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02x03 - Kranti

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Panchayat". Aired: 3 April 2020 – present.*
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Series deals with the experiences of an urban engineering graduate, unfamiliar with village cultures, who on completing his degree gets a low-salary position as a secretary of a Gram panchayat in a remote village called Phulera in Uttar Pradesh.

02x03 - Kranti

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It's two. See?

-Your move.

-Yes.

Just a minute. It's my move.

It's your move now.

Don't touch.

Red one I won.

Dad, it's your move. Should I play it?

Yes. Play your moves

as well as your dad's.

-Go ahead.

-Your dad is just sitting here.

-Like a rat sits after eating.

-Go ahead, brother.

He is laying down,

chewing at his banana.

It's your move.

-Move your hand!

-I'll get a six.

Just one?

He scored a single.

-Shall I play, dad?

-Vikas, come out. I have some work.

-Look, my moves are like

-Hurry up. I have some work.

-You don't worry.

-Alright.

Help him grab those.

Carefully.

You take these to Mr Janardan

and you go to Mr Mangesh. Okay?

-Do you know the house? It has a hut.

-Yes.

Go carefully.

-Is it done, Sir?

-Yes, it's done.

-Shall I go.

-Don't touch. Let me play.

Are you playing ludo?

Yes, we are playing

ludo. Is your work done?

Yes. There's just one thing left.

That's good.

Yes, it was necessary. The village

has been declared as ODF since a year

and people haven't

even built their toilets.

There are only a few houses remaining.

All the other houses are done.

And in the remaining few houses,

people have made their arrangements.

That means no one has to go to

the fields if they don't want to. Right?

And if someone is still going

then they are doing it by choice.

Grab him and give him a thrashing.

Like Pradhan sir.

Right?

You scoundrel, you think you have become

very smart after joining the army?

Of course.

The son is in the army and

the father has a large belly.

-Hello

-Mr secretary, this is Vinod.

Vinod.

Yes, Mr Vinod. You seat needs to

be sent. I'll have it sent right away.

Mr secretary, the chief mason is getting

very angry. He has to go somewhere else.

Send it quickly, otherwise,

he will leave without fixing it.

No, no. As soon as the labourers come

back from the site, I'll have it sent.

I'll get your work done.

What?

Hey, please stop, chief!

Please stop for a minute!

Mr secretary, I suggest

that I come and get it myself.

No, no. Do one thing, just don't let the

mason leave. I'll bring it on my bike.

Okay.

He is coming on his bike.

Sit. Why are you getting agitated?

He is coming.

He will get it on his bike.

Now, I feel that my

toilet will be made today.

This is great.

Let the seat be fixed first. Put

the curtain and the couch later.

Will you have tea?

Why hasn't he come yet?

Oh! Why he is taking so much time?

I am coming, sir.

I had gone to the bathroom.

Hey! What's that noise?

Oh, damn.

Yes, Mr Vinod. Next week..

The seat will be fixed next week.

I'll come and do it myself. Have faith.

Mr Vinod, it's government

work. It will take around a week.

Yes. And if you have asked the chief

mason to stay back, let him go.

Alright.

Yes, Mr Vinod. It will be done. okay?

I don't understand what's going on.

Abhishek Sir, I have

cleaned everything up.

Alright.

It will done in a week's time.

It's government work

so what can we say?

I will call you.

Yes.

What?

Hasn't she been talking

on the phone for too long?

Let them talk. She's talking

to him for the first time.

And if it goes well then let's

arrange for them to meet.

When I spoke to you for the first

time, I got it over with in two minutes.

That is why I am paying until today.

Whenever I say anything

you always get agitated.

I always refer to myself

as that since the beginning.

Yes, that's fine. But after the

wedding, you'll have to stay in Delhi.

Start talking a little differently.

We will try.

I will try.

Yes, I will try.

That's it. Excellent.

Alright, so, should we hang up now?

I mean should I hang up?

Alright. You can hang up.

Hello. What happened?

You actually hung up.

You are the one who said

My God, you are so silly.

Alright. Hang up then.

I mean it this time. Go ahead. hang up.

Mad.

What do you feel?

I don't know. She will come and tell.

She's coming.

Did you talk to him?

Cook food fast. I'm hungry.

Has your toilet gotten ready, Vinod?

I will wait for one week. What can I do?

You have been waiting for a year.

How much more will you wait now?

It would have been fixed today, Bhushan.

What should I say to the

secretary if the seat broke? Tell me.

You will have to speak up, Vinod.

Otherwise, these people won't behave.

Today, the seat smashed

into the door-frame and broke.

Tomorrow, it will smash into

a buffalo and day after, into a bull.

The seat will keep breaking there.

And you will keep sh1tting in a hole

here in the name of a toilet.

Is that what you want to

do for the rest of your life?

So, what should I do, brother?

You will have to speak up, Vinod.

You will have to speak up.

Why it's like this?

-Yes, sir.

-Hello.

I couldn't reach Pradhan sir.

He must be in the fields

somewhere. Tell me, sir.

What should I say, Tripathi? The

DM is making me work day and night.

Anyway,

the DM ma'am has got an anonymous tip.

That the people of Phulera

still go to the fields despite

it being declared as ODF.

Is that so

So, they'll raid the village early

tomorrow morning and I'll be there too.

Okay, okay. Fine, sir. You can come.

Thank you, sir.

Don't thank me.

Tell me, are there many

people using the fields?

No, no. Only a few people

are doing it by choice.

They just need to be forbidden.

Rest are

Whatever it is, handle it. Because if DM

ma'am finds anyone

defecating in the open,

that means the ODF status

of Phulera will be cancelled.

Yes, yes, sir.

And do remind Pradhan sir

that I am doing him a favour.

Yes, sir. I'll tell him.

What's the need to call yourself I?

He's a boy from the new

age, he lives in Delhi.

He must want a wife suitable for Delhi.

Then he should tell his father

to find him a girl in Delhi. What

is he doing sitting here in Baliya?

You keep exaggerating small matters.

Rinki, was everything

else fine about the boy?

There was another problem.

You will only mention

problems, not qualities.

Let her tell us at least. Tell

me, what's the problem?

I was saying he laughs a bit too much.

Well, since when is

laughing too much a problem?

Is the boy crazy or something?

No, dad. He is not crazy or anything.

I was just saying that he is

too happy. Who can be that happy?

What's the problem in that?

I was just telling you what I

thought, because you two asked.

Everything is fine. Just ask

them to arrange a meeting.

Yes, yes. I will.

[Ringtone playing]

Hello.

Yes, Mr secretary, tell me.

What happened?

Pradhan sir is one of the people

who go into the fields by choice.

Oh, damn. You are just

repeating the same thing.

I said I won't go from now

on. You are just after me.

But, Pradhan sir, a lot of people go.

Now, tell me, how can we forbid

each one of them so late in the night?

You've done a good job with this.

There are too many mosquitoes.

I have been saying since

so long that there should

be a public announcement

system in the village.

If we had one, we could

have warned everyone together.

Now what should

we do in such an emergency?

It seems that we'll have to go

to every house and inform them.

Go and inform them. Go

on, Praladh. Inform everyone.

Pradhan sir, my foot is hurting a lot.

It's hurting, is it? Walk and show

us. We'll see how much it hurts.

If free alcohol was available somewhere

he would have ran there right now.

No, no. Since Rahul

is here, he has stopped drinking.

He has become

completely vegetarian.

Yes. And how will we go to so

many houses at night, Pradhan sir?

Let's assume that

a house has been skipped,

what will we do if someone from the same

house goes to the fields

early in the morning?

There is one solution.

Hello? Hello, check, check.

Hello. Check.

Hello, check, check.

Hello, check, check.

Check, check.

Here, say it.

Pradhan sir, what

should I say? You tell them.

-No, no. You say it.

-Please, Pradhan sir, I

I myself go into the fields sometimes.

So it doesn't suit me to say

anything. You tell them, please.

-Tell me.

-Okay then. I'll say it.

What are you all looking at?

Haven't you ever seen a man talking

in a microphone? Go on. Leave.

Ramesh, go home. You

can hear everything at home.

-Go on.

-Start.

I was saying that let's

move away from here and announce.

Yes, yes. Come.

Stop. I'll do it.

Do it from the other side.

Good evening, residents of Phulera.

Mr secretary, don't speak like this.

-Mike is switch on.

-Switch off it, sir.

Sometimes it seems that it's good

he doesn't do much office work.

Is this our job now? To tell people

where to sh*t and where not to sh*t?

Go to sleep, mom. You are too much

-I will turn off the light and come.

-Okay.

These mosquitoes

have really bothered me.

Rinki, tell me the truth.

Other than a couple of

things, did you like the boy?

Yes, mom.

Pradhan sir, it's not my everyday

job that I'll speak perfectly.

But, good evening, residents of Phulera

sounds like an orchestra announcement.

Yes, speak in a simple

manner. Like politicians.

Like, my dear brothers and sisters.

Start by saying, my

beloved Phulera residents.

Won't dear be better than beloved?

Beloved is sounding better.

It sounds like a woman. We

have to speak in a manly way.

There is no difference

between men and women.

-My dear

-Let it be. You speak.

-I will say whatever comes to me.

-Okay, okay.

-Just say dear.

-Okay.

Speak.

Beloved residents of Phulera, I am the

Panchayat secretary Abhishek Tripathi.

As you all know that our village

is free from open defecation.

That means there is

a toilet in every house.

Some houses have makeshift

toilets but they are present.

Now that there are toilets

in all the houses,

the panchayat expects

you to use them.

And the people who go to fields by

choice, please don't go tomorrow.

Because if anyone

is found sh1tting in the

fields tomorrow, he will

be fined 500 rupees.

I am repeating again that if anyone

is found sh1tting in the field tomorrow,

he will be fined 500 rupees.

No one will go there.

Thank you.

Have you all heard? No one will

go to sh*t in the fields tomorrow.

If you go, then the cost of one

shirt will be lost in defecating.

Do you understand?

Go now. The fair is over.

-Go on. Leave.

-Go on.

They aren't listening. Go on, leave.

-Go.

-You did a good job.

-Great job.

-You speak so well.

-Mr secretary

-You were getting scared at first.

Imagine if I say this.

Pradhan sir, the big task is over.

Now let's get the small one done.

Who gave this information to DM ma'am?

We should think about it.

It is definitely Vinod's doing.

He must have done it out of anger.

We will now have to pacify his anger.

He called you, didn't he? You

must have his number. Call him.

Yes, I do have his number.

But what should I say?

What would you say?

Just say that go to the

toilet somewhere else

until his seat is fixed.

Where should he go?

I mean he can do it

in the panchayat office.

But why the panchayat office?

He can go to your houses too.

It's our home, Mr secretary.

But this is an office for

you. For me, it's my home.

You make wedding processions

stay here, now you are

making someone defecate

here. What's all this, Pradhan sir?

You are right. Ideally, whoever's

house is the nearest to Vinod,

he should go there. Right?

You are right.

-Pradhan sir, this is wrong.

-What's wrong about it?

My son is there.

What does your son have

to do with Vinod defecating?

Oh, no

Sir, call him.

Call him.

-What?

-He's not answering.

It's alright. Let it be.

Sir, he must be busy with some

work. Leave him a message.

You are being really helpful.

Yes. Just drop him a

good message and get it

over with. We'll deal

with the rest later.

Yes, I send him a message.

Dear Vinod, I hope you're fine.

Brother, look.

Dear Vinod, I hope you're fine. I'm

sending you this message because of

Look at that.

He is writing dear Dear Vinod.

Don't be fooled by this at all.

I won't.

-Do what you have decided.

-Yes.

What happened?

Brother, what if the ODF gets

revoked because of me?

Everyone will get angry at me.

Come on, silly.

A revolution cannot

happen without a sacrifice.

Alright, fine. Cover

your face with a towel.

I will cover it with a towel.

No one will recognize me.

No one will recognize me.

Brother, please light a lamp.

Why do we need a lamp?

You are a lamp yourself.

You are bringing the

light of revolution against

the dictatorship

of the panchayat office.

I will bring the revolution.

I will bring the light.

The number you have dialed

is currently switched off.

Well, he has switched off his phone.

He didn't come to my

house to defecate either.

Damn. He has switched off his phone,

he didn't come to defecate too.

What is this man trying to do?

The BDO is calling. I

think the DM ma'am is here.

Come, we should go too.

No, no. She gets agitated

when she sees you. I'll go alone.

Vikas and I will go to Vinod's house.

No, no. There is no time for that.

Come directly to the

fields and stay away from me.

And keep and eye on Vinod so that

he shouldn't come near me. Okay?

-Let's go.

-Yes. Good morning, Sir.

-Carry on then.

-Yes, sir. I am coming.

Ma'am, people take a tumbler.

No one carries a bucket.

Did I say anything to you?

Be careful, ma'am! It's sh*t.

It's a buffaloes, ma'am

It doesn't look like a buffaloes.

-It's my experience.

-What?

I am experienced ma'am. I keep

going for inspections to villages so

I can tell the difference.

What are these people looking at?

How would I know?

Looking at something.

They are looking at something.

Praladh uncle.

Is that Vinod?

If it's Vinod then why has he

wrapped a towel around his face?

Watch today, if I don't

defecate and bring the light

then my name is not Vinod.

It's him. Let's catch him!

Walk quickly.

Why are you walking so slow?

What happened?

Thorn prick.

Go ahead and stop him. I am coming.

Wait.

It's such a small thorn and you

are crying so much. Come on.

Damn this Vinod

Ma'am, someone must have

done it. We too have our limits.

Ma'am, anyway, this

doesn't look like it's from today.

This is at least a couple of days old.

Why are you taking his side?

No, no, ma'am. There's nothing like

that. In fact, I showed this to you.

Ma'am.

What is all this?

It is sh*t, ma'am.

But, ma'am, it doesn't happen everyday.

Have some faith.

If it was an everyday thing

then you would have seen someone.

Can anyone be seen?

Yes, we haven't seen anyone

Oh no.

Hey! What are you doing?

There was someone there, wasn't it?

Where? No one is there.

I am telling you, someone was there.

There is no one, ma'am. It must

be like a mirage or something.

Have you lost your mind?

Can a mirage be seen in fields?

It was a mirage.

There was someone there.

Move aside.

-Let me go!

-Quiet.

Look, Praladh, before DM ma'am reaches,

I have to defecate and get out of here.

And I have to show her

everyone's true colours.

What are you saying?

Hey, hold his pants.

I am telling you, I

will do it in the pants.

Fine. You can do it in the

pants but not in the fields.

Throw his water away.

The lid is shut.

Throw the bottle away.

Have you lost your mind?

I called you home to

defecate. Why didn't you come?

You threw away my water?

I will defecate without water now.

Hey, Vinod

I will defecate without water now.

I am folding my hands

and requesting you.

-I am folding my hands.

-You are folding your hands?

Is this how you fold your hands?

Two people are grabbing me

and you are saying

We had to do this because

of the way you were behaving.

-Please listen to us.

-Vinod, son, listen to me.

The village has been declared as ODF.

If DM ma'am sees you defecating here,

the honour of our village will be lost.

Aren't you bothered about

the honour of the village?

Who will do it if not you?

This boy is acting very selfish.

It's just a matter of

another seven days, Vinod.

I will arrange for you to

defecate wherever you say.

Right? Isn't it?

Who's there? What is going on here?

Nothing ma'am.

I am Vinod Vinod

Who were these people?

What was going on here?

And why were that man's pants undone?

I don't know what was going on.

Ma'am, actually, ever since

IPC 377 has been revoked

even the villages have

become a little open.

Alright. Everything else is fine.

Just take care.

These one or two cases

shouldn't happen too.

Yes, ma'am.

Ma'am, we have levied a fine of

500 rupees on the people who defecate

in the fields so there aren't many

people who do that anymore.

Good work.

What should I tell you, Pradhan sir?

The situation was such

that I had to promise him.

You have turned my

house into a public toilet.

Hey! Careful.

No, no. It's fine.

-Come on, Vikas.

-It's not that heavy.

Mason.

Take this.

Sit.

So, are you happy?

Yes. I am.

So, mason? Didn't I tell you?