Ganwaar

"""Time goes on... God be praised!"""

Master! - Didn't you hear me coming?

I am sorry sir! I was too engrossed in my work. Please forgive me!

Now you will pay for it.

Save me! Help me!

Stop this brutality!

I cut the hands of those who dare to stop me.

"And, I have the eyes of those who dare to defy me."

"Then, go ahead and cut my hands and have my eyes."

Aren't you ashamed of yourself to beat up a man who's like your father?

"Pretty maiden, I shall let no harm come to you."

I have created a liking towards you.

To hell with you and your powers.

Is this the way to talk to a lady!

"Scold as you like, but I won't mind a bit."

"Who is this girl? - Master, she is my grand-daughter."

She was staying in another village.

"But now when she's an orphan, she's staying with me."

She is just a girl. Please do not take any offence.

It's too late for that. Better tell her what the rules are of this place.

"lf she fails to understand then, send her over to my place."

I know how to deal with such Joan of Arcs.

Uncle, please get up!"

How can you quietly put up with such atrocious cruelty?

What else can we do?

>From the time the King has married his second wife',...

her barbarian brother has come here to torture us.

Why don't you complain about him to His Highness about his atrocities?

How can we approach His Highness?

"lf this brute learnt about it, he would have our hides, for sure!"

"The more you fear, the more he will be encouraged to do bad."

Better dead than live such a dreadful life.

Do not worry! We will all together go to meet His Highness.

Wake up, my Lady!"

How soundly is my young wife sleeping.

We have to go to the airport and it's almost 8'.30. a.m.

The plane from London will be landing by 9.

Please wake up! - What is it?

I hardly get a good sleep and that too you spoil it.

Don't you want to go to receive Gopal?

He's coming home from abroad after so long!

Why don't you go and receive him alone?

"l won't like it without you. After all, you are his mother."

He is no baby who has to be carried home.

It will take me long to have my bath and get ready.

I suggest you'd better go alone. - All right then.

What a headache he is.

Mr. Khan, there's Gopal's plane."

"Mr. Rai, in wait for your child why jump up like a child yourself?"

Gopal! - Father!

"How are you? - I am fine. - How are you, son? - I too am fine."

"Hello uncle! - Come to me, son."

You have still retained your culture inspite of spending 10 years abroad.

Indians are more lndian outside lndia.

How's that? - It's only on the foreign soil...

that a person tries to be more attached to his motherland.

"Dad, where's mother? Well, she's expecting you at home."

She will be very pleased to meet you.

Let's go then. I've been waiting so long to meet her. - Let's go.

"Bali, where's your Lady? - She's upstairs."

Welcome home, sir."

"Hey, you have grown up. - You too have grown up."

First go and get the luggage inside. - Rightaway sir.

My Lady, Gopal's home."

Why get to excited? It's only Gopal.

The way you are jumping with excitement as if he's some celebrity.

He's been wanting to meet you since the time he's landed.

Let him wait some more. I'll be with you after I am ready.

What are you waiting for? Go and have him seated in the room.

I'll be with you in a minute.

Your mother will be you in a minute.

"Hey, you still have this photograph with you!"

This photograph is my precious treasure.

It has helped to live through all these years on a foreign soil.

Reminds me of your mother.

Man is mortal; memories immortal.

Wish your mother was alive now.

Am I dead for you that you have begun mourning?

What are you saying?

Gopal has still retained this photograph and therefore...

You began to reflect on your past.

But, you should understand that,..."

never discuss something that would hurt the feelings of another.

"Well Gopal, how are you? - I am fine."

I need your blessings. - You always have it.

But, remember one thing."

"As we care for your feelings, so should you care about ours."

Don't worry. Gopal will never do anything of such sort.

Seek your mother's blessings. - It's all right.

"Well Gopal, tell me something. - What do you want to do now..."

after you have acquired your higher education from abroad?

I plan to do a great deal. All I need is your blessings.

Atleast let me know what you plan to do?

You are great! He's acquired an Engineer's degree.

Obviously he will look for an Engineer's post in a factory.

"My Lady, till this date, no one in our family has ever served another."

"Moreover, we have our own textile mill. He will take charge of it."

Why? Won't our textile mill do well without Gopal?

"Mother, I am not interested in any of these two propositions."

"Father, I want to pay my attention..."

to the enormous property of Zamindari that we own in the village.

What then was the need to waste 10 years of your life abroad?

"Mother, I also have the diploma for Farming."

I wish to teach our farmers modern technologies of farming.

"At present, shortage of food supply poses a great problem to our nation."

That's a great idea. - The hell it is!

You are going senile day-by-day.

Have you given your only son Oxford education...

only to make him plough the fields?

He who ploughs the fields gives the best service to his nation.

"Master, some of the peasants from the village,..."

both men and women are here with a plea.

The peasants are here! Have them seated. I'll be right over.

You continue with your dinner. I'll see to the matter.

"But, they only wish to meet His Highness."

They have been meeting him all their lives.

Why don't they give him a break now?

Why has the village trash come to pollute the city?

"Ma'am, whom you are referring as a trash,..."

if it hadn't been for us nobody would have cared for your harvest.

This plush life; these grandeur & luxuries are all because of us.

It is we poor who make you people rich.

Why blame us for your poverty? God created the Rich and the Poor.

Sure thing! It is God who created this land...

"and on a piece of it, we were destined to sow the seeds..."

and you were destined to enjoy the fruits.

A poor man is born with nothing

and the rich are born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

Though you may treat us like worms,..."

atleast give us the right to live as one.

When did we take away your rights?

"You work on our land and instead, we provide for you."

We give you a share of our harvest.

"Give us a little less from our share,..."

but give it with love and we will never complain.

"But Madam, Vijaybahadur has made our lives very difficult."

Not a kind word comes from his mouth...

and all his hand ever does is whip us.

"As for his eyes, they never see a girl with respect."

"Girl, do you not know that Vijaybahadur is my brother?"

What if he is your brother?

He has no right to be cruel to these poor people.

You go.

I'll talk to them. - What will you talk to them?

How would you know what language to use for these people?

Don't you forget that they too are humans as we are.

And, we speak the same language."

"lf that is so then, why don't you go ahead and embrace them?"

What are your complaints?

I am ready to listen to all your problems.

We have come here to tell our problem to the Lord.

But instead, the Lady came in."

"Now mister, what will you do by listening to our problems..."

when you can't do anything?

Tell me and I'll deliver your complaints to His Highness.

You will get justice.

What justice can the rich do when he doesn't know what poverty is?

One should suffer the pain to feel one's pain.

"To know what hunger is, one has to experience hunger."

One can never even guess what poverty is unless they have experienced it.

The depth of the water cannot be gauged from the surface...

unless you get wet and into it.

Only time will tell what one can do.

Atleast tell me what your difficulties are?

Perhaps you won't believe us. See it for yourself!

Who beat up this poor man?

"Mister, don't you recognize the whip of your family?"

"Madam's brother, Mr. Vijay should be commended for it."

Nobody beats up anyone for no reason.

Perhaps he must have done something wrong.

"Mister, our biggest fault is that, we were born a pauper."

"Secondly, we have Vijaybahadur as our master."

"And thirdly, we cry out aloud when the cruelty is too much to bear."

That's enough. I have a request for you.

Go back to your village.

"l promise you, everything will be all right."

How true it is. A step-child will always be a stranger to you.

You are misinterpreting the whole thing. What was Gopal's fault?

"You call it a fault, but i call it a sin!"

"Today, he insulted me in front of those who are nothing but dirt."

Tell me something.

"lf I had been his true mother, would he have favoured them or me?"

"Even if it had been my mother, l'd have still favoured those paupers."

Why do you think I don't consider you as my mother?

They were right and therefore I favoured them.

Would you call that a sin?

You have flown down from London today.

How would you know anything about the Zamindari systems?

Those days are long gone when there were any discriminations between...

the rich and the poor; the Lord and the peasants.

Father, for centuries now,..."

we have masked ourselves with the false pretense of sovereignty.

"But, those days are long gone by when we used to trade slaves."

Peasants or Lords; workers or mill owners;...

everyone has the right to breathe the air of freedom.

But the helpless and grief-stricken faces and the tiresome bodies...

of our peasants clearly showed that...

Vijaybahadur has made their lives a living hell.

"Gopal, you are speaking evil of my brother."

"Mother, when you talk of the devil, evil is what you speak of him."