Devdas Page #5

Wonderful Chandramukhi!

Even your words are so seductive

But do use the kohl, to ward off

the stranger's evil eye

You are much amused?

- Naturally

I see someone trying

to ward off the evil eye...

while women

on the marketplace...

vie to be seen

You touch upon eyespeak

and you have stolen my heart

What I took for stone,

breathes the life into me

So you see Dev Babu?

On "c" and Chandramukhi...

didn't I warn you she's

cause of such amazement?

Chuni Babu also begins with a "c"

Of c's and cause celebres

and Chandramukhi...

you saw how clumsy

she made me look?

"Jasmine makes fragrant..."

"her lovely dark tresses"

"Radha's face is aglow, electric"

"Her gait, seductive"

"Krishna stopped her"

"He surprised Radha with a kiss"

"Surprised Radha with a kiss..."

"with a kiss in my face"

"Radha's veil was slipping away"

"Radha's veil was slipping away"

"slipping away

slipping away"

"Do not tease me,

Radha pleaded"

"Why are you teasing me?"

"Why are you provoking me?"

"Why do you do it?"

But Krishna was obstinate

He shamed Radha

"That night,

Krishna wouldn't listen"

"But whom could Radha complain to?

Krishna wouldn't listen"

"Oh, why are you teasing me?"

"A pot of milk..."

"Radha carried on her head..."

"when she heard..."

"Krishna's footsteps..."

"and her heart..."

"skipped a beat"

"Radha pleaded, don't hold my arms

so hard, then her bangles broke"

"But that night..."

"whom could Radha complain to?

Krishna wouldn't listen"

"Oh stop teasing me"

Mesmeric

Where are you off to? Tarry,

the night has just come of age

I made a big mistake! I shouldn't

have written that letter to Paro

I want to go to Paro.

- Who's Paro? Wait, wait for me

Bad manners, walking out

on a performance

Dancing to an audience

of drunken men...

is shamelessness

You are a woman, Chandramukhi.

Realise who you are

Woman, mother, sister,

wife, friend

When she is none...

she is whore

Could you be some else,

Chandramukhi?

Price. For our time together

Keep it

Come back, my friend...

See? Someone I wanted

to stay on, is gone

In what are you lost?

Such anguish in those eyes

Does anguish make you anxious?

Have courtesans no hearts?

Is she denied the right to love?

Of course! If there be amour,

paramour there is too

Will you do me a favour?

- Say it

For just once,

will you bring him?

Promise, I cannot. But try, I shall.

Only for you

Look at her! Paro is as resplendent

as the Moon tonight

Had Devdas been here,

he'd know what he has lost

My Paro is lucky

Her wedding procession is

like a train of lights.

But you haven't seen it

The bride's mother must not watch

her daughter's wedding procession

Lest the mother gives

the bride the evil eye

And after tonight no one will ever

call her Paro

Just Parvati

Kaki-Ma (Kaki Ma: Aunt)

Is Paro in?

The wedding procession

is about to arrive

You can see her.

Let's go, Manorama

I'm back Paro

Why?

- I've come back to you. Forever

When my wedding procession

is at my door?

There's still time. I'll convince

my parents. I'll tell them...

Your parents! Haven't I...?

If honour matters to your family...

doesn't honour matter to us?

Your father may be a landlord

Doesn't my father count? No matter

how lowly we bride-sellers are...

we never cheat anyone.

- I never cheated you, Paro

Then why did you leave me?

And that letter?

Paro you know, your Dev never does

anything deliberately

I was naive

Naivete! How naive can you be Dev?

On a whim, you give me a bracelet?

On a whim, you write saying

there's no love lost! Naivete?

Paro forever... another whim?

- Paro! Your wedding procession

Time to part

I don't accept this marriage!

- What difference? I accept

Then, I'm going to tell everyone...

- I went to see you at 2 am

You want to malign me?

- I... malign you?

How could you think?

If you ever say that again...

What will you do? Hit me?

Ever since I was a child...

have you held me in fief?

And when I ask for my right...

you do a volte face?

- Enough! Stop it Paro

Such vanity is no good.

- Why should I not be vain?

What are you Dev,

but wealthy and handsome?

I possess virtues, beauty.

And after tonight, riches too

From now on, I am more

than an equal to you

If you be a landlord, I take pride

in being an aristocrat

Such vanity?

Not even the Moon is as vain.

- But the Moon is scarred

What have you done?

I have scarred you, like the Moon.

With the mark of my love

"On joyous night..."

"when her bridal procession

arrived..."

"slowly, a sea of sorrow..."

"rose, stilled in her eyes"

"To lilting lutes..."

"her eyes told the tale"

"Always, it was you I loved..."

"and I loved and I loved..."

"and I loved forever"

"Forever I have longed for you

as I have longed for nothing else"

"My heart has worshipped you..."

"worshipped you and worshipped..."

"and worshipped but none else"

"Never..."

"never, never, never..."

"and none else"

"Sorrow clouds a joy..."

"shades of anguish darken her..."

"as she goes to tell her beloved..."

"only to tell her beloved"

"The wound you have left me with..."

"only adds to my beauty"

"My wound I will preserve

as your mark..."

"that anoints my forehead"

"My beloved..."

"oh beloved..."

"without you..."

"my life is incomplete..."

"vacuous..."

"empty..."

"my life is empty..."

"Carrying memories

of moments past..."

"with burdened steps

she walks..."

"her heart cries..."

"her eyes weep..."

"her heart..."

"resonates"

"Childhood memories..."

"of relationships..."

"swinging in the rain..."

"smiling..."

"drawing laughter..."

"annoyed, being placated"

"Every moment..."

"etched into my heart..."

"in the flames of my lamp..."

"I am carrying..."

"away"

"My beloved..."

"without you..."

"my life is nothing..."

"nothing at all"

"Always, you I loved..."

"and I loved and I loved..."

"and I loved forever"

"I loved, loved, loved"

Devdas! Open up!

What are you doing?

Open up! What madness is this?

- For my sake! Open up

I said it! Don't tear Deva and Paro

apart! But who listens to me?

What's going on?

- Look! Tell him something

Narayan, tell him.

- No point. Leave him alone

The fire will die down on its own.

- But look...

Time plays games with everyone

My daughter treads upon silver now!

But look...

Iook at your son. It's your pride

that he sets afire

Two acts to the melodrama!

In Act One

my daughter and I danced

Act Two

Now you and your son will dance

Why is the new bride so dejected?

- Because last night...

husband and bride slept apart.

- That's for the first night

It's said to be ominous.

But it's over

From tonight, man and wife

will sleep together

Are you harassing the bride?

Sit...

sit Parvati

You know, we had everything here,

but the Moon. And now you're here

Now you are

the lady of the manor

Also a mother

to these children

From his first wife,

Bhuvan has three children

Your son, Mahendra.

- Obeisances, Chhoti-Ma

And our youngest, little Kalika.

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