Queen Page #3

Synopsis: In this reversal of Henry Purcell's famous 1689 aria, 'Dido's Lament,' Queen Dido kills Aeneas by biting him to death, instead of killing herself, as Virgil would have it. Here, Queen Dido is an opera singer from Trinidad who is inspired by the post-coital cannibalism of praying mantises. She sings the famous lament to lure Aeneas, a New York graffiti artist, to her industrial boudoir. Once Aeneas arrives, he is summoned by a strange, giggling and sleepy guard who instructs him to lay down on the Shag Carpet of Death. Aeneas awaits his doom, almost desiring it. When Queen Dido arrives they begin to have sex, an enjoyment that ends in tragedy as Queen Dido carries out her insect-inspired desire.
Year:
2014
15 min
855 Views


So you enjoy the show?

I thought he hurt you.

I have five minutes to f***,

only five minutes.

I look at him.

He is, how you say, small, pretty?

It is fine. I don't mind.

I tell him it is pretty.

He don't like. He zip up and go.

I don't understand,

Why all men want big?

Why do all men want big?

Because you want big.

Go f*** yourself. Up yours.

I'll f*** you.

And shut the f*** up.

Hotel staff.

You guest here?

Need anything?

You tell my boss

I have sex in guest room?

Please don't tell my boss

I have sex in guest room.

Okay? Promise?

Promise?... Say it?

Promise.

Bye.

(Speaks French)

(Speaks French)

(Speaks French)

Look, look. A girl throwing up.

(Speaks French)

(Speaks French)

Problem?

(Speaks French)

(Speaks French)

I don't know French...

(Speaks French)

Passport, visa?

My hotel is right here.

My passport's there too.

What Hotel?

I have my keys.

Wine.

You take. Come on.

Come on, give it to me.

Thank you.

Hey...

(Speaks French)

You.

You must keep your passport

with you at all times.

What are you doing, dancing

around Paris without your passport?

You are lucky the cop is my friend.

Sit down. Sit down.

Poor thing. She looks so sad.

Maybe my hat will improve things.

What do you want?

You want something?

Food? Wait. Wait.

It is cheese, tomato. Eat it.

Where are you from? Pakistan eh?

Rajori... India...

Ahhh... Namastey.

I'm Indian too...half Indian.

You speak Hindi?

A little.

I am...how would you say...

A mix. Little Indian,

some Spanish, some French.

My mother is French and Spanish,

Dad is Indian.

Your Dad is Indian?

Mama met Dad in

Goa and boom boom...

Here I am...

I am Vijaylaxmi!

Nice to meet you.

You can call me Vijay!

You?

Myself Rani!

Rani...Water?

No, Pani is water.

Rani - Queen!

Okay, Queen...

Nice.

What are you doing here?

(Speaks French)

He's cute. Whose kid is he?

He's my son, my life, my Ricky.

He is your child?

Then you did a great job

with your figure.

Thank you.

(Speaks French)

Come on, let's go.

Hello Granny.

What have you been up to?

I'm watching telly.

If you wanted to watch telly,

why go so far?

Get out of that hotel room.

I've heard you're in the

most beautiful city in the world.

And who knows, there might be

a handsome Pierre waiting for you.

"O rainclouds,

go tell him of the girl"

"Who grew up in the green shade

of the mango tree"

"That girl was swathed in love"

"Tell him about her"

"O Rainclouds,

tell him that this girl"

"Once used her mother's keys to

open a cupboard filled with dreams"

"Out spilled lies dressed as

fairytales"

"Go tell him of those"

"O Rainclouds"

India Gate is the best place

in the world, right?

No, that's the Eiffel

Tower in Paris.

Eiffel Tower.

I'll take you there

on our honeymoon.

And we'll have dinner

at the top of the Eiffel Tower.

You get food at the top?

Oh you get lots

of things at the top.

Chinese food?

"O rainclouds, go tell my lover"

"That my world

has slowly dissolved"

"In the sorrow of parting"

"I've forgotten my friends"

"I've put away my toys"

"And now I wait for the joys"

"Go tell him of those"

"O Rainclouds"

"My palanquin lies empty"

"lts flowers have withered"

"My tears turn the

rainwater to brine"

"Salt. Salt. All salt"

"Go tell him,

O rainclouds, go tell him"

Hello, can I help you?

I want to go back to India.

We will let you know madam.

No, no. Thief, thief.

- Give me the bag, b*tch.

- Mummy, Mummy.

MY Passport, my passport!

No, it's my bag.

It's my bag.

Give me the bag.

Hey you!

Get away from her.

Slut.

Hello vijay?

Where are you? I'm in the disco.

Water?

Was there a girl looking for me?

Over there.

Thank you.

Rain!

It rains in India too.

I'm from India.

Rajori.

I came from Rajori on my honeymoon.

No one with me.

Everyone says I'm better

looking than Vijay.

I wouldn't say such things.

But everyone else.

My friend Sonal? She said

he looked like a bus conductor.

I didn't tell him.

And his friend, Montu.

He said I was a wallflower.

My life is such a mess.

My life is such a ruin.

Come. Have a drink.

Alcohol!

I obeyed my father and mother.

I obeyed my teachers.

Never cheated. Never lied..

I obeyed VijaY-

Name a person and I obeyed him.

I think Vijay has

had sex in London.

Sex.

In front of our school,

there was a convent school.

The girls there would wear such short

skirts, folding them, folding them up.

I never did anything like that.

You'd better change

your ways Vijaylaxmi!

Or you'll come to a bad end.

Look at me. I'm alone.

I'm doing everything alone.

I'm crossing roads alone.

I'm looking at the

Eiffel Tower alone.

I'm fighting muggers alone.

But I held on to my bag.

I showed that hoodlum.

He's going to think twice

before tangling with a Delhi girl.

My life has become like my uncle's.

He got cancer.

Never had a drink.

Never smoked a cigarette.

And what do you know?

He got cancer.

Maybe he should have lived it up.

A Bollywood tune? In Paris?

Here?

Bollywood!

"The wine is flowing,

it's the depths of the night"

"We're not in hiding,

we drink in full sight"

"No one blinks

when everyone drinks"

"But my name is fair game..."

"Whole bottles are downed and they

drink, themselves to the ground"

"But when I take a sip,

the air gets tense"

"When I take just a

sip...the scandal is immense"

"My lover slips me just a sip,

a scandal explodes"

Vijay... Vijay.

Viiay, Vijay, what?

Have you lost it?

How could you dance like that?

With so many people watching?

At least think of my image.

Thank god mummy wasn't there.

The other girls were also dancing.

Am I marrying those girls?

I'm sorry.

Yeah, sorry.

"Outside, the storms rages at me"

"Why does your lover

live so cagily?"

"What can be hidden

in the depths of a glass?"

"Touch it to your lips and

it says:
let it pass"

"Why talk of tomorrow"

"Why drown in sorrow?"

"Oh no you loving me leaving

me baby will hurt no more"

Vijay, they stopped

playing our song.

Why are you such a sad sack?

Come to Delhi some time.

I want to vomit.

My friends taught

me a saying in English:

Why fart and waste it

when you can burp and taste it?

You guys taste your burps?

You taste your burps?

In India,

girls are not allowed to burp.

Everything is allowed here.

But then in Rajori girls

aren't allowed to do much.

Let's burp today.

You're quite good at it.

You also burp.

I love you. I love you.

I told you, no? To call every

day at the same time, a fixed time.

Why isn't she answering?

Why is she standing there? Rani?

Hi.

And who is this?

I am Vijaylaxmi.

Nice to meet you.

Daddy!

Don't call me Dad.

Call me Ashwin,

Ashu for you.

Wow, Rani, you never told me

your father was so good-looking.

And Chintu. How are you, Chintu?

Very fine, thank you.

Rani is having a fantastic time.

Chintu, go and do your homework.

And you, go and do your work.

What work?

What you were doing?

What was I doing?

If you go back to doing it,

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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