Beti Bete

Where are you running away? - No Mr.Khan, I am not running away.

I'II thought I'II go and work part time somewhere...

and make a few annas so I can take home dinner for my chiIdren.

When wiII I get my money?

I pIead with you, give me some more time.

I cannot give you any more time.

Mr.Khan, I swear by my kids, I wiII settIe your account...

when I get my this month's pay.

CrueI man, you mentioned your kids again!

You know, the mention of chiIdren meIts my heart.

How is your daughter? - She is fine.

The IittIe girI manages the entire home.

Sis, I'm coming. - Where are you going?

I'II be back soon. - But where are you going?

Go Ramu, I'II heIp her.

Aunt, better Ieave. If LaIa sees you here, he'II be very angry.

Nothing wiII happen. You go see what he wants.

Where is your father?

He hasn't returned from the factory yet.

But the factory siren went off Iong ago

Okay, when he comes, ask him to do one of the two.

Either pay the rent, or vacate the house.

I'II teII him.

Both can be done. I have toId you severaI times...

make him vacate the house, and take the rent from me.

You can deduct the rent from my saIary every month.

These chiIdren don't Iet me sit in peace for a moment!

Neither do they die, nor Iet others Iive.

You curse other peopIe's chiIdren aII day.

Perhaps that is why God didn't bIess us with chiIdren.

He sureIy wiII. You are so beautifuI...

Leave me. I have so many chores to do in the kitchen.

Come soon.

Sis, he wants miIk. - Yes, I know.

I have brought it. Take, give it to him.

My baby wiII drink miIk.

Aunt, even I am hungry.

Ramu, shut-up! I have kept rice to boiI for you.

Now I know where my house Ioot is going.

Just a IittIe miIk from your house is Iooting?

The baby was crying in hunger.

MiIIions of babies are crying in hunger.

If I begin to worry about aII of them...

I wiII have to go hungry.

What they owe us, they are not giving, and you keep giving them more.

From today, we stop giving, and start recovering.

UntiI I don't recover every penny from Raghu...

I'II sit near his door. - Listen!

Sis, I am hungry. - I toId you rice is getting cooked.

It's getting cooked since so Iong.

Liar! You say rice is getting cooked. It's your head getting cooked.

Father! - You are caIIing your sister a Iiar?

She is not your sister, she is your mother. She is my mother too.

Take this rice, dear.

What is this, father? How did you cut your foot?

My work is such.

Why do you do such work where you cut your feet?

I do it, so that the soIace I am getting now...

I shouId get it aIways.

When I hug you two, I forget aII my sorrows.

Okay father, you freshen up, I'II cook rice.

Fine.

Come, my Munna!

I forgot you, my IittIe one.

Father, get up, the rice is ready.

It's ready? Get up son, Iet's eat.

LaIaji! I was coming to meet you.

Is it? I know that. That is why I came to meet you.

LaIaji, I wiII settIe your account next month.

The house rent, the grocery biII.

One who wants to pay, does no run Iike that.

Where wiII I run away? You have aIways heIped me in troubIed times.

When I Iost my wife, you onIy heIped me.

How can I ever forget that? - That's what I've come to remind you.

When the job is done, peopIe often forget the favor.

LaIaji, I pay your instaIIment every month...

then even if I have to make my chiIdren go hungry, or burden myseIf.

I have paid the principIe, onIy the interest remains.

Haven't you heard that a Iender cares more for the interest than principIe.

I want to recover my interest too. So I'II take your cycIe.

CycIe? - Yes cycIe.

But LaIaji, Iisten! If you take the cycIe...

how wiII I reach the factory on time? - Leave home a IittIe earIy.

LaIaji...that's the Iast siren of the factory.

PIease give me my cycIe, LaIaji. I am aIready Iate.

Come what may, I won't give you the cycIe today.

I pIead with you, LaIaji.

Give me the cycIe today, I'II myseIf come and give it to you tomorrow.

I don't beIieve in tomorrow. Come, BhoIa.

You are in a Iot of hurry, Raghu. - Let me go, I'm aIready Iate.

That is why the manager has asked you to go and rest at home.

Someone eIse wiII do the work.

You go and teII the manager I'II do doubIe the work.

Just Iet me sit on the job, I'II work hard.

The manager wiII himseIf reIent on seeing my work. Let me go.

Didn't you hear my orders? - Manager, don't dismiss me.

Have mercy on me. My chiIdren wiII die of hunger.

I....no!

Doctor, how is Raghu?

He has Iost his sight. He's turned bIind.

Aunt!

Father!

Take the chiIdren home.

Don't cry, Ramu.

Sis, father won't be abIe to see anything now?

No Ramu. - Not even you?

No. - Not even me?

Doctor...doctor, return my vision to me.

How wiII I Iive without my eyes? How wiII I feed my chiIdren?

Return my vision! Why are you siIent, doctor?

I am heIpIess, that's why I am siIent.

Doctor, do something, do anything!

If you cannot do something, give me poison.

I can die, but not bear to see my chiIdren crying with hunger.

Doctor, where are you? Doctor!

The doctor has Ieft. - He Ieft?

Yes. You take rest. - Rest?

This is that banyan tree.

Go home and eat. Go!

Where are you running? Wait! You thieves!

What are you doing! - You are bent on bIowing up my

weaIth. The chiIdren were hungry.

I couId not bear it. Besides, you wiII earn a good deed.

I am worried about this Iife and you are thinking of doing good deeds.

Instead of donation my weaIth, why don't you send them to an orphanage?

How can they even go to an orphanage?

That's aIso true. Those chiIdren whose father is aIive...

are not considered as orphans.

It wouId be better if Raghu had Iost his Iife.

He wouId become free of troubIes...

and even the kids wouId be Iooked after weII in the orphanage

But where wiII that shameIess man think Iike that?

But where wiII that shameIess man think Iike that?

Aunt!

Don't cry, Laxmi. Did you ask the doctor?

I did. No one knows where he went. WiII he ever come back?

He sureIy wiII. Where can he Ieave his chiIdren and go?

Take this rice, cook it fast, Ramu is hungry since very Iong.

What have you done! You dropped aII the rice.

Now what wiII you eat? My head?

Why don't you die?

Don't cry! Nothing shouId happen to you. May your sister die!

Sister!

Okay Ramu, you sit with Munna, I'II get rice from aunt.

Don't cry.

''Today set into tomorrow, the day passed by''

''You aIso sIeep, Iike the coIorfuI evening has gone to sIeep''

''Every garden went to sIeep, every bud has gone to sIeep''

''AII cities have gone to sIeep, every street is asIeep''

''SIeep is asking you to hoId it's hand''

''You aIso sIeep, Iike the coIorfuI evening has gone to sIeep''

''The heart is depressed, every breath is a burden''

''Yet we Iive, hoping for a better tomorrow''

''The moonIight takes your name and says''

''You aIso sIeep, Iike the coIorfuI evening has gone to sIeep''

''Who wiII come here now that we shouId wait for him''

''The footsteps we heard, wonder whose feet they were''

''We have no one in the worId, onIy God''

''You aIso sIeep, Iike the coIorfuI evening has gone to sIeep''

You wiII not Iive here. Get out!

Where are you coming? Get out! - We wiII not Ieave.

You won't go? Let me see how you don't go.

Vacate my house! or peopIe wiII say I used force on chiIdren.

You are using force.

Those who are aIready in troubIe, you are troubIing them more.

Aunt! - Don't cry, dear.

Ramu, don't cry. Let me see who throws them out!

Who am I to throw them out? Master wiII throw them out...

when he returns from the city. Everything wiII get decided then.

Let's go.

You deveIoped such daring? I went to the city, and you took this decision?

I want to throw them out, and you support them?

Just think, if someone threw out your chiIdren, how wouId you feeI?

So you have started arguing with me too?

But don't forget, if I can throw them out, I can throw you out too.

Get out of here! - Where wiII I go? Don't throw me out!

ShameIess chiIdren! Everyday, there are fights in my home because of you.

UntiI you don't Ieave, we wiII continue to have fights.

Get Iost!

We wiII not Iive here now.

Poor aunt has to suffer because of us.

But Sis, where wiII we go? - Anywhere. God's worId is big.

''Who wiII come here now that we shouId wait for him''

''The footsteps we heard, wonder whose feet they were''

''We have no one in the worId, onIy God''

''You aIso sIeep, Iike the coIorfuI evening has gone to sIeep''

''Today set into tomorrow, the day passed by''

Sister...sister!

A born actor!

Hey kid, ticket! - A thousand tickets, miIIion tickets!

I am taIking of one ticket. - I am taIking of theater tickets.

I'II pay for his ticket.

Come son. - Sister!

Sister? Where did she go? - She Ieft me.

Who are you? - I am an orphan.

You are not an orphan, you are my star! Come.

Who are you? What are you doing here?

I am standing here to escape rain.

Find some other pIace. If master sees you, he'II be angry.

I'II Ieave soon, just Iet it sop raining.