Mahabharat

'A person who is blind since birth'

'is unworthy of becoming the king.'

'When all the sons are equally worthy'

'only then does the eldest son have this right, Queen Mother.'

My lord...

Avoid!

I said, avoid!

Right now, I am not in a state to converse with anyone.

Today my decision to blindfold my eyes

seems worth it.

The world that does such injustice to my husband

is unworthy to be looked at.

Pardon me, Prince.

The ministers of the court have decided

that they will... - Coronate Pandu as the king.

I knew it.

I am sure, he must have been ecstatic. Am I right?

Who could be happy at this decision, Queen Mother?

This will fill my entire life with grief.

Grandsire

I am but a servant to my elder brother

and for a servant, his duties are his ornaments.

I have taken an oath to serve my brother since birth.

I can take his side

not his place.

Something that inflicts a wound

and then applies an ointment of words on it is politics.

I had no idea when he learnt all this.

Pandu.

Then grandsire must have said

that keeping the pain and dejection of oneself

locked up in one's heart and carrying out one's duties

is the duty of every prince.

And you must bear this duty on your shoulders.

A person can never be greater than the throne

and love

can never be greater than duties.

If through meditation, rituals or medication

we could coronate Dhritarashtra as the king

then we would have gladly waited for it

but the situation is not so.

Dhritarashtra will

never be able to see.

That is why

in the best interest of the entire Kingdom of Kuru

the responsibility of this kingdom

falls to you.

Only after everyone requested him

did Prince Pandu say in the royal court

that during the exile of Lord Ram

Bharat had carried out the duties of the throne

similarly, he too would carry out the royal duties.

So, have you come here to take my slippers, soldier?

Will Pandu place them on the throne and sit at its base?

What is the point of this act?

Even Lord Ram had been exiled for 14 years

but in my case

everyone has sentenced me

to a lifelong exile.

A lifelong exile.

He is not Bharat.

He will not give up the throne for anyone.

Neither will he give it up for me

nor for my children.

Now, the Kuru dynasty will be furthered by Pandu.

Now, the future of blind Dhritarashtra

will be in darkness.

In darkness.

I have been tied to this darkness forever

by that Pandu.

That Pandu has tied me to it forever.

Son Shakuni.

Son, is time for us to leave.

I too was thinking of this, mother.

Get up, Chandal!

Get up, dear Pishaach!

It is the order of my father.

We must leave. Let's go.

Now, Gandhari's...

Now, Gandhari's silent sacrifice..

Come on.

Pardon me, mother.

My dice refuse to budge.

Why are you joking, Shakuni? - It's no joke, Your Highness.

Leave.

I am not joking, Your Highness.

I explained it to the two of them

that we must return to Gandhar

but these two...

Shame is keeping them from getting up, sire.

Isn't the name of our ancestral kingdom

Purushpura, father?

But if you and I, a king and a prince

return to Gandhar with such an insult to our chivalry

then what will we tell our subjects?

Shall we call the 'land of men'

the 'land of eunuchs'?

This is what these impudent fellows here say, father.

This is what they say.

Our insult? Who insulted us, Shakuni?

This was Gandhari's fate. - Fate!

Fate!

If fate cannot be trusted like a gamble, father

then I will not side with fate

but with a gamble!

With a gamble!

These dice are in my hand.

I throw them in the air.

No one throws them on my behalf, father.

But you have given the dice of our lives

in the hands of that Bhishma, father.

In the hands of that Bhishma.

That is why we have been treated so poorly.

Gandhari has met with great injustice, father.

She has met with injustice

and this truth is

piercing my heart like a dagger, father.

Piercing my heart

like a dagger!

Shakuni! Son...

Son, what have you done?

How can anyone stab oneself with a dagger, son?

What have you done?

Father

this wound will remind me