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THE ROSSELLINI PROJECT
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The digital restoration
of the Italian version
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was carried out utilising
the best available elements
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preserved by Cinecittà Studios and CSC -
Cineteca Nazionale.
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An in-depth analysis of the materials,
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along with the valuable contribution
of film historian Adriano Aprà,
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allowed for the identification
of the most useful restoration elements:
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the internegative for the picture,
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an interpositive for the opening titles,
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a positive copy struck from the
aforementioned internegative for sound,
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and a positive copy from that era
to obtain the correct synchronisation.
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The image was scanned
at a resolution of 2K.
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After being scanned, the image
was digitally stabilised and cleaned,
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to eliminate the signs of age:
spotting, lines, scratches and visible splices.
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The colour correction process turned out
to be an extremely complex operation
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because the colour
had faded considerably.
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A copy from the time, preserved at the CSC -
Cineteca Nazionale,
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and a copy printed by Cinecittà in the '90s
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were valuable references
during this phase of the restoration,
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allowing us to recover details of the work
of the cinematographer Aldo Tonti,
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and to determine
the different types of film used:
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Gevaert, Ferrania, Kodak,
16 and 35 mm.
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With regard to the sound,
a digital cleaning was performed
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in order to reduce background noises
created by the passage of time
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and to restore the dynamics and the details
of the original soundtrack.
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Throughout the length of the film,
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all of the components used
exhibited small gaps of a few frames each
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that were impossible to fill.
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Restoration was carried out
by the Cineteca of Bologna
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at the Immagine Ritrovata
laboratories in 2011.
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The actors, all non-professional,
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were cast from the locations
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where the action takes place.
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For anyone coming from the West,
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Bombay has long been considered
the gateway to India.
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On arrival,
one feels instantly euphoric.
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The first thing that strikes us
are the crowds.
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Tens, hundreds, thousands,
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tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands,
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maybe millions of people
form an endless river
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that, however,
has not destroyed the remains
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of what the Muslims, Parsis,
English colonisers and others
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have built here.
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Sun, shade, wind,
drought and monsoons
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have given these men and women
an unmistakable patina,
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with their different religions and races,
as they swarm around in masses.
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Farmers and city dwellers,
as well as the old castes:
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the Brahmins, guardians of the faith,
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the Kshatriya, warriors,
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the Vaishyas, merchants,
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the Sudra, workers.
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The castes were formed according
to various ethnic groups:
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The indigenous, Dravidian
and Aryan peoples,
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Persians, Muslims,
and all the other groups
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resulting from this mixing of peoples.
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The hum of hundreds of languages
resounds in these teeming streets.
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Hindustani, Bengali,
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Assamese, Oriya, Gujarati, Marathi,
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Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam,
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Tamil, Sindhi, Punjabi,
Rajasthani, Pali, Bhili.
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A confluence of peaceful peoples
and of warriors become peaceful.
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These men wearing gilded
turbans are Ismailis,
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ancient Muslim assault troops
once known as Hashishins,
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from which the word "assassin" comes.
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The Ismailis are now a peaceful
and hard-working people.
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This mixture of people and diverse elements
makes up the Indian people,
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the most tolerant in all the world.
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They even tolerate this architecture.
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But they do try to improve it.
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This spirit of tolerance prepares them
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for any kind of transformation
and evolution
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without racial prejudice or sacrificing
their various ethnic characteristics.
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This crowd enjoys itself
like any other crowd in the world.
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Merry-go-rounds.
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Pinwheels.
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Street musicians.
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Balloons.
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Windmills.
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And they stretch out, content.
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They are skilled craftsmen.
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And these people carry...
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bring...
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bring back...
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lift...
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load...
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support...
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shift...
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transport...
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transfer...
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and move.
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They walk...
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ruminate...
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sleep...
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dream...
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build...
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work...
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using modern methods...
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or traditional ones.
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The Indian people thrive
on thousand-year-old traditions,
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preferring peace to war,
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tolerance to intolerance.
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They don't wish to convert anyone.
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But the more authentic India
is found in its 580,000 villages.
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In just one-twentieth
of the world's surface,
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lives one-sixth
of the world's population.
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This harsh reality
is the motor of modern India.
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Indians have a great
knowledge of nature.
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They know they belong to it
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and know its secrets, its laws,
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and the fruits it produces.
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In the temples, the images of life
appear like a grand celebration.
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It's the delirious expression
of this people's love for life.
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Madurai is a holy city
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which boasts majestic
architecture in its temples.
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This elephant was brought to the city
for a religious ceremony.
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It comes from this immense
jungle in Karrapur,
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where it worked,
where it lived in the wild,
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where it was captured and tamed.
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Elephants are the bulldozers of India.
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Indians are so at one with nature,
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that by using kindness
instead of strength,
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they have made elephants
their working allies.
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Elephants only work three hours a day,
from 7:00 to 10:00.
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Then it becomes too hot for them.
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Whereas we mahouts,
the elephant drivers,
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get no rest at all during the day.
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After work, it's bath time.
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And believe me, it's quite a job.
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For two or three hours,
they must be refreshed,
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splashed with water,
then washed,
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rinsed down,
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pampered,
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stroked,
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and finally defleaed.
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After the bath,
it's time for breakfast.
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Elephants eat between 600
and 800 kilos of food a day.
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Of course, it depends
on the animal's height and size.
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Once we've served them,
it's finally time for us have a bite to eat.
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During breakfast one day,
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we were joined
by a company of puppeteers.
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I remember it very well.
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That was an important day
in my life.
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Sir, is there a guest house around?
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We are from Mysore.
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We are here to put on a puppet show.
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We are looking for a guest house.
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The guesthouse is on the other side.
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- Where?
- Over there.
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Thank you. Let's go.
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We don't even have time
for a little amusement.
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Even at night, we need to be feed them
100 to 150 bales of straw with rice or grain,
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and give them more caresses
and cuddles, too.
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What a life!
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The next day, I saw her again.
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For those of us
who know elephants well,
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these bellows signify
that they're falling in love.
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I'd be so happy.
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It's the only way I'm able
to have some time off.
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Let's hope it's a serious love affair.
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I always worry at the start.
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The female elephants have
less of a sense of modesty,
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while the males are rather reserved.
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They have, I'm sorry to say,
more dignity.
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In the early afternoon,
after their bath and breakfast,
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they need to be left alone
in the jungle.
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They're shy, very shy...
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and modest, very modest.
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I saw her again.
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The next day, I took my the elephant
back to the same tree for breakfast.
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And again the following day.
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I made an appointment
with the schoolteacher
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and asked him to write a letter,
a nice letter to my father
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so that he'd come and ask for her hand.
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- What do you want?
- I'd like some help.
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What for?
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- To write a letter.
- To whom?
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- To my father.
- What do you want to say?
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Something nobody must know...
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...regarding the puppeteers.
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- The girl, isn't it?
- Yes, it's a serious matter.
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If you write it for me,
it'll bring me luck.
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Let's begin with...
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"Dearest Father,
I send you my fondest greetings.
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"I'd be very happy if you'd come here.
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"I must speak with you
about my wedding."
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Yes, that's fine.
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The letter must have been
well written,
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as a few days later, I found my father
waiting for me when I came home from work.
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I was worried about my hat.
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It's a Muslim hat,
the kind usually worn by mahouts.
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but since I'm Hindu not Muslim,
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I thought to myself,
"My father won't tolerate it."
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He's a man of principles
and he always criticises me.
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It's important to start a family,
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but one must reflect well first.
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Come, be seated.
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He met with the girl's father,
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and, following local etiquette,
they each criticised their own children.
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This is the boy's father.
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- Tell me.
- I want to talk about our children.
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My son has seen your daughter
and wants to marry her.
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Both my son and I have jobs.
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We have some land...
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and do well for ourselves.
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This is sufficient
for our children's tranquillity.
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Let God's will be done.
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We'll tell the priest
about the ceremony.
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The marriage was arranged
in accordance with the rules.
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That night, my father and I
went to the temple
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to wait for the wedding ceremony.
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Until that moment, as is our custom,
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I wasn't permitted
near my bride-to-be.
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She came to the temple
on the morning bus.
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Ten months have passed.
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The female elephant has started
to become irritated by the male's presence.
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This always happens when an elephant
is ten months pregnant.
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As you know,
their gestation lasts twenty months.
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Another female, wise and patient,
comes to protect and assist her.
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As for me, my freedom
has come to an end once again.
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I had to ask a neighbour to accompany
my wife to her mother's house.
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I won't have time to look after her.
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She too is expecting a child.
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India's great rivers are born
at the foot of the Himalayas
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All the snow that melts
on the roof of the world represents,
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for 400 million human beings,
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life.
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From the water blooms
the calm beauty of lotus flowers.
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Everything that is
extremely beautiful or useful
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is extremely sacred.
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When faced with death,
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the general belief is that when a man dies,
his life doesn't end
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because he's reincarnated in another.
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But no one knows in whom.
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Therefore, all men are brothers.
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In the Shanti Parva a Brahmin tells
a man mourning for his dead son,
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"You are despair itself,
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"for you don't despair for yourself,
but for someone else."
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The poem also says,
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"I believe that my own soul
does not belong to me,
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"but all creation belongs to me,
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"and by virtue of this certainty
I am never too happy nor too sad."
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The Ganges is the river
that purifies everything,
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and dissolves the ashes of the dead
into nature.
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Benares, the holy city,
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descends steeply
to the sacred banks of the river.
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Inside, the city is swarming with life.
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The water flows placidly by,
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indifferent to the architecture
that it slowly swallows up.
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This is the Mahanadi River.
It runs almost parallel to the Ganges.
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It's an example of the force of nature.
253
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No bridge withstands
the fury of its waters
254
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when they swell after the monsoons.
255
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Attempts have been made
to dominate this fury.
256
00:40:23,917 --> 00:40:26,417
In the Mahabharata,
the great Indian epic poem,
257
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and in the Bhagavadgita,
the philosophical book of life,
258
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it says that every word uttered
and every action taken
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remain with us like an image
reflected in a mirror.
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00:40:38,834 --> 00:40:42,084
And judgement will only be
pronounced later on.
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00:40:42,209 --> 00:40:46,459
It's also says, "Both wise
and ignorant people are equally happy.
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"Only the mediocre are unhappy.
263
00:40:48,626 --> 00:40:52,959
"The truth is in everything,
even partially in what is untrue."
264
00:40:53,084 --> 00:40:56,251
Karma, meaning actions,
represents man's duty.
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00:40:57,251 --> 00:41:02,001
In Hirakud, a dam was constructed
stretching 43 kilometres long.
266
00:41:02,126 --> 00:41:04,501
They are constructing the access roads.
267
00:41:21,792 --> 00:41:26,667
A huge artificial lake was created,
and its level rises daily.
268
00:41:27,792 --> 00:41:32,167
The tree tops remind us that, once,
the jungle stretched to this point.
269
00:41:40,751 --> 00:41:44,417
There were about 35,000 of us
working on site.
270
00:41:45,584 --> 00:41:48,792
It was tough, yes.
But we did it.
271
00:41:48,917 --> 00:41:50,917
Seven years of work.
272
00:41:51,876 --> 00:41:54,792
The time flew by for me,
273
00:41:58,917 --> 00:42:02,167
One strike of the pickaxe
after another.
274
00:42:03,292 --> 00:42:06,126
One basketful of earth
after another.
275
00:42:07,042 --> 00:42:08,417
Rock after rock.
276
00:42:08,542 --> 00:42:13,542
We dug, drilled, levelled,
and built so much.
277
00:43:46,792 --> 00:43:50,001
And today,
I, Devi Chakravarty, am here,
278
00:43:50,126 --> 00:43:53,042
waiting to see the site foreman.
279
00:43:56,292 --> 00:43:59,376
My wife's pouting
because we have to leave.
280
00:44:00,251 --> 00:44:03,501
Our son was born here, so...
281
00:44:03,626 --> 00:44:05,917
The work is finished here.
282
00:44:06,042 --> 00:44:08,459
I've been assigned
to another site.
283
00:44:08,584 --> 00:44:11,001
People like me are always in demand.
284
00:44:57,334 --> 00:44:59,626
Stop, please!
285
00:44:59,751 --> 00:45:02,126
Take this and go home.
286
00:45:03,542 --> 00:45:05,709
Let's go.
287
00:45:22,376 --> 00:45:25,376
It's amazing
how much material was used...
288
00:45:26,417 --> 00:45:30,709
and how many tools,
trucks and devices there were.
289
00:45:31,834 --> 00:45:33,876
An enormous quantity.
290
00:46:17,917 --> 00:46:22,667
Yes, I'd say I'm very proud
to have built this dam.
291
00:46:23,834 --> 00:46:25,626
Now it seems like nothing.
292
00:46:25,751 --> 00:46:29,292
People just say,
"A dam's been built."
293
00:46:29,417 --> 00:46:32,251
But no one imagines
what it was like.
294
00:46:45,084 --> 00:46:47,084
I know how my wife feels.
295
00:46:47,876 --> 00:46:50,709
It's sad to leave all this behind.
296
00:46:51,459 --> 00:46:55,292
But she doesn't think
about what we can do now.
297
00:47:01,417 --> 00:47:05,959
After all, more than one dam
needs to be built in this life.
298
00:47:23,584 --> 00:47:25,917
175 dead.
299
00:47:27,042 --> 00:47:29,626
But before, with all the floods,
300
00:47:29,751 --> 00:47:33,084
if we'd had to build a monument
for the victims,
301
00:47:33,209 --> 00:47:36,292
we'd have needed one
as long as this dam
302
00:47:36,417 --> 00:47:38,667
to inscribe all the names.
303
00:48:30,417 --> 00:48:32,792
Electricity, electricity.
304
00:48:32,917 --> 00:48:34,959
Magic, magic.
305
00:48:35,084 --> 00:48:37,584
Everything can be explained.
Everything.
306
00:48:37,709 --> 00:48:39,417
You have to think.
307
00:48:39,542 --> 00:48:42,501
Magic no longer exists.
Miracles no longer exist.
308
00:48:42,626 --> 00:48:45,792
Knowledge.
More magic. More mystery.
309
00:48:45,917 --> 00:48:48,084
Knowledge. Knowledge.
310
00:49:30,709 --> 00:49:32,751
The Hirakud Dam.
311
00:49:32,876 --> 00:49:35,626
We have the right to feel proud.
312
00:49:36,626 --> 00:49:38,834
It's built from nothing.
313
00:49:41,084 --> 00:49:43,501
One basketful of earth after another.
314
00:49:45,334 --> 00:49:47,292
Rock after rock.
315
00:49:54,042 --> 00:49:56,084
And heart.
316
00:49:57,167 --> 00:50:00,501
Yes, we put our hearts into it.
317
00:50:23,917 --> 00:50:25,876
Poor brother.
318
00:50:27,126 --> 00:50:30,042
Death is sad for those who remain.
319
00:50:54,376 --> 00:50:57,292
But perhaps it's beautiful
to dissolve into nature.
320
00:51:53,667 --> 00:52:00,292
I, Devi Chakravaty,
and my wife...
321
00:52:07,251 --> 00:52:09,376
found refuge here
322
00:52:09,501 --> 00:52:13,959
when we were sent
away from East Bengal
323
00:52:14,084 --> 00:52:16,792
due to the separation of Pakistan.
324
00:52:16,917 --> 00:52:19,292
Our son was born here.
325
00:52:19,417 --> 00:52:24,334
And here we set out
to build this immense work.
326
00:52:26,751 --> 00:52:30,167
This little temple will also
be swallowed up by the water.
327
00:52:30,292 --> 00:52:31,959
With all due respect,
328
00:52:32,084 --> 00:52:37,501
what, after all, is this little building
compared to our dam?
329
00:52:38,501 --> 00:52:42,751
Our sacred lake will now
be lost in the big lake.
330
00:52:57,959 --> 00:53:02,876
Who'd have thought then,
when I took my ritual bath here,
331
00:53:03,001 --> 00:53:07,459
that my destiny
would hold this surprise?
332
00:53:08,917 --> 00:53:12,501
Who could have thought
that men like us
333
00:53:12,626 --> 00:53:16,001
would be able to create a lake
334
00:53:16,126 --> 00:53:18,501
where there was a little pond?
335
00:54:21,459 --> 00:54:23,584
Here she comes.
336
00:54:23,709 --> 00:54:26,334
Where are you?
337
00:54:34,709 --> 00:54:36,126
What are you doing?
338
00:54:38,459 --> 00:54:40,876
Leave me alone!
339
00:54:43,001 --> 00:54:44,834
What do you want?
340
00:54:44,959 --> 00:54:47,001
What are you doing here?
341
00:54:47,626 --> 00:54:50,167
I looked for you everywhere.
342
00:54:50,292 --> 00:54:52,834
Your head is always in the clouds.
343
00:54:52,959 --> 00:54:57,542
You come down here
when we're about to leave?
344
00:54:58,917 --> 00:55:00,959
I don't understand you.
345
00:55:02,584 --> 00:55:04,376
Why not eat some more?
346
00:55:04,501 --> 00:55:07,001
We're full!
347
00:55:07,126 --> 00:55:10,542
We'll explode!
348
00:55:10,667 --> 00:55:14,292
We're not the only ones...
349
00:55:17,209 --> 00:55:21,584
No, thank you,
we must get up early tomorrow.
350
00:55:26,584 --> 00:55:29,584
Goodbye! We'll meet again.
351
00:55:48,667 --> 00:55:51,334
Look after them.
352
00:55:51,459 --> 00:55:53,251
Can't you see they're standing?
353
00:55:53,376 --> 00:55:55,126
Please, have a seat.
354
00:55:58,959 --> 00:56:01,459
How's your family?
355
00:56:01,584 --> 00:56:02,751
Very well, thank you.
356
00:56:02,876 --> 00:56:06,584
Write to us.
Don't forget us.
357
00:56:06,709 --> 00:56:09,459
Stay a little longer.
358
00:56:09,584 --> 00:56:12,626
- You're going?
- I must go home.
359
00:56:13,792 --> 00:56:15,709
Write to us as well.
360
00:56:15,834 --> 00:56:18,251
Remember us.
361
00:56:25,042 --> 00:56:26,792
Why are you just standing there?
362
00:56:26,917 --> 00:56:29,084
Let's tidy up a bit.
363
00:56:29,751 --> 00:56:32,042
Careful not to trip!
364
00:56:52,917 --> 00:56:56,584
Our farewell party was pretty good.
365
00:56:58,459 --> 00:57:01,459
But now I must endure her whining.
366
00:57:02,417 --> 00:57:05,959
Another town,
who knows how it will be?
367
00:57:06,709 --> 00:57:09,001
I'm fond of this house
368
00:57:09,126 --> 00:57:11,459
and the nice people here.
369
00:57:11,584 --> 00:57:13,876
Suddenly I have to leave everything.
370
00:57:14,001 --> 00:57:15,709
This is my destiny,
371
00:57:15,834 --> 00:57:18,084
never to have peace.
372
00:57:18,209 --> 00:57:20,459
We left our village,
373
00:57:20,584 --> 00:57:22,792
our field,
374
00:57:22,917 --> 00:57:24,917
and it's not over yet.
375
00:57:25,042 --> 00:57:28,126
I told you many times
376
00:57:28,251 --> 00:57:30,667
to try to stay here.
377
00:57:30,792 --> 00:57:34,292
But this man never listens to me!
378
00:57:34,417 --> 00:57:37,167
He's cold as a rock!
379
00:57:37,292 --> 00:57:39,834
He has no pity.
380
00:57:39,959 --> 00:57:44,334
Where will I go to live now?
To Hell?
381
00:57:44,459 --> 00:57:46,376
I came here.
382
00:57:46,501 --> 00:57:48,209
I had a child.
383
00:57:48,334 --> 00:57:50,376
I raised him.
384
00:57:50,501 --> 00:57:52,417
To leave this house,
385
00:57:52,542 --> 00:57:54,542
this marvellous dam...
386
00:57:54,667 --> 00:57:56,751
To end up where?
387
00:57:56,876 --> 00:57:58,126
Oh, it's awful!
388
00:57:58,251 --> 00:58:00,876
My heart is breaking!
389
00:58:01,001 --> 00:58:04,417
Instead, this man
has a heart of stone!
390
00:58:04,542 --> 00:58:07,917
I told you to prepare our things!
391
00:58:08,042 --> 00:58:09,959
Go! Move it!
392
00:58:19,834 --> 00:58:22,251
And so, we're leaving.
393
00:59:44,334 --> 00:59:46,959
Following the Indian coast to the West,
394
00:59:47,084 --> 00:59:50,042
one crosses vast plains,
rich with water,
395
00:59:50,167 --> 00:59:52,959
which are perfect for growing rice.
396
00:59:54,542 --> 00:59:57,959
There isn't a square metre
of land left unfarmed.
397
01:00:33,334 --> 01:00:36,209
India once had her fortresses.
398
01:00:37,542 --> 01:00:42,751
This is an ancient double-walled
Muslim citadel with four gates.
399
01:00:59,584 --> 01:01:03,001
All that remains
is a tiny village in the centre.
400
01:01:15,959 --> 01:01:19,042
The ancient mosque
has been abandoned.
401
01:01:22,417 --> 01:01:25,417
Strange geological architecture.
402
01:02:17,792 --> 01:02:20,042
I am 80 years old.
403
01:02:20,167 --> 01:02:22,459
I've lived here all my life,
404
01:02:22,584 --> 01:02:27,709
yet I still find this forest
fascinating and mysterious.
405
01:02:28,334 --> 01:02:29,876
Especially at night,
406
01:02:30,001 --> 01:02:35,542
when the tigers' love songs
echo fantastically in the air.
407
01:03:10,876 --> 01:03:16,792
The jungle is the temple in which
they celebrate their rites of love.
408
01:03:40,626 --> 01:03:43,417
When I awake
with the first sliver of light,
409
01:03:43,542 --> 01:03:47,376
I'm surrounded by an explosion of joy.
410
01:04:42,042 --> 01:04:47,334
My wife and I don't need
to exchange many words.
411
01:04:47,459 --> 01:04:49,626
Our gestures are enough,
412
01:04:49,751 --> 01:04:55,084
and the unchangeable solidarity
expressed in our eyes.
413
01:04:56,084 --> 01:04:58,167
Besides, it's been a long time
414
01:04:58,292 --> 01:05:02,584
that our daily duties have been shared.
415
01:05:03,251 --> 01:05:05,251
What more is there to say?
416
01:05:41,126 --> 01:05:43,917
My two sons are married.
417
01:05:44,042 --> 01:05:47,709
Every morning,
one of my daughters-in-law brings flowers
418
01:05:47,834 --> 01:05:50,542
for the customary divine tribute.
419
01:05:55,667 --> 01:06:00,292
My wife, like all of us,
is very devout,
420
01:06:00,417 --> 01:06:04,876
and every morning, she thanks God,
according to tradition.
421
01:06:44,751 --> 01:06:48,959
Hey, Rama! What are you doing?
422
01:06:49,084 --> 01:06:50,626
Come here.
423
01:06:50,751 --> 01:06:54,542
Go to that cowshed, milk the buffalo
and then clear the cowshed.
424
01:06:54,667 --> 01:06:58,126
I'm too old to work now.
425
01:06:58,251 --> 01:07:00,792
My children have taken over.
426
01:07:00,917 --> 01:07:05,042
All I can do now is advise them.
427
01:07:05,167 --> 01:07:10,501
The only thing I need now
is a contemplative life.
428
01:07:10,626 --> 01:07:15,751
Only one place in the world
can satisfy my needs -
429
01:07:15,876 --> 01:07:18,292
the jungle.
430
01:07:18,417 --> 01:07:19,917
I love my cows.
431
01:07:20,042 --> 01:07:24,542
They're beautiful, strong beasts,
and I take them everywhere with me.
432
01:07:40,167 --> 01:07:44,334
The women always have
the same tasks to perform.
433
01:08:03,501 --> 01:08:05,792
When I'm alone in the jungle,
434
01:08:05,917 --> 01:08:09,501
I'm very aware
of the presence of nature,
435
01:08:09,626 --> 01:08:13,584
and I feel I become one with it,
little by little.
436
01:09:05,584 --> 01:09:07,501
There's a fair in the village of Sume.
437
01:09:15,626 --> 01:09:17,417
Can I go with Rakhma?
438
01:09:41,292 --> 01:09:45,417
I've often met
this tiger that lives here.
439
01:09:45,542 --> 01:09:49,876
See how foolish men are,
myself first of all!
440
01:09:50,001 --> 01:09:55,042
I can't help feeling scared.
Yet I know it won't harm me.
441
01:10:01,084 --> 01:10:04,167
It walks away indifferently.
442
01:10:56,334 --> 01:11:00,917
One day, I was in the jungle
with my cows.
443
01:11:01,042 --> 01:11:04,001
I remember I wanted
to light a cigarette.
444
01:11:04,126 --> 01:11:08,209
Smoking is the last vice I have left.
445
01:11:09,251 --> 01:11:12,251
Suddenly,
I heard a strange noise.
446
01:11:21,751 --> 01:11:24,334
It was three trucks.
447
01:11:54,542 --> 01:11:58,501
Out of curiosity
I went towards the village.
448
01:12:00,167 --> 01:12:02,292
- What's going on?
- They're getting iron.
449
01:12:02,417 --> 01:12:04,126
There's lots of iron.
450
01:12:04,251 --> 01:12:05,751
We'll get some work.
451
01:12:05,876 --> 01:12:08,917
They were prospectors
searching for iron deposits.
452
01:12:09,042 --> 01:12:12,001
I'd often heard people talk of iron,
453
01:12:12,126 --> 01:12:15,292
but I thought it was just a legend.
454
01:12:17,042 --> 01:12:21,459
The next day, the men with the trucks
started up a motor,
455
01:12:21,584 --> 01:12:24,126
and it was a complete disaster.
456
01:12:24,251 --> 01:12:28,292
That din chased all the animals
out of the forest.
457
01:12:54,876 --> 01:12:59,501
Only the porcupines,
stupid and selfish animals, remained.
458
01:13:02,417 --> 01:13:04,459
But the jungle was transformed.
459
01:13:04,959 --> 01:13:09,959
I realised that the natural equilibrium
had been disturbed.
460
01:13:51,042 --> 01:13:56,626
I soon found evidence of how dramatic
that change was.
461
01:13:57,584 --> 01:14:02,167
I found the remains of a porcupine
and the bloodied tracks of the tiger.
462
01:14:02,292 --> 01:14:04,167
Unable to find other prey,
463
01:14:04,292 --> 01:14:08,709
it had pounced on the porcupine
and been wounded by those terrible spines.
464
01:14:09,542 --> 01:14:12,001
That discovery frightened me.
465
01:14:12,917 --> 01:14:16,667
I know how dangerous
an injured tiger can be.
466
01:14:16,792 --> 01:14:20,751
That's the moment
when they become man-eaters.
467
01:14:32,584 --> 01:14:38,334
That roar and those human screams
in the night were terrible signs.
468
01:14:41,542 --> 01:14:44,292
What I'd feared had happened.
469
01:14:44,417 --> 01:14:48,292
The tiger had attacked a man.
470
01:14:54,376 --> 01:14:59,126
The next day, my sons told me
the iron prospectors had decided
471
01:14:59,251 --> 01:15:02,751
to organise a tiger hunt.
472
01:15:05,917 --> 01:15:07,084
Why kill?
473
01:15:07,584 --> 01:15:11,167
Isn't the world big enough
for us all?
474
01:15:16,626 --> 01:15:21,667
The next morning, I thought
I'd get into the forest before the hunters.
475
01:15:48,042 --> 01:15:53,084
I tried to convince
the tiger to go elsewhere.
476
01:16:10,709 --> 01:16:14,001
Yes truly, the world is big.
477
01:16:14,126 --> 01:16:16,667
There's room for everyone.
478
01:16:28,792 --> 01:16:32,584
At times, heatwaves break out.
479
01:16:33,459 --> 01:16:36,626
The temperature rises dizzyingly.
480
01:16:41,459 --> 01:16:44,501
Water offers
the only available respite.
481
01:16:51,001 --> 01:16:53,084
The roads are abandoned.
482
01:16:53,751 --> 01:16:56,042
The rivers are used instead.
483
01:17:15,292 --> 01:17:19,126
Village life almost grinds to a halt.
484
01:17:27,917 --> 01:17:29,959
A sky like steel.
485
01:17:52,126 --> 01:17:55,001
It was surely one of these heatwaves
486
01:17:55,126 --> 01:17:59,251
that took Dulip by surprise
as he travelled with his monkey Ramu,
487
01:17:59,376 --> 01:18:01,709
to the festival of Baghdedi.
488
01:23:31,167 --> 01:23:34,959
Ramu the monkey
has arrived alone in Baghdedi.
489
01:25:05,709 --> 01:25:09,126
She entertains the crowds
as she's used to doing.
490
01:25:37,167 --> 01:25:40,542
She collects money
she doesn't know the use of.
491
01:27:11,042 --> 01:27:15,376
The wild monkeys threaten her
because she smells of man.
492
01:27:35,334 --> 01:27:38,792
The next day the pilgrims
leave for their villages.
493
01:28:34,167 --> 01:28:37,126
Ramu is left alone.
494
01:28:45,626 --> 01:28:49,459
On her last legs,
she gets adopted by a new master
495
01:28:50,542 --> 01:28:54,001
And Ramu begins a new life.
496
01:29:43,084 --> 01:29:44,917
And again, the crowds...
497
01:29:45,792 --> 01:29:47,834
the enormous crowds.
498
01:29:59,876 --> 01:30:05,167
THE END
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