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Which friend are you going to meet in the
middle of the night?
-
By the way, where were you going so late at night?
-
To meet the Doctor?
-
Are you still upset with me?
-
No, it is not so.
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Then why did you hide under the sheet when you saw me coming?
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I am about to get married…
-
And they have fired me from my job.
-
Meenu…
-
is taking a lesson in the dispensary.
-
I have seen it with my own eyes.
-
I will make her understand and ask her not to doubt.
-
She is not doubting.
-
She is telling the truth.
-
Greetings Father!
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Wow my son, great!
-
You have a very long life. I was just thinking about you and my phone rang.
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I was about to call you.
-
I have called you before that.
-
Why were you about to call?
-
Dear, I went through a couplet by Mr. Meer.
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Thought to recite it for you.
-
Since you have left, listening and reciting has ended.
-
If I recite it to your Mother, she doesn’t understand anything…
-
Instead, she gives a tongue lashing and walks away.
-
She says that at this age…
-
People are reciting prayers to protect themselves from the grave,
-
and you are sitting around, reading poetry.
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Huh!
-
Have some fear of God, Nofel’s Father.
-
Should I recite it for you?
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Father, listen to me first, please.
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Dear, my couplet will take only 10 seconds, listen to that first.
-
Go ahead.
-
Yes.
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I can think of nothing without her…
-
Desire has left me in a daze.
-
Why do you harbor such desires…
-
That eventually leave you in a daze?
-
Have some fear of God, is this your age of having such desires?
-
I am talking to your son, here you go, talk to him.
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Ok.
-
Yes dear.
-
Call your Mother sometimes too, you always call your Father.
-
How are you?
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I am fine Mother, how are you?
-
I am also fine.
-
Hello!
-
Hello!
-
Hello!
-
Hello!
-
The line got disconnected.
-
Dial again.
-
Hello!
-
Hello!
-
Hello!
-
It’s not getting through.
-
Seems like the signals are weak there.
-
Hello!
-
Are the signals back?
-
Yes Father, the signals are back…
-
And I have listened to your couplet as well.
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Now, listen to me quickly before the signals are gone again.
-
I have caught them with great difficulty by climbing a tree.
-
Dear, what is so important that you climbed a tree at midnight?
-
Get off quickly.
-
The trees in the village are haunted by the shadows of spirits and ghosts, dear.
-
If a witch gets hold of you…
-
Things will get messed up.
-
Things have already messed up, Father.
-
Oh my God! What happened?
-
The shock has dazed me as well.
-
What do you mean?
-
I mean, I think, I am ….
-
under the spell of a witch.
-
There you go.
-
Have you fallen in love again?
-
It is not confirmed.
-
There is confusion.
-
May be…
-
Dear, if it would not have been confirmed…
-
Then you would not have had climbed a tree at midnight….What’s the confusion?
-
I can’t figure out anything Father.
-
There is a lot going on in my mind.
-
Hello!
-
Hello!
-
Dear, you have lost the signals again.
-
Hello!
-
Sometimes, I wonder…
-
If, what I consider to be love…
-
Might actually be just infatuation.
-
The mind says that…
-
You have come here to do a job and not to fall in love.
-
Its been hardly a few days to your break up with Malaika and…
-
You are about to build a new relationship.
-
And then the heart says…
-
Try your luck, there is no harm.
-
The mind is over powering the heart, Father.
-
I can’t figure out anything.
-
What would you have had done, if you would have been in my place?
-
Please, give me some advice.
-
Father!
-
Hello!
-
Hello!
-
Ah!
-
Ah! Ah! Ah!
-
Ah! Ah!
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Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
-
Uh! Uh! Uh!
-
Uh!
-
Uh! Uh!
-
Uh!
-
Uh!
-
Uh!
-
Uh!
-
Uh!
-
The turmeric paste will keep it warm all night.
-
And God willing…
-
by morning…
-
it will be absolutely fine, with God’s will.
-
How come by morning?
-
It will take two to three days.
-
A heel sprain takes time to heal.
-
By the way,
-
Doctor…
-
What was so important…
-
That you climbed the tree at midnight?
-
Actually…
-
I had not talked to my family since long.
-
I was missing my Mother, so I thought to call her.
-
Then you should have called form the dispensary’s phone.
-
The dispensary’s phone was dead.
-
I put in all my efforts to climb the tree…
-
And came back with a broken heel.
-
Wow Doctor great!
-
You can even joke while in pain.
-
I have told you earlier as well
-
to stop being formal.
-
I…consider myself a member of this family.
-
This is why I have woken you guys up at this time,
-
to come and handle your son.
-
We will handle you anyways.
-
You handle yourself boy.
-
Hey!
-
What do you mean by hey? Why are you giving me the looks?
-
When he calls himself my son
-
then I am also explaining it to him like his Mother to get hold of himself.
-
Neither should he break his leg like this in the dark…
-
Nor disgrace his parents.
-
Did you get it?
-
I did not get anything.
-
You are not a kid.
-
Take some rest now.
-
Let me fix you in the morning.
-
And you also get up.
-
Why are you sitting here holding his feet?
-
Ok dear,
-
careful.
-
If you need anything…
-
Then…
-
bang the floor with this.
-
I will bring a proper stick for you in the morning.
-
Here you go, dear.
-
Let’s go.
-
Take rest.
-
Oh!!!
-
You started scolding the poor boy for no reason.
-
He has called you his Mother and you have turned into a tyrant.
-
Listening to you…has made him so distressed.
-
Take it easy.
-
I consider him my son with my heart that’s why I was explaining it to him…
-
That he should take it easy.
-
He was not missing his Mother but he was missing Meenu at midnight.
-
He went to meet her only.
-
He went to have fun and have returned with a sprain.
-
Have some fear of God…Why are you being so suspicious of him?
-
He fell off from the tree.
-
I am not being suspicious,
-
I am talking as per my experience.
-
You also used to go for special prayers and used to stand in my street instead of going to the mosque.
-
You used to call me that’s why I used to come.
-
So Meenu also calls him that’s why he goes.
-
What’s wrong if he goes?
-
You and I were relatives, that’s why it went safe.
-
This fool is an outsider.
-
If his name gets associated to Meenu only for once…
-
The villagers will make such a huge fuss that he will regret.
-
And this love will ruin Meenu’s studies as well…
-
And her honor will also be completely destroyed.
-
Aaa…teacher!
-
One sheet.
-
Take it, dear.
-
Meenu has filled four extra sheets.
-
We couldn’t understand the questions and she filled the pages with the answers.
-
God knows, what had she eaten?
-
She had not eaten
-
but she had come prepared.
-
We all did that too.
-
There is a big difference in Meenu’s and our preparation.
-
There is no difference.
-
We also study the same that she studies.
-
We study ourselves while she is taught.
-
We prepare ourselves and she gets special preparations.
-
What do you mean…..
-
by special preparations?
-
Madam teach her?
-
What has Madam got to do with Meenu?
-
Someone else is teaching her.
-
Qaiser Klan’s Doctor is giving her tuitions.
-
Yesterday, when my Aunt went to get her blood pressure checked, she saw it with her own eyes.
-
Meenu was sitting so close to him.
-
Instead of studying…
-
There was more emphasis on exchanging glances.
-
Greetings, Cleric Sir!
-
Greetings! Greetings!
-
Come,
-
I will give you a lift on my cycle.
-
I don’t want you to break my bones in this age.
-
Ok, fine.
-
But I will walk with you.
-
Welcome.
-
Are you coming from college?
-
Yes.
-
I had a test today.
-
Did it go well?
-
Not only well, it went very well.
-
Well done!
-
May God bless you with success and fulfill all your desires, Meenu.
-
Only your prayers will bless me with all the success.
-
First, I will become a Doctor…
-
Then I will marry my Doctor.
-
With your Doctor?
-
I mean…
-
I will marry a good Doctor with God’s will.
-
There will be two Doctors in the house, only then the village will prosper.
-
Isn’t it, Cleric Sir?
-
Two religious leaders lead to more complications…
-
And two Doctors only mean more patients.
-
It is not so, Cleric Sir.
-
I will do everything very carefully…..I will marry a good and a specialist Doctor.
-
Is everything alright?
-
Today…You are talking a lot about marriage…
-
You avoided marriage like…
-
The devil flees after listening to the call to prayer.
-
I will have to marry eventually.
-
For how long will I avoid marriage?
-
Someday, I will fall in love, will experience passion and then finally get married.
-
Be sensible.
-
Finish your studies first.
-
More than marriage, this village needs you to be a Doctor.
-
The task, for which you have confronted the entire village…
-
And your brothers…
-
Finish that first.
-
Take out the useless thoughts of love from your mind.
-
And who is this scoundrel…
-
Who is giving you love lessons?
-
Don’t you feel ashamed…?
-
Of talking about such things with a white beard man?
-
Why are you getting angry, Cleric Sir?
-
I am not talking about superficial love but true love.
-
The love that one has for God.
-
Ok, ok.
-
I thought… you are
-
talking about the love in the films.
-
How do you know about the love in the films?
-
You are a Cleric.
-
I am a cleric…
-
I am not blind.
-
Do you watch films too?
-
I used to watch films when I was young.
-
Good films were produced at that time.
-
For Family, story based.
-
Ok, which heroines did you like?
-
I used to watch it for the heroes…
-
And not for the heroine.
-
Sudheer…
-
Darpan, Santosh…
-
These were the heroes of my time.
-
Who were the heroines in those times?
-
Musarrat Nazeer,
-
Sabiha Khanum,
-
Neelo,
-
Ah…
-
Raagni…
-
aaa…Nayyar Sultana.
-
Hmm.
-
Which one did you like?
-
Neelo…who else?
-
What are you looking at?
-
Hmm…
-
Neelo.
-
You were just telling me not to talk about love…
-
And you yourself turned out to be Neelo’s lover.
-
After Neelo, I used to like Shabnam as well.
-
If someone likes someone…
-
it’s not a bad thing.
-
This is what I am saying.
-
Its not a bad thing, if I like Nofel.
-
What are you muttering?
-
That’s what I am saying.
-
Its not a sin to like someone.
-
Forget about sins and reward, dear.
-
Walk fast.
-
It’s time for prayer.
-
You will not get a chance to complain this time, Sir.
-
I have applied the dye till the roots.
-
All the white hair have been concealed.
-
Did you find the murderers of my daughter or have they also gone into hiding, Officer?
-
It had been so long with no updates, so I thought I should come and ask myself.
-
Did you arrest the murderer or not?
-
We will arrest her.
-
Where would she run to?
-
The work is in progress.
-
Don’t you worry.
-
When I will get her, I will call you then.
-
I have high hopes from you, Officer.
-
My Rani has died innocent.
-
May God bless you.
-
May God grant you further success.
-
Just tell me, when will she be arrested?
-
When she will return to the country.
-
Your accused has left to America with her husband.
-
I don’t think, she will even come back.
-
God bless, my Father used to say…
-
The dead who go to the graveyard and the living who go to the foreign land never return.
-
How is this possible, Officer?
-
How can someone leave their house, family, bungalow…?
-
Go to another country so far away?
-
Going to London and America for these rich is like…
-
We going to Moosa Kot from Qaiser Klan.
-
By the time you reach Moosa Kot in a rickshaw…
-
These people reach America in a plane before that.
-
You have gotten stuck with the powerful people, Nasreen…Only God can help you now.
-
God will definitely do.
-
But you also do something, officer.
-
Last year,
-
when Mooda Kumar fled to Karachi after committing theft…
-
You did not chase him to Karachi.
-
You brought his parents and all his brothers to the police stations.
-
Within a week,
-
out of helplessness, he turned himself in.
-
My daughter’s murderer must also have siblings.
-
Go…
-
Arrest them as well.
-
You are making a very huge claim, Nasreen.
-
It might a big claim for me but it’s a small thing for you.
-
Mooda stole from the Malik’s
-
You hung his whole family.
-
That woman has killed my daughter.
-
And instead of arresting her, you are getting your hair dyed here.
-
What do I do then?
-
Should I go to America, chasing her?
-
When did I say so?
-
I am only asking you
-
to do the same with her that you do to others.
-
Bring one of her brothers or nephews.
-
Within a day, not only America…
-
That cursed woman would come out of the grave even.
-
At least, keep the law equal for the rich and the poor, Sir.
-
Otherwise, I would think that you are also in cahoots with the murderer.
-
The doctor has gone to visit a few patients.
-
I will let you talk to him when he returns.
-
No Sir, the telephone is the actual problem.
-
Sometimes, it gets the flow of current, sometimes it becomes a dead body.
-
Ok Sir.
-
I will sir, God bless, God bless.
-
Where is the Doctor?
-
He is at home, with a broken leg.
-
You were just saying that he has gone to visit a patient.
-
Yes, I had to lie to Doctor’s Father with the Doctor’s permission…
-
So that he doesn’t worry.
-
You also don’t worry.
-
He will be fine in a day or two.
-
Why shouldn’t I worry?
-
My teacher is injured and I shouldn’t worry?
-
Come on, Meenu!
-
Launch an attack.
-
Will face the consequences.
-
When you don’t have a guilt in your heart, why are you feeling scared then?
-
Honestly speaking…
-
You are surely feeling guilty, Meenu.
-
Consider rice, as poison for yourself from today onwards.
-
Not even the sweet ones?
-
Sweet, bitter, salty, black, yellow, all are forbidden.
-
What if I want to?
-
Then what?
-
If you will take a single bite in your mouth…
-
Cleric Yousuf will start preparing for your funeral prayers.
-
Come on go out, there is a long que of patients, come on, leave, leave.
-
Meenu!
-
Why are you standing with a long face?
-
Come, come, come inside.
-
Come and sit.
-
Did you meet him?
-
No.
-
I thought, the Doctor must be taking rest.
-
That’s why I came back without meeting him.
-
Wow! Great!
-
The one, who would even disturb the dead in the graveyard,
-
is concerned about the Doctor’s comfort today.
-
Glory be to God.
-
I am telling the truth.
-
Come on, stop it, stop it.
-
Tell me, what is the matter?
-
It’s nothing.
-
Ok, fine.
-
I will agree, if you say so.
-
Though your face clearly shows that there is something that you don’t want to tell me.
-
What does my face show?
-
You also just make things up, Uncle.
-
I make things up and you are making a fool out of me.
-
Anxiousness is…obvious on your face.
-
And you are saying that there is nothing.
-
You left from here like an arrow…
-
And you have returned …..
-
like a defeated soldier.
-
I thought he must be sleeping.
-
Again, a lie.
-
Now, tell me.
-
Look at me.
-
Meenu!
-
What is the problem?
-
The Doctor broke his leg and I couldn’t even see him.
-
This is what I am asking since so long… That why did you….
-
return without meeting your teacher?
-
I couldn’t gain the courage.
-
You are a mountain of courage.
-
How did you lose your courage, my dear?
-
How did he break his leg?
-
It has not broken.
-
He went to catch signals at night…
-
He fell there and the Doctor’s leg got injured.
-
You were saying that he broke his leg.
-
It slipped out of my mouth…..He has a sprain, he has a sprain, it is not broken.
-
I have massaged him with my special oil.
-
If I will give him massage a few times…
-
He will start running like Malik Nadir’s horse, God willing.
-
Couldn’t you tell me earlier?
-
I thought that he broke his leg.
-
The one who has got injured, did not cry…
-
But you are crying.
-
Come on, go and meet him.
-
See for yourself and feel at ease.
-
How should I go?
-
Sartaj Aunty is standing right there.
-
She is doubting me.
-
Oh!
-
Is she suspecting that you and the Doctor…
-
When there is nothing fishy between us then
-
God knows…Why is Aunty doubting us?
-
If that’s the case, then don’t go.
-
A drama will start for no reason.
-
Don’t give anyone the chance to gossip.
-
I will tell the Doctor that you were asking about his wellbeing.
-
Don’t tell him.
-
May God recover him.
-
Amen!
-
There is no need to go to his house.
-
Go straight to your house.
-
Ok?
-
Come on, leave, there are patients also waiting.
-
Yes, Old Man!
-
Let me put a ban on your rice too.
-
Meenu!
-
If you are going home then give this medicine to the Doctor on your way.
-
So …
-
You may say…
-
That she came to my home and insulted me.
-
Thank God,
-
there was no crowd in the police station, or I would have been humiliated.
-
I can’t tell you…
-
How I controlled my anger.
-
Baba Bulleh Shah says that a person truly becomes honorable,
-
only by avoiding anger, which is forbidden and unclean.
-
Congratulations officer…You have taken the first step to spirituality.
-
With God’s blessings, when you will become a saint…
-
Then after your death, building your shrine and placing a flag on it, is my responsibility.
-
You are great, Mr. Malik.
-
Nasreen is bugging me on one side and here you are talking about making my shrine.
-
I am worried, she has threatened me.
-
Being a man and a police officer, you are scared of a woman’s threat.
-
If people could die of women’s verbal firing…
-
Then not even a single man would have been alive.
-
Nasreen is an injured woman, Mr. Malik.
-
She is roaming around with her daughter’s grief.
-
If she bursts up, we all will die.
-
Mr. Malik!
-
I have brought Ashraf.
-
Hey Ashraf!
-
Where were you?
-
My men are looking for you for the last two days.
-
Were you gone for an official visit?
-
Where can I go under your governance, Mr. Malik.
-
I was right here.
-
Tell me, I am at your service.
-
Officer is here with a complaint against your wife.
-
She has been defaming Qaiser Klan.
-
Will you do something or should I take a stand?
-
Honestly speaking Mr. Malik, you give her a good beating.
-
She is out of my control, Mr. Malik.
-
She has become someone else’s puppet.
-
Whose puppet?
-
Stop it, Sir.
-
If I will say anything, it will humiliate me only.
-
As the wise say, silence brings peace.
-
It’s up to her and her beliefs.
-
I have moved to one side.
-
I have left her on her own.
-
What else can a noble man do?
-
Officer!
-
Ashraf has started cracking jokes….Show no respect for his honor and dignity.
-
Give him a beating.
-
You may also give me a beating, Mr. Malik.
-
Destiny has already been unfair to me.
-
Ok, come on, stop doing drama…Tell me, what does Nasreen want?
-
She loves Afzal Compounder.
-
Nasreen’s ropes…
-
are in the hands of Afzal Compounder and the Doctor.
-
The Doctor is your enemy…
-
And Afzal compounder is Nasreen’s lover.
-
Nofel dear, I am coming upstairs.
-
I have brought food, should I come inside?
-
I have come out myself.
-
Why are you walking?
-
Slowly, slowly…
-
slowly.
-
I was tired of lying inside.
-
I thought, to go and sit outside.
-
Ok….You start in the name of God.
-
I will go and send Rasheed….My shift for you has ended and his has started.
-
You had to scold me.
-
When will you do that?
-
Do you have to talk to me about Meenu?
-
Actually…
-
I overheard your conversation with Rasheed Uncle.
-
I only want ….
-
to ask you that why did you feel that last night….
-
I went to meet Meenu?
-
I had made a guess.
-
All the boys in your age do the same so…
-
I said, what was in my heart.
-
What I can’t understand…
-
Is that how can your big and beautiful heart become so suspicious?
-
Look dear, I don’t know if my heart is big or not.
-
But I know for sure that people in Qaiser Klan have big tongues.
-
You might get into trouble in the future…That’s why its my duty to explain it to you.
-
But you did not explain it to me.
-
You have blamed me.
-
I have not blamed you but I have made a guess.
-
I will believe you, if you are saying so.
-
I had told this to you yesterday only…
-
That I went there to call my family.
-
You did not believe me then.
-
Because…
-
I, myself saved Meenu from her brothers that night…
-
When she was coming to meet you at midnight.
-
When she was coming to meet you at midnight.
-
Aunty, you can take any promise from me, I have never met her in the dark.
-
And neither do I intend to meet.
-
Always…..
-
I have met her in front of everyone…
-
And I have only met her to teach her.
-
You are only teaching her…
-
But I think, she has started dreaming about you.
-
She is dreaming…
-
But I am not.
-
You also will start dreaming one day.
-
It’s impossible.
-
I have come here to work, Aunty.
-
Not to dream.
-
Then you do your job and let Meenu do her job.
-
Stop teaching her.
-
She goes to college, she will find a way to study on her own.
-
Stay away from her.
-
Its better for both of you.
-
Ok.
-
Whatever is your command.
-
It’s not a command but an advice.
-
If you accept it…
-
Then it will be good for everyone.
-
Accepted.
-
You will not see Meenu with me anymore.
-
Good!
-
May God keep you safe, dear.
-
Come on…
-
Have food.
-
Your food has become cold while discussing Meenu…..I will go and send Rasheed.
-
What are you doing here?
-
In the world,
-
There is no one more unfortunate than a man…
-
Who is loved by a woman…
-
But he fails to value her.
-
There is one way…
-
To reveal the truth before Master.
-
Tell me.
-
Lower the flame…
-
The stove’s …..
-
and yours too.
-
The lucky draw is on Friday, at 9 o’clock in the morning…..Come here only.
-
A house…
-
where Mothers and daughters are not happy…That house surely encounters disaster someday…