The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Page #8

that comes my way,

but I don't!

O- O-Out of some sense

of dried up loyalty and respect.

Neither of which

I ever bloody get in return.

I checked my e-mails.

There's one from Laura.

Are you all right?

I just want a glass of water.

That was a gin and tonic.

- I know that now.

- What's happened?

Ah. Good evening, the Ainslies.

How are you both?

We're particularly well.

Douglas, tell them our news.

We're going home.

And so now I would ask you to loosen the

strings on your purse, Mr. Maruthi,

and-and do it most rapidly.

So that phase two development...

of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

can begin with immediate effect.

Mrs. Donnelly, I believe.

Now if you please be following

me to the ground floor-

How are things at the hotel?

Mr. Maruthi.

Oh, they're better.

They're getting better.

You see?

Profound satisfaction.

Such is the inevitable result of a

prolonged stay at the Marigold Hotel.

What are those men doing?

Working for me, Mr. Maruthi.

To create a home for the

elderly so wonderful...

that they will simply

refuse to die.

Stare death in the face

and say-

What are those men doing?

Mummyji, what is going on here?

Sonny, I have spoken to your brothers.

They have decided to sell the hotel.

These men are here to value the building.

They are valuing the land.

My brothers don't care about the building.

They will knock it down.

Well, they could wait for a month...

for it to fall down

of its own accord, huh?

You joke, Mummyji, but

inside, I know you're not laughing.

You don't want to see this dream destroyed.

Send these people away.

No, beta, it's too late.

Mummyji, please, if I

could just show you these figures-

I don't need to see them. I know they don't add up.

There is still time to turn things around.

With a small injection of funds, we can-

Who is going to be trusting

you with this money, huh?

You, who can't even run a Chai stand?

Just like your father.

Do I remind you

of him so much?

Is that why

you must be so cruel to me?

You think I'm being cruel?

You loved my father,

and he loved this hotel.

You want to end up

a broken man like him?

Just say good-bye to all this

and come back to Delhi with me.

Your life will be much easier.

No. Not easier, Mummyji,

Smaller.

Mrs. Donnelly.

Uh, can I help you?

It depends.

Do you know how to work a computer?

Mrs. Ainslie said she knew an address

where I could get some things I need.

Some biscuits. She said I could

get them on the line?

Well, I wish you luck.

The whole thing is actually

tremendously exciting.

Not just getting on the plane, but

getting on the plane and turning left.

Turning left?

First class.

And home in time for our

We haven't quite decided

how to mark the occasion.

Perhaps a minute of silence.

Yes. Okay. Okay, sir.

I've confirmed your appointment for

tomorrow morning at 10:00. Thank you.

Now, Mr. Maruthi-

Mrs. Donnelly, please.

Call me Bhanuprakash.

Too small.

One large should it us all, I think.

Actually,

I think I'll walk.

Apparently, they're getting

ready for some festival.

Perhaps y-you'd like one of us

to accompany you?

- I'm happy to walk with you.

- No, no, no, I'm fine.

I'm so pleased about your daughter's success

and that it's all worked out so well.

Thank you.

Darling? Darling.

It's me.

I just wanted

to hear your voice.

Oh, no. No, sorry.

I didn't even think about the time.

How are you?

And Polly and the- How are the boys?

Oh. Good. Good.

I'm glad you've been reading it.

Yes. Yes, I made

a few very good friends.

No, I'm fine.

Of course I am. I'm fine.

Time's up

in there, madam.

Um, I think the money's

running out.

So I'll call you again,

um, at another time.

Okay. Bye, darling.

I'll call you again soon. Bye.

Sonny.

Sonny!

Mrs. Greenslade,

where are the others?

They're on their way back to the hotel.

What's the matter?

I- I wanted to warn you of the most

momentous changes that are occurring.

Absolutely all of them, without

question, for the very positive.

What are you talking about?

I am delighted to announce the closing

of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

And the joyful return of all its

inhabitants to their home country.

What?

Please relax in the knowledge

that your journey home...

has been arranged

and paid for by the hotel.

Our journey here was arranged and paid

for by the hotel and look how that went.

I'd rather

walk back to England.

I'd rather

not go back at all.

Go back where?

And for myself,

the news is even better.

I shall be moving to Delhi

to live with my mother.

And, furthermore, I shall be wed to a

most suitable person of her choice,

whom I look forward very much to meeting

before I spend the rest of my life with her.

Didn't you have a girlfriend?

She is my girlfriend no longer.

This is a disaster.

No, no. Then we must treat it just the

same as we would treat a triumph, madam.

Is that not what

your Mr. Kipling tells us?

Although, of course,

here we have a problem,

because I, Sunil lndrajit Kapoor,

have never had a triumph.

So, of course,

I do not know how to treat one.

No, all I've had is a constant

series of disasters...

interspersed with occasional catastrophe,

an unending stream of total-

Sonny, do you love her?

Sunaina?

Most deeply.

Have you told her you love her?

It is because I love her

that I must not tell her.

She can do so much better

than me, madam.

Women love it when you say that kind of thing.

It's a powerful aphrodisiac.

Really?

No, of course not.

Go and ind her at once, before she starts

to believe you and you lose her forever.

You can have

anything you want, Sonny.

You just need to stop waiting for

someone to tell you you deserve it.

My God. Or you can just go on

failing yourself and hurting-

Mrs. Greenslade, stop drilling.

You have struck oil,

madam!

I asked him

to come and stay with me.

Is that wise?

I'm not sure he's trained.

You think it's too soon.

It doesn't matter what I think.

It is too soon.

At our age, we can't afford

the luxury of taking it slow,

and it's either this

or he goes home and-

I wish you both

the very best.

You haven't met anyone?

Single by choice.

Just not my choice.

I actually think

it might be over.

For me.

With men.

And if that's gone,

I'm not quite sure

what's left.

Did you know Norman brought pills

the first night he stayed with me?

It obviously

did the trick.

They fell out of his pocket, and I

didn't want it to be like that.

So I swapped them.

He went all night on two aspirin.

it's never over.

Can you make sure that small

bag goes in the back with me?

In the back, yes? In the back.

Do you understand?

Excuse me.

Would you rather

not see him?

My wallet.

I- I've forgotten my wallet.

I'm so- I'm so sorry.

I won't- I won't be a minute.

She's not back yet.

Ah.

Right.

Well, then perhaps you could

tell her that I said,

um, good-bye.

False alarm. I, uh-

I had it all the time.

Let's go.

While I have you on the phone, madam, can

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