Phillauri Page #2

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...something terrible will

happen after your marriage.

- Such as... both of you can fall ill.

Your career might get ruined.

But this won't happen now.

- After marrying the tree all

your problems will be sorted.

- And you'll lead a comfortable life.

Let us start the ceremony.

[SANSKRIT CHANTS]

Smile.

Oh, selfie time!

Come here, son.

Come and sit.

Congratulations to all of you.

The ceremony is now complete.

- Congratulations!

- Congratulations!

Smile.

Bheem Singh, you can

cut down the tree now.

Excuse me!

Can you hear me?

Hello...

Kanan! Kanan!

What happened, son?

- What are you saying?

- There is no one here.

- There's nothing there.

There is! I was lifted up.

I saw her.

You must've had a nightmare, my dear.

No, no. It wasn't a dream.

It wasn't a dream.

Dolly, handle it.

Come on, let's go.

- Yes, let's go.

- There's nothing to worry about.

- Let's go.

- You got us worried for nothing.

Don't worry, go to sleep.

Are you scared?

Do you want me to sleep with you?

No, no...

Oh my baby got scared.

It's all because of that, isn't it?

- What?

Should I tell uncle and aunty?

No...Anu!

Anu! Please stop, please.

Stop all this nonsense.

This shouldn't be causing it.

- But it is.

Maybe it was a BT.

A bad trip.

Come on, forget it.

Now go to sleep. Okay?

Good night.

Good night.

Anu'!

Anu! Anu! Anu!

Anu!

- What happened?

Er...dude, I think I'm

still having a bad trip.

Can I sleep with you?

- No way!

Please, please, please.

Don't try to pull any stunts at night.

What?

You know...

Nothing will happen between

us before we get married.

Dude, are you crazy?

I couldn't even if I wanted to...

Nothing is gonna happen.

This is all a result of that.

What if you can't,

even after marriage?

It's nothing like that, okay? I...

"Oh shoot, I saw a ghost."

"Oh shoot, I saw a ghost."

Sir...

Ah!

Sir, don't!

- You?

Sir, stop!

Hey there!

Listen...

Noooo!

Sir!

Sir! Noooo!

Ma'am!!!!!

Ma'am!!!!!

Kanan, what's wrong with you?

You're still in your boxers?

I've got the fright of my life

and you're worried about my boxers?

What?

What's your problem?

What's wrong with my boxers?

Problem?

Don't you have to get dressed?

Dressed?

Won't you change your clothes?

Clothes?

Kanan, quickly go downstairs

and change your clothes.

The guests have started arriving

for the engagement ceremony.

I don't want to go. I'm fine like this.

I'll wear some of daddy's clothes.

Eh, Kanan, stop talking rubbish.

Go downstairs.

Do whatever you want to,

I'm not going downstairs.

Kanan, do you want me to slap you?

Go downstairs and change your clothes.

Send somebody else instead, please.

Wait, just you wait.

' Piyush!

' Yes?

Piyush!

- Yes, aunty?

Go to Kanan's room and...

- No!

No?

I don't want to go to his room.

Why?

I'm scared.

Scared? Who are you scared of?

He...

What... what can I say, aunty?

You won't be able to

handle the truth.

Shut up! Just go to his room

and get his suit.

- He's waiting upstairs.

He's waiting upstairs?

- Yes.

He isn't downstairs?

- No.

Of course, I'll get it.

Why didn't you tell me

he's upstairs?

- I... okay then,

he's not in his room.

What's going on?

How are you, Kanan?

You too?

Both father and son

are driving me insane.

Okay, come like this,

come in your underwear.

Come naked for all I care.

What's it to me?

Yes Piyush, come in, come in.

Ah!

Ah!

This can't be happening.

But it is.

Who are you?

I'm stuck here from last night.

Who are you?

Why have you got me here?

I...I... why would I get you here?

How do I know?

That's why I'm asking you.

You're driving me crazy.

You faint, you run away...

Tell me, why have you got me here?

Why am I here?

What have you done?

I...l didn't do anything.

Don't lie to me.

- I...I...I didn't. I just woke up.

And you...you were there.

- I know, but what did you do before that?

I went into my room and slept?

Idiot, what did you do before that?

I had gone to that tree.

Tree!

- 'After marrying the tree

all your problems will be sorted.'

- 'The ceremony is now complete.'

- Kanan.

What are you doing?

You're...you're a ghost.

I'm scared.

Okay.

Take me back.

Wh...where?

- To the tree.

The tree...tree isn't there anymore.

What do you mean?

It has been cut down.

Why?

I'm born under a cursed star...

- So?

So they cut down the tree

after I got married to it.

So that's why I'm here.

Why?

You don't marry a tree,

you marry a girl.

And there was only one girl there... me.

You didn't marry the tree.

You married me.

- Hey Kanan...

- Kanan?

Kanan?

What happened, my dear?

Huh?

You had a bath with your clothes on?

What...?

You...

- Namaste. Namaste...

Whoa, whoa!

How old are you?

I, ... 26?

What?

- 26?

That's a long time to wait.

For what?

For you to die.

'I....I...I......

'I...I...I......

Why do I have to die?

Death is inevitable.

For everyone.

And I can be free only

on your death.

It's not like I can

do any more dying.

So, for me to get rid of you,

I...I'll have to kill myself?

Stop talking nonsense.

You will die when it is your time.

You could have an accident.

Or I...l could even live to be a 100.

Please don't say that.

I hope that you die soon

so that I am free of you.

Here I'm the one who

is saddled with a ghost.

You want to get rid of me?

Yes, but you are

the one who married me.

But...but I didn't do it on purpose.

I'm not exactly having a party here.

I agree I've made a mistake, but is

there no way out? Apart from me dying?

Can't you just go?

Where?

You have cut down the tree.

So...you...you...

Were you alive before you died?

No, no. I was born a ghost.

What?

What! Are you daft?

So didn't you have a home,

why don't you go there?

Home...

Here... one minute.

Take a deep breath.

- Once more.

Hello, brother.

What's the problem?

Oh, my heart.

Should I ask brother

to give you some medicine?

Shut up, you idiot.

I don't need medicine.

Then, what's the matter?

Is it there?

- Yes, it is.

You keep saying you

don't like Phillauri.

- But you look forward to

reading his poems every Monday.

Our village is called Phillaur

so all of us are Phillauris.

So, how can you say that

this was written by that fool?

You...you don't call him names.

Everybody knows that he's

the only one who is so talented.

Oh!

Oh my, do you want

him all to yourself?

You won't be able to handle it.

Please read it.

"An unfolding.

Like an unfurling of wings..."

"Love flies in."

"Disruptive. Breaking the dawn...

With the edge of it's beak."

"I have coaxed it to stay."

"Fattened on sugar drops,

From the tip of my tongue."

"I am hoping it will murmur my name."

"Remember me in bird song."

"They say it pierces it's heart,

On the thorns of roses."

"And blood blossoms,

As eternal spring."

"They say it will build

a thorny nest..."

"...And have you rock-a-bye,

On a lullaby of sighs."

-"And when..."

"...every second

will pass like an eon."

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