Phillauri Page #6

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all the time...l fell in love.

Fell in love? You broke my heart.

Listen, what's the time?

This is the twentieth

time you are asking me.

It's 11 o'clock.

What's wrong? Can't wait,

you shameless hussy?

Can't wait, huh?

Granny's here.

Namaste.

- Namaste.

Congratulations.

May God bless you.

Namaste.

Put the flowers up properly!

What's wrong, Shashi?

See you fell sick.

You've been restless all morning.

Wait, I'll call your brother.

What happened?

Yuck! Disgusting!

- Shut up!

Did you do it with him?

Didn't you feel shy?

What! I'm going to be an aunt!

Shashi!

"The auspicious day has come."

"Come my friends the house

has been decorated."

God bless you.

Phillauri hasn't arrived as yet.

Don't worry.

He must have missed the train.

The next train will

be here in the evening.

I'm sure he'll be on it.

I will be thereto receive him.

Alright?

You are looking beautiful.

Amrit!

- Amrit!

Yes, brother?

I'm going to the railway

station to pick him up.

You take care of everything here.

Come on, let's go.

- Let's go.

There is a doctor in Lahore,

from a good family.

I'll send him a telegram tomorrow.

Lahore is very far from here.

Nobody will know about your past.

That you were disgracefully

left at the altar.

Are you mad?

Nobody is worth dying for.

- He took advantage of you.

He used your poetry.

This is how he paid you back.

But he had sent some money.

He sent her money.

He had gone to Amritsar, right?

When?

In April.

This year? Or the last...

I don't know.

I can't really tell how

much time has passed.

Which year is this?

98 years...

98 years, man...

98 years!

98?

Then why?

Why am I here?

Hey, Mr. Groom?

You...you're in the bedroom already?

You can't wait, right?

Anu's grandfather was just like you.

See...

He had given this to me...

on our wedding day.

Here.

This might break,

you might lose it...

but his love will be there...

forever.

Just like Kanan's love for you.

Isn't it, my dear?

You look so beautiful.

Just like an angel.

Kanan...

Don't you have something

to say to your bride?

"I was living in a half-remembered dream."

"And you brought me to my senses."

Idiot, say it to her.

"I was living in a half-remembered dream."

"And you brought me to my senses."

"You are my truth."

"And I bow down to you."

"You are my truth."

"And I bow down to you."

"Don't abandon me, dear heart."

"I am nothing without you."

"Don't abandon me, dear heart."

"I am nothing without you."

"Dear heart..."

"This pain of separation

wounds me.

"Dear heart..."

"This pain of separation

wounds me.

"it urges me to rebel."

"Dear heart..."

- "This pain of separation

wounds me..."

How does she know this poem?

Grandma, what song

are you singing?

It's from my favorite record, my dear.

"Dear heart..."

Can you show it to me, please?

Where is it?

Ah...here.

Here it is.

The record will have both our names.

The one who sang...

...and the one who wrote.

Both the Phillauris.

1919?

So long ago?

What a terrible year.

- With that inauspicious

Baisakhi day.

But today, we will not

talk about all that.

Today, we will have

a happy Baisakhi.

It was Baisakhi.

The day he was supposed

to return from Amritsar.

Amritsar...

Baisakhi?

Baisakhi? Amritsar, 1919?

Shashi.

Please call the bride and groom.

- Yes.

Anu'!

Kanan, where are you going?

'Anu!

'Anu!

- Anu, where are you going?

- Wait... Anu!

- What happened?

- Anu, where...

- Anu...Anu..

- Kanan, where are you off to?

- Where are we going?

What is happening, Kanan?

- You have no idea, right'?

How would you know?

Killed yourself like a fool.

Everybody knows

what happened...

...in Amritsar on Baisakhi day,

in 1919.

What?

[Hymn]

Thank you, sir.

I'll never forget what

you've done for Shashi and me.

What are you saying, son?

I am the lucky one. I got

to make this record for both of you.

I'll take your leave now.

But there's still some

time before your train leaves.

Why don't you do something?

I'm going to a gathering nearby.

Come with me.

And leave in time for your train.

Okay.

[Hymn]

Fire!

Shashi.

Is he here?

So many people.

I just took a chance.

I thought it was on this day...

- "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."

Won't you slap me today?

Take care of each other.

Forever.

Forever!

So this is what forever means.

I can try.

That's good enough.

That's more than enough for me.

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