Devdas Page #10

You've done much for me,

Chandramukhi.

One more favour

Let me leave.

- No! You know not what you suffer

You know it and I suffer.

- Then why must you...?

I must face myself

before I'm lost

May a servant follow you?

I cannot bear to see my death

mirrored in your eyes

I have been given heaven and earth

Will we meet again?

I can't know

what the Judge of virtue and vice

will pronounce for you

But in the afterlife, should we meet

I won't be able to renounce you

Deva, what is the matter with you?

- What's the matter...?

Are you all right?

How come you haven't left?

- I'm not leaving you all alone

Are you afraid I'll drink again?

- Alcohol is poison for you

One drop...

- And I'm dead?

Yes! You were delirious,

that's why I didn't leave you

And enough of this journey.

You've had your say

and I've had enough

At the next station, we change the

train and we go to see your mother

At the next station,

you go back to your compartment

Why are you so stubborn?

- Put out the lights

And tomorrow, I'm taking you

to a doctor. Always fickle

Good night, Dharamdas

-Good night

Dharamdas, you're back?

Chuni-babu?

Friend! How are you?

Small world it is, that's why

we keep bumping into each other

So where have you been?

What you been up to?

Right here and I'm fine

Tell me how you have been.

- What with me, I'm soaring

But you look... pale.

What gives, friend?

For a moment I was in a quandary.

Is this my star of Chitpore?

No, I'm all the same.

- Even if you aren't, here I am

Let's raise cheer.

It's been long, let's have a party

So what if we aren't in a brothel?

Even train compartments will do

If not the dancing bells,

let's cheer the rhythm of the rails

If not Chandramukhi,

let it be between her paramours

Here you are

No Chuni Babu, I don't drink.

- Someone has extracted a promise?

No.

- Then do it, for friendship's sake

After ages! Let's live it up.

Why not?

In a tomorrow, may we be?

Might not

You'll be. As for me,

you never know

My share of life I've lived,

now I'm counting on my heart

What with the world, it will even

grudge you your last breath

Encore! How sweet!

That's poetry

Shards of the heart,

they call poetry. I don't care

What hurts is when they want...

- Encores? Wonderful

Encore, encore

Hey Dev Babu...

what's happening?

What's ailing you?

Have you taken a cure?

I'm incurable, Chuni Babu

Then why did you drink, knowing...?

- For friendship's sake, Chuni Babu

Friendship? You take me for

a stranger? Not again, not again...

No stranger, Chuni Babu.

You're the closest to me

I've even imbibed your metaphor.

The Sunrise of life...

the salutations...

then the solace...

and in seconds, time takes

such a turn Chuni Babu...

all ties with life are severed.

- No Dev Babu

The Sun...

the song, the serenade,

sympathy between friends

But separation... no...

- It all ends, Chuni Babu

No

Silence? So deathly?

As if I'm dead already?

I swear by our friendship...

this silence...

is stifling

And you know Chuni Babu,

miles to go...

before my thirst is quenched

Oh when will my thirst

be quenched?

What happened to Chhoti-Ma?

Blood...?

Pandua. Passengers to Manikpur,

Mirzapur, Mirgaon, detrain

"If serving me makes you happy..."

"I promise you, before I die

I will surely come to your doorstep"

"Swear that, by me"

Are we there?

The journey has just begun.

What's wrong with you?

"Devdas... come to me, my darling"

"All day tramping around the village

with that Paro"

"Not another moment

for you in this house"

"Deva! I'm not letting you leave!

- Dharamdas! Don't let him go"

"Stop Dev"

Faster, please

Very little time left

Yes sir

"Babu-ji said leave the village.

Everyone said, leave Paro"

"Paro said, leave drinking.

Now you say, leave this house"

"One day, He will say,

leave this world"

Here's Manikpur.

Brought you in before sun-up

Whom are you seeing in Manikpur?

Who...?

I'm here, Paro

What is the matter, Parvati?

- Someone called out to me

So late at night? Go to bed.

You must be mistaken

Picked him up at Pandua station.

I don't know...

something happened to him overnight.

Never said where to, in Manikpur

What's that crowd outside?

Some stranger has been lying there

all night. Counting his last, maybe

Poor soul, must've come to return

something he owed in this lifetime

God rest his soul

No chance of survival,

Mahendra Babu

He's breathing his last

What is the matter, Parvati?

These letters might provide a clue

If you are inattentive Parvati,

you needn't say the prayers. Leave

For some wish unfulfilled, must be,

he isn't giving up his ghost

The policeman has identified him.

He's from some Tal Sonapur

What's the name?

- I don't know

Mahendra Babu knows.

- Will you please call Mahendra?

I said, call Mahendra.

- Yes

Yes?

- Chhoti-Ma wants to see you. Now

Yes Chhoti-Ma? You summoned me?

- Yes, who's the man lying outside?

Someone from your village,

one Devdas Mukherjee

Who?

- Devdas Mukherjee

How do you know?

- Two letters in his pocket

One, to Dwijdas Mukherjee.

- His elder brother

And to one Kaushalya.

- Yes, his mother

The name was tattooed on his arm.

- At a fair. It rained

Incomplete tattoo...

- Also a torn necklace of pearls

Hit me here...

Where are you going Chhoti-Ma?

By now they must've taken him away

- No

Chhoti-Ma...

Stop, stop

What happened to Chhoti Ma?

- What's going on in this house?

Why this screaming?

What's up Mahendra?

Ma is going out! For some Devdas!

- She has gone insane, stop her

Stop, Parvati!

Don't let her step

outside the manor

Stop Chhoti-Ma

Stop! Babu-ji forbids you

Devdas!

Guards!

Secure the doors

Where will I find again...

my lost innocence

my lost dreams...

my lost childhood

Where is gone the shade of trees...

that were my home?

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