Gulaal Page #5

The night a rain of blood

fell thundering from the sky..

That night the city was

lashed by a crimson flood..

That night the city was

lashed by a crimson flood..

Deathly quiet..

Silent, alien..

Life..

Squirms in a violent bed..

Shadows collect, thick and tight..

..Iike ruffled black tangled hair..

Darkness creep up Iike unsure ghosts..

Wrapping shakily around bedposts..

There's soft crunching

of a footstep prying..

There's the faint crackle

of a bonfire dying..

There's the soft howIs

of the beasts of night..

There's the faint drip of a tap..

There's a window black and stark..

There's a chimney dead and dark..

There's a tree that's

bent Iike a frown..

Something weighs its branches down.

You are not allowed to go

there.. - What? - You can't.

He was my father too..

At the mouth of the desolate

street, a lone dog howIs and weeps.

In the pale dirty yellow Iight

of the lamppost something creeps..

Tip toeing through the dark, into

other shadows, a shadow seeps.

When a car's hot Iight brush the

legs of a bridge with two sweeps.

It's then that this city sleeps.

It's then that this city sleeps.

It's then that this city sleeps.

When this city goes to sleep,

do you know what it takes?

The Iiving turns to ash and

dust, the dead slowly awake..

A mother lets out her last

anguished scream on a hospital bed..

The next instant she's holding a

small new mass of flesh instead..

Here's a wrangIing over the

price of flesh for the night..

Here's two tearless eyes watching

a wound disappear from sight..

In the garish hotel down the

road there's a silent compromise..

From a dead-drunken

stupor a joke rises.

Half naked bodies are caked

in colour, put on display.

Red-smeared faces Iike

devils, come out to play.

And all of this, they ask

surprised, happens when?

It all happens, we'll tell

them, right then. Then..

..when the city sleeps.

When the city sleeps..

When the city sleeps..

Sign this.

What is this?

- Sign.

Where?

Here. Here.

The man because of whom you are here..

..dreamt of a Rajput Rajasthan.

If that girl becomes the General

Secretary, it won't be good.

They have killed Ransa but

they cannot kill his soul.

His friend, the person closest to him..

Dileep Singh will continue

from where Ransa left us..

..and fulfil promises he had made..

Dileep Singh. - Live long.

- Dileep Singh. - Live long!

Are you alone at that time?

Everybody is there.

Every candidate has his

own person present there..

We have to show them

that we are putting..

..the right vote in the right basket.

When the baskets are full, we take

them inside to count the votes.

Packs of 50 votes each

are then made and counted.

Ransa was my friend.

I'll do everything he promised to do.

I don't understand all this too well.

I..

Dileep Singh!

- Live long!

Dileep Singh!

- Live long!

Dileep Singh!

- Live long!

Dileep Singh!

- Live long!

Dileep Singh!

- Live long!

Make packs of 40 for Dileep Singh.

But count them as 50. Make

packs of 60 for the girl..

..and continue making

these packs of 60 and 40.

So, when you touch 500..

how many will the girl have?

All packs are counted.

If there is a discrepancy

in the final counting..

..we'll all get into trouble.

Only the packs are counted

in the final counting.

And if the girl appeals for a recount..

..then according to

election rules only..

..the number of packs will be counted..

..the packs cannot be opened.

We'll give them as

much money as they want.

But Dileep Singh has to win.

The poet who imagines that

Iife is love and peace..

Deny that poet's song..

These muscles stirred,

these veins swollen..

Stoke them in fire. It's begun, it's a flood..

- Dileep Singh!

A thousand heads smelling blood,

it's time for the battle cry..

For the glory and the pride,

give Iimb, Iife, step aside..

Its time to let arrows fly..

"Well begun is half the battle won."

"Well begun is half the battle won."

"Well begun is half the battle won."

Looks Iike all the fIies of..

..Rajasthan have come

to Duki Bana's party.

You stay here.

Greetings.

I've come to congratulate you.

Your win is a victory for all Rajputs.

It maybe small but it's still a win.

Will you drink something?

I'll help myself. I'm

sorry I popped up uninvited.

That seems Iike a birth defect.

Give him a drink.

One "Republic" Please..

- Yes.

Water.

- Yes, sir.

You understand politics?

- Yes.

Do you even know what

it means? Politics?

Politics..

Dileep! I'm Kiran.

I know.

I couldn't defeat you.

You know there's so much I want..

..to do for this boring

university of ours.

I'm bursting with ideas.

Yes.

I can leave my party and join

you. Take me in your cabinet.

I'm calling it the cabinet

as if we're in the Parliament.

I could be the cultural secretary.

I'll check.

The warden wants to see you.

Listen, Please open this.

It's already open.

Hey, get lost. Out!

Where did it go? I left it right here..

Once second. What are you looking for?

What one second? I don't know. I'd left it right here..

- What?

I'd left it here, I can't find it.

One second. Quiet, calm down.

What are you looking for?

What are you looking for?

- What is it?

Father had given it

to you. I'd stolen it.

Long time back. You

always tried to steal it.

I don't understand. It's

Iike this. You cut it first.

..and then take it. It's

part of something big.

You cut it first and then take

it. You put it on the face.

Okay, you look there, I'll search here.

If we don't find it,

then you leave, okay?

I'll have to leave?

- Yes, come on.

I'll leave only once I find

it. Look carefully. You too.

Okay, search there.

- You too join me.

I am telling you. It can only be here.

In your room and nowhere else.

It can only be here.

What does he want?

I don't know.

- It has to be somewhere around.

Have you found it?

- No, don't ask me repeatedly.

I wouldn't have been searching had I found it.

- Yes.

Come in. Listen to me.

Get lost. Out.

- I'll kill you!

You've kicked him out. At

least he would've helped.

Here it is. Here it is.

This is the garbage bin.

Don't go there. - I

know it's a dust-bin.

That's garbage. -

It's here. - Please..

It's right in front of your eyes..

You've found it, right?

Take it and leave.

Yes, I found it. Take a look.

Don't ever repeat this again.

Bana, please come.

Kings have been relegated to stories.

A revolution in this Iife..

Independence in the next..

It's said to be the prime reason.

The part responsible to beat Congress..

- Grandpa..

Bana.

- They were responsible for it.

And a lot of them will

contest the elections.

This has been finalised.

You are not important to Duki.

He just wanted to win

the elections and he did.

I know. He also used Ransa's name.

Two flatbreads and a plate of pilaf.

That day, at the party

it seemed Iike he..

..and not me, won the elections.

Bittu.

- Yes.

Anuja ma'am is here..

So, let her sit.

She brought her luggage with her.

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