6th Class Summer Holidays
[clearing throat]
Hey, did you get the Amrutanjan?
Dad! It’s me!
Hey! It’s you!
I have a severe headache.
Anyway,
did you go to the bank? -Hmm.
What is the balance?
Thirty thousand?
Three lakhs?
You mean there is a 30-lakh debt? -Hmm!
Idiot! Idiot and a half!
It was brother who took loans why do you kick me?
So what should I do? You want me to kiss you?
He is borrowing so much around and were you simply watching?
Why would he listen to me? -If he wouldn’t?
Shouldn’t you have told me?
You keep calling me Junior! Junior!
When your love overflows, you call me kiddo, kiddo!
But have you ever trusted me with any responsibility?
He is no different! He simply makes me shut up.
He picks up ideas from garbage and brings them home.
Nasty fellow.
Why didn’t you check before signing?
‘I am applying for a credit card. I will get petrol discount on it. ’
That’s what he told me.
So, I signed it.
You signed surety there.
Look.
Write that will and give me.
Will?
Will!
Will?
What do you mean?
You think I am going to die soon? -Did I say that?
Think wisely and write your will.
Why invite more problems?
By god’s grace, we are hale and hearty.
There is no dearth of anything.
That’s how we were feeling.
But now see what we are facing.
A grown up son.
We don’t know where he has vanished.
No idea if he jumped into something.
What will he jump into?
He only sinks others.
He never drowns.
I better write the will.
If you are going to do that, make an equal division.
How can that be possible?
The elder one made a thirty-lakh fresh debt...
and how is it fair to ask for an equal share in the house
I don’t know all that.
I won’t accept if the elder’s wife and kids are done
Okay.
I will think something and distribute equally.
-Don’t cry now. -Okay.
I wanted to spend time happily playing with grand kids.
But he dumps even more problems on us.
Go and get me some water.
One…
Two…
Three…
Grandpa! No cheating.
I am not cheating.
I can’t see anyone.
It’s all dark here.
Six…
Seven…
Eight…
Nine…
Ten…
Ready or not, here I come!
Here I come!
Where are you hiding, kids?
Where are you all, my kids?
Ah! Found him. Found him. I found Mani.
Grandpa! I am Phani. -I found.
Where are they hiding?
I can’t find them anywhere.
Ah! Kalyani! Kalyani! I found Kalyani.
We found Kalyani.
Where are Srimathi and Mani? -Grandpa, look there.
Ah! Here I come. Here I come.
Keshavarao!
Huh?
I have won.
I have won!
Here it is!
The 38 lakhs I promised you.
I hope your heartburn has subsided.
Take this and attend the housewarming ceremony tomorrow.
Listen! This is the money you wanted.
If you have the guts, count it and take it.
No guts. Only dust is left.
Your money has gone to dust.
Whether in a safe or in dust, money remains money.
Come and count it.
You havent tied them with rubber bands!
You… you pick it up and count.
You pick it up and count it.
Neither of you need pick it up.
I picked it up and counted it.
It’s less by five lakhs.
When everything is going well, the court sends this notice.
They have reduced a month from the time given to you.
Considering everything,
it is very difficult to pool four to five lakhs in two
You insisted we go by what the court says.
Why do you ask for an extension now?
Twenty years and there isn’t a conclusion yet.
What difference will another two weeks make, uncle?
Valuation of the house at 38 lakhs.
Giving you six months’ time and you fail to pay.
What does all this tell you?
Don’t you feel God is on my side?
Your grandpa had built this house with a lot of passion.
Why do you want to dismantle it?
Promise me that you won’t dismantle it.
I will withdraw my stand right now.
Grandpa built it with love.
I will sell it with joy.
My builder will pull it down with affection.
Apartments will come up with endearment.
Your dad grew up in this house, uncle.
How can you be so detached?
Emotions and attachments only killed him.
How much loan had I raised on the rice mill to save your
I cleared all the loans without being selfish whether they
First, he came up with textile business.
Then it was Travels.
A very unstable man your father!
No one is trying to calculate what you gave my dad or how
If you really helped him so much, our dad would be with us,
If he were here, this problem wouldn’t even arise.
I would have dragged him by his collar and showed him all
Fine, uncle.
I still have fifteen days left.
I will pay you 38 lakhs and get the house registered in my name
Oh!
Let’s see. Surely. We will see that too.
I already suffered a heart stroke.
Now you want to raise my blood pressure? Get going.
You don’t even have a heart.
How did you suffer a heart attack?
(Belching)
Uh?
Brave. I am saying ‘be brave’.
Carry on.
Srimathi! The cook asked for leave.
I refused.
I sent Govind to get melons and jack fruit.
Fine, fine, okay.
Is your chit still active? Or did you draw it?
It’s not. I bid the chit last month.
My husband bought a Swift.
Why don’t you ask Dorababu?
I am not saying...
women must give up their dreams for men.
I dreamed to become a pilot from I was little.
You are also aware.
How much hard work I put into it.
Is setting up a bar your dream?
Doesn’t it sound a bit obstinate?
One day you want to leave.
The next day you want to stay.
I don’t know where you are going to stay...
but this much I know. You have no stability.
Siri! Stop it.
What do you know about the stress in my life?
I wanted to stay back for my grandpa.
Now grandpa is ready to go with me…
I too have a family, Abhi.
I have my mom, my grandma and my little sister.
Don’t we all need each other?
“Heartless moon, with your eyes you inflicted a wound”
Shall I go then?
Good luck with your dream.
“For uttering a thoughtless word you have pushed me far
Good luck to you too.
“Will the wrath die down? Will the fiery sky rain down?”
“This is an endless emptiness stifling my breath”
“Slipped out of hands a gentle smile”
-Siri! Abhi! -Huh? ”how to forget without a change of
Abhi!
“Your soft tender eyes How long will they hold this quiet
“Love, O my love! Being with you I have discovered precious
“I wanted to make amends and I wanted to reach out…afresh”
I am going to kill you.
Certainly, kill you. -Mom, wait!
Forget killing. No crime in burying you alive.
Let me speak.
For twenty years you have left our lives to dogs. -Mom!
Are you not ashamed? Huh? -Mom!
-Mom? -Are you even human?
Senseless donkey! -Mom…
You have ruined the house.
First of all, how dare you come back home?
Let me speak.
Mom! Stop it! Stop it!
Stop it!
I will drop dead!
You want to drop dead? Dead?
Not knowing whether you were dead or alive, do you know what you have done?
Huh?
Mom! Mom! -You deserve to be killed.
Yes, you do.
Mom! Mom! Stop it. -Why are you bleating like a goat?
Mom!
You…
Hey, hey, let go. Let go of the broom. -I said leave.
Why did you come back in the first place?
Mom! This is my family. -Shut up!
Don’t you dare talk about family.
Have you remembered your family just now?
You are not bothered about your mother.
Did you at least consider your wife?
Did you ever remember you have two kids?
What’s happening?
Is no one happy I have returned?
Oho! What makes you say that?
Don’t you see how elated we are?
Dear! Kalyani! Look everywhere.
Find a nice…uh… pumpkin and get it.
My eldest one is here.
Let me ward off the evil and give him a ceremonious welcome.
Useless fool, useless fool!
Take a look at her face.
Eighteen years. Eighteen long years!
She moved heaven and earth and raised her kids.
Where were you then?
This house doesn’t need you now. Get out!
You may not need me.
What about my daughters?
Your daughters?
Do you at least remember their names?
Why not?
This is…
my little one… Kalyani.
My precious daughter.
The elder one… Siri.
My darling daughter.
I can’t even exist without remembering you.
You are…?
Sriram, sir,. I am your neighbour.
It’s nice.
Your sister?
Uh. Valli.
Rhyming. Nice, nice.
Your photos.
I can’t live without seeing them.
In pain, in agony or in trouble…
one look at them revives me.
That’s a very old photo.
Let’s all take a picture together.
Take it and leave.
You can see it lifelong.
You were supposed to live with us and take care of us
How can you go far away and say I remember names or see
It was a mistake.
Please forgive me.
I am your dad!
Not a morsel would go down my throat without remembering
Ah!
If you stay here longer, I will strangle you to death
Wait!
You have already killed me once.
You must have done an eleven-day ritual.
You must have declared me gone to heaven.
I am here saying I am not dead. I am alive and kicking.
Is anyone happy?
You keep harping on my leaving.
But has anyone thought why he left? Or what frightened him
If I stayed here, do you know what my situation or your life would be?
It’s not so easy for men.
Won’t I feel happy to see my kids grow?
Won’t I want to take them shopping every festival...
and see happiness in their eyes as I buy them whatever they
‘It’s better you take up this group or this will be a good choice for studies. ’
I could give them no such advice or become a part of their lives
I won’t ask you to let me organize their weddings.
Let me at least watch them.
Please.
Mom! One chance.
I ask you as a father.
Just one chance.
Please.
Come. Why did you stop?
First, apologize to mom.
Oh!
Devika!
I was very unjust to you.
I won’t deny it.
You removed me from your life,
and wiped away my name.
It’s all fair.
But God has given me this bond.
Don’t reject me.
I shall fall at your feet.
Please.
Don’t reject me.
Please.
If my kids...
want you in their life, I won’t stop them.
Thank you,
Thank you.
Mom! Thank you.
Devika…
All these eighteen years,
I didn’t even look at another woman’s face.
Never.
Not even once.
I asked you to stay because kids need their father.
Not because I need a husband.
Hmm.
Okay!
“In the lap of an angel in the temple of a god”
“Affection that’s heard rain that’s showered”
Good morning!
Hmm. Good morning, uncle.
Uncle…
Doha? Is it good?
It’s a small place, son.
What do you think is the population?
No. I don’t know, uncle.
Try and guess.
Ten this way or that way.
Say around 25 lakhs?
The entire Qatar has 25 lakhs.
Doha’s population is equalent to Rajahmundry’s!
Really? So less?
What did you study?
B. Sc Agriculture. -Oh!
B. Sc Agriculture? Nice, nice, nice.
Very important subject.
It is very essential for this generation.
Sorry, uncle.
I am not very good at English.
Telugu Medium?
What’s so great about English?
I wanted to say sorry.
I simply said sorry. That’s all.
The word does not suffice to vent all the anguish in the heart.
Not only sorry. No other word will suffice.
Life long we have to trouble ourselves trying to find the right words.
Hmm. That’s all.
Well said, uncle.
Strange.
Sriram!
What do you care about the population of Qatar?
Uh… he was trying to be friendly. So I had to…
I don’t even want to look at his face.
Why do you want his friendship?
If not today,
you will accept him some day.
If I support you now, I won’t be able to do it then.
Who would accept a father like him?
I don’t know about you.
But if my dad comes back, I will accept him.
But he won’t.
Hello!
Come, sit.
I would have come to the bar.
Why did you call me here?
Divya… it was her idea.
She said this is a better place.
I mean what you said was right. -What?
I replaced Sai Peacock’s name.
We are going to be married.
Congratulations.
Thanks a lot.
Uh… would you like to have egg puff?
Egg puff?
Today is Thursday. Did you forget?
Oh, sorry. I forgot.
Wait. Sit right here.
I will go get the veg puff.
You guys talk.
Please have it.
He is related from my mother’s side.
On my father’s side, he is my grandfather.
But how do you both know each other?
He is my classmate.
Ah, yes, he told me.
I believe he is not in touch with anyone.
It’s you and uh… there’s a girl called Hema.
He told me she is already married.
I believe you are not married yet?
I didn’t want to.
You also told him to change the name of the bar, I guess?
Tajmahal sounds good, right?
Of course.
When you told me you are also running a branch,
I wanted to meet you.
Normally, no one other than family can take such a step,
Veg puff.
Do it yourself. Okay?
You said you had something to discuss?
Uh… nothing.
It’s okay. Tell me.
The money is ready to give my uncle.
I wanted to tell you the same and thank you.
I am waiting.
For what?
For your thanks.
If I didn’t run into you, I wouldn’t have come this far.
If I have come this far in my ambition to get the house,
You were God sent.
Happy married life.
All the best.
See you.
Bye.
She is a very nice girl, you know?
No.
She is very smart.
What are you doing here?
Go out.
Can I talk to you for five minutes?
What?
I imagined you would be married by now.
You would be at your in-laws and I have a grand kid.
But it seems I missed nothing.
Thank God.
Trust me, kid.
I brought you a great proposal.
One Mr Prakash Rao from Vizianagaram.
He is a great friend of mine.
His son is a veterinary doctor.
He makes a lot of money.
And very good looking.
When I met him, I felt he is the right boy for my Srimathi.
He said he will send his photographs.
I told them I will send your horoscope.
Very soon you will hear the wedding trumpet.
What is it, dear?
Is it about the house or the money you must give to uncle?
I am here now.
I will settle all the accounts.
It doesn’t matter how many lakhs we are short by.
I have the money.
There are quite a few accounts you must settle.
Where were you?
When Kalayani had jaundice and mom was running around the village carrying her…
Did your money come in useful?
Unable to pay the fee,
when we were crying fearing we might have to discontinue
did your lakhs of money come in useful?
When the goons keep following despite our protest,
weren’t you supposed to be with us?
Why are you offering money now?
Go away from here!
What are you looking at?
Go!
Looking at me with my complexion and a big face, you
I had a great time in Qatar, right?
Shall I tell you the truth?
The jail food agreed with me. That’s all.
Keshava!
Keshavarao!
Who is that at this hour?
Who is it?
Oh! Ghost!
I am alive. Don’t be afraid.
I don’t care whether you come back or die.
I am not going to die so soon.
How come you have appeared here?
Hey!
It looks as if you are sadder on the day I returned than the day I died?
Hey, it’s not that.
I am dying of confusion.
Come then. Let’s talk.
There is nothing to talk. Get going.
Hey, I say let’s talk it out once.
Not once. Not twice. Leave.
Ah, ah. Wait, wait.
Wait.
What do you want me to do with this?
Wow!
My taste buds have been dead for twenty years.
Only the taste buds?
We all thought you were dead.
Is that a joke?
Hey, don’t you get fritters there?
Fritters?
Every morning begins with rice in electric cooker,
lentils in pressure cooker….
Mango pickle in the bottle and curds in a tin.
This is the life.
Thanks to Radha…
Is Radha my other sister-in-law?
Hey, stop it.
Radha was my roommate.
Mr Radhakrishna. He is from Bandar.
What is this?
With your wonderful wife and kids here,
why should you live with Radha for 20 years?
Work, man. Work.
To feed myself and save some money. How much did you save?
What savings?
What does it matter how much I saved?
Half my life is over changing diapers for patients and cleaning toilets.
I didn’t know a nurse’s job was so hard.
Male nurse?
Doesn’t it need training and education?
I submitted certificates.
What? Fake certificates?
I heard Arab countries sever your organs for such crimes?
Not only in Arab countries.
Even in India fake documents attract severe punishment.
Dad used to sign Prabhakar Rao.
How come he signed Prabhakara Rao on the will?
Did he sign it or have you?
Huh?
What do you want me to do? Huh?
I gave one and half lakh to Koteswara Rao.
75000 to Venkatesh.
I paid one lakh to Naidu...
but he sent his men home demanding two lakhs.
You were not here to clear the account. You took off.
I cleared almost more than eight lakhs of your loans.
No one cares what I have done for you.
My own people don’t trust me.
I don’t know who poisoned her.
She is holding a grudge.
Hey!
She is just a kid.
Instead of taking care of them in my absence,
why did you have to get into a dispute?
What else could I do?
You ruined me and left.
Take whatever money Srimathi gives you.
What the stupid 38 lakhs?
Hey!
For the stupid eight lakhs you had spent,
even compound interest won’t amount to so much.
Don’t fight anymore.
Mill goes to your kids. The house goes to my kids.
If you insist on the will,
you will go to jail.
If you want a loan, you must give me partnership.
I guess you understand.
Wow, wow!
You have done a great job of the interior decoration.
I want to see my son sit behind the cash counter here.
Hey, come here.
What is it?
Rainbow…
Somadhara…
Tequila Sisindri.
Okay, get me a rainbow. -Okay.
How much do you want now?
Five lakhs? -That’s all.
License is in the name of Vuyyampati Hemalatha.
Since this is partnership,
if you can get her signature…
Since it’s 30 percent.
Bring it!
What are you looking at?
Here. Sign here.
Srimathi…
Stay here.
I will talk to sister. -I will pay you, uncle.
I am on the job.
This is your problem.
You don’t let the other person speak.
You are always in a hurry.
You asked me only for a month’s time.
Take two months.
There is no hurry.
After the registration, give me the rest whenever you have it.
You turned me down the other day?
What happened now?
You are my brother’s daughter.
They also ask me not to trouble you.
I felt it was right.
What can I do?
Am I right?
Shall I make a move?
Dad! Tell her.
Huh?
About the acidity attack.
Why now? Sister is in some tension.
Hey, tell her.
What acidity attack, uncle?
I had a minor acidity attack.
After the heart attack, was there an acidity attack too?
No. The first attack was in fact acidity attack.
We will meet at the registration then.
Get going.
What is the problem?
What did you decide?
Huh?
What is this?
Mr Kanakarao, give me a loan and I will pay you interest.
Come to the bar and I will give you a bill.
Business is business. -Ah?
DISTRICT REGISTRAR’S OFFICE SUB-REGISTRAR
Hmm.
Siri!
Both of you should give me your word.
Don’t be like your dad and uncle.
Mom!
'The secrets are all resolved In front of my eyes this moment'
'A childhood desire has come true A promise to my grandfather'
'The affection that has reached its abode Has become my own at last'
This is the photo I sent for my match making.
Your grandmother got it framed and kept it.
This chair is my father-in-law’s gift to me.
“Dressed in white sky, moon coloured and all pervading"
“With a blissful face, as we meditate on you, please clear
“Lakshmi, the daughter of the milky ocean, whose abode is
‘who is served by all the ladies in heaven and the source of light for the world’
Madam, the couple may please be seated.
(Sanskrit Sloka)
THE NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY
The year Goddess Lakshmi was born into my family.
(Sanskrit incantation)
Hey, where is your sister?
Hmm. -Hmm.
How long? Everyone is waiting for you. Come.
Where did you go?
Hey, Keshavarao!
Who are you to conduct a ritual in my house?
Hey, who the heck are you?
This great man took advance from me saying he would sell this house to me.
What’s happening?
Satyareddy, I will return your money to you.
Give me two months’ time. Please don’t make a scene.
How will you pay it? How?
The fifty lakhs I gave you is now sixty with interest.
I will give you thirty lakhs by this evening.
Give me two months and I will pay up the remaining thirty as well.
How will you give me?
You are a heart patient.
You have two idiots for sons. -One minute.
Uncle, how much did you borrow?
Together… -Fifty lakhs.
My brothers will give you your money with interest. Okay?
I stand guarantee.
Dear, they are not like you.
Don’t trust them and make challenges. You will be ruined.
Phani and Mani! Come here.
Are you okay with being the new owners of Tajmahal Bar
Okay, sister.
They will run the bar from now.
Mr Satyareddy, until your loan is paid in full, the interest will reach you on every first.
Okay?
If you are ready to pay interest every month, what objection will I have?
Good. Please have your lunch and go.
Hi, hi.
Phani and Mani are simpletons.
That’s my deepest worry.
That’s the reason I had troubled you so much.
Forgive me, dear.
Come on, uncle.
You are my dad’s younger brother.
Can’t I do so much?
Dear,
I must tell you something.
There was no leather bag or a will.
Dad had kept it in some locker… -Uncle,
forget the past.
Your sons have settled.
Be happy.
But if you didn’t create that will,
I wouldn’t have opened the bar.
Mom, pass me those.
Hmm. They are good.
Mom! I finished the delivery to Parvathi aunty.
Mom, I know what you are thinking about.
Sister has given the bar to uncle.
What is she going to do now? right? -No.
She said she will get married in a year.
When that’s going to happen. Right?
No.
What else?
I am worried about you.
About me?
Then?
Since I am a mother, I should worry about something, right?
They are not as clever as you think.
Give them a 2000 note and two five hundred notes.
They will choose the five hundreds.
Phani, Mani! Come here.
Whenever your dad gives you two thousand, why do you choose two five hundreds?
That’s…
Tell me.
The day we pick the 2000 note, my dad will stops the game.
Our pocket money will stop.
That’s why my dad has been playing.
They are not as naïve as you think, uncle.
Tajmahal is safe in their hands.
You have shown them a way.
I don’t know how to repay you.
Hello! -Where are you?
I have settled here.
What happened? Did you get the house?
Yes, yes. I got the house.
Is it in your kids’ name?
-Yes. -How then?
Wont take me too long to make it mine!