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J. J. Films Corporation Presents

The Golden Thread

Camera Dilip Ranjan Mukherjee

Sound Satyam Chattopadhyay

Editing Ramesh Joshi

Avi Bhattacharya, Bijan Chakraborty, Indrani Chakraborty

Gita Dey, Rani Bata, Mast. Tarun, Abinash Bandhopadhyay

Shyamal Ghosal, Jahar Roy, Madhuri Mukherjee,

Satindra Bhattacharya, Sita Mukhopadhya, Mast. Ashok Bhattacharya

Play back Arati Mukhopadhyay, Ramen Roy Chowdhury

Music Ustad Bahadur Khan

Original Story & Production Sri Radheshyam

Treatment, Screenplay, Direction Ritwik Ghatak

26th January 1948: Jalianwala Bagh Day

The refugees are forcibly trying to occupy land in the Suburbs of Calcutta.

The landowners are determind to drive them off.

In face of such confrontation, people are building colonies, building localities.

Long live the motherland.

Dear children, on this glorious day we establish a school.

Mr. Ishwar Chakraborty here, will teach you

English and History. And I will teach you Sanskrit and Bengali.

Remember, education is the backbone of the nation.

Chant together the national anthem.

Brother Haraprasad...

Yes...

When we left the village you said we're... going to our new home... is it here?

Yes, this is your new house.

Then why's there such a lot of fighting here...

That will pass, and peace will prevail.

Your brother Ishwar is there...

He'll fight for his only little sister's sake, we too will fight...

Please, listen to this low caste woman...

My name is Kaushalya...

I belong to the Bagdi Caste and my one and only Aviram.

Where's your home town?

Dacca...

Then we can't accommodate you.

Only those from Pabna are here. If we can't

keep the difference then what are we left with?

We're low caste people sir... a little shelter... out in some corner...

Mother, run...

There... the landlord's thugs to carry us off in trucks...

Don't get caught...

Aviram... Aviram...

Say, the glory of Indian nation.

Mother... Mother...

Give me my snuff box...

This place used to be called Palm Ground.

The wealthy landlord's abandoned uncultivable land...

I name this place... New Life Colony...

I asserted this name we have to trace out Aviram's mother...

How would you find her?

I'll go to a newspaper office and give the news in the papers...

Let's go tomorrow morning...

Ok...

Let no youth sleep tonight... we'll have to keep guard and remain awake...

No youth will sleep in the night...

will have to keep guard.

How small is the child, can't even tell his mother's name...

sad...

A missing boy has been found a refugee...

News editor...

refugee, who isn't...

Benimadhab is it your first job?

Yes, sir...

just joined today...

Working for a paper nowadays is an opportunity for serving the nation...

My foot!

Beg you pardon!

You will find out...

Get the message.

Nathuram...

Hey... listen...

If you want to succeed in this job, learn to cheat...

Nathuram Vinayak Godsey murders Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi.

Gandhi shot at on his way to the prayer ground...

this afternoon... at...

Hey Ram!...

We have been duped, somewhere we have been duped...

Aviram go inside...

Sita come

Brother this is not our new home?

Ishwar, news about Aviram has appeared in the papers in the lost and found column...

But will his mother get the news?

Brother won't you look for our new home?

Driver... Ishwar since when you are in Calcutta?

O - Rambilas you too are here.

In college you used to say you will go to England...

Well, my father died. The burden of running the business fell on my shoulders...

come with me. Where would you go? Where?

I haven't decided...

Crazy! Just as in college.

Where are your folks?

I have a little sister with me... no one else...

Why? Your father and mother?

...It's only six years since we met.

What all happened in these 6 years?

1942 and 1948.

Where are you staying?

Nowhere.

What coincidence! My guru, Swamiji will be visiting my house today.

One of his disciples is a great ustad. He will play music...

Met you today... you never missed a single music conference in college.

Let's go and celebrate, come over to my place.

How brilliant you were in college.

Of course we weren't very intimate, you were too serious for the likes of us.

We used to call you 'Ocean of Learning'.

Near Ghatshila we have a foundry and a rice mill...

in a small place called Chhatimpur.

We have been searching for a reliable person to handle the cases up there.

The pay is meagre and there's no hope of promotion...

will you take this?

Your salary will be 150/- per month.

For our accounts it will be shown as 250/-

Look around for another person... Rambilas.

This is exactly the answer expected from you.

I know you never did anything wrong in your life. Then it is final.

The guru's blessings have fallen on you, he has seen you and smiled... come.

If you want you can leave for Chhatimpur tomorrow. Just let me know, ok?...

Driver, move...

I abandoned this life's boat

Oh Lord in your name

If I sink and die

Master, my name will be scandalized

The shoppers are shopping

How many coloured lights

glimmer inside the shop

Please make him come to his senses. He is going on a procession again.

For cash dole... life is not for oneself but for others.

The person who limits himself with his own interest, he is not loving...

Haraprasad, I want a word with you...

Let's go...

Haraprasad...

Tell me...

I am leaving.

A friend of mine owns a rice mill in Chhatimpur near Ghatshila.

I shall leave tonight by train.

Also for you I have made one...

In the English language there is word: Deserter.

Forgive me, but I'll have nothing to do with you anymore.

Wait...

all my responsibilities for this girl.

And Aviram... you brought him here.

Tread him to death before you leave.

I'll take his responsibility.

And those... who have no one?

I've lost all in a moment.

I threw away all and came away. I have to raise a house again.

Let not such a disaster come ever in Sita's life.

She shouldn't die of poverty. Apart from this I have no responsibility...

Shame!

Brother, where were you through out the day? I was feeling so lonely...

I was searching around for our new house.

Did you find it?

Yes... let's go.

You and me, will start tonight.

And Aviram?

We'll take him with us.

Lord Krishna... prays to Jadava...

Sorry, slightly late.

Good day...

This luggage. You won't have to carry it... Take it up...

A little sister...

My name is Mukherjee... foundry workshop foreman.

Mr. Rambilas the owner has sent a message. You are his friend... aren't you?

I've had the house cleaned and come to meet you... come...

we have to go along the banks of Subarnarekha. That is the short cut...

you have come and dispelt a lot of our worries.

Mr. Rambilas is a very religious person.

He has made a Hanuman temple for worshipping and dug well...

My dear little lady what's your name?

Sita...

Are we going to our new home?

Yes lady, a new country, a new home.

How far is it?

There the blue hills in the distance, sprawled against the sky.

By their side the river criss crosses, wends its way...

There's your new house. So many flowers, birds, butterflies.

Such large empty rooms, song and music.

Subarnarekha, a golden ray, right beside it, is your house.

Don't lie...

One shouldn't lie to children.

Oh! Look...

Just at the outskirt of the town is your quarter.

In the center of the Sal forest, is a dilapidated aerodrome... a big affair...

During the war the Sahibs had constructed it.

I'll take you there. Near the forest is our mill.

I've had water drawn from the well... get washed.

Oh! Akhil Babu... - Come Avi...

The owner's friend Mr. Ishwar has come.

Now you have a company.

Mr. Akhil works in the Railways he is a decent man...

lives next door.

I've stuck in this stony terrain, just for the sake of two morsels of food.

I come from a land of plentiful water. But even there's a problem.

A few days ago a film unit landed here

and the price of milk went up from 6 to 10 annas.

Just when got settled down in Chhatimpur, a transfer order arrives.

Brother, come look what a lovely garden...

He is reminded of his mother isn't it?

Aviram... Aviram...

Here come the manager.

Seems to be alright today.

He suffers from mental illness.

A strange person. A few years ago his daughter eloped with a man.

After that he had become so grim.

Manager the owner's friend Mr. Ishwar has come.

Hello.

Who? The new cashier!

Mr. Mukherjee, please show him his office.

Please take the charge of cash. The farmers have started appearing.

In the paddy fields today

Sunlight and Shadows play hide and seek

who has set them floating clusters

of white clouds in the blue sky

Hello, Mr. Chakraborty.

Sita is picking it up very fast. I wish she would learn classical music.

Learn well. Maybe her future lies in music.

Please start again.

Today, the bee forgets to suck nectar

and flies about reveling in sunshine

and why on the sand banks the cranes flock together?

It's all fixed. The afternoon bus will take Aviram.

Where to?

Jhargram. Where he'll study in a school and stay in a hostel.

Aviram will go away!

He must study... he'll have to grow up.

There is no school here.

There will be the summer holidays soon. He'll be back then.

Will you be able to stay far away?

Won't you feel sad all alone?

Let's start after lunch by the afternoon bus. It leaves by 4 p. m.

Let's go to bathe.

What fun, I'll stay in a hostel.

Get out of my sight.

You...

I won't stay there long. I'll soon be back.

After you've gone, who will I play with?

You just said get out of my sight.

During the war the aeroplanes used to land here

and hide in the forest.

This is the pilot's clubhouse. Know what that means?

Sure.

After bombing over Burma

the Sahibs used to come back here and would revel all right.

Come...

Aviram where are you? We won't get the bus after this.

I'll back in the summer vacation.

The wind flows merrily today,

life surf on the swollen tide

the day will pass in idleness

playing on the flute

Don't be afraid, he is a harlequin.

He does it for money.

Chaitanya, come...

Why do you frighten the children?

I didn't. She just chanced to be on my way.

What's your name? - Sita.

Where do you live? - In my new home.

Come, I'll reach you home.

Have you read the Ramayana? - No...

It's the story about Sita.

In Mithila there was a king called Janak.

One day while ploughing the empty fields

he found a baby girl... Sita.

Sita truly is the earth's daughter.

The very same Sita one day went back into the arms of the earth.

The earth parted in two, and took Sita within its bosom.

Now that was much later.

In between the 7 chaptered Ramayana.

I'll hear the whole story one day.

After this many years passed.

Salute.

You are not paying heed to what Budhan says.

I am telling you his wife will have a son.

Give him 7 days leave to go to his home.

Go to the manager.

Where is the manager?

Hasn't he come yet?

What else am I saying?

Come...

Haven't you heard the news?

What's happened?

Since yesterday the Manager has gone mad.

As soon he sees humans he growls and tries to bite them.

They have taken him to Calcutta by last night's train.

Who's the letter from?

Rambilas. The manager has retired.

From today I am the manager.

It's a great promotion for you.

I'll go and inform Sita...

and about Budhan...

I'll see to it. You go ahead.

You've to invite us for dinner.

Inform Sita, my wife will also come with me.

Keep him happy. The new manager, the owner's friend.

See the dawn is coming

The people wake up

The breeze wakes up

The birds wake up

The sky appears

Oh! Shyam

Why did you still lie asleep

Where were you

Awake all night?

See the dawn is breaking

Suddenly it seems that you have really grown up.

And you're becoming tiny everyday. You went to work without having anything.

Where does your mind wander?

Don't scold me... let's go.

Why do you always sing such sad songs?

It seems for the both of you there is nothing but sadness and suffering.

An article written by Aviram appeared in the papers.

I felt happy seeing his name in print but was shocked while reading.

People don't like these. Show things that are beautiful.

Only then people will see, listen and read.

I don't think that carefully when I sing brother.

Oh! Have you read the last letter of Aviram?

Oh! No.

His final exams are over.

He says he won't be able to come home. He is going on a trip with his friends.

I felt dejected after reading it.

For exams he has not been able to come for a year.

He has worked hard. Let him roam about.

Lets go inside there's something to discuss.

The Mukherjees will have dinner with us.

Why?

The old manager has retired now I am the manager, that's why they want a party.

Oh! You have become the manager?

But today the market is closed. You take rest.

I'll try to arrange something.

Hi, Avi, you wrote that you

will travel around with friends?

Didn't feel like it. I had been working hard for the exams.

So I thought I would come here for a rest

as there is plenty of time before the results.

Mukherjee is coming to dinner see if Sita needs help.

Your brother is now manager. He's got ahead in life.

How did your exam go?

Not bad. Brother, I've made a deal with a big publisher to print my book.

I'll finish writing it here.

What rubbish you write, I just don't understand it.

We can start our old quarrels a little later Brother.

He will do well in exam.

He must, I've applied on his behalf to study in Germany.

I'll send him to Germany to study engineering.

The exams are over. I am back.

Why? - What's why?

You wrote a long letter that you would travel around with friends.

Didn't like the idea of going alone.

Silly...

I've found a publisher for my first novel.

I've begun writing. I've never had anything published before showing it to you.

Won't you listen? To hell with you...

Ah! Leave...

Have I hurt you?

In one year you have grown up so much...

The hero of my new novel is a boy,

who can faintly recollect his childhood.

He can make out that his parents were very poor.

He remembers the name of his village.

But there are many villages by the same name.

All he knows is that one had to cross a very vast river,

right on its banks was his home.

Since childhood he used to wonder where had he come from.

He remembers his mother, shivering with cold at night

as they arrived at a crowded railway station.

Thereafter somewhere his mother got lost.

He yearned to rest his head on his mother's lap.

I've not a mother but you all are there.

Throughout the year I have been yearning to return home...

You never wrote all these.

Well. I was never able to write it down.

Why I used to feel like this I have realized today...

You never realized before?...

Not at all.

Didn't you too?

No.

Since when have let all these remain hidden in your heart?...

Since a long time.

Let's go, it's getting late.

On this day

there is such happiness

On the swing

sways Shyam

On this day

there is such happiness

Is the food ready? - Except the mutton.

Tomorrow, you see, I'll go out. - Where to?

Oh! Yes, Jharagram... not in the morning... in the afternoon...

I'll start after lunch by night... it won't inconvenience you, I hope.

Where are you going Brother?

Well, something has happened... I've decided but in reality I haven't.

What do you say?

Why are you talking senselessly?

Senselessly? How is it senseless?

What is it? Behaving so childishly...

Untidy habits... I'd just tidied the room... guests will come... never do this again...

What madness!

Hey, listen... - What is it?

Do you remember your mother? - No.

Then how is it that your way of scolding is exactly like hers?

Walking with a stiff neck and frown upon your face...

I don't know...

Sometimes I get startled.

I feel I am being scolded by my mother again...

I am your mother...

You won't go away like Mother?

I don't find Aviram...

He has gone to buy some meat near the station.

My lady...

I came to learn how the preparation is progressing...

my wife wouldn't let me come alone... she is afraid I might marry you.

The rice is probably getting burned ... please come.

Akhil Babu has been transferred back here.

After so many years I've come back again... The time to retire is also near.

I'll take Akhil Babu to Biswas house and be back... the food is not ready yet.

Akhil Babu please dine with us tonight.

Yes...

Excuse me... could you tell me where is Mr. Iswar Chakraborty's house?

Oh! Aren't you Binod?... - I am Aviram.

Avi... you have grown up so much, we read your articles and like it very much.

Welcome, my brother will be so happy to see you.

What a surprise... you have arrived so suddenly... please sit.

Sita... Sita...

Will you leave tomorrow morning? - Yes...

Coming to such a place you ought to have had more time with you...

I've come with some real bad news.

Haraprasad's wife committed suicide last night.

What?...

During the last 8 years, Haraprasad lost jobs from 7 schools.

Never could fit himself anywhere, for the last 2 years, he's been jobless.

I've heard that he has been begging now.

And the two children?

Their incessant cries for food made their mother hang herself...

and this letter...

She left it, it's addressed to you.

Mr. Ishwar Chakraborty, Chattimpur.

Brother, from this suffering there is no other way out.

In my last moments I utter your name. If you can please save the two children.

Your luckless sister, Renuka

Where are the two kids?

Haraprasad took them away from the funeral pyre.

Before he left he gave me this letter

and said, this last letter should reach its destination.

But I'll not let my children be brought up by a deserter.

Where has he gone to?

No one knows.

You know what he is like, he talks in riddles.

In answer to me he said,

"Darkness cannot be the end, I am going in search of light!"

Please don't mind since early morning,

the police, the burning ghat rushing about,

the train journey... please don't mind.

Brother I'm frightened.

Why is everyone telling me that I've grown up?

Crazy girl...

I'll never ever go anywhere,

leaving you... because you'll suffer.

Go to sleep...

Sita sleeps... Sita sleeps...

Aviram you have passed with good marks.

Come I want to talk with you.

You've passed so what will you do now?

I'll go to Calcutta.

I've nearly completed writing it.

Ha, the rubbish you write.

Only sadness, suffering and tears...

even I don't like reading it.

But all this is what we truly see around us.

You'll end up like Haraprasad. Listen...

everyone desires to achieve a little and then cling to it. This is the rule.

Anyway... listen I want to send you to Germany to study Engineering.

These papers arrived today, read them.

It's a 4 year course, complete it, come back, and give me peace...

go home and tell Sita you have passed.

Well... - Go.

What's happened to you?

I've done so well in the exams and still you aren't pleased.

What have I done?

Not because of you. I am unhappy for other reasons.

What for?

If I've to join this course at Hamburg, I'll have to leave in 3 weeks time.

Where to?

Brother wants to send me to Germany. I don't want to go... want to write.

What will I do being an Engineer?

Should I talk to Brother?

No.

Sita, Brother will compel me to go.

I shall leave the country in 3 weeks time,

then for 4 years I won't be able to see you.

Sita I've saved up a little from my allowances.

If I buy something... for you, will you accept it?

Yes.

Today at the fair if I buy a necklace for you, would you take it?

Tell me.

Sita we'll get married.

The same old clubhouse for the pilots...

is it still there?

It was such a long time ago there was a war...

Yes

Won't you sit down for a while?

What are you thinking about?

Nothing.

Avi don't go to Germany.

You have found truth in a certain occupation. Why should you leave it?

I've been searching for something like this to give me strength.

Sita having you by my side I feel much stronger.

I shall not leave.

What that you have put away!

Where did you get it from?

Er... r. Mrs. Mukherjee gave it to me.

Take it.

Did you call me?

Yes, I've sent off a reply to Germany,

You'll have to leave in a few days.

You didn't give me even a little time to think it out.

No.

What? Rambilas has come! Suddenly.

Hello! Iswar, I just dropped in.

Salute...

My brother.

Salute...

Let's go to my house.

Let's go.

I give you 2 annas.

He is giving you 2 percent share in the mill and factory as a partner.

Deepak, bring the papers.

Let's go and see your house.

Have a look at the partnership papers.

I really don't need to.

Deepak go away...

When you first came, I couldn't give you any security...

But now you have proved yourself.

And it's really not possible for me to look after the mill.

I've invested 50 lakhs in my export scheme.

After 3 months I'll go to the continent.

And my wife, she's become very fond of ceramic arts,

she wants to visit Switzerland.

Come over to Calcutta after some time... on an auspicious day.

I'll have the agreement ready.

Rambilas, I am so obliged to you. It is because of you that I have everything.

It's business Brother. I am giving 2 percent share, so you'll look after the mill.

Guruji has sent you his blessings.

Where are you going?

Towards the station for a walk.

Ok...

Your brother? I'd thought that apart from a younger sister you have no kin.

I found him when he was a child... to me he is like a younger brother.

What! You don't know his caste and let him stay in the house?

What does that matter?

Everything depends on caste.

It's because of such things

I have decided to contest in the election from Chhtimpur next year.

Rambilas, he is very good-natured boy.

But he might not be from a good caste.

Oh! Another thing stop the old boiler of the mill.

Why... my mood has been spoiled.

Come after some days to Calcutta.

Mr. Ishwar a calamity has occurred at the station, would you come and see it?

What's happened?

A little ago a train full of refugees was going towards Dandakaranya...

two old women were taken down from the train by the guard,

one of them is on the point dying...

perhaps by now, she is dead... the other is probably not related to her,

said that the afflicted one belongs to your hometown...

Bikrampur, near the village Bajrajogine.

Is that so?

Yes, let's go and see.

In her last moments, even the medical officer could do nothing.

Oh! Bagdibou open your eyes for once and see.

What's happened Brother?

A Bagdibou has died.

My mother...

Oh! Bagdibou...

Mother...

Before my mother passed away she told me certain facts about birth.

In a moment everything changed.

What shall I do now?

You tell me.

Whether you send him abroad or not at least send him to Calcutta.

Don't keep him in this village. He's a low caste boy you see!

If there is talk about it here, Mr. Rambilas might come to know.

Mr. Rambilas is a very religious person,

all your efforts of all these years will come to naught.

Oh! Another thing find a groom for Sita.

I want to marry her off as soon as possible.

What?

I don't want to go to Germany.

All right.

What will you do?

I'll go to Calcutta and try for a job. If I am able to, I'll write.

Well.

Some people are coming to have a look at Sita today.

I'm getting Sita married off soon.

I want to marry Sita. She also wants it.

You ought to leave by the morning train for Calcutta.

Try and earn a living, stand on your own feet. I'll be happy if you can do that.

Sita, this is the sixth time I'm asking you.

They are waiting in the drawing room to have a look at you.

Wear a good sari and come with the tea and snacks.

They have been waiting for you for quite a long time.

If you give way to anger, it will tell on your health...

I'm coming.

Salute...

Salute...

Everything is set sir. They've agreed about the dowry.

In the next six days there is an auspicious day.

Make all arrangements for that very day.

Who shall I talk to

about my sadness?

Without Mohan

my heart is sad.

See the dawn is here.

The ten directions are waking up.

See the dawn

is breaking.

I've a hundred qualities.

Come my life's wealth.

Show me the way.

Come Mohan.

You are being unjust Brother!

A letter from Rambilas came today regarding the partnership.

He has told me not to come Calcutta for the time being.

He'll finalize everything after he returns from abroad.

He has conveyed his condolences for Aviram's mother.

And he has added that I should not be shocked about Aviram's caste.

Brother, you never indulge in untruths.

Efforts of a lifetime are right before me.

Brother...

Shut up...

I'll see to it that this marriage takes place.

If something else happens... I wish you die before that.

Yes...

you will be dead.

You are leaving?

Shall I perform the last rites of my mother in Kalighat?

A few of my mother's relatives stay in that colony,

I'll try to find a place to stay. Bye...

You have nothing else to say?

I'll not harm our Brother.

Will you harm me?...

Sit down.

Only after 5 days is my marriage. Do you know that?

Yes...

Avi... I'll go with you.

I too will not harm our brother. Last night he wanted that I die.

Give me some time.

I'll go and fix up a place.

Everything is ready sir.

The auspicious moment has come. Bring the bride.

Sita has gone, she'll be back soon.

She was writing something.

A few more years passed away.

Salute, Sir.

Hello, how are you?

Pulling on somehow.

For 6 years he's been... mad.

Not mad, he has killer's eyes.

The way he was looking... I was trembling.

Man has crossed the limits of the Earth's boundaries,

from limitless space, the first Voyager's safe return.

Circling for one and half hours in space, around the earth.

The first step in unveiling the mystery of space.

The courageous and successful conquest of space by the Soviets.

The triumph of human science and intelligence is seen in this...

the Russians have sent a man called Gagarin in outer space.

In the rains he has come.

The clouds thunder

the lightning flashes

in a shower of colours.

You have such a lovely voice Sita, you are wasted sitting at home.

I look after the house and my child, and so much running around.

You can do it sitting at home. Like Reba who stays in the Southern Colony.

Are the paper bags ready?

Not even 500 yet.

Binu take them out of the corner and give them to Aunty.

Take this, I'll come the day after.

Father still has not come back mother!

He'll be back any moment.

Brother was right.

No one wants to see sadness and suffering.

But everyone's ready to bear them.

They are suffering all around. But they don't want to hear about it.

Did you go to the publisher?

Yes, here are the manuscripts.

It's risky to publish this type of writing.

And the price of printing paper has gone up.

There is good news.

I met my class friend, Anil, on the way.

He's got a good job with state transport.

If I'd learn driving, I could have got a job now.

Will you give up writing?

Driving a bus is better than writing for nothing.

When will you get it?

What's the hurry?

I've to learn driving and apply for the job, will have to undergo training.

What shall I do?

All efforts have failed.

Why not write to Brother for once?

Binu says he gets a headache every day, even at this age.

Continuous semi-starvation. So our Brother...

I mean, Brother must have a good amount in savings.

Before I approach him, I'll take Binu with me and beg on roads.

I'll commit suicide... I'll do the worst things possible.

Kajal was suggesting, how would it be, if I start singing?

Song...

Yes, Kajal will bring listeners to the house who'll give money.

What are you saying?

Reba does that.

Don't listen to all that.

Why?

You won't understand it... I'll be back.

What did I say?

Whatever I say... 'you won't understand'.

Hey, Binu your mother sings very well, doesn't she?

Yes, Mother, that song about the rice fields.

Would you listen? - Yes.

Mother, what do rice fields look like?

Listen! And you will be able to see.

Today in the paddy fields

Sunlight and shadows

play hide and seek

who floated the white clouds

in the blue skies

the bee forget to sip the honey

flies around in the light

why do the birds meet on the banks of the river

I shall not go back home

shall not go back home

I'll break the skies as under

and spread around nature

I won't go back home today.

How late is the night?

No answer comes forth

Carry on I'll be following you.

Tomorrow morning the villagers will gaze

dumbfounded at a pair of bodies... hanging.

Haraprasad, it's you?

No, this is my ghost.

I'm defeated. I'm ruined...

just about living.

A palm tree stuck by lightning.

I protested...

protesting for whom? Protesting for what?

Now I'm bankrupt. Whacked all around.

I'm caught firmly in a trap.

But, hey you deserter, Oh, coward, you had accepted a job.

So, why have you been reduced to this?

You are about to swing in space too...

The fact remains that whether you protest or run away

with your tail between your legs it matters little either way.

Everything is topsy turvy.

We are all resourceless, ethereal,

we've been wiped out.

How late in the night, it is?

Does an answer come forth?

Are we going to our new home father?

Just see today I'm starting work.

Tomorrow I'll give the landlord the rent and day after we'll leave.

You are so late? Won't you be late for work?

There's still time, I've just seen a house.

I'll go out on the route with the bus today.

Where will you go?

I don't know, yesterday they made me take the bus around the city.

I noticed water in the brake joint and I couldn't get the brake to work.

Somehow I was able to get back, who knows what sort of a bus they will give me today.

See what a state your sari is in!

I have... have a box full of silk sarees.

Today, I'll buy two sarees for you on my way back from work. Today is pay day.

If I can return from work due to kindness of their bus.

Binu, what toy you desire most?

A train.

I'll go to the new home.

Mother how late in the night is it?

It's quite late.

Won't father come with a train?

He'll come.

Mother how does the new home look like. Have you seen it?

That was when I was child.

When I was a child of your age, a person showed it to me.

The winding river and blue, blue hills,

up there the butterflies flutter around and sing songs.

Have you been there?

No, from the distance I saw the way leading to it.

I'll go to Subarnarekha.

Certainly, someday you will go there.

Scold father for coming home late. Place the toy train near my pillow.

Yes, my dear, sleep.

On the swing sways Shyam.

The driver died on the spot.

Don't break it suddenly... not so loud.

What happened?

The brakes were not working near the Tala Park.

The little girl not even 12. She was a beautiful girl.

500 people set the bus on fire.

The police turned up late. Couldn't save him.

Is this the driver's house?

See! We are totally defeated.

We are not even capable of committing suicide.

Ishwar will you take me once to Calcutta?

I've no money, but you've lots of it.

In Calcutta now there's fun.

In the shops, hotel and race course, what horrifying fun.

You'll see and be stupefied.

How people give themselves up with the flow.

Running with the crowd is the right thing to do.

Gratification of the senses is the only way to salvation.

Gratification?

You have led an ascetic's life.

Turbulent, wild, enjoyment to the hilt. It's such an intoxication.

In spite of total loss... intoxication.

Will you go to that bestower's fair?

Yes...

Let's be quits with the devil.

Desirous of merit, Vajasravasa gave away everything.

He had a son named Nachiketa.

The god of death told Nachiketa do not seek self knowledge.

Ask for any other boons.

The celestial dancers are out of reach even for the gods.

If you want music, dance etc... it will all be yours.

Nachiketa was a fool.

Nachiketa!

Me!

Waiter.

Is this Ambrosia?

Sir, it is Bourbon Whisky.

As was said by Maitreyee.

What will I do with that which does not confer immortality.

Thus spoke Maitreyee... What is not ambrosia... what shall I do with it?

Sir, I'll call the head waiter, that's French wine.

Pour it...

in the absence of honey.

I will have mollasses, there's a dictum ingrained in the scripture.

Pour it.

Not in listening but it's in the memory.

Listening is the Upanishad pleasure in renunciation.

The self cannot be realized by the weak.

The maximum is pleasure.

There is not pleasure in a little that is what you are 'Shetaketu'.

Take the gentleman home.

Home!

Arise, awake and behold.

The boons are due to you.

The way is a like a sharp razor's edge.

That's what the sages tell us.

They didn't see the Atom Bomb.

They didn't.

Never, haven't seen war, havn't seen famine.

Haven't seen the riots, haven't seen the country split up.

Unreason is the hymn for worshipping the Sun.

What's after that?

Immerse it...

After killing seven soldiers, Haraprasad died.

O peace, O peace. Remember my deeds...

Like to listen to singing?

Who?...

Good.

The money sir?

The daughter of a gentleman. She's never done this. This is the first time.

Sir, when you will see her, you will be charmed.

Sita, he came from a village, lots of money.

I'll take Binu to my house.

Kajal!

Don't fret, the first time is always like this.

Kajal...

He's come to listen to your singing. He'll listen and he'll go.

Do not fear, you'll get used to it.

Binu's 3 months school fees. Your household expenses. Keep this 50 rupees

Make the gentleman happy and he will give lots more.

I won't take anything from that, you helpless one.

I'll take you to that room.

Please wait.

In that room.

I'll take you to that room.

Getting ready, please wait.

Extreme penury. A gentleman's daughter is forced to do this.

Ha Ram...

This night too, has an end.

Days pass into months, months into years...

The plane was late.

The smugglers were apprehended.

Yes, with 2 lacs worth of gold.

Come listen.

The boss talking about Ishwar Chakraborty's case.

The one about a woman's murder in a colony...

That wasn't murder, it was suicide.

The case dragged on for 2 years

before it was proved a suicide, only yesterday.

The boss was saying...

After working all night I'm least bothered.

The company is setting up a new rotary machine...

the Company has an expansion scheme also...

He said, that you have been handling the case from the beginning.

You know nearly all of them. And the child Binu, the dead lady's son, you know him.

If you please the boss now then you have prospects for the future.

Brother, I report legal matters.

I'm fed up of writing about red lights and snatching...

Are you daggling the Magsasay award before my eyes?

Ishwar has been asserting that he is guilty and he has never lied in his life.

I'm feeling sleepy.

If the boss hears that for mere sleepiness.

It's a dog's life. I'm going to get a statement.

It seems, I've seen you somewhere

No, I don't to seem to recognize you.

Hey, master Binu, when did you arrive?

I've brought him to his uncle.

Are you related to Mr. Ishwar?

No... I'm a friend.

I've heard that Ishwar never lied in his life.

But in this case all along he has been saying... He is guilty.

Yes...

Listen, in a previous era Kshudiram became a martyr...

with peaceful steps, with a chant on his lips,

with his own hands he'd put the noose around his neck.

He knew what he was, that was his strength.

Today, we the group of Kshudiram's we don't know what we are!

Therefore, we think that fighting means getting beaten up.

And being a martyr means dying like roadside dog.

Call for immersion.

Ishwar has realized this, that's why says he is guilty.

O mother... open the doors.

Will you do me a favour please?

Yes...

I don't wish to face Ishwar any more.

After a great catastrophe,

I'd rather not burden him any more.

If you please...

Ok, I'll take Binu to his uncle.

Not an uncle, in this world he's the sole relative he has.

Binu your uncle will take you to your new home.

The one you used to hear from mother,

Good day, you are going back to homeland.

It is said that you are a truthful person!

You've come here to have some fun!

It's true.

I haven't lied.

You won't go unscathed, even... you are guilty.

Me?

You too are guilty.

You, me all of us.

You think that it's only my sister who has suffered?

Don't you have sisters?

Mother!...

Good day... your nephew.

Mr. Mukherjee has sent this letter.

Sir, after such fiasco,

Mr. Rambilas isn't keeping you any longer.

You are very truthful and have held yourself guilty.

Consequently, I've become the manager.

You and your sister's things are in the company's bungalow.

Please remove them from the land and vacate the house.

That house is now mine. Yours faithfully, Jogen Mukherjee.

In this paddy field,

Sunlight and shadows

play hide land seek

In the blue skies who sets afloat

those white clouds

Uncle.

My Binu.

Uncle is this the Subarnarekha River? - Yes...

Put me down.

There in distance are the blue, blue hills.

There are empty big rooms up there.

In the garden the butterflies flutter around and there is music.

Uncle, Mother told me that there lies our new home.

Tell me the truth. Are we going to a new home?

Tell me the truth... tell me please.

Tell me...

Yes, we are going to our new home, Binu.

Truly.

Truly.

What fun! My father is there?

I'll find my mother there, let's run.

You have run out of breath, Uncle, walk faster.

Why have you stopped?

Come, come...

Why have you become old, Uncle... faster...

Come... come.

Victory to man,

to this newborn ever living.