The Householder Page #8

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- [ All Laughing ]

Uh, is this the time

you come from college every day?

Yes. We have late classes nowadays.

Come and join us.

Have a hand.

No, thank you very much.

I've never learned how to play cards.

Oh, no. No playing cards, no drinking.

How do you spend your time, huh?

So, the proprietor of Kakeda Hotel

said to him, ''Is this the way to behave?

What if you went to Gaylord

and did that there?''

Mr. Sehgal,

I would like to talk to you.

Lalaji said to him,

''I have been to Gaylord.

''You know what they said?

They said, 'If this is what you want to do...

then go to Kakeda!'''

''If this is what you want to do,

go to Kakeda!''

Whenever I try to ask them,

they always talk of something else.

- [ Humming ]

- Mr. Khanna tells me how to keep healthy.

Mr. Sehgal slaps me on the back

and says, ''Come and play cards.''

If only I could get a chance

to talk to them, I might -

- Must you do that now?

- Then when?

- You must write them a petition.

- How can I write a petition?

It will look bad.

I'm only giving you advice.

You can take it or not.

As if I haven't got enough

troubles of my own.

- You have a nice place?

- For 80 rupees a month, it must be a nice place.

Please come and visit us.

Perhaps you'll have a meal with us someday.

- Is your wife a good cook?

- Let us talk.

Who asked you to speak in the middle?

What should I say in that petition?

You must start...

uh, ''Gracious sir...

I wish to submit

for your kind attention -''

''Gracious sir, I wish to submit

for your kind attention -''

That, uh...

though I've been living

in your house -

But this also you wrote

in the other letter.

That letter was for Mr. Khanna.

This is for Mr. Sehgal.

Now, please don't disturb me.

Mmm.

- Tsk. These flies.

- Hmm. They're very bad.

We must get some D.D.T.

''I tender you

all the respect and honor...

''which is due our elders.

Your obedient servant -''

Prem Sagar.

Why do you write ''obedient servant''?

- You're not his servant.

- It is the way of writing.

How stupid you are.

Only you are very clever.

Quick, get me two envelopes.

Every afternoon,

when her husband was in office -

Chi, chi, chi.

And every day

between 2:
00 and 4:00 -

And the children

were in the house all the time.

Chi, chi.

And what's more -

- What do you want?

- I've got this letter.

- Put it here.

- It's for Mr. Khanna.

This is what you have to

put up with in a college.

All the time these people

coming here to bother you. Give it to me.

But it's only for Mr. Khanna. Uh -

Please don't read it.

Very fine.

Always to take advantage

of Mr. Khanna's generous heart.

''Rupees 1 80 a month

is a very small salary.

Therefore I beg for increment.''

[ Chuckles ]

Mr. Khanna is too good to them,

but still they ask for more.

Chi, chi.

Greed is a black sin.

Take what God has sent you,

and don't anger him by looking always for more.

Whatever you do for them,

it's never enough.

Go now.

[ Sighs ]

{ Prem ]

Uh, Mr. Sehgal.

- I've brought a letter for you.

- Huh?

- A letter for you, Mr. Sehgal.

- A letter for me?

- Whom is it from?

- It is from me to you.

From you to me?

Nice, nice.

[ Chuckles ]

Sit down.

Is it an invitation?

Perhaps to a nice party.

[ Chuckles ]

[ Humming ]

You see this bottle?

Sixty rupees it cost me.

Sixty rupees for one bottle.

[ Sighs ]

In the olden days it used to be just 1 5 or 20.

- No more.

- Mr. Sehgal, my salary's only 1 80 rupees a month.

Sixty rupees for a bottle.

It is so with everything.

The cost of living has gone up terribly.

That's exactly my point.

- It's very difficult for me to make ends meet.

- It is so with everyone.

Everyone has his troubles and hardships.

Sixty rupees for a bottle.

If you could reduce the rent

by 1 0 rupees -

- Do you know what I pay for ghee?

- My friend pays only 25 rupees.

Sugar, one-two a seer.

Rice, one-four a seer.

Terrible, terrible.

If I could only have a place

for 50 rupees a month -

[ Chuckles ]

Eggs, two rupees for a dozen.

Oranges, three rupees a dozen.

Apples, four rupees a pound.

Scandalous. Simply scandalous.

Milk, 1 2 annas a seer.

Bread, 1 0 annas.

Tea, four rupees a pound.

Meat, two rupees,

eight annas a seer.

Two rupees, eight annas.

It's too much. Hmph.

No one cares.

You'd think people

would want to help you...

if you're young

and have only just started out in life.

- But no one cares.

- What does it matter?

The world has a very hard heart.

So let them.

What does it matter?

We will manage.

You're crying.

What is there to cry?

So let them all go.

I am here, you are here.

Don't do it.

Just once let me see you smile.

Only once.

There.

You are happy.

Say it. Say, ''I am happy.''

- I -

- Of course you are...

and I also.

{ Band ]

{ Man ]

Come on, everybody. Let's go.

Why are you waiting?

Let's go.

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