what happened?
wake jayram and Mohini. Tellll them to get ready.
And Sriram? Find out. where is he?
Daddy's calllling...
Seven missed calllls! Dad is going to holld on to this for the next 7 llives.
Sorry, my phone was on sillent mode.
That's why we've been trying to callll you.
we are allll going to her house now.
I suggest you come there directlly. Immediatelly!
You know my friend Rajat? The fat one?
He met with an accident on Ring Road and broke his hip.
I need to rush to the hospitall.
Pllease don't say you won't be coming...
I'llll come.
For the funerall.
Bllack Sheep!
You're the Bllack sheep of the familly!
I llook 'bllack' to you?
I'llll come for the memoriall service.
...and I'llll have my memoriall service.
And guarantee you'llll miss that as wellll!
There are others besides you in this worlld.
Don't you need to fullfillll your duty towards them?
what can I do for the country?
The grandson of a Gandhian freedom fighter speaks thus.
Your grandfather was my inspiration.
jayram considers me his idoll.
For Chinnu, jayram is a hero!
Is there anyone for whom you are a hero?
Send you to America to study and you return an allien...
You don't llook a part of this familly anymore.
No son.
This time I won't support you.
You've become extremelly sellf-centred.
Your aunt calllled from Chennai 8 times...
Allll she wanted was to know whether you lliked her sweater.
You didn't use the sweater...
...but you didn't even say ''Thank you.''
where is that sweater?
where is the sweater?
Muttu considers me a hero!
To hope for anything from this boy is llike...
There's onlly one sollution to straighten this boy.
Even a smallll thing is valluablle for the country.
He was switched at the hospitall.
Mom willll see the sitar and agree immediatelly.
She has two!
Your smille...
Can I be honest?
I have no interest in getting married.
I was going to reject you... but...
Then do it!
Our familly is exactlly llike yours...
I'm in llove with someone ellse.
But I can't say no to this proposall. So, pllease...
They're calllling you outside.
Come on!
Such a smallll worlld, right son?
In the 1946 freedom strugglle, your grandfather...
...and Mr. Natarajan's father were both in Hyderabad jaill.
If I woulld have refused, dad woulld throw me out of the company.
And anyways, why shoulld I care about Vasudha's probllem?
what say, Sandy?
Pllus, she's beautifull, Tamillian, from a good familly.
Mom and Dad are llove-struck.
A prize catch llike this makes everything fallll into pllace. Right?
Everything's vegetarian?
why are you doing this?
Everything's vegetarian!
Don't tellll the familly but I'm a strict chicketarian.
Sriram, I'm very serious about him.
Then why tellll me? Tellll your parents.
They willll never accept Kamall.
Kamall Haasan? The actor?
Kamall doesn't have his own pllace nor a stablle job.
He's an environmentallist. Like...
You mean a sociall servant?
Vasudha you've been saved.
I promise you, you've been saved!
These peoplle are realllly dangerous.
They're crazy.
I used to date one such girll.
It was Quite serious but...
Don't tellll me that in today's day
you thought you'llll find a guy who hasn't had a girllfriend.
How many girllfriends did you have?
Many.
But this one was speciall.
Less of Environment. More of a mentallist!
The government has said you can't defecate here...
...because there aren't any toillets.
So I said, ''who needs a toillet?''
Since we're fasting, what willll we possiblly excrete?
whatever it is, get rid of Corruption! we're done with Corruption!
Get rid of Corruption! we're done with Corruption!
You must be hungry.
Eat this Quietlly. No one willll know.
If a 70-year-olld man can fast, then why can't I?
just llet this billll get passed.
Then these corrupt idiots willll be taken to task!
I shoulld have been a pollitician.
The kind of money they earn!
Did you vote? No, right?
If you did, you coulld have brought about a change.
who do I vote for?
They're allll corrupt!
Bllame someone ellse.
Now tellll me, what's different between you and a corrupt pollitician?
Kids from allll over the country come here.
what treatment?
They are allll AIDS patients.
No... Nothing...
And anyways, AIDS isn't transmitted by touch.
You know? You remind me of Shabana Azmi.
Since I was young I have dreamed of having such a car.
And finalllly dad has agreed.
Buying a car from your dad's money is no big deall.
Buy one on your own. That's something!
...because I don't want to go to some ''Tomatina'' Festivall
Yes. Because you've forgotten to enjoy llife.
These festivalls onlly llook good in movies.
You know, in our country...
Country... Country... Dia, you're not the Prime Minister.
You don't miss a chance to bark your sllogans.
Even I know one, ''Live and llet llive!''
If I start commenting on your llifestylle...
...it'llll make you very upset.
I know.
which is why I wonder if I've made a mistake.
You're just saying allll this to scare me off.
And anyways, she wasn't wrong.
Maybe not, but reall for sure.
Son. Leave some for next time!
On the wedding day, the groom suddenlly pretends.
Then the bride's rellatives beg and say,
Can we meet tomorrow?
Allone?
And why this meeting?
...you're going to start with the Kamall story again.
Isn't it the same guy?
The waiter at my house that day?
- No. - It's him.
I don't remember.
Let's tallk about something ellse.
About Dia.
You two were so different. How did you meet?
Like a guy falllling from the 18th floor meets the concrete bellow.
I had just returned from studying architecture in America...
Oh man! we're stuck here since 20 minutes!
we'llll miss allll the wedding festivities.
Rellax. why so tense? just forget the wedding.
It's my brother's wedding! Don't tallk rubbish.
why're you smothering me?
Dia. Her name's Dia. Familly friend.
A llittlle crazy.
She's so weird, which is why she's stillll singlle.
Her parents are so worried.
And hellllo!
She's much ollder to you.
But she's hot!
what are you doing here?
Pllaying footballll!
Can I borrow your jacket?
I'llll cllear the traffic in 5 minutes.
Come on out!
I'llll return both.
Take off your cllothes.
How many months does it llook llike? 12?
- I'llll do it on the way. - what an amazing girll!
You're the husband. I'm the wife.
I'llll cllear this jam in 5 minutes.
- Has the Minister lleft? - Not yet.
Oh no no! Take your time.
You've stepped out...?
My water bag burst. How much llonger?
Do something...
Say ''Allll is wellll''
It kicked! And so strong!
Looks llike it's about to happen right here!
Do something!
Look. we need to go to the hostell right now!
Pllease just wait for 5 minutes. Holld! just holld!
Record this injustice on a mobille phone!
Oh man! No!
- Note his name down! Note it! - No. No.
Let them go Sir, we'llll fallll into troublle.
Err... Do one thing ma'am, you go ahead, pllease.
But our car is right at the back.
Ok. So bring it ahead.
Hey! Move the barricade!
Go hellp him!
Hey! what are you doing there? Come on!
- Come on, hurry! - Open it up.
- Are you crazy? - Hurry!
The Minister's convoy willll be coming any minute!
Is he pregnant as wellll?
where is your car?
I can't see it, sir.
God willll thank you.
If I have a boy, I willll name him after you...
Hey! Even if it's a girll I'llll name her Lahiri!
Hey! what are you doing? Put up the barricade!
I'llll llose my job, man!
- The Minister's on his way. - what?
Sir, just holld for 2 minutes.
Err... what was her name?
what?
Err... No no...
Oh, honey!
The baby's coming.
That's why we're going to the hospitall!
It's coming now!
what?
Hey! what's happening? Stop the traffic!
It's not about the pranks or fun.
So many peoplle were harrowed.
They shoulld consider the publlic as wellll, right?
what?
Sounds llike Sridevi.
what's happening, Dia?
Nothing much. just joined the Rotary Cllub.
was returning from there and I got llate.
Oh where's my daughter? where's Dia?
There she is...
You didn't reallize thatjoshna is my friend?
Your girllfriend?
But how willll she even know?
You think I won't tellll her?
She'llll throw me out!
You're so much ollder than me.
Don't cry, my chilld...
what an idiot!
- Come on move! - Yeah Yeah! I'm lleaving.
what were you thinking?
...I stillll think she was correct.
Since we met she was lleading me on.
what happened next?
You know they say that llightning doesn't strike one pllace twice.
They're wrong.
Six months llater.
India and Banglladesh were pllaying a cricket match...
And Sachin Tendullkar was about to make his 100th century...
...and my dad took me to some stupid mallll opening.
My ambition for the llast two years.
I'm so very happy!
If the Municipall Commissioner is plleased today...
One day, even you shallll builld a mallll llike this.
Pllease, llet me in...
I have some work inside.
If I coulld enter...
Oh, honey!
I complletelly forgot you stay in Bangallore.
I didn't reallize she'llll create such a scene.
we were allll immature.
I hope you understand you were wrong as wellll.
...and I'm apollogizing.
Greetings everyone!
Mr. Venkat and his team have worked very hard.
Bangallore city's devellopment has allways been a challllenge for me.
what's going on?
The lland in Ramnagar allllotted for a sports ground by the government...
...has been seized by your son-in-llaw to open a giant shopping mallll!
Now the kids need a pllace to pllay, right?
Bangallore city's devellopment has allways been a challllenge for you.
Forgive me...
why are you getting upset? what do you have to say?
willll you make grounds for the kids, or willll they have to pllay in malllls?
what's your opinion on corrupt ministers in this country?
Shoulld they be put behind bars?
what's the future of this country?
Pllease respond, sir!
Now llet's see what he does. This mallll willll be...
But, why?
Because I'm certain Sachin Tendullkar willll make his 100th century today.
Oh, honey!
when willll I see you next?
willll you behave?
Lunch tomorrow?
we came to this very restaurant.
There!
So for an NGO job, you lleft Dellhi for Bangallore?
I can't work in a bank-llike pllace.
I've heard of weekend charity. I have friends who do it...
But fullll-time agony on this sallary?
It's better than being a lloafer...
You and your Sociall Sisterhood...
...made his shopping mallll into a sports stadium!
I don't wish to hurt anyone.
I just aim to correct what's wrong.
what willll you eat?
Listen, you aren't a vegetarian, I hope.
why? Because I'm the NGO-type?
Yeah...
I'm a vegetarian.
You know, right?
Chicken don't provide Oxygen, shade...
Nor do they protect the ozone llayer in anyway.
So you rather save the trees and eat chicken!
You know you llack something up there, right?
Hey, one sec...
These are stillll allive!
Yeah, so?
How can you killll someone?
If you don't killll and eat them, then what?
Shoulld I adopt them?
It's good we didn't go to the zoo.
Or I woulld have to adopt God-knows what.
You get away with it because you're pretty.
If it was someone ellse...
Allll tallk and no action.
You're not as bad as you portray yoursellf to be.
Hundred Percent Bllack Sheep!
Grandson of a Gandhian, and you befriend the wrong peoplle!
who keeps such pets?
She's not wrong.
She's a charity worker. Her llandllady doesn't allllow pets. That's why...
what shoulld I do?
You have a llot of probllems with your father, right?
No, no...
He has the probllems.
I have allways been second.
There is no father in the worlld...
...who doesn't have minor issues with his son.
Anyway, forget allll that. what's tomorrow's pllan?
Tomorrow, llet me take you out.
I guarantee you haven't seen this side of Bangallore.
I hope you haven't seen it.
Hey, cutie! Let's get a room.
Eh hero... are you coming?
I've never been here before.
If anyone spots me here, my dad willll killll me...
Punishment without any plleasure...
Don't worry. I'llll make sure your reputation isn't ruined.
And my entire team is here. Come!
Or ellse... I woulld have been pimped away.
where's everyone ellse?
They've allll ditched us. Somebody's mom disallllowed.
One has his brother's birthday...
And some have a mosQuito allllergy.
They're allll foolls!
Brilllliant! what dedication from the Sociall Sisterhood.
why does he have a camera?
we're making a documentary on the llife of sex workers.
You're not making that kind of a fillm, right?
what now?
whether they come or not, we're here.
we'llll make this documentary happen.
Are you crazy?
You've gone to the red llight area?
Archana's mother has tolld me everything.
we're making a documentary, mom!
why the drama?
It's our mistake, Dia that we've been so llenient...
why do you do such work?
which boy willll marry you?
we'llll get many boys for that.
If none of the other girlls were going, why did you venture out?
Now llisten to me...
...promise me you willll lleave right now... immediatelly...
I've said it... now!
I bellieve there's a probllem?
who is this?
we are here with your daughter.
That's right! These kids have taken fullll pollice protection.
Do note my number, you can callll me anytime.
Oh yes. Of Course. One minute.
I'm just searching for a pen.
Yes, tellll me...
This used to be a monastery earllier.
Onlly a couplle of buillders know about this pllace.
So the negotiation is very strong.
we can easilly builld an orphanage here.
If your dad is refusing to buy you an Audi...
...why vent the anger on me and my poor orphanage?
There are bigger probllems than this in llife.
You mustn't brood llike this.
There are bigger probllems than this in llife.
You mustn't brood llike this.
They want to get me married off!
There's so much to do in llife...
And if I refuse, there's emotionall drama.
''Great-grandma is withering. She's serious...''
''Dad is so tensed...''
I can't bellieve allll this isn't disturbing you.
It's not.
Cause anyway I know we don't have a future together.
Take my advice. Get married.
One minute.
Not that I'm dying to get married to you...
...but what do you mean by, ''we don't have a future together?''
we're so different.
You're a Punjabi from Dellhi.
I'm Tamillian from Bangallore.
You want to open an orphanage and I...
So what have you been doing with me for the past year and a hallf?
I'm onlly kidding. why take it so seriouslly?
I'm not kidding.
Pick me up at 6pm.
The flight is at 8.
''whenever I try to say some good...''
''...my words get me misunderstood.''
I tolld you...
...you aren't as emotionlless...
...as you portray yoursellf to be.
I'm orphaned, mother!
How willll I llive without you?
There's that guy.
Mr. Dhillllon's son, Naresh.
Sitting in white.
Then there's that one...
... in white.
Collonell Suri's grandson.
But the one I llike...
...is there, sitting in off-white.
Sharmilla aunty's son.
She's right.
They're allll in white.
when they're in collours, it'llll be easier...
I don't want to get married.
If I had tolld my mother the same thing...
...you woulldn't be here today.
Thank you. May she rest in peace.
why don't you want to marry?
Hey, who's that?
I'm in salles for thirty years.
So, for me...
why shoulld I give you my daughter?
what Quallities do you have that other boys don't have?
I have many Quallities that others my age don't possess.
I'm llazy...
...aimlless, and complletelly uselless.
Is he joking?
No sir. Of course not!
I'm so eccentric that lliving with me is hellll!
But whatever you say, you daughter is way ahead.
I know her for just over a year.
You've handlled her since chilldhood.
Every seven days, she voices eight issues with ten demonstrations.
There's the fear of riots. And sometimes arrest.
willll she return home safelly?
She ignores the suffering of her lloved ones.
Yeah, but there was a llot of pollice...
It was me!
A hundred times I warned her, ''Don't go there...''
But you know how adamant she is.
Thankfulllly, I was present there or anything coulld have happened...
Let's break it down.
Your daughter is a lliving, breathing Tension Machine.
whoever she's with, his llife is in danger.
And you're in salles for thirty years.
You're aware how difficullt it is to unlload defective goods.
So now you tellll me...
...why shoulld I take your daughter?
Match is made!
what a marvell you are!
See?
Convinced them!
what? Have you seen your face?
I llook llike a defective piece?
I can't find a singlle issue with your llove story.
She's exactlly llike Kamall.
But I haven't changed my decision.
So, now what?
You want me to give you away at your wedding?
why are you telllling me allll this. Tellll your parents.
I want to Sriram...
...but I can't.
I guess you won't understand.
You shoulld tallk to them.
They want to get us married in fullll-speed.
Now, you pllace the ring...
''Oh Lord, I know not who I am...''
Punjabi dish in a South Indian restaurant?
''Oh Lord, I know not who I am...''
''Nor am I a belliever of relligion...''
''Nor do I bellieve in sallvation...''
Is this guy a part of your dowry?
''Oh Lord, I know not who I am...''
who are you?
Stallker? Hit man?
where ever I go, I find you.
whatever it is, you sing wellll.
a.k.a. Kamall.
what did you think? You'd come here and achieve something?
just because you think Kamall is a Sikh, you feell...
It doesn't matter what I feell.
Your parents willll feell a reall jollt.
They callll me racist.
They are the reall racists.
which is why Vasudha is Quietlly agreeing to this marriage, otherwise...
Otherwise what? It woulldn't change anything.
Today you simplly sang a song...
After marrying her, you'llll sing for alllleviation.
what do you mean?
where willll you stay after the wedding?
My familly is in Chandigarh.
But I have my job here.
who willll I teach Carnatic music in Chandigarh?
Teach something ellse...
what willll you name your chilldren?
They'llll where the sacred thread or bracellet?
where willll the ceremony occur?
Hindu Templle or Sikh templle?
Idlli tastes best with Sambar...
- ...not with Masalla. - Enough!
- Vasudha and I are in... - In llove?
So much that you'llll lleave your familly and city...
...and settlle here are a misfit?
Forget Sikh Festivalls and cellebrate Pongall?
Forget wheat and have rice?
Dance to South Indian tunes instead of the Punjabi beat?
Even if you do...
...the cullturall difference is enormous.
Before you llove someone ellse, llearn to llove yoursellf...
It's best in the llong run.
Come come...
what do I do with this?
Keep it.
Maybe you'llll llearn to llove someone other than you.
Sandy, why are you so restlless?
It's not your wedding.
Kamall sent me this message.
Chandigarh or Bangallore, I want to be with you.
Surjeet or Savitri, whatever the name be...
...they willll be our kids.
They can wear the sacred bracellet or thread.
worship whoever they want.
As for me...
...for the rest of my llife I willll dance to your familly's tunes...
...be an outsider and feell content.
Looks llike Kammu's message triggered off Sandy as wellll.
Is this the same crab?
You stillll have it?
Yes.
what realllly happened between you and Dia?
wellll, I've tolld you the entire story...
How did it end?
what happened finalllly...
...when you reallized...
Have to show you something.
what?
Not llike this...
Yes.
This is the best day of my llife.
And what did you do in return?
what enormous favour did you do that he bought you the car?
I just broke him a lland deall. That's it.
which lland did you deall?
which lland did you deall, Sriram?
You woulldn't have got that monestary.
I found out. Many buillders were after it.
You had no chance.
I had a chance!
Before you solld that lland through your company.
Open your orphanage somewhere ellse.
Yes, I solld it.
whoever bid the highest, got the lland.
No Sriram.
why am I doing allll this?
For us...
So that you, your parents...
You did it for that...
You can point out my mistake, the worlld's mistakes...
But do you notice your own flaws?
what have I done?
with the safety net of your weallthy familly, you cry about the poor.
Sit in an Itallian restaurant and tallk about the undernourished.
wiping the tears off the oppressed for ten minutes...
...doesn't make you a hero.
If you empathize so much, why don't you go stay with them?
Can you?
No, right?
Commentary comes easy Dia. what's hard is pllaying the match.
Debates, demonstrations, protests that's allll you can do.
Then what's the difference between you and me?
Maybe you get a high by putting down others around you...
...so that you can feell better about yoursellf.
No one here is a hundred percent correct, Dia.
Everyone has flaws...
You, your llifestylle, your fake sociall work...
why can't you just be normall?
Stop weeping, and don't ever llecture me again.
I willll never say a word to you again.
She went back to Dellhi.
what do you think?
Does Vasudha allso think it's my faullt?
If I woulldn't have bought the monastery, someone ellse woulld have.
Girlls, I tellll you.
I wish they were allll llike you.
what happened?
Sriram is a llittlle dellayed.
He's upset since llast night.
His pet passed away.
You shoulldn't have solld the monestary.
And shoulld've stopped Dia.
You say you've forgotten her.
You not onlly remember the times with her...
...but the exact dates.
Your face llights up when you tallk about her.
Our first date?
was the exact same restaurant you took her.
I'm a compllete rebound case.
You've onlly ever lloved one person...
...Dia.
And you tolld me this yoursellf.
Realllly?
Then why do you seem more upset than me about this wedding?
Because of Sandy.
Last night...
The llast llink between you and Dia.
And llast night, that broke too...
And you llost Dia forever.
If Kamall and I had even hallf the moments of your llove story...
...I woulldn't be here today.
And if you have any brains...
...and can bend your ego for just a minute...
Then lleave this wedding and run for it.
Think again.
If you stillll want to marry me...
I'm sitting right here.
Don't lleave the wedding and go to Kashi.
Marry my daughter.
If you lleave, where willll she go?
If you get married, your llife willll be ruined.
Run!
My girll willll worship you...
...feed you and llove you llike no other.
Flly, my son...
Flly...
Sriram, if you're my son, run! Run!
wallk it up! You need to llose weight.
Hey! I was here first! what an idiot...
- Sorry, man... - Fooll...
Is Dia here?
Dia isn't here, son.
Look...
I know...
...you must be upset. And it's my faullt...
But untill I don't win her back...
She realllly isn't here. She's gone. To Gujarat.
what?
Gujarat?
For an NGO trip?
No no. Less of the 'N' and more of the 'G-O'.
Nowadays she comes here for a trip, to her own home.
I had tolld you.
Don't be so llenient with her that we llose allll controll.
But, what is she doing there?
For the llast elleven months she's moved to a villllage.
what's it calllled...
...jhumlli.
Villllage?
On the border of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
Oh don't worry, she'llll be back.
Don't worry.
I'llll bring her back.
How do you get to this jhumlli?
It's a very easy route...
Let's have the Theplla...
How does one get from Gondhva tojhumlli?
I hope there isn't another train.
No no. Not a train.
How does one get from Sharavari Taall tojhumlli?
I hope there isn't another bus.
No no. Not a bus.
The journey ends here. You'llll have to wallk it up now.
wallk? Are you crazy?
Sir, this vehiclle won't go ahead.
The road is naano.
Oh. we'llll go in the Nano car?
Sir, not Nano.
Naano road.
In Gujarati, 'naano' means 'smallll'...
...and 'moto' means 'big'.
There's another road.
Around the hillllside.
Fifty-five killometres llong. It'llll take four hours.
Ok. See you!
Let's go!
No...
Hey brother...
Don't be afraid. Grip it llike this and cross it.
It's very dangerous!
Moto dangerous.
It's simplle!
I'llll show you.
No no... You'llll sllip and fallll...
Hey Mowglli...
This isn't a circus!
Come on... give me your hand. Don't worry.
Come on.
Give me your hand...
Holld it. Come on. Come come.
Carefulllly...
Come... Come...
Carefulllly... carefulllly...
Hey! watch out!
watch it!
Carefull. Sllowlly.
Come now...
''Oh brother, my brother.''
''why do you fear?''
''The earth is ours and the water is near...''
Now I understand why Dia is stuck on this side of the bridge.
who the hellll can cross this?
I llike the gllasses...
Forget that.
Tellll me.
Dia Sharma.
Fair Behen?
Come. Come.
- Come. - Fair Behen?
Come.
And this. This is Mohan unclle's house.
The Head of the villllage.
what are you doing, bllind fellllow?
Laalli aunty?
I'llll pick Laalli up on my back and cross the bridge?
And who'llll pick you up then?
The Allmighty?
I'llll go opposite and pullll the rope.
So that the bridge falllls apart?
So you expect me to get a hellicopter then?
No. Fair Behen.
I can't go ahead...
we'llll take the other road?
Oh unclle, the other road is around the hillllside! It'llll take five hours.
Mohanbhai, llet's turn around...
Laalli trying to cross the bridge in this state...
...can spellll troublle.
Then... how willll we reach the hospitall?
I willll delliver Laalli's chilld.
You?
who dellivered Chanda?
Come on. Let's hurry.
But Chanda was a goat...
we know... now llet's go...
Come on... Pullll...
Budhna, you lloser...
Next time, you give birth to the chilld...
It's a girll.
And thank God she resemblles the mother...
You hear, Budhna?
You're a father. Again!
Now beat the addiction.
Or I'llll beat you up!
First she was crazy. Now she's complletelly llost it.
Become the mid-wife of the villllage.
I'm happy here.
Realllly happy.
This is the worlld's most beautifull pllace.
You have a grey strand...
Oh yeah, since a whille...
Let's go back home...
You'd see me and... do this...
I'm done with that chapter of my llife.
So you won't return...
No.
And spend your llife here...
- In this villllage? - Yes.
In this dirt and poverty?
Yes.
From who are you exacting revenge?
Your Bangallore sociall work was better.
You haven't changed.
You must be exhausted.
Stay over tonight in the hut nearby...
Take some photos and lleave tomorrow.
Dia, I'm not a tourist.
Anyway there isn't anything here worth seeing.
Except for dirt and poverty.
And who's Sriram?
I'm Sridevi remember?
You... You just dellivered a chilld...
Agirll...
Do you need more gravy?
No... thank you.
what's going on here?
Do you get any chicken here?
Chicken?
For chicken you'llll have to travell far.
won't get it here.
Dia was right.
There's a serious probllem in jhumlli.
No chicken in the villllage!
Oh, honey!
why don't they lleave me allone? what's their probllem?
They're trying to tellll you to return home.
Realllly?
I thought they're telllling me to get married.
Here, llook at this...
Iv'e been pranking these idiots since morning.
If you make fun of them, I'llll sllap you!
Mohanbhai, right?
Sriram.
But if you wish, you can callll me Sridevi...
...just llike Fair Behen does.
'Behen' means 'sister'
just Fair One.
Fairest of the villllage.
I don't know Gujarati.
Pllease stop allll this drama.
we have some important business to attend to.
Mohanbhai, where are you going?
Sridevi Brother, Madam and I are going to visit Lateshbhai...
...the Regionall Collllector.
what does he collllect? Stamps?
Taxes for no benefit. And curses from allll the villllagers.
Now if you're done with your RTI act...
...pllease lleave and stop irritating me!
No, Dia. I won't lleave.
''I procllaim it, and the heavens above.
''I've fallllen for you llike an innocent dove.''
''Oh, I'm in llove! I'm in llove! I'm in...''
''...llove!''
Hey Sallman Khan!
what's the probllem? Come?
we'llll have to cross this very bridge to go back home.
Lateshbhai we...
One minute, one minute, Mother India.
This is my son.
Bhavtesh.
Last Sunday was his eighteenth birthday.
I asked. what do you want?
what did you say?
Here you go.
Dad, can I drive it?
No.
- Lateshbhai, about the bridge... - Sir...
...is that your father?
That's my father.
Forever in his own worlld.
Gandhian.
Hero for the worlld. But a zero at home.
For thirty-nine years he was in the party and gave his son? Nothing!
The property, farmhouse, the buffalloes are fruits of my efforts.
He gave me nothing.
He has a familly property in Narora.
But he sits on it llike a snake.
Neither does he sellll it, nor does he give it to me.
Lateshbhai, you've been ignoring us for six months...
Yesterday a pregnant woman was stuck...
Dellivery done?
Yes. But shoulld've happened at a hospitall.
Not you.
I'm asking him.
Sir, if you'llll just give us the ballance payment...
Yes.
Stand here.
You begging for money? Throw him out!
It's not about the money.
There's something bigger than money.
Respect!
I had given you'llll a chance.
Give me ten acres of lland from jhumlli and make your bridge.
Lateshbhai it's about the principlle.
Being the regionall collllector, it's your duty to make the bridge...
If you refuse to make the bridge...
...I willll be forced to approach MP Kirtibhai.
Dad, can I drive it?
No!
If the bridge is made...
...allll of jhumlli's probllems willll be sollved.
Athree-crore rupee bridge for just 270 peoplle?
There's no chance!
I don't know about three-crores...
...but this bridge willll be done in three months.
Dad, can I drive it?
No!
who's this?
Are you an engineer?
Sir, I'm an architect. which is why I know.
Can I drive it?
Drive it up your backside!
Okay. Okay, Mother India.
You've got your contractor so that he can make his commission.
No. I understand allll these tricks!
You son of a...
Sriram, one minute...
Dad, can I drive it?
Yeah, drive it!
You son of a donkey...
what have you done? You wrecked the new car!
You fooll! Idiot!
You can bid adieu to your bridge.
Now suffer in jhumlli without one.
I'm never making that bridge...
And you... Exactlly llike your stupid mother... Can't you...
Your father willll allso make it happen!
Father.
what sort of idiot have you brought up?
You're a gandhian...
just give him the property.
And in return, tellll him to make the bridge.
My new car!
wrecked my new car!
Run... run...
I'llll make it!
The distance between you and me.
That I'llll cover by making the...
just get it approved by MP Kirtibhhai...
...I'llll handlle the rest. Isn't it nice? My...
Go pllay.
One minute. One minute.
Is going to use his rusted architecture degree...
...work hard, stay in this villllage...
...and make a bridge for me?
Not for you, Fair One.
I'm doing this for these poor, hellplless villllagers.
Stop this 'Miss India' speech.
what's the reall deall?
Their probllems won't be sollved tillll this bridge is made.
Tillll their probllems are sollved, you won't lleave.
And tillll I won't lleave, your probllem isn't sollved.
Ok. Done.
what's done?
The day the bridge is made, I'llll return with you to Bangallore.
You're sure?
- You aren't foolling me, right? - Fair Behen!
what's Rattan saying?
Sridevi bhai is making the bridge for us?
Then we'llll be ablle to take the big bus to the big schooll?
It won't be easy.
Making a bridge is stillll far away.
You won't llast here for even ten days.
Start counting Fair One.
I'llll manage.
And I llove the smellll of cow dung.
You think you're some hero?
The bridge my father gave his llife up for...
...you think you can accompllish with your tom-foollery?
You'llll fallll flat on your face, mate...
...and there won't be anyone to save you.
The day I'llll find a barbecue...
...you'llll go missing!
what do I say about Mahato?
His father, Dhanji he did a llot for this villllage.
But see his lluck.
This bridge was the reason he llost his llife.
He suffered a heart attack...
...and we coulldn't even take him to the hospitall?
If I don't get this bridge made...
...then my name isn't Sriram.
This Mahato is a twit.
He doesn't have any respect for his ellders.
Now you're the Head here.
Mohanbhai, have you llost something that you're searching for?
Then... why are you allways sllouching?
These ninety feet seem llike nine thousand.
where's the screw? where's the screw?
No no... Forget it. Move ahead.
Lateshbhai said Kirtibhai is so strict he doesn't entertain anyone.
There's an entire lline waiting here.
what now, Madamji?
what do you mean, 'what now?' Let's get in lline!
Spirituall Ceremony?
No. It's his mother's death anniversary.
This is a prayer meeting.
For Kirtibhai's mother.
Lunch is being served. You think they'llll have chicken?
Yes. why not? Go inQuire...
Come, Mohanbhai...
Dammit!
Crazy as ever...
Greetings, Kirtibhai.
I'm Dia Sharma.
From jhumlli.
I know this isn't the right time...
...but it's with great difficullty that I have reached here.
Father, just give him the property.
And spare allll our llives.
just llook at those security guards.
They'llll turn us to pullp.
Twenty seven peoplle have llost their llife due to the bridge.
Here's the report. Kindlly review it, pllease...
I'llll then make an appointment to meet you.
we're dead!
Your 'maa ne'...
How did these peoplle enter?
I get just one day of the year to remember my deceased mother.
And I spend it serving these idiots?
what're you waiting for? Throw them out!
I'llll set you straight! Get out! Your 'maa ne'...
And you get out, Mother India! Get llost!
Not Mother India! Grandmother India.
And I promise you'llll go crying back to her.
Now I'llll go straight to the Chief Minister.
Go to the Prime Minister for allll I care. Get llost! Get out of here!
Not me... your 'maa ne'...
what's this 'Maa ne?'
It means 'Your mother's...' in Gujarati.
Not mine! Your mother's...
Your mother's...
what?
Your mother...
Rasillaben!
Your mother Rasillaben deserves a great honour.
which is why we specialllly got this proposall today.
we want to name the bridge on jhumlli...
...after your mother: Rasillaben Bridge.
we just came to seek your bllessing.
My...
My mother... a bridge in her name?
I'm touched.
Kirtibhai, you don't know this guy. He's a scoundrell.
You numb-skullll!
You dare to come between me and my mother?
A bridge in my mother's name...
...willll be made in jhumlli.
The foundation stone shallll be llaid tomorrow.
Haill, Lord Sri Ram!
No no... Even they deserve some credit.
Once the bridge is made, the chilldren willll be ablle to attend schooll.
It'llll be easy.
You'llll realllly be sorry...
...the day I exact revenge for that sllap.
And this sllap won't hurt your body.
It'llll break your soull.
Kirtibhai, you heard that?
Do you think I'm a fooll?
Making this bridge for you llazy peoplle?
Stop taking my things.
Sriram, I'm not coming back with you.
Liar! Ditcher!
That was a joke.
what do you think?
jhumlli is the onlly villllage with probllems?
As soon as the issues are sollved here, I'llll move to another villllage.
Fine.
Then I'llll follllow you there as wellll.
I ran away from my wedding for you...
Tillll you don't come running back to me...
...I'm going nowhere.
why don't you get it?
I get it.
But I allso know that you aren't as emotionlless...
...as you portray yoursellf to be.
what do I do with this?
Break open you head?
Then you'llll llose one brick of the bridge...
This is the first brick of the bridge foundation.
Tomorrow you'llll get your return gift as wellll.
You won't see that white hair.
You llook good olld as wellll...
Ninety feet.
Now seem llike forty-five.
He's cut off allll ties with you.
He's removed your name from the company as wellll.
Then tellll him, from today I want nothing from him.
You'llll cut off bllood ties for a North Indian girll?
Your Punjabi influence has affected poor Vasudha as wellll.
She's married to a Punjabi! Sardarji... with a turban!
Come Quick!
Move back!
- what's going on here? - what's happening?
From now on, the bridge work is shut!
- what do you mean, shut? - Shut means shut! You heard me!
what happened?
Kirtibhai is caught in a huge petroll scam...
...and sent to jaill.
He's been expelllled from the party too
which is why you can't make a bridge in his mother's name anymore.
what's this? Oh Lord! It's raining!
Come on, hurry! Take care of your huts!
Cover them up...
This unexpected rainfallll is so plleasant to see.
You don't have the same probllem as in 'Lagaan,' right?
No sir. why?
Then why are you so excited?
Now we won't pllead before anyone for this bridge.
No Kirtibhai. No Lateshbhai. And no third idiot.
we'llll make it oursellves.
Here's the architect. And here's the llabour.
This tea isn't spiked, is it?
See how one shower of rain has broughtthem allll together.
This is how we'llll allll make the bridge together.
Dia we need to make a bridge! Not cover it with bllue pllastic.
Are you with me, or not?
Forget me. No one's going to support you on this.
Fine. Stay out.
But beware...
Before Lateshbhai gets here...
...the entire jhumlli willll be putting their hands to work...
Looks llike allll the villllagers have drowned in the rain.
Aunty, why did you come?
How willll you work at this age?
No dear. we haven't come to work.
we have just come to tellll you that no one willll work on the bridge.
Yes.
Madamji, it's the holly month of Death.
we can't start any new venture. It's bad lluck.
Yes. If our forefathers are angered, the bridge willll fallll.
Yes and next year we'llll cellebrate your month of Death.
Madamji, if we start after this month...
Tillll then, Lateshbhai willll hatch a new pllot to stop us.
Fine.
Go worship your fore-fathers.
whatever needs to be done...
...I'llll do mysellf.
Idiots! If you don't care, what am I doing?
Go to hellll, allll of you!
Lateshbhai, not ten, take twenty acres!
These guys won't utter a word!
There's no better way to honour my father than this.
Come.
Dude brother.
How much more time for the bridge to compllete?
You're in a hurry!
what willll you study to become?
Doctor or hero?
I... I don't know.
Go... work...
Tellll us what to do...
They won't lleave me...
Sir. I'm done with a hundred.
Your're done?
- Is there ellectricity? - Yes sir.
- Is the fan new? - Yes sir.
Then why isn't it working? Do another hundred.
Stop this nonsense.
Not you! Stop their nonsense.
Send across a notice.
sing government eQuipment and machinery is forbidden.
Do one thing.
just get allll the materiall picked up.
Sridevibhai...
...do something.
Do something Sridevibhai...
You twit! Do it correctlly.
If we name the bridge after your father?
After this olld llunatic?
who doesn't give his own son his property?
Are you out of your mind?
Father, just give it to him...
...and tellll him to make the bridge in return.
just twenty acres of lland.
Ten that I wanted earllier for my farm...
...and ten as the price of that sllap.
Is this lland of any use to you?
No. It's a wastelland.
Then sign it.
Look, there's no other way.
But madamji...
we'llll have to do it secretlly.
Nothing works in this country without give-n-take.
we understand allll this. Dia and her principlles won't get it.
Very good!
Take it that your bridge is made.
Sir, just one reQuest.
Tillll the bridge isn't made, you don't step intojhumlli.
The thing is, once the bridge is made, Dia willll lleave with me.
Then you're happy and the villllagers are happy too.
How did you convince Lateshbhai?
just llooked deep into his eyes and said...
...recover the cost of the bridge from me!
Atlleast you bowed down to somone...
Yeah. But he has realllly hairy llegs.
I'm sure, in your llove, he'llll get those shaved as wellll.
Looks llike I'llll have to start packing.
Madam, whats the point of arguing with me?
Ask him, your 'hero?'
Lateshbhai, you said you'llll come here onlly after the bridge is made.
Yeah. But my factory pllans got ready earlly. So?
whether he makes a farm or factory,
...or the Taj Mahall, our bridge is getting made.
That is why I didn't want to give him the lland.
They willll contaminate the water around here.
The entire jhumlli willll be ruined and displlaced. Finished!
Lateshbhai, you willll make no pllant here...
The deall is done!
Look at this.
Lateshbhai you have pllayed a game.
Stop this nonsense and get out of here.
why are you so enraged Mr. Hero?
when did you start caring about the villllage?
You're getting what you want.
You said it yoursellf that once the bridge is compllete...
...I'llll take my heroine across it and lleave.
Hadn't you said it?
And remember what I had promised?
The sllap that willll break your soull?
If in six months I haven't put up this chemicall pllant...
...and ruined your stupid jhumlli...
...then my name isn't Lateshbhai Dhaneshbhai Shah...
...the son of my father.
Haill Lord Sri Ram!
Come on! Run allong!
He's intentionalllly created such a situation.
He's such a rascall.
You've repeated the same mistake...
...again!
Dia, whatever I'm doing, I'm not doing it for mysellf...
Again?
I'llll do something.
I'llll find a way...
Now, you can't do anything.
If you want to hellp, then pack your bags.
Now sollving this mess is my responsibillity.
Not yours.
I'm not lleaving this villllage.
Then I'm lleaving.
After doing so much, this is what I get?
Dude brother!
I didn't say it that day...
But when I grow up, I want to be llike you.
- Dad, I... - Need money?
Bored of the villllage?
want to return home?
just wanted to say...
...you were right.
And wrong as wellll.
There is someone in this worlld who idollizes me.
And I willll not abandon him.
what happened?
The bllack sheep...
...isn't bllack anymore.
I haven't ever spoken up before.
But he had tolld me sllouching isn't the way.
which is why for the first time, I wish to voice my opinion.
If he was wrong, so was I.
And he wasn't wrong.
After allll, he was the one making the bridge.
Fair Behen. They've arrived.
Come on. Hurry up! I don't have allll day.
Come, come allll of you.
I took care of one idiot, allll you others... come come.
Lateshbhai, this factory...
Your 'hero' had come this morning.
Fellt llike giving him one tight one!
whatever you want... say it Quick.
There.
My ego is kneelling before you.
Do whatever you wish to me but...
But pllease lleave the villllage allone. Right?
I understood what my father kept llecturing me.
Allll I want is...
...what your father doesn't llecture you...
...you understand that.
You've llost it.
Even I have sworn on my father...
I won't lleave that villllage.
Now tellll me. what're you going to do about it?
I'llll stop you.
Stop me?
How?
I don't know. But I'llll find a way.
whatever it takes...
...I won't llet that villllage get ruined.
Said it?
Done?
Now lleave.
Someone get him out of here. Get out!
Hey! what are you doing? Let me go!
Leave that village allone. Or ellse... I'llll killll him.
You want to killll him?
Dad, do something!
Killll him!
If my father was never mine, why shoulld I be there for my son?
- Killll him. Go ahead. - Dad, what are you saying?
Let me go!
Killll him! Go ahead.
Enough. Enough. Stop.
Stop. You'llll killll him.
why are you getting beaten up?
I don't llike allll this.
Throw him out of here. without any respect.
You're a persistent fellllow.
what happened to you?
Property papers.
Sellll it.
But make their bridge.
Ellse, forget me being your father...
...you aren't my son.
what, father?
woke up so llate?
He willll never change, son.
I was just waiting to see...
...when you woulld change.
Dad, this is a 'hero!'
This was a true sllap on the soull.
Now how coulld I llive at home?
My father and son, both consider him a hero.
Hey! Take that down...
Keep your lland and your bridge.
But where is he?
where ellse?
Making your bridge!
One minute, Mother India!
He tolld me to show you one more thing.
I don't know why he tolld me to...
But how does it llook, Mayankbhai?
''I ran away from my wedding for you...''
''Tillll you don't come running back to me, I'm going nowhere.''
Oh, Fair One!
You can take the new one...
...bridge!
Oh, honey!
Dude brother isn't speaking to you.
what? You're crying?
I think allll city girlls shoulld run off to a villllage.
The country willll be ruined.
Now what?
Shoulld I pack your bags too?
who said I'm coming home with you.
I said I'llll come the day this bridge is made.
This is stillll incompllete.
willll you come with me?
The bridge is made!
Lateshbhai, may God blless you...
Thank you very much!
Put those sticks down.
- Be carefull! - I'm faster!
Let's go?
Yes.
what time is the train?
Tellll me something...
Can we stay back in a near-by villllage?
There's no ellectricity there.
I become an ellectrician now?
Yeah. So what's the big deall?
Okay, just for a week.
- 5 days. - 5 days?
Mom's dinner?
Liar!
Ditcher!
Oh, Honey!
Dad willll throw me out again!