Gopi Kishan

This year, those soldiers and officers

who have shown courage and sincerity will,

be honoured with medals.

First to be honoured is, inspector Amar Chatterjee.

Next to be awarded

is constable Gopi Nath.

They are calling out your name, Gopi.

Go and receive the medal.

Medal? Are they calling me? - Yes.

That's because you have not accepted

any bribes throughout your career.

It's to award for your honest character.

Go there! Go fast! - Really?

Hey brother, why are you pushing?

Why are you pushing me?

Look at him, sir. He's pushing me.

What is this nonsense? Who's Gopi Nath?

I'm Gopi Nath, sir.

But sir, the point is that even my name is Gopi Nath.

But the medal is for this Gopi Nath.

But sir, since you called out my name,

I thought that you're...

You fool, even if they call out your name along with your address,

you should assume that the medal is for some other Gopi Nath.

How dare you think that you will be honoured?

You have a point, sir.

I made a mistake. Sorry.

What happened? - Your father.

Daddy, don't bore me. Please go away.

How dare you talk to your father like that?

Why didn't you go to school? Tell me. Why didn't you?

I had a stomach ache.

Doesn't your stomach ache, when you play marbles?

Daddy, don't insult me in front of my friends. Understand?

Your mother has spoilt you. I'll have to take her to task now.

Gopi? When did you arrive?

Go inside and freshen up.

I'll see to all my customers and be back in 10 minutes.

Ok, tell me. How many bananas do you want? A dozen or two?

That's such a sweet way of asking someone.

I feel like buying the whole shop.

But, what can I do? I can't afford it! Give me two dozens.

Chanda, come inside. - Don't you see that I'm busy?

Chanda, are you coming inside or not?

What do you mean? Do you not trust me?

It's not about trust, Chanda.

I know, Chanda that you're like a fire, no one can dare touch you.

You think that I don't observe you? I do!

I've noticed that you give fruits to the customer in baskets.

So that even their hands don't touch yours.

But, I don't like this shop of yours.

Even I don't like it. But am I doing it out of will?

Anyway, forget it.

The Government was going to honour you with medals, in that function.

How many medals did you recieve? Tell... Tell...

I don't think that daddy got even half a medal, mother.

That's why he was shouting at me, when he came back.

Shut up. You talk a lot these days. Try to talk now! C'mon talk!

Chanda, I was supposed to recieve 5-6 medals.

But, I just missed it. - The same thing happens every year.

I promise you, Chanda.

Next year, If not 4 or 5, I'll bring home at least 1 medal.

You'll only bring home excuses.

Do you know that, 5 other policemen stay on the same street?

Tomorrow, their wives will bring their husbands' medals to the well,

and show it off!

They'll flaunt it on my face!

Won't I feel disgraced?

You have a point, Chanda.

Enough, let it be, Chanda daughter.

You're wasting your time talking to him.

Do you know how expensive things are these days?

How much does he earn after all?

Around 800 Rupees a month grandma, after deducting all the allowances.

800? What can you do with 800?

Have you any clue about the household expenses?

3 adults and above that Tinku's expenses!

His education! His books!

Do you know how expensive education is these days?

Why did you have him so early if your salary was just 800 Rupees?

Ask him, mother. Ask him.

I told him on the wedding night itself that.

We'll wait for sometime before having a child.

We can have one after his promotion.

But, he didn't want to wait.

He said that one child won't make a difference to the expenditure.

Moreover, a child will bring happiness into this house

and got me pregnant.

Children are God's gift, Chanda.

Really? Do men have no control over it?

Mother, you ask him. Whenever I refuse him for a second child,

he gets angry and starts throwing tantrums.

Mother, how can women make these men understand?

'Go and bolt the door'.

That's how he orders me. How can I refuse? - Really? Really?

Swear on your self,

don't you sometimes, bolt the door on your own?

Have you never done that!

Enough, enough. I know all about you.

I know how much you hesitate whenever we have guests overnight,

and I ask you to sleep in the corridor.

Don't I know your excuses?

Don't keep....

bringing up that point, mother.

How is that related to the shop?

It is related.

Your salary is so meager that we have to run the shop.

There's another head constable in the neighborhood.

He owns 3 autos. How does he do it?

That's nothing mother.

But what about the next door fellow who's just a constable?

His wife wears gold bangles and necklaces!

How does he manage all that?

You good for nothing! You just accept the salary from one hand.

Why don't you use the other hand to reap in some extra?

Why did you marry me If you planned to earn 800 rupees only?

Keep quiet! Shut up!

Don't you both feel ashamed

to talk like this, being a policeman's relatives?

Even if I don't get a medal throughout my life,

I will not let even a small black spot stain my uniform.

I'll never accept bribes. Never.

I swear on mother. - Move your hand.

If you have sworn on me, then go to work everyday,

come back and rest in the evenings.

Don't you dare say anything about the shop ever again.

Lord! There is no similarity between me and my job.

But what could I do?

I didn't get any other job.

That's why I decided to become a cop.

I had no clue that I was getting into such a big problem.

If I don't complete a case, my senior scolds me.

If I don't accept bribes then my wife and mother shout at me.

Above all Lord, even that little son of mine, makes fun of me.

O Lord,

if you really admire my devotion then come in any form,

but please come here and help me out.

Take this money that you've earned for yourself working in prison.

This is your B.A. certificate.

Kishan, you couldn't stand injustice being done to someone

and committed a murder.

You ended up spending your childhood in prison.

Now don't lose your temper again on seeing injustice, Kishan.

Else your youth will be spent in prison as well.

75 Rupees.

Ok fine. Go!

Waiter!

What are you going to do about the bill, today?

Hey! Come here.

Pay our bill along with yours.

Brother, I have only two rupees for tea.

I don't have anymore money with me.

Then what is this?

A nuptial thread worth 2000 Rupees?

I had mortgaged it for my wife's treatment.

It took me 6 months to pay back for it.

Then mortgage it once again for us.

Ok? Go!

'Kishan, don't lose your temper on seeing injustice done to others.'

I'm a poor man. I won't be able to retrieve it once again.

You old fellow, if you can't mortgage the nuptial thread,

then your wife won't be able to wear it again.

Sir, your bill.

Boss, look there.

If you want to see your wives wearing their nuptial threads,

then better pay the bill.

"Sanskrit Mantras"

Kishan, my son. You've come back!

How are you?

I'm alive.

Not dead yet.

Kishan!

You're angry with me even after all these years?

Even in jail you met me only twice.

That too, because I kept insisting on it.

How long, Kishan?

How long do you want me to suffer?

Until you tell me my father's name.

After all who is that person? Why haven't I seen him yet?

If he's alive then why isn't he with us?

And, if he's dead, why do you still wear the nuptial thread?

Who is he mother? Whose illegitimate child am I?

Kishan! - In this world, people may tolerate anything,

but no one can tolerate abuses hurled at their mother!

But, I'm the only unlucky fellow,

for whom the word mother, is itself an abuse.

No, Kishan. Don't say that, son.

God knows that I haven't committed any sin.

Today. I'll tell you everything.

Your father was a gentleman.

I was very happy with him.

He was working as a manager in a jeweler's shop.

He never used to go anywhere else.

He would go to the shop and come home straight.

I still remember.

He used to return home at 9pm everyday.

But one day, he hadn't returned till midnight.

I was very worried. Then suddenly,

Commissioner, sir! - Search the house.

Are you Mr. Chaudhury's wife?