Jhok Sarkar - First Season

Where do you have to go?

Can one get a ride here up to Jhok Sial?

You want to go to Jhok Sial?

Yes, that’s where I have to go.

But why do you sound so surprised?

I’m the Assistant Station Master at this train station.

And I’ve been posted here for a long time.

I know each and every person who comes and goes to and from this area.

You don’t look like from around here.

You could say that I’ve also been posted here.

And you actually came.

Well anyways you wont be able to stick around here for too long.

Why not?

Whats with Jhok Sial that no government official wants to stay here too long?

That’s a long story.

You’ll come to know why soon enough.

Just consider yourself as having entered the realm of a very brutal king.

By the way whats your department of service?

Except for a single cattle doctor and an old dispensary…

there’s no official place that’s been left in one piece by these tyrants.

Well then just think of me as being a doctor who treats people.

Oh?

Hello?

Who are you?

And why are you looking around?

I’m a traveller.

I want to register an FIR.

There’s been an incident.

Is this any hour to register an FIR?

Go away.

Go away and come back in the morning.

By the way, who are you?

You don’t seem like someone from our area?

As I said, I’m a traveller.

Someone stole my things from my compartment on the train

so I was forced to miss my train for my onward journey.

Its why I came here to register an FIR.

I see.

How much luggage did you have?

What I mean is… were your things expensive in them or not?

Yes, I had quite a few expensive items.

My money, jewels and other expensive things.

They were all in the one bag.

I see.

Okay.

Come in the morning.

Get your address written down.

And once we question the loaders at the station, you will be informed.

As I’ve just told you, I’m a traveller so I don’t have an address here

I’ve come to you with great hope.

This is a police station and not your aunt’s house.

And besides Mr. Jailer has gone home to rest.

He’ll come in the morning.

Nothing can be done till then.

By the way,

what happens to someone out here if they’ve been robbed in the middle of the night…?

Then he should mourn his fate.

Lift your veil.

Lift your veil!

I don’t think that even you realize how precious you are…

how rare.

The only reason you were born was to be the queen of a castle like this.

And here you were thinking of setting up house with that low caste?

No.

No, no, no!

Peeral couldn’t bear that.

Which is why he’s snatched you away from the world.

Perhaps snatching and forcefully making things yours is a benefit you enjoy.

You must be thinking,

how can a man knowingly swallow a fly…

especially at a time

when he knows that the woman he’s taken a shine to…

is in love with someone else.

Yes…

I did ponder over that a lot .

but I didn’t find an answer

But I just gave you an answer.

Beauty is my weakness.

And any woman I desire,

I will not allow that woman to belong to another.

And with regards to the rest, this fever of caring and loving someone else,

that will peter off on its own in a few days…

Once you realize what you got in place of that penniless low caste.

A woman belongs only to the man who gets her.

The rest is all talk

that become stories of the past.

Like the way I’ve become a story.

This is a story that I’ve written.

Do remember one thing,

I had better not see you sad and or upset over another man.

I made a huge mistake.

I wish I had ended her game along with her lover’s.

Because then that girl would not have stolen what was rightfully my mother’s!

Its not only a woman’s fault!

When a married woman is robbed of her husband,

her husband is just as equally at fault!

But its always a woman that is accused of this!

Whatever the reason…

whatever.

I didn’t expect this of father sire.

If he wanted to keep the girl, why did he have to marry her and bring her to the house!

I’ll go and speak to him right now.

We will sort this whole thing out tonight!

No Meeral!

No!

Absolutely not!

The storm that was meant to come has come!

The havoc that storm was meant to wreak has also happened!

Right now your father is obsessed by that girl so he wont understand a thing you say!

Whatever we do, we will think it through before doing it!

We don’t want the whole game plan to get ruined in our haste!

Is that the gentleman?

Yes.

Did you ask the him why he was going about with such expensive things and that money?

...So yes young man,

do you remember the face or appearance of the thief?

No.

Tell me something,

where did you get all that money and jewelry?

If jailer Jahan Dad thinks to start an investigation, the first one he’ll start with is you.

You can investigate me as well Mr. Jailer

but you need to first find the person who robbed me.

He might get to far away.

Where can he go?

We have our sights on every thief in our area.

You mean to say…

you know everyone?

What I mean is that… Jhok Sial is a very small place.

One literally comes across everyone.

Dont worry, he wont go far.

This is Sub Inspector Asghar.

Give him the description of the culprit.

We’ll do something in the morning.

And

whatever loot we recover,

you will deposit half of it into the tation’s treasury.

Why’s that?

That is my lawful earning… why should I deposit half of it?

Oye hey, this is a government building.

Look at it closely.

The overall painting…

and did you note the furniture?

Its been a whole year.

The government has not even given money for the diesel!

God alone knows how the Jhok Sial police station is running!

There a dozen other expenses aside from this!

Should I write down all of them for you!

Now its up to you whether you want us to recover your things or not!

Ahem!

Fine.

As you wish Mr. Jailer sir.

I have a request.

Its quite late at night and I don’t have a place to stay.

There’s no hotel or anything around either to which I can go.

Don’t worry about that.

You are our guest.

Oye Shariffe!

Yes sir?

You know the civil works office that’s empty?

Yes, yes?

Put a bed cot for him in there.

Okay.

We’ll see to the rest in then morning.

Asghar write a report.

Come by in the morning,

your work will get done.

Fine.

Are you awake young Mistress?

Peeral sire wakes up at dawn.

What would you like me to get you for breakfast?

What would you like to eat?

How did I become young Mistress for you in but one night?

Arent you going to scare and threaten me today?

God forgive me! God forgive me Mistress!

I wouldn’t dare to argue with you!

All I do is follow Peeral sire’s command.

I only said what he commanded me to say to you.

But the command I got today was to serve you.

Peeral sire has made me your special handmaiden.

All that's well and good but why is my bedroom in the furthest corner?

That side of the house is already in a total state of uproar!

The fight is between Peeral sire’s first wife Mistress Sardari

and his second wife Mistress Zulekha.

I think you may have been given this corner room to keep you away from the commotion there.

Peeral sire has been married twice before me?

I only knew about the one.

I’m his third…

to me…

I cant… believe it.

Its a man’s heart.

It likes what it likes.

My mother used to say, a man and a lustful horse, both can change at any time.

Never trust a man’s heart.

It can turn at any given time.

Your mother was probably right.

Where is she now?

She’s with God.

She was also a servant here.

She served Mistress Sardari.

And my maternal grandmother worked in this house prior to her.