Gunjal (Entangled) (گنجال)

Hello.

Shahbaz Bhatti?

Yes, that’s me Sir.

Have you brought your CV?

Yes Sir, just a second.

What work do you do at Nayi Subah?

All kinds of work Sir.

You also make tea there?

No Sir.

I’ve been a crime reporter over there for some time now.

How many crime reporters does Nayi Subah have?

It’s a small newspaper, Sir.

They make do with just one.

If you’ve been here since morning,

who went to Irfan Masih’s hearing?

Sir, usually I go...

but they had the closing argument.

They are the most important.

Yes Sir,

this interview was today, so...

I see,

this means the story was of no importance to you.

The biggest case of the year is in court,

and you’re looking for a new job.

It’s not your fault.

You know that

Madam of yours?

Madam Sarwat.

Yes, Madam Sarwat.

Great lady.

She has given you free will.

Thats why her newspaper is breathing its last breath.

Often Journalists come to us chasing money.

If they do, then they don’t survive here for much longer.

I can’t give you a job.

But I’ll give you some advice.

Instead of running after money like every other journalist, run after a story.

The day you find a story,

there won’t be any need to pull strings for an interview.

Good luck.

So? Did you get it?

He didn’t give you the job?

He says...

instead of being at the interview,

I should’ve been at the court.

For the Irfan Masih case.

Oh man...

we did make a mistake.

We should’ve scheduled this interview a few days later,

the verdict would’ve been announced by then.

Verdict in a few days?

Tomorrow’s the verdict.

Today was the final hearing.

These are bigger games, beyond our understanding.

Has our legal system finally woken up?

Don’t worry,

nothing is waking up in this country before the day of judgement.

Is the water hot?

Hot enough to melt your skin!

Needs hot water even in summers.

Court reporting requires patience.

You guys just keep sitting in the cafeteria sipping tea and waiting on the final judgment.

Your report is worthless if you miss one argument.

What’s up?

Where have you been?

Went to the wrong court.

Your excuses never end.

Is the verdict out?

Look they’ve brought out Ashraf Hero!

How did he get acquitted?

The judge rendered a courageous verdict.

But he murdered.

Bro!

The bullet was fired by mistake.

An accidental death.

They put the poor man behind bars on a false accusation.

If he wasn’t poor, he wouldn’t even be arrested.

You have disgraced me!

The whole village is cursing me!

They accuse me of killing my own son!

You were looking for justice.

Are you happy now?

This NGO has exploited you,

go on, go live with those bastards.

Let go of her! Go to hell!

You’re right.

These organization people are bastards.

And you,

shameless.

You were the father.

You didn’t do anything either,

those carpet people aren’t to be blamed either.

Ashraf, the bastard, didn’t shoot him.

Then who’s at fault?

It’s my fault!

I murdered my son!

I alone killed him!

A mother killed her son....

Madam, imagine some one close to you is murdered, then you…

Suppose someone’s child gets killed,

and that murderer is acquitted.

Do you cry and mourn, or do you fight?

And blame each other?

You know what it means

when the child’s killer is acquitted?

The whole family is ruined.

It’s not a small thing.

Was Irfan Masih the only child?

No, he has other siblings.

And what did you do?

This?

How childish of you Shahbaz.

They belong to the poor class,

where the situations they are going through

are dealt with by screaming and fighting.

That’s how they express their anger.

I have inside information.

It’s a very big game.

An international conspiracy to tarnish the country’s name.

How can a poor man fight a case in this country?

They are all in cahoots and getting funds.

Tarnish the country’s reputation,

and put money in your own pockets.

Prepare a report on this verdict and submit it by 5:00pm.

What is the point of that, Madam?

Who reads Nayi Subah anyway?

Madam, you have visitors.

Shahbaz...

You may have tea biscuits with your senior journalist friends,

but don’t let them color your views.

So you got the news?

What news?

That our newspaper will close.

If not this month, then next month.

It’s probably a rumor.

What rumor?

Asim went to the printing press the other day.

He found out they haven’t been paid for six months.

And those bankers,

this is their fifth or sixth visit.

Madam has bankrupted the newspaper of her ancestors.

To that order, to that lightless dawn!

We don’t know, we don’t accept!

We want justice!

Hello Mazher brother, greetings!

Hmmm, what's new?

Not much.

Aren’t we going to cover the news outside?

What news?

Aren’t the organization people outside?

Leave it buddy,

their clown show runs year-round.

Didn’t you get your salary this month?

This is our new crime reporter, Zohaib.

Haven’t seen you around.

Where did you work before?

Used to do odd jobs here and there...

this is my first full-time job.

Really?

Can you do the job without experience?

No worries, brother Mazhar is here to help me.

I’m so glad I’m starting out with him!

I’ll have an opportunity to learn so much from him,

I stay so excited all the time.

If you snapped right,

you would've captured the shooter.

Oh man!

Is the picture clear now?

Funsies never stop for you?

Including today's meal,

you owe a total of 1518 rupees.

Thank God, nobody was shot.

Was anyone injured?

Please tell, Shahbaz brother!

Go home Iqbal!

And switch this off.

Is your father going to pay the light bill?

What rubbish!

If it was not a murder but a mistake,

then whose mistake was it today?

May be the man who was acquitted came to get revenge.

Stop playing Sherlock Holmes!

Now get lost!

The man who was acquitted?

Greetings!

I’m looking for some information.

Where have you come from?

From Lahore.

Then go to Lahore and get information.

Why did you come here?

Actually, the crime scene falls within your precinct.

Okay.

Sir, it’s a two-year-old crime.

Irfan Masih?

Remember the little boy who was murdered?

Excuse me!

It wasn’t a murder, it was an accident.

Yes, that one.

I need to talk to that man,

Ashraf Hero.