Nai Roshni

Professor Kumar A - Yes, Principal.

We were coming to see you !

Meet new lecturer of our college, Mr. Prakash.

Greetings ! - He's a very promising young man.

He has joined today. And he is Mr. Kumar.

He is Professor of Sociology in our college.

He is very well known.

Which university did you go to? - Osmania University.

Are you from Hyderabad? - Yes, sir.

When did you come here? - 2 weeks ago. lt's my first job.

Mr. Kumar. Prakash is preparing for PhD.

What do you think about helping him after college.

l'd be quite happy. Come to my home any time after the college.

Oh my God. lt's so hot ! Make-up doesn't hold for a minute.

l've asked your daddy to install air-conditioner. He doesn't listen.

Chitra. Give me your lipstick.

These are so difficult times. lt's so hard to get foreign lipstick.

We hear only the names of Max Factor and Yardley now.

Be quick, dear. lt's time to leave for the party.

l'm ready, mommy ! - Are you ready?

ls it your party dress? Sari and blouse of different colors!

What will people say in the party? ls she Padma's daughter?

People say about me that if it's windy in England, l catch cold in lndia !

But what is wrong with this mommy? - lf it was only one l'd have told.

For selecting the dress always pay attention to color combination.

Go. l've selected a combination of dress and jewelry for you.

Wear that. Take this. Don't take more than 5 minutes.

Come in time sometime. Driver - if he forgets, you'd remind him.

Do you have to go somewhere urgently?

Why would l shout if it wasn't urgent.

Ramesh has come from London. His friends have given a party to honor him

What will they think if we don't reach in time - unpunctual lndians?

What a praise of lndians !

Here's my salary for this month. l've paid the rent for the house.

You pay rent even before bringing your salary home.

Landlord has never shown his face. And you pay rent on 1st day of month.

Padma, payer should be more worried than the payee.

Again the same answer. But what happened to air-conditioner?

Before installing air-conditioner - we should see our condition too.

Mother. Tea.

You'd brought the tea earlier. Shall l take the tea to the party?

Let's go. We're getting late.

Only if people could be free of sorrow before death ... !

Papa, you're tired. Please sit. Give these to me.

Rekha. Make a hot cup of tea for me.

No Papa. Doctor has asked you not to drink to much tea.

l am bringing orange juice for you.

l'm allowed to take tea once in a while. l've urge for tea today.

Alright. l'm making it for you.

Everybody mistreats me in this house. Except you !

Because you are older than me. And you've brought me up like a daughter.

l've only brought you up. But l've given birth to Chitra !

But why to blame her. A shadow can't be different from the tree.

She is following the footprints of her mother.

She goes to parties - and she goes to clubs !

Rekha, don't you ever wish to go for an outing?

l can't spare time from my studies.

Yes. You've to study for B.A. and you also take care of me.

Sometimes l think - who'll be there for me after your marriage.

Papa. You don't get me married. - Crazy girl.

Every girl has to marry someday. - Forget that, papa.

Mother and Chitra will eat at the party What should l cook for you?

Cook anything. Years have passed after eating food of my choice.

Hey Jyoti ! - What's the matter Moti?

Let's go home. - Has Bhabhi given you a gift of child?

Not your Bhabhi (sister-in-law). This time cat has given the kittens.

ln poor people's homes wife and cats both give birth to children.

Come on. l'll give your very hot chilly pakora (snacks) to eat.

lsn't my life bitter enough that you want me to eat chilly pakora.

So is chilly bitter and liquor is sweet for you?

ls that why you drink it so joyfully every evening?

Why do you compare chilly with liquor?

Chilly changes taste of only mouth. Liquor changes taste of whole life.

Why do you cheat yourself?

Just think ! You're the son of Prof. Kumar like great learned man ...

and you're ruining yourself by drinking liquor.

You too have started talking like other people, Moti.

Tell me who is there for me in this world.

Just me and my loneliness.

You've a wife and kids. You can forget your worldly sorrows with them.

But who is for me?

My ma and papa gave me birth but thereafter ... ?

Ma lost herself in the clubs and papa absorbed himself in books.

ln stead of my mother l was brought up on the milk of my wet-nurse.

When my innocent boyhood didn't get the support of my mother ...

then l started on the path leading to bars with my vagrant friends.

After that l would roam around in the streets.

You tell me what's the difference between me and vagrant orphans?

lf l go back home after work - l'm haunted by evil spirits of walls.

That's why a drink liquor.

l take refuge in liquor.

Had l got a little bit of mother's love ...

my loneliness would not be looking for liquor in the darkness of night.

Liquor won't have become my support, and l'd not have depended on it.

lf there were no bars in religious places, where would atheist go.

You tell me Moti, where else scraps like me go.

Ma ! My good mother ! - You've returned my son !

Why do you have to wait for me at the door every evening?

lf l don't wait for you - what else do l've in my life?

And this is my childhood routine.

When l was a kid, l used to wait like this for your grandpa.

Because he used to bring sweets for me every evening.

Why didn't you tell me this before. l too will bring sweets every evening.

Now all sweetness in my life is because of you.

Okay. Now you freshen up, son. Your grandma has made pakoda for you.

Really? - Ma ! Parchoo has come.

l've come too. - Have you made any special pakoda.

Yes - cauliflower pakoda. - Oh yummy !

Cauliflower pakoda were favorite of your grandpa

Thank God he liked cauliflower and not chilly pakoda.

Otherwise you'd have asked me to eat those today.

Ma - you too eat,

Not today. Some other time.

Chitra, you've got into the habit of making people wait.

So sorry, Ramesh. l got a little late.

No problem - come on.

Ramesh, you're the most noticeable man in this party.

Thank you for the compliments. But this party was dull without Chitra.

Light has just come. Lo. Dance is starting.

Sarita it was wonderful. You've stirred the heartbeats of all.

lt was all for you.

Sarita, your dance was very good.

Shall we go, Ramesh? - Yes.

Ramzan Miyan ! - Yes, sir.

ls my carriage ready. - l'm always ready for you, sir.

But Ramzan, what do you get out of serving a drunkard?

l know, sir. You don't drink to enjoy the liquor.

You are a noble soul of God.

When you hired my rickshaw for the first time five years ago ...

l was an illiterate villager then.

But traveling between home and work you taught me to read Urdu and Hindi books.

And now l can read the poetry of Ghalib, Firaq and Bachchan.

What life do you have, Ramzan.

You carry my load and this road carries our load.

l don't know why poor people are punished to survive? Why?

Sir ! Your home has come. Please wake up.

Ramzan. Have a cigarette. - May God give you long life, sir.

Your home has come. - Help me.

Goodnight. - Goodbye.

Go slowly.

Greetings, sister. - So you've come back !

You're smelling very good.

There is only one odor in the world which smells like fragrance, sister.

How did you get wet? ls it raining outside?

l'd fallen in a gutter, sister.

l swear to devil, it is fun to fall after drinking liquor.

lt doesn't make any difference whether a man falls in a gutter or a river !

Now move your steps inside.

Was l still standing outside?

Why do you drink such a thing that you lose control over yourself?

That's the beauty of drinking -

that hands and feet go out of control but heart and brain go in its control.

Why are you touching the feet of a drunkard?

You're a drunkard afterwards - first you are my brother !

Brother, if you stop drinking - l shall fast for 21 days.

Stupid girl. That would mean that both of us will die hungry.

You because of not eating - and l because of not drinking.

Death to your enemies.

Look, brother. How much slime has gone in your shoes?

So what? But it would be less than slime found in this house.

Brother! Have you lost your mind under the influence of liquor?

ln the house where your respected mother and father live ...

can there be slime in that house?

Mother and father! Very nice !

Mother is like a foreign madam ... and father is like a philosopher !

Sister. From today you too call mother as madam !

Although she is made in lndia - but she bears stamp of ''Made in England''.

l can tolerate all your nonsense - but not any insult to mother.

Why are you trying to hide the truth?

You want me to respect that mother - who by leaving sacred songs of home...

and by singing club songs has turned my father's life into a hell?

Had she been my mother, she would have looked after me like a mother ...

and she'd have given me good education.

A great learned man would not be on an ordinary job in the mill.

Being a labor isn't a crime. Man should do good deeds.

You're an intelligent man. You understand this world.

lf you stop drinking, then everybody will respect you.

You are a kid, sister - a simpleton.

Respect ... ! ... !

Respect is something which once sold can't be bought back again.

And l had auctioned away my respect long back!

Go ... you're wasting your study time.

Come on, brother. Have some food.

Today, drinking has served me as food. l'll eat tomorrow.

No. Food is getting cold. Come with me.

Food is getting cold in the room.

lt was a good party and dancing. We enjoyed it very much.

They have come with a bang !

Elder madam! Younger madam !!

Sometime when ma is in mood - l will certainly ask her ...

as to how many minutes after giving me birth she had gone to the club?

Shut up brother. Eat the food. Come ...

First let me change these dirty clothes.

Rather you go. l'll eat the food. - Will you surely eat?

Was daddy asking about me?

Master waited for you up to 1 1 PM - then he ate food and went to sleep.

Don't tell daddy that l was late.

Where are you coming from, Pachoo. - l had gone to the Hanuman temple.

Here is his offering. - Give it to me.

No. Open your mouth.