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real reason for your visit?

What reason could I have?

You see...

I only work for the good

of religion.

Festival of Krishna is here.

I've come for a donation.

Your father always relished

the food from my house.

How much should I give?

It's never too much when you

give to God.

Nobody cares for religion

these days.

The villagers rather spend on

drink and gambling.

Here is ten rupees.

It's unclean to give with your

left hand. Use your right, Sir.

Thank you. Many thanks.

Meet you at the Festival, then.

Have I bored you with my talk?

Shall I send your dinner tonight?

No. Some other time maybe.

Drunk again! No food. No clothes.

But you must drink.

While I have to steal a little

from here and there.

You've no shame. What if we

don't have a child!

Must you kill yourself

drinking toddy?

If the Master knew, he would

kick you out, you swine!

Whose cattle are these?

Lakshmi! Oh Lakshmi!

See, whose cattle are in our field.

Brother, we would be grateful...

...if you restore the water.

Our crops are dying.

I've said once and for all. You get

water only if we can spare it.

Mother says we were always allowed

this privillege.

What is given can be taken away

as well.

Why not dig a well of your own?

I can't help you.

I will have to report this

to father.

Oh yeah! "Report it to father".

Who is he trying to scare?

Whose cattle was it?

The village priest's.

Tell him, the next time

I'll break their legs...

...and they will be padlocked.

Tell your husband to get some

fertiliser from my father.

Bring what, Sir, compost?

Wait. I'll write it out.

Are you crying?

Me? No, why should I cry!

I thought you were.

Do you want something, Sir?

No, No. I...

What's the matter, Sir?

Nothing, nothing.

Lakshmi! Lakshmi!

Lakshmi!

Is this modernity - to deny water

to a brother's farm?

Government is doing away with "Land

Ownerships"...

...but habits die hard.

I believe you were hauled up

as well?

Well, if the upstart can mistreat

his own folk...

...why spare me?

A few books and their heads

get turned.

No thought for elders or the poor.

I say, the end of the world is near.

God know what the world's coming to.

Can I have two bundles of beedi (tobacco)?

I hear he eats food cooked

by the potter's wife?

God knows what else...

...he does with her.

I tell you, the end of the world is here.

Come on, give me some dal.

I only have chick-peas.

Okay. Mother-f***ing relations are

up only at meal times!

Surya is just a kid.

She should not forget caste rules.

Leave it. Leave it all to Allah!

I'm taking some betel-leaves.

You won't give up drinking!

You'll destroy yourself and me. But

drinking you won't give up.

Stop staring! You'll drag us both

into the mud one day.

He was stealing.

Kishtayya.

I give your husband a job...

...and the bastard steals from me?

Thief! Ungrateful wretch!

Please don't punish him.

He won't do it again.

If he does, beat me,

but leave him be.

He is guilty. Call the police Patel.

Eat! Don't ever drink toddy again.

What did you gain by letting

me down in front of master?

Did my mother give me to you

for this?

Why must you ruin my life!

Where's your husband?

When will he come?

I don't know.

How can you not know?

He couldn't have run away.

Lakshmi refuses to come, Sir.

Why?

I don't know.

Why haven't you come to work?

Who will make the tea?

Cook the food?

Clean the house?

Do come tomorrow.

Your tea, Sir.

Leave me! I won't go back to him.

Come on!

No! I won't go.

- We'll drag you there

- No, I won't go

Come on, you b*tch!

Shameless whore! We'll see

what the village court says!

You dare dishonour our brother?

Dare to live with another man?

Leave me alone!

You disgrace yourself and

ask to be left alone?

We'll break all your bones!

You wretch!

Let the villagers make the decision!

Let's see how she won't live!

Let me go. Leave me alone!

Silence! The village court

stands for justice.

Yadgiri, what has your wife done?

First:
She deserted her home.

Second:
She left her husband for

a man from another village.

She broke all caste laws

Disgraced our brother, the whore.

What did she lack, the b*tch!

Why so silent?

We three brothers have two farms,

two wells, two crops a year.

What more did the b*tch need!

Hey, watch your mouth!

We are the judges.

Leave questions to me.

Daughter, how can you defend yourself?

Speak.

Don't be afraid. Do you want to be

with your husband?

Don't be scared.

Why don't you speak up?

Answer. By living in the home

of another caste,

you have disgraced your family,

your house, your village.

Speak. What is wrong

with your husband?

My husband!

I want a child!

That is God's will.

My not having a child is

because of him!

Shaming our brother, you slut!

Lying to hide your own guilt?

Women like you will ruin the world.

Silence!

Daughter, your husband's respect

is your own.

You should not speak ill of him.

A husband is like a God.

This body was made by God.

And it's not just hunger that needs

to be satisfied.

Yadgiri, what do you have to say?

Whatever he says. I'd rather die

than live with him.

We'll kill you first. You hussy!

Quiet, you two! Yadgiri,

what do you want?

I'll go by what you decide.

The village court decrees she

must return to her husband.

No!

If she finds fault with him,

his brothers must compensate.

A woman belongs not to the

man alone, but to the house,

...to the family and to the caste.

What happened?

Why are you sad?

Speak up. What is it, Lakshmi?

I want to go back to my husband.

Do you know where he is?

No, I don't know where the swine is.

Why bother about him then?

He has left you,

that drunken deaf-mute...

...who know if or not he'll return.

Please, don't talk ill of him.

Please, do not speak badly of him.

His only fault is drinking.

All right, I won't say anything.

But, don't worry.

I'll take care of you.

You, Sir?

For how long?

How long? Forever.

Lakshmi, you look like

an angel today.

Like what, Sir?

A fairy.

Have you ever seen a film?

Yes, once, that film "Bal Nagamma".

You look like a film star today.

Like what, Sir?

You know, heroines in films...

...who sing, dance, make love...

Why don't you live here now?

What will people say?

Who cares?

What if Master comes?

Father? He won't come here

And my husband?

You're a fool, Lakshmi. He will

never come back, the swine.

- No, Sir, don't say anything against him.

- Okay

Come here.

Do you like him a lot?

Why talk of him?

What will happen

when your wife arrives?

My wife is still too young.

She will come of age soon

What then?

Nothing.

It won't make

a difference to you.

Tell me something about yourself

What shall I say?

How did you get married

to such a man?

The same way that

everybody gets married.

Still... tell me, how did it happen.

My mother was widowed

when I was quite small.

Kishtayya took care of us

He was young then. A good potter.

I was just about a kid and

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