Ahilya! Be careful.
Hurry.
Watch your step.
Ahilya, be careful!
Nice and easy.
Mind your step.
Keep it flowing!
Where's yours?
Aaba!
You want some?
A little bit won't kill you!
Come on, you paid for it!
What about you?
Do we have something to eat other than peanuts?
Aaba!
What about dinner?
Yeah.
Go get the food.
He's getting it.
Want some more?
I can't find the women.
What do you mean you can't find them?
They're not inside.
Earlier the girls used to run away.
Now even the mothers are running away.
Where's everyone?
Come with me!
Ahilya!
It's here!
Let's go.
Come, quick!
Hold this.
Listen to me.
You need to get out of here.
Go find Miss Mangal.
And continue studying, OK?
Go become a very successful doctor!
And come back to treat us!
But do it for free!
Go.
Go on, hurry!
Well, well, well!
What are you women doing here?
Ahilya?
Are you trying to escape?
Can't say I'm surprised.
There's no place for a girl like you here.
What are you going on about?
Get out of our way!
Shut up!
Is this how you talk to your husband?
I said shut up!
Ahilya...
I won't let you escape so easily.
You need to be paraded...
with your head balded!
Then you can leave.
Because we'll never find...
a smart, successful girl like you...
in the village ever again!
Am I rig--
Ahilya!
I didn't mean my head--
The gutter mouth deserved it.
Now die, you lowlife!
Ahilya...
Even though I tried to run away...
I couldn't escape this village.
Don't make that mistake.
You should leave.
Go!
Go on, hurry.
Go.
Ahilya! Why didn't you get on the bus?
Wait! Conductor--
Please don't, Maushi!
I won't leave.
Those dogs won't spare you, dear!
Please just go!
I can escape and do well for myself.
But the rest of you will face the backlash.
These people will make an example of me, like that cursed girl in the tale.
And they’ll pass that story down for the next 500 years...
to confine future generations of girls to this village.
But then what do we do now?
We need to stop crying...
and start defying.
Let's go.
Why are you staying back, dear?
From now on, you're one of us.
Everyone's called to the temple!
Kalindi?
Out here!
The women are in the temple!
Come on, hurry up!
Come on out!
Out of there now.
I'm going to kill every one of you!
Really?
I dare you to touch me! I'll shred you to pieces!
I swear I'll...
Aaba!
Your daughter's corrupting the whole village.
Ahilya.
Enough is enough.
Get out of there!
Ahilya's not going anywhere.
We'll lay down our lives in this temple if we have to...
but we will not obey you anymore.
Stop dragging the family name through dirt!
It's our tradition--
I will not sacrifice my daughter's life for your tradition!
Do you think I want to?
That's exactly what you're doing.
All of you are doing exactly that!
First, you took Saraswati's life.
Now, it's Ahilya and then someone else!
Watch your mouth!
You think I'm that kind of father?
You're about to sacrifice your daughter...
who you've loved more than anything else.
Am I not right?
I'll show you women!
I told you.
These disagreements are exactly why the village has its traditions.
For five hundred years...
did we ever have these disagreements?
We were all living peacefully.
A girl decided to get an education...
and the whole village has lost its mind.
Aaba...
when have we ever locked them up?
Have we ever locked you up?
Do you think we are bad people?
We have your interest at heart.
We're doing this for our village, for the Devi.
Until now, no girl ever crossed our borders.
Nothing went wrong.
Did it?
Did anything go wrong?
Haven't we protected you all these years?
Listen, Mr Protector!
Spare us the drama!
Oh, so you protected us?
Then where is Saraswati?
When husbands thrash young brides at home...
why do you protectors go missing?
Will you hold on to this blind tradition...
while our girls keep dying?
And it is always the woman's fault!
You can do as you please!
Mr Protector, my foot!
Stop doing us these favours!
We're more than capable.
You may leave now.
All of you!
Leave now!
Get out of here!
Get out!
The Devi won't spare you.
You don't worry about that!
Come on, let's go!
Damn that school!
This is all because of it!
We need to shut that school down.
Got it.
I know what to do.
Let's go, guys.
Come.
[people yelling]
The school! The school!
It's the school! The school!
What happened?
They've set the school on fire!
We're not going to spare them now.
Let's go.
You three, wait here.
- But Aai-- - Ahilya!
You've done enough for us!
Let us do our part now.
Right.
They've set this trap to get you out of here.
Stay here.
You'll be safe inside.
Be careful! Let's go.
Aai!
Come on, let's go.
Ms Ahilya Aabaso Veskar
I said I want to study more.
So she said Aaba would kill me!
Aaba.
Leave some tears in the tank for my wedding.
I'm confident that Ahilya will also inspire...
other girls in the village to continue their studies.
Aaba.
Didn't you say...
that until I get married...
I am your responsibility?
Then why are you hesitating?
You're about to sacrifice your daughter...
who you've loved more than anything else.
Hey! Come here! Fast!
Get the kerosene!
Let's burn the school down to ashes!
Give that to me!
Aaba, let us handle this!
Aaba!
Let me do this.
I'll set it to fire.
Like you set the farms on fire.
Aaba...
We had to do it...
for our village.
For our village! For our village!
You filthy animal!
For our village, right?
You used Vesai's name to instil fear in me!
I'm going to burn you in Vesai's name!
Hail Vesai!
Run, you scoundrels!
Get out of here!
Or I'll set you on fire!
Run!
We're gathered here...
before Goddess Vesai...
to witness the dashing young leader of Vesai's Vadgaon...
Jaysing Tatyasaheb Raskar...
a class eight graduate...
get married to...
the daughter of our modern farmer Aabaso Veskar...
who's even more modern than her father...
Ahilya Aabaso Veskar...
a class ten graduate and a merit ranker...
and also a women's rights activist...
right here, right now!
You are requested to not disturb the groom and bride.
And if you do, you'll find yourself nailed to the ground.
You are cordially invited to the wedding!
Stay here!
They won't come inside.
They're afraid of the Devi.
Hail Vesai!
You think I'm scared of the Devi?
Me?
The Devi might have blessed you...
but we make the rules here.
And what's the point of making rules if you can't break them?
Want to see me break them?
Do you?
Here we go!
Hail Vesai.
Come.
Come with us.
Let's go.
Come!
Don't touch me!
Come with me.
Let me go!
Don't act too smart.
We've had enough of you! Let's go!
Listen!
I wanted to get my hands on her for the longest time.
Her?
I thought you wanted this one.
Let me go!
We're getting out of here!
Lakshmi!
Please forgive me.
I was blinded by the fear of angering the village.
But these lowlifes used the Devi's name...
to take me away from my daughter.
I won't spare any of them!
Hey! Stand still!
Sit down!
I swear to God.
I've wasted an entire night on you.
Hey! I'm getting married today!
Stop crying now.
I won't get married to you even if I have to die!
Did I ask you for your opinion?
Just leave...
everything to me.
Stay away from me!
Let me go!
- Aaba! - Ahilya!
You were fooling us the entire time!
Aaba! Aaba!
You despicable man!
Thank God you're here.
Ahilya was trying to run away.
I stopped her!
Stop lying!
I'm doing this for our village!
This was for our village?
Was it for the village!
You lowlifes!
I'll make you pay for this!
Tatya!
Thank goodness you're here.
I was just telling them that it's our village tradition.
I had warned you!
The Devi won't spare you.
You've corrupted the whole village!
In trying to discipline the girls...
my own son ended up a disgrace!
Please forgive me!
Please!
Get out of here.
If I ever see you here again...
I'll kill you myself!
Just get out of my sight!
Guna's saying...
"Thank God that filth is gone for good!"
Didn't I always tell you...
that one day this girl is going to make you cry.
Stop complaining about my daughter!
And then...
the village cleansed itself of its corrupt people and traditions.
The village prospered.
And they started calling Vesai's Vadgaon...
I know! I know!
Tell me!
They started calling Vesai's Vadgaon...
a village of prosperity and knowledge!
That is correct!
And what about Ahilya?
As if you don't know the rest!
Of course you know the rest!
Aai!