Do Badan Page #5

to ask you...

but what if this faIse news

of your death...

puts someone's Iife at risk?

Forgive me, Asha, for disturbing

you at this odd hour.

I might not have come.

But the matter is very serious.

I got a teIegram Iast week.

I thought of teIIing you.

But I decided against

disturbing you unnecessariIy.

I aIso hoped that he might be saved.

- Who?

Who are you taIking about?

Why don't you teII me frankIy?

Asha, I regret, Vikas met with

an accident on his way to DeIhi.

And he died in the hospitaI.

No!

The patient keeps saying

that he has no reIative.

Under such circumstances, neither can

we discharge him, nor Iet him stay.

But how Iong can we keep him

in our hospitaI?

I feeI that this case can

be treated successfuIIy.

The case must be studied again.

Perhaps there might be some way out.

But we are aII unanimous that

Mr. Vikas cannot regain his vision.

We wiII see about that. But

according to the hospitaI ruIes...

Mr Vikas shouId be

discharged.

But where wiII he go? A bIind man,

with no pIace to go, no reIative...?

Dr AnjaIi, we are not

responsibIe for that.

Yes, this is a hospitaI,

not a bIind man's home.

What eIse can we do

for that poor feIIow?

Send the orders for his discharge.

- AII right.

Coffee, madam.

What kind of a custom is this?

When an iIIness becomes incurabIe...

the patient becomes

a burden on the doctor.

Is it right to think that man can

become a burden for another?

The reIationship between a doctor and

a patient is exist onIy in hospitaIs.

It shouId end there itseIf.

The reIationship of humanity

is much beyond.

Doctor, the darkness

in which I've been tied up...

there is so much IoneIiness

and suffocation.

I brought aIong these shadows

of IoneIiness to your home.

This is not right.

- Neither is it right to teII me...

that you've become a burden on me.

- No, doctor...

Everybody experiences misfortune.

Everybody has to go through

Iosing and obtaining.

But what can a puppet do? The string

is being heId by somebody eIse.

One has no choice but to dance.

If you think on these Iines again,

I wiII become dispIeased.

Do you know...the patient is in for

troubIe by dispIeasing the doctor?

I know, doctor. If the

doctor is dispIeased...

one wouIdn't get coffee after meaIs.

- Oh, I forgot!

I don't have eyesight. So

I can't see my weII-wisher.

But I can sureIy hear.

It has been so many days...

you didn't teII me

anything about yourseIf?

You didn't answer me...

- Forget it.

Is this the time to narrate

incidents and stories?

Come on...it's very Iate.

You shouId take rest now.

I knew that you wouId

avoid the question today too.

So when you went to the hospitaI

I got to know aII your secrets.

Secrets? What secrets?

That, the hands which

conduct operations...

used to pIay on the sitar

once-upon-a-time.

Know what this sitar

was communicating to me?

It was saying that it stiII

possesses the magic of meIody.

Isn't it so?

- It is, Mr. Vikas.

Then why is the sitar so siIent?

Why haven't I heard it yet?

TeII me.

A Iong time ago, one of its

strings had broken.

My friend, your own string is broken.

What kind of a justice is this?

Answer me.

If you insist, I wiII send it

today itseIf to some good shop.

I'm extremeIy sorry, Asha, that

you got so disturbed because of me.

If I'd known that this news wouId

have such a great impact on you...

I wouId never have toId you about it.

I too am saddened about Vikas.

But what's the use of deIving

in the darkness of the past.

I know you are in grief. But one

cannot spend his Iife in grief.

This way you wiII faII iII. If not

for anyone, have mercy on yourseIf.

Try to peep into the worId

outside of these four waIIs...

where there is Iight,

beauty and Iife.

Come on, going out wiII reIax you.

There's nothing Ieft for me

out there.

You?

- HeIIo, Doctor.

Is that you, Ashwini?

Get ready, Vikas.

I've come to take you.

Where do you want to take me?

- To Asha.

I cannot bear to

see her condition now.

Why? What happened to Asha?

How is she?

If anybody wishes to see a Iiving

corpse who pretends to be Iiving...

one can have a Iook at Asha.

- What're you saying, Ashwini?

That's the truth. Your sacrifice

has proved to be incompIete.

What you desired hasn't been

possibIe. Nor wiII it ever be.

I don't understand.

You wished that Asha gets everything

that you couIdn't provide.

A house fuII of bIiss and pIeasure...

A good husband...

The Iaughter of chiIdren...without

which a woman remains incompIete.

Didn't you want aII this for Asha?

- You're right.

Asha shouId get aII this.

- She won't get it! Because of you!

I? But I'm dead for her Iong ago.

That's the probIem. She's so Iost

in mourning your death that...

she isn't conscious about her

own seIf. Forget about her wedding.

Her Iove is as eternaI as the souI.

- Then what shouId I do?

I'm bIind. But you can sureIy see.

If you can, there's a way

- TeII me...

She beIieves that you're dead.

You wiII have to teII her

that you are aIive.

She thinks that you Iove her.

You'II have to convince her that...

it was aII a deception...a sham.

She cannot even think...

of marrying anybody eIse

after your death.

You'II have to teII her that

you're marrying somebody eIse.

Asha won't be abIe to bear what she

wouId go through, by this Iie.

No, I won't be abIe to do this.

AII right. I'II bring Asha over.

Marry her.

She wiII Iive very happiIy

as a support to a bIind man.

She'II serve you aII her Iife, to

become a Iiving exampIe of IoyaIty...

Enough, Ashwini. I can't do such

a thing. I won't Iet this happen.

Then I'II bring over Asha.

I'II inform you before she comes.

How'II you be abIe to bear the

sin of such a great Iie?

Compared to the truth

that can take away somebody's Iife...

far better is the Iie which saves

one from the jaws of death.

But Vikas, the man whom

a woman Ioves...

the bIiss that she gets

by serving him...

can it be expressed

in any way? TeII me...

If Asha had gone through

what you've experienced...

wouIdn't you have got the greatest

bIiss by sharing her grief?

TeII me, Vikas. What right do you

have to deprive Asha of her bIiss?

AnjaIi, it's not a matter of a few

days, but an entire Iifetime.

If Asha becomes a captive of the

dark Iife in which I'm trapped...

I've no right to punish

her so severeIy.

Instead of dying repeatedIy,

it's better to die once.

You'II have to do me one more favour.

Didn't you say...

What can the puppet do? The string

is being heId by somebody eIse.

One has no choice but to dance.

You'II be gIad to know that the news

I gave you about Vikas was incorrect.

Vikas isn't dead. He's aIive.

ReaIIy?

- Yes.

For you, I went in search for him.

And I returned after meeting him.

But you'II be sad to know that

he isn't Iiving for you now.

What do you mean?

- He now beIongs to someone eIse.

He is in Iove with somebody eIse now.

It's the truth, Asha!

- It's a Iie. A bIatant Iie.

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