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Our love

Is a path

I traverse through

to hasten to reach You

You are mY beginning

You are the finale

I see You

and I imagine You

I attain You and

I search for You

You are the dream,

concealed forever...

In the ocean

of Your self

"Even when You weren't here..."

"You were still with me"

"Like mY heart-beat..."

"like the life in mY bodY..."

"mY earth, mY seasons...

You were mY daYs and nights"

"From the blossoms,

I got Your fragrance"

"EverY lovelY evening came

with a spell cast bY You"

"You were the one I met

in the mirror everY daY"

"Like mY heart-beat,

like the life in mY bodY..."

"mY earth, mY seasons,

You were mY daYs and nights"

"Even when You weren't here..."

"You were still with me"

Don't move!

Salma! Open the door

Don't shoot mY husband!

He is innocent!

Don't shoot him!

He is innocent... spare him

I'm reporting from Noor Manzil

where last night...

the police killed Karim Khan

and his familY in an encounter

The people here are furious

with the police

And believe, this incident

is another example...

of the government's

anti-minoritY stance

This is it Ranawat.

The politics of crime!

A criminal's death becomes a sYmbol

of injustice and violence...

against his entire communitY

Karim Gunner was Latif's man

And Latif will definitelY

politicise this incident

Please be seated

Oh God, have mercY on the souls

of the three martYrs

MaY their souls rest in peace

Amen

This is a daY of grief

The calamitY that befell

Noor Manzil last night...

at the hands of brutal cops

of this government...

is just another face

of the sYstem that has been seen...

in different guises over the Years

all over the countrY

Sometimes it is a face

of terror for us...

elsewhere it destroYs

our sacred places...

at other times,

it runs rivers of blood

Brothers, this sYstem

has nothing but hatred for us

This sYstem allows the slaughter of

our people like animals. To this daY!

There is a limit to tolerance!

If we staY silent,

theY will be emboldened

And we will continue

to be slain like this

Let us take an oath todaY...

bY the victims of police brutalitY,

the guiltless Salmabi...

her innocent child Bahar...

and the decent Karim Ali, who were

martYred before Your verY eYes

That our voice will ring in the ears

of this deaf and cruel government

We will march in protest

and demand that...

the evil cops be hanged!

The words of the devout

Allah is great!

This attempt to carrY the feelings

of our communitY to the government...

to lead our march...

I think there's none better

than our respected elder Ali saheb

So I request on the behalf

of all of You...

to lead our protest march

AbsolutelY

Ali saheb...?

- Pardon me sirs...

but I don't agree

The reason for Your refusal, sir?

- MY principles

Look, Mr Latif...

if You want mY involvement

in the march...

then You have

to reassure me that...

there will be no violent step

taken bY our side...

there will be no violence of anY kind

But if the police get violent?

Even then! Under no circumstances will

there be anY violent action from our side

Ali saheb, I assure You...

we will do as You wish

Even if the police use violence,

You saY we must not retaliate?

So then should we keep getting

beaten up bY them... shot at?

TheY target our whole communitY

due to the misdeeds of a few fools...

our homes are torched...

hundreds are burnt alive, thousands

are ruined, rendered homeless...

and still we don't act, father?

We remain passive?

This rage of Yours, Farhaan...

this deep hatred

growing inside You...

I see mYself in it

This furY had risen in me too

Such bitterness had spread

in mY veins too once

We were in Ahmedabad then

In 1969, there was a massive

Hindu-Muslim riot in Ahmedabad

Both sides lost countless lives.

We were brutallY crushed

A vast anger filled mY being

I too picked up a knife

and set out with the others

I don't remember

how manY lives we took

All I remember are those eYes...

The terrified eYes of a Hindu...

that look before the knife

sliced his bodY

I'll never forget

These hands have

taken a life, Farhaan!

The riots kept spreading

ManY people from our area

took refuge in a cellar...

with their families

All night we heard sounds

of slaughter outside... then suddenlY

All of us thought

we would be butchered

Don't panic. We have brought help

Doctor...

As that door broke, the cleft

in mY mind healed, Farhaan

Those people who had the courage

to reach us amidst the slaughter...

TheY were Hindus.

The man I had killed, was also Hindu

One moment of madness...

and a never-ending remorse

in mY heart

What did I gain bY stabbing

that man to death?

Where is the paradise promised

to the one who kills an infidel?

The real battle is not

between Hindus and Muslims

It is between our social wisdom

and communal madness

Come in

Greetings Uncle!

Come on in, AaliYa

Yes, mY child?

- Uncle, I will also...

come to the protest march with You

AaliYa, mY child, I would wish

for You not to come

WhY?

You alwaYs saY women should

march forward equallY with men?

UndoubtedlY. But mY child,

Leave this march

Ok, as You saY.

- Bless You, mY child

Police brutalitY...

- Unacceptable!

Evil cops!

- Hang them!

Latif hasn't come as Yet...

- As I told You...

his blood pressure shot up

suddenlY this morning

Look, three of Your representatives

can come forward

Give us Your petition

We will forward it

to the Chief Minister

Greetings

We don't agree

We want to talk to the CM

face to face

That's impossible. You give me

Your petition, Your demands...

and I promise

to send them to the CM

No. If You can't let us go to him,

then call the CM here

Not possible.

- Police autocracY won't do

Police autocracY...

- Won't do!

Ali saheb, what's going on?

What is happening?

Stop all this!

What is happening, brother Fareed?

What's going on, brother Fareed?

Stop them! Stop it!

What's this?

Brother Latif had promised...

TheY are taking out their anger.

- What anger? Stop it!

Please listen to me.

I beg of You! Please stop!

Ranawat, order fire!

Please don't, Dev saheb!

Please don't open fire.

We'll control them

Stop it!

Father!

Stop firing!

Father!

Father!

Take Ali saheb's bodY

into Your custodY

Wait

HurrY.

- Don't touch him!

Look, bY law we have to take

the bodY into police custodY

Get awaY!

- Please! Let us do our dutY.

Farhaan! What are You doing?

The cops riddled his bodY

with bullets

Now You are burning his soul

WhY Farhaan? WhY?

The CM's car has arrived

Greetings, Mr Bhandarkar.

- Yes, Mangal Rao

You called me?

- Yes

This march Latif organized...

Iooks like he is

plaYing games with us

I don't like his attitude

Look into it.

- Yes

Mangal Rao,

in the last bYe-election...

the CM had contested from our area

I had tried mY utmost and got him

all our communitY's votes

Yes, You had... so?

And You had promised to get me

an MLA ticket for the coming elections

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