The Tramp Page #2

For four days, she lived with a bandit!

And Jagga at that!

Don't you remember what

he was convicted for?

Do you enjoy making someone unhappy?

The jaundiced eye sees all yellow

Do you think you're beyond scrutiny?

Don't you forget...

women have had to stand the test of

chastity. Because society asks for it

Bhabhi!

(Sister-in-law)

Forgive me Bhabhi,

your pot is broken

It's only an earthen pot. But remember,

a woman's honor is far more fragile

Once disgraced, her honor

can never be redeemed

Did you not know that your wife

was seeing her lover on the sly?

The villagers used to say that.

But I didn't heed what they said

You haven't yet told the court

why your wife deserted you

You know it! Women are adulterous!

I know what that means!

Raghu, how can you lose

your cool in court?

I'm afraid your chances of

magistrate ship may be clouded

Chances of a magistrate ship?

That's out of question now

Can a lawyer whose wife is under

suspicion ever become a magistrate?

The whole town is agog!

- What are you saying?

Aren't you ashamed to talk like this

about your wife?

I'm just saying what

everyone is saying

Let them say what they want

You're right. That's what I decided.

Let them say what they want

But how do I get rid of the suspicion?

It's like a leech sucking on...

some dark corner of my mind!

- What now...?

Where's everyone?

Send Bhabhi over to me

Oh, I'm so afraid!

Why isn't someone coming to me?

That's my husband. Please,

send him over to me

Look Raghu...

I'm telling you again! That baby

isn't going to be born in this house

If she wants to have her bastard,

let her go elsewhere

I'm not going to let the honor

of my family be tainted

I'm going to throw this

wanton woman out!

No! I'm not going anywhere!

No one can take me away from here!

He knows that I'm innocent!

He trusts me, he trusts me!

You're here! Now I'm afraid of no one!

Have you heard? They want

to throw me out!

They say I'm a wanton woman!

They say, I've no right to be here!

But now you're here.

No one will dare anymore

Tell them I'm untainted!

Tell them you trust me

Tell them I'm mothering your child

Why are you so quiet?

Have you fallen for what they say?

You're the one who told me...

"I don't care for the baying dogs"

If you desert me, who else

in this world can I turn to?

Tell me... tell me that you trust me!

"Do you think you're above scrutiny?

Don't you forget..."

"women have had to stand

the test of chastity"

Why are you quiet?

Speak... speak!

You can see the state I'm in.

I'm afraid... afraid!

I'm going to become a mother

...the mother of your child

Have mercy! This is your baby.

This baby is yours!

Get out!

Get out of here!

"The most chaste of women"

"Were banished"

"Why is not the earth rent asunder

in sorrow?"

"Why are not the skies torn apart?"

"So suffers the girl her father

raised lovingly"

"Her father raised her lovingly;

her husband loved her once"

"Now she goes from door to door"

"Oh such games The Lord above plays"

"Oh such games The Lord above plays"

"In the oyster

He makes the pearl blossom"

"In murky waters

He makes the lotus bloom"

"Strange are your ways, Lord"

Congratulations, Lawyer!

A son has born to you.

Son of a decent family!

Born in a filthy gutter!

Do you not know what your wife

and your son went through...

after you shut your doors on them?

- No

Nor did you try to find out

But I can tell you

To get out of your way,

your wife left Lucknow

And your innocent son grew up

in a Bombay slum

One day...

Police! Scram!

Hey Nathu...

Hello, Constable

What are you up there like a monkey?

Why don't you go to school?

At school, the master asks for fees

My father hasn't the money

to send me to school

Look at Leela's son, Raj.

He lives in this slum too

His mother is worse off. Yet she

sends her boy to such a big school

What did you say? He isn't a boy.

He's a sissy!

Ma, why do you put oil in my hair?

- Oil keeps the hair soft

But why do boys in the neighborhood

call me sissy?

So what? How do they

compare with you?

You're a good boy

who goes to school

You'll grow up to become

an educated man

And those wayward boys

will go to jail

Ma, what's wayward?

The ones who just tramp around

Those who think that whatever

belongs to others, belongs to them

Those who gamble and drink

instead of going to school

And they have fun!

Ma, when I grow up,

I'll become wayward too

Nonsense! You'll become a lawyer

Then a magistrate

And then, a judge

You're sitting here?

Everyone's out there buying chocolates

I don't have money

Why, doesn't your mother

give you money?

Daddy gives me a whole Rupee

every day!

You're rich. And I'm poor.

Eat this

No, Ma says never ask

for anything to eat

If she told you not to ask,

go ahead and snatch it

No!

You're coming to my place

this evening, aren't you?

Why, what's happening?

- My birthday party!

You must come! It's going to be fun!

You know, Daddy has ordered

such a huge cake!

Let's go and eat ice cream

Raj, aren't you giving me a gift?

I didn't have money to buy anything.

I'll give you some other time

Must you only buy something

to make a gift?

You can give me a flower

Really?

Here you are

Someday, I'm going to make

lots of money

And I'll buy a gift for you.

Something better than all this

Do that

But can anything be better

than this flower?

Come on Raj, meet my father

Ritu, say hello to the Judge

Hello, Judge

Bless you

You've grown up in these four years

You must've forgotten me.

Happy birthday

I've just arrived from Lucknow.

I owe you a present

As of now, I can give you a flower

Here you are

Let me put it on your hair

Someone has already put a flower

over there

Raj has given me this flower

Daddy, this is Raj.

He's in my class

I see

- Hello

Hello

Hello

God bless you, son

Raj says that he will become a judge

when he grows up

Very good!

Your father must be a real gentleman

What does your father do?

I don't have my father.

I have only my mother

Has he passed away?

- No! Don't say that!

My mother says he is alive.

But...

He doesn't live with you

...and you haven't seen him either?

Your father is a strange man.

- Not a word about my father

Else... else...

How can you let your daughter

play with boys like him?

Go to play, Ritu

Why, what's wrong with the boy?

I like him

He doesn't even know his father's

name, and you like him?

I'd say he's just a wastrel

- Forget it.

Must you hang on to

those rotten old ideas?

What was the Bandit's name?

Yes, Jagga

I remember you saying the same

at his trial

That a bandit's son

always becomes a bandit

I still stand by that principle

Principles, principles and principles!

It's because of these blind dogmas...

that you lost someone

as precious as Leela

And because of your principles,

you never married again

The dry parched desert that

your life is, is your own doing

So much so that you would rather

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