Sakhar Shala | School vs. Fields: A Boy's Fight for Education (Sugarcane Worker's Son | Marathi Film

Sugar School Mother, I am leaving. Hey have a bite of coarse bread before leaving No, no… it’s too late. I must hurry to school, or else …. Or else, or else… what? . The teacher gets furious... if I get late.... how much time does it take to have a bite of bread? I’m going.... will eat later. The teacher gets furious… Is the teacher going to feed him? Dnyanu...stand up, ...read the lesson of Karmaveer Anna from the book (Dnyanu reading) Very good, stop… sit down, you read quite well. Child

ren, I will teach you the next lesson tomorrow, so nobody should bunk school ... we shall be there (chorus) All should come to school on time. Will be there... (chorus) (School bell ringing... school children rushing home) What have you cooked? Cauliflower Eat... Kaushe.. Humm... Next work will be in Satara town, happened to meet the contractor, the cutting season will last for barely three months. Dnyanu can cut the sugarcane too. But.. We can compensate for sugarcane cutting sooner, we w

ill be here just for two days, start wrapping out from here. Will do that What is it Dnyanu? Nothing. Why are you staring at me? Eat...hurry up.. But What happened to this fellow? Poor fellow is disappointed; doesn’t he go to school after collecting and piling up cane stalks in the farm? So what? He should be cutting the cane for the whole day.. Thanks to your pampering..I just get half the job done and send him to school. Hey listen.. the sickle is our school. You are right, but wasn’t he

admitted to school after several requests to the school teacher? Do whatever you want to... what are you blabbering about the school relentlessly, I have taken the responsibility of the cane, without compensation.. Dadappa contractor will screw me.. take this... you eat. (Murmuring angrily) Dnyanu , hey Dnyanu... are you asleep? What are you doing here, in this darkness? Oh... my Collector is angry it seems.. hey Police Officer. Dnyanu.. we don’t even know what school is like? It would’

ve been better if I wouldn’t have ever gone to school. Why are you saying that? Dnyanu’s mother…. Dnyanu’s mother... O yes.. yes... I am coming Ume Are you done? Yes.. I am done Every time you repeat the same story. Hurry up.... we are late. Dnyanu.. I am going for that meeting or that social worker will get annoyed… okay…let’s go. Let’s go, it hardly matters to listen to her for sometime. Dnyanu, sleep well, don't think too much. Come on, come I'll be back soon. Today I am going to share

one news with you, all should listen to it carefully. Let us tune into the next news. The outlook towards women and her health is neglected even today. Thousands of women in Beed district were detected of uterus cancer due to negligence of health care. Private medical practitioners from the district overlooked surgeries, diagnosis, treatments and got involved in a hysterectomy scam. A report of almost 13,000 hysterectomies has been disclosed recently. Sugarcane cutting is the only mea

ns of livelihood for thousands of people in this area. A women got convinced for hysterectomy as a life saving measure. The cure was not attended to and the doctors in the district initiated business. The social workers have made serious allegations against doctors for replacing cancer treatment with hysterectomy recommendations for financial gains. This was a back to back report on women issues, stay with us, we will be back soon after a short break. Did you all listen to the news caref

ully? If anyone of you is suffering from any kind of illness, visit the doctor but if the doctor recommends hysterectomy, come to me or give me a call. Umi, do you get it? Few people are purposely doing it to fill their pockets. Uzabai, did you understand? Yes So what will you do? If someone asks me to do something like this, I will break his head with cane. (Laughter) Uzabai... all the doctors aren't bad. Most of them are…. Hey hold him and sit. Aye, Take This Put it on your head Take This

Dnyanu...hey Dnyanu... hey wake him up Dnaynu... hey Dnyanu…. Dnaynu... hey Dnyanu…. Hey, I will move ahead Hmm You get him along I will Wake him up, he has been sleeping for a long time I will wake him. And come soon. Dnyanu... hey Dnyanu... wake up. Try to fake some cane stalk collection in your father’s presence and show as if you are cutting the cane. Now all this is happening according to father’s whims.. you all must be glad ? Nothing of that sort my dear, come on get up, hurry,

I will get the water ready for you, or else father will get furious. (Dnyanu whining) Mother, mother Dnyana, what happened. What’s wrong? Sit here... What happened? Did you hurt your leg? Hey you got hurt, (calling out) Dnyanu got hurt. What happened? Come here.. look... Dnyanu’s has hurt his leg. You and your nags. Wait, wait, keep your leg here, look, blood is oozing. Let me see, Let me see, nothing much, do you have some quicklime ? No I don’t. Nothing is wrong, tie the wound, bandage

it with the rag tightly. Oh no no… Hey don’t whine, nothing is wrong, why can’t you be careful? Shouldn’t you be cautious while working? Go and make him sit aside, there is loads of work to do, let him sit there, hey get up sit, go sit there, there is so much of work. I will come Dnyana... you sit. The child has got fever, the wound has worsened too, we will see the doctor. Shut up, nothing is wrong, it’s a small wound, take him to the black magician, he will give some holy ash, he migh

t be possessed, he will be fine. Hey.. come on pull the carts, come on get going. Hey, what happened to you? Wait… Hey Lakshya.. Lakshu... Humm Look here, is that enough? Humm... enough.. Lakshya, what happened? You seem to be upset since morning. Did you fight with your wife? No friend, I happened to meet Raja... Dhurpi's Son What had he to say? Sugarcane cutting machines are coming to the fields. So what... machine will replace the sickle, they will move turrrrrrr... doesn’t matter. H

umm… the machine would do all the job, we will neither have the sickle nor work What will we eat? ….dust? We can go to the city, we can earn something to fill our stomachs..so what? Is it that easy? We have spent our whole life doing this kind of labour work. Has anything changed? We are giving the same life to our kids, neither proper clothes.. nor proper school even medicines are not enough.. and in our villages, is there any employment left for us? And we are facing the same conditi

on here. After toiling so hard our children are yet nomads. Are there any chances? Sister... what are you doing here? We had been to the black magician, the boy’s wound is not recovering. Hummm... He is suffering from fever from 4 to 5 days Oh really... let me see, hummm.. oh.. no! the wound seems to have worsened, you better take him to the doctor. For making a child work.. the cops will hold me responsible it will be a headache for me for no reason. Go... go to the doctor take him t

o the doctor or you will need to amputate the child’s leg. Oh my.. my.. we will go to the doctor, let’s go. Doctor Come.. sit.. sit.. What’s wrong? His leg is hurt Is it? I will check... come, sit here. It is badly hurt... What happened boy? I got hurt while working in the fields. Okay. (Dnyanu whining) (Dnyanu whining) I am bandaging the wound, but take care. Don’t expose the wound. Don’t put pressure on the leg. Understood? Okay... Come, sit here. I have bandaged the wound. I‘ll give

some tablets. I will give two tablets. Give him regularly. Take this. Doctor... how much to pay? Don’t bother about the fees. Get him next week and take good care of him. Okay. Come on... Namaste. No... No.. I ain’t any officer. We have brought this Sugar School for you Hey little boy, do you go to school? With that look at your mother, it seems you don’t go to school, right? Sister, don’t you know? Child labour is a legal offence. So you don’t have to send your children to work, but to

school, in Sugar School. Here, your child will get free notebooks, texts, slates and everything. Apart from this.. nutritious midday meal, milk, fruits will also be provided. The thing is if your children get educated, they will prove to be a support during your old age.. isn’t it? so... you will send, right? So... will you come to school? hmm... he is saying yes, okay, I shall take your leave... see you brother. Let’s go to the next settlement. Sugar School