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You don't have to tell...

You can understand

by the way we spend.

5 years ago,

Hilsa was 25 rupees a kilo.

Today it is touching a hundred rupees.

Without the extra income,

we could not have lived in this style.

You have also been

brought up the same way.

No one thinks about it anymore.

It's become a way of life.

Have you forgotten

whose son you are?

I don't know what Baba will say...

I consider myself successful.

What Probir said about me...

Could I not have given him a reply?

Of all the bad vices he indulges in;

Do I do that?

I invite people and offer scotch.

But I don't drink as much.

I don't smoke and I don't gamble.

Have you heard a single

scandal about me to date?

I know only two places.

Office and home...

I sleep at 10 at night

and wake up at 5 in the morning.

Still you don't know

what your husband is?

Why can't we have a limited income?

I too know about that money,

but can't we live without it?

It is nothing, Uma.

Nobody will talk ill

about Probodh Majumdar.

But if there's one

car instead of three...

Or Indian alcohol instead of scotch...

Then people will talk...

You mean there is

nothing called honesty?

The way Baba had in his days?

Those days are gone.

You will feel bad to hear this.

It may trouble you.

But trust me.

You are forgetting one thing, Uma.

Did your husband ever give

you one moment of pain?

Tell me, please tell me...

Tell me...

What are you looking at? You...

Mrs. Probir Majumdar.

After the honeymoon, I never got a

chance to see you this closely.

Are you tired of that?

Did you hear such a thing?

Did Col. Chaterjee not arrange

any entertainment for you?

Such a good friend of yours...

He did propose...

What did you say?

No. Thank you.

Surprising!

Your husband is reformed now.

Don't you know that?

How has the impossible

become possible?

Look on your right;

You will know.

- Understand?

- I'm very happy.

But I'm not happy about one thing.

What?

What did Dada do that you

spoke like that in Didi's presence?

Did you see the effect

of your words on Mezda?

I would not have said anything if

he wouldn't have initiated it.

What do you know about me?

I spilled the beans.

You mean, Didi was not hurt?

What do you want to say?

That Bodi knows nothing about Dada?

I know she worships him.

It shows in her every word and action.

I'm sure she doesn't know.

Then I have done her a service.

If you live in a fool's paradise,

you have to repent.

What a problematic thing

this dishonest money is.

Since you are saying this,

I want to tell you something.

What is that?

This dishonest money

was not at all required.

Meaning?

If I would get my 1/4 share.

What rubbish are you talking?

It's not rubbish Tapti.

The last time I was here,

Baba said he had a will.

Equal shares among four brothers.

Do you know the kind of wealth

Anando Majumdar possessed?

One portion of that will solve

all problems and pay off all debts.

The question is when.

When and how.

Is this your reformed character?

If you'd just a little love for Baba,

you would not have spoken like this.

Now I know he means nothing to you.

Baba never gave me a second glance.

I don't need to feel for him.

Baba did not like you, you mean?

Now he does. Because of you, Dingu.

And I am a success.

I am talking 20 years back.

Baba sent Dada and Mezda to America.

When it was my turn,

why did the rule change?

Can you think of the humiliation?

He did not think about it at all.

Maybe he didn't think so as

academically you were not that good.

I don't know what Baba

saw or did not in me.

The moment I knew I had to fend for myself,

I did not wait for a moment.

I started earning and drinking at 22.

Baba was responsible for both.

I had guts to stand on my feet.

And I made it.

When I first met you, I was 28 and

my monthly income was ten grand.

Because I had a good income,

I proposed to you.

Why I agreed, I don't know.

We had nothing in common.

Besides the heart, there was

another attraction... Physical.

Have you forgotten what you've

done in the last 12 years?

No. I haven't forgotten.

But this too is true:

That it's been five years

since our son was born.

How do I deny it?

If you are talking about affairs,

then I too have nothing to say.

Are you talking about Protap?

I'm no fool, Tapti.

You are a fool.

Protap is my friend and

nothing else. Nothing.

And for your information.

Protap has met a girl he wants to marry.

Forgive me, Madam.

There is still time...

What is the news?

You did not go to sleep.

Not so early. Insomnia.

What are you saying!

Yes. I cannot sleep before two.

Cigarette? I stopped.

Being a cardiologist, you smoke?

It's wrong. I accept it.

I'm trying to give it up.

Sit. I didn't get to know you.

Is your Dada playing the gramophone?

Mezda.

Dr. Som was saying

something about him.

Most unfortunate.

To be reduced to this

for such a promising man.

He has always liked music.

He still does.

It is surprising. I have not seeing

him going into Baba's room.

He keeps to himself.

In his world.

I could not believe,

I could see Baba so closely.

I've hero-worshipped

him since childhood.

In school, he was the example

of Karmveer. The doer.

Surprising. Even in this state,

he enquires about my well being.

Times have changed.

You don't see such purity anymore.

What can one say?

The state he is in,

can anything happen, anytime?

Would you like to go there?

Can I go there?

Of course. Go on.

Come on.

Come.

Reduce the volume.

Has the bulb fused?

Did you do it deliberately...

Sorry Mezda.

You were listening to

music, I interrupted.

I just wanted to know one thing.

That...

Are you alright?

Now... good...

I feel good. Good...

I left my job. I've joined

a professional theater group.

Profession... Work...

No...

When Baba knows

he will be very upset.

That I did not keep the respect of

the Majumdar family, Mezda.

No one...

Nobody can... Everybody...

Sometimes I think... You sit

quietly in your room... humming...

Now we are here.

How do you pass your

time? Do you go out?

Grass is green.

Sky is blue. Rose is red.

Do you go to the garden?

Seven colours of the Rainbow.

Seven notes of music.

Do, Re, Mi,

et cetera...

You love music, don't you Mezda?

The reason for my life...

Light in darkness...

The easier the better...

Brothers...

Brothers... Brothers...

In a way, you are better, Mezda.

Where man is led today...

You don't need to see that.

I know... I know... Darkness...

Darkness... Black... Black...

Mezda calm down. Mezda please...

Mezda please... Mezda please...

Alone... Alone...

Now you are not alone. I am here.

Your brother. Protap...

One is me... the other is you...

Why are you here?

Working man... why are you here?

I will go, Mezda...

Go... Go...

How is the report now?

Very good.

Dadu...

Come child. Come... Come...

Are you well now?

Much better. Much better.

Morning...

Please come in.

He's much better today.

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