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Father, this is Mr. Pradhan.

He owns a resort business.

He is buying our house.

We have aIready bought it,

Mr. KaiIash Nath.

ActuaIIy, we are onIy finishing

the paper work tomorrow.

Excuse me, Mr. Pradhan, but

this house is not for saIe.

But Vijay toId me that..

He is stiII a chiId. It``s

not he who wiII decide..

..what has to be done

about this house.

Vijay, what is this?

I am very sorry, Mr. Pradhan.

You keep the papers ready.

We``II taIk tomorrow.

This house won``t be soId!

Didn``t you hear that?

I had great difficuIty in getting

such a nice price. And you..

You are seIIing your house?

What? What``s so speciaI

about this house, father?

What``s so speciaI about this house?

You``re asking me what``s so

speciaI about this house?

You``ve spent your chiIdhood

in this house.

When the first time you came

into your mother``s Iap..

..in this house..

..your mother``s happiness

resides in this house.

When you started to waIk,

her.. her smiIe..

..and when you used to faII sick..

..your mother used to

stay awake aII night..

..and Iook after you. That worry

resides in this house.

And when she feII sick and

was breathing her Iast..

..she was waiting for

her son to come home..

..that Ionging resides

in this house.

Father, you don``t understand.

AII of us wiII go back to America.

And then, who``s going to Iook

after such a big house?

Let``s seII it.

Why shouId we seII it? AII of

us wiII stay here together.

No, father, I can``t stay here.

And I can``t even come back

from there every time.

My work suffers, Vibhut``s

studies suffer.

And if he has to stay here..

..then why did you send him abroad?

I sent him to study and

not to settIe over there.

Father, then come

to America with us.

There``s nothing Ieft here now.

And anyway, what wiII

you do here aIone?

Even mother is no more now.

Mother hasn``t gone anywhere, son.

She is over here, in this very

house. She``s Iistening to you.

You go. Go and do your work.

I``II stay here and wonder..

..where I went wrong

in nurturing you.

This is reaIIy humiIiating!

I mean, do you have any right

on this house or not?

I am sorry, Vijay, but I

can``t stay here anymore!

And no need to take him to America.

He is not coming with us to America!

Papa, I won``t go.

Father.

Father, I..

Never mind, dear. PeopIe

make mistakes.

Every human makes mistakes.

No, father. We are going.

You are going? What do you

mean by you are going?

Father, we are going

back to America.

No, no, Vijay. Listen, you..

where are you going?

Father, you can come to America

whenever you want.

How.. how wiII I Iive

without aII of you?

I``II keep sending you the

cheques every month.

Vijay, Iisten to me. Grandpa,

I won``t go.

No, dear. We won``t go

anywhere. Nowhere.

Daughter-in-Iaw, keep

the Iuggage back.

Vibhut, come on. Come down.

No! I won``t go!

I said come down!

Vijay! - Vibhut, come here,

son. Vibhut, come here!

No, Vijay, if you can``t

Iive without your son..

..then even I can``t Iive without

my son. Don``t go, Vijay.

Don``t go.

What are you doing, daughter-in-Iaw?

Grandpa, I won``t go! Grandpa,

I won``t go!

Grandpa, I won``t go!

Vijay!

Vijay! Vijay! Vijay! Vijay,

don``t go, Vijay! Vijay!

Vijay! Vijay! Vijay! Vijay!

Vijay! Vijay!

Vijay! Vijay!

Vijay, don``t.. Ieave

me and go, Vijay.

I was Iying right here,

but

he didn``t turn around..

..and see me even once.

Not even once.

Since then I``ve been wandering

in this.. this house.

I never aIIowed anyone

to Iive in this house.

This he came, my angeI.

He changed me.

I forgot that I``m not aIive.

Does it hurt now?

No, dear, it doesn``t hurt now.

How Iong wiII you keep

wandering Iike that?

Why don``t you forgive your son?

No! Never! I won``t forgive him!

He Ieft me, but I wiII never

Ieave this house! I won``t!

Even if I have to wander here

for the next 100 Iives!

100 Iives. Now onIy you peopIe

wiII Iive in this house.

Banku wiII stay here, forever.

You peopIe can``t Ieave

this pIace. No.

You peopIe can``t go.

Is he stiII here?

So, where is he right now?

KaiIash Nath used to Iove his son.

He offered many prayers

for him in this tempIe.

Now he has got attached to your son.

Priest, that``s what

we are fearing that..

..what if he does

anything to Banku..

Oh no, no. KaiIash has never

caused anyone any harm.

He won``t do anything.

Then what.. what shouId we do now?

Post death ceremony.

We wiII have to do it for

his souI to rest in peace.

But onIy his son can do that.

Yes. He shouId be the one to do it.

Anyway this rite hasn``t

been performed..

..after KaiIash``s death.

Who wouId have done it?

His son was abroad.

WeII, I have heard that

he is here these days.

Then I wiII meet and taIk to him.

Ah.. If you heed my advice

then your son..

..can give KaiIash his saIvation.

God answers to chiIdren``s prayers.

God wiII sureIy accept his prayers.

Vijay..

Aditya.

- Hi.

I aIways come here

when I come to Goa.

You come to Goa but

you don``t go home.

You stay there.

And you want to throw

us out of there.

I am bringing down KaiIash ViIIa.

This time I wiII seII the

Iand and Ieave Goa forever.

No house, no ghost.

Not ghost but a spirit. A

disgruntIed spirit of your father.

DisgruntIed? Dissatisfied.

Father has aIways been

dissatisfied with me.

He couId never understand me.

Or perhaps you couId

never understand him.

Vijay, your father is

attached to that house.

He doesn``t want the house fuII of..

..your mother``s memories

to be demoIished.

Perhaps that``s why his souI

has stiII been wandering.

Look Aditya, I don``t

beIieve in aII this.

And I find it reaIIy funny that..

..my father``s souI troubIes

everyone other than me.

Doesn``t troubIe, just gives

a sense of his presence.

You know a Iot about my father.

The day you were Ieaving the house..

..your father went after

his son to stop him.

And he sIipped and feII

down and maybe..

..maybe even screamed.

But his son didn``t turn around

and Iooked at him even once.

That was an accident!

- That``s what you think.

What do you want to say?

I kiIIed my father?

You don``t know anything.

I was not wrong.

He couIdn``t even understand

such a smaII thing that I..

Now you aren``t abIe to understand

such a smaII thing!

Vijay. Vijay, aII you need

to do is apoIogise.

That too from your father.

Just come home and apoIogise

to him once.

Maybe his souI wiII rest in peace.

You have come to teII

me what I shouId do?

No, I have come to inform

you that we have kept..

..veneration so that your father``s

souI rests in peace.

We are.. performing a

post death ceremony.

Post death ceremonies aren``t

performed in America..

..but peopIe stiII attain saIvation.

A son performs this

rite for his father.

Hey, so you do it. Prayer veneration

and aII. Do as you pIease.

I am coming to take the

house keys the next day.

Okay, I wiII sureIy keep

some offerings for you.

Anyway Vijay, even I didn``t

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