'Andhar Maya'
How many times must Raghu Nayak be told?
He’ll end up becoming a laughing stock.
Dinanath has suffered a grievous blow in this crisis.
Out of sheer compassion
everything
has been handed over.
Slipped right past the doorway
and disappeared without a trace.
Such an inauspicious moment it turned out to be.
How unfortunate.
Hey, switch off that light! Do you want to blind me?
We’ve arrived.
Back to the same old routine.
You remember why we came, right?
Nothing has changed.
Nor will anything ever change. We’re simply stuck.
And because of whom?
When do we go back?
Once this house is sold?
Mom!
Hey! - What happened?
All of them...
...together.
Oh, lovely.
This place is truly blessed.
Come on.
It’s wonderful to see everyone together.
Take this.
Come on in. - Yes.
Now you’re the elder one.
Saylee.
You’ve grown up so much!
Hmm.
Come. Come on in.
This is your first time here, isn’t it?
Let me greet you properly. - No, no, don’t bother.
Child, he's your Grandpa Gona.
Yes. That...
Looks like Karthik’s told you quite a lot about me.
Gona was always a hot head.
He was very strict with us when we were kids.
Always yelling about, this and that. I know it all.
No.
Let it be, leave it.
But apart from Gona...
...not even a leaf stirs around here.
Exactly. You’ll...
...get used to it gradually.
These people have grown up with it.
Gona, we have to enter from here, right?
Naina, even if Konkan turns...
...into California, but you.
You won’t change your nature.
Hmm?
Why California?
Is this place that awful?
Exactly.
That’s precisely what I was saying.
We need to come to terms with it.
Let’s go.
In any case
this land carries Bhauki’s curse.
Come along.
Let’s go.
Eat something.
Gona,
you've laid it out like a royal spread.
That’s how it is here.
You’ll get used to it gradually.
Though it’s because of Dinu sir’s rituals,
all of you came together.
There’s nothing like that.
You know very well what the truth is, Gona.
Why do you ask?
Is your business doing well?
And yours?
Still struggling with work?
The problems haven’t ended yet, have they?
What’s that got to do with it?
Dinu sir…
still hasn’t found peace.
You’ve just arrived,
don’t be in such a hurry to leave.
Manoj, you…
Gone already?
Always in a hurry.
Madhu?
What are you up to?
Karthik.
This is our home.
No, it’s not.
Our home is in Mumbai.
But that’s a rented house.
How much also we do, it isn't ours.
Since our wedding,
I’ve never felt the touch of a home that’s truly ours.
Today, I did.
Our home is truly ours, isn’t it?
I was reminded of the younger sister-in-law.
She, too,
used to touch the walls so tenderly, so affectionately.
Keshav. - I’ll just get some water.
Even the mention of his mother brings tears to his eyes.
He was always stubborn, that little monster.
A monster?
Yes, he really was a little monster. Come on.
Are we staying in the upstairs room?
Hey Karthik.
Hey Karthik, just look at the state she’s in.
Go to the large room downstairs instead.
Go on. Head there.
That one in the corner. Be careful.
Yes, Gona. - Gona.
You go there. Porch side. At the back.
I’ll go. - All right.
Do you know how much our house is worth now?
There was a deal worth crores for a farmhouse.
Near Ratnagiri.
You still don’t have any idea
about the timing, do you?
Why has everyone gathered here?
What for?
For Dinu sir’s rituals.
Keshav’s father’s.
Why?
Isn't he your cousin?
That room, right? I’ll go there.
Dinu sir. Dinu sir. Dinu sir.
The house doesn’t belong to him alone.
And our home isn’t that far from Ratnagiri either.
Where should I stay?
Manoj is in the room on the left.
Karthik’s in the large one.
Naina’s in the room behind the porch.
Everyone’s eyeing the property, greedy lot.
I’m just a cousin.
Earlier, my father was discarded like a stone from the rice.
Now it’s me.
And my dad...
Dad’s room is vacant.
The other rooms haven’t been cleaned.
When Dad was around, you never even entered his room.
Go now and stay there.
Just once
go and meet him, even if it’s just once.
At the most, two days.
But the rituals... - I’m not interested.
Just finalise this property deal as quickly as possible.
The money my dad gave you for your business...
You remember that, don’t you?
Make sure it’s returned at the earliest.
Once that’s done, you go your way and I’ll go mine.
Oh, goodness!
We’ll talk later.
Pack your bag first.
This is nothing new for her.
Move. Move aside a bit.
Oh, but Shalaka, why...
Oh, she understands everything now.
Shalaka, she's still young.
She's not that young anymore.
Saylee.
You're not a child now. You've grown up.
You must become independent as soon as possible.
You shouldn't be reliant on anyone.
Especially not on you.
You do understand your responsibilities, right?
Saylee? What's happening?
You...
Look up. Look up. Take a deep breath.
Slowly.
Her inhaler. Where is her inhaler?
Inhaler... - Take it.
Inhaler? - I've given it to her.
Hmm.
She’ll decide for herself.
Whom she wants to live with. Where she wants to stay.
If Uncle Dinu hadn’t been so stubborn when he was alive,
we wouldn’t have had to depend on Keshav for our share.
But no.
He got busy with Dashavatara.
And he passed away at such a time
that now we have to perform all these rituals for his salvation.
He'll be free. But what about us?
What role did Grandpa Dinu play in Dashavatara?
God? Some mythological character?
A female role.
A female role?
Yes. A female role.
Dinu sir
used to drape a saree like that,
put on his wife’s jewellery,
a bun, lipstick, bindi...
he’d get all dressed up and perform a female character.
Karthik. - Yes, I’m telling you.
Someone in the village once grabbed his hand.
Since then, even the little kids would tease him.
What’s the big deal if he played a female role?
Why make fun of it?
I wasn’t the only one doing it. The whole village did.
Forget the village.
He was your uncle.
We're stuck now because of him.
He never wanted this house to be sold.
If we respect Uncle Dinu’s final wish
and decide not to sell this house, then what?
Madhu.
I want to own a rightful home
in the city
for the sake of my child.
But our child deserves a village life too, doesn’t he?
Fulfil Uncle Dinu’s wish.
To hell with his wish.
It’s his son Keshav’s duty to fulfil his wishes.
Dinu sir...
When he was alive, he didn't listen.
Even after he died, he ruined us.
Fulfil the wish...
It was fine when Dinu sir played female roles on stage.
But in real life too...
Is that so? – Yes.
We’ve seen it with our own eyes.
He used to wander around the house wearing women’s clothes.
And not just us,
Keshav has seen his father like that too.
Keshav grew up witnessing all of that.
Just imagine how that must’ve affected him.
Imagine? It certainly did.
It’s already had an impact.
I mean,
Keshav comes across as an angry young man on the outside...
But deep down...
It’s Uncle Dinu who lives within him.
Karthik.
I mean, come on.
Genetics will always have a role to play.
Our child inherits our genes.
And Keshav...
...has Aunt Dinu’s. – Karthik, that’s enough now.
Oh, come on. I’m telling the truth.
Why do you keep appearing before me?
What’s the purpose of this farce?
This get-up of yours?
You wore more of my mother’s jewellery than she ever did.
She managed to die. That was her good fortune.
But I’m still stuck.
Not for long though.
But I’ll always be ashamed of being your son.
You did this all your life. Why won’t you stop now?
I feel ashamed to call you my father.
‘So eight annas of a rupee belong to you alone, Keshav?’
‘We must leave this place as soon as possible.’
‘Now you two must live together.’
‘All this jewellery is for me?’
‘Everything is happening so unexpectedly.’
‘Or is someone behind all this?’
‘Free us.’
‘Sshh.’