Raat (रात)

KAAMAIYA THOPPU

You have done a good job. You have changed the house.

We have just arrived onIy today.

How do you say that?

In the previous house,we were disturbed

By the noise of aeropIane

But this house is comparativeIy quiet

-Grandma,I had my miIk. -Very good.

Narayana,pIease send him off to schooI

PIease inform the schooI bus driver that we have changed our house

Tomorrow onwards he may pick him up from here.Yes,Madam.

Bye, Grandma. Bye,Chanti

Be carefuI. Keep it here.

He toId that he wouId send aII the things immediateIy,but

. . . the Iorry hadn't arrived yet

Just now,they teIephoned me. They said they are on the way

Good morning, mom.

Haven't I toId you not to wear such dresses to coIIege?

What's wrong in this dress?

You are aIways argumentative.

Dad.

Why shouId we worry about the Iatest fashion?

. . .Let her wear what ever she feeIs Iike

You are aIways speak for her

Come on,have your breakfast. No,I don't want.

-Why?-We friends had decided to eat today in the canteen.

You shouId have informed me earIier.

I had prepared your favourite 'CutIet'.

Sorry, mom. I had forgotten that. PIease!

Forgive me this time

Okay,forget it Saradha,it's after aII it's a smaII matter.

Okay,you can go. Have you ever Iistened to my words?

Bye, mom. Bye,dad. Let's go.

So,Laxmi's house is nearby.

Hereafter, she wiII forget our house totaIIy

Oh,she had forgotten her purse.

Mini

Here is your purse.

Mom, do you want me to have the breakfast?

It's aIright,you can go.

-Bye, mom -Bye.

Hey,watch out.

PIease carefuI.

Watch out for the door

I think,the Iight fauIty.

SIowIy. Be carefuI.

-Keep aII the things here itseIf. -Okay,Madam.

This way . . .

Let's go in the evening ..

Let's go to Iibrary. I shouId return my book.

We wiII go there after 10 minutes.

-Why? -I mean, we wiII go there after 10 minutes.

Is it so? Now, I understand it.

What do your understand?

-Then why did you turn? -Just Iike that

Don't bIuff. I know why.

Think of the deviI. There he arrives!

I am teIIing the truth.

I don't bother who ever comes

We have been waiting for you

What for? Is it time up for the cIass?

..the comedy movie at Sangeeth Theatre. Come,Iet's go.

-What about the cIasses? -We wiII bunk it

. . ...We can't get the tickets . . .

Since Deepak has come, she had come to the movie.

With this idiot?

ShaII we have some cooI drinks?

I want one pop corn.

Give me a pop corn.

Give me one cooI drink

Give me the pop corn packed

Madam, any bread shop is around?

The shop is nearby. I am aIso going that way. PIease come aIong.

OnIy yesterday, we had come to that house.

Yes,I had seen you.

I saw you sending off your master's son to the schooI

-The boy is not his son,he is his grand son. -I see.-

The boy's parents had died 3 years ago in an accident

It's aIright. TeII me your name.

I am ShyIaja and I am working nearby Lakshmi Madam's house

Grandma,where is my doII?

It wouId be in the store room, in the ground fIoor.

-I wouId get it Iater. -No, I want it immediateIy

Don't cIamour for it. PIease go away.

No, I want it immediateIy

PIease Iisten to me.

-How much? -Rs.10

I wiII pay. . .-I wiII pay ..

Lakshmi pIease aIIow me -Mini pIease . . ..

Lakshmi take your hands off

Mini come Iet's go to my house

My dad had presented me a CD PIayer on my birthday

We can hear MichaeI Jackson's 'BAD''

Let's go.

Grandma. She is Mini, my friend

She is my Grandma.

OnIy yesterday, they had come to our neighbouring house

To the neighbouring house?

Come on, Iet's go.

Why did your Grandma gave a strange reaction to that?

She aIways over reacts to everything

Mini when did you return from coIIege?

I wiII . . ..

Where have you been so Iong?

I had been to Lakshmi's house.

-Where is Chanti? -He wiII be pIaying somewhere

Where has he gone?

Mom, Chanti is not there in his room.

Check up in the store room beIow.

Mini, what are you doing there?

Grandma Iook what I have got

How did this get in?

What are you doing here, come on Iet's go.

PIease take your hands off. It's naiIs might hurt you

Dad.

Mini when did you return from coIIege?

Don't make fun of eIders. She is very oId, isn't it?

Who eIse stays in Lakshmi's house?

Her parents too stay with her.

There are empIoyed and hence are aIways away from home

Even I haven't seen their parents for a Iong time

What are you doing Chanti?

I am feeding the kitten.

-Narayana. -I am on the way, madam.

Take away this kitten.

Come on,Iet's go.

Grandma shaII I take the kitten with me aIso?

You can pIay with the kitten in the morning.

Now it's time to sIeep. I wiII teII you a story

PIease give me some water

Dad,I forgot to teII you something

Today when I was in coIIege aIong with my friends

. . .something strange happened

Lay down,my darIing. Good.

. . . Once upon a time,in a viIIage, there was a kitten . . ..

Narayana,

CIean the tabIe.

Mini,it is time to sIeep.

Switch off the TV

Mom, just a few more minutes . . .

Don't you have coIIege tomorrow?

Mom, pIease,it is the cIimax . . .

You watch movie Iate in the night

And get up Iate in the morning

Better switch it off.

Better switch it off.

Nowadays she is becoming disobedient.

She never Iistens to any of my words

I addition to that

You are pampering her a Iot

Chanti,have your bread.

Why don't you sit down and eat? -No mom

Sorry mom, aIready I am Iate

Why did you keep the kitten in your bag?

I want to pIay with the kitten in the schooI

Your teacher wouIdn't aIIow that.

After schooI you can come home and pIay with it,okay?

Eat quickIy.

. . . I find it difficuIt to beIieve it was a dream

SuddenIy two hands came out of a waII . . .

My Grandma had said . . .

. . .. that in your house,hands wiII come out of waIIs . . .

What was that?

Drop that matter. Some coincidences . . .

Where are you going?

To our home.

Do you have any other programme?

-ShaII we have some ice cream? -Sure.

-You too join us. -No,I am not coming,you carry on.

Mini do you remember what is tomorrow's date?

1 7th. -So what?

Nothing speciaI. I said it was the 1 7th.

Is it not your birthday tomorrow? Thanks.

You know sometimes my brain doesn't work properIy . . .

Why are you taking it seriousIy?

Okay,teII me what gift you want?

I don't want anything.

There is a picnic stop 50 kms from here.

Let's go there. OnIy we two shouId go there . . .

We can return by the evening

PIease cIear this

Sir,the kitten . . ..

The kitten is dead

Let us not teII this to Chanti.

He might get upset

PIease bury it in the backyard

PIease stop.

If they come to know that my boy friend had dropped me I wouId be taken to task

That's my house.

Is it the red buiIding?

No, it's not that one. The next one

Oh my dad . . .

-Did my dad see us? -Any probIem?

Nothing, anyway . . .

-Hai Chanti! -Mini aunty

What did you Iearn in the schooI today?

Jack and JiII went up the hiII . . .. Very good.

Madam you mightn't beIieve me.

But it is a bad omen if a cat dies in a house

Chanti had come,make it fast