Astitva (अस्तित्व)

"What a wonder life is!"

"Life, an empty sea drowning boats"

"Life, a lifeless desert"

"Life, an empty sea drowning boats"

"Life, a lifeless desert"

"Life, the beginning of death"

"What a wonder life is!"

"Do not despair"

"Have courage"

"Do you not see the flower blossoming upon the grave?"

"Do not despair"

"Have courage"

"Do you not see the flower blossoming upon the grave?"

"For the darkness is the beginning of a new day"

"What a wonder life is!"

Coming... - Aditi, where's my tie?

That's what I'm trying to find. - I'll be late. There's a meeting.

It'll go on till late. Aniket, are you ready?

One minute... let me call Shri.

Why does it have to ring now?

Shrikant Pandit? - Yes, who's speaking?

Dr Ravi Bapat... do I know you? - Drop the melodrama.

Melodrama! Where the hell are you? I hope you never died.

Can't you even call me once in a while?

Nothing of the sort happened. I might not have called.

But even from Goa, I've kept track of whatever has been happening in Pune.

So what makes you call today? - I'm calling you from Pune.

Meghna is with me too.

I'm here attending to property matters. - You're having dinner with us tonight.

Swine, you never even attended Aniket's engagement.

I wanted to. But I couldn't. Let's keep the dinner for later.

This evening I have an appointment with the estate agent.

One minute... I have to be back in Goa tomorrow morning.

I'm calling to congratulate Aniket on his engagement.

No! Doing it over phone won't do. - Shri, try to understand...

Isn't the appointment in the evening? - Yes.

Don't you have to go to work?

You catch a cab and come right away. - Listen to me.

What's up? - French leave.

You have two appointments today. - Postpone them. My friend is in town.

Ravi Bapat, from Goa.

We're childhood friends.

Go to the office, cancel my meetings, and come home with Revati.

She must have gone to work. - Bring her over.

Let Ravi and Meghna get to know what you're destined for.

Let me organize lunch. - Listen, cook up something spicy.

The doctor is a glutton.

I'm high on my second.

I'm not accustomed to drinking during the day.

And you're still fine after two beers! - Look, I live without tensions.

I drink without tensions. To live life in Goa...

...you have to pick up the rhythm. It's in the air. And it's fun.

I wind up the day's practice by 11 or 11:30 and I'm back home.

I like my afternoon beer. I enjoy myself.

Lucky you. Freedom from tensions, and freedom where? In Goa!

And I'm still slogging it out in Pune. - Making money too.

What do I do with money? Eat it? - With so much money...

...you can cook up whatever you want. As of now, eat some cashew.

Do you have the sea facing your house? Soothing to the eyes, isn't it?

My house is right across the sea. There's the sea, and here I am.

And in between, there's the beach.

With God's grace, even an ass will make it!

A house in Goa by the sea and a beach in-between!

The girls are so soothing for the eyes! - Jealousy! Jealousy!

One-pieces, bikinis, topless...! - Look at this!

An old man in the throes of youth? - At heart I'm still young!

And you've stayed single for so long. After you broke up with Sanya...

...you said you'd never marry. How come you did it?

I mean, one look at Meghna, and anyone would. But you...?

I wasn't about to. But two years ago, on a trek through the Himalayas...

I met her. We struck up a friendship. A day before the trek was to end...

I proposed to her. A few days afterwards, she said yes.

She told me everything about herself. Her first marriage, that had failed...

...her divorce, her two children. From the first marriage.

Radhika is the elder. Fifteen The younger is Shravani. Thirteen.

Are they accustomed to living alone? - They've gone over to their father.

Prashant Vaidya. He lives in Goa too. I'm very clear about this.

We might have separated. But he must also share...

...the responsibility of the daughters. They are as much his as they are mine.

It's another thing that I'm not his wife anymore.

Anyway, he never had any sense of responsibility towards his wife.

No, why should you feel awkward? It's been four years since we separated.

He started having an affair with his business associate.

When I got to know, I was hurt. What hurt me most was...

Prashant found nothing wrong with it. "So what if I made a mistake?"

"Why rake up faith and fidelity for nothing?" That was his point.

He never understood the relationship between husband and wife.

Even if he did, he never appreciated it.

I found Ravi. Gem of a man!

Have the girls accepted him? - For them, Ravi is closer than I am!

So tell me, what are you up to?

I...?

You do nothing else? - There's so much to do at home.

So! Do something! - What for?

Look at me. Only after the divorce did I realize...

...that I should've been doing something. One mustn't give up one's self-respect.

Certainly not for the sake of a man.

I started a boutique of my own. It's doing well.

And most importantly, I'm standing on my own feet.

I don't need any man's support. You should do something too.

All of us should have something to do. - My time for doing something is over.

Are you silly? Time is never over.

Answer the door. That must be Aniket and Revati.

Revati is my daughter-in-law to-be.

A very close friend.

Nice pair, Aniket.

You sure know how to pick a diamond.

Whose son is he after all?

Look at him, he's handsome! Just like his father.

Go on, have it. What's this sham about taking permission from your father?

Once the wedding is done, you're going back to your own sweet will.

Lovely lines! By the way Revati, what do you do?

I'm a computer science graduate. I'm working with a computer firm.

So many times I've told her to quit the job. What do we lack?

Why does a bride of our family have to work? But this girl won't listen.

You quit that job. - Never! You're on the right track.

Very well.

Revati, you want to work? Then join my company.

That I shall never do. - Why? What's eating you?

In my father-in-law's firm, I won't have any competition.

It's going to kill my motivation. I won't take a job like that.

Go on working, wherever you are. - What are you? Friend or foe?

I'll complain against you to your wife! - What complaint do you have?

She's Aniket's...

Revati, Meghna is this old buzzard's pretty wife.

You aren't going to believe this, but she's a mother of 2 grown up daughters!

That's why I married her. Pretty woman, and two readymade daughters.

Readymade daughters...? - From my first husband.

And some virtues, maybe from my past life, came with Meghna.

Into the desert that my life was ...how do I say this?

Meghna came in like an oasis! - Brilliant!

My diary! I must write those lines. - Do it later.

I'm drunk Aditi, later on I'm going to forget it!

Answer the door.

You needn't go after the diary. You can all to ask for it.

Everytime my marriage comes up, that's what I say to impress her.

Registered post. For you. - For me?

Letter for Aditi? Give it to me.

Addressed to Aditi, isn't it?

You read your letters. - But she's my wife, isn't she?

What difference does it make?

What is it, Shri? Whose letter?

Shri, I don't get any of this. Will you tell me what's up?

What's in it? - My wife has hit paydirt!

Last week, some Malhar Kamat died in Hubli.

He has given all he had to my wife!

15 acres of land, one ancestral home, 1.5 kilos of gold...

...and 860,000 cash!

My wife has hit the jackpot! This is a lottery!

Who's this Malhar Kamat? - Whoever he was...

...he has left my wife a treasure! Hey wife...

...how about a loan sometime...? That's if I ever need it...

Aditi, was this Malhar a relative? - No. Many years ago...

I used to take music lessons from him. - And what a rhapsody comes out of it!

The teacher gives the disciple all he had! Great!

Wife here's to you! - Enough Shri. Let's eat now.

What's the big hurry? Have a drink, my man!

Want me to give you another drink?

Drink this.

Have Ravi and Meghna left?

Did they eat lunch?

They had waited so long... we finished lunch at three o'clock.

I should never drink. - At long last, you realize.

Want me to massage your head?

Who's this Kamat? - Malhar Kamat.

I used to take music lessons from him. - Have I ever met him?

Yes. Once, when you returned from a tour.

The second time, after Aniket was born.

Yes, he came to see Aniket. He gave Aniket gold bracelets.

Afterwards you stopped taking music lessons, didn't you?

Had I continued, who would've taken care of Aniket?

But he never saw us again, did he? - No.

Was he married?

And later on...? - How would I know, Shri?

Why am I asking you all this?

Were Ravi and Meghna hurt? - They didn't express it...

...but they might be a bit hurt. - I'm such a...

Let me call them.

Go on Pandit, go on.

I had one too much. - Only one too much? Much too much!

Forget me. Your daughter-in-law was with you. You should've considered that.

I was the atmosphere, you know! Besides, I was meeting you after so many years.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have got drunk. - Want me to ask around town?

Go on. Please yourself. - What if I find you're lying?

I'll throw you a party.

The next time, we're going to be sober.

In fact for the next time, come over to Goa with Aditi.

You won't mend your ways! Still after bikinis.

What was he saying? - What else?

He called to say sorry. - He's so self-centered, pompous.

You just met him. You hardly know him. - I don't need time to make out...

...men like him. I spent 17 years of my life with someone like him.

Prashant Vaidya. Your Shrikant Pandit is one of them.

Do your writing tomorrow. I had so much to do today. I'm tired.

Aditi, in all these years, have I ever put off my diary till tomorrow?

Go to sleep. I'll sleep after I've written my diary.

All right, turn on the table lamp. I'm switching off the light.

June 19, 1999. Today Dr Ravi Bapat and Meghna from Goa, came home.

I in vited them for lunch. I skipped office because they were coming.

In the afternoon, during the party, a letter arrived by registered post...