Meghe Dhaka Tara Page #7

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From tomorrow no one shall touch

alcohol in the shoot or the edit.

Let's see.

Let's see.

"I am in love."

"I am in love."

"I am in love."

"With my beloved."

"I am in love."

"I am in love."

"The reflection of

my beloved is wonderful."

"The reflection of

my beloved is wonderful."

"I am greedy seeing it."

"I am in love."

"I am in love."

"I am in love."

Ma, brother is home.

I told you not too

but you still came late.

Where is Khuki Ma?

She is my elder daughter.

She has supported everyone.

She is untouchable.

So have you fallen

in love at such a ripe age?

What are you hiding?

Love letter? Let me see!

"I am in love."

What happened Dada?

Why are you so restless?

Khuki has got T.B. Terminal stage.

She's been ill for so long,

none of you understood?

What not has she done for us!

I accuse. - Whom?

No one.

No one at all.

Cut.

Aunt, where's the tea?

- Good news Boudi.

'Beyond Clouds' has set

the market on fire! Here see.

Yes, I've heard.

- But didn't you guys say...

...it's too sentimental. Won't work.

Mr. Bagchi's new film 'Beyond

Clouds' fills our heart...

...up with compassionate

colours of life.

Nice, see what the poet.

"Krishna Sen has to say. - Yes.

"This is what the masters

call the personification of tragedy".

Anyway-

May be this tragedy

shall wash away our tragedy.

That could have been

the turning point.

That was the only time I passed.

You could say,

the great mother archetype had worked.

After that I failed miserably.

Why? Why do you say you failed?

Have you heard the song,

'Don't swing with the spring'?

Yes I have.

Very nice song.

'What if this path

never ends?' this song?

Yes. I've seen that film too.

A very favorite film of mine. Bengal's

favorite pair starred in it after all.

At that time a couple of my

films released too, did you see them?

Partition, people residing

in colonies, these were the subjects.

Thus.

I did not even get the pass marks.

Bye Doctor. I have rehearsals.

Give it to me.

I mumbled as I walked around.

Will I tell you about the dream?

I mumbled as I walked around.

Will I tell you about the dream?

A whitewashed house.

Azure blooms in the garden.

Green meadows and orange rocks,

amidst all of it my little one.

Toddling towards me.

I used to sing him lullabies.

The little mouse is

scared..what if the eagle.

Just him and me,

behind us a row of coconut trees.

A gurgling stream rushes

past in a hurry. My reverie...

Useless!

This is not working at all.

Do you realize the significance

of Shanti in this play ?

She may be ill, but she

is a mother and that is paramount.

I need to see that mother in you.

Now take it from the top again.

Imported.

Won't suit me then.

You're developing a mother obsession.

Jung's mother complex.

Get out of it Bhoba.

- Yes, I'm obsessed with it.

As I believe this

mother archetype is..

...woven in our

unconscious for centuries.

And it will motivate a change.

I do not agree.

Analyse Bharat's (playwright)

"Principles of theatre"...

...all folk and traditional

forms of India".

'jatra' , 'noutanki' , 'tam ash a'...

There is always a mother figure.

- We're students of Dialectics.

I know. - Motivation

is the class struggle.

No.

Genetics has a role to play too.

Our religious ways,

our history. - So...

...is religion your new opium?

You're well aware I'm a nonbeliever.

Gods don't suit me.

Rubbish! You're messing around

with religion and God these days.

Forget it. You guys are

too set in your own ideas.

No thanks,

he's supplying imported smokes.

"The rain."

"The clouds of rains have arrived."

"The lovely rains,

impressing the mind."

"The lovely rains,

impressing the mind."

"The rains have com e."

Dada was right.

Whether it's books or films...

...nobody is interested

in tales of hardship.

But endure they all

will in their realities.

Boring. Monotonous.

They're so eager to suffer.

But the moment you speak up...

...they will all disappear!

Repetitive.

By the way, there's a good news.

An old friend from college, Suren.

Bumped into him today.

That same old story.

Com e, let's leave. - Bastards.

Watched my movie? -Yes.

You're not being able to rise

above your shanties and shackles.

Do you feel the same?

It's very important to understate

the melodrama in your art.

Don't you find your

dialogues superfluous?

Too many moments,

too many raw incidents.

Really?

Actually you're not being able

to break away from the theatre mould.

Coincidences at every step.

What about the narrative?

Its not working. - Uneven.

Rough. Your frames are disorganised.

Edit jerks.

Mr. Bagchi, what's happening?

Bye

You put all your hard

earned money into your film ?

What could I do?

What can I do if

my producer runs away?

All that you earned from

the British Tobacco commercial...

"invested it all in the film?

And your family?

What about them?

Then the film would

not have happened.

In spite of the humiliation,

I took up office plays for the money.

And look at you.

What are we Bikram da ?

Intellectuals or...

...entertainment experts ?

Have some money to spare?

"Life...

...is but a walking shadow...

...a poor player...

...that struts and frets

his hours upon the stage...

...and then...

...is heard no more"

30,110 you guys...

...watch cinema?

Days that we get good

money picking pockets, we do.

I've seen "Kashmir ki kali",

"Sangam" .

We are Shammi Kapur fans.

Don't mind brother,

we don't understand your films.

So we don't watch.

What's new in that?

No one understands.

Does any son of a b*tch

out here understand movies at all?

That I don't know but...

...all I understand is that...

you understand.

You do.

I? -Yes.

How do you know that?

You're just like us.

Living off the streets.

What's that? Gram seeds ?

Mr.Nirodh had come over.

He was planning a documentary

by you on Ustad Alam Khan.

He's given up on that plan.

Came to convey the news.

Give it.

Who is it?

Minu, are you home?

Is everything okay Nil da?

Can I get some food ?

Have been drinking since

morning on an empty stomach.

Come inside. Please come inside.

Sure you had enough?

Yes.

You all carry on. Go sleep.

I will doze off there.

And listen.

You have those long playing

records of Tagore songs, right ?

Leave them here.

You are very sad, isn't it Nil da?

You put in your best

We all worked so hard.

But then the people rejected it.

In such times...

...always rem ember Tagore.

"Losing faith in humanity is a sin".

Whatever happens,

I will make a film again.

Leave the records and go.

Go!

Okay.

"In happiness and in sadness,

within a heavy heart..who.."

".. is playing the flute"

"Who is playing flute

throughout my being"

Fidel Castro has launched

a revolution from

...his camp in the

Sierra Maestra mountains.

Adolf Eichmann, one of the members

of the Austrian Nazi party...

"In happiness and in sadness."

"..within a heavy heart..who.."

Yuri Gagarin the Russian astronaut

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