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In India,to honor guests on special occasions...
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women decorate the floors oftheir homes with rice flour and water.
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With this rangoli, we welcome youto this motion picture...
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filmed entirely in India,in Bengal...
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where the story really happened.
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It is the story of my first love
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about growing upon the banks of a wide river.
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First love must bethe same anyplace...
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and it might have beenin America, England...
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New Zealand or Timbuktu.
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Though they do not, of course,have rivers in Timbuktu.
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But the flavor of my storywould have been different in each...
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and the flavor of the peoplewho live by the river...
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would have been different.
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It was one of the many holy rivers.
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Its waters came from theeternal snows of the Himalayas...
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and emptied intothe Bay of Bengal.
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The river had its own life�
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fishes and porpoise,turtles and birds...
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and people who were bornand lived and died on it.
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It flowed slowly betweenbanks of mud and white sand...
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rice fields andjute fields.
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The jute grew in flat marshes...
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nourished by monsoon floods.
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Country boats of all shapes and sizesbrought the jute to the factories.
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Some of them came from as far awayas Assam and Chittagong...
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and the borders of Burma...
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through the windingarteries of the delta.
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The workmen carriedtheir heavy loads.
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For each load, a seashell.
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So many shells, so many loads.
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Jute was the reasonwe lived in India.
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Our whole life depended on it.
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My father was in chargeof a jute press.
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He was a friendly man...
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and after work he alwayscame home through the bazaar...
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though it was much the longer way.
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He liked people,and people liked him.
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I want to buy a kite.
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That's fine.
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- How much?
- Four anna.
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The days followedone another in the even tenor of Bengal.
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Along the river were villagesand people living and working...
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content in their traditions whichhad not changed for thousands of years.
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In the dry season,when the river was low...
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lazy buffalo grazedjust outside our garden wall.
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#Hi-ho, the derry-oThe farmer's in the dell #
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Come on, you little frogs.
Come and get 'em.
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- Here, Bogey boy. That's for you.
- Daddy.! Daddy.!
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We were five children�
four giris and my brother Bogey...
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the only male among us females.
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Our family was very much likeany other family.
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Still, I think living in Indiagave us a special flavor.
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Of course, in the familywe included Nan, our nurse...
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a few friends, our servantsand several pets.
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There was always chattering,laughter, piano music, songs.
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Time slipped away unnoticed.
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Ducky.
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Bogey, come back and learn
your spelling like Elizabeth.
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I don't like spelling.
I like turtles.
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One day you'll have to learn
how to spell.
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Imagine a man who couldn't go to office
and sign letters and read the newspaper.
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I don't want to be
any of those men.
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Bogey's best friend was Kanu.
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They had a life separate from ours.
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Bogey didn't like toys.He played with lizards and turtles.
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All wrapped up in Hoppity,her rabbit, was little Victoria.
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Victoria, what are you
doing to Hoppity?
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Hoppity is my baby.
He's just been born.
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But you had it born last week.
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Babies can be born again
and again, can't they?
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And then there was Valerie.
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But she wasn't one of us.
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Her father owned the jute press.
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She'd been to school in England.They were rich.
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She was an only childand came every day to play with us.
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- Good afternoon, sir and madam.
- Hello.
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- Hello, Valerie.
- How are your mother and father?
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Very well, thank you.
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My sisters were much younger.
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The twins, Muffy and Mouse...
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- and Elizabeth, the pianist.
- Oh!
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Good heavens!
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Whose filthy little children are those?
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Yours.
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Mother. She was beautiful.
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She loved music.
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And there was also Ram Singh,the children's friend and protector.
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He was a Sikh from the Punjab...
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And before being our gatemanhe'd been a valiant soldier.
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But Nan was the bridge to life...
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bringing us backfrom dreams to reality...
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from reality to dreams.
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Harriet! Come here.
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I found your shoes
in the middle of the stairs.
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But, Nan, the grass tickles
my toes and makes me think.
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You'll get hookworm.
Why can't you be obedient like Elizabeth?
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It's easy for her to be good.
She is good.
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Nan�alwaysfilling our heads with tales of romance...
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setting the stagefor the arrival oflove.
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And I see myself�
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an ugly ducklingdetermined to be a swan.
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"Saw roses red
that comforted her heart...
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and saw their crimson petals
plop apart."
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Then, as the river brought everything...
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it brought a young manon the weekly steamer.
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Harriet! Valerie!
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- He's come!
- Who?
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The American!
Mr. John's cousin.
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I had a string
in my cup of tea this morning.
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I knew. It's always right.
Come. Let's have a look at him.
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- Come on, Harriet.
- Shh. Not so loud.
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Don't leave me.
Don't leave me behind.
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- They're looking at something.
- Somebody's coming.
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Perhaps it's Nan's stranger.
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I hope Nan's stranger plays bridge.
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Look.
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Hey. Get down. Get down.
Don't let him see you.
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Elizabeth.
Elizabeth, come down.
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Get down.
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We knew very little about him...
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but Nan had told ushe was coming from America...
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to visit his cousin,our neighbor, Mr. John.
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His name was alsoJohn.
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Captain John.
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- He's beautiful.
- Men can't be beautiful.
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Yes, they can.
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What kind destiny to havebrought him all alone right to our doorstep.
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Usually visitors from abroadwere old and married.
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Another redhead.
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Harriet, one. Valerie, two.
Now there's three.
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That means trouble.
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As they disappeared into Mr. John's yard...
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we thought that he hada slight limp.
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Nan, do you know what?
He's only got one leg.
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He's got two legs.
I saw them.
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You little silly.
One's a pretending one.
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Valerie, if you come now,
we shall stop working and start talking.
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Well, let's hear from you.
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- Captain John was wounded in the war.
- Father was wounded too.
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- A leg's worse than an eye.
- An eye's worse than a leg.
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- I love a hero.
- Heroes don't have pretending legs.
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Ah, with one leg he'll get
double pensi�n. And in dollars too.
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It's so romantic.
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I saw a spider this morning.
That's lucky.
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- How could it be lucky?
- Spiders' legs � that mean riches.
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But why did he want to come?
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Why?
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Yes, why?
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Children.
Captain John was so brave.
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He stayed there in the battle
till his leg was shot off.
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Why didn't he stay there till
the other leg was shot off?
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Victoria!
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If you ask me, he should be invited
to your Diwali party.
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I write the best.
I'll write a letter for you all.
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- I'll ask Mr. John as well.
- To ask a stranger in April is very bad.
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But this isn't April.
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I'll sign it
"Valerie and the Big House Children."
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No. "The Big House Children and Valerie."
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Wait. I've got to put his name.
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"Captain John."
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"The Little House."
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Our village, Bengal, India,
the Eastern Hemisphere and the worid!
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- I'll take it.
- No, I will. It's my house, and it's my party.
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Don't leave me out.
Let's all go to the wall and have a look.
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For such an importantvisit I had to put on my shoes.
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The shortest waywas over the garden wall.
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I'd taken it many timesto visit Mr. John.
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Fascinating expeditions.
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Since the death ofhis wife,a beautiful Hindu woman...
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India had absorbedour neighbor completely.
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His house was fullof Indian friends...
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Indian books and Indian music.
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Often the sound of a vinacame through the open windows.
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And he had a daughter a little older than I.
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Melanie! Melanie! Melanie!
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Melanie, you've come at last.
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Yes. Finished, Harriet.
No more school.
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- I am grown up now.
- Quick!
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- Father!
- Melanie, Melanie!
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- Father!
- Oh, Melanie, Melanie, Melanie, Melanie!
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You look well �
but too thin.
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You look well �
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but too thin.
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We've been starving
for the sight of each other.
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This is my daughter, Melanie,
home from her convent. Meet your cousin.
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- From America.
- How are you?
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- And this is Harriet from the big house.
- Hello, Harriet.
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Excuse me.
I have to go now.
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Would you come
a little way with me?
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Go with him, Melanie.
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I like that Indian greeting more
every time I see it.
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It's more graceful
than a handshake.
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Melanie's mother was an Indian.
One day she'll discover that.
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I didn't even know
you had a daughter.
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In the West you believe we orientals expose
our girl children rather than keep them.
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It isn't true.
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Anil was a devoted friend of Mr. John's...
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and had known Melaniesince they were both children.
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He had grown used to the ideathat one day he would marry her...
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and he was anxiousto give this girl without caste...
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his name and nobility.
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Do you mean that
you can't show me one man...
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throwing a rope into the air
and climbing up to disappear?
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- No.
- Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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How about the famous Indian bed of nails?
My bed is very comfortable.
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- I'm a bad host.
- Hmm.
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I have a letter for you.
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It's to ask you
to our Diwali party� all of you.
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You always give a party for Diwali because it's
the beginning of winter, and that's the best time.
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Ram Singh has brought the lamps,
and we light them before you come.
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Then we have ice cream and fireworks
in the garden, and we wear our new frocks...
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and we dance, and Mother makes us
gold and silver crowns.
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Will you come?
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That's all very nice.
But what is Diwali?
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The Hindu festival of lights.
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Hundreds and thousands of little lamps
burning everywhere.
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I can still see the little oil lamps.
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"Diwali"means garland oflights.
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They're lit in memoryof a great war�
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the old eternal warbetween good and evil.
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For each life given in this war,a light is lit.
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On the darkest night of October,millions oflights burn all over India.
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For Hindus, all the universe is God.
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And since God is everywhere,it is only natural to worship a tree...
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a stone, a river.
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They all declare the presenceof the One Supreme.
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At our house we were all excited.
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Captain John had arrived.
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We played shyand ran away into the garden...
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screaming loudly, showing off.'...
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wildly determinedto attract his attention.
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Never before had Diwaliseemed so wonderful.
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This is a house of women.
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I'm glad you've come to keep us company.
Bogey and I were getting unbearably vain.
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If you stay long enough,
we'll arrange a camp and get you a shot at a tiger.
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Oh, I should like that very much.
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But would the tiger?
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We lit the gorgeous Vishnu chakra...
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Ram had chosen for us.
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They burst forthinto a fountain of sparks...
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and all our emotionsburst with them.
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It was a fairy tale come true.
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Nan was triumphant.
245
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Although they weretoo young to understand...
246
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even the little oneswere caught in the spell.
247
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Valerie and I pretendednot to be aware ofhis presence...
248
00:17:49,462 --> 00:17:52,829
but we knew perfectly wellthat his eyes were on us.
249
00:18:03,676 --> 00:18:06,611
Hindus believe in one god...
250
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but they worship different symbolswhich they regard as the embodiments...
251
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of virtues and qualitiesof the supreme being.
252
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That is why there are many kindsof temples and images all over India.
253
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Among these symbols is Kali...
254
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goddess of eternal destructionand creation
255
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creation being impossiblewithout destruction.
256
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In our village on that nightthere were many Kali pujas.
257
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The great, terrifying Kaliheld court in all her magnificence...
258
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and the villagers gatheredto ask protection...
259
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from diseaseand famine and fire.
260
00:18:45,951 --> 00:18:49,079
For through destructionof the elements of evil...
261
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good is born.
262
00:19:09,875 --> 00:19:12,105
I ought to be knitting socks
for my next baby...
263
00:19:12,211 --> 00:19:14,111
but I love making fairy crowns.
264
00:19:14,213 --> 00:19:16,681
So many children have socks...
265
00:19:16,782 --> 00:19:18,682
so few have crowns.
266
00:19:26,225 --> 00:19:28,420
- Hello, Captain. How are you getting on?
- Fine.
267
00:19:34,833 --> 00:19:36,733
- Will you dance?
- No, no, Harriet.
268
00:19:36,835 --> 00:19:38,803
You can't kidnap the captain like that.
269
00:19:38,904 --> 00:19:41,771
That's all right.
I shall be honored.
270
00:19:41,874 --> 00:19:44,468
- Little kitten.
- I'm not a little kitten.
271
00:19:46,011 --> 00:19:49,174
Dance with me, Harriet.
I can't bear to be left out.
272
00:19:49,281 --> 00:19:52,250
- I'll be the man.
- No, no, no, no. I'll be the man.
273
00:20:02,261 --> 00:20:04,559
Will you dance with me?
274
00:20:04,663 --> 00:20:08,121
- Uh, not right now.
- Come on, Daddy. Let's dance.
275
00:20:08,234 --> 00:20:11,499
All right.
Someday you will have children.
276
00:20:13,272 --> 00:20:15,968
Why don't you go and entertain
Captain John?
277
00:20:16,075 --> 00:20:17,975
I'm gonna dance with Muffy.
278
00:20:26,185 --> 00:20:29,518
I'll wind it up.
279
00:21:02,221 --> 00:21:06,658
- Uh, very pleased to meet you.
- Captain John, you must dance.
280
00:21:06,759 --> 00:21:09,125
- Come on.
- Excuse me.
281
00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:14,255
Well �Well, just one more.
One more.
282
00:21:14,366 --> 00:21:17,563
- I! I! I! I!
- I! I!
283
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,099
Oh. Berna.
284
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,919
Oh. I'll put it on again.
285
00:21:51,603 --> 00:21:53,628
He's going to the veranda.
286
00:21:53,739 --> 00:21:55,707
Let's go.
287
00:21:55,808 --> 00:21:59,642
Won't you come, Melanie?
288
00:22:11,190 --> 00:22:14,921
- Poor boy.
- He isn't a boy.
289
00:22:15,027 --> 00:22:18,087
Antony was a soldier.
He looks like Antony.
290
00:22:18,197 --> 00:22:20,097
He looks like a young prince.
291
00:22:22,868 --> 00:22:25,564
I'm sorry. I was just coming in.
Did you want to go on dancing?
292
00:22:25,671 --> 00:22:28,902
Sometimes I like to dance,
sometimes I don't.
293
00:22:29,007 --> 00:22:31,874
I'd like to stay here with you.
294
00:22:35,114 --> 00:22:37,014
That's funny.
295
00:22:37,116 --> 00:22:39,448
Usually I hate men.
296
00:22:39,551 --> 00:22:43,180
I often think� do you know what? �
that I ought to be a nun.
297
00:22:43,288 --> 00:22:46,348
All little kittens think that.
298
00:22:46,458 --> 00:22:48,358
Little kitten.
299
00:22:48,460 --> 00:22:51,725
I went to a party last Christmas,
and they thought I was 18.
300
00:22:53,165 --> 00:22:55,395
What happens
when they think you're 18?
301
00:22:56,435 --> 00:22:59,199
It was very silly.
302
00:22:59,304 --> 00:23:01,272
But I liked it.
303
00:23:02,474 --> 00:23:04,840
You should be very careful, Valerie.
304
00:23:04,943 --> 00:23:06,843
Why?
305
00:23:06,945 --> 00:23:11,245
Mmm, because you're...
a little beautiful.
306
00:23:12,418 --> 00:23:14,318
Beautiful?
307
00:23:14,420 --> 00:23:16,820
Maybe I'm dreaming.
308
00:23:17,856 --> 00:23:20,620
Maybe it's your hair.
309
00:23:20,726 --> 00:23:24,093
- Or your eyes.
- �ngel's eyes?
310
00:23:24,196 --> 00:23:27,529
Kitten's eyes.
They turn into cat's.
311
00:23:27,633 --> 00:23:29,965
Come on back
into the other room and dance.
312
00:23:30,068 --> 00:23:32,935
I don't want to dance.
Give me a cigarette.
313
00:23:34,873 --> 00:23:37,842
- She's smoking.
- She's growing up.
314
00:23:37,943 --> 00:23:40,605
We all have to, Harriet.Willy-nilly.
315
00:23:40,712 --> 00:23:42,646
I hate willy-nilly.
316
00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:37,533
The next day, at setting of the sun...
317
00:24:37,636 --> 00:24:40,104
the symbols of Kaliwere taken to the water...
318
00:24:40,205 --> 00:24:42,105
in final ritual.
319
00:24:42,207 --> 00:24:44,471
Made of claytaken from the river...
320
00:24:44,576 --> 00:24:47,136
carefully shapedand artfully painted...
321
00:24:47,246 --> 00:24:50,545
the goddess has accomplishedher manifold tasks.
322
00:24:50,649 --> 00:24:53,117
Pious worship, sweet incense...
323
00:24:53,218 --> 00:24:55,880
and generous offeringsapproach their end.
324
00:24:55,988 --> 00:24:58,183
On the river and on its banks...
325
00:24:58,290 --> 00:25:03,592
young and old, rich and poorpay their last homage to the goddess.
326
00:25:05,831 --> 00:25:10,564
Arisen from the bed of the river,Kali returns to the river.
327
00:25:10,669 --> 00:25:13,467
Clay goes back to clay.
328
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,840
My dear. For a moment
I didn't recognize you.
329
00:25:52,878 --> 00:25:55,813
- You like it?
- I do.
330
00:25:55,914 --> 00:25:58,439
You look so much like your mother.
331
00:25:58,550 --> 00:26:00,484
I'm glad.
332
00:26:00,586 --> 00:26:03,419
I am going to weara sari always, Father.
333
00:26:03,522 --> 00:26:05,490
Always.
334
00:26:05,591 --> 00:26:07,525
Wonderful.
335
00:26:07,626 --> 00:26:10,288
Changed into
a pretty little butterfly.
336
00:26:10,395 --> 00:26:12,329
From a grub.
337
00:26:15,667 --> 00:26:18,500
Oh, I do hope I'm loved
as much as Cleopatra.
338
00:26:18,604 --> 00:26:21,869
I shouldn't like to be loved
out loud like Cleopatra.
339
00:26:21,974 --> 00:26:24,772
I should.
The louder the better.
340
00:26:24,876 --> 00:26:27,037
I want everyone
to know about me...
341
00:26:27,145 --> 00:26:30,342
and I want to be loved
by hundreds of men.
342
00:26:30,449 --> 00:26:33,111
One person's love
is enough for one person.
343
00:26:33,218 --> 00:26:35,118
What person?
344
00:26:35,220 --> 00:26:38,212
What person? Tell me.
345
00:26:45,764 --> 00:26:49,791
Anil is here. He wants particularly
to see you, Melanie.
346
00:26:49,901 --> 00:26:51,835
Go on, Melanie. See him.
347
00:26:51,937 --> 00:26:54,064
Do you want me
to see him, Father?
348
00:26:54,172 --> 00:26:56,868
I? I don't know.
349
00:26:56,975 --> 00:26:58,966
Now, now. Don't laugh at me. I �
350
00:26:59,077 --> 00:27:01,068
I'm trying to be a practical man.
351
00:27:02,114 --> 00:27:04,810
But you are not a practical man.
352
00:27:04,916 --> 00:27:07,942
If you marry Anil,
he can give you so much.
353
00:27:08,987 --> 00:27:11,387
I've put you nowhere.
354
00:27:11,490 --> 00:27:13,651
Suppose I like to be nowhere.
355
00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:15,693
Then let's go out and see him.
356
00:27:16,928 --> 00:27:20,329
- I can't.
- But you see him every day.
357
00:27:20,432 --> 00:27:22,900
I couldn't see him now.
358
00:27:25,404 --> 00:27:27,599
I'd better give
the poor young man a cup of tea.
359
00:27:27,706 --> 00:27:30,106
- Yes, go.
- Go.
360
00:27:46,458 --> 00:27:49,484
Wouldn't you rather marry
an American?
361
00:27:49,594 --> 00:27:51,687
I don't understand them.
362
00:27:58,403 --> 00:28:01,133
Show me.
363
00:28:01,239 --> 00:28:03,730
Mother, am I beautiful?
364
00:28:03,842 --> 00:28:07,369
You have an interesting
little face, full of character.
365
00:28:07,479 --> 00:28:10,073
And you have nice eyes and hair.
366
00:28:10,182 --> 00:28:13,379
Why should people be made
some pretty and some ugly?
367
00:28:13,485 --> 00:28:15,385
No one's ugly.
368
00:28:15,487 --> 00:28:18,923
When you really look at them,
the most surprising people are beautiful.
369
00:28:19,024 --> 00:28:21,288
- Look at Nan.
- Nan?
370
00:28:21,393 --> 00:28:24,487
She is nice.
Now say Hoppity.
371
00:28:24,596 --> 00:28:26,291
Hoppity's delicious.
372
00:28:26,398 --> 00:28:28,298
And so is Victoria.
373
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,994
And Bogey has such dear little bones.
374
00:28:31,103 --> 00:28:34,072
You're beautiful, Mother.
Of course, you're old.
375
00:28:34,172 --> 00:28:37,141
And Elizabeth.
Of course, she's young.
376
00:28:37,242 --> 00:28:40,370
- Let me look at the other hand.
- And Captain John.
377
00:28:40,479 --> 00:28:42,379
Captain John.
378
00:28:42,481 --> 00:28:45,609
Mother, I want to be
outstandingly beautiful.
379
00:28:45,717 --> 00:28:48,049
Beautiful for him.
380
00:28:48,153 --> 00:28:51,953
I didn't realize that this boywas faced with bitter reality�
381
00:28:52,057 --> 00:28:57,017
that he had no room in his thoughtsfor the romantic dreams of a silly little girl.
382
00:28:57,129 --> 00:29:02,089
Only now do I understandwhy he had traveled so far from his home.
383
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,294
As many other boys,he'd been uprooted by the war...
384
00:29:05,403 --> 00:29:07,871
and had become a strangerto his own people...
385
00:29:07,973 --> 00:29:10,771
partly their fault and partly his.
386
00:29:10,876 --> 00:29:13,504
He'd fought bravely,and they'd glorified him�
387
00:29:13,612 --> 00:29:16,979
parades, waving flags,women's smiles.
388
00:29:17,082 --> 00:29:20,449
He'd been caught in an exciting,unreal current.
389
00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:22,452
But when a war is ended...
390
00:29:22,554 --> 00:29:26,320
yesterday's herois only a man with one leg.
391
00:29:26,424 --> 00:29:29,518
He was proudand had run away from pity.
392
00:29:55,554 --> 00:29:58,751
Father told us that he cameto see him at the jute works.
393
00:29:59,791 --> 00:30:03,659
- Oh, hello.
- I just want to see how you spend your days.
394
00:30:03,762 --> 00:30:06,822
Well, this is my sweatshop.
395
00:30:08,166 --> 00:30:10,066
What do they do with this stuff?
396
00:30:10,168 --> 00:30:12,068
What do they use jute for anyway?
397
00:30:12,170 --> 00:30:15,264
- Doormats.
- Vitally important.
398
00:30:15,373 --> 00:30:17,637
Must teach men to wipe their feet.
399
00:30:19,211 --> 00:30:22,908
It's just like beautiful flaxen hair.
Why don't they keep it like that?
400
00:30:23,014 --> 00:30:25,881
The worid would stop.
Think� no string.
401
00:30:26,985 --> 00:30:29,351
The jute didn't interest Captain John...
402
00:30:29,454 --> 00:30:31,388
which surprised Father.
403
00:30:31,489 --> 00:30:34,049
The jute works werevery important to my father.
404
00:30:34,159 --> 00:30:36,821
He loved the fibrous jute...
405
00:30:36,928 --> 00:30:40,955
and the never-ending processi�n of mencarrying it piled on their heads.
406
00:31:10,095 --> 00:31:12,586
Captain John went from place to place...
407
00:31:12,697 --> 00:31:14,790
not knowingwhat to do with himself.
408
00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:16,800
He wandered along the river...
409
00:31:16,902 --> 00:31:19,427
and on its shoreshe found a different life�
410
00:31:19,537 --> 00:31:23,132
a life new to him,although thousands of years old.
411
00:31:23,241 --> 00:31:25,266
Everything was peaceful there.
412
00:31:25,377 --> 00:31:27,277
Men meditating under holy trees...
413
00:31:27,379 --> 00:31:30,280
offering prayers to the sun.
414
00:31:30,382 --> 00:31:33,510
And as everywhere and always,children at their play.
415
00:31:33,618 --> 00:31:36,644
Everyone tranquilin the security of their faith.
416
00:31:36,755 --> 00:31:41,488
But if Captain John thought of religionas an answer to his unrest...
417
00:31:41,593 --> 00:31:43,618
he did not talk about it.
418
00:31:43,728 --> 00:31:45,719
He stayed within himself.'...
419
00:31:45,830 --> 00:31:49,596
asking questions,but never opening his heart.
420
00:31:49,701 --> 00:31:53,193
And he seemed to be avoidingus giris and our curiosity.
421
00:31:54,239 --> 00:31:56,173
Is this your place of meditation?
422
00:31:56,274 --> 00:31:58,936
Meditation is hard work.
423
00:31:59,044 --> 00:32:03,743
I'm too lazy for the big philosophies,
so I invent little ones of my own.
424
00:32:06,084 --> 00:32:09,247
- Such as?
- Oh, digestivism.
425
00:32:10,288 --> 00:32:12,984
There's a magnificent pipal tree.
426
00:32:13,091 --> 00:32:16,288
I look at it and digest what I see.
427
00:32:16,394 --> 00:32:18,385
Didn't you ever do any work?
428
00:32:18,496 --> 00:32:20,930
Oh, I did once,
but I earned too much money.
429
00:32:21,032 --> 00:32:23,125
- You see, I'm rich.
- How rich?
430
00:32:23,234 --> 00:32:25,498
Hmm, for you �
431
00:32:25,603 --> 00:32:27,503
For me �
432
00:32:27,605 --> 00:32:31,166
To have so much, I had to learn
not to add but to subtract.
433
00:32:31,276 --> 00:32:33,301
That's a bit of a paradox, isn't it?
434
00:32:33,411 --> 00:32:35,311
A paradox can be true.
435
00:32:35,413 --> 00:32:40,146
Listen. Once two men stood on the middle
of the Golden Gate Bridge.
436
00:32:40,251 --> 00:32:44,187
One jumped off,
quietly swam home.
437
00:32:44,289 --> 00:32:46,553
The other didn't jump
and dropped dead.
438
00:32:47,993 --> 00:32:50,018
You think I should
learn how to jump?
439
00:32:51,329 --> 00:32:53,889
I'm your cousin,
not your teacher.
440
00:34:41,206 --> 00:34:43,936
I want cobra!
I want cobra!
441
00:34:47,412 --> 00:34:50,313
I knew the bazaar intimately.
442
00:34:50,415 --> 00:34:54,715
I knew the stand where they soldpaper garlands and painted cups.
443
00:34:54,819 --> 00:34:59,085
I knew the cloth shops whereendless yards of silk reflected the sun�
444
00:34:59,190 --> 00:35:03,024
the shop with baskets piled highwith many varieties of grains...
445
00:35:03,128 --> 00:35:05,756
which the housewives grindto make curry�
446
00:35:05,864 --> 00:35:10,062
the vendors selling chickens and mangoes,papayas and coconut milk...
447
00:35:10,168 --> 00:35:12,830
candies, betel nuts and soda water�
448
00:35:12,937 --> 00:35:15,735
and the cowswhich wandered everywhere.
449
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,774
I caught a glimpseof Captain John...
450
00:35:17,876 --> 00:35:20,344
passing the stallwhere one could buy beauty.
451
00:35:20,445 --> 00:35:22,345
Black mai for the eyes...
452
00:35:22,447 --> 00:35:25,473
red powder for beauty spotsgracing the forehead...
453
00:35:25,583 --> 00:35:29,212
tiny bottles of perfumed oilsandjasmine.
454
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,618
And I knew the fortune-tellerwho came every week...
455
00:35:31,723 --> 00:35:34,817
with his tale of good luck and riches.
456
00:36:07,592 --> 00:36:10,254
I wanted to break through his indifference.
457
00:36:10,361 --> 00:36:12,261
I wanted to impress him...
458
00:36:12,363 --> 00:36:15,389
tell him thatI was an author, a poet.
459
00:36:19,704 --> 00:36:22,798
Silly girl.I couldn't utter a word.
460
00:36:44,028 --> 00:36:46,963
I wonder what
the other fishes are thinking.
461
00:36:47,065 --> 00:36:51,331
Oh, they just go on swimming,
wiggling, thinking.
462
00:36:51,436 --> 00:36:55,873
They have to. But what must it feel like
right in the middle of your family?
463
00:36:55,974 --> 00:36:58,306
Things do happen.
464
00:36:58,409 --> 00:37:00,809
Ah, they're only fishes.
465
00:37:01,846 --> 00:37:03,746
Only fishes.
466
00:37:03,848 --> 00:37:07,875
Only fishes. Only birds. Only giris.
467
00:37:07,986 --> 00:37:10,614
I would never understand men.
468
00:37:10,722 --> 00:37:13,748
But I guess you have toaccept them as they are...
469
00:37:13,858 --> 00:37:16,326
and I had decided to conquer him.
470
00:37:16,427 --> 00:37:18,725
I'd like to show you something.
It's a secret.
471
00:37:18,830 --> 00:37:23,130
Bogey knows it, and Mother knows it too,
and Valerie and Nan and Ram Singh.
472
00:37:23,234 --> 00:37:26,067
It's a secret.
Will you come?
473
00:37:26,170 --> 00:37:28,138
Fine.
474
00:37:29,941 --> 00:37:32,409
Hey, I'm a fairy! I'm a fairy!
475
00:37:32,510 --> 00:37:35,274
There. Come on.
476
00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:38,110
Play with Nan. Go on.
477
00:37:40,985 --> 00:37:43,112
This is my secret place.
478
00:38:00,505 --> 00:38:02,473
These are my poems.
479
00:38:03,941 --> 00:38:06,205
Don't � Don't breathe all over it.
480
00:38:10,448 --> 00:38:12,439
"Big river, big river.
481
00:38:26,297 --> 00:38:28,390
And in my river there are pearis."
482
00:38:33,871 --> 00:38:36,533
Did you write this
all by yourself?
483
00:38:36,641 --> 00:38:38,768
Nobody helped you?
484
00:38:44,382 --> 00:38:47,874
- Beautiful, Harriet.
- It is, isn't it?
485
00:38:53,124 --> 00:38:56,890
Uh, I'll finish reading them
some other time, huh?
486
00:39:14,579 --> 00:39:16,979
I hate her.
487
00:39:17,081 --> 00:39:20,608
I hate her. I hate her.
488
00:39:26,124 --> 00:39:29,287
He's helping her off
as if she were a grown-up person.
489
00:39:46,744 --> 00:39:51,511
Valerie, Captain John likes you best.
You can have him.
490
00:39:51,616 --> 00:39:53,914
What? A man with one leg?
491
00:39:54,018 --> 00:39:57,385
Oh, Valerie, you are cruel.
492
00:39:57,488 --> 00:39:59,388
I like to be cruel.
493
00:40:02,093 --> 00:40:05,392
No, I don't, Harriet.
I like him.
494
00:40:11,302 --> 00:40:15,568
I sought seclusi�n from my inward despairon the roof of the house...
495
00:40:15,673 --> 00:40:18,642
and comforted myselfflying kites.
496
00:40:18,743 --> 00:40:22,907
But one day, he suddenly appeared beside meand helped me to fly the kite.
497
00:40:24,048 --> 00:40:27,950
He was close to me.It was wonderful.
498
00:40:28,052 --> 00:40:30,782
The kite and Captain John.
499
00:40:30,888 --> 00:40:32,788
What mingled emotions.
500
00:41:19,871 --> 00:41:22,931
I'm going to give you
all my turtles, Muffy.
501
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,668
I'm Mouse.
502
00:41:32,049 --> 00:41:35,644
There was a pipal treein the midst of our garden wall.
503
00:41:37,021 --> 00:41:40,889
From its branches grew tentaclesdeep into the ground.
504
00:41:40,992 --> 00:41:42,960
The tree was like a dwelling...
505
00:41:43,060 --> 00:41:45,756
a labyrinth wheremany mysteries were hidden.
506
00:41:46,797 --> 00:41:49,960
There is one there.
I'm sure there is.
507
00:41:51,569 --> 00:41:54,629
The other side.
That's where they put the milk.
508
00:42:00,578 --> 00:42:04,412
The pipal treeis sacred to Hindus for many reasons.
509
00:42:04,515 --> 00:42:08,451
It was under such a tree thatPrince Gautama sat in meditation...
510
00:42:08,553 --> 00:42:11,078
and rose to the highestheights of enlightenment...
511
00:42:11,188 --> 00:42:13,088
to become the Lord Buddha.
512
00:42:13,190 --> 00:42:16,648
Hindu women come to the treeto worship...
513
00:42:16,761 --> 00:42:19,389
and to prayfor the blessing of a son.
514
00:44:26,323 --> 00:44:30,282
No, it's not very good.
But I like to do it.
515
00:44:30,394 --> 00:44:32,624
It's part of your inheritance
from your mother...
516
00:44:32,730 --> 00:44:34,630
and your grandmother...
517
00:44:34,732 --> 00:44:37,166
and her mother's mother's mother.
518
00:44:38,202 --> 00:44:41,103
Why did you send me
to a Western school?
519
00:44:41,205 --> 00:44:43,605
Because you've a Western
inheritance too.
520
00:44:44,642 --> 00:44:49,102
It's a puzzle.
I don't know where you belong.
521
00:44:49,213 --> 00:44:52,205
Sometimes I think
I've put you in a frightful position.
522
00:44:53,250 --> 00:44:56,151
Perhaps you never
should have been born.
523
00:44:56,253 --> 00:44:58,346
But I am born.
524
00:44:58,456 --> 00:45:01,254
Someday I shall find out where I belong.
525
00:45:05,563 --> 00:45:08,532
"The river runs, the round worid spins.
526
00:45:08,632 --> 00:45:12,068
"Dawn and lamplight,midnight, noon.
527
00:45:12,169 --> 00:45:16,299
"Sun follows day,:Night, stars and moon.
528
00:45:16,407 --> 00:45:20,366
The day ends,the end begins. "
529
00:45:20,478 --> 00:45:22,946
I had written this poemfor Captain John.
530
00:45:23,047 --> 00:45:27,313
It didn't sound like any poem I'd ever read,and I was afraid he wouldn't like it.
531
00:45:27,418 --> 00:45:30,114
But I felt aliveand curiously powerful...
532
00:45:30,221 --> 00:45:32,985
unconcernedif it were good or bad.
533
00:45:33,090 --> 00:45:37,254
I wanted to write more and more�
everything about the river.
534
00:45:37,361 --> 00:45:39,295
I wanted to tell Captain John...
535
00:45:39,396 --> 00:45:42,832
how people depended on the riverspiritually as well as physically�
536
00:45:43,868 --> 00:45:47,304
river people and village people�
537
00:45:47,404 --> 00:45:51,465
howjute workers cooled offin the river after a hard day...
538
00:45:51,575 --> 00:45:54,169
and men washed their clothes�
539
00:45:54,278 --> 00:45:57,714
about old menwarming themselves in the sun...
540
00:45:57,815 --> 00:46:00,784
children swimming,splashing in the water...
541
00:46:00,885 --> 00:46:03,547
and others wonderingand meditating...
542
00:46:03,654 --> 00:46:07,420
learning the wisdom of Indiaon the banks of the river.
543
00:46:07,525 --> 00:46:11,017
I wanted to tell about the endless,humble daily chores...
544
00:46:11,128 --> 00:46:15,360
and about the skillful movementsof the men in their frail floating huts...
545
00:46:15,466 --> 00:46:18,367
about the market boatsfilled with fruit and vegetable...
546
00:46:19,403 --> 00:46:23,931
and about fishermen leaving towardsthe south, down to the Sundarbans...
547
00:46:24,041 --> 00:46:26,066
and boats looking like igloos...
548
00:46:26,177 --> 00:46:28,873
where people sleep and cookand live in little holes...
549
00:46:28,979 --> 00:46:30,970
dug in the mountainsof rice straw�
550
00:46:32,016 --> 00:46:34,143
and about the hurried flight ofbirds...
551
00:46:34,251 --> 00:46:38,654
and the slow movements ofboatsand the slow life on them.
552
00:46:38,756 --> 00:46:41,520
I thought about the magicof the innumerable ghats...
553
00:46:41,625 --> 00:46:44,253
steps leading from a noisy,harassed worid...
554
00:46:44,361 --> 00:46:47,387
to the calm, purifyingwaters of the river.
555
00:46:47,498 --> 00:46:49,523
I loved those steps.
556
00:46:49,633 --> 00:46:53,967
Some proud and new�
so new that they were left alone�
557
00:46:54,071 --> 00:46:57,973
and the age-worn stepsfrom which people didn't want to part�
558
00:46:58,075 --> 00:47:01,511
rich steps dedicatedto the people by the rich...
559
00:47:01,612 --> 00:47:05,514
and poor steps given themby long-forgotten men.
560
00:47:05,616 --> 00:47:10,644
Lovely slender steps...and steps leading to temples.
561
00:47:10,754 --> 00:47:14,019
And as the steps were punctuatingthe banks of the river...
562
00:47:14,124 --> 00:47:17,821
so were the Hindu festivalspunctuating the days of the year.
563
00:47:18,863 --> 00:47:23,527
The time came for the image manto put color on the statue of Sarasvati...
564
00:47:23,634 --> 00:47:25,966
goddess of wisdom and arts.
565
00:47:26,070 --> 00:47:29,733
I asked her to give me wordsto charm Captain John.
566
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,831
As Scheherazade of
The Arabian Nights...
567
00:47:31,942 --> 00:47:34,342
won her lifewith a thousand tales...
568
00:47:34,445 --> 00:47:37,414
I decided to win his heartwith tales about India.
569
00:47:39,984 --> 00:47:42,976
I'll write a song in praise
of the Lord Krishna.
570
00:47:43,087 --> 00:47:45,146
You don't know anything
about Krishna.
571
00:47:45,256 --> 00:47:47,554
I know everything about him.
572
00:47:47,658 --> 00:47:49,853
How do you spell him?
573
00:47:52,396 --> 00:47:54,296
Uh...
574
00:47:54,398 --> 00:47:56,832
K- R-I �
575
00:47:58,636 --> 00:48:02,732
S- H-N-A.
576
00:48:05,242 --> 00:48:08,905
Once upon a time
in a small village...
577
00:48:10,281 --> 00:48:13,341
a young wife wentwith her mother to the river...
578
00:48:13,450 --> 00:48:16,112
to ask for the blessing of a child.
579
00:48:18,689 --> 00:48:21,089
They offered prayers and flowers.
580
00:48:22,893 --> 00:48:27,523
After the right number of months,they had a little girl.
581
00:48:27,631 --> 00:48:30,429
They were disappointedbecause she was not a boy.
582
00:48:32,036 --> 00:48:34,903
They were disappointed
because she was not a boy.
583
00:48:36,373 --> 00:48:38,807
Oh, that's nice, Harriet.
Go on.
584
00:48:40,878 --> 00:48:43,870
They had to think about getting
a dowry for the baby.
585
00:48:45,716 --> 00:48:47,877
Do we have to have them?
586
00:48:47,985 --> 00:48:50,044
What? Babies?
587
00:48:50,154 --> 00:48:54,113
No, dowries. I mean really,
not in the story.
588
00:48:59,463 --> 00:49:03,832
They had to work harder and harder
every day to get this dowry.
589
00:49:17,414 --> 00:49:21,441
They loved the baby,and she was very well looked after.
590
00:49:26,657 --> 00:49:28,989
She was indeed a lovely child.
591
00:49:40,537 --> 00:49:43,233
And soon she beganto help her parents.
592
00:50:09,566 --> 00:50:13,024
Every day, she grew bigger and bigger.
593
00:50:20,044 --> 00:50:22,638
She also had her river...
594
00:50:22,746 --> 00:50:26,512
and like the river,her life flowed on and on...
595
00:50:27,885 --> 00:50:30,149
until she was a grown-up person.
596
00:50:35,659 --> 00:50:38,219
She was not only beautifulon the outside...
597
00:50:38,328 --> 00:50:40,319
but on the inside as well.
598
00:50:40,431 --> 00:50:45,130
Better be careful, Harriet. If she's as good as all
that, you won't be able to find a husband for her.
599
00:50:45,235 --> 00:50:48,898
- Yes, she will. What's he like?
- Like Anil.
600
00:50:49,006 --> 00:50:51,804
- What's she like?
- Melanie.
601
00:50:52,943 --> 00:50:55,002
Melanie and Anil.
602
00:50:55,112 --> 00:50:57,012
Of course.
603
00:50:57,114 --> 00:51:00,914
One day near an old templeshe saw a young man.
604
00:51:04,755 --> 00:51:09,419
He was so beautiful she thoughthe was the Lord Krishna come down to Earth.
605
00:51:11,028 --> 00:51:14,759
Then her father told hershe had to marry a man ofhis choice.
606
00:51:16,066 --> 00:51:18,091
That's the ancient custom.
607
00:51:20,370 --> 00:51:22,531
She was terribly unhappy...
608
00:51:22,639 --> 00:51:26,735
because she could not help rememberingthe young man she had seen at the temple.
609
00:51:28,512 --> 00:51:31,481
But an Indian girlnever contradicts her father.
610
00:51:32,883 --> 00:51:35,545
She made herself readyfor the wedding...
611
00:51:35,652 --> 00:51:38,587
and worked hardto make it really beautiful.
612
00:51:39,623 --> 00:51:42,057
The courtyard was paintedwith rice flour.
613
00:51:43,193 --> 00:51:45,787
The house was decorated.
614
00:51:45,896 --> 00:51:48,558
The guests came.
615
00:51:48,665 --> 00:51:50,565
The bridegroom arrived.
616
00:52:09,987 --> 00:52:12,217
The bride's mother welcomed him.
617
00:52:15,926 --> 00:52:18,292
She was very unhappy.
618
00:52:48,659 --> 00:52:52,390
She was carried around the bridegroomto tie the knot for life.
619
00:52:53,597 --> 00:52:55,690
He was hidden by a veil.
620
00:52:57,067 --> 00:52:59,262
Then the veil was lifted.
621
00:53:05,542 --> 00:53:09,171
And when she removedthe mango leaves covering her eyes...
622
00:53:09,279 --> 00:53:11,304
she saw his face.
623
00:53:13,317 --> 00:53:16,980
Lo and behold,he was the young man she loved.
624
00:53:24,161 --> 00:53:26,254
She was very happy.
625
00:53:26,363 --> 00:53:29,423
He was transformedinto the Lord Krishna.
626
00:53:30,534 --> 00:53:33,401
She was transformedinto the Lady Radha.
627
00:53:36,273 --> 00:53:40,403
The real Radha, who livedthousands and thousands of years ago...
628
00:53:40,510 --> 00:53:42,410
was also a country girl.
629
00:53:42,512 --> 00:53:45,413
The love of the godmade her a goddess.
630
00:53:49,853 --> 00:53:53,084
She danced to expressher love for him.
631
00:55:05,862 --> 00:55:08,797
With her hands and her eyesshe says to him...
632
00:55:08,899 --> 00:55:10,924
"O Krishna...
633
00:55:11,034 --> 00:55:14,026
"you are as beautifulas a monsoon cloud.
634
00:55:14,137 --> 00:55:16,799
"Your eyes are likethe lotus in bloom...
635
00:55:16,907 --> 00:55:18,807
"O Krishna.
636
00:55:18,909 --> 00:55:22,743
I want to be alwaysin your presence, O Krishna. "
637
00:56:11,128 --> 00:56:14,154
The Lady Radha becamethe village bride again.
638
00:56:14,264 --> 00:56:18,394
The Lord Krishna againbecame the bridegroom.
639
00:56:22,806 --> 00:56:26,037
And the young wifewent with her mother to the river...
640
00:56:26,143 --> 00:56:28,611
to ask for the blessing of a child.
641
00:56:29,746 --> 00:56:32,306
I thought you said
it was about Krishna.
642
00:56:32,416 --> 00:56:34,782
It's about any little girl.
643
00:56:34,885 --> 00:56:36,785
How do you spell "conclusi�n"?
644
00:56:36,887 --> 00:56:39,287
Why not just put "The End"?
645
00:56:39,389 --> 00:56:42,187
It isn't the end.
It's endless.
646
00:56:42,292 --> 00:56:44,954
It begins all over again
with the new baby.
647
00:56:48,098 --> 00:56:51,659
Valerie, not that side.
That's my private diary.
648
00:56:51,768 --> 00:56:54,896
Valerie!
649
00:56:57,073 --> 00:56:59,871
"Captain John's face
is like Antony...
650
00:56:59,976 --> 00:57:02,945
who made Cleopatra die. "
651
00:57:03,046 --> 00:57:05,446
Not only Antony�
652
00:57:05,549 --> 00:57:07,574
Antinous the beautiful god.
653
00:57:07,684 --> 00:57:11,085
Listen to this.
"His face is like a sensitive plant."
654
00:57:11,188 --> 00:57:14,316
Oh, Harry.
A sensitive flower. Please.
655
00:57:20,163 --> 00:57:22,393
Harry, gently, gently.
656
00:57:24,568 --> 00:57:26,695
I'll never forgive you! Never!
657
00:57:26,803 --> 00:57:28,771
I could kill you both.
658
00:57:32,175 --> 00:57:34,939
You shouldn't have done that, Valerie.
It was her secret book.
659
00:57:36,079 --> 00:57:38,013
I didn't think that of you.
660
00:57:38,114 --> 00:57:40,275
I don't care.
661
00:57:40,383 --> 00:57:42,681
I don't care what you think of me.
662
00:57:52,696 --> 00:57:54,596
Wouldn't you like to play with me?
663
00:57:55,699 --> 00:57:57,997
- No. No, thanks.
- Why not?
664
00:57:58,101 --> 00:58:00,194
I just don't feel like it.
665
00:58:00,303 --> 00:58:02,771
- Can you play?
- Of course.
666
00:58:24,027 --> 00:58:25,927
Aaah!
667
00:58:31,301 --> 00:58:33,235
Leave me alone.
668
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:38,940
Get away from me, I said!
669
00:58:43,146 --> 00:58:45,080
Leave me alone.
670
00:58:45,181 --> 00:58:47,479
Don't touch me.
671
00:59:16,580 --> 00:59:20,346
Valerie. Valerie, what did you do?
672
00:59:20,450 --> 00:59:23,078
He wouldn't let me touch him.
673
00:59:23,186 --> 00:59:25,154
He wouldn't let me come near.
674
01:00:06,463 --> 01:00:09,899
Ashes on the head for mourning, Harriet.
Not bare feet.
675
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,298
You will get hookworm.
676
01:00:12,402 --> 01:00:14,700
I don't care.
I don't care what I get.
677
01:00:14,804 --> 01:00:18,433
Now I know why Cleopatra
killed herself.
678
01:00:21,077 --> 01:00:23,045
Hello, vixen.
679
01:00:24,214 --> 01:00:26,182
Hello, darling.
680
01:00:30,420 --> 01:00:32,183
Who's that?
681
01:00:32,288 --> 01:00:33,983
Captain John.
682
01:00:37,927 --> 01:00:41,385
Well, give it to Nan
to frame as a keepsake.
683
01:00:43,466 --> 01:00:46,867
We've a pretty collection of females
in this house, I must say.
684
01:00:46,970 --> 01:00:49,063
And they look half-dead with misery.
685
01:00:49,172 --> 01:00:52,039
Not all of them.
Victoria's all right.
686
01:00:52,142 --> 01:00:55,168
There. Now you're a princess.
687
01:00:55,278 --> 01:00:59,374
The little one's for Hoppity. You take it
and give it to him. He can be the prince.
688
01:00:59,482 --> 01:01:01,450
Harriet, Elizabeth.
689
01:01:01,551 --> 01:01:03,610
Nan's the ringleader, of course.
690
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:05,950
Captain John is going away.
691
01:01:06,056 --> 01:01:07,956
Why the fuss?
692
01:01:08,058 --> 01:01:09,958
Boys are easy.
693
01:01:10,060 --> 01:01:12,551
If anything goes wrong,
you paste their bottoms for them.
694
01:01:12,662 --> 01:01:16,257
Giris. They're behaving
like tragedy queens in love.
695
01:01:16,366 --> 01:01:20,735
They are in love. They've all of them
fallen head over heels in love with Captain John.
696
01:01:20,837 --> 01:01:25,274
I know, but it's ridiculous,
absurd, horrible. John?
697
01:01:25,375 --> 01:01:28,071
- Why, they're babies.- They're not babies.
698
01:01:28,178 --> 01:01:30,942
And it may be absurd,but it's not horrible. It's lucky.
699
01:01:31,047 --> 01:01:33,072
Lucky.
700
01:01:33,183 --> 01:01:37,119
Lucky that it is Captain John.
He's so nice and so handy.
701
01:01:39,122 --> 01:01:41,716
You make him sound like a gadget
for the kitchen.
702
01:01:41,825 --> 01:01:43,725
Did you ever behave like this?
703
01:01:43,827 --> 01:01:47,126
I did. When I was Harriet's age,
it was Byron.
704
01:01:47,230 --> 01:01:50,893
Then it was Valentino, I think.
Then I fell in love with the milkman.
705
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,333
ButJohn's here,
almost one of the family. A friend.
706
01:01:54,437 --> 01:01:56,667
So was the milkman.
707
01:01:56,773 --> 01:02:00,265
What I like about it most
is that it's doing the captain good too.
708
01:02:00,376 --> 01:02:02,310
It's giving him
a private revolution...
709
01:02:02,412 --> 01:02:04,437
besides breaking
the children in.
710
01:02:04,547 --> 01:02:06,572
Breaking them in?
I'd like to �
711
01:02:07,617 --> 01:02:10,814
I never knew I was so primitive.
If I feel like this now...
712
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,286
what shall I do when
it's Tom, Dick and Harry?
713
01:02:13,389 --> 01:02:15,357
You'll hold my hand...
714
01:02:15,458 --> 01:02:18,018
and let them marry
Tom, Dick and Harry.
715
01:02:18,128 --> 01:02:22,758
We shall have boys buzzing round them
like mosquitoes. I can't bear it.
716
01:02:22,866 --> 01:02:25,232
I shall never know
what they'll be up to next.
717
01:02:25,335 --> 01:02:27,826
If I were in love with a man
and he was sick...
718
01:02:27,937 --> 01:02:30,565
I should at leasttake him some flowers.
719
01:03:12,248 --> 01:03:15,081
Bogey. Bogey!
720
01:03:15,185 --> 01:03:16,812
What are you doing?
721
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,582
What are you looking at?
722
01:03:19,689 --> 01:03:21,657
Cobra.
723
01:03:24,327 --> 01:03:26,955
You mean there really is one?
724
01:03:27,063 --> 01:03:31,762
We must tell Father. We must always tell
when we see snakes in the garden.
725
01:03:31,868 --> 01:03:34,029
Bogey. I'm talking to you.
726
01:03:34,137 --> 01:03:36,162
Do you see it?
Do you touch it?
727
01:03:36,272 --> 01:03:38,536
Only poke it.
728
01:03:38,641 --> 01:03:40,905
You go straight back
to the house and tell.
729
01:03:41,010 --> 01:03:42,910
I can't come now. I'm busy.
730
01:03:43,012 --> 01:03:44,912
Go straight now to Nan.
731
01:03:45,014 --> 01:03:47,312
I didn't like Nan.
I like cobra.
732
01:03:47,417 --> 01:03:49,317
Go now.
733
01:05:01,991 --> 01:05:03,959
- Gopal.
- Yes?
734
01:05:57,780 --> 01:05:59,680
You don't want to talk to me.
735
01:06:00,817 --> 01:06:03,149
You are always at the big house.
736
01:06:04,187 --> 01:06:07,850
Well, I'm here now.
I barely even catch a glimpse of you.
737
01:06:10,693 --> 01:06:13,924
You and your father
are so happy together.
738
01:06:14,030 --> 01:06:16,464
Sometimes I feel that I've spoiled it.
739
01:06:21,204 --> 01:06:23,764
Never mind.
I � I'm going anyway.
740
01:06:28,344 --> 01:06:31,177
Where will you go?
741
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:34,681
Anywhere from... China to Peru.
742
01:06:36,152 --> 01:06:41,283
- It makes no difference?
- No. It's the same story anywhere I go.
743
01:06:41,391 --> 01:06:43,825
I spoil everything.
744
01:06:43,926 --> 01:06:46,053
I can't seem to help it.
745
01:06:46,162 --> 01:06:48,790
I'm a stranger.
You know what that means?
746
01:06:48,898 --> 01:06:50,798
A stranger.
747
01:06:53,269 --> 01:06:55,533
Valerie thinks she taught me a lesson.
748
01:06:55,638 --> 01:06:58,004
Well, I don't accept it.
749
01:06:58,107 --> 01:07:00,575
I refuse to be bound by this!
750
01:07:00,676 --> 01:07:03,076
I'm a normal man in any country.
751
01:07:04,580 --> 01:07:07,845
Where will you find
a country of one-legged men?
752
01:07:07,950 --> 01:07:10,111
Don't tell me I �
753
01:07:15,425 --> 01:07:17,484
Please forgive me.
754
01:07:17,593 --> 01:07:19,959
I � I didn't mean it.
755
01:07:21,831 --> 01:07:23,958
It's not only this.
756
01:07:24,067 --> 01:07:27,002
I can't seem to keep
my thoughts steady. They�
757
01:07:27,103 --> 01:07:29,162
I ask and I ask and �
758
01:07:33,276 --> 01:07:35,244
l� I'm sorry.
759
01:07:36,379 --> 01:07:39,507
I don't know what I'm saying.I have a stupid headache.
760
01:07:42,752 --> 01:07:44,652
Can I help you?
761
01:07:46,789 --> 01:07:48,757
Can anyone?
762
01:07:52,161 --> 01:07:54,254
I thought you disliked me.
763
01:07:58,534 --> 01:08:00,434
Do you?
764
01:08:02,672 --> 01:08:05,038
It is not you I dislike.
765
01:08:06,309 --> 01:08:08,209
Who is it?
766
01:08:16,719 --> 01:08:18,619
Who is it?
767
01:08:18,721 --> 01:08:20,621
Myself.
768
01:08:24,527 --> 01:08:27,553
I was caught in an unexpected intrigue...
769
01:08:27,663 --> 01:08:31,656
but my adolescent pridewould not let me turn back.
770
01:08:31,767 --> 01:08:35,828
The magic of the momentabsorbed Valerie too.
771
01:08:35,938 --> 01:08:38,429
Only Melanie resisted...
772
01:08:38,541 --> 01:08:42,739
for an Indian girl knows betterthe seriousness oflove.
773
01:08:42,845 --> 01:08:46,144
When she gives her heart,it is forever.
774
01:08:47,183 --> 01:08:50,414
The enchantmentbegan and ended in the grove.
775
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:53,489
Suddenly we were running awayfrom childhood...
776
01:08:55,258 --> 01:08:57,226
rushing toward love.
777
01:09:23,553 --> 01:09:25,521
Melanie.
778
01:10:25,948 --> 01:10:30,908
Melanie, like a doe�hesitant, bewildered.
779
01:10:31,020 --> 01:10:33,284
Was she sorry she had run away?
780
01:10:33,389 --> 01:10:35,482
Captain John,moody and disturbed...
781
01:10:35,591 --> 01:10:37,491
back in his whirl of doubt.
782
01:10:37,593 --> 01:10:40,619
I, with my elaborate bouquet...
783
01:10:40,730 --> 01:10:42,630
awaiting my chance.
784
01:10:42,732 --> 01:10:45,860
Valerie, so impetuous.
785
01:10:55,244 --> 01:10:57,678
You didn't want to
see me anymore...
786
01:10:57,780 --> 01:10:59,680
but I came.
787
01:11:09,292 --> 01:11:11,351
I was rude to you.
788
01:11:12,461 --> 01:11:14,361
Yes.
789
01:11:15,564 --> 01:11:17,464
I shouted at you.
790
01:11:17,566 --> 01:11:20,194
Yes.
791
01:11:22,772 --> 01:11:24,672
And still you come.
792
01:11:27,376 --> 01:11:29,344
Yes.
793
01:11:41,891 --> 01:11:43,859
Oh.
794
01:11:52,268 --> 01:11:56,364
The kiss on her lips� terrifying and fascinating�
795
01:11:56,472 --> 01:11:58,906
burned into my heart and hurt.
796
01:12:00,009 --> 01:12:02,307
It was my first kiss...
797
01:12:02,411 --> 01:12:04,902
but received by another.
798
01:12:05,014 --> 01:12:06,914
I couldn't bear it.
799
01:12:13,189 --> 01:12:15,248
Don't cry.
800
01:12:16,559 --> 01:12:18,618
Ah, you mustn't cry.
801
01:12:21,130 --> 01:12:23,291
I am going, but �
802
01:12:30,806 --> 01:12:34,537
I'm not crying
because you're going.
803
01:12:35,678 --> 01:12:38,613
I'm crying
because it is going.
804
01:12:38,714 --> 01:12:40,614
It?
805
01:12:41,917 --> 01:12:43,817
What "it"?
806
01:12:47,223 --> 01:12:49,987
This... being together...
807
01:12:50,092 --> 01:12:51,992
in the garden.
808
01:12:53,028 --> 01:12:56,293
All of us happy,
and you with us here.
809
01:12:57,833 --> 01:13:00,393
I didn't want it to change...
810
01:13:00,503 --> 01:13:03,165
and it's changed.
811
01:13:03,272 --> 01:13:05,763
I didn't want it to end...
812
01:13:05,875 --> 01:13:07,775
and it's gone.
813
01:13:08,811 --> 01:13:10,779
It was like something in a dream.
814
01:13:11,914 --> 01:13:13,882
Now you've made it real.
815
01:13:25,027 --> 01:13:26,995
I didn't want to be real.
816
01:14:11,106 --> 01:14:13,074
Harriet.
817
01:14:22,985 --> 01:14:24,953
Harriet.
818
01:14:34,897 --> 01:14:36,797
Harriet.
819
01:14:36,899 --> 01:14:38,799
Come here.
820
01:14:45,074 --> 01:14:47,907
Ever since Diwali
everything's been different.
821
01:14:48,010 --> 01:14:51,070
I've been so funny,
as if I were being stretched.
822
01:14:51,180 --> 01:14:53,808
Nan says they're growing pains.
823
01:14:53,916 --> 01:14:55,850
Perhaps Nan's right.
824
01:14:55,951 --> 01:14:57,851
I didn't know it hurt to grow.
825
01:14:57,953 --> 01:15:01,286
Harriet, how much
do you know about life?
826
01:15:01,390 --> 01:15:05,588
Life? Oh, you mean babies
being born and growing up?
827
01:15:05,694 --> 01:15:07,889
Everything.
828
01:15:07,997 --> 01:15:10,761
But there are so manydifferent kinds oflove.
829
01:15:10,866 --> 01:15:15,200
No. Only one.
From Cleopatra right down to you.
830
01:15:15,304 --> 01:15:17,204
Did Cleopatra have a baby?
831
01:15:17,306 --> 01:15:19,433
I'm sure she did.
Dozens.
832
01:15:19,542 --> 01:15:21,976
I never thought of that.
833
01:15:22,077 --> 01:15:24,136
Having a baby hurts you terribly.
834
01:15:24,246 --> 01:15:26,146
No more than it ought.
835
01:15:26,248 --> 01:15:28,842
It's meant to make you
think and feel.
836
01:15:28,951 --> 01:15:30,851
Just like love.
837
01:15:30,953 --> 01:15:34,252
In a few weeks' time, Harriet,
I shall be having our baby.
838
01:15:35,357 --> 01:15:38,758
When Snowball had her foal,
her eyes looked scared, and she screamed.
839
01:15:38,861 --> 01:15:40,886
I don't know how
you can bear it, Mother.
840
01:15:40,996 --> 01:15:43,191
I love Father.
841
01:15:43,299 --> 01:15:45,324
Come here.
842
01:15:45,434 --> 01:15:47,402
Having children
for the man you love...
843
01:15:47,503 --> 01:15:50,700
is a precious,
sanctified work.
844
01:15:50,806 --> 01:15:53,138
It's the meaning of a woman.
845
01:15:53,242 --> 01:15:55,472
And as you know, Harriet,
as you grow older...
846
01:15:55,578 --> 01:15:58,012
your body changes
to get ready for it.
847
01:15:59,048 --> 01:16:01,107
I think that's what's
happening to you.
848
01:16:01,216 --> 01:16:03,776
- To me?
- Yes, Harriet.
849
01:16:04,820 --> 01:16:08,051
I wish I were a cabin boy
and could run away to sea.
850
01:16:08,157 --> 01:16:10,091
I wanted to be an explorer.
851
01:16:10,192 --> 01:16:12,251
I hate bodies.
852
01:16:12,361 --> 01:16:15,797
If I were you, Harriet,
I'd go and have a good play with Bogey.
853
01:16:15,898 --> 01:16:18,890
Play? I shall never play again.
854
01:17:55,731 --> 01:17:57,699
Bogey.
855
01:18:02,337 --> 01:18:04,237
Kanu.
856
01:18:15,651 --> 01:18:17,744
Kanu. Kanu.
857
01:18:18,921 --> 01:18:20,855
Kanu!
858
01:18:42,010 --> 01:18:43,910
Kanu.
859
01:18:44,012 --> 01:18:47,106
Kanu.! Kanu.!
860
01:19:20,415 --> 01:19:22,645
Bogey. Bogey.
861
01:19:22,751 --> 01:19:24,719
Bogey, Bogey, Bogey.
862
01:22:50,492 --> 01:22:52,460
Thanks.
863
01:22:57,099 --> 01:22:59,067
I drink to the children.
864
01:23:01,570 --> 01:23:06,098
We should celebrate
that a child died a child.
865
01:23:06,208 --> 01:23:08,176
That one escaped.
866
01:23:09,878 --> 01:23:11,846
We lock them in our schools.
867
01:23:12,881 --> 01:23:16,078
We teach them our stupid taboos.
868
01:23:17,185 --> 01:23:19,517
We catch them in our wars...
869
01:23:19,621 --> 01:23:22,146
and they can't resist.
870
01:23:22,257 --> 01:23:25,420
They've no armor,and so we kill them.
871
01:23:25,527 --> 01:23:27,722
We massacre the innocents.
872
01:23:28,797 --> 01:23:31,459
And the worid is for children �
the real worid.
873
01:23:32,501 --> 01:23:35,368
They climb trees
and roll in the grass.
874
01:23:35,470 --> 01:23:37,438
They're close to the ants...
875
01:23:37,539 --> 01:23:39,871
and as free as the birds.
876
01:23:41,043 --> 01:23:44,012
They're like animals.
They're not ashamed.
877
01:23:45,047 --> 01:23:47,242
They know what is important.
878
01:23:48,283 --> 01:23:50,843
A mouse is born...
879
01:23:50,952 --> 01:23:53,648
or a leaf drops in a pond.
880
01:23:55,090 --> 01:23:58,082
If the worid could be made of children �
881
01:24:19,247 --> 01:24:21,215
Try and eat a little, Harriet.
882
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:26,888
What are you hiding?
883
01:24:30,759 --> 01:24:32,727
We can't keep that.
884
01:24:36,264 --> 01:24:38,323
We don't need to keep things, Harriet.
885
01:24:38,433 --> 01:24:40,765
It's so horrid, so cruel.
886
01:24:40,869 --> 01:24:42,996
Roast potatoes and peas.
887
01:24:43,105 --> 01:24:45,300
As if we had wiped Bogey away.
888
01:24:45,407 --> 01:24:47,705
We go on as if nothing
had happened.
889
01:24:47,809 --> 01:24:49,777
No, we don't.
890
01:24:49,878 --> 01:24:51,778
All we do is to go on.
891
01:24:54,349 --> 01:24:56,510
I knew about the cobra, Mother.
892
01:24:58,386 --> 01:25:00,354
I know you did.
893
01:25:05,393 --> 01:25:08,556
It's not her fault.
It's the captain's.
894
01:25:08,663 --> 01:25:11,791
If she hadn't had her head full of him,
she would have told.
895
01:25:12,834 --> 01:25:15,735
As soon as I set eyes on him,
I knew there would be trouble.
896
01:25:15,837 --> 01:25:18,670
Dear Nan. Please.
897
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:26,447
I can't!
898
01:25:26,548 --> 01:25:29,016
I can't.
899
01:25:31,153 --> 01:25:33,121
I can't.
900
01:25:38,493 --> 01:25:40,393
Yes, you can.
901
01:26:08,423 --> 01:26:11,688
Bogey, Bogey, Bogey, Bogey, Bogey.
902
01:26:22,037 --> 01:26:24,005
Where did Bogey go?
903
01:26:26,875 --> 01:26:29,469
Bogey is in heaven.
904
01:26:29,578 --> 01:26:33,412
- He's a little �ngel.
- I lent him my wings.
905
01:28:41,209 --> 01:28:43,177
Bogey.
906
01:28:43,278 --> 01:28:45,712
Yes. Bogey.
907
01:28:49,851 --> 01:28:51,751
Melanie, what do we do?
908
01:28:53,855 --> 01:28:55,755
Consent.
909
01:28:58,159 --> 01:29:01,185
- To what?
- To everything.
910
01:29:02,230 --> 01:29:05,199
You don't like
being a man with one leg...
911
01:29:05,300 --> 01:29:07,791
but you have only one leg.
912
01:29:07,902 --> 01:29:09,870
I don't like�
913
01:29:11,072 --> 01:29:13,040
You don't like?
914
01:29:14,776 --> 01:29:17,370
Never mind.
915
01:29:17,479 --> 01:29:20,471
Why do we quarrel
with things all the time?
916
01:29:24,386 --> 01:29:26,911
In my case,
it was not a quarrel.
917
01:29:27,021 --> 01:29:29,046
It was a rebellion.
918
01:29:31,092 --> 01:29:33,560
So, I thought, was mine.
919
01:29:33,661 --> 01:29:36,391
Now I know it was only a quarrel.
920
01:29:45,006 --> 01:29:48,100
Melanie, I'm not a stranger anymore.
921
01:29:57,552 --> 01:29:59,520
Harriet's gone.
922
01:30:02,257 --> 01:30:06,421
There were so manyunsaid things I'd forgotten to tell Bogey...
923
01:30:06,528 --> 01:30:09,224
and now I would never tell him.
924
01:30:09,330 --> 01:30:12,493
The fishermen saw meswept down with the current.
925
01:30:13,635 --> 01:30:16,866
Later, in their boat,I came back to life.
926
01:30:16,971 --> 01:30:20,202
They warmed meand offered to take me home...
927
01:30:20,308 --> 01:30:22,469
but I refused.
928
01:31:01,716 --> 01:31:03,843
People like me ought to die.
929
01:31:08,323 --> 01:31:10,257
Ah, I can't reach it.
930
01:31:10,358 --> 01:31:12,918
Hand me a light like
a good girl, will ya, Harry?
931
01:31:18,766 --> 01:31:20,734
I don't think you're the type.
932
01:31:33,581 --> 01:31:36,914
People like you
just don't lie down and die.
933
01:31:37,018 --> 01:31:39,043
What will I do, then?
934
01:31:40,154 --> 01:31:42,645
You'll begin again.
935
01:31:42,757 --> 01:31:45,317
You know what I think?
936
01:31:45,426 --> 01:31:47,485
I think with everything
that happens to you...
937
01:31:47,595 --> 01:31:50,359
with every person you meet
who is important to you...
938
01:31:50,465 --> 01:31:53,764
you either die a little bitor are born.
939
01:31:54,936 --> 01:31:57,734
Someone said something
like that to me once.
940
01:31:57,839 --> 01:32:00,137
It must have been
someone very wise.
941
01:32:01,175 --> 01:32:03,609
Oh, I remember.
It was little Victoria.
942
01:32:05,813 --> 01:32:09,305
- Did you ever die?
- Two or three times.
943
01:32:09,417 --> 01:32:12,443
You won't tell anybody.
Promise?
944
01:32:14,055 --> 01:32:16,387
Promise.
945
01:32:26,367 --> 01:32:28,335
Just think, Harry.
946
01:32:28,436 --> 01:32:32,998
One of your poems might still
be alive in, say, 4000 A.D.
947
01:32:35,677 --> 01:32:37,736
Captain John, I love you.
948
01:32:48,456 --> 01:32:51,584
Now you've kissed me,
as well as Valerie.
949
01:32:56,764 --> 01:32:59,255
Come on.
I'll take you home now.
950
01:33:04,739 --> 01:33:08,903
Hey. Gonna have to help me.
You know I've only got one leg.
951
01:33:09,944 --> 01:33:12,572
Who's important to you,
Captain John?
952
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:15,444
Everybody.
953
01:33:24,425 --> 01:33:26,916
The new wind came, and it was spring.
954
01:33:27,028 --> 01:33:31,431
Thejoyful, unchanged rites,symbolic of the temptation of man.
955
01:33:31,532 --> 01:33:34,160
Hindus celebrate the new season.
956
01:36:02,950 --> 01:36:04,918
Harriet.
957
01:36:05,019 --> 01:36:06,987
Melanie and Valerie.
958
01:36:14,495 --> 01:36:16,395
- Where's Nan?
- In the summer house.
959
01:36:16,497 --> 01:36:18,624
- Nan.
- Nan. Quick.
960
01:36:18,733 --> 01:36:22,567
Our baby, our baby, our baby, our baby!
961
01:36:22,670 --> 01:36:24,729
You're wanted, Nan.
In there.
962
01:36:24,839 --> 01:36:27,069
Our baby, our baby.!
963
01:36:28,142 --> 01:36:30,110
Letters from America.
964
01:36:40,788 --> 01:36:43,052
- Captain John!
- Captain John.
965
01:36:43,157 --> 01:36:47,116
Semper fidelis.
He still keeps the apple.
966
01:36:47,228 --> 01:36:49,196
What apple?
967
01:36:49,297 --> 01:36:52,858
The same old apple. Paris's, Eve's.
968
01:36:52,967 --> 01:36:55,197
Once you've tasted it,
you're never the same.
969
01:36:56,337 --> 01:36:58,396
It'll be your turn next.
970
01:36:58,506 --> 01:37:01,441
- Does it taste nice?
- Too nice.
971
01:37:02,543 --> 01:37:04,704
Now you run along and play
in the summer house.
972
01:37:04,812 --> 01:37:06,871
Go on, darling.
973
01:37:25,933 --> 01:37:27,833
It's a girl.
974
01:37:33,474 --> 01:37:35,442
Shh.
975
01:37:38,913 --> 01:37:41,006
No, no, no, no.
You must wait.
976
01:37:57,598 --> 01:37:59,759
Ten minutes ago
she wasn't born...
977
01:37:59,867 --> 01:38:01,892
and tomorrow we'll be used to her.
978
01:38:02,003 --> 01:38:04,130
- And yesterday we �
- Bother yesterday.
979
01:38:04,238 --> 01:38:07,036
- This is today.
- And today.
980
01:38:07,141 --> 01:38:10,577
Here is the baby.
The baby and us...
981
01:38:10,678 --> 01:38:14,375
the big river, the whole worid
and everything.
982
01:38:22,590 --> 01:38:25,320
The river runs, the round worid spins.
983
01:38:25,426 --> 01:38:28,554
Dawn and lamplight,midnight, noon.
984
01:38:28,663 --> 01:38:32,724
Sun follows day,:Night, stars and moon.
985
01:38:32,833 --> 01:38:36,200
The day ends.The end begins.