Arshinagar Page #5

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Please Papa, buy a bike!

Much cooler than a car!

How very irregular!

The school let her go

with a complete stranger?

Why stranger?

Uncle came from your office

I recognized the pass!

The school pass!

That's right.

Your driver had it, you can ask.

What! You must sack him today!

Damn!

That would be

a big mistake, Ma'am!

Anushka..

...go ask someone

to bring some water for me

A very loyal employee!

Just wouldn't hand over the pass!

In the end'

I recommend

you call an ambulance.

I left him bleeding profusely!

- What!

Who the hell are you?

Sit down, Gupta-ji.

Why so angry?

What does all this mean?

That is not clear!

Oh yes!

On the sale deed for this house...

...just a signature

Right here'

Khan Constructions!

But I've already...

'what's his name?

Mirza' - Right, Mirza!

I've told him

this house is not for sale!

You see, this house for me..

...holds memories of your mother!

Such a pity!

But maintaining this old place

is a problem surely?

But think it through by all means'

I am in no hurry.

Ah, Miss Anushka's here too!

Remember the knife

I promised I'd show you?

No Anushka! No!

Come inside, to your room!

Why? I'm going to see

Uncle's knife, that's all'

Want to see what it can do?

Even though it's so small'

See'?

What'?

What?

My song last evening..what did you think?

Honestly?

Great! Terrific!

But you don't really like

that kind of music?

Not true!

Jaan qubool is so romantic!

Romance!

Really?

You understand romance?

You're still so very young!

You're a great looker...

...but your voice is like birdsong!

I'm a good deal older

than you miss!

But...

...if two minds are in tune,

what can be amiss?

Um 'l mean.

'You go to music school too.

Classic?

The word is classical,

not classic!

Yes'! do sing a bit

Beautiful voice!

That day I loved it!

Currently, I'm learning qawwali

Qawwali?

'What's that?

About bawaali (streetfight)

I'm canny

You're so funny!

OK, OK! I get the drift!

So sing a qawwali

There's no one around.

The shrine is empty.

But...you won't like it maybe'

Hey!

What do you think of me?

Uneducated?

Crass?

Don't appreciate serious stuff?

An ass?

Did I say that?

Zuleikha Khan...

...in the past half hour

you haven't said a thing!

After taking so much trouble,

coming out so far'

'all you do is

twist your 'dupatta' (scarf)?

Fate's decree is indelible

Yet overwrite it, 0 my Master

Where, oh where,

should I search for you?

Where, oh where,

should I search for you?

Appear as my love, 0 Master!

All my sorrows and joys

I shall accept from you

This world of cares

I shall surrender to you

You are my Lord, dearest

You are the star of my eye

Sufis dance

with arms opened wide'

...as they travel to Allah in their mind.

N ow, for the refrain.

Come, join the song'

Come!

Come along'

You are my Lord, dearest

You are the star of my eye

You are my Lord, dearest

You are the Star of my eye

By its light let me take refuge..

...In the throb of your heart till I die

Fate's decree is indelible,

overwrite it, 0 my Master

My Master, 0 my Master!

Give me relief, relief'

Give me relief, relief'

'With passionate love fill me!

Fill me with desire abundant...

...more abundant than the sea!

Give me relief, relief,

'With passionate love fill me

Fill me with desire abundant...

...more abundant than the sea!

Were it to happen so...

...that all scenes

with your magic glow

May this world dwell

within my heart...

'where every part is you!

Just heard they've beaten

up a guy from the slum

He's in the hospital, poor bum!

These are their scare tactics...

...to clear Mirrorsville slum

And we?

We just sit & watch?

Let the Miners wield the stick?

Don't worry so much Sabir

We Khans have our own technique!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Moving around openly, these kids!

What if someone were to see?

Tayeb bhai?

Tabbu!

Here in this room? You...?

Who'who's this one?

Bishu Mitter's son!!!

Fate's decree...indelible...

overwrite...my Master

Tell you something Rawno?

Get out of here.

This business, all this fighting

it's not for you my dear.

Get out of here!

Remember Uncle Bunty?

Lives in Mumbai...?

He's very fond of you.

Shall I ask him to try?

Make music your career...

...come home sometimes to me.

After you make good...

...get married...

...to someone you love truly.

Don't listen to what

others say...

...or you'll live to

rue the day!

You have only one life

Live it your own way!

Tell me Aunt...

...Christians & Hindus can marry.

So can Hindu and Sikh

But if it's Hindu-Muslim

the marriage won't stick?

What?

Rot!

Get such ideas out of your head!

In our faith it's forbidden.

It's forbidden today...

...as it was forbidden then

'Then' meaning? When?

A few years before my

marriage maybe'

I had a friend called Madhu..

...from a Hindu family.

Probably quite a bit

younger than me.

Daadijaan's brother's house in Lucknow...?

We went there in winter you know'

This friend of mine lived next door.

Your Abbujaan'

'was crazy about her!

She too, was undone!

Madhu"!

It's an old story...

...but look at the turn of life -

Madhu lives here now...

...as Bishu Mitter's wife!

Keep it loose, see...?

Let go, or he'll cut free!

Cut him down! Yippee!

'Will you marry me?

I will.

What about your Abbu & Ammi?

Tomorrow, I'll tell

my father clearly'

'you're the only

one I'll ever marry

My father cannot bear

to see his daughter in despair

She must always be

happy & carefree!

What makes her happy then?

Only when 'yours truly'

is in her ken?

And then?

Ammi!

Sent all my shirts

to the laundry at one go?

Was it essential to do so?

Not a single good one left!

What am I to wear?

Go find me something,

I'm going out in half an hour!

So you needed her right now?

I see!

How nicely she was oiling my hair!

You ruined it with your yelling, you bear!

You're the only one to go out?

Not me?

So? I'll take over

the oiling now'

Stop it! What d'you know of

oil massages anyhow!

Really? So who does?

Rawno, your lover boy?

'Who-who's Rawno?

Wh-who's Rawno?

Stop acting coy!

I know what you're up to,

each & every ploy!

What you do, where you meet...

I know everything!

Bunking college

& having a great ing!

What are you thinking?

When you'll meet & tell?

Keep one thing in mind

he's a Hindu! Infidel!

More important than that

he's a Mitter!

They're our sworn enemies!

It would be a slur'

But no way will I

marry that Parvez!

I would rather die!

I'm telling you straight.

Really?

So whose wife will you be,

my pretty one?

No one's at all. She'll live alone,

will Zuleika Khan.

That's for the best.

Remain alone...here in this house'

...right here until you die

I'll look after you always'

Stay here, under my eye

Your dad and my mom?

It's got to be a joke!

Your mom and my aunt

were friends!

That's how it broke!

And then?

They dreamed many dreams

the two of them!

The families may have met

to talk things over'

Must have gone pretty far!

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