Devdas (2002)

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"Badi Ma, Dwijdas, Kumud, Padma,
Dharamdas, where's everybody?"

"Look, here's Devdas' letter.
Devdas is returning from London"

Really? Happy tidings!

Dwijdas! You hear? Devdas is coming!
- I don't think so. Ma is lying

"You're lying, Ma.
- Here's the letter"

show me the letter

shubhankar! My Devdas is coming!
- Really?

Give your brother the good news

Badi Ma... Badi Ma...
my Tempest is coming home

Thank God

"Compliments, lady!
- Not in tears Dharamdas"

I want a promise. I am going...
to receive Devdas. I alone.

"Yes, but wind the clocks once again
After so many years! My son is back"

"Winding clocks won't make time move,
nor any faster brings the son home"

I know Kumud! But look
how my heart throbs

Oh when will the day give way
to the night...?

Drum up the cheer!
Let the music play

What joyous tempest stirs my
heartstrings! Drum up the cheer

Let the music play!
- Welcome the onset of Tempest

"All day I'm hollering at everyone
to get ready, and no one listens?"

The house has been spruced up.
- Devdas' room is ready

Dharamdas has tethered the horses.
- Badi Ma decided who wears what

Happy...?

"Once you get your baby, you'll know
what joy is in seeing him come home"

Kaushalya Didi (Didi: Sister)
- Goodness! Here comes the actress

"In she traipses and,
Ei Kaushalya Didi..."

"sweet shondesh" for you" "

"Ei Kaushalya Didi, look
shondesh for you"

sumitra! Lovely timing!
- Sumitra-Kaki's timing!

"Always opportune.
And your "shondesh" is famous!"

Hear that Didi?
- Let her talk. Guess who's coming?

I know! Mr Chattopadhyay...?

"Silly! You won't believe this!
My Tempest, my Devdas is coming!"

"Really Didi...?
- Yes, yes, really!"

Thank Goddess Durga

"My compliments, Didi!
- I'm seeing my son after 10 years"

What might he look like? What might
he sound like? What will he tell me?

"How am I going to survive
tonight, sumitra?"

How I wish I wouldn't blink!
What if he walks in right then?

"I only remember Devdas, the boy
who'd walk up to my house..."

"peep around the door to ask me...
- Kaki-Ma, is Paro in?"

"There she goes, into the act"

"And when Dev stormed out,
I'd send Paro to find him"

Found him always in guava orchards.
- And Dharamdas would haul him in...

by his ear! Some friendship!
- And when Devdas was leaving...

"going abroad for his studies,
how my Paro ran after his buggy..."

as if possessed. Arre O'Deva

Arre O'Deva

"In that scorching sun, her feet
blistering on the gravelly soil..."

"yet she ran on, screaming,
I'm going with Dev"

I'm going abroad too!
- Are you out of your mind?

Send her abroad? My silly girl

she owed Dev three Rupees

Let me go. I got to give him
his 3 Rupees

A lamp lit for a loved one
draws the wayfarer home

"For 10 years, in that belief
she kept that lamp alight for Dev"

"Not once she let the lamp go out!
I must tell her, she'll be glad"

"she will be overjoyed.
- Yes sumitra, go"

It's your son who's coming home
and she is the happier for it

Why not? She's our neighbour.
Paro and Devdas...

were childhood friends.
- What's left of that childhood?

"Both are grown ups now...
Kaki-Ma's "shondesh"?"

"What's up Kaki-Ma?
- Manorama, where is Paro?"

"Where else? Must be in her room,
talking to her lamp"

Not lamp!
- Devdas

Oh God.
- What's the matter?

The news I have for her
will drive her mad with joy

What news?

"Paro, Devdas is coming"

"Really?
- Yes, Devdas is coming"

They're preparing for a welcome!
Kaushalya-Didi is nearly going mad

The whole house is
in raptures...

"silly, are you crying?"

Let not tears of joy
douse the lamp before Dev arrives

No power on Earth can put out
this lamp

shall we put the mighty lamp
to test?

At season's change...

comes...

cloudwaves

A waft...

will come...

to blow out this lamp

This longing I didn't let die

This longing I never let die

"This lamp, my love..."

"will never be extinguished,
this flame of my love"

"My love, come to me my love"

Now come to me

As this lamp burns...

"I'm burning in my every pore
and my heart"

Now come to me

"Come to me, my love"

Distance parted us...

there was the pain of parting

My eyes yearned...

but there you were...

"glittering, glowing..."

awash in joys...

while here...

"'I b*rned..."

"while here, I b*rned"

"Once again, clouds thunder..."

raining in thunderous rhapsody

Tempest strikes again...

but my lamp is never doused...

"my love, my flame..."

"no matter how much the rains,
tempest and thunder torment you"

"Come now, come to me, my love"

"Come, my love"

she's craZy

she's naive

"Oh yes, with a gust of wind
will come the one you seek"

My love...

come to me my love

"The passion,
she will never let die"

"My love, this lamp is you"

"Hurry! The buggy is here!
Kaushalya, quick"

Devdas is here!
- Coming

I was lighting the welcome-lamp.
Tell Badi-Ma

"If you take so much time,
Devdas will give himself a welcome"

"Give himself a welcome?
Today, I'm welcoming him"

Wait a minute! I get to see Devdas
first. Everyone shut your eyes

For my sake.
- All right?

Lady! I don't believe! Could the
world change so much in ten years?

"Deva is as tall as my shoulders,
my very shoulders he sat upon"

see him and you'll forget to blink!
- Don't torment me! Where's my Dev?

"Got off on the way. Said, he will
be back after seeing "My Paro"

should be here any moment

"Chhoto-Ma, you wanted to be the first
to set your eyes on Devdas?"

Will it be Paro's eyes now?

"Chhoto-Ma, what to do with this?"

Paro

I think it's Devdas

Devdas...

"how have you been? Fine?
Come in son, welcome"

"Bless you, son"

You look just like an Englishman!
We've been so eager to see you

Kaushalya-Didi is dying to see you.
- Where is Paro?

She was here a moment ago

"she said, let Devdas come
and I'll do this and I'll do that"

I'll fight with him and scratch him.
Now you're here and she's hiding

Ei Paro

"Can I go upstairs?
- Yes son, go on"

How have you been Paro?

Won't you turn to see my face?
We're meeting after so many days

"Days? For you, maybe.
For me..."

"10 years, 6 months,
4 days and 6 hours"

You never missed me?
- I did

Lies! Only 5 letters in 10 years?
There are four seasons in a year

Couldn't you write once a season?
- Makes sense. You're a big girl

Takes time?

The desire to meet the sea
turns the stream into a river

Then why take time
to show your face?

"Like sighting the Moon after ages,
I fear I'll leave you breathless"

Not even the Moon is as vain.
- But the Moon is scarred

"Till moonrise spare the Moon,
to see which leaves me breathless..."

the Moon's radiance?
Or your vanity?

"Paro, I hate the thought
of someone else touching you"

"Look, Devdas is here!
- Let him come"

Don't be cross.
- I don't want to talk to him

Tell him to go away.
- But Ma...

"I said, I don't want to...
- Ma"

"Go, I don't want to see your face"

"Why, what's so ugly
about my face..."

that neither Paro
nor you want to see?

"After 10 years of waiting,
the neighbour gets to welcome you?"

Go back to your Paro

Won't you open your eyes?
- I won't

Won't see me either?

"Very well, I'm going away.
- Where...?"

"Where are you going, Dev?
- Dev, stop"

Why did you let him leave?
I was just joking

I was joking too

My prodigal son returns a lawyer.
But no let up on the mischief?

Babu-ji...? (Babu-ji: Father)
- He left for his chambers early...

"something urgent.
- I know, I know"

Complaints every day!

Dev and Paro never went to school.
Dev caught smoking

All day tramping around the village
with that Paro

Not another moment
for you in this house

"The day I left,
he wasn't at home"

"This day I return,
he still isn't here"

"You know, the British government
is knighting him"

I see!
- And he'll be so glad to see you

"Really?
- Glad he is, at work"

"In my home, fathers welcome sons
returning home after years..."

"with arms outstretched.
- Same here, child"

"Come to me, my darling"

I told you to get me
a nice foreign watch

Have you brought it?

"No, but I bring fortuitous times"

Look...

over here... but I can't even
make out clearly

"They use only paper?
- And sometimes, not even that"

I never shook hands

What are you upto?

Give my box back to me

Give it to me

What's happening?
- Nothing

Watching Devdas?
How do you find him?

I'm not telling.
- Tell me...

how do you find him?
- Like a fool

What did he say when he met you?
- I didn't show him my face

swear that by your mother?
- I swear

"Poor thing, must've been pining.
- Let him pine"

Don't make him suffer so

"Else, he'll come peeping
around the door..."

"and ask me,
Kaki-Ma, is Paro in?"

Only in the moonlight
he gets to see my face

Card three and I win.
- Damn

Lost by a whisker.
- You always lose by a whisker

"Kumud, so what if he wins once?
- Wrong, today's shubhankar's day"

"No one else wins, here comes Paro
but she can't win either"

You bet?
- Beware! She'll loot you

"Well Paro, what have you brought?
- "Shondesh" for Devdas. Ma sent it"

Where's Devdas?
- The London-returned gentleman?

"Where else but in his room,
training his binoculars on London?"

"Saw? Earlier, she'd greet you first.
Up she climbs, our beauty..."

straight for Devdas.
- One too many a sweet message

What brings the Moon down to Earth?
- To take your breath away

What are you doing?
- Seeing how good my guess was

Accurate?
- Could never be wrong

How come?
- Known you for ages

What's this?
- Platter

I know. But what's on it?
- My excuse

shondesh for me?
- See for yourself

"Empty...?
- That's the excuse, silly"

Goodness!
What a temper!

You make a fine example
of how to lose temper

You're the same

"You too, are just
like you were"

Like what...?
- Unsophisticated

"Naturally, after all,
you're London-returned"

"London's a big city, isn't it Dev?
- London's entirely different"

"Great personalities, great debates.
Huge thoroughfares, huge edifices"

"London's Trafalgar square,
pigeons, doves..."

The Queen's Palace

"And milling crowds,
everywhere"

Londoners live in a world
of their own

You too?

"Say, you never missed the village?
- Never, never, except..."

"when I was fed up of the food at
the hostel, I missed Ma's dishes"

"And back in London,
when someone screamed at me..."

I was reminded of my father.
No one else

"On evening walks, I contemplated
Dharamdas and his buggy"

"On sleepless nights,
grandmother's gentle pat"

Nothing else

Dev... and...

And...?
- I...?

Never. Or was it once...?

"No, you never came to mind, Paro.
- I never came to mind...?"

Matters that come to mind
are matters that matter. But...

"you don't matter, Paro.
- True Dev, only you matter"

"5 letters, 5 times a day. How many
times did I read them each year?"

And how many times in ten years?
- Multiplied by...?

"18,250 times.
That's how much you matter..."

"and ten years to the day, I have
kept alive the flame I lit for you"

How many hours has it been burning?
- If I were to count...

"87,600 hours. So much you matter,
every second I remembered you"

"How many seconds to a day?
- I know, I'll tell you..."

You're bad at arithmetic

There were times when I missed you.
- When...?

Whenever I breathed

"For them, reminiscences,
those who can be forgotten. Silly"

so effortlessly you counted off
those seconds?

Without as much as a thought
to every passing second...

that carried me away?

"In the flame of the lamp that
you lit, it was I who b*rned"

87600

Pity

shall I tell you what's
on my mind for sometime?

Two names on your mind.
Paro and Devdas

Mr Landlord! How did you make out?

"Kumud was saying, Dev and Paro
are upto new antics"

For hours they stare at each other
through binoculars

shondesh is her excuse for
coming over. I don't like it

And sumitra is daydreaming
of Paro's wedding to Devdas

Daydreams never come true.
Neelkanth married an actress

Disgraced himself. In an alliance
with a disgraced family...

am I to bring
my family to ridicule...?

"Right, but you know sumitra.
She sh**t off her mouth"

What if she storms in someday
proposing an alliance?

"The answer will be "no
"- Why will the answer be no?"

A knight and a landlord. And the
roof over our heads is leaking

Leaking...?

Even my postal address has changed.
- Really...?

"Neelkanth Chakraborty,
Old Mansion"

"What's lacking in our Paro?
She's pretty, she's literate"

I only got to spread the word.
Tens of boys will be ready...

to pay a bride-price for Paro.
- Really?

Yes. You are worrying overmuch

someday we will get a proposal...
from them. You'll see

"Till then, I leave you to
your musings. I'm off for my nap"

Mr Landlord! Have a care!
Your old mansion is crumbling

Broke my back

All this jewellery! All for me?
- You will give me a grandson

Won't I give you something?

Badi-Ma has opened up her
treasure trove. Loot her

I must!

Badi-Ma! How exquisite!
I must wear this

"No, that one isn't for you.
- Then, for whom?"

For my Devdas' bride.
- Let's see

Give it all away to Devdas' bride!
I want none of this

Here's your elder daughter-in-law

And everyone's all agog about
someone who's yet to come

"Nice bracelet, isn't it?
Lt'll look great on your arm"

In my father's house
maids wear bracelets like these

"Then consider yourself a maid,
right Badi-Ma?"

Yes! I'm maidservant in this house.
My brother-in-law! Always after me

You're making a mountain out
of a molehill. I was joking

"If you disapprove, I won't even marry.
- I hate being ridiculed"

Why rib her all the time?
Badi-Ma you could've said yes...

if only to please her. You know
her nature. And she's pregnant

And you've brought her to tears.
Now I got to placate her. Woe betide

"No matter how much honey you add,
neem is always bitter"

How do you like this bracelet?

Just like you. Exotic.
- Whom are you giving it to?

You want to see?

Take this.
- And do what?

Look through it. This bracelet
is for whoever you see in it

Goodness! Sumitra?

"Is she the one? Are you mad?
- Yes, but not entirely. Look up"

That's Parvati.
- Nice...?

"Yes nice, but I see her every day.
- Do you see her as my bride?"

Wretched girl!
- Now what's up?

Staring at me through binoculars!
- Goodness

she's gone hiding.
- She must be embarrassed

Been chatting over binoculars?
- Yes Badi-Ma

"Take a look,
what's the wretch upto?"

Goodness! She's watching me
out of the corner of her eyes

Ran

"Have you run in too, Dev?"

Wretched boy

How to make mountains
out of a molehill...

I'll show my mother-in-law.
Chhoto-Ma...

so you got caught peeping.
- You got caught too

And I was sentenced
to punish you

For you

What...?
- Gift

You might as well put it on me

so many bangles

silly

Forget it

"Tell me, where is London?
- Way west"

Where sets the sun?
- In the West

The sun rises over London
five hours late every day?

Yes
- Is that why you're late...

about understanding everything?
- Yes...

Dolt from London! Can't even
take my bangles off

How will you ever make me wear
a bracelet?

My cruel lover is heartless

My cruel lover is so heartless...

"he doesn't even know how I pine,
he's just a ruthless slaver..."

"oh cruel, please..."

"How do I say this,
whom do I tell?"

"God, he doesn't know how I hurt..."

he knows not...

how heartless

"You were far away,
yet so close..."

"now you're close
yet distant...?"

"I don't know...
yet I know"

"You were far away, yet so close...
now you're close, yet distant...?"

Come...

to me

Adorn me with the bangle
- Let me read your palm

Don't tease me
- Lots of money

Now don't...
- Your marriage

Do my bidding
- You'll marry an old man

How do I say this...
- About your wedding

Whom do I tell... God
- You'll never marry

"Fool, he doesn't even know..."

he just doesn't know

shame!

You see how the childhood love
blossoms into youthful romance?

"For all sumitra's "shondesh",
do send a sweet message to sumitra"

"Tell her, Paro has come of age"

What are you upto?

What am I upto?

What's up? What's wrong with Ma?
- Your mother has gone mad.

Yes! Mad with joy. Because no more
will I dream the dream I dreamt

And why?
- Because it's coming true

"Ma, what dream...?
- Which dream? Silly!"

"I'm invited to a huge mansion.
- I know, Kumud has conceived"

"Also, Kaushalya-Didi wants to see
me. She says, Paro has come of age"

We ought to think
about Paro's wedding

"True Paro, when you step into
that house in bridal finery..."

"there will be dreams in your eyes,
under the veil drawn over your face"

But we'll listen in joyous rapture
for the chime in your anklets

Mr Landlord! So how do I look?
- Where's Paro? Isn't she going?

"So long she awaited this evening,
she was dressed and raring to go"

"In time to leave, she shies away.
Off to the lake to fetch water"

"Why?
- Silly girl, she's afraid..."

that I might discuss her marriage
right in front of her

Don't you raise the topic sumitra
- The auspicious time runs out at 7

"By then if she hasn't raised
the topic, I shall"

"But don't worry. The answer
won't be a "no". Bless me"

The guests are all here.
Where is sumitra-Kaki?

Dreaming of Paro's wedding.
To Devdas. You know...

I've found a nice match for Paro.
- Who...?

Old Mr Chattopadhyay

"My compliments, sister!
Best wishes for a grandson"

"Don't overdo it, sumitra.
There's still time to go"

"Only a few months, no?"

Then the baby's wails
will resonate through the mansion

"Not sister, I'll call you grandma.
- You should get Paro married soon"

I'd like to call you grannie too.
- That's what I'm here to discuss

I must discuss something too. Girls
in your family fetch a bride price?

"No, that was olden custom.
We will give our Paro away"

so it's final. I'll give Paro away
in wedding. All the expense is mine

"Paro is my daughter too.
- No, giving the daughter away..."

"is a dream every parent dreams.
About the expense, we can share it"

"Then it's decided, sumitra.
- Really Didi?"

"Yes, really.
- Therefore Kaki-Ma, you will be..."

the master of ceremonies tonight.
A stunning dance for the guests?

"Oh no, not I...
- Why not? Don't you belong..."

"to a family of theatre dancers?
- Yes Didi, but that was ages ago"

"No Kaki-Ma, no excuses.
Tonight you sing and you dance"

"No dear, not I...
- Are you embarrassed? Just imagine"

"You're dancing at Paro's wedding.
- Now I can't refuse, can I?"

So be it. Radha and Krishna
and love divine

Dearest love

The Moon alone...

in night's embrace...

"in moonlight vigil,
night's desire..."

"sang run-jhun run-jhun
"a breeZing gust..."

into a radiant night...

"rode in fireflies
on a palanquin of stars..."

"as the word played
on stilled lips"

"Then to the cadence
of drums and cymbals..."

"the duffle was struck...
then..."

into the rhythm swayed...

my lovely Radha

Into the rhythm Radha swayed

"Then he came from nowhere
and he said... I love you"

Dear love...

oh but I'm afraid

Oh dearest love

"No, not my wrist..."

"oh, how shameful"

Leave me...

I beg of you

"No, don't force me..."

spare me

Dear love

No...

I'll curse you for this

Madman! Go away

Don't torment me

Oh dearest love...

dear love...

oh but I'm afraid

Love me

On the banks of the Yamuna...

"Krishna and Radha
in the Dance of Love"

"Of desire in their hearts
rose a song to their lips"

"Krishna and Radha
in the Dance of Love"

"Thirsting in every breath,
searing passion in their hearts..."

"Krishna and Radha
in the Dance of Love"

"The word on stilled lips,
Krishna and Radha are in love"

What is this?

The token of betrothal...

of my daughter to your son.
Paro and Devdas

"Are you in your senses, sumitra?
I invited mother and daughter..."

to entertain my guests
with some melodrama

"Instead, you are out
to work magic?"

"Kumud, you were right!
Sumitra-Kaki's timing is opportune"

she does knows how to
take advantage of opportunity

"As a child, her daughter stole
guavas from our orchards"

"Now she sets her sights on my son?
- No Didi, that isn't true"

Devdas and Paro were
childhood sweethearts

"They are in love, they can't live
without each other"

"In a large family, maybe you never
noticed. But I know how they yearn"

"Please do not refuse Didi,
even if it means..."

that you will have nothing more
to do with me afterwards

Why draw water from poisoned wells?
You may not betray the traits

"But your genes remain the same,
that of the dancing girls"

"Yes, we landlords eat fish..."

but we won't let bones
stick in the gullet

"For one, you are a neighbour.
Worse, as a family, disgraced"

"Even if you may momentarily forget
your disgrace, but your standing?"

Don't you try to palm off
your bad coin

"Chhoto-Ma, let it pass Chhoto-Ma.
We can always talk Dev out of it"

"Which leaves Parvati. If she can't
contain herself, send her to Dev"

Honour among landlords
isn't sullied by such affairs

Unbecoming of a landlord's woman!
Don't interfere when elders speak

Enough! Replying to you
is beneath my dignity

"My sister you were.
From now on, merely Kaushalya"

"And Kaushalya, you too sang
the day my daughter was born"

Remember Badi-Ma? She took
my daughter from my arms...

"saying Paro was her daughter!
With a smile, I had even said yes"

Little did I know that even
in the big landlord's mansion...

a lady of the house could be
so narrow-minded...

as to count guavas stolen
from one of her orchards

"Count, how many guavas did
my daughter steal? Tell me"

Counting guavas?
By the count of it...

I've fed your son many more times
than your count of stolen guava

stolen

"And the disgrace?
Yes, we do sell our daughters"

"But you trade too, Kaushalya.
We sell our daughters, openly"

But you swallow the dowries
and the daughters too

"Good or bad, the coin is known by
it's tinkle. But you wouldn't know"

Because you're deaf enough
not to know your son's heart

"Blind you are, that you
do not see their love"

Now soon you will stand dumbstruck
in witness your son's ruination

"I swear, my daughter will marry
into a family richer than yours"

"In a week. If I fail, then come,
mourn my death on day eight"

I came to wish that you would beget
a handsome son

But all I can wish is to see
that a daughter you be given

I hear your mother
is giving you away...

into a rich family.
Do you know your husband's name?

Devdas.
- Even after all that happened...

will Dev marry you?
- I'll ask him and I'll tell you

Is there anything left to ask?
She was insulted so gravely

"Dev didn't insult her, did he?
- Will you walk up..."

to ask Dev to marry you?
Won't that be embarrassing?

Why be embarrassed about asking
for what is yours?

"You're married, yet you don't
know what a husband means?"

Who...?
- I

Are you all right?

So late at night?
In the dark...?

"Weren't you afraid?
- No, now I'm afraid of no one"

"Not even of being maligned?
- No, when I am with you..."

I don't even care about getting
a bad name

Why... here... now...?
- Why does the river head to sea?

Why does the sunflower
always face the sun?

And why comes Paro
heedless of her dignity...?

Why unheeding my family honour
do I venture out in dark of night?

"Why do I seek refuge at your feet?
To all questions, a single answer"

"For the same reply, far too many
questions asking to be answered"

"There are no questions,
not as long as we're together"

That's what they don't want.
- What do you want?

"Happiness, for you"

But my father won't look at it
from our perspective

We'll win him over

What if he doesn't relent?

"Where there's love, there's no fear.
- Where there's smoke there's fire"

"In fires of attrition,
I don't want us..."

"to be consumed.
- I'm doomed, in any case"

"Be it with you, or without you"

Let me drop you home.
- You're coming with me?

Without fear of censure?

Even the cur is wary of the door
it's kicked out of

"What you can't get away with by
light of the day, you try by night?"

"Why don't you, mother and daughter
start a brothel?"

Not even a pimp would advise
his daughter to do that

"With the lamp,
I saw you burn for Devdas"

I treasure your feelings. Were you
to have asked me before leaving...

I would not even mind if you were
to have been whore for a night

"Ma, I just went to ask him!
- And received what in reply?"

"Not alone, you carried with you,
the honour of our family"

Have you left your honour behind?

Let it pass Babu-ji. Why make
a mountain out of a molehill?

"By the way, what to do
about Paro's shawl?"

Tell him to return it.
This marriage isn't happening

I shall do no such thing

You forget whom you are addressing

A hot-headed landlord who will send
his fellow-man's daughter...

to a brothel.
- Gentlemen's daughters...

never steal out of
neighbours' rooms at 2 am

so great was her compulsion
and it was you who compelled her

I will brook no argument from you.
- Nor do I wish to talk to you

It's decided

Our family ranks far higher
than theirs

"Yet, it's the same food we eat?
- Our hierarchy, status, standing"

Even the British government
is informed of us

"Yet, the same soil we tread upon?
- The bird that soars..."

can never have any relationship
with fish in the waters

"Yet, man on Earth relates
to God in Heaven?"

Stop Dev

"Dev, everything can be resolved.
I'll talk to Babu-ji"

But don't leave the house.
- No Dwij

Childishness!

"Over something so trivial...?
- Trivial for you, not for me"

Not for me a life praying
for every breath

"Dev, we'll talk to Babu-ji...
- stop Dev"

Dev stop.
- Stop! Listen to me

"stop him, Kumud"

You aren't going anywhere. Your
mother is talking to the master

Everything will be fine.
- No Dharamdas

"The tempest ought to pass.
If I stay on, much will be undone"

Listen to me

Lady...

"Dev is leaving, Paro"

It's as much his test as it is
yours. See for yourself...

"what he cares for, you or family?
Is he taking you with him?"

Or is he deserting you?
If he isn't taking you along...

then you shall do
your mother's bidding

stop Deva! I won't let you leave!

Stop.
- Out of my way

"That night, all sense
of reasoning deserted me"

"I was left vacillating
as if between pendulous scales"

"You wouldn't want me to displease
my father to make you happy..."

would you?

"Why does the river go to sea?
Why the sunflower gaZes at the sun?"

"Instead of hunting answers,
why not let the question pass?"

"What was between us, was no more
than childishness. There's no love"

"From now onwards,
you are the girl next-door"

"And I, your friend"

"Paro, get dressed, come downstairs.
Hurry. Your in-laws are here"

"My love! Oh why did you
leave me smouldering?"

Why did you snub out the flame?

Ei Dev...

"Friend, you aren't asleep yet?
Are you a stranger in my home?"

"I told you before, this is
as much your home as it's mine"

"Nothing of the sort, Chuni Babu.
I'm just not feeling sleepy"

Drink up...

You know I don't drink.
- Then what gives?

"If "h" is for happiness in life,
why are you so looking so harassed?"

So harried as not to feel at home?
- Nothing of the sort

But something surely is!

"The "h" that makes a home
is the same that spells hurt"

Fought with your parents?
- No

Or are you nursing
a wounded heart?

My point! That's my point!
H for heart and for hurt

"And the two are related
so closely my friend, oh-so-closely"

"Hindustan or English-stan,
everywhere it's all the same"

H for heart and for hurt.
- Have you suffered no pain?

Ask not of one Time has weathered
what pain each nuance hides...

for men may see but no more
than a smiling face

You know what I make family with.
Just me and my wealth

And therefore it was
that I adopted music

"The "Thumri" for my daughter,
and the "Dadra", my son"

"The "w" in words is tricky, making for
warmth, worn, wealth, worlds, wisdom..."

wastrels and wishes. Worship too.
A well-wisher and your waywardness

Get over this insanity and let's
go away. Way away. I feel walled-in

"But Chuni Babu, where to?
- Wherever you wish"

Where you go every night

"There, where the anklets tinkle?"

"How are you ladies?
Look, whom I've brought to you"

Who is it?
- My classmate from London

"Where are you lost Dev Babu?
Come, here too I hold court"

"Welcome my friend, enter"

Chandramukhi

Your mirror couldn't bear to see
my face. I'm sorry for your loss

"If sorrow be joy's harbinger, every
loss signals what gain shall be?"

Wonderful Chandramukhi!
Even your words are so seductive

"But do use the kohl, to ward off
the stranger's evil eye"

You are much amused?
- Naturally

I see someone trying
to ward off the evil eye...

while women
on the marketplace...

vie to be seen

You touch upon eyespeak
and you have stolen my heart

"What I took for stone,
breathes the life into me"

"so you see Dev Babu?
On "c" and Chandramukhi..."

didn't I warn you she's
cause of such amaZement?

"Chuni Babu also begins with a "c"

Of c's and cause celebres
and Chandramukhi...

you saw how clumsy
she made me look?

Jasmine makes fragrant...

her lovely dark tresses

"Radha's face is aglow, electric"

"Her gait, seductive"

Krishna stopped her

He surprised Radha with a kiss

surprised Radha with a kiss...

with a kiss

Radha's veil was slipping away

"Do not tease me,
Radha pleaded"

Why are you teasing me?

But Krishna was obstinate

He shamed Radha

"That night,
Krishna wouldn't listen"

"But whom could Radha complain to?
Krishna wouldn't listen"

"Oh, why are you teasing me?"

A pot of milk...

Radha carried on her head...

when she heard...

Krishna's footsteps...

and her heart...

skipped a b*at

"Radha pleaded, don't hold my arms
so hard, then her bangles broke"

But that night...

"whom could Radha complain to?
Krishna wouldn't listen"

Oh stop teasing me

Mesmeric

"Where are you off to? Tarry,
the night has just come of age"

I made a big mistake! I shouldn't
have written that letter to Paro

"I want to go to Paro.
- Who's Paro? Wait, wait for me"

"Bad manners, walking out
on a performance"

Dancing to an audience
of drunken men...

is shamelessness

"You are a woman, Chandramukhi.
Realise who you are"

"Woman, mother, sister,
wife, friend"

When she is none...

she is whore

"Could you be some else,
Chandramukhi?"

Price. For our time together

Keep it

Friend...

"see? Someone I wanted
to stay on, is gone"

In what are you lost?
- Such anguish in those eyes

Does anguish make you anxious?

Have courtesans no hearts?
Is she denied the right to love?

"Of course! If there be amour,
paramour there is too"

Will you do me a favour?
- Say it

"For just once,
will you bring him?"

"Promise, I cannot. But try, I shall.
Only for you"

Look at her! Paro is as resplendent
as the Moon tonight

"Had Devdas been here,
he'd know what he has lost"

My Paro is lucky

Her wedding procession is coming
all the way from Manikpur...

like a train of lights.
- You haven't seen it

The bride's mother must not watch
her daughter's wedding procession

Lest the mother gives
the bride the evil eye

And after tonight no one will ever
call her Paro

Just Parvati

Kaki-Ma (Kaki Ma: Aunt)

Is Paro in?

The wedding procession
is about to arrive

"You can see her.
Let's go, Manorama"

I'm back Paro

Why?
- I've come back to you. Forever

When my wedding procession
is at my door?

There's still time. I'll convince
my parents. I'll tell them...

Your parents! Haven't I...?
If honour matters to your family...

doesn't honour matter to us?
Your father may be a landlord

Doesn't my father count? No matter
how lowly we bride-sellers are...

"we never cheat anyone.
- I never cheated you, Paro"

Then why did you leave me?
And that letter?

"Paro you know, your Dev never does
anything deliberately"

I was naive

"Naivete! How naive can you be Dev?
On a whim, you give me a bracelet?"

"On a whim, you write saying
there's no love lost! Naivete?"

Paro forever... another whim?
- Paro! Your wedding procession

Time to part

I don't accept this marriage!
- What difference? I accept

"Then, I'm going to tell everyone...
- I went to see you at 2 am"

You want to malign me?
- I... malign you?

How could you think?
If you ever say that again...

What will you do? Hit me?
Ever since I was a child...

have you held me in fief?
And when I ask for my right...

you do a volte face?
- Enough! Stop it Paro

such vanity is no good.
- Why should I not be vain?

"What are you Dev,
but wealthy and handsome?"

"I possess virtues, beauty.
And after tonight, riches too"

"From now on, I am more
than an equal to you"

"If you be a landlord, I take pride
in being an aristocrat"

such vanity?

Not even the Moon is as vain.
- But the Moon is scarred

What have you done?

"I have scarred you, like the Moon.
With the mark of my love"

On joyous night...

"when her bridal procession
arrived..."

"slowly, a sea of sorrow..."

"rose, stilled in her eyes"

To lilting lutes...

her eyes told the tale

"Always, it was you I loved..."

and I loved and I loved...

and I loved forever

"Forever I have longed for you
as I have longed for nothing else"

My heart has worshipped you...

worshipped you and worshipped...

and worshipped but none else

Never...

"never, never, never..."

and none else

sorrow clouds a joy...

shades of anguish darken her...

as she goes to tell her beloved...

only to tell her beloved

The wound you have left me with...

only adds to my beauty

"My wound I will preserve
as your mark..."

that anoints my forehead

My beloved...

oh beloved...

without you...

my life is incomplete...

vacuous...

empty...

my life is empty...

"Carrying memories
of moments past..."

"with burdened steps
she walks..."

her heart cries...

her eyes weep...

her heart...

resonates

Childhood memories...

of relationships...

swinging in the rain...

smiling...

drawing laughter...

"annoyed, being placated"

Every moment...

etched into my heart...

in the flames of my lamp...

I am carrying...

away

My beloved...

without you...

my life is nothing...

nothing at all

"Always, you I loved..."

and I loved and I loved...

and I loved forever

"I loved, loved, loved"

"You, I loved and loved"

I loved and loved

Only loved and loved and loved

Deva! Open up!
What are you doing?

Open up! What madness is this?
- For my sake! Open up

I said it! Don't tear Deva and Paro
apart! But who listens to me?

What's going on?
- Look! Tell him something

"Narayan, tell him.
- No point. Leave him alone"

The fire will die down on its own.
- But look...

Time plays games with everyone

My daughter treads upon silver now!
But look...

Iook at your son. It's your pride
that he sets afire

Two acts to the melodrama!

In Act One
my daughter and I danced

Act Two
Now you and your son will dance

Why is the new bride so dejected?
- Because last night...

husband and bride slept apart.
- That's for the first night

It's said to be ominous.
But it's over

"From tonight, man and wife
will sleep together"

Are you harassing the bride?

Sit...
sit Parvati

"You know, we had everything here,
but the Moon. And now you're here"

Now you are
the lady of the manor

Also a mother
to these children

"From his first wife,
Bhuvan has three children"

"Your son, Mahendra.
- Obeisances, Chhoti-Ma"

"And our youngest, little Kalika.
- My obeisances, Chhoti-Ma"

"And Yashomati, the eldest"

she's angry. You must placate her

And all of you...

you must adorn
the bride exquisitely...

for her nuptial night

Have you familiarised yourself
with the manor?

"Yes.
- You have my word, Parvati..."

"in this manor, you will have
no problems about anything"

Except one

It is difficult to bide time here.
- Oh but time flies here

I do not understand...?
- A while ago I was a new bride

"And in no time, I'm Chhoti-Ma
(Chhoti-Ma: Little Mother)"

"From bride to "little Mother",
I'm transformed. In no time"

I wish to tell you something.
I married because my Ma insisted

"My children needed a mother,
and this manor needs a lady"

And you...?

Subhadra... was my first wife

"You're now the lady of the manor,
the mother of my children..."

"and my new bride, no doubt.
But subhadra, I can never forget"

"The ominous first night may be over.
But we will stay distanced, forever"

"My mistake or my sin,
call it what you may..."

but do forgive me

"Good morning friend, good morning.
You're lucky, my friend"

I ask help of the spirits
to knock me out of my senses

You won't even touch the spirits
and yet you are inebriated?

You missed telling me? Or made
a pariah of me? Paro and paramour