who is it? it's me. where is mom? she has gone to work. when will she be back? her tution kids will be here at 6. she takes the class. she will be home by then.
(T.V. turns on) there is a room at the end of the hallway.
(T.V. news debate on tv) shh..shh.. whats going on ?
why is everybody running ? everyone inside the class right now!!
or i'm bringing the dog in!! I did not tell you to scream! I will be back in a second. I ought to go back. good afternoon ma'am. -everybody did their homework?
-y
es ma'am. so today we will learn about... so then we remove the bracket
then these two will multiplied. okay? you got it? I'm giving a similar problem to you
guys, everybody has to solve it and whoever brings the right answer
to me first he will get a... so get to it, I will be back. he can't see properly
if you want to befriend him you have to go near. so...how's everything? everything is good. how many days you here for? saturday, sunday. monday i have to go back. you can stay as long as you l
ike
why are you eating all this
for...we have cooked food
i'm pregnent. -i don't think you came here for a lecture.
-i'm getting an abortion. I dont want him to know about all
this, I'm here to see only you. who is he? what does it matter? -listen to me.
-sixty lets go check. oi!! -what's your problem?
-nothing nothing. then get off from the wall! -oi! I didnt ask you to come in.
-you didnt ask me to go out either. i once heard someone say "that your life never turns out...the way you thought" I
will be this by this age. or by that year I will be there. you never know when and what hits you and you land so far from the place you thought
you'd be, in a toatally different direction. you surprise yourself not always a good surprise. Come on. And come back on monday with
your homeworks finished. I will check.
only the kids whose
parents are here will go out. and no one will leave anything behind.
Kshitij were is your bottle? I'll get it for you. -you ignoring me?
-then what should I do? I
see you found this place. it's my favorite place in the house too. I shouldn't have snapped on you like that. I don't want to talk about all that. then you tell me, what do
you want to talk about? about this house. I don't know anything about it. -i told you...
-what? i told you even sent you a
picture... you never replied. ask me...what do you want to know. it's a beautiful house, at a beautiful place... and this highway... sitting here, you never notice when
the evening is gone and night is h
ere. when did you buy it? a year after you left, living
here for three years now. no one would have been happier than
you, you hated that stupid apartment. but seriously...you should be proud -its an achievement, you did it all on your own.
-not exactly let me guess, he must be sitting on that chair
of his, while you did everything. -have you talked to him at all ? since you came here.
- I did -what?
-asked where you at. come downstaires, dinner is ready. oi!! what are you doing? -where do you l
ive, and why do you hang around here all the time?
-you have any more questions? -answer me. where do you live.
-there -then why are you standing here. -don't want my folks to see me.
-and if you keep standin here, I will go to them. -what good would that do?
-should go right now? then run along. -don't let me see you again.
-I can't just dissappear now can i? -who's is that boy who hangs around here all the time?
-who? -one who lives down the road.
-yeah!... i think i know who you are talking a
bout. seems like he is your friend. he is just a kid. why is there so much trash outside. we will get it cleaned, soon and inside the house,
have you looked around? she got two jobs.. and you? you don't have one.
why don't you do something? when i went away, you were sitting there. and
now i come back and still see you sitting here. come with me. -you can't do that.
-can't do what? -disrespect people where they live.
-respect? as if he has any..! -why do always defend him like that!!
-i'm not de
fending anybody. I just want some peace in here. you don't want to talk to him ? nobody is forcing you.
to. but you can't go around insulting people like that. -because of him we were...
-that was a long time ago... ...what you need to understand is that he lives here
too, he has a right to be here just like you. oh!! his rights!! and what about about mine?
don't you think i have right to answers? i don't think he needs to
answe to anyone or anything you leave things unanswered
when it has been
this long. -don't you remember anything.
-i remeber everything, but you need to calm down. i know it's hard for
you, you were so young. how can you say all that!
you suffered more than i did! he gave up on you too!
he did nothing!! nothing at all! he just sat on that chair and
watched while our life crumbled ! and what did you do? ran away? you did exactly what he did!
no!! you were even a step further!! because whatever happpened, he was still here.
atleast i saw him everyday but you? you bai
led on us the moment you got the
chance and now you turn up four years later! you are no better than him. i once read somewhere, people have been dissappointing each
other since the beginning of time and people, will keep dissappointing
people untill the end of time. this statement sooner or later
turns out to be true for everyone. i don't know what i feel about this statement. you did this right? you want the truth? no no... i didn't do that...what
are these black marks? yeah right ! one of my
friends hang around here. he
must have done this, I'll tell him to talk to you... -get started...
-I told you i didn't do it! come on come on... -how old are you?
-me? I'm eighteen. fourteen. next time i see this wall marked, I'll
drag you from your house and make you clean it. -it's only a wall.
-it's somebody's home only a home. all cleaned up, anything else? -asking was a mistake wasn't it?
-yeah. they are your friends? when i'll go back they will all ask me. why
did you call me? what did we
talk about? -why?
-half of them are head over heels for you. so...what should i tell them? huh? what's between us? why do you keep
finding excuses to talk to me? -come here i'll tell you..
-ayye.. i was joking... come here. i never knew you felt that way but i had so much ahead of me if I would've stayed, I
would've never done anything i know, i'm wrong in thinking like that and if you watned to go, then it was your decision. but you know what? i wasn't as angry at him for being
like that, than
i was angry at you for leaving. and for all these years, i thought we
felt the same way about this whole matter. you remember? when we lived in that old apartment and one night he tried to kill himself by jumping off the building. you stopped him. i always wondered why you did that. maybe because you did'nt want to create
a scene out of us in front of all. but i felt, if he wanted to jump we should have let him jump. he also wanted to, we wernt happy either. yes...we would have become a scene bu
t atleast we could have
moved forward with our life. then you started working, and you used
to leave me with him all day long. I used to be both excited and afraid... excited because, if he tried something like
that again, there was nobody around to stop him. and afraid because if something happend
then you would feel bad, angry or sad. you still carrying around so much hate? our lives depended on him. he didn't even think that after what has
happened, that's when we needed him the most. he just
...turned off.
he thought he failed us when he got out
without a scracth but couldn't save us. He failed us when he didn’t even take you to
hospital or police station when we got back home. when i was sent back from school and he did nothing. when our stuff was thrown out of our house. and you know what's the worst part. that he turned off like that. because if anyone had the right to be like that...it was you. and nothing was even done to him.
whatever happened, it was done to you. but you stil
l kept on going and he became like that. becuse you saved me. after that whole thing. i looked at
him then i looked at you and decided what i had to do. why didn't he do the same. looked at you and looked at me and decided? Maybe he realized, no matter how careful you are, four people
can surround and strip you of everything in ten minutes. what curse it must be for a man, just standing there and
watching evrything ripped away,not being able to do anything. he cared. you two talk? not much. he j
ust answers and
i've run out of things to ask. i go to work, teach kids, sit here. and he sits on his chair downstairs. so, you want to talk about it now? what? earlier you said you didn't want to talk about it just now. i've told you everything you need to know. what's the
situation and what i've dedcided to do about it. if you have decided everything then you could
done whatever you waneted and never told us i don't want someone to point at me after 20
years and say that "you messed up my life
" or i tell someone and say that because of
you i never got to do all that i wanted to. alright, but i want you to do something... -huh?!! what are you talking about?
-you heard me. you got married? what is this a joke? why are even telling
me this stuff, you want to kill me? calm down, I felt that you should know, so i
told you, Ii'm leaving tommorow evening anyway you knew about this? yes. but we can't do anything about it that's enough humiliation for two days. i'll be back by tommorow evenin
g -hey you! what are you up to?
-nothing. -show me your hands.
-i said i'm not doing anything! then why you standing like that? just because, it's outside your house wall and the
wall is all cleaned up. why don't you leave me alone. ayy, look at me. what's the problem ? your mother beat you up? then your father? poor marks in test? india lost a cricket match? so you not gonna tell me what's up? just gonna shake your head like a cow? come on in...i'll make you lemaonade. ask you a question? i've
seen your folks since they moved in, but
met you for the first time in three years. why is that? i went away. went away? -left home, for four years...
-for four years? why? -it was tough at home for me.
-it's tough at home for many i think. that guy vinay, somebody is always
fighting and screaming in his home and that Shambhu, always high as a kite. when his father
tries to stop him, his fights and beats his own father up. and you?.. what do you do all day? me? i go to schoool, then work at this
stationary
shop. today was sunday so i was chilling out. -and near the wall? ehat do you do there?
-cigarette? i cleaned that up and that thinner botle? steal that from the stationary shop? why do you do it? i've never done it!. guys told me about it,
they force me to bring it all the time. and if you tell them no? i've never told them no. you scared of them? you don't need to be scared of anybody, you tell them to
their face you won't bring anything for them anymore. -but if?
-no room for but
if. you will do it? hmm. -for sure?
-i said yes, i need to go. you did a great job. when is your bus? four i'll take a half day and come early and listen. some tution kids come early,
keep an eye on them till i come, he does it everyday. why do you come so early? mom and dad come home in the evening. -mine too
-Yeah. -my home is like 3 km. away.
-mine is 4 yeah. -going home and coming back here is to much.
-you feel sleeepy too. yes. -but tution falls on the way.
-so we get off the bus here only
. but everyday uncle is here, where's he today? got a lot of nerve, earlier you were
jumping walls now you've come to the door. one does crazy things when in love. tell me what you here for? umm... i came here to tell you...that i'm
not gonna work at that shop any more. and i will tell those guys too, not to ask
me to bring them anything, i'm not going to. that's great news, very good and umm...i wanted to say another thing. ummm...sorry about you know...
messing up the wall.
you cleaned that up
. i'll clean this up tooo! thank you. somebody once asked me. what's that one thing? that i carry
around as a burden on me at all times. it could be anything, a situation, incident or a memory. and what i learned from it is so heavy on me,
that it affects my every important decision. then that person asked me to forget that for
a moment. thing and reconsider my decision. i couldn't.
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