01x06 - Pride and Honour

[bunniefuu]

[police siren blaring]

-[Aditya] Sir, it's a vast treasure.
-[Patil] Hmm.

There isn't just one single key.
It's a big key.

-And the key has many parts.
-So?

So...
He doesn't understand what I am saying.

I...

Sir, it's a fascinating story.

But since last night,
they have been repeating it.

-It's not a story, sir.
-What is it then?

-We are speaking the truth.
-What's the truth?

-That's what we have been telling you.
-Say it then.

[suspenseful music]

Look.

Don't narrate some movie's story
and misguide us.

Speak the whole truth.

Sir, I have already told you that.

You won't believe it.
But that's the truth.

Okay.
What did you say the other day?

Prima facie evidence.

Motive.

Post-mortem.

You dismissed the CCTV footage.

And today,
you want us to believe you.

Without any evidence.

How so?

-Hold on.
-What?

There is evidence.

Huh?

-Adi.
-Just give me a second.

Sir, another story.

Show me. What is it?

[intriguing music]

I don't know about the movie.

But I have a trailer.

Pratap Chandrarao and Dr. Ravi.

Where are they?

No idea, sir.

You were fighting for him
at the police station.

And you don't know where he is.

Sir, all I know is that Ravi
is very close to his destination.

And he is finding the answers
of his questions.

[eagle screaming]

I have been to Raigad Fort

more than a hundred times.

Right from top to bottom,

each corner, each stone knows me.

In the quest for the throne,
Zulfiqar Khan, the British,

and wonder
how many historians like me

adopted different methods.

But all of us failed.

Do you know why?

Because none of us could imagine

where the farsighted Shiledars

must have hidden the throne.

[dynamic music builds]

Ravi.

[Pratap panting]

Nandadeep's Rajwada,

Rajsadar...

and Rajsthambh.

A secret underground tunnel
in the centre

will lead you
to the King's throne.

[mysterious music]

Sir!

Rajsthambh means the Vijay Sthambh.

In the same direction,

on the other side...

there is Rajsadar.

The Maharaj's court.

Rajwada...

lies in between them.

The Maharaj's palace.

There is a secret tunnel
in the centre.

It means we have to find
a place that connects all three.

A secret place.
Something like a tunnel, I think.

Ravi.

There are many places in Raigad

that are buried underground
like a tunnel.

Most of them no longer exist,
but two of them do.

One of them is the granary.

And the other place
connects Rajwada,

Rajsadar and Rajsthambh.

Khalwat Khana.

[dynamic music rises]

KHALWAT KHANA

[music fades out]

Sir, don't you think
this chamber's design is strange?

I mean there is only one entrance.

And it's so small.

If you keep a boulder
at the entrance,

nobody will even know
there is a chamber here.

In olden times, this chamber
was below a two-storied structure.

It was impossible to
spot it from outside.

Even if somebody came inside,
he would never find it.

That's why it was called Khalwat Khana
or Maslat Khana.

This is where the King's spies
passed on information to him.

Sir, I doubt this room was built
for secret discussions.

Why do you say that?

Look, sir.

There is sufficient light outside.
But this room is so dark.

[laughs]

Just imagine...

how the chamber must have been
below a two-storied structure, sir.

It must have been dark
even during the day.

-No question of any meetings.
-Ravi.

People used to light lamps and
torches here.

Exactly, sir.

But look, there is no place to put
torches on the walls.

And...

Hold on, sir.

[suspenseful music]

[lighter clicks]

Sir, let's assume that
torches were used here.

But just imagine.

There is only one source of
ventilation in the chamber.

And that's the doorway.

It's obvious. During the meetings,
the door must be closed.

It means
the torches must be consuming

the remaining oxygen in the chamber.

Having a discussion in this room

is equivalent to death
by suffocation, sir.

What do you think?
What was the chamber used for?

Sir, what we are thinking
is very obvious.

And we can't think obvious.

We will have to think
like a Shiledar, sir.

Because Shiledars' thought process

was way beyond common people's
thought process.

Perhaps the Shiledars
built this chamber

to misguide their enemies.

So that even if
the enemy reaches here,

he will leave after seeing
the closed chamber.

He won't even imagine
that there could be a tunnel

connecting the chamber.

Sir, my gut feeling says that

this chamber leads to the throne.

Ravi.

For so many years, no historian
could comprehend it.

I was...

I was also searching for this place.

But I couldn't decipher the meaning.

-The throne's clue is here.
-Yes, sir.

[fire crackling]

[scraping]

Sir,
you must know about the royal seal.

-Yes.
-What's written on it?

[in Sanskrit] "The glory of this seal
of Shahji's son Shivaji

"will grow like the crescent moon

"and will always seek
the welfare of the people."

Pratipashchandra.

Pratipashchandra
means the crescent. Right?

Yes.

Sir!

The crescent.

The crescent.

Pratipashchandra.

The first word of the royal seal.

Yes, sir.

[door lock clicks, opens]

The symbol of Swarajya.

Now this symbol will show us
the way, sir.

Yes.

Hold this.

-Carefully.
-Yes.

[Ravi grunts]

[bats screeching]

Carefully.

[grunts]

[thrilling music]

Hey.

[door closes, thuds]

[Pratap gasps]

Ravi, which way shall we go?

I don't know, sir.

But I am sure that one tunnel leads
to the throne.

And the other might lead us
to Tak Mak Tok.

From where culprits were pushed
to die in the ravine.

We will have to go by our instincts.

Sir, look here.

[intriguing music]

Goddess Vishwavandita.

[in Sanskrit] Pratipashchandra
Lekhev Vardhishnu Vishwavandita.

Sir.

Goddess will show us the right way.

Thanks a lot.

Ravi.

-This way.
-Yes, sir.

[Pratap gasping]

Our ancestors were geniuses, sir.

There were no advanced
machineries at that time.

They built such a deep tunnel.

It's unbelievable.

Seriously, Ravi.

Our technique was unbelievable.

Almost every fort has such
underground tunnels.

[suspenseful music]

Sir.

-Ravi!
-Sir.

The words that are written
on the royal seal.

[in Sanskrit] Sahasuno Shivsyaisha.

Shahji's son Shivaji Maharaj.

Sir.

-It shows that we should go this way.
-Yes.

[music rises]

-Sir!
-Yes?

-There?
-Yes.

Sir, the doorway to our destination.

[in Sanskrit] Mudra Bhadraya Rajte.

[grunts]

[loud thud]

[dynamic music rises]

The throne.

My throne.

[thrilling music builds]

The royal seal.

The royal seal, sir.

Even after such a long quest,

we don't have
all three parts of the key, sir.

I had promised you that
I will take you to the throne.

We have come till here. But...

[g*nsh*t goes off]

[Ravi screams]

[dramatic music]

Perhaps there were never
three parts of the key.

It was just a rumour spread
by the Shiledars

to misguide people like us
who are searching for the throne.

[gasps]

I got your father...

and Justice Dixit k*lled.

And that moron Ramachandran.

He was a small-time minister.

I made him the governor.
He was my pawn.

He thought he was the heir
of Vijayanagara Empire.

It's good for me.

Because
I was searching for the throne...

in the guise of the treasure.

[gasps]

But, Ravi...

you were different.

Absolutely different.

After meeting you, I understood that,

although I spent my entire life
on my quest for the throne,

only a Shiledar can take me there.

That's why to win your trust
I called the police.

And I saved you from the police.

[chuckles]

Why did you do all that?

Why?

Because the world

knows me as Shiv Charitrakar.

I...

Pratap Chandrarao,

am the true heir of Rairi.

Do you know what Rairi is?

It's what you people call Raigad.

It was ours.

My ancestors used to rule
this place before Shivaji seized it.

Your Shivaji k*lled
my ancestors brutally.

We didn't forget it.

My ancestors wanted to fight openly.

But it was not possible.

So a secret w*r was declared.

Generations passed,
but the secret w*r is still going on.

The only difference is that
my ancestors used to fight secretly.

But I cannot fight secretly.

Because I have realised
that Shivaji is not just a name.

It's a philosophy.

This is the symbol

of that philosophy and history.

Don't turn, or else I'll sh**t you!

I will destroy the throne.

And I, Pratap Chandrarao,

will destroy Shivaji's philosophy too.

[dial wheels clank]

[dial whirring]

[stones rumbling]

[Pratap gasping]

Hey!

[water gushing]

[ominous music]

That door won't open, Pratap Rao.

[Pratap grunts]

Because there are
three parts of the key.

[suspenseful music]

Right from the beginning

I was suspicious of
certain things that you said.

When I came to your house,

you called me a Shiledar.

Only a true Shiledar can lead me
to Maharaj's throne.

How?

We have never met before.

I didn't tell you anything
about myself.

How did you know I am a Shiledar?

Pratap Rao.

You played with me
to get the throne.

And I played with you
to find out your truth.

That's why I told you everything.

But I didn't tell you

that I have
the third part of the key.

-Huh?
-It's here.

Give me.

Give me the key!

Do you want the key?

Give it to me.
Or else I will sh**t.

-[water splashing]
-Hey!

-[grunts]
-[screams]

[grunts]

[screams]

[sword clanks]

[grunts]

[yelling]

[grunts]

[water sloshes]

Ravi!

[water sloshes]

[screams]

[water gurgling]

[gasps]

Your Shivaji's throne is now mine.

It belongs to Pratap Chandrarao.

It's mine.

[water gurgling]

[young Ravi] Father,
young Shivaji was petrified.

How did his mother console him?

[Shrikant] You need courage to
conquer fear.

The realisation
of your duty gives you courage.

[pounding on glass]

[water gurgling]

[water splashing]

[dramatic music]

[screams]

Call him Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Fools like you don't deserve
to take his name.

As long as the Shiledars are alive,

people like you cannot reach
the throne.

Never!

[dramatic music continues]

[screams]

[grunts]

[water splashing]

[gasping]

[grunts heavily]

[water gurgling]

-[dial clicking]
-[dynamic music builds up]

[dial lock whirring]

[stones rumbling]

[screams]

-[music fades out]
-[door lock clicks, opens]

[dramatic music]

[Ravi] Father,
I have understood my duty.

It's to protect
Shivaji Maharaj's heritage.

I promise you I will fulfil the duty
of a true Shiledar.

I will always safeguard the honour
of Shivaji Maharaj's throne.

As long as I am alive,
I won't let Shivaji Maharaj's history

or Shiledars' prestige gets tarnished.

From today, I have only one goal
in my life.

To fulfil my duty.

I, Ravi Shrikant Naik...

am a Shiledar.

I salute the golden throne

on which my Maharaj used to sit.

[dramatic music rises]

[dynamic music]

[man praising Shivaji Maharaj]

-Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj!
-[crowd] Long live!

-Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj!
-Long live!

-Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj!
-Long live!

-Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj!
-Long live!

[dynamic music rises]