Dombivali Fast

Your lunch-box.

Get up! -My child!

Get up!

See you. Bye.

Get up!

Train coming on platform number one..

The train arriving on platform number one is slow local.

Only this is left.

And always chew your food.

Bye, sweetheart!

Lunch-box.

A little more.

Rahul.. Rahul.. get up.

Go and see if water is coming.

Rahul!

Darn! I've given birth to a veritable sleeping giant.

Rahul, are you up already? Prachi.

Prachi, wake up now.

Prachi! Pra..

Prachi, don't get in the way now.. go and brush your teeth.

Go to the bathroom, finish your work and quickly get ready.

God! This child is really a pain!

Your brother? -He's asleep!

Was there any need to watch TV all night long?

Get up.. go fill some water!

Now who's going to tidy this mess?

I'll.. -What do you mean by 'I'll'?

Wake up and check if the tanker is here. (Yawning)

I'm not going to see that! -No?

What's the meaning of such behaviour?

No sane hour to sleep or wake up..

..or do any work, but just locking horns..

There's no question of locking horns. I've made it clear.

I'm off to Mangya's to study. -You talk of studies.

He'll put forward office, I'm the only..

..one who has all the time in the world!

Wake you up, run after you..

..get you ready, get lunch box ready.

Even I've just two hands like you.

Forget lending a helping hand..

..no one's decent enough to respond to a call.

It's only me rambling away. -So.. here we go.

Now why can't everyone wake up by dawn and do a bit.. no way!

I've to be after you even to fold the bed sheets.

It's well-known that water is scant..

..but I must be the one to urge you..

..to pour a fistful on your heads.

With all this chasing and fretting..

I'll kick the bucket sooner than you think.

The milk's gone!

This house's also a cramped hole. You can't walk from..

..one room to another without banging into something.

Sleep, ok?

Rahul, why are you sitting around wasting time?

I'll slap you.. take the bucket and go get water.

Leave me alone.. -Rahul!

Now, this is the limit! He's got no feeling, that's for sure.

But even if some else makes him aware..

..look at his shamelessness!

Such impudence at this age! God knows..

..what's in store for the future!

Rahul, don't wear me out.. water!

I've already informed you, I've to go to Mangya's.

I don't care whether you go to Mangya..

..or some other numbskull..

Tidy up your stuff! Fill water and go wherever you please.

I don't need to issue separate instructions to you. Get up!

Mind being a bit gentle? You work so roughly. What is this?

Getting excited isn't going to reduce your work.

If you'd only apply yourself to the task calmly..

..you'll save a lot more trouble.

You don't loose anything sitting there and passing judgment.

And why not?

What's the difference between a house wife and a maid servant?

It's my mistake. I should have picked..

..up a job and put the kids in the creche.

I should have gotten into the catering business..

..and everything would've gone on smoothly.

But you wanted me to sit at home..

..and bring them up to be good human beings.

Like a father has no hand in all this.

And so I was into it. I looked after..

..them with great dedication and affection.

But to what avail? Our son talks back to me..

..and all the father does is sit and read the newspaper.

Rahul, go down and get some water.

Father, I told you I've got to study.

How can you go to someone else's house and study?

I can.. and I do it well. -Great!

But what happens when the results are out?

You've failed in three subjects.

Now let me study. I know I've failed..

..but it's not my fault.

What? If it isn't yours, whose fault is it?

Sure if it's not his fault, it must be ours.

There must either be a problem with the teacher..

..or I fell short while brining him up.

The other parents, I mean not even the fathers..

..even the mothers don't pay any attention.

Even then children pass in all the subjects..

..and here we are standing in attendance 24 hours..

..and this is the state of affairs.

I don't attend tuitions of the teacher..

I don't pass as I don't attend their tuition classes..

..only those who go there pass.

Well, you should have told us this before.

From next month start attending those tuitions.

What tuition? I don't believe in tuition and all.

Why can't you pay more attention and study properly?

Or why don't you help him in his studies?

Why her? If you teach me, the result will still be the same.

Oh, is that so? There is no need for any tuition. Got it.

Tuitions from the same teacher who teaches you.. no way.

I'm not going to pay for this. Understood?

Then I won't pass either.

You don't have money to pay for the tuition?

I never said anything about not having money.

I'm not going to pay for the tuition. That's all I said. -Why?

What do you mean why? This is clearly blackmail.

In a way, it's like giving bribes..

..and I don't like that at all.

And you know that it doesn't fit with my principles.

Your principles are important or his academic year?

Don't talk like that. You think I don't understand anything..

..that I never went to school or that I never passed my exams.

I've been working at the bank for so many years.

I've never taken any such tuition.

I've never paid one buck extra.

But those were different days.

They're gone. Now everywhere you see classes..

..and children attend them.

Do you think their parents don't have principles?

I'm thinking about myself.

If ten people decide to make a jerk out of themselves..

..I should too, just because they're ten?

Don't I stand for anything alone?

What is this? What does this mean..

..that you'll only pass if you take tuitions?

This isn't education, it's a business.

It's better that Rahul doesn't study at all.

What do you care? Everything is ok with you.

Even the house you live in is ok..

..even though it's on rent.

You don't even care to pick up the buckets..

I was insisting my father..

..that you must not judge the house by your post in the bank..

..that Brahmnis live in this Dombivali neighbourhood.

What happened then?

Nothing has gone wrong. Everything will be as you desire.

I'm tired of living on such hopes and dreams.

What have I got in the past 15 years?

Your principles have completely ruined..

..everything for us anyway.. now ruin it for our child too.

And be happy with your principles.

As if we have no other work. Why does he do this every time?

What happened? Isn't he opening the tap?

God knows. He always throws some tantrum.

Look at him.

Why?

What will he do now?

What the hell? - What happened, uncle?

How long will it take? -Just look.

No idea.

What do you mean no idea? If you don't know, then who will!

People have been waiting for so long.

How can you do something like this? Open the tap.

Is anyone else saying anything?

Everyone else is standing quietly, aren't they?

I'm addressing you with respect. You're just a tanker worker.

Everyone pays you.. hurry up and open the tap.

The overseer has gone to talk about the money, ok?

And he's gone with the key.

He's told me he won't give me the keys..

..without receiving any money..

But over here everyone's given money.

Don't waste time with stupid excuses..

..otherwise go call the overseer.

I don't want any trouble early in the morning.

I told you, he's gone to collect his money.

You people might be paying on time..

..but we should also get the money on time. -Apte.

Apte, let it be. -Here. Take the 100 bucks and start the water.

Uncle, why are you doing this? His habits will be spoilt.

Forget it, Madhav Kaka. Join the queue.

Madhav, fight about this with the secretary!

He works in a bank, that's why he's throwing his weight around.

Stop all this argument! What about the water?

Ask him not to mess around with these tanker guys.

There's a fight for water everyday.

Now he'll fight with everyone.

I'll be late for sure. -I'm tired of living in Dombivli.

We should leave and go somewhere else.

Fight.

Is it always this crowded in Mumbai?

Crowd is the other name for Mumbai.

If it weren't so, the people of Mumbai would be lost.

There are so many problems in this Mumbai..

..but not one person is ready to leave it.

Sure, but at least we get our daily bread and butter.