Bombay Velvet Page #3

But the mill owner. are with u..

How do we make more money?

What mu.t we o?

Mr. Mayor.

Aren't we wasting the

backbay land?

By putting the World Trade Centre

in Nariman Point..

We're throwing away

prime propey!

l have the urban development

mini.ter under control..

l have him on camera with my wife.

Now he is playino ball.

l mean it's a loss of a

business oppounity..

look at that lan.

Had me smitten and left in despair,

even in love. well. that's not fair.

Your pride will fall,

becau.e love tower. all.

Disreoard is as you may

you'll surrender one day,

for your raoe is futile.

Mr. Mayor?

- Johnny Balrai.

Hide it if you could,

flaunt it if you should.

This rage, my love,

ain't no oood!

- Mayor needs the cigars..

And one of the oirls in the back room.

The World Trade Centre

is beino relocated.

and our paper did not know that..

l got it from

Khambatta's paper TORRENT..

The World Trade Centre that

was to come up at Nariman Point. .

The Committee has decided

to relocate it at Cuffe Parade.

- Our hunoer for land is so enormous..

that filling the creeks did not

satisfy it.. nor cuttino the iunoles..

and now we are asking the sea

to move back..

so you can reclaim it..

Not you mate.

Except the

Worl Trae Centre relocation..

Rest of the Nariman point remains

exactly as planned.

lf the World Trade Centre

is to oo to Cuffe Parade. .

What becomes of the reclaimed land

at Nariman Point?

Manhattan!

And who is gonna

build the Manhattan?

Who gets the allotment of the

hioh value land..

You'll find all the details

in the press release.

Check this picture..

Recoonize the ouy?

The one we photographed

orabbino melons..

Didja know

he wa. a mini.ter?

We will oet our share too.

Not if we wait for it,

we won't.

When a movie is sold out,

Only those find a ticket..

Who knows when and where to

orab the manaoer.

l still haven't got those

neoatives.

The Mayor forced me to

announce the C relocation..

they have me playing

the oame.

lf you don't find the neoatives..

forget our dream of affordable

housino for mill workers.

That union leader will

buy us time.

Don't wory.

They still pay us the same wages

that the British paid us..

and with the increased maroins..

they are gonna build a

city for the rich.

On our oraves..

On our bloo..

We will not let them have

their Manhattan.

No homes for Zurich's gnomes.

- No homes. no homes.

We want our share of profit

in our han..

Why the Red flao?

Red is socialist.

Why not the democratic Indian flao?

That's Khambatta's flunky,

shoot his picture.

When God was distributing the

''Sma.''..

the union leader was

standino there with a sieve.

Poor fellow wants to be a

Mahatma like Ganhi..

and since there are

no Enolishmen left to fioht. .

He is fighting the

Enolish-speakino men.

l have been watching those immigrants,

ever since l came to this city.

l used to wonder why the hell,

do they waste time fillino the sea.

Now l know.

They were bakino a bihday cake.

For the pay of the bio boys..

but the bihday boy can't blow

the candle. without me.

As lono as l have this..

Khambatta will either give me a

piece of action..

Or kill me.

Keep it with you.

Keep it safe.

No.

What if l lo.e it?

Who asked you to sta

this protest?

My ''Principal..''

Who'. he?

l mean Ideolooy.

We got these biscuits

specially for you.

What's Backbay got to do

with your mills?

Backbay is the south end of Bombay and

your mills are far away in the centre.

l on't .ee the connection.

You think l don't know

whose money is beino used..

to build those buildinos.

All the mill owners

are puttino in tenders.

They say they don't have money

to pay our salaries..

but they have it to make

the skyscraper.

What's your ideology woh?

Name your price.

Eveyone has a price.

l charge Rs.1000 for an

hour in cou.

l've left a hearing

to be here.

Tell me your price.

Sory to waste your 15 minutes..

and your 250 rupees tea.

Hello Ro.ie..

First time l paid a bribe today..

iust to find your phone number.

l tried callino you..

At your sea-front house.

But..

What were you ooino to tell me?

That you found nothing?

Or that you'll tell me nothino?

You were sent there

to find those neoatives. .

l .ometime. woner..

Why don't l just tell your Romeo..

Who you really are..

This city will go to the dogs, Rosie,

if we don't find those neoatives.

You are the star of Bombay Velvet

because l made you one.

My paper talked you up, talked

up your Romeo's sordid speakeasy.

l sent you there to do a iob.

One tiny little iob.

The iob that you foroot.

You don't find those damn negatives

and l'll expose you. Rosie.

There'. .omeone at the oor.

What i. it?

l ha a ba ream..

l felt someone

ha come to kill me.

Johnny.

Tell me.

What i. it?

Take me away from Bombay.

You nuts?

You know what's outside Bombay?

lnia.

And you know that India is

staed and poor.

Here.. We grow eveyday..

From small to laroe..

now it's time to hit by size..

.o that when l ie..

people gonna ask you,

did you know him?

And you ootta say:

He used to be a bio shot.

Should l be cyino when l say it?

No tear..

Promise me. no tears.

Swear!

Buzz off.

l will die before you.

This your membership?

- Hmmm

May l?

My forger can make

one for me easily.

Builders put up buildinos..

That's what they do.

They mix sand with cement.

The mayor brings in the politics..

While the mill owners put up the money.

What have you got to offer,

Johnny?

You are the bio boys here sir..

Big guys with CCl membership

that money can't buy.

Cricket Club of Inia.

And if you have asked me

to come here..

lt's because you know what l can

brino to the deal.

ln two days, the millworkers

will staoe a huoe protest rally.

lf that rally happens,

there will be no more Manhattan.

The union leader has to oo..

make him disappear.

Then this whole movement will flounder

like a headle.. chicken and die out.

Union leader will buy us time?

What'. thi. now?

He'. uncon.ciou..

Kill him and dump him

in the creek.. Let's oo.

Khambatta Sir..

You get to play the game because

we clean up the field for you.

We have taken care of whosoever

blocked your way.

And you will oet a lot for it.

Exactly.

If we coul fix on how much.

lt'll be oood for all of us.

How much do you want?

You must have a fioure in your head.

Give us a piece of land..

l want to buil.

Do you know what it takes

to become a builer?

Do you know what it is

to fill a tener?

Tell me where l can get one.

l'll fill it.

l'll fill it so full that

it will leak from the .ie..

Johnny do you know

what a tender i.?

Yeah, tender means soft.

l know my Enolish.

Mr. Khambatta?

ls he oonna come back or not?

Kukreja's tender is

ooino to oet passed.

Let him make his buildinos..

You'll oet your share.

Who's to say Kukreja

will oive me my share?

l will stand ouarantee.

And what if you chanoe your mind?

Johnny,

if he says it. he will do it.

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