Devdas Page #7

No Badi-Ma?

- Our daughters, we send away...

in hope that they will be cared for,

but we're disappointed. No, Badi-Ma?

Yashomati.

I was eager to meet you

We ought not to be cross with kin.

You and I are of the same age

So you decide,

how we will relate to each other

Mother and daughter?

Or friends?

Ma

What's this, Ma? All this...?

- Gifts, from your Ma

You'll look great

Will you keep to your daughter?

Won't you give us company?

I do not like the smoking pot.

The smoking pot has pride of place

I don't think so, no pride in what

goes up in smoke

Wonderful, mother-in-law!

I delight in your words

I have been so eager to see you.

We missed each other's weddings

My obeisances

Touching your feet was a pleasure.

I have been given my wish

How I wish I had attended

your wedding...

if only to have my wish of

pulling you up by your ear

Pulling you up by the ear

was a pleasure

This first acquaintance, I shall

always remember, mother-in-law

Remember the relationship too

Dev

What happened?

Dev, Dev

If I am so despicable, if my touch

be so abhorrent, then why...

did you come into my life?

In my solitude I was content

Why be my messiah of misery?

That stopped the spasm didn't it?

Divert your attentions and...

the deepest wounds may be healed.

- Which is what I am upto

Stop it, you've had enough

Why not say I've lived enough?

- How could I...?

You have Paro, memories of Paro

All I have is you, my Midas

A touch

and iron is made to gold

Are you pricing yourself or me?

- In a world of relationships...

what value a woman

of easy virtue?

Nothing. Besides you won't even give me

the right to touch you

Are you in love with me?

Or you could ask me if I breathe

You breathe, Chandramukhi?

What will you get out of it?

I have no home, no heart

Loving isn't only about receiving.

Love, I have traded many times

But loved, I have but once

Pour more into a chalice filled,

and what happens?

It spills,

to the ground

So too my cup floweth over,

with Paro

More can only spill...

to fall, and in the falling,

take you down too

But in the spilling, the wine

must've been caressed by the chalice

Then spill...

some more

Where is Devdas?

I must see him

Asleep. You can't see him now.

- Can I not? I'm here to take him

I'm not leaving him

in this hell

Master...!

- Who gave you my whereabouts?

Chuni Babu

Babu-ji...

Babu-ji won't even see my face

Why has he sent you?

Anyway, he will be displeased

to see me as I am

Sir Narayan Mukherjee will have

to hang his head in shame

Go Dharamdas, go away.

- Listen Deva...

Your father is no more

Too bad

All of a sudden... how...?

He was a nice man

Such men aren't born too often

Babu-ji has earned...

another title, no?

Late Sir Narayan Mukherjee

We loved each other dearly

But too bad, this is too bad

Late, Sir Mukherjee...

was a good man

Does Devdas drink every day?

- When doesn't he drink?

Alcohol, day and night.

Lives on it

Why don't you stop him?

- But only if he'd stay at home

Rarely does he come home.

There he lies in Chitpore...

in Chandramukhi's brothel,

all day

The room upstairs is practically

Deva's residence

Devdas! He lives in a brothel?

Such days I have lived to see

Have you seen Chandramukhi?

- When I went to fetch Deva...

I saw her.

- What is she like?

Sweet deceit, as they say.

Famous courtesan, uses her charms

She plunders, he squanders. We must

rescue our Deva from the hell, Paro

I cannot tell him anything,

but he'll surely listen to you

He holds you in high esteem,

he can't refuse you

Please Didi, tell her

Only you can stop him, Paro.

Only you can stop him from drinking

Dharamdas, get a hold on yourself.

- You'll see him won't you?

Paro, do you want me to malign you,

to give you a bad name?

Had we given ourselves a bad name,

we might've ended up together

You're happy, aren't you Paro?

- Oh it's a different world, Dev

Huge manor, vast estates,

important people, great debates

Great debates!

You've matured Paro

You even look like an aristocrat.

Huge red dot, large eyes...

big dreams...

huge manors,

vast estates...

and grown-up children

Those large eyes,

I can keep watching

But I can't bear to see

big teardrops in those eyes

Just as well that you came by.

I got some things I wish to return

Who knows, I might never return

Come, Paro...

Stand right here

Look...

at yourself. Remember...?

Arre O'Deva

What happened Paro?

Deva, I lost my anklets.

Have you seen them?

No Paro, not l haven't

I stole them

And you knew I did it

and why I did it

All day, the chime of your anklets,

and-Deva-this-and-Deva-that...

And your pot

And here, the memento

of our love, our parting

You just left, that was the end

of the relationship

But I'm still tied

to all these, Paro

And I am tied

to memories of you

What's that?

- A few coins

Three Rupees.

- All they're worth are memories

Mine, aren't they? You thief

I'll take them back,

but only with usury

How much interest will you take?

- Two percent

At two percent...

six cents a month

72 cents a year

For 13 years...

13 years, Paro

9,36

You've become good at arithmetic.

- Circumstance taught me, Paro

Let's talk of something else

Paro, why not turn matchmaker

and find a bride for Devdas?

I hear Manikpur girls are nice?

- Yes, but you want a beauty, no?

No, not a beauty.

Just someone like you

Someone who is pleasant?

- No, must be a bit naughty

Should be able to quarrel with me.

Like I said, she should be like you

You can find them by the thousands.

- Spare me the thousands

Just let me come to grips with

only one, of the likes you. Enough

Give up drinking.

- No

Try.

- No

You can give it up. Promise me

that you'll never drink again

Can you promise

you'll forget me?

It's rather late, Paro

I'm not leaving

until I have your word

I can't.

- You can

One can do anything one wants.

Can you elope with me tonight?

-What are you saying?

Can you elope with me?

You've no one to look after you.

- Can you elope with me?

I had only one dream. To serve you.

- If there's love, there's no fear

One chance to fulfill my dream?

- Can you elope with me? Can you?

Come with me. I'll care for you.

- Can you elope with me, Paro?

I can't bear to see you like this!

I feel like dying, Dev

I feel like dying

If serving me makes you happy,

then so be it

I promise you, before I die

I'll surely come to your doorstep

Swear that, by me

Heartless

Your mother is squandering money.

Given so charitable a disposition...

soon the coffers will be empty.

- Absolutely right, Kumud

But how can I stop Ma?

- You're such a complete fool

You can't. But I can stop her.

- You will stop her? But how?

The keys to the vault? With you?

Ma has been looking for them

Kumud!

I've hidden the keys.

You will say that the keys are lost

What...?

- The vault keys are lost

And the vault has been robbed

The key...

to the money

Brother-in-law! You...?

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