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your father has to go

Down there to be

cheated in person.

Beta.

You'll end up with a widow.

Samir.

Oh, hello, uncles.

A table for one, sir?

Oh, no, I'm fine.

Hey, man, I was just

thinking about him

And here come the manhattan son.

Patel:
Hey, did you read?

We beat the bloody brits

in the second test.

Oh, you know, I don't

follow cricket, uncle.

You see? This is

the bloody problem

with our children.

No culture.

Cricket is culture.

Yeah.

Cricket is the gentleman game.

Exactly.

You have to wear a sweater.

I'm gonna go find my dad.

Oh!

Ow!

You really shouldn't

put that there.

Rasool:
Khuda hafiz,

hakim-bhai.

Hakim:
Ah, thank you,

rasool-bhai.

Khuda hafiz.

Bloody bastard crook.

Look at this bullshit.

Dad.

Hakim:
Samir?

Everything okay?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Everything is great.

Okay.

I just wanted to

let you know that

Even though the reason

that I actually came...

New clothes? Hmm?

No.

Maaf karna, I'm sorry, boss.

"maaf karna,

sorry, boss."

Huh!

Hello?

I told you I sent it

on Thursday.

What you mean it bounced?

Wait, wait, wait.

Uh, just calm down, calm down.

Hello? I'll call you back.

I have a bad connection.

I can't hear you.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you.

Um...

So, dad, I wanted

to tell you that

I'm probably...

Hey! Hey.

Hello.

Hello.

Please, please come in.

We are going to

be open for lunch

in just five minutes.

Oh, we were just

looking at the menu,

thank you.

You can eat in, take away,

Whatever your pleasure.

Free papadam.

Listen, dad, I...

I need to tell you

something, okay?

So tell.

I'm going to paris.

Why?

Well, I quit my job.

Why?

Well, I'm doing a stage

With this very,

very important chef.

Stage.

What is stage?

Well, it's like a job.

Like a job.

I see.

What does it pay?

This "like a job"?

It doesn't pay anything, okay?

It's like an apprenticeship.

I see.

So you are quitting

your job where you

are making money

To go to France to

do the same job, mmm?

For free?

You are a bloody

brilliant businessman.

I didn't come here

to argue with you, okay?

That this could be

a tremendous opportunity.

For what?

Going backwards?

What's wrong with you?

Do you know that

you're a bloody old man?

Keep it down.

If your brother

were alive today...

He would've been a doctor

and you would've

been respected,

And he would've had a wife,

and a family and kids,

I understand and

I'm doing nothing...

Badtameez!

You are making mockery

of your brother's memory.

I'm not making

a mockery, okay?

I'm just...

Your poor mother

still thinks a woman

will make you change.

But you are not interested

in bloody anything.

Money, business,

a career, wife,

family. Nothing?

You just want to be a loser.

So, go, go, go.

Go to France,

go to England,

go to china.

Marry a bloody

chinese clown-girl,

And invite your mother

to come and cry at

the bloody wedding!

Dad, relax, all right?

Would you just...

I just came to tell you...

You okay?

Dad. Dad!

Samir. Samir.

Dad? Dad, come down,

come down. Oh, my god.

Here, sit down, sit down,

sit down, sit down, okay.

You okay? You okay?

Dad, sit down, sit down.

Oh, my god.

Oh, my god.

Dad!

Call 911!

Call 911!

Dad. Dad! Dad. Help.

That boy's killed his father.

Dad. You're gonna

be fine, okay?

Don't worry.

Don't worry, ma.

I'll take care

of the restaurant.

Yeah, hi, jfk to paris.

Um, next week.

Yeah, the 13th.

Okay.

I'll hold, yes.

So this guy, he rips the teabag,

And pours it into the water.

I don't like teabags.

Will you shut up?

So I tell him,

"arre-bhai, that's

not the way you do it.

"you take the teabag

and you dip it into

the water like this."

Okay, so now he's very thankful.

So I go to the toilet,

and when I come back,

guess what?

He's putting

the sugar packets

into the water.

Thank you, bhai,

you ruined my joke!

Huh, it is old joke.

Not as old as you.

Loose tea is better.

Never mind the tea business.

He's giving you

the joke, listen.

But loose tea is better.

But loose tea is better.

He's giving you the

joke and you say,

"tea, tea, tea."

Loose tea is better.

Loose tea is better, yes.

That bloody restaurant

will be the death of you.

Hakim:
I know.

I don't want.

And now, this bloody

heart-attack-whart-attack

business.

No good.

Honestly, no good.

Hakim, you've got to get smart.

I'm telling you,

franchising is

the wave of the future.

And of course, I'll make

you full partner-whartner,

that is not the issue.

Let me think it over.

Mmm.

Did I show you?

My nimith is on msnbc.

Really?

Talking about municipal bonds

and such matters, you see?

Very good.

...The government has

put into the economy.

That they essentially

primed the pump.

So, with the s&p right now...

My ali used to listen to me.

But samir...

I don't know.

He has always defied me.

Never wanted to listen.

And now it's too late.

Hakim-bhai.

It's never too late

to be a father.

Sure, easy for you to say.

Foot massage?

That feels so good.

Do you remember

when you and ali

massaged my feet?

And as a joke,

you rubbed blue ink

all over them.

For two weeks, I had blue feet.

And then mrs. Sanchez,

right, she thought that

it was a religious thing

Because she'd seen

a picture of a hindu

god that was blue.

Listen, ma,

I looked at the books.

It's pretty bad.

He's not even making

any money anymore.

You should just

sell the place

to amit-uncle,

He'll give you

a good price for it.

He'll turn it

into some franchise.

Kfc.

So what?

So what?

When you look at the restaurant,

All you see

is peeling paint,

broken chairs...

You know your dad

never wanted to

run a restaurant.

He dreamed of being a doctor.

I know, I know, I know,

and dada couldn't

Afford to send him

to medical school,

So he came to

this country instead.

I know this story, ma.

Do you?

Do you know

that when he came

to this country,

He became

a third-class citizen?

America wasn't like it is today.

People had never

seen an indian before.

He worked as a janitor.

He worked as a dishwasher

in a white man's restaurant.

He was so determined.

And slowly, slowly,

He saved up enough money

to start his own business.

He worked 18 hours a day,

Just so that he

wouldn't have to

tell his children

That he couldn't

afford to send them

to college.

And now, one son is gone.

And the other son

only sees his failure.

Doctor:
He's a fighter,

but remember,

his heart is still weak.

He should stay home

the next couple of weeks,

you know, take it easy.

Make sure you

monitor his blood

pressure regularly,

And above all, no stress.

You hear that, hakim?

No stress.

I'm not deaf, woman.

Please, madam, my cat

is stuck in your tree.

Excuse me, waiter?

Repeat after m.

Waiter!

Hello.

Yes, yes.

This is what you

serve to your customers?

This greasy slop?

Oh.

You should be

ashamed of yourselves.

Excuse me.

Stop eating, come on.

I've had high

blood-pressure.

I didn't want to

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