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Munni, Rani, do the dance you
people prepared.
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Come on. Get up. Stand up. Please.
-
Come on. We'll start the song.
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Play a good song then...
-
(singing in the background)
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(singing in the background)
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Fire! There's a fire!
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Fire!!!!
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What's all the noise? Shirin? Oh God..
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Shirin...
What's your problem?
-
What is all this noise?
-
They're disturbing my sleep. This is no time for fireworks.
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Who does fireworks on their daughter's wedding. I've never heard of this.
-
This Haseena, is way too cheap.
You can ever expect anything from her..
-
What is all this racket?
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Has she run away before her wedding? Could this be..
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And this Haseena's boy..
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Mom.. Mom.. there is a fire..
Joya is there!
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Wait.. Don't go alone. I'm coming.
Joya..
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My Joya is there.. Save her..
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Oh God..
My daughter's dowry is ruined.
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Its all burnt down to ashes.
Nothing is left.
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Please stop Haseena.
-
Thank God that the fire is under control and your house didn't burn down.
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And that there are no fatalities.
-
But Fari's dowry is burnt.
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Someone cast an evil eye.
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My daughter's dowry.. The entire house is safe but the room with her things is burnt..
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Fari..
-
Say something at least..
Drink some water please.
-
Poison her water.
What will she do alive now?
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You move away. Away..
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Why are you saying such pathetic things Haseena. God will make everything alright.
-
Right now, I am the one saying all these things.
-
Tomorrow her in laws will taunt
her with this.
-
They'll say she's inauspicious and will not
let her enter.
-
Who marries a girl without a dowry
these days?
-
I'm ruined..
All of my daughter's dowry is burnt.
-
Nothing is left. Everything burnt to ashes.
-
Someone cast an evil eye on my daughter's things.
-
The entire house is safe..
-
Only the room with her things caught
on fire.
-
Do you remember?
-
The day Manzoor divorced you,
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And the night my husband left me,
-
it was a sad night like this.
-
All my wounds are bleeding again today.
-
Some people are destroyed after
they settle,
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some are destroyed before they even
settle down.
-
I was just coming mom.
-
I didn't want to leave Haseena all alone in such a situation.
-
But what could I do sitting with her?
-
We can only console her.
-
Oh..
-
Shirin, I know that,
-
you..
-
that you don't like Joya staying anywhere for the night. But I, without asking you,
-
allowed her to stay with Fari.
Now don't say anything to her.
-
Mom.. I don't have a stone for a heart.
-
Did Haseena tell Fari's in laws?
-
I did ask Haseena to tell them beforehand.
-
What if they come tomorrow and
we tell them then?
-
She might be afraid that they would
call off the wedding.
-
If they have no shame left, they can call the wedding off tomorrow as well.
-
Oh my God.. what age is this..
-
And here we are waiting for a daughter in law and nothing else.
-
And there are people who want a
daughter in law,
-
but they want one who brings a truck full
of dowry.
-
He is very fond of being
everybody's brother.
-
Otherwise I would have taken her and
had her marry..
-
I'm praying for my sister.
-
God will do make everything better.
-
All we are left with, are prayers.
I'm praying for a miracle.
-
I hope they take her without the dowry.
-
Else, how would Haseena manage anything.
-
Poor woman had been saving
pennies for ages.
-
You'll not have biscuits, will you?
-
No.
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I don't want anything.
-
Please stop crying Fari. Something good will happen. Have faith.
-
I have complete faith in God.
But I don't trust people.
-
I'm afraid now.
-
They'll call off the wedding if they find out.
-
Aunt sent this medicine.
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Give it for Fari.
-
If you become weak yourself Joya,
how will you support your friend?
-
Please take this medicine.
-
Its morning already.
-
I had just slept.
-
It seems you didn't sleep all night.
-
If all you hear is pleas and cries from
your neighbors,
-
who can sleep peacefully?
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You're right.
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My heart was ripped apart.
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Such a lively, happy house,
-
may that foolish woman rot in hell.
-
How could she leave the iron switched on. Everything burnt to ashes in seconds.
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What will happen now?
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Its not fair at all.
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Not fair at all. Everything is destroyed.
-
Listen..
-
I'll ask Haseena if we can go and talk to the boy's family.
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Maybe they'll give us time and she can get all these things again in a few months time, with a loan.
-
You're right.
-
Everybody is being called to gather in the street in half an hour.
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We'll have tea there. Uncle bring 20 cups of tea too. See you in half an hour.
-
Shirin has called everyone in half an hour.
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Meeting..
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Oh dear lord, make everything alright.
-
We've all been together in times of happiness and sadness in Prem Gali.
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This is the question of Haseena's daughter.
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If we think her pain is our pain,
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then we can give her happiness as well.
-
But nothing is in our hands. Everything now depends on the groom's family.
-
If they are God fearing and family valuing people, they'll respect Haseena.
-
And if they're greedy..
If they're greedy, they'll call off the wedding.
-
And we'll all be in pain.
-
Isn't it so?
-
Can't you people do anything at all?
-
But what can we do? If you say, I can go and talk with the groom's family.
-
Nobody will change their nature if someone talks to them.
-
Nor will they change their decision.
-
If they're good, they will do good without anybody's advise.
-
But if they're greedy, they'll do what they want to, even if you reason with them.
-
You're right.
-
So why have gathered here?
Shouldn't we all be with Haseena?
-
Yes. Of course. We should console her.
-
We should..
Listen to me..
-
Consoling her will do nothing.
-
We'll have to salve her wounds.
-
We have to pay up.
-
That is why we have gathered here.
To discuss things.
-
But what sort of a discussion?
-
You wretched man! All this is your fault!
-
What did I do? I didn't ask her to leave the iron switched on.
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I'll fix you. I saw your mood.
-
Ever since I fixed her wedding, all you did was whine.
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You just wanted this wedding to
be called off.
-
So, now its off. Are you happy now?
-
You inauspicious man!
-
All of us together can solve Haseena's problem. The wedding is tomorrow,
-
If we can gather the amount to purchase everything again,
-
Haseena will have to tell nothing to them.
-
And she won't have to pine and wait to know what they will do about the situation.
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I had saved this amount to buy a car,
-
but where I have spent so many years without a car,
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I can wait some more.
-
Mom, has always asked me to throw away this jinxed locket,
-
only then will I be able to move on and not miss my ex husband.
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So, I'll do this too.
-
I don't know how much money this has.
-
But its my gift money that I saved
since two years.
-
This is from me.
-
All this jewelry feels like a burden
in this age.
-
This was my mom's.
May God bless the child.
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What is all this Shirin?
-
We could only gather this.
Now, I don't know,
-
if you can make do with this or not.
But this is all, we could do.
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No Shirin.
-
You too have a daughter like me.
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She doesn't have a father.
How can I keep Joya's share.
-
Every daughter has a fate of her own.
-
Shirin is right.
My daughter is 13 years old right now.
-
I had been collecting things for her dowry since last year.
-
But there is so much time to her wedding.
I want to give this to Fari.
-
All my daughter in laws brought a lot of dowry. But we live in a joint family.
-
My elder daughter in law's fridge and the youngest's washing machine is brand new, I'm sending that over.
-
What are you people doing?
-
I.. How can I take things that belong to your daughters.
-
Your daughter in law's family must have worked hard to collect and make things for her.
-
I cannot take these things.
Oh sister,
-
I'm giving you with their wishes.
They will catch rust, if we keep them.
-
And this is for Fari dear, from
uncle Hidayat.
-
But Hidayat, everybody knows how you have saving every penny for pilgrimage, how can I take this?
-
Hasina, this pilgrimage,
-
this is done with intentions and fate.
-
If God wills, he will call me with
a better plan.
-
These are a few prize bonds worth
18,000 rupees.
-
I've never gotten lucky for the
past 25 years.
-
And I don't expect anything.
-
This is for our daughter.
-
Please stop it all of you.
-
Why do you have to gather charity
for my wedding.
-
Please be quiet Fari.
-
Don't make a joke out of everyone's love for you. This, what you're calling charity.
-
its our love for you.
These aren't just a few notes.
-
All of us are expressing our love for you.
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I'll care for their love later. Let me care for my self respect first.
-
Don't make me feel that this wedding isn't for me but for this fridge, TV..
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and the washing machine that
burnt to ashes.
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Fari, your mother's respect is at stake and you want to be a hero.
-
Nobody weds off their daughter empty handed.
-
We're all doing this for Haseena's respect.
-
Don't you care for your mother's respect at all?
-
I can only see my mother's respect diminishing right now.
-
She is begging all of you.
-
Please be quiet Fari. Go inside.
-
Fari is absolutely right.
-
I agree this isn't charity but your love.
-
But this all will go as a dowry.
-
And dowry is worse than begging.
-
Oh God. Please keep Haseena's
respect intact.
-
Mom.. there's a big problem mom..
-
Did you again boil over the milk?
-
Mom, my locket, the one I got as a wedding gift.
-
Oh God.. May God curse her.
-
Have you lost your mind too?
-
Did you not give it to Haseena yesterday?
-
Mom, I had only sent the locket,
-
but I forgot it had my husband's picture in it.
-
Oh mom.. I had the heart of sending
the locket.
-
It was his last memory with me.
-
But how could I part with his picture?
-
Oh God.. Where is my sandal, I'll just go to Haseena's.
-
Oh God.. Thank God you remembered before it was too late.
-
Had Fari been married wearing that stupid inauspicious locket, it would have been worse for her.
-
Had her husband seen the picture of a stranger in her locket,
-
he would have sent her back.
Now you wait..
-
You wait here..
I'll just hurry and go see Haseena.
-
All of you accept that dowry is a curse.
-
But then why do you have to be proud of being able to give it.
-
You neither have a daughter or a sister. How would you know anything?
-
Nobody embraces this curse happily.
-
Its how the world runs. We have to do it, out of happiness or for our respect.
-
This is why people always give their daughters something before they are married.
-
And it is their right. Don't you dare say anything, you educated man!
-
So my mom did give me what she could afford. But it wasn't in my fate.
-
Now what's my fault in all this?
-
They're right. If I can understand it.
Why can't you all?
-
Its something else if you give your daughter something out of happiness or what you can afford.
-
But giving something because of fear and being helpless about it, is something else.
-
This child has opened my eyes.
She's very intelligent.
-
You people will not understand.
They're right.
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May you rot in hell Hamza.
You've destroyed everything.
-
Then go tell the boy's family
the same thing.
-
Haseena, Fari's in laws are coming over. Should I call them in?
-
I called Firdous. I told him everything.
-
I am very embarrassed.
I should have told you earlier. I just..
-
We should be the ones to be embarrassed as we got to know of it, so late.
-
We should have come to you, first,
before anybody else.
-
You're family, after all.
-
Aunty, we told you we didn't need anything.
-
You had said that you had dreams for your only daughter.
-
That's why I didn't say anything at all.
-
But this doesn't mean that you think
of us as cheap.
-
Actually, she is the mother of a daughter so she was afraid.
-
You do know how this world is.
-
My daughter Fari is not at all sensible.
-
I don't know what she said on the
phone to you.
-
Before she called, Hamza had called and told me everything.
-
We were coming to see you.
-
Hamza?
-
Is this the same boy who was delivering a lecture outside?
-
Is he the one who brought your
proposal here?
-
God knows what they must be talking about inside.
-
Why are you worried now?
Didn't you call and tell them everything?
-
Yes I did. I wanted to see if I meant more than all this TV, fridge and washing machine.
-
But this Hamza, he was faster than me.
He had already told them everything.
-
Fari..
-
He said such good things.
Everybody was impressed.
-
Really? So what I said, wasn't good enough?
-
I should be the one to shy.
Why are you getting all red?
-
No. Not at all.
I'm just happy for you.
-
Happy for me?
-
Hi.
-
Do you know, my mom praised you
a lot last night.
-
Really?
-
Actually that shirt suits me a lot.
-
Not because of your shirt stupid.
She praised you for what you said.
-
My mom is never impressed so easily. But it seems you've already done half the job.
-
Joya...
-
Yes I'm coming.. I was setting the flowers for the wedding procession.
-
You should begin the preparations for your own wedding procession now.
-
Oh, you're Joya's teacher. She isn't home.
-
Her friend is getting married so she left early to see her.
-
Oh. Alright.
-
I'll come tomorrow.
-
No. Since you're here, can you
do me a favor?
-
Do you study?
-
No. I'm a teacher. Actually, these are a few notebooks of my students.
-
I would have checked them myself but I too have to get ready for the wedding.
-
These are just 15 copies.
Can you check them?
-
I?
-
Yes, these are for social studies.
-
You just have to see if someone has answered less than one and a half page, you mark them with a 5.
-
And answers of two and a half
page get a 9.
-
And someone who has written 3 pages, give them a full 10.
-
What? But how I can..
-
I would have never asked you for a favor, but..
-
actually, it is very important for me to get ready for the wedding.
-
Otherwise people will think I'm jealous of Fari getting married.
-
And that is why I came to the wedding with an unhappy face.
-
Maybe the makeup will be able to hide the pain and hurt inside me.
-
I'll just check. Please don't cry.
I'll check them.
-
I have nothing else left with me other than these tears.
-
He left but he gave me these
tears as a gift.
-
I miss him and I cry.
-
But..
-
At least he gave you something
before he left.
-
And here I am, who wasn't
deserving enough.
-
At least help me wear the bangles.
-
Who asked you to get ready yourself?
You miser.
-
It isn't about being a miser.
-
There is no beautician in this whole city, who I would pay for my makeup. Not at all.
-
Everything is alright, just freshen
up your lipstick.
-
I'll just fix it.
-
Fari, you should have got a photo session done before the wedding procession arrived.
-
Oh, she saved money in that too.
-
To avoid paying the photographer, they have found one at home.
-
Salman will ruin all the pictures Fari.
-
Hello.. Hello... Hello..
Hello.
-
Look at you.. You look so beautiful.
Thank you.
-
You too.
-
Wait a second, we'll take pictures here. Come here.
-
Thank you..
-
Come here..
-
Okay.. Fix her veil.
-
Ready? Smile..
-
Wow.. One second..
-
I'll take your picture as well.
-
Fari.. look there..
-
There?
-
Yes.. Right there.
-
Perfect.
-
This is good.
-
Now click us together.
-
Please. Why not..
-
Are you missing Fari?
-
You'll be gone one day too.
-
Why are you upset?
This is how the world works.
-
Everybody has to go one day.
And I don't want to only get you married.
-
I want to see you settled.
Not like my mom.
-
She got her daughters married to rid herself off a burden.
-
I will not do this. Where I am not satisfied,
-
I will not send my dear child there.
-
Stop it mom.
-
Why were you so upset when Haseena brought a proposal?
-
Now I'm telling you to prepare yourself.
-
I have called the neighbor's boy tomorrow.
-
Neighbor's?
-
Now don't be upset.
-
See. Let me lighten up.
-
This time, I won't even let mom get involved..
-
He'll come in the evening tomorrow.
-
Aunty.. actually, I cannot..
-
I have been standing in the line for flowers for two hours. And you..
-
And where are you going?
Haseena had asked you some work too.
-
Actually, I had gone for a hair cut..
Fresh..
-
Why did you have to get a haircut early in the morning?
-
I am the one doing all the work.
-
You were the one who wanted too.
-
You made her a sister so go to her in laws and take her breakfast.
-
I have brought it, that's enough.
You and Salman will take it now.
-
Sorry. I have a lot of important things
to do in life.
-
Go tell Haseena that you're sorry.
I'm tired.
-
If only I could tell you uncle.
I don't even have time for saying sorry.
-
Just pray, whatever I'm going to do.
I am successful in it.
-
If you want success then stay
away from me.
-
If even my shadow falls on you, you'll be unsuccessful.
-
Have some fear of God.
-
At least say somethinng good.
At times, prayers do get answered.
-
Go get your prayers from my father.
He'll give you loads.
-
Grandfather and prayers?
As if he would give me.
-
Before that he'll ask me loads of questions and I don't have time for that.
-
Just pray for my success.
-
At least tell me where you're going.
-
This definitely involves a girl.
-
Will you have tea?
-
No thank you.
-
Actually.. I called you here for my daughter.
-
Where did I put the salt?
-
Yes. So what was I saying?
-
That these oranges are very sour..
-
No. I remember now.
-
I wanted to talk to you about Joya.
-
I am worried about her. She has come of age to be married.
-
When I saw you, I thought about talking to you, rather than wasting my time.
-
You're right.
-
One should always see nearby too.
So..
-
I would have come there myself but your dad and his dad are weird people.
-
I went there for tuition and they talked nonsense and this is a sensitive matter.
-
That's why I called you here. You're not like your father or your grandfather.
-
You look like a sensible child.
You talk sense.
-
Let me go and feed the chickens first.
-
You brought a proposal for Fari, right?
-
Yes.
-
I want you to find a similar proposal
for my Joya.
-
What?
-
See..
-
Haseena must have only thanked you,
but I'll pay you for it.
-
What happened?
-
What is your problem?
What do you see written on my face?
-
What enmity do you have with me
or my dad?
-
You talked to him only to let him down and now you did that to me.
-
What do you want?
Do you want to kill me?