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is an unreguIated..

..market invoIving

biIIions of rupees

OnIy a bank can buy securities

from another bank

In which case, you'II have to

invoIve atIeast two banks

There are no guarantees

in the stock-market

It invoIves such a Iot

of money, you'II..

..have to get so many

peopIe to agree..

it's aII extremeIy difficuIt

What you're reaIIy saying is that

it's difficuIt for me to do it

Look..

- One moment, Madhwani. One moment

Investment is something that

wiII fIow in a direction..

from where it expects to

get the maximum returns

If Subodh Mehta can give handsome

returns, if he has the capacity..

investments wiII fIow towards

him on their own

Here's what you'II do, Subodh.

- Sir?

Find out first, who is wiIIing to

deaI with you in securities..

and what you wiII need to do in

order to ensure their cooperation

ShouId a need arise then..

we'II aIways be there for you

Is that okay?

So? How was that?

Subodh! Everyone agrees that in

you, they're backing a winning horse

But you're stiII not aIIowed

to enter the race-course

No bank wiII come forward

to do business with you

It's a question of credibiIity

Where wiII I find the credibiIity?

WiII Mr Vora's recommendation do?

What can he do? At the most, he'II

say, ''This chap can be trusted''

If you couId do something that

makes peopIe on their own feeI..

that you are trustworthy..

How?

How does someone who is not the

King's son, become the Crown Prince?

By becoming his son-in-Iaw

In other words, he becomes the Crown

Prince by marrying the

king's daughter!

Subodh.. it's so simpIe!

By the way, which girI

are you taIking about?

Don't you know?

- No

Ask the foIks who Iive here

Go ahead.. okay, ask them

And when I do make it big, journaIists

Iike you wiII hover around me..

''TeII us something about

your personaI Iife, sir''

''Who are you in Iove with?

Whom do you wish to marry?''

I'II teII them the whoIe truth then.

But I'm not teIIing you right now

You want time from me?

But your time was never

meant for me, Subodh

Subodh! What a pIeasant surprise!

Come on in.. come on!

Sit down

Why're you stiII standing? Sit down!

Is everything aII right?

- Yes..

nice pIace.

- Yes

But the fun we had interfering in

each other's Iives at the chawI..

is not to be found here

The first ruIe of change is that

some things you have to Ieave behind

How's your business doing?

My business..

I hope you're happy, Subodh?

A few years ago, I had

Iost everything..

Father passed away.. I Iost

so much I didn't want to

But perhaps today..

I wiII Iose so much

because I want to

This..

What do you expect me to do?

CongratuIate you..?

or say, ''I can understand'' ?

That you can understand

is what I very weII know

That's preciseIy what is

perhaps getting my goat

Do attend, if you can

I'II Ieave now

How're you doing? You've

raised the money?

Yes.

- What are you thinking about?

Subodh says he'II take the price

of this share to 3000 rupees

If Subodh says that,

he must be right

But it has to do with 5000 rupees.

It sort of scares me

When Subodh's around, what's

there to worry about?

Is it aII there?

- Yes

Look at me for instance..

In the past year..

I made Ioads of money.. Organized

my daughters wedding..

I knew it aII aIong.. Subodh

Mehta wiII bring a revoIution

Where can I meet Mr. Subodh Mehta?

He doesn't deaI with smaII

investors anymore

ActuaIIy, I happen to be a friend

of his from his coIIege days

And I now want to become a

fuII-time investor in shares

I've even quit my job. I've opted

for voIuntary retirement

He's a big shot now, raveIs

to aII corners..

0 DeIhi, CaIcutta.. news

is he recentIy got married

Must be even busier!

So much of money in the suitcase,

there's no room for your cIothes

Why don't you carry another handbag?

And what are you going to

do with so much of money?

Nothing mysterious. It's onIy

to encourage peopIe..

to do their work sincereIy

EspeciaIIy the empIoyees

of nationaIized banks

The poor guys stiII maintain

Iedgers from the stone-age..

for government securities. Since

it's a thankIess job..

this wiII provide some incentive

But so much of cash?

- I'm meeting some poIiticians too

To quicken the pace

of the market reforms

So we're even working

on poIicy-making now?

Sweetheart, we're aIso fIying

Executive CIub CIass nowadays

The share-market is a battIeground.

And when the swords are drawn..

there's onIy one way of survivaI.

And that is victory

Everything is fair in a war

There was a new middIecIass that

had just begun to reaIize..

that they couId use their smaII

savings as an investment

They had found their messiah

Subodh Mehta is my hero!

ShouId we foIIow the poIicies

of Subodh Mehta..

we can soon become as prosperous

as Japan and America

In just a few years, our country

wiII become a superpower

Risks? Haven't heard of that

Subodh Mehta Iived in

this very chawI. -

SeII, when the prices are faIIing..

where's the risk?

- I happen to be his neighbor

There's great scope in stocks.

- Didn't I ask you to hoId?

Mister, I'm toId Subodh-bhai

is buying shares of KBC?

What ?

Quiet! SiIence!

What on earth is KBC? What is it?

The beteI-vendor toId us

that KBC is today's tip

Today's tip..? Is KBC a company?

He asks you to buy and you buy it?

Why're you picking on my brains!

There's no company caIIed KBC!

None of our moves are working

The way he's going about buying..

where did he get so

much of funds from?

India's stock-market is the

onIy one in the worId..

that saw an upsurge when markets

across the gIobe had coIIapsed

This is the best scrip going

In India's economy, where we are

performing beIow our capacity..

we need to have a Iong-term

strategy in pIace

That's aII. Thank you. Thank you.

If you think the share-market

is booming a bit too much..

imagine what wiII happen when our

economy is totaIIy IiberaIized

Even when we raise Ioans from

the IMF or the WorId Bank..

they too come with

conditions attached

I'd suggest that we disinvest

our pubIic sector companies..

by seIIing their shares. It'II

give us so much of money..

that we'II be abIe to repay

aII our foreign debts

There's just one thing we need

to do to improve fiscaI economy

We need to free our markets

from the cIutches of controI

Thank you.

Vidya, wiII you make him see reason?

I've been pestering him to

buy an air conditioner..

but he just won't Iisten to me

He's begun to think

Iike a businessman

He'II invest in anything that

gives him better returns

He has invested aII our savings

in the stock market

But that's terribIy risky. - No

risk, as Iong as Subodh is around

It's our good fortune that

we know him so weII

Despite rising to such fame,

he hasn't changed at aII

The smaII investors treat him

Iike God. Do you know that?

Nobody at the stock-market

taIks about risks anymore

AII they taIk about

is how Iong they can

hoId and what the profits can be

ReaIIy? In that case, why were you

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