Kandahar

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Sir, everything okay.

- Fine.

Coimbatore flight is at 9 am.

Can l get a chair?

- Sir.

Can l get a chair?

- Sir.

l am not going to leave the body here.

Sir, permission for an outsider..

Get me the permission.

- Sir.

Central

Now you need recommendation.

Will your father do that?

Let me try?

But the answer may be a big 'no'.

Yes.

You are Loknath Sharma's son.

Try to get a job without recommendation.

Drink tea.

- Thanks, papa.

Papa, why don't you understand

what l am saying?

For the last 30 years, this house and the

convent where you taught are your world.

Papa, you don't know what's happening

in the outside world. - Yes. Yes.

You don't know what's happening

in the outside world.

All sons will think in the

same way at this age.

When l was your age,

l too thought like that.

Drink tea.

Papa, my work will be done with

just a phone call of yours.

Papa, please do at least that for me.

You are my son.

That's why l won't do it.

l have faith in your capability.

You will make a good name for yourself.

Not like the one you make for yourself

by thrashing people everyday.

Father, l have traveled the path

which you have shown me.

But by seeing the situation here..

l am tired, papa.

No. Never use the word

tired in your life.

You need to look for an

opportunity to prove yourself.

Have faith in your capabilities.

Everything will be fine.

Did you feel bad hearing what l said?

No, papa. Never.

But you know, papa.

l feel that sometimes..

Whenever l do something good you

hold back in appreciating me.

And whenever l do something wrong you

are very generous with your criticism.

Yes, son. lt is true that whenever you did

something right l didn't appreciate it much.

And the reason behind it is my belief

that you can do much better.

But at the same time l also fear that

l may be casting an evil eye on you.

Look, son. Till now people know you

as Loknath Sharma's son.

l am waiting for the day..

..when people would look at me and say..

look, he is Surya's father.

This word 'tired'.. cowards use that word.

But not men like you.

Now you will have to choose between a brave

man's life or a coward's death. lt's up to you now.

You are right, papa.

l am so sorry.

l will never hurt you again.

No, no.. l am just saying..

Here it comes..

You may have to go now.

Papa, this is called new generation.

- Okay.

You are an old man.

Papa, you won't understand this.

How would l understand it?

l was born just yesterday.

Hey, l am coming.

Hey, listen. Keep this money.

Your purse is empty.

Papa, did you check my purse?

Yes. But l haven't seen the photo inside.

Fill petrol too. Tank is empty.

Papa. Papa, did you wash my bike today?

Yes. So what?

Let me do something.

Otherwise l will become an old man.

Oh, papa. You are the best.

Come on.

- l am so incomplete without you.

No flattery please. Go.

And stay away from trouble.

Okay? - Okay, papa.

- No fights.

Bye.

- Bye.

He is calling me an old man.

Am l old?

No. You are still young.

Come. Let's have tea.

l will wearjeans, a t-shirt

and a jacket. Come on.

Take. Keep this.

- For me?

Yes. For a long time you are saying

you don't have a mobile.

You keep it. lt's for you to call me.

- Thanks, brother.

Brother. What about taking me?

l will take you. Are you ready to come?

- Yes. l am ready.

l will come anywhere to make money.

- Now you have become a man.

But you haven't said

where we are going. Whatjob?

Scared? No need of that.

lt's not related to guns and bombs.

Struggling for our community.

Fighting against these people.

Your mother.

Don't tell anyone about this.

l will come after 2 days. - Okay.

- You take this bike.

Where were you?

Who was that?

From where did you get this

motor cycle and phone?

Don't ask everything together.

You will get suffocated.

l will get suffocated,

if you live like this.

That Kozhikode Jamal was

with you now, right?

Yes. So what?

Why did he come here from

Kozhikode along with you?

l don't know.

l read in the newspaper that he was behind

the riots in Kozhikode and Furoke.

l have brought you back from

your maman's house

to Ooty to avoid friendship

with people like him.

You won't give peace here too.

l have told you several times

don't roam with people like him.

No. l won't roam.

l will sit here itself.

Will you give me what l need?

- For that, you have to earn.

During your school days, you haven't

given importance to studying.

Now you want to become

rich immediately.

You are ashamed to go with

your father for selling fish.

Yes. lt's shameful for me.

l can't shout carrying

fish baskets on the cycle.

Now it's shameful work for you.

When you were a child,

you waited to sleep on your father's

chest which is carrying the smell of fish.

Thatjob is also having its own dignity.

Police never came here

in search of your father.

But the Jamal who came here

to see you now.

He will take money from others

and give the Quran in..

..your hand after tearing it

into 56 pieces.

Your father's fish smell has

more dignity than the..

..smell of that devil who

makes Muslims devils.

What happened here to say all this?

Son. Your mother is saying this.

You are not traveling on the right path.

This mother wants to tell you that only.

Hey, l don't get peace if l come home.

For making me mad.

Oh Father Namah.

Om workshop Namah.

Let all the vehicles come

here after accidents.

lf the owner dies, who will give me money?

Namah. Namah.

How is it?

Come. Come close to me.

- What?

Why did you hit me?

l told you never keep this

photo straight.

l am getting slaps for this

for the last 6 years.

This is your father's photo, right?

- Yes.

Why are you keeping this

picture facing the other way?

Earlier, l had kept this straight.

That time people asked me

whose photo this is?

l said my father's photo.

So they wouldn't give me work.

Then l kept it facing the other way.

That time people asked me if this was

my father's photo right? - Why?

Hey, When my father was under vehicles,

people used to see him head down, right?

How?

- Yes.

Yesterday also l explained and

slapped him. Today too.

What will l do tomorrow?

Hello, sir.

- Hello.

What happened?

- This is a headache. lt doesn't start.

Now start it. Kick,

lt started.

- lt didn't start by itself. You had to on this.

Oh my God.

Are you done?

- lt will take a little time.

Old hag, no matter what,

he can't stop eating this.

l'll only have to talk to him now.

- Give me the spanner.

Here,

- Will you shove it into my mouth?

God bless him. No matter how much

you tell him, he doesn't listen.

God knows what's on his mind.

Hey, go away from here.

Why are you troubling me?

ls this steamed bread delicious?

- Yes. lt is.

One has to eat only

steamed bread at this age.

ls there any vacancy for pilots?

- Yes. Yes.

Hey, Surya. Don't waste your

time reading the newspaper.

Go and tell your father to recommend.

- Good idea.

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