Sarkar Colony (സർക്കാർ കോളനി)

'Sarkar Colony Thrikkakara, Ernakulam'

Hey, wake up

Come on, wake up dear

Let me sleep just a little more

Wake up my dear

Wake up, dear

I will in a while, my dearie

Oh what a pity, poor thing Dearie, my foot

Not dearie, this is a buffalo

This man will not wake up even if thunderbolt strikes him

Hey, man Aren't you working today?

Get up and move, man

Do I have to go today?

What a ridiculously lazy man?

At least on pay day you should make an effort to go

I am quite fed up with you! What a weird incarnation!

Waste!

- Listen, he's referring to you - Really?

Of course who else!?

We used to wake up to the cries of crows and birds in those days

Now-a-days it's the waste collector Waste...inauspicious morning

Waste...waste

- Sarasu - Yes?

What's for lunch today? Anything special?

Malabar Catmint (small yam) curry

I think this is why I start snoring as soon as I open a file at work

Dad, everyone in this colony says

...that you travel 4 hours from Ernakulam to Secretariat just to sleep

Oh really!

Don't think my job is like your mother's at the Electricity Board

The inter-city train I travel in reaches Trivandrum only at 11:00 am

From there to the Secretariat by which it is lunch time

By the time you finish your afternoon siesta

...it's time to catch the intercity train back home

Such can never be reformed whatever new rule the government brings in

Here's your alarm clock Medicine is inside your bag

Don't say you forgot and slept without taking them

I am late, let me rush or I'll miss my train

- Okay dad, goodnight - Why good night?

Because you are off to sleep So it's good night, not good morning

- Well okay, then goodnight - Good night

My goodness! What a character!

"It was here the first rays of the sun fell as well as the last of the twilight"

"It was here that the first notes of music as well as the rhythm of dance was born"

- Good morning - Very good morning

Brother Bobby have you shifted here permanently giving up your Gulf business?

I just came to get an extension for my leave

Why don't you give up this petty Government job instead?

It could benefit someone else too

Dude, government jobs provide us means to live till we die

I will always have a fall-back in case I am forced to leave that country

At least Bobby is on extended leave

You go for shooting of TV serials without even applying for leave

That's just a deal between me and the department

Oh yes, why not?!

Only government employees can get away with this

It's a historical story of 400 episodes

...that runs like Dysenteric kids relieving themselves

Okay, see you I must collect my salary before going to shoot

In this dress?

My wife complains no one recognizes me

So I wore this fancy dress just to remind people

Brother Bobby

Government jobs remain with us till we die

But after I die only my role in the serial will live on

See you

"It was here the first rays of the sun fell as well as the last of the twilight"

"This Sarkar colony is so lively"

"Full of noise and activity"

"Yearning for notes that's crisp and shiny"

"Always in quarrelsome quandary"

"Like clowns in action, hugging passionately"

"Here there's always new avatars of cheating"

"Even in the middle of a day"

"Luttapi finds new ways to fill his pockets"

"A job is not child's play"

"This is service to the public"

"A job is not child's play"

"This is service to the public"

"Don't harass people holding responsible jobs in mad circles"

"Bedbugs who gamble with cards"

"Don't die of lightening strike"

"It's all finished at this rate"

"The state of this poor country"

Mom, I won't believe you any more

You have been fooling me with such promises for long

Leave me, let me go

- He's a little upset - That's the way it is at his age

He is unaware the effort it takes to make both ends meet with what we earn

Give me alms

There he comes

Please help me with alms

I am a pauper

Here

Today Goddess Government has blessed us Collection of Interests has touched Rs.2000

- Now give me my due as alms - This is for future benefits

Is it possible to get another loan? I shall be extremely grateful

Our son wants to buy a 2nd hand computer

Let me see

The one and only Govt. employee who does not sleep during duty

But then a Public transport driver cannot even if he wants to

I heard you guys have turned murderers by accepting more than 3-4 shifts a day

Is it true?

If so the consequences are immediate, right?

Excuse me One minute

Hello?

I am on duty now My rate is 30 for every 100

Yes, this is for govt. servants only Or at least the guarantor should be one

I loan money only to Sarkar (Govt) No, not for circus employees

I was short of fuel Now I can go smoothly

- Here he comes - Stop...stop

- Where the dickens were you? - Where could I possibly have been?

We looked for you at the pump house

I am on duty as a pump operator Well, I don't have to stick around there

When I switch on the motor it rotates while I have time to rotate around here

I need to switch it off only after 7 hours That is a workaholic while I am an alcoholic

Okay, now where should I come as a guarantor, police station or court?

The lawyer has ordered you to come to court at sharp 11 o clock

This guarantor Jaffer has only 1 condition To be paid advance only in bottle form

Mom

Seems nobody here

Oh my goodness! The government beggar

If he catches sight of me then you will have to bail me out

Go, go both of you, go away

Hey!

This vehicle ditches me at the most crucial times

You beggar...stop there

"This is a dead pond, aspiring to be kings"

"Mad fellows fight duels"

"Cockroaches want to run around Instead of sitting on seats"

"This is a dead pond, aspiring to be kings"

"Mad fellows fight duels"

"Cockroaches want to run around Instead of sitting on seats"

"Tree toads that croaks monotonously"

"These are the towns nastiest rowdies"

"Trying to count the notes of govt pay"

"Stands on his head, our Rappayi"

"Govt. jobs are not a hide and seek game"

"Public service is its alternate name"

"Govt. jobs are not a hide and seek game"

"Public service is its alternate name"

"This sarkar colony is so lively"

"Full of noise and activity"

"Yearning for notes that's crisp and shiny"

"Always in quarrelsome quandary"

"Like clowns in action, hugging passionately"

"Here there's always new avatars of cheating"

"Even in the middle of a day"

"Luttapi finds new ways to fill his pockets"

"A job is not child's play"

"This is service to the public"

"A job is not child's play"

"This is service to the public"

Yes Shivaramakrishnan here, understood I was just on my way to the office

What! You are asking me to take leave?

No, duty 1st, so I will call you back later

You don't know who you are dealing with

Hey! What's this?

'Knock and doors shall open' is the adage It opened but without my knocking, thanks

It's not knock and it shall open It's 'knock and you shall be knocked down'!

- No please - Well, why are you here?

I came to 'down some more' in here

- What? - I mean to hide somewhere in here

A bottle of booze And you'll bail out even a dead soul!

I guess you are running away from an arrest warrant, aren't you?

Go away, hide somewhere else

It's time for me to go to work

I understand perfectly I know what you are feeling

- What feeling? - A govt. workers favorite month

Salary day, February, oh what eagerness and punctuality to go to work

- Dad! - Which dad?

- I don't know - Then, who is that?

Dad

He is not my son, so he must be yours Very chubby and spitting image of you

- My son? - Who is it?

Dad, please give me alms

Who is your dad here?

Well, generally I yell mother I thought for a change I'll use dad

If it continues your face will also change its shape

You can put change into this beggars bowl Who does not like coins?

You are a smooth talker But it will not work here

- Go, go away - If not cash you can give me your card

- I will swipe it and return it - Oh yeah! Get lost

By the way please if you meet that Jaffer, tell him

...that the day I lay my hands on him his intestines will be out

He cannot play the fool with me

Shameless fellow Being scared of a beggar

I stood guarantor for a fellow who ditched me

And he threatens me now if I do not pay him back

Dad has worn his helmet So today is salary day

This helmet has many advantages

I can avoid creditors as well as block my ears from strings of abuse

Also escape from your mother's complaints and gossip

Don't try to escape with this helmet

It is 2 months overdue for her 'Day care' fees

- There's no sugar, rice, etc. in the kitchen - Oh! So you have started off

Instead of inauspiciously saying 'not there' Why don't you say 'it's there'

Well in this house lack of rice is there Lack of sugar is there, is that okay?

Enough! Oh God, I have only one prayer

Some terrorist should kidnap me today And hold me hostage at least for 2 days