?
A bit!
I know that!
I have also not eaten anything.
Okay, eat that sandwich.
What's the matter?
It's moving.
What?
Is it so?
Yes, it's moving.
"The sun, moon the stars, all are in swing hence."
"Jolted, thrilled is the stream of my perception."
"The sun, moon the stars, all are in swing hence."
"Waves dance throughout the world."
"Mighty waves this is, O dear."
"Set the sky rolling. Defusing the past and future."
"Brilliantly shining in life with a wonderful wave of joy."
"Mighty waves this is, O dear."