Saunkan Saunkne

The light of a lamp, my love.

People say the flowers are blooming but I can smell your fragrance, my love.

Look into my eyes, my beloved.

I breathe only when I look at your face, my beloved.

These are the experiences of heart.

When lips go quiet, eyes start talking.

There is a clip in my braided hair...

Clip, my beloved?

Mom, what was that about the clip?

-A pin in the braided hair. -Yes, a pin.

There is a pin in my braided hair. May God...

May God...

May God what, mom?

May God bless us with fortune and we become three from two, my beloved.

The witch doctor asked you to memorize just these two lines.

And you couldn't even do that. How will you perform the witchcraft?

Go ahead, pour it now.

Come on.

Here.

Put that in as well.

-Put it all in. -Come on, boy.

Call the boy.

-Yes. -Yes.

Come, son.

So slow?

He is not sitting behind the wall.

He is behind the clouds.

Yes. Come, son.

Speak loudly so that the skies can be pierced.

Say it loudly.

-Okay. Come, son! -I am coming. You scoundrels.

Doesn't the boy have a very heavy voice?

Fauji is awake. Hurry up.

Mom, you will get us into trouble. Go from here.

Mom, run. Hurry up and leave.

Buta, come over here.

-Run! -Come. We won't let them run.

Don't let them escape.

What was that?

They are running away. Come on.

You were supposed to call out seven times.

Come, my son. Come!

-Run! -Someone did witchcraft again today.

-Come, son! -Come on, Buta.

Sarpanch, they ran away.

Let's call the Panchayat meeting in the morning.

We will clear all doubts tomorrow.

Come along.

Mom, who asked you to climb an eight-foot wall?

You could have just chanted God's name and passed them by.

People would have thought that you are going to the Gurdwara.

It's not like I wanted to climb that wall.

I thought I was running straight.

The wall came in my way.

I am an old woman so I couldn't turn.

I had to climb the wall.

What kind of an old woman are you?

You couldn't turn and you climbed an eight-foot wall.

It's eight foot on our side.

It was seventeen foot on the other side.

While I was falling, I felt

that I died without seeing my grandson's face.

Mom, you didn't think of God.

Hold this.

Mom's bones are broken and you'll get mine broken too.

Have a little shame. I am a member of the village panchayat.

If we had been caught, it would have been so humiliating.

We didn't get caught.

Member, are you at home?

Buta, then people will do whatever they want.

We are caught.

-Yes. -Absolutely.

Where is the panchayat going this early in the morning?

You are acting as if you don't know what's happening in the village.

We don't know anything. What happened?

May people rot in hell.

Someone did witchcraft for the fifth time in the village.

It's been five times?

Did any one of you see anything? Do you suspect anyone?

I have seen them.

One of them was... like a knot.

She had crazy, unruly hair. She jumped the wall within minutes.

I couldn't understand what she was.

I just heard the sound of someone falling. Bam.

Aunt, why are you soaking your feet in hot water?

Did you fall somewhere?

I am fixing the grease in my knees.

So that my knees start working.

Did anyone see anything else?

The remaining two ran away as well.

They were just saying while leaving,

come son, come son.

And Fauji was saying

that if someone says, come son, in front of him,

he will recognize the voice immediately.

Come on, guys. Anyone can change their voice and say that.

-Come, son! -Yes.

-Could you understand anything? -Okay, I agree with you but...

How can you agree like this?

The thing about the knot-like woman is still relevant.

Soemone who fell in a seventeen-foot deep ditch, must have been broken some bones.

She may not be able to walk at all now.

Well, I will go and make some tea for you all.

Aunt, you left your walking stick right here.

My grease has been heated. I don't need my stick now.

I think mom dropped the sugar.

Go and check lest your mom herself has fallen.

I think milk is lying on this side.

I think mom spilled the milk too.

Why don't you send her to her maternal house if she destroys things like this?

Listen to me and call for a vote.

That after today, if anyone in the village is

seen practising witchcraft, shoot them on sight.

Come to the meeting spot in the evening.

We'll have a vote.

-Cancel the tea. -Come on, brothers.

Be there on time.

I think the tea leaves are in the kitchen.

Let it be, mom. They are gone.

Hold me! Get me my stick.

-Oh, I am dead. -Come.

-I can't walk. -Go and get some more hot water.

Sit.

If the witchdoctor asks us to practice witchcraft again,

be prepared to get shot.

Son, I am ready to be a martyr for my grandson.

We won't stop until the witchdoctor gives up.

Here you go, I give up.

I can't do anything now.

Don't say that, Sir.

Please bless us.

Bless?

Then you...

have to serve this holy place for 45 days.

That too with your heart and body.

Sir.

Out buffaloes are dependent on her.

-Yes. -I will serve you.

How can we make the elderly serve us?

The one who was supposed to take care of the buffaloes

is asking to serve this holy place.

And the one who is supposed to serve this place is tending to the buffaloes.

Do one thing, go to a doctor.

Your reports tell us

that there is still a one per cent chance that you can have a baby.

Doctor, you have been saying that for six years.

At least change the percentage a bit.

Make it one and a half percent.

Look, only God can do that now.

Look at me. I was born after seven years.

And I was born after ten years.

That means their child will either become a doctor or a nurse.

It's alright. Don't worry. Nothing will happen.

I am worried too that nothing will happen.

We are still kids yet.

We can't even look after ourselves properly.

It's alright. God will give us a baby.

God will give.

Will you have an ice cream?

Yes.

Which one?

Orange flavour.

You?

I will have one with a fat orange in it.

It's all sorted for you, right?

You drink and sleep. No worries at all.

What will I do with such a little amount?

Is it less?

I think too much, don't I?

Big mom, pick me up.

Move aside.

Big mom, what did the doctor say? Will my right hand, my brother come or not?

He will come, child. He will come a little late.

Why does he need to come if he'll come late? I am here, aren't I, mom?

Go to your mom. Go.

It's alright, big mom.

Just go.

He calls you big mom so affectionately.

Let him say it. How does it matter?

You know why he calls her that. His mom teaches him to say that.

-Mom. -Yes?

I think the land has slipped from our fingers.

Why, son?

Are they expecting a baby?

Is there good news?

Mom, there is no good news.

They are just very clever.

Oh, you scared me.

Son, aren't we clever enough?

They have fifty acres of land.

Make her your big mom somehow.

Okay, mom. I'll do something.

But I can't deal with this school problem.

Don't go to school.

-What is in schools anyway? -Why won't you go to school?

Just be quiet. Make him DC.

Son, hurry up and do something. You are so cute as of now.

Even I won't like you when you grow up.

I fear that they might do the other thing.

Listen, daughter.