1 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:11,761 Subtitles downloaded from podnapisi.Net 2 00:00:15,704 --> 00:00:20,403 I was born in the city of Bombay, once upon a time. 3 00:00:24,713 --> 00:00:28,149 At the precise instant of lndia's arrival at independence... 4 00:00:28,484 --> 00:00:33,114 on the stroke of midnight, I tumbled forth into the world. 5 00:00:36,258 --> 00:00:41,560 L, saleem sinai, was mysteriously handcuffed to history. 6 00:00:42,231 --> 00:00:45,257 My destiny, forever chained to my country's. 7 00:00:46,568 --> 00:00:48,661 And I couldn't even wipe my own nose... 8 00:00:48,737 --> 00:00:49,999 at the time. 9 00:00:58,380 --> 00:01:02,646 Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence; 10 00:01:03,552 --> 00:01:08,182 And my life really began on the shore of the dal lake in kashmir... 11 00:01:08,524 --> 00:01:11,288 More than 30 years before I was born. 12 00:01:15,464 --> 00:01:18,456 The central feature of my grandfather's anatomy... 13 00:01:18,634 --> 00:01:21,102 was his magnificent nose. 14 00:01:36,585 --> 00:01:38,212 Doctor Aziz. 15 00:01:38,453 --> 00:01:40,093 Good morning, ghani sahib. Good morning. 16 00:01:43,225 --> 00:01:46,353 Now that our own lady doctor is sick... 17 00:01:47,029 --> 00:01:50,089 you, doctor Aziz, get the opportunity and she gets the sack. 18 00:01:50,666 --> 00:01:52,691 Big chance for you, young man. Yes, sir. 19 00:01:52,968 --> 00:01:54,289 I've heard nice things about you. 20 00:01:54,403 --> 00:01:57,497 Good doctor, Europe-returned. Good family background. 21 00:01:57,673 --> 00:01:59,641 Well, good enough. 22 00:02:00,976 --> 00:02:02,967 My daughter is not well. 23 00:02:03,111 --> 00:02:05,375 Do a good job. Make her alright. 24 00:02:05,547 --> 00:02:07,174 I have many friends in this town. 25 00:02:07,282 --> 00:02:09,443 And you have a practice to build. Right? 26 00:02:09,685 --> 00:02:11,050 - Right. - Right. 27 00:02:21,463 --> 00:02:22,657 Where is she, your daughter? 28 00:02:22,998 --> 00:02:25,228 She is standing behind the sheet, like a good girl. 29 00:02:27,469 --> 00:02:29,829 But, ghani sahib, how will I examine her without seeing her? 30 00:02:30,038 --> 00:02:33,303 Ah, I can see your confusion. 31 00:02:34,309 --> 00:02:38,712 You Europe returned chappies forget certain things. 32 00:02:39,681 --> 00:02:41,482 My daughter is not going to flaunt her body... 33 00:02:41,516 --> 00:02:44,485 under the nose of any tom, dick or, for that matter, Aziz. 34 00:02:45,087 --> 00:02:46,179 You will... 35 00:02:46,421 --> 00:02:48,651 specify the portion that you want to examine. 36 00:02:50,492 --> 00:02:51,982 What does the lady complain of? 37 00:02:52,027 --> 00:02:55,326 My poor child has terrible. Toodreading - stomach-ache. 38 00:02:57,199 --> 00:02:59,360 In that case, may I examine her? 39 00:02:59,568 --> 00:03:01,297 Yes - naseem, stomach, pronto. 40 00:03:20,122 --> 00:03:21,020 May I? 41 00:03:21,089 --> 00:03:22,283 Yeah, yes, you can. 42 00:03:22,491 --> 00:03:23,423 Thank you. 43 00:03:42,344 --> 00:03:45,245 Doctor Aziz, my poor child is suffering from constipation. 44 00:03:45,314 --> 00:03:47,248 - Yes. - No, no. 45 00:03:47,582 --> 00:03:49,106 Don't even think about it. 46 00:03:49,151 --> 00:03:51,676 There is no question of being permitted to administer an enema. 47 00:03:51,953 --> 00:03:54,387 No, no. No, no, ghani sahib. No. I said no. 48 00:04:01,997 --> 00:04:03,191 Doctor Aziz! 49 00:04:11,540 --> 00:04:12,632 Thank you. 50 00:04:20,248 --> 00:04:23,479 Ls it... permitted that I touch? 51 00:04:24,353 --> 00:04:27,049 Touch away, touch away! Hands of a healer! 52 00:04:27,122 --> 00:04:28,111 Thank you. 53 00:04:33,328 --> 00:04:35,125 With your permission, please. 54 00:04:41,536 --> 00:04:43,436 Is it the lady's time of the month? 55 00:04:43,572 --> 00:04:44,436 Yes. 56 00:04:44,573 --> 00:04:47,098 But then, then... then there is nothing to worry about. 57 00:04:47,175 --> 00:04:48,574 It's, it's, it's alright. 58 00:04:48,643 --> 00:04:50,201 Don't be embarrassed, old chap! 59 00:04:51,012 --> 00:04:52,479 You're the family doctor now! 60 00:05:13,335 --> 00:05:16,668 Doctor Aziz... she has a headache. 61 00:05:36,458 --> 00:05:38,585 My goodness doctor, what a nose! 62 00:05:41,329 --> 00:05:42,353 Yes... 63 00:05:42,397 --> 00:05:43,659 it's quite a specimen. 64 00:05:45,767 --> 00:05:47,462 I agree. 65 00:05:52,073 --> 00:05:53,540 So, doctor Aziz. 66 00:05:56,178 --> 00:05:57,202 Anything else? 67 00:05:58,079 --> 00:05:58,959 Just one more thing... 68 00:06:01,316 --> 00:06:02,613 We will be a modern couple. 69 00:06:03,952 --> 00:06:05,351 Naseem will not wear the veil. 70 00:06:05,454 --> 00:06:06,148 So... 71 00:06:06,221 --> 00:06:08,212 you will allow other men to look at her face? 72 00:06:09,524 --> 00:06:11,389 Most men, ghani sahib, are not beasts. 73 00:06:11,460 --> 00:06:13,951 Most men are also not blind, doctor sahib. 74 00:06:33,648 --> 00:06:37,607 Listen, would you... Move a little, please. 75 00:06:39,354 --> 00:06:42,152 Move where? Move how? 76 00:06:43,225 --> 00:06:47,389 I mean... Like, like a woman. 77 00:06:54,636 --> 00:06:56,001 Who have I married? 78 00:06:57,239 --> 00:06:59,503 I know you foreign-educated types. 79 00:07:00,575 --> 00:07:03,408 You do God knows what with those foreign terrible women, 80 00:07:04,212 --> 00:07:06,009 and then you expect us to be like them. 81 00:07:08,250 --> 00:07:09,308 Listen, doctor sahib, 82 00:07:10,585 --> 00:07:14,419 husband or no husband, I am not the moving type. 83 00:07:23,198 --> 00:07:24,187 Goodbye. 84 00:07:48,356 --> 00:07:53,191 In agra, my grandfather contracted a dangerous form of optimism. 85 00:07:53,495 --> 00:07:55,588 It was caused by mian Abdullah, 86 00:07:56,264 --> 00:07:58,289 the hope of all lndian muslims... 87 00:07:58,366 --> 00:08:00,561 who were against the partition of the country... 88 00:08:00,635 --> 00:08:02,466 into lndia and Pakistan. 89 00:08:03,238 --> 00:08:06,230 A politician with a peacock-feather fan. 90 00:08:06,508 --> 00:08:08,601 - We can beat them. - I'm sure. 91 00:08:09,110 --> 00:08:10,975 We are ready for whatever may come. 92 00:08:11,046 --> 00:08:12,673 There is talk of dirty deeds. 93 00:08:12,948 --> 00:08:14,040 Oh yes? 94 00:08:14,182 --> 00:08:16,582 This is nadir Khan, my secretary. 95 00:08:16,718 --> 00:08:17,514 Nice to meet you, nadir. 96 00:08:17,586 --> 00:08:20,020 He has a heightened imagination. 97 00:08:20,322 --> 00:08:21,584 He's a poet, you see. 98 00:08:21,656 --> 00:08:22,645 Oh, a poet... 99 00:08:22,691 --> 00:08:26,422 And what poetry! Not a single verse! 100 00:08:26,561 --> 00:08:28,085 Not a single verb! 101 00:08:28,330 --> 00:08:32,130 Well, all these ideas seem out of date to me, excuse me, sir. 102 00:08:32,434 --> 00:08:34,265 All artistic expression is equal, 103 00:08:34,436 --> 00:08:38,395 poetry, movies, even the old men who use their skill to... 104 00:08:38,473 --> 00:08:40,498 spit out betel-juice and hit a spittoon. 105 00:08:40,742 --> 00:08:42,642 Perhaps I will get you a spittoon,.. 106 00:08:42,711 --> 00:08:44,303 So that you can practice your art. 107 00:08:44,379 --> 00:08:46,210 How about that, mian Abdullah? 108 00:08:47,449 --> 00:08:49,417 These are new ideas. 109 00:08:53,521 --> 00:08:55,216 We must leave, your highness. 110 00:08:55,390 --> 00:08:57,585 Excuse us. Dr. Aziz. 111 00:09:49,110 --> 00:09:50,270 Mian sahib? 112 00:10:45,233 --> 00:10:46,632 Help me, doctor Aziz. 113 00:10:48,403 --> 00:10:49,495 What? 114 00:10:52,407 --> 00:10:53,499 Please help me. 115 00:10:54,075 --> 00:10:55,201 Who's this? 116 00:10:57,278 --> 00:10:58,438 Sorry for the interruption! 117 00:10:59,013 --> 00:11:00,378 Such an intrusion. 118 00:11:01,716 --> 00:11:03,047 Nadir? 119 00:11:03,318 --> 00:11:04,410 I had to hide! 120 00:11:04,486 --> 00:11:07,216 Ls that you, nadir? What are you...? 121 00:11:08,389 --> 00:11:10,186 I saw everything, doctor! 122 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:13,418 They killed him. 123 00:11:14,696 --> 00:11:16,664 I saw them murder him. 124 00:11:17,198 --> 00:11:19,632 Assassins shot him like a dog. 125 00:11:19,768 --> 00:11:22,293 And then they saw me! Shh. Quiet. 126 00:11:22,470 --> 00:11:23,732 You have to hide me, doctor. 127 00:11:24,305 --> 00:11:25,567 Or I'm a dead man. 128 00:11:27,075 --> 00:11:31,239 At home, doctor aadam Aziz found himself surrounded by women. 129 00:11:32,046 --> 00:11:34,276 His formidable wife, naseem, 130 00:11:34,516 --> 00:11:39,010 and their three daughters: Wise alia, sweet mumtaz, 131 00:11:39,187 --> 00:11:40,415 and flighty emerald. 132 00:11:40,488 --> 00:11:42,046 He's asked us for our shelter. 133 00:11:42,457 --> 00:11:43,549 We have no choice. 134 00:11:52,033 --> 00:11:53,125 Please. 135 00:12:03,578 --> 00:12:05,739 And spare us your crazy oaths! 136 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:13,514 Where are you going? 137 00:12:14,088 --> 00:12:15,180 Listen. 138 00:12:19,661 --> 00:12:23,119 But, abba, where will we put him? 139 00:12:23,998 --> 00:12:25,319 We'll sweep him under the carpet. 140 00:12:26,334 --> 00:12:28,199 Like all other problems. 141 00:12:39,514 --> 00:12:42,574 Sometimes emotions are stirred into food... 142 00:12:42,684 --> 00:12:44,379 and become what you feel. 143 00:12:46,020 --> 00:12:49,114 And sometimes, people leak into each other; 144 00:12:49,190 --> 00:12:51,021 Like flavours when you cook. 145 00:12:53,628 --> 00:12:57,029 Mumtaz Aziz, destined to be my mother, 146 00:12:57,432 --> 00:13:02,199 took upon herself the duties of caring for the needs of nadir Khan. 147 00:13:26,761 --> 00:13:28,251 You're very good. 148 00:13:33,334 --> 00:13:38,135 I'm not a brainbox like alia, or a beauty like emerald. 149 00:13:43,278 --> 00:13:44,768 But you are. 150 00:13:47,348 --> 00:13:50,681 Eat, now. Don't let it go cold. 151 00:14:36,397 --> 00:14:38,763 Terrible business, sir. I fully understand your grief. 152 00:14:39,567 --> 00:14:41,535 But you did know this fellow... 153 00:14:41,602 --> 00:14:44,696 nadir, secretary to mian Abdullah? 154 00:14:46,274 --> 00:14:48,401 No, I don't think so, no. 155 00:14:48,643 --> 00:14:51,476 Met him at the rani of cooch naheen's on the night of the killing? 156 00:14:52,113 --> 00:14:53,478 Yes, of course... 157 00:14:54,048 --> 00:14:56,289 Yes, I thought you might be able to shed some light on... 158 00:14:56,351 --> 00:14:58,581 his disappearance. No?... 159 00:15:02,724 --> 00:15:04,157 No. 160 00:15:04,392 --> 00:15:06,519 And of course these charming young ladies... 161 00:15:06,594 --> 00:15:08,186 of yours have also seen nothing. 162 00:15:08,262 --> 00:15:10,389 And if we should see something, major zulfikar, 163 00:15:10,465 --> 00:15:11,295 what should we do? 164 00:15:11,466 --> 00:15:12,558 Ah. Miss emerald. 165 00:15:12,633 --> 00:15:14,294 Naturally you should inform your father... 166 00:15:14,369 --> 00:15:17,497 who will then alert me in my office at the military cantonment. 167 00:15:17,638 --> 00:15:20,664 Yes, of course. - Of course. Thank you so much, major. 168 00:15:21,275 --> 00:15:22,572 Yes. 169 00:15:22,744 --> 00:15:24,177 Thank you, major. 170 00:15:27,015 --> 00:15:29,279 Sir, ladies. 171 00:15:31,052 --> 00:15:32,485 Madam. 172 00:15:38,393 --> 00:15:39,633 Did you see that girl, captain? 173 00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:40,649 Yes, sir. 174 00:15:40,728 --> 00:15:43,026 That, captain, is the girl I intend to marry. 175 00:15:43,097 --> 00:15:44,189 Yes, sir. 176 00:15:58,112 --> 00:16:02,242 Feeling left out by her self-imposed vow of silence, 177 00:16:02,650 --> 00:16:07,019 my grandmother eavesdropped on her daughters' dreams. 178 00:16:15,229 --> 00:16:17,322 She visited emerald's dreams... 179 00:16:18,266 --> 00:16:21,394 and found zulfikar lurking in them. 180 00:16:35,283 --> 00:16:40,448 In alia's, she saw the successful and handsome businessman... 181 00:16:40,721 --> 00:16:42,313 Ahmed sinai. 182 00:16:51,566 --> 00:16:55,229 And in mumtaz's, she saw a son. 183 00:16:56,471 --> 00:17:00,339 A boy with a cucumber nose, unfortunately. 184 00:17:10,151 --> 00:17:15,088 No, tell me a poem... one of yours. 185 00:17:15,156 --> 00:17:18,057 No, no, you wouldn't like it, ok? 186 00:17:18,126 --> 00:17:21,425 You must! The best one you ever wrote. 187 00:17:21,996 --> 00:17:24,464 It's got no rhymes. It's free verse. 188 00:17:24,565 --> 00:17:26,123 Does it at least have a name? 189 00:17:30,605 --> 00:17:31,503 Yes. 190 00:17:31,672 --> 00:17:33,037 So? What is it? 191 00:17:35,143 --> 00:17:36,201 "Mumtaz." 192 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,024 spittoon. 193 00:18:01,369 --> 00:18:03,166 So that you can practise your art. 194 00:18:03,437 --> 00:18:04,597 See, I remembered. 195 00:18:05,306 --> 00:18:07,968 Okay, I'm sorry, everyone, but is this really happening? 196 00:18:08,176 --> 00:18:10,076 They're going to get married and live in the cellar... 197 00:18:10,144 --> 00:18:11,668 and we have to keep the secret? 198 00:18:12,013 --> 00:18:13,105 For how long? 199 00:18:13,247 --> 00:18:14,942 Ten years? This is ridiculous. 200 00:18:15,016 --> 00:18:17,985 Please, emerald. There might still be killers out there. 201 00:18:18,052 --> 00:18:19,076 I need some time. 202 00:18:19,187 --> 00:18:21,212 What would major zulfikar say? 203 00:18:21,489 --> 00:18:24,390 Already he wonders, how nadir survived the shooting. 204 00:18:24,458 --> 00:18:27,154 If nadir is innocent he should go to the major and come clean. 205 00:18:27,228 --> 00:18:30,322 If nadir is innocent? If, you say? 206 00:18:30,398 --> 00:18:32,423 Please, emerald. Some time, na? 207 00:18:33,401 --> 00:18:35,528 Okay, okay. 208 00:18:37,138 --> 00:18:37,968 Hide on... 209 00:18:38,039 --> 00:18:39,666 like a fat worm under the ground. 210 00:18:40,007 --> 00:18:41,065 Emerald. 211 00:18:41,209 --> 00:18:42,233 Enough. 212 00:18:46,147 --> 00:18:47,307 Begin the ceremony, please. 213 00:19:13,107 --> 00:19:14,301 I'm sorry. 214 00:19:15,243 --> 00:19:17,302 No. No, it's okay. 215 00:19:18,145 --> 00:19:20,340 It's okay. It'll come, alright. 216 00:19:54,215 --> 00:19:57,343 Family history, too, has dietary laws. 217 00:19:58,219 --> 00:20:00,983 One is supposed only to swallow the halal parts, 218 00:20:01,155 --> 00:20:02,554 drained of blood. 219 00:20:04,025 --> 00:20:06,550 But that makes the stories less juicy, 220 00:20:07,328 --> 00:20:09,262 and this was ajuicy part. 221 00:20:09,697 --> 00:20:11,164 So it must be told. 222 00:20:12,633 --> 00:20:13,725 Try again. 223 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,007 What's going on? 224 00:20:20,708 --> 00:20:23,268 - Abba, - Move! 225 00:20:23,544 --> 00:20:26,377 Abba, abba, please don't tell them anything... 226 00:20:26,447 --> 00:20:28,142 This house for far too long. 227 00:20:28,215 --> 00:20:29,546 Abbajan... please, what's wrong? 228 00:20:29,617 --> 00:20:32,137 What's wrong? What's wrong you say - I'll tell you what's wrong! 229 00:20:32,253 --> 00:20:34,278 My daughter tells me she is still a virgin! 230 00:20:35,022 --> 00:20:36,080 That's what is wrong. 231 00:20:37,558 --> 00:20:39,321 I love my husband. 232 00:20:39,393 --> 00:20:41,327 - What? - I love him, abba. 233 00:20:41,462 --> 00:20:43,692 The other thing will come, right? It will. 234 00:20:44,365 --> 00:20:46,492 A marriage should not depend on this thing, 235 00:20:47,568 --> 00:20:48,694 but on love. 236 00:20:51,105 --> 00:20:52,572 This should not have been mentioned. 237 00:21:21,135 --> 00:21:22,295 Down there! 238 00:21:23,637 --> 00:21:24,729 - Weapons out! - No! 239 00:21:25,005 --> 00:21:26,472 You'll thank me later, just wait and see. 240 00:21:26,540 --> 00:21:27,564 Stay tight! 241 00:21:33,614 --> 00:21:34,672 Follow me, boys! 242 00:21:45,025 --> 00:21:47,653 Women must marry men, not mice. 243 00:21:48,028 --> 00:21:49,427 So you found your voice. 244 00:21:49,697 --> 00:21:51,722 Whose crazy fool's scheme was this... 245 00:21:52,099 --> 00:21:53,979 to allow this coward who hides underground... 246 00:21:54,001 --> 00:21:55,400 like a worm, into our home? 247 00:21:55,503 --> 00:21:56,663 The bird has turned! 248 00:21:57,638 --> 00:21:58,627 The worm has flown! 249 00:21:58,706 --> 00:22:01,470 After all that, he actually got away? 250 00:22:29,503 --> 00:22:30,629 I divorce thee, 251 00:22:31,439 --> 00:22:32,428 I divorce thee, 252 00:22:33,707 --> 00:22:35,140 I divorce thee. 253 00:22:41,482 --> 00:22:43,040 That sweet man... 254 00:22:44,552 --> 00:22:46,179 he set me free. 255 00:22:56,263 --> 00:22:58,128 Please look over here, sir. 256 00:23:00,167 --> 00:23:01,429 Big smile! 257 00:23:03,370 --> 00:23:04,359 Thank you. 258 00:23:04,438 --> 00:23:06,167 Thank you. Thank you. 259 00:23:06,540 --> 00:23:09,008 It's a... it's a beautiful wedding, sir, really. 260 00:23:09,076 --> 00:23:10,168 Most grateful. 261 00:23:10,411 --> 00:23:12,140 Damn glad I chose not to charge you... 262 00:23:12,213 --> 00:23:13,653 with harbouring a wanted criminal. 263 00:23:14,215 --> 00:23:15,415 Married your daughter instead. 264 00:23:15,583 --> 00:23:18,279 Thank you, sir. Thanks very much. 265 00:23:25,092 --> 00:23:26,286 Go away! 266 00:23:36,170 --> 00:23:37,728 You know, I've always loved children. 267 00:23:38,239 --> 00:23:39,365 Me too. 268 00:23:40,307 --> 00:23:44,141 But never had any. My former wife couldn't. 269 00:23:44,211 --> 00:23:47,510 Oh, I'm sorry. But, you could always still... 270 00:23:47,581 --> 00:23:48,479 Marry again. 271 00:23:49,450 --> 00:23:50,348 Yes. 272 00:23:51,318 --> 00:23:53,479 Well, if I found the right girl. 273 00:23:55,256 --> 00:23:59,659 And, if she would have me, if I asked. 274 00:24:02,363 --> 00:24:03,694 Yes? 275 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:07,360 Yes. 276 00:24:09,203 --> 00:24:11,637 And move to Bombay with me. 277 00:24:12,139 --> 00:24:13,470 We're moving to...? 278 00:24:15,976 --> 00:24:18,376 I mean, you're moving? 279 00:24:19,146 --> 00:24:20,704 Safer for a family, no? 280 00:24:45,639 --> 00:24:47,129 Big smile! 281 00:25:00,521 --> 00:25:01,317 Mumtaz.. 282 00:25:32,987 --> 00:25:34,284 I've got something for you. 283 00:25:36,190 --> 00:25:38,317 What? A present? 284 00:25:39,059 --> 00:25:42,358 Better than that. A new name. 285 00:25:43,163 --> 00:25:44,221 Amina. 286 00:25:46,634 --> 00:25:47,623 Do you like it? 287 00:25:49,370 --> 00:25:50,428 Amina... 288 00:25:50,504 --> 00:25:51,562 Yes. 289 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,099 Nadir and mumtaz are in the past now. 290 00:25:58,479 --> 00:26:00,413 Better to leave them behind, no? 291 00:26:04,284 --> 00:26:06,275 A new name for a new beginning... 292 00:26:07,087 --> 00:26:09,487 Mrs amina sinai. 293 00:26:12,493 --> 00:26:13,983 Whatever you say. 294 00:26:18,265 --> 00:26:22,133 Why did she marry him so quickly? For solace? 295 00:26:22,603 --> 00:26:25,128 For the children they both wanted so much? 296 00:26:26,106 --> 00:26:29,269 My mother amina sinai, in her new incarnation, 297 00:26:29,977 --> 00:26:32,070 resolved to forget the poet nadir... 298 00:26:32,446 --> 00:26:35,677 and fall in love with my father, Ahmed sinai. 299 00:26:37,017 --> 00:26:38,712 But love is a rare thing... 300 00:26:54,368 --> 00:26:55,528 Ah Bombay! 301 00:26:56,470 --> 00:26:59,439 Bombay, of which the old tunes sang, 302 00:26:59,707 --> 00:27:02,699 "prima in lndis! Gateway to lndia! 303 00:27:02,976 --> 00:27:06,104 Star of the east with her face to the west!" 304 00:27:06,647 --> 00:27:08,205 ah Bombay! 305 00:27:15,422 --> 00:27:17,447 Ah, mr methwold. 306 00:27:17,658 --> 00:27:19,683 Mr sinai. How do you do? 307 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,689 Very well, and you? My wife. 308 00:27:23,997 --> 00:27:26,192 Well, mr methwold, I must say... 309 00:27:26,266 --> 00:27:29,133 the price you're asking for Buckingham villa, it's... 310 00:27:29,536 --> 00:27:30,628 It's rather... 311 00:27:30,738 --> 00:27:32,262 Well, it's absolutely... 312 00:27:32,473 --> 00:27:36,000 Ridiculous. Yes, a ridiculously low price. 313 00:27:36,376 --> 00:27:39,209 We're giving the whole blasted country away, in point of fact. 314 00:27:40,514 --> 00:27:42,243 Hundreds of years of decent, honourable... 315 00:27:42,282 --> 00:27:44,443 government and then all of a sudden it's up and off. 316 00:27:46,987 --> 00:27:49,046 You must admit, though, we weren't all bad. 317 00:27:49,156 --> 00:27:49,986 Not at all. 318 00:27:50,057 --> 00:27:51,547 We built your schools... 319 00:27:51,658 --> 00:27:53,216 railway stations... 320 00:27:54,094 --> 00:27:56,119 trains, so forth... 321 00:28:05,372 --> 00:28:07,465 I was just telling my wife what a fine man you are! 322 00:28:25,692 --> 00:28:30,686 Look here, Willie, do me a favour, man, will you. 323 00:28:30,964 --> 00:28:32,329 I've got this terrible headache. 324 00:28:32,399 --> 00:28:34,697 And if you could nip down to kemp's corner 325 00:28:35,202 --> 00:28:37,432 and ask the chemist to give you some pills. 326 00:28:39,139 --> 00:28:41,780 Servants are all down with a cold. Otherwise I wouldn't have asked. 327 00:28:42,209 --> 00:28:44,268 Yes, sir. Of course, sir. 328 00:28:44,344 --> 00:28:45,311 Good man. 329 00:29:16,009 --> 00:29:19,536 My own little transfer of power will also take place... 330 00:29:19,613 --> 00:29:23,743 At midnight on August the 14th, 1947. 331 00:29:25,586 --> 00:29:27,486 When lndia rids itself of us... 332 00:29:28,522 --> 00:29:29,580 Buckingham villa... 333 00:29:30,390 --> 00:29:34,417 will be free of William methwold. Me. 334 00:29:35,629 --> 00:29:38,621 And the grass must be sprayed every single night. 335 00:29:39,566 --> 00:29:41,158 Well, absolutely, mr methwold. 336 00:29:41,235 --> 00:29:43,032 Well, as you say in hindustani, 337 00:29:43,170 --> 00:29:46,071 sab kuch ticktock hai. Everything is tickety-boo. 338 00:29:46,139 --> 00:29:47,231 Absolutely. 339 00:29:48,442 --> 00:29:51,536 And another small detail, mr sinai. 340 00:29:52,145 --> 00:29:55,581 Nothing in the house must change until independence. 341 00:29:56,183 --> 00:29:59,311 It must be bought complete with its entire contents. 342 00:29:59,419 --> 00:30:01,546 Janum, everything? 343 00:30:02,022 --> 00:30:05,185 Not even a spoon can be thrown? And this lamp... for two months? 344 00:30:09,396 --> 00:30:10,454 Well, mr sinai? 345 00:30:10,530 --> 00:30:12,293 Yes sir, mr methwold? 346 00:30:14,635 --> 00:30:16,569 One other little condition. 347 00:30:17,237 --> 00:30:20,331 We will take a cocktail here, in the grounds of Buckingham villa, 348 00:30:20,474 --> 00:30:22,704 every evening until my departure from lndia. 349 00:30:23,176 --> 00:30:24,143 Very well. 350 00:30:36,623 --> 00:30:41,458 Good night ladies, good night, ladies... 351 00:30:41,528 --> 00:30:44,497 This is wee Willie. Local tramp and his wife, vanita. 352 00:30:44,731 --> 00:30:46,198 You'll be seeing a lot of them. 353 00:30:56,476 --> 00:31:01,004 Farewell ladies, farewell ladies... 354 00:31:01,048 --> 00:31:03,346 Farewell ladies... 355 00:31:03,417 --> 00:31:05,749 we're going to say goodnight. 356 00:31:10,624 --> 00:31:13,184 Good night ladies... 357 00:31:13,260 --> 00:31:14,352 Good night ladies... 358 00:31:14,394 --> 00:31:18,057 Sings well, your wee Willie. Damn silly name, though. 359 00:31:19,633 --> 00:31:21,328 But you gave it to him. 360 00:31:21,501 --> 00:31:24,231 So I did. Amongst other things. 361 00:31:30,110 --> 00:31:32,510 Good night ladies... 362 00:31:32,746 --> 00:31:35,112 good night ladies... 363 00:31:35,182 --> 00:31:37,742 We're going to leave you now. 364 00:31:38,018 --> 00:31:39,315 We're going... 365 00:31:39,386 --> 00:31:43,584 to say good night! 366 00:31:45,058 --> 00:31:46,047 Very good, Willie. 367 00:31:46,426 --> 00:31:50,260 Wee Willie winkie is my name; To sing for my supper is my fame. 368 00:31:50,397 --> 00:31:52,262 I hope you are com-for-table 369 00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:53,998 or are you come-for-tea? 370 00:31:54,634 --> 00:31:57,125 Oh, joke-joke ladies and ladahs! 371 00:31:58,205 --> 00:31:59,433 Bottoms up. 372 00:32:01,508 --> 00:32:02,600 Fix you another one? 373 00:32:02,743 --> 00:32:04,608 How kind. Thank you, mr sinai. 374 00:32:08,115 --> 00:32:09,309 Pretty girl, that. 375 00:32:10,717 --> 00:32:13,083 Must be due around about the same time as you. 376 00:32:14,721 --> 00:32:16,985 Sab kuch ticktock hai. 377 00:32:18,025 --> 00:32:20,016 Everything is indeed, tickety-boo. 378 00:32:20,093 --> 00:32:21,424 Tickety-boo... 379 00:32:48,221 --> 00:32:52,453 I think, madame, you're going to have a baby boy. 380 00:33:30,063 --> 00:33:31,997 Joe! My God! 381 00:33:35,335 --> 00:33:36,324 What are you doing here? 382 00:33:38,305 --> 00:33:39,397 You and your politics! 383 00:33:58,325 --> 00:33:59,349 Against the rich. 384 00:34:04,064 --> 00:34:06,259 The rich need to become poor, and the poor rich. 385 00:34:07,968 --> 00:34:09,094 Understand, Mary? 386 00:34:09,503 --> 00:34:11,562 - You need money? - No. 387 00:34:16,476 --> 00:34:21,277 Pakistan and lndia were born washing themselves in one another's blood. 388 00:34:22,682 --> 00:34:25,549 The empire on which the sun never sets. 389 00:34:25,685 --> 00:34:27,550 But I will not describe it. 390 00:34:28,088 --> 00:34:30,318 I will avert my eyes from the violence. 391 00:34:31,158 --> 00:34:35,026 Selfish perhaps, but excusably so in my opinion. 392 00:34:35,428 --> 00:34:38,363 After all, one is not born every day. 393 00:34:40,033 --> 00:34:45,061 Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny. 394 00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:51,033 And now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... 395 00:34:51,611 --> 00:34:53,101 not wholly... 396 00:34:53,180 --> 00:34:57,048 or in full measure, but very substantially. 397 00:35:20,740 --> 00:35:21,638 Busy night! 398 00:35:26,713 --> 00:35:27,509 Joe! 399 00:35:27,681 --> 00:35:30,081 I need to get out of Bombay. They're after me. 400 00:35:40,493 --> 00:35:42,017 We need to do it now, Mary. 401 00:35:42,429 --> 00:35:43,623 The real revolution. 402 00:35:58,578 --> 00:35:59,977 Say you love me. 403 00:36:02,015 --> 00:36:03,243 Say it once. 404 00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:10,681 At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps... 405 00:36:11,258 --> 00:36:14,352 India will awake to life and freedom. 406 00:36:15,562 --> 00:36:20,295 A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history... 407 00:36:20,567 --> 00:36:22,034 when we step out... 408 00:36:22,102 --> 00:36:23,660 from the old to the new. 409 00:36:24,304 --> 00:36:28,707 When an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, 410 00:36:29,042 --> 00:36:32,443 long suppressed, finds utterance. 411 00:36:34,247 --> 00:36:38,183 At the precise instant of lndia's arrival at independence. 412 00:36:38,985 --> 00:36:41,579 On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact, 413 00:36:42,722 --> 00:36:45,350 I tumbled forth into the world. 414 00:36:50,697 --> 00:36:52,130 Vanita? 415 00:36:54,067 --> 00:36:55,295 Oh, Jesus. 416 00:37:08,448 --> 00:37:10,678 Poor baby... 417 00:37:12,452 --> 00:37:13,578 poor thing. 418 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:15,119 Mommy no more. 419 00:37:19,326 --> 00:37:21,658 Oh Mary, so many babies... 420 00:37:21,728 --> 00:37:22,592 Give it to me. 421 00:37:23,330 --> 00:37:25,298 Private room number four. Sinai. 422 00:37:28,301 --> 00:37:30,565 Sinai. 423 00:37:57,430 --> 00:37:59,523 Two babies in her hands. 424 00:38:01,167 --> 00:38:02,634 Two lives in her power. 425 00:38:04,170 --> 00:38:08,539 She did it for Joe; Her own private, revolutionary act. 426 00:38:09,976 --> 00:38:12,536 "Love me, Joe, " was in Mary's mind. 427 00:38:16,049 --> 00:38:17,277 And then it was done. 428 00:38:18,985 --> 00:38:20,111 Okay, Joe? 429 00:38:30,630 --> 00:38:33,463 When she gave the child of my mother's womb 430 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,124 to wee Willie winkie, 431 00:38:35,402 --> 00:38:38,633 Mary knew she was condemning the rich born boy... 432 00:38:38,705 --> 00:38:42,004 to a life of accordions and poverty. 433 00:38:45,378 --> 00:38:46,640 Shiva... 434 00:38:48,047 --> 00:38:51,676 As Joe had said, let the rich be poor... 435 00:38:52,318 --> 00:38:54,513 and the poor, rich. 436 00:39:02,762 --> 00:39:04,229 Thank you. 437 00:39:06,299 --> 00:39:09,996 Saleem. Saleem sinai. 438 00:39:12,605 --> 00:39:16,735 Look, janum. Poor fellow, he's got his grandfather's nose! 439 00:39:17,544 --> 00:39:19,068 Go call the newspapers. 440 00:39:19,579 --> 00:39:21,240 Tell the photographers to come! 441 00:39:23,716 --> 00:39:26,207 "A charming pose of baby saleem sinai," 442 00:39:26,419 --> 00:39:29,752 "born on the exact moment of our nation's independence." 443 00:39:30,423 --> 00:39:33,483 "we shall be watching over your life with the closest attention." 444 00:39:33,793 --> 00:39:37,285 "it will be in a sense, a mirror of our own." 445 00:39:37,664 --> 00:39:41,031 "the happy child of the glorious hour!" 446 00:39:41,801 --> 00:39:43,200 hold it up. 447 00:39:46,573 --> 00:39:47,505 Look at me. 448 00:39:52,712 --> 00:39:53,736 Come, let's go home. 449 00:40:50,169 --> 00:40:54,003 Mary, unable in her fright to confess her crime, 450 00:40:54,374 --> 00:40:56,467 realized she had been a fool. 451 00:40:57,577 --> 00:40:59,204 She cursed herself... 452 00:41:00,246 --> 00:41:01,713 but kept her secret. 453 00:41:03,349 --> 00:41:06,045 And decided to make amends of a kind... 454 00:41:07,186 --> 00:41:08,676 to a motherless boy. 455 00:41:16,362 --> 00:41:18,330 - Mary, isn't it? - Yes. 456 00:41:18,398 --> 00:41:20,298 From dr narlikar's clinic? Yes. 457 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:21,697 Ls something the matter? 458 00:41:22,335 --> 00:41:27,568 No. I just wanted to know if you need any nanny. 459 00:41:31,644 --> 00:41:33,111 Well, yes, actually I do. 460 00:41:35,348 --> 00:41:36,178 Come. 461 00:41:36,349 --> 00:41:37,247 Thank you. 462 00:41:42,455 --> 00:41:43,581 Hi... 463 00:41:44,490 --> 00:41:48,256 First time I saw him I was just done for him. 464 00:41:51,130 --> 00:41:52,654 Who has come? 465 00:41:52,732 --> 00:41:53,630 Winkie... 466 00:41:53,700 --> 00:41:55,133 winkie! 467 00:41:55,201 --> 00:41:57,999 - Can I come? - Come. 468 00:42:14,220 --> 00:42:15,380 Mary... 469 00:42:15,722 --> 00:42:17,383 Please go give him some money. 470 00:42:17,757 --> 00:42:18,746 Here. 471 00:42:49,422 --> 00:42:50,480 Hold this. 472 00:43:05,571 --> 00:43:07,038 Bless you, baby. 473 00:43:15,715 --> 00:43:22,245 Come, come. There there. 474 00:43:22,588 --> 00:43:24,988 Saleem. Baba. 475 00:43:25,425 --> 00:43:28,622 Anything you want to be... 476 00:43:29,128 --> 00:43:32,256 You can be... 477 00:43:32,632 --> 00:43:35,465 You can be... 478 00:43:36,169 --> 00:43:38,262 You want. 479 00:43:41,307 --> 00:43:44,470 Anything you want to be... 480 00:43:44,744 --> 00:43:48,373 By our tenth birthday, lndia and myself... 481 00:43:48,648 --> 00:43:51,344 were both under a lot of pressure. 482 00:43:51,617 --> 00:43:54,450 There was growth, there were gains, 483 00:43:54,954 --> 00:43:58,287 there were five-year plans and good exam results. 484 00:43:58,357 --> 00:43:59,237 Anything you want to... 485 00:43:59,258 --> 00:44:00,778 Mary, please can you stop singing that. 486 00:44:02,061 --> 00:44:03,153 You can be... 487 00:44:03,229 --> 00:44:04,161 Please, Mary. 488 00:44:04,297 --> 00:44:05,730 But there was also... 489 00:44:06,699 --> 00:44:08,564 the weight of expectation... 490 00:44:08,634 --> 00:44:09,692 Please, Mary. 491 00:44:13,406 --> 00:44:15,306 It was a lot to live up to. 492 00:44:20,279 --> 00:44:21,840 Aren't you forgetting something, saleem? 493 00:44:23,015 --> 00:44:24,141 Where's my morning hug? 494 00:44:25,485 --> 00:44:26,383 Come on! 495 00:44:29,388 --> 00:44:33,017 Come on. Come on. Come on! Yes! 496 00:44:35,361 --> 00:44:37,261 Stop it, abba, it's embarrassing! 497 00:44:37,697 --> 00:44:38,595 Embarrassing? 498 00:44:38,765 --> 00:44:39,595 What nonsense. 499 00:44:39,665 --> 00:44:40,723 Ammi! 500 00:44:44,704 --> 00:44:48,504 Great things in store for you, my son! I love you. 501 00:44:48,708 --> 00:44:49,572 Come. 502 00:44:50,676 --> 00:44:51,700 And me abba? 503 00:44:52,211 --> 00:44:53,940 Yes you, too, jamila. 504 00:44:54,046 --> 00:44:56,173 Jamila, abba's just joking. 505 00:44:57,650 --> 00:44:59,242 You want green chutney, baba? 506 00:44:59,318 --> 00:45:00,546 Yes, sure. Of course. 507 00:45:01,087 --> 00:45:02,714 What a fine boy! 508 00:45:03,523 --> 00:45:05,047 See if I care. 509 00:45:11,164 --> 00:45:12,256 Jamila! 510 00:45:12,665 --> 00:45:14,132 Yes, ammi? 511 00:45:15,401 --> 00:45:16,732 Coming! 512 00:45:23,543 --> 00:45:24,510 Hey, saleem. 513 00:45:24,577 --> 00:45:28,138 Suppose it turns out that you're not that special. 514 00:45:28,281 --> 00:45:31,375 Suppose in the end you're just normal. 515 00:45:32,685 --> 00:45:33,743 I know. 516 00:45:34,187 --> 00:45:37,645 Anything you want to be... Shut up! Stupid. 517 00:45:39,158 --> 00:45:40,523 Anything... 518 00:45:52,338 --> 00:45:53,430 Wife! 519 00:46:09,488 --> 00:46:10,352 Frozen. 520 00:46:11,090 --> 00:46:14,287 Freeze a Muslim's assets they say, and he'll run back to Pakistan. 521 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,123 Leaving all his wealth behind. 522 00:46:22,735 --> 00:46:24,600 But we must do something! What? 523 00:46:24,704 --> 00:46:26,968 Something. We have law courts. We have to fight! 524 00:46:27,039 --> 00:46:29,599 Fight? How? With what? 525 00:46:30,343 --> 00:46:32,470 They have shoved my balls into an ice bucket. 526 00:46:41,153 --> 00:46:42,313 Janum, please. 527 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,626 Though some of his assets eventually unfroze, 528 00:46:58,604 --> 00:47:02,199 from that moment, my father entered a deep solitude. 529 00:47:03,276 --> 00:47:08,043 And a strange perfume started wafting out from under his study door. 530 00:47:11,984 --> 00:47:14,418 Jamila said it was the smell of stale food, 531 00:47:15,187 --> 00:47:19,089 but it's my belief that it was the aroma of failure. 532 00:47:28,701 --> 00:47:31,636 When I say 'doggie', you'll say 'woof, woof'. 533 00:47:32,471 --> 00:47:33,460 What will you say? 534 00:47:33,539 --> 00:47:34,597 Woof, woof! 535 00:47:34,674 --> 00:47:37,199 Woof, woof. Let's go. Woof, woof. 536 00:47:41,213 --> 00:47:44,205 How much is that doggie in the window? 537 00:47:44,283 --> 00:47:45,181 Woof! Woof! 538 00:47:45,251 --> 00:47:48,220 The one with the waggily tail... 539 00:47:48,387 --> 00:47:51,481 How much is that doggie in the window? 540 00:47:51,557 --> 00:47:52,581 Woof! Woof! 541 00:47:52,658 --> 00:47:56,458 I do hope that dog is for sale... 542 00:47:57,396 --> 00:47:59,591 Shiva, get the money. 543 00:48:08,607 --> 00:48:10,632 Give Shiva some money. 544 00:48:20,419 --> 00:48:21,477 What happened? 545 00:48:21,554 --> 00:48:22,521 Let's go. 546 00:48:23,189 --> 00:48:24,315 I said, let's go. 547 00:48:39,305 --> 00:48:41,637 Bloody rich boy. 548 00:48:49,015 --> 00:48:51,540 Saleem, quickly. Come. 549 00:48:56,155 --> 00:48:57,281 Look there. 550 00:48:58,491 --> 00:49:01,426 You see it? It's sputnik. 551 00:49:02,128 --> 00:49:03,618 Great achievement for man. 552 00:49:05,765 --> 00:49:10,498 Listen, saleem, my achievements have been small, 553 00:49:10,770 --> 00:49:12,670 my ambitions thwarted. 554 00:49:13,672 --> 00:49:17,039 But you, my son, yours must be big. 555 00:49:17,376 --> 00:49:19,003 - Do you understand? - Yes, abba. 556 00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,688 Hello. No. It's the wrong 557 00:49:39,198 --> 00:49:40,638 I told you this is the wrong number! 558 00:50:23,776 --> 00:50:25,300 Nadir. 559 00:50:46,298 --> 00:50:48,163 Who's...? Who's in there? 560 00:50:48,567 --> 00:50:52,025 Ammi, I swear, I didn't see anything! Wait a minute, ammi! 561 00:50:52,204 --> 00:50:53,398 There are voices in my head! 562 00:50:53,472 --> 00:50:54,734 Come! 563 00:50:55,007 --> 00:50:55,701 Ammi, I... 564 00:50:58,444 --> 00:51:01,174 Not one word for one whole day! Ammi, I... 565 00:51:01,714 --> 00:51:03,705 Not one word. 566 00:51:06,018 --> 00:51:09,010 Shhh.. Not one word. Mary, listen... 567 00:51:09,054 --> 00:51:10,316 Shhh... Shhh... Shhh! 568 00:51:32,311 --> 00:51:34,040 Saleem! Saleem, listen to me. 569 00:51:34,113 --> 00:51:36,673 We are your friends. We're just like you! Listen to me, saleem. 570 00:51:36,749 --> 00:51:41,345 We are your friends. We're just like you! 571 00:51:42,521 --> 00:51:45,354 We are your friends. We're just like you! 572 00:51:47,593 --> 00:51:49,618 By the morning, I had discovered that... 573 00:51:49,695 --> 00:51:52,630 I could somehow control the volume of the voices 574 00:51:52,698 --> 00:51:54,290 through my nose! 575 00:51:54,733 --> 00:51:58,726 Fear left me, and I was thinking, "man!" 576 00:51:59,271 --> 00:52:01,603 This is better than all-lndia-radio!" 577 00:52:02,541 --> 00:52:04,372 abbu, ammi: 578 00:52:04,443 --> 00:52:06,604 Mary, please can I have your attention? 579 00:52:08,180 --> 00:52:09,738 You have something to tell us? 580 00:52:10,082 --> 00:52:11,276 An apology, I hope. 581 00:52:11,483 --> 00:52:14,281 Ammi, something really big has happened finally! 582 00:52:14,353 --> 00:52:15,474 But first, please call abba. 583 00:52:15,521 --> 00:52:16,715 Most certainly not. 584 00:52:17,156 --> 00:52:18,088 What's going on? 585 00:52:18,157 --> 00:52:20,352 Abbu, ammi: I'm hearing voices. 586 00:52:20,526 --> 00:52:22,391 Voices are speaking to me inside my head. 587 00:52:22,661 --> 00:52:25,323 I really think that archangels have started to talk to me. 588 00:52:25,397 --> 00:52:27,126 What's wrong? Has your brain gone raw? 589 00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:29,327 Are you growing into a madman? 590 00:52:29,468 --> 00:52:30,435 Oh, Jesus. 591 00:52:30,603 --> 00:52:32,298 What is it? Please, move aside. 592 00:52:33,172 --> 00:52:34,070 Abba? 593 00:52:36,008 --> 00:52:37,168 What happened son? 594 00:52:37,776 --> 00:52:39,676 You're hearing voices inside your head? 595 00:52:39,745 --> 00:52:40,677 Yes. 596 00:52:43,682 --> 00:52:45,547 Still hearing those voices, ha? 597 00:52:46,285 --> 00:52:47,547 Still hearing the voices? 598 00:52:56,328 --> 00:52:57,488 That was necessary... 599 00:52:58,297 --> 00:52:59,992 to avoid repetition. 600 00:53:05,738 --> 00:53:07,569 Saleem, listen to me! 601 00:53:08,540 --> 00:53:10,132 Saleem listen to me! 602 00:53:10,309 --> 00:53:12,300 Saleem listen to me! 603 00:53:13,279 --> 00:53:15,144 Saleem listen to me! 604 00:53:15,214 --> 00:53:16,214 We are your friends![Sic] 605 00:53:16,448 --> 00:53:19,349 Saleem listen to me! Saleem. 606 00:53:19,418 --> 00:53:22,683 Saleem, saleem listen to me! Saleem... 607 00:53:23,455 --> 00:53:25,616 Saleem, saleem listen to me! Saleem... 608 00:53:25,758 --> 00:53:29,694 Saleem, saleem listen to me! Saleem... 609 00:53:31,397 --> 00:53:33,661 Saleem listen to me! Saleem. 610 00:53:36,535 --> 00:53:37,729 Go away! 611 00:53:38,404 --> 00:53:39,996 I don't want you! 612 00:53:41,173 --> 00:53:42,697 Did you see what abbu did? 613 00:53:48,347 --> 00:53:51,407 Hello? No, it's the wrong number. 614 00:53:55,621 --> 00:53:56,588 When? 615 00:53:58,223 --> 00:53:59,417 Where? 616 00:54:02,094 --> 00:54:03,721 I told you: It's the wrong number! 617 00:54:18,711 --> 00:54:21,407 And now she'll go out by herself. 618 00:54:28,420 --> 00:54:31,981 Once upon a time, there was an underground husband... 619 00:54:32,191 --> 00:54:35,683 who fled, leaving loving messages of divorce. 620 00:54:38,063 --> 00:54:39,462 After a lost decade... 621 00:54:40,599 --> 00:54:42,760 he emerged from goodness-knows-where. 622 00:54:47,373 --> 00:54:50,467 I watched my mother and nadir Khan... 623 00:54:52,378 --> 00:54:53,675 and I saw the kiss. 624 00:54:55,314 --> 00:54:57,077 The indirect kiss. 625 00:55:45,597 --> 00:55:47,428 I'll be gob-smacked. 626 00:55:57,109 --> 00:55:59,043 Saleem? What on earth are you doing here? 627 00:55:59,111 --> 00:56:00,703 Don't talk to me! I hate you! 628 00:56:01,046 --> 00:56:02,308 What's happening, darling? 629 00:56:02,381 --> 00:56:05,407 You know what's happening! I saw everything. I saw it all. 630 00:56:05,484 --> 00:56:06,712 I saw what you did! 631 00:56:06,985 --> 00:56:08,009 What did I do? 632 00:56:08,420 --> 00:56:10,513 No more of these wrong-number calls, okay, amma? 633 00:56:10,689 --> 00:56:12,179 Don't go out to see other men! 634 00:56:12,591 --> 00:56:14,650 No more of this glass-kissery! 635 00:56:15,260 --> 00:56:16,557 I hate you! 636 00:56:29,708 --> 00:56:33,337 Saleem! Saleem, listen to me! Saleem! 637 00:56:34,213 --> 00:56:37,512 Go away! I told you! Get out of my head! 638 00:56:38,450 --> 00:56:41,613 Saleem! We're your friends! We're like you! 639 00:56:42,020 --> 00:56:45,751 We're not friends. I don't even know you. 640 00:56:49,194 --> 00:56:50,991 Never call on this number again. 641 00:57:03,108 --> 00:57:04,200 Saleem! 642 00:57:05,377 --> 00:57:06,969 Saleem? 643 00:57:08,247 --> 00:57:10,112 Saleem, we are your friends. 644 00:57:10,516 --> 00:57:11,574 We're like you. 645 00:57:11,717 --> 00:57:14,151 We were born then, on that night. 646 00:57:15,287 --> 00:57:18,085 You mean my midnight? 647 00:57:18,357 --> 00:57:19,324 That midnight? 648 00:57:19,992 --> 00:57:21,721 Yes, in that first hour. 649 00:57:23,962 --> 00:57:24,951 All of you? 650 00:57:25,264 --> 00:57:28,199 Yes, all of us! 651 00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,095 But how can I hear you all? 652 00:57:31,270 --> 00:57:33,033 How can I see you? 653 00:57:33,972 --> 00:57:35,200 We all have gifts. 654 00:57:35,274 --> 00:57:37,139 The closer to midnight our birth-times, 655 00:57:37,242 --> 00:57:38,470 the greater our gifts. 656 00:57:38,644 --> 00:57:40,168 Who's there? 657 00:57:42,581 --> 00:57:46,176 Saleem and Shiva. Shiva and saleem. 658 00:57:47,386 --> 00:57:50,981 Both born on the stroke of midnight both alike. 659 00:57:51,189 --> 00:57:52,281 Same to same. 660 00:57:52,624 --> 00:57:53,556 My gift... 661 00:57:53,625 --> 00:57:54,523 is to fight. 662 00:57:54,927 --> 00:57:57,020 He's the only one who can bring us all together. 663 00:57:57,129 --> 00:57:59,495 He's overthrow a government. 664 00:58:05,270 --> 00:58:06,032 Aren't you... 665 00:58:06,104 --> 00:58:08,629 Wee Willie's son? How's your father anyway? 666 00:58:08,707 --> 00:58:09,935 Talking to yourself? 667 00:58:10,042 --> 00:58:12,203 Ammi is right, your brain has really gone raw. 668 00:58:12,277 --> 00:58:13,301 Get lost! 669 00:58:13,478 --> 00:58:15,070 See if I care! 670 00:58:22,087 --> 00:58:24,715 Where are you all going? Why you are leaving? 671 00:58:27,693 --> 00:58:29,354 You'll get better at this. 672 00:58:29,628 --> 00:58:30,560 At what? 673 00:58:30,629 --> 00:58:31,561 This. 674 00:58:40,606 --> 00:58:44,542 Children of midnight? No. 675 00:58:46,078 --> 00:58:47,739 Midnight's children. 676 00:59:55,681 --> 00:59:57,046 You see this man? 677 00:59:58,617 --> 01:00:03,020 This man brought civilization to savages. 678 01:00:03,321 --> 01:00:05,516 And he commanded respect. 679 01:00:06,458 --> 01:00:07,584 How? 680 01:00:10,095 --> 01:00:11,289 With his...? 681 01:00:12,297 --> 01:00:13,764 - Sword, sir? - Correct! 682 01:00:14,366 --> 01:00:17,733 So, today's subject. Human geography. 683 01:00:19,004 --> 01:00:20,096 Sinai? 684 01:00:22,574 --> 01:00:24,064 Sir? 685 01:00:26,011 --> 01:00:27,638 This is what, sinai? 686 01:00:27,713 --> 01:00:28,680 Sir, I don't know, sir. 687 01:00:28,780 --> 01:00:31,510 Ah, you don't know, my friend! Come with me. 688 01:00:32,050 --> 01:00:33,381 So, I ask again... 689 01:00:33,452 --> 01:00:34,419 Ah! 690 01:00:34,586 --> 01:00:37,146 Do you know what is human geography? 691 01:00:37,189 --> 01:00:38,747 Oh! Sir, please! Sir, please, sir! 692 01:00:46,231 --> 01:00:49,997 Regard, please, the hideous face of this primitive creature. 693 01:00:50,068 --> 01:00:52,036 It reminds you of...? Sir, the devil, sir! 694 01:00:52,104 --> 01:00:53,503 Sir, a vegetable, sir! 695 01:00:53,572 --> 01:00:55,039 A cousin of mine, sir! 696 01:00:55,107 --> 01:00:56,335 I don't know which one... 697 01:00:56,374 --> 01:00:59,343 silence, sons of baboons! This object here is human geography. 698 01:00:59,511 --> 01:01:01,069 How, sir? Where, sir? 699 01:01:01,146 --> 01:01:04,240 In the face of this ugly ape, you don't see the whole map of lndia? 700 01:01:04,316 --> 01:01:06,011 No, sir! 701 01:01:07,319 --> 01:01:09,617 See, the deccan peninsula hanging down? 702 01:01:12,023 --> 01:01:15,550 And the stains! These stains are Pakistan. 703 01:01:15,994 --> 01:01:18,519 The birthmark on the right is east Pakistan, 704 01:01:18,597 --> 01:01:21,566 and this horrible stain is where...? 705 01:01:29,274 --> 01:01:32,266 Tell me what you are! 706 01:01:32,344 --> 01:01:33,538 An animal, sir? 707 01:01:33,612 --> 01:01:35,204 Tell me what you are! 708 01:01:36,481 --> 01:01:38,676 Er, accidents will happen, mrs sinai. 709 01:01:39,050 --> 01:01:40,574 What's wrong with you, mr crusoe? 710 01:01:40,652 --> 01:01:42,213 I'm here because one of your teachers... 711 01:01:42,220 --> 01:01:43,778 pulled out a clump of hair from my son's scalp... 712 01:01:44,055 --> 01:01:45,044 And this is what you have to say to me? 713 01:01:45,090 --> 01:01:46,455 Just shoo! 714 01:01:46,525 --> 01:01:47,321 Go! 715 01:01:53,965 --> 01:01:55,262 Let's have a look, shall we? 716 01:01:56,201 --> 01:01:57,463 This won't hurt a bit. 717 01:02:01,540 --> 01:02:03,531 We've a given him a mild sedative. 718 01:02:03,642 --> 01:02:06,304 It'll make him a little groggy, but it'll help him get better. 719 01:02:06,745 --> 01:02:08,110 You'll be fine soon, okay? 720 01:02:09,181 --> 01:02:10,341 By the way... 721 01:02:11,550 --> 01:02:15,042 Your blood type, a and o... you're sure? 722 01:02:15,287 --> 01:02:16,151 Yes. 723 01:02:16,621 --> 01:02:17,610 Why do you ask? 724 01:02:18,523 --> 01:02:19,683 L... excuse me. 725 01:02:25,330 --> 01:02:26,058 You see... 726 01:02:26,131 --> 01:02:27,758 he's neither one nor the other. 727 01:02:28,266 --> 01:02:31,531 You're sure he's your son? Not adopted? 728 01:02:31,603 --> 01:02:33,400 Yes, of course he's our son, doctor. 729 01:02:33,772 --> 01:02:35,205 Excuse me. 730 01:02:37,409 --> 01:02:38,433 I don't understand. 731 01:02:38,677 --> 01:02:40,110 What is there not to understand? 732 01:02:40,478 --> 01:02:41,740 He's neither one nor the other. 733 01:02:42,214 --> 01:02:43,575 Somebody else's blood is involved. 734 01:02:44,082 --> 01:02:44,776 What?! 735 01:02:45,250 --> 01:02:47,150 You see he's neither one nor the other. 736 01:02:47,519 --> 01:02:48,543 Abba... 737 01:02:56,494 --> 01:02:57,722 Look at his face. 738 01:02:58,430 --> 01:02:59,954 Where am I in the face? 739 01:03:02,634 --> 01:03:05,194 That bloody nose. I should have known. 740 01:03:05,370 --> 01:03:07,736 I will not let you say such things about me! 741 01:03:08,406 --> 01:03:10,033 I'll kill myself! 742 01:03:21,386 --> 01:03:22,512 Baba? 743 01:03:24,122 --> 01:03:25,316 Baba? 744 01:03:28,460 --> 01:03:31,429 I will make you all the green chutney in the world. 745 01:03:49,481 --> 01:03:52,939 Excuse me, sir, would you like to have something? Ma'am? 746 01:03:53,084 --> 01:03:54,244 No, thanks. 747 01:03:56,288 --> 01:03:58,085 Excuse me, would you like to have something? 748 01:04:01,993 --> 01:04:05,485 My blood was wrong. My wrong blood 749 01:04:05,597 --> 01:04:07,963 turned my father's love to hate. 750 01:04:08,633 --> 01:04:11,067 And though it caused my mother much pain, 751 01:04:11,536 --> 01:04:13,060 I was sent away. 752 01:04:50,308 --> 01:04:52,276 Ah, saleem. Right-o. 753 01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:56,942 Let me be clear. 754 01:04:57,315 --> 01:05:00,284 My sister asked me to take you in, I can't refuse... 755 01:05:00,452 --> 01:05:02,943 whatever my own personal inclinations may be. 756 01:05:03,355 --> 01:05:04,253 Welcome. 757 01:05:04,723 --> 01:05:06,122 Thank you, emerald aunty. 758 01:05:07,359 --> 01:05:10,294 Your cousin zia will show you the ropes. 759 01:05:10,362 --> 01:05:11,454 Zia? 760 01:05:14,632 --> 01:05:16,463 What did you do to get kicked out? 761 01:05:17,135 --> 01:05:18,602 I hear you still wet your pants. 762 01:05:19,437 --> 01:05:20,734 Watch it, snotty! 763 01:05:34,719 --> 01:05:36,016 Everything ready, em? 764 01:05:36,388 --> 01:05:37,377 Yes, darling. 765 01:05:39,724 --> 01:05:41,021 The time is close now. 766 01:05:41,559 --> 01:05:42,583 Very well. 767 01:05:44,462 --> 01:05:46,157 Discretion is the watchword. 768 01:05:46,631 --> 01:05:47,627 Of course, darling. 769 01:05:47,932 --> 01:05:49,126 Dad, what's going on? 770 01:05:49,367 --> 01:05:50,356 Quiet! 771 01:05:53,438 --> 01:05:56,168 And you, boy. Here on sufferance. 772 01:05:56,541 --> 01:05:58,566 Don't act smart. Understood? 773 01:05:59,577 --> 01:06:01,138 And forget everything you've just heard. 774 01:06:01,579 --> 01:06:02,944 Yes, Uncle zulfi. 775 01:06:03,181 --> 01:06:06,344 Yes, sir, general zulfikar. 776 01:06:07,285 --> 01:06:09,219 Yes, sir, general zulfikar. 777 01:06:09,621 --> 01:06:11,179 "Uncle" is hardly appropriate... 778 01:06:12,157 --> 01:06:13,385 given the circs. 779 01:06:24,702 --> 01:06:25,726 Are you there? 780 01:06:26,237 --> 01:06:27,397 All of you, are you there? 781 01:06:28,473 --> 01:06:29,337 Yes! 782 01:06:29,974 --> 01:06:30,736 Hi, Parvati. 783 01:06:31,142 --> 01:06:32,109 Hello, saleem. 784 01:06:32,343 --> 01:06:33,435 Any new tricks? 785 01:06:37,015 --> 01:06:38,141 Abracadabra! 786 01:06:39,284 --> 01:06:40,216 Wow! 787 01:06:40,618 --> 01:06:43,178 I was born seven seconds after midnight. 788 01:06:47,125 --> 01:06:48,353 This is too good! 789 01:06:48,593 --> 01:06:50,185 We've got to organize ourselves. 790 01:06:50,295 --> 01:06:52,092 Gangs need bosses, rich kid. 791 01:06:53,465 --> 01:06:55,126 I've been running a gang for years. 792 01:06:56,468 --> 01:06:58,508 It's me that's bringing you all together in my head. 793 01:06:58,536 --> 01:06:59,366 Yaar... 794 01:06:59,437 --> 01:07:00,558 everyone does what I say. 795 01:07:00,638 --> 01:07:01,536 Let saleem be! 796 01:07:01,606 --> 01:07:02,664 Shut up. Hm! 797 01:07:03,708 --> 01:07:06,142 How are you doing all of this? 798 01:07:07,045 --> 01:07:08,979 It's somehow because of this. 799 01:07:14,486 --> 01:07:15,680 One thousand and one. 800 01:07:16,187 --> 01:07:17,245 But... 801 01:07:17,555 --> 01:07:19,352 four hundred and twenty are already dead. 802 01:07:19,524 --> 01:07:21,014 And everyone else? 803 01:07:21,326 --> 01:07:22,657 Do you know what they can do? 804 01:07:22,727 --> 01:07:24,695 In orissa, there is a girl, 805 01:07:25,029 --> 01:07:26,997 and whoever sees her falls in love with her. 806 01:07:27,632 --> 01:07:29,623 And you, from goa! 807 01:07:30,435 --> 01:07:32,027 You can multiply fish! 808 01:07:32,337 --> 01:07:34,066 And you, from kerala! 809 01:07:34,472 --> 01:07:35,530 You can step through mirrors... 810 01:07:35,607 --> 01:07:37,575 and reappear through them wherever you want! 811 01:07:38,209 --> 01:07:39,176 And you... 812 01:07:39,310 --> 01:07:40,971 a werewolf from nilgiri hills! 813 01:07:41,045 --> 01:07:42,637 And you from the vindhyas... 814 01:07:43,148 --> 01:07:44,615 you can make yourself bigger and smaller. 815 01:07:44,682 --> 01:07:46,240 And you can fly. 816 01:07:49,621 --> 01:07:53,113 So if we have these gifts, then... 817 01:07:53,191 --> 01:07:54,522 we must ask why? 818 01:07:54,692 --> 01:07:56,250 There must be a reason, na? 819 01:07:56,361 --> 01:07:59,194 I think we should figure it out and dedicate... 820 01:08:02,367 --> 01:08:04,494 what's the reason that you're rich and I'm poor? 821 01:08:04,702 --> 01:08:07,637 What's the reason I'm starving, man? I'll tell you. 822 01:08:07,972 --> 01:08:10,463 You gotta get what you can, do what you can with it, 823 01:08:10,542 --> 01:08:12,134 and then you gotta die. 824 01:08:12,510 --> 01:08:14,102 That's the reason, rich kid! 825 01:08:14,646 --> 01:08:16,671 And everything else is mother-sleeping wind. 826 01:08:16,714 --> 01:08:18,545 - Stop it Shiva. - Shut up, slut. 827 01:08:20,318 --> 01:08:22,582 I'm gonna take this gang of freaks over. 828 01:08:23,321 --> 01:08:27,018 Not without me. Without me, they won't even be able to listen to you. 829 01:08:27,258 --> 01:08:28,691 Just try and stop me. 830 01:08:36,234 --> 01:08:38,225 Good evening. Please... 831 01:08:45,210 --> 01:08:46,142 Sir! 832 01:08:46,978 --> 01:08:49,538 Mr commander-in-chief, be welcome in our home. 833 01:08:50,081 --> 01:08:52,345 Come, emerald, no need for such formalities. 834 01:08:52,417 --> 01:08:53,441 Please... 835 01:08:54,719 --> 01:08:56,084 You shouldn't be watching. 836 01:08:56,421 --> 01:08:57,581 Neither should you. 837 01:09:03,027 --> 01:09:06,724 Wow! If he's here, then this is something really big. 838 01:09:06,998 --> 01:09:08,158 Shh! 839 01:09:08,666 --> 01:09:10,327 What is the meaning of this? 840 01:09:11,269 --> 01:09:13,203 Perhaps they should be permitted to attend. 841 01:09:14,105 --> 01:09:16,505 It's their future that we're making after all. Come on. 842 01:09:16,574 --> 01:09:18,041 Come on, boys. 843 01:09:19,310 --> 01:09:22,746 Gentlemen, here, in our Pakistan, 844 01:09:23,581 --> 01:09:25,173 our land of the pure... 845 01:09:25,516 --> 01:09:27,643 there is impurity on every side. 846 01:09:28,586 --> 01:09:30,281 Tonight, therefore on my command, 847 01:09:31,155 --> 01:09:32,520 we assume control of the state. 848 01:09:32,624 --> 01:09:33,682 Hear! Hear! 849 01:09:33,791 --> 01:09:36,123 Martial law is imposed with immediate effect. 850 01:09:36,561 --> 01:09:38,358 The constitution is abrogated. 851 01:09:39,063 --> 01:09:41,054 All political parties are abolished. 852 01:09:41,666 --> 01:09:43,361 - General zulfikar! - Sir! 853 01:09:43,568 --> 01:09:45,468 Kindly map out the procedures. 854 01:09:45,503 --> 01:09:46,697 Sir. 855 01:09:47,639 --> 01:09:49,163 Zia! Come here. 856 01:09:55,079 --> 01:09:56,479 You, saleem. Come up here and help. 857 01:09:57,582 --> 01:09:58,606 Excuse me. 858 01:10:02,487 --> 01:10:03,749 At this moment... 859 01:10:04,555 --> 01:10:07,046 the national radio station has been surrounded... 860 01:10:07,158 --> 01:10:08,352 by hand-picked units. 861 01:10:13,064 --> 01:10:14,224 Loyal armoured units... 862 01:10:14,365 --> 01:10:17,300 are simultaneously seizing control of the airport. 863 01:10:21,205 --> 01:10:22,433 Key points in the city... 864 01:10:24,409 --> 01:10:25,467 are now secure. 865 01:10:28,613 --> 01:10:29,671 And finally... 866 01:10:30,315 --> 01:10:31,304 crack troops... 867 01:10:31,449 --> 01:10:32,609 have taken charge... 868 01:10:33,117 --> 01:10:34,516 of the presidential palace. 869 01:10:39,590 --> 01:10:40,557 Gentlemen... 870 01:10:41,025 --> 01:10:42,083 the day is ours! 871 01:10:42,393 --> 01:10:43,325 Pakistan! 872 01:10:43,394 --> 01:10:44,622 Zindabad! 873 01:10:46,097 --> 01:10:48,998 Well done, young man. 874 01:11:01,245 --> 01:11:02,269 Mr president... 875 01:11:03,481 --> 01:11:04,607 You're a lucky man. 876 01:11:05,650 --> 01:11:07,083 It's only exile for you. 877 01:11:08,286 --> 01:11:13,223 "Only exile...?!" Ln exile, I learned about power. 878 01:11:14,025 --> 01:11:16,585 After all, I had helped to overthrow a government. 879 01:11:18,262 --> 01:11:20,594 Also I learned about loneliness. 880 01:11:22,100 --> 01:11:23,658 Years with no friends... 881 01:11:25,236 --> 01:11:27,067 except for midnight's children. 882 01:11:28,506 --> 01:11:29,438 Aaah! 883 01:11:41,519 --> 01:11:42,543 That dream again. 884 01:12:00,638 --> 01:12:03,266 Come, please. All of you. 885 01:12:18,256 --> 01:12:20,588 Now what, cucumber-nose? 886 01:12:22,660 --> 01:12:26,061 Come on, Shiva. It's time for the conference, everyone. 887 01:12:26,330 --> 01:12:27,058 Hi! 888 01:12:27,131 --> 01:12:29,691 Yaar not that story again. 889 01:12:31,369 --> 01:12:33,735 Haven't you worked out that it's the same every time? 890 01:12:38,142 --> 01:12:40,372 "We must be here for a reason." 891 01:12:41,746 --> 01:12:43,577 We're all here for a higher purpose. 892 01:12:44,382 --> 01:12:45,280 Maybe... 893 01:12:45,483 --> 01:12:48,281 "Maybe we should just use our powers to help our parents." 894 01:12:53,424 --> 01:12:54,618 "no!" 895 01:12:55,560 --> 01:12:58,028 "we must keep it a secret... shh..." 896 01:12:58,496 --> 01:13:00,555 "if they find us, they will come after us 897 01:13:00,698 --> 01:13:02,996 and they will kill us!" 898 01:13:05,470 --> 01:13:08,598 huh? What do you suggest, mister "I'm very strong?" 899 01:13:09,173 --> 01:13:10,105 Parvati. 900 01:13:10,441 --> 01:13:11,271 What's your bloody plan? 901 01:13:11,342 --> 01:13:12,982 Don't kill me with your broom. No, stop! 902 01:13:14,278 --> 01:13:15,540 Parvati. 903 01:13:16,013 --> 01:13:17,412 We all have to stay together, na? 904 01:13:18,082 --> 01:13:19,310 Isn't that right? 905 01:13:20,218 --> 01:13:23,051 I mean, don't you all see everything else is breaking apart? 906 01:13:23,688 --> 01:13:28,148 Languages, religions, countries... 907 01:13:28,226 --> 01:13:31,195 We can show people a new way of being. 908 01:13:31,262 --> 01:13:32,229 Get up. 909 01:13:33,231 --> 01:13:34,391 Shiva! 910 01:13:38,569 --> 01:13:39,593 Now listen to me. 911 01:13:43,407 --> 01:13:46,103 Nobody can stop us. Hm? 912 01:13:51,516 --> 01:13:57,011 We can blind people. Make gold. Fly. 913 01:13:57,955 --> 01:13:59,718 Read minds. Dojaadu. 914 01:14:00,691 --> 01:14:02,215 How will they fight us? 915 01:14:03,027 --> 01:14:03,550 Get off... 916 01:14:03,628 --> 01:14:05,186 we're not getting hitched. 917 01:14:07,298 --> 01:14:09,459 The world is not ideas rich kid. 918 01:14:11,702 --> 01:14:13,567 The world is things. 919 01:14:15,106 --> 01:14:17,540 If you have things, you have time to dream. 920 01:14:17,608 --> 01:14:20,475 Hm? If you don't... 921 01:14:23,648 --> 01:14:25,115 you fight. 922 01:14:25,750 --> 01:14:28,275 No, Shiva. No, no fighting. 923 01:14:29,253 --> 01:14:33,246 Look, people aren't things, man. 924 01:14:33,558 --> 01:14:35,389 People need each other. 925 01:14:36,294 --> 01:14:40,253 And it's not about flying, or blinding, or gold... or magic! 926 01:14:40,331 --> 01:14:41,731 And our powers aren't for fighting. 927 01:14:42,333 --> 01:14:43,300 It's this. 928 01:14:43,367 --> 01:14:44,595 I'll beat the hell out of you. 929 01:14:44,669 --> 01:14:46,000 Shiva, stop! 930 01:14:46,137 --> 01:14:47,570 You don't understand. They don't care about us! 931 01:14:47,638 --> 01:14:49,401 No fighting, guys! Please. 932 01:14:49,473 --> 01:14:50,565 I think saleem's right! 933 01:14:51,676 --> 01:14:53,610 We should start a coup! 934 01:14:53,678 --> 01:14:55,612 No! Enough! No coup! 935 01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:57,204 Shut up. Hey, rich kid! 936 01:14:59,150 --> 01:15:00,048 Agh! 937 01:15:00,117 --> 01:15:00,674 Shlva. 938 01:15:02,019 --> 01:15:03,611 Shiva, don't do this. Stop! 939 01:15:04,989 --> 01:15:07,150 Try to understand, Shiva! Don't do this! 940 01:15:10,561 --> 01:15:11,425 Shut up. 941 01:15:11,495 --> 01:15:12,689 Shh. Shut up! 942 01:15:15,099 --> 01:15:17,226 How about I finish this right now! 943 01:15:19,003 --> 01:15:20,265 More? 944 01:15:20,438 --> 01:15:22,099 No! 945 01:15:24,308 --> 01:15:27,505 The midnight's children conference is hereby dissolved! 946 01:15:30,147 --> 01:15:31,239 Its constitution is abrogated! 947 01:15:31,315 --> 01:15:33,442 Its assemblies are suspended! I abolish it! 948 01:15:48,599 --> 01:15:50,157 Good morning, general zulfikar. 949 01:15:57,341 --> 01:15:58,569 You wanted me, emerald aunty? 950 01:15:58,976 --> 01:16:00,500 How long has it been now, saleem? 951 01:16:01,412 --> 01:16:03,243 Quite a long time, you'll agree? 952 01:16:03,314 --> 01:16:04,178 Yes. 953 01:16:04,248 --> 01:16:06,307 Such a helpful boy. Love you. 954 01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:11,654 I told your ma, she must have you back. 955 01:16:12,623 --> 01:16:15,387 To be fair, she's been on your side all along. 956 01:16:15,559 --> 01:16:20,155 Your pater wants to make a fresh start here in Pakistan. 957 01:16:20,431 --> 01:16:21,659 So you'll be joining them... 958 01:16:22,199 --> 01:16:25,396 at alia's place, in karachi. 959 01:16:29,173 --> 01:16:29,673 Oh! 960 01:16:29,707 --> 01:16:30,674 Oh, sorry! 961 01:16:30,741 --> 01:16:34,199 What are you doing?! Out! Idiot, out of my sight! 962 01:16:34,278 --> 01:16:35,472 Yes, emerald aunty. 963 01:16:44,221 --> 01:16:45,483 Cheerio, Uncle zulfi! 964 01:17:18,414 --> 01:17:20,075 Did your aunty feed you properly? 965 01:17:20,151 --> 01:17:21,118 Her food is horrible. 966 01:17:21,185 --> 01:17:24,052 I missed your cooking so much. Green chutney. 967 01:17:24,088 --> 01:17:25,885 Baba... 968 01:17:28,826 --> 01:17:30,054 She didn't come, Mary? 969 01:17:31,095 --> 01:17:33,120 She's waiting at home. Let's go. 970 01:17:34,965 --> 01:17:35,829 Give it to me. 971 01:18:10,401 --> 01:18:11,265 My child. 972 01:18:13,370 --> 01:18:14,064 Ammi. 973 01:18:19,210 --> 01:18:22,304 Terrible things happen in life and we don't know how. 974 01:18:24,448 --> 01:18:25,437 Forgive me. 975 01:18:38,329 --> 01:18:43,028 Be kind to your abba. He's not been very happy these days. 976 01:18:50,975 --> 01:18:52,135 Hello, abba. 977 01:19:09,260 --> 01:19:10,852 Abba. Hi. 978 01:19:22,940 --> 01:19:23,804 Hi, saleem. 979 01:19:24,174 --> 01:19:25,163 Hi. 980 01:19:26,377 --> 01:19:27,435 Welcome back. 981 01:19:28,012 --> 01:19:29,104 Thank you. 982 01:19:31,382 --> 01:19:32,076 Come. 983 01:19:42,259 --> 01:19:43,385 What happened to me, Mary? 984 01:19:43,460 --> 01:19:44,825 How can my blood be wrong? 985 01:19:44,895 --> 01:19:46,760 Nothing wrong with your blood. 986 01:19:48,265 --> 01:19:49,459 It's my mother's fault. 987 01:19:49,733 --> 01:19:50,859 Don't say that. 988 01:19:51,135 --> 01:19:52,295 She was with other men. 989 01:19:52,369 --> 01:19:53,700 Shut up, baba! 990 01:19:53,871 --> 01:19:56,772 I saw it Mary. I saw it all. 991 01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:32,941 Please, Joe. Help me. 992 01:20:42,453 --> 01:20:44,853 Ah, jamila the singing star has arrived. 993 01:20:45,289 --> 01:20:46,984 She sings very well. 994 01:20:47,291 --> 01:20:48,189 Thank you, abba. 995 01:20:48,425 --> 01:20:49,385 You're welcome, darling. 996 01:20:54,098 --> 01:20:55,827 Five-letter word for "singer"... 997 01:21:00,004 --> 01:21:02,666 Mary. A little more toast, please. Ah, "tenor". 998 01:21:04,942 --> 01:21:06,773 Sir. Madam. 999 01:21:07,811 --> 01:21:08,869 Madam, please. 1000 01:21:10,814 --> 01:21:12,179 What's wrong, Mary? 1001 01:21:18,989 --> 01:21:20,251 What happened? 1002 01:21:23,894 --> 01:21:25,156 Baba is not your son. 1003 01:21:26,030 --> 01:21:27,429 He's winkie and vanita's son. 1004 01:21:28,065 --> 01:21:29,089 No, he is not. 1005 01:21:30,300 --> 01:21:32,427 Vanita's child's father is not winkie. 1006 01:21:32,936 --> 01:21:34,927 It's that... that englishman... 1007 01:21:35,172 --> 01:21:36,799 - Methwold. - Methwold. 1008 01:21:37,107 --> 01:21:40,338 He's gone back to england and poor vanita, she's dead now. 1009 01:21:40,411 --> 01:21:42,106 She died at midnight. 1010 01:21:42,279 --> 01:21:43,871 I was there, madam. 1011 01:21:45,182 --> 01:21:47,912 I gave your child to her... 1012 01:21:47,985 --> 01:21:49,782 and hers to you. 1013 01:21:51,688 --> 01:21:52,746 Sorry, madam. 1014 01:21:58,996 --> 01:22:01,123 Your son is Shiva. 1015 01:22:02,866 --> 01:22:04,834 Not a nice boy at all. 1016 01:22:05,969 --> 01:22:07,231 I'm sorry, madam. 1017 01:22:08,138 --> 01:22:10,231 Let the rich be poor... poor, rich. 1018 01:22:10,307 --> 01:22:10,864 Mary. 1019 01:22:11,675 --> 01:22:14,644 Please, just... leave now. 1020 01:22:20,084 --> 01:22:21,051 Baba. 1021 01:22:21,785 --> 01:22:23,980 I love you, baba. Like my own son. 1022 01:22:35,032 --> 01:22:36,761 No! No! 1023 01:22:36,834 --> 01:22:37,425 Stop it, abba! 1024 01:22:37,868 --> 01:22:38,698 Let him go! 1025 01:22:38,769 --> 01:22:39,330 Stop it, abba! 1026 01:22:43,740 --> 01:22:44,707 Bastard. 1027 01:22:46,710 --> 01:22:48,439 Get him out of my sight before I kill him. 1028 01:22:52,816 --> 01:22:53,339 No. 1029 01:22:55,786 --> 01:22:56,753 What did you say? 1030 01:22:57,688 --> 01:22:59,121 He will not go. 1031 01:23:01,959 --> 01:23:02,983 No! 1032 01:23:03,927 --> 01:23:06,293 Once before you sent him away and I didn't want him to go. 1033 01:23:07,731 --> 01:23:09,892 Love is not just born, it's made. 1034 01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:11,963 He is my child! 1035 01:23:13,070 --> 01:23:15,971 If he goes, I'll go. 1036 01:23:24,148 --> 01:23:26,946 Despite the revelation of the midnight swap... 1037 01:23:27,317 --> 01:23:31,378 never once did I have any desire to search for the englishman, methwold 1038 01:23:32,389 --> 01:23:34,254 and never once, to my knowledge... 1039 01:23:34,324 --> 01:23:38,090 did ammi and abba set out to look for the true son of their blood. 1040 01:23:40,297 --> 01:23:43,164 I like to think, that in spite of all the heartache... 1041 01:23:44,101 --> 01:23:45,659 my parents loved me. 1042 01:23:48,372 --> 01:23:49,236 Parvati? 1043 01:23:53,043 --> 01:23:54,135 Saleem? 1044 01:23:57,781 --> 01:23:59,612 - Where were you? - I know who I am now. 1045 01:24:04,688 --> 01:24:06,178 I'm not my ammi's son. 1046 01:24:09,393 --> 01:24:10,621 What do you mean? 1047 01:24:23,006 --> 01:24:24,200 Then her child is... 1048 01:24:28,111 --> 01:24:29,874 Saleem, he'll kill you. 1049 01:24:30,147 --> 01:24:31,341 You stole his life. 1050 01:24:31,415 --> 01:24:34,680 It's not your fault. He must never know. 1051 01:24:43,327 --> 01:24:44,259 Excuse me. 1052 01:24:58,141 --> 01:24:59,233 Abba... 1053 01:24:59,643 --> 01:25:00,974 what are we doing here? 1054 01:25:02,079 --> 01:25:04,604 Abba, why have you brought me here? 1055 01:25:05,682 --> 01:25:06,740 Come with me, saleem. 1056 01:25:07,050 --> 01:25:08,779 No, I'm not coming. 1057 01:25:09,286 --> 01:25:10,617 - Saleem... - I'm not coming. 1058 01:25:10,988 --> 01:25:13,081 No! Why am I here? 1059 01:25:14,825 --> 01:25:17,350 Look, can't we just talk about this like grown-ups? 1060 01:25:18,061 --> 01:25:19,858 They mustn't touch my nose, okay. Do you understand? 1061 01:25:19,930 --> 01:25:21,022 - Sit down! - No, no, no. 1062 01:25:21,098 --> 01:25:21,894 Take him away. 1063 01:25:21,965 --> 01:25:23,398 You understand, abba, they mustn't touch my... 1064 01:25:23,667 --> 01:25:25,387 You hear that? You are not to touch my nose! 1065 01:25:26,637 --> 01:25:28,070 Abba! Abba! 1066 01:25:30,073 --> 01:25:31,199 Listen to me. Don't. 1067 01:25:31,275 --> 01:25:32,636 You don't know what you are doing. 1068 01:25:32,643 --> 01:25:34,873 You can't! Look, look, you cannot touch my nose. 1069 01:25:35,012 --> 01:25:37,810 - It's okay. - Please, don't! You don't know! 1070 01:25:37,881 --> 01:25:40,714 Just be a good fellow and count to ten. 1071 01:25:40,917 --> 01:25:46,287 Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six... 1072 01:25:46,757 --> 01:25:51,421 Five. Four. Three. Two. 1073 01:25:51,928 --> 01:25:54,328 One. That's it. 1074 01:26:02,739 --> 01:26:04,036 Saleem? 1075 01:26:30,334 --> 01:26:31,198 Are you there? 1076 01:26:35,072 --> 01:26:36,004 All of you? 1077 01:26:39,476 --> 01:26:40,704 Parvati? 1078 01:26:44,014 --> 01:26:46,847 Parvati? Where are you? 1079 01:26:48,418 --> 01:26:49,248 It's me. 1080 01:26:49,419 --> 01:26:52,115 They've all gone. I can't call them anymore. 1081 01:26:52,255 --> 01:26:53,779 Who's gone? Who's Parvati? 1082 01:26:53,857 --> 01:26:54,824 Everybody. 1083 01:26:55,092 --> 01:26:57,720 Saleem. Just relax. 1084 01:27:07,871 --> 01:27:08,895 Jamila? 1085 01:27:09,673 --> 01:27:11,436 - Hey, put that back! - No, no, jamila. 1086 01:27:13,377 --> 01:27:15,277 I can smell. 1087 01:27:16,847 --> 01:27:17,871 Through that, you can smell? 1088 01:27:17,948 --> 01:27:20,746 Yes, I can smell everything. 1089 01:27:21,318 --> 01:27:22,250 What can you smell? 1090 01:27:22,919 --> 01:27:25,080 I can smell yourjasmine. 1091 01:27:26,189 --> 01:27:28,783 I can smell traffic on the street. 1092 01:27:29,359 --> 01:27:30,348 I can smell medicine. 1093 01:27:30,394 --> 01:27:33,124 I can smell other things, like... 1094 01:27:34,798 --> 01:27:35,765 love. 1095 01:27:37,067 --> 01:27:38,034 Jamila... 1096 01:27:39,736 --> 01:27:41,431 I can smell love. 1097 01:27:44,374 --> 01:27:45,363 Saleem... 1098 01:28:44,468 --> 01:28:46,265 There's going to be a big war, you know. 1099 01:28:46,470 --> 01:28:48,199 Yeah? So? 1100 01:28:48,405 --> 01:28:49,997 Yeah so! 1101 01:28:50,440 --> 01:28:51,839 So which side are we on? 1102 01:28:51,908 --> 01:28:53,273 I know which side I'm on. 1103 01:28:53,777 --> 01:28:57,178 You're the one who's confused. With your Bombay this, Bombay that. 1104 01:28:57,247 --> 01:28:59,181 - I'm not confused. - Aren't you? 1105 01:29:02,252 --> 01:29:03,651 Maybe. 1106 01:31:10,013 --> 01:31:12,072 War draws closer every minute. 1107 01:31:12,248 --> 01:31:14,307 The lndian enemy rises in strength. 1108 01:31:14,818 --> 01:31:16,649 But we too are strong... 1109 01:31:17,220 --> 01:31:20,348 and beti, your voice will make us stronger. 1110 01:31:20,890 --> 01:31:23,256 It will inspire our soldiers to victory! 1111 01:31:37,440 --> 01:31:41,376 Crazed by the war fought by both the countries to which I had belonged... 1112 01:31:42,712 --> 01:31:44,373 I rode the night streets of karachi... 1113 01:31:44,447 --> 01:31:45,209 Stop! 1114 01:31:45,381 --> 01:31:46,143 Final warning! 1115 01:31:46,349 --> 01:31:47,782 Looking for death. 1116 01:31:49,686 --> 01:31:51,726 What are you doing! Bring him! Bring him! Bring him! 1117 01:31:51,755 --> 01:31:53,435 Because of me you see! Because of my crime. 1118 01:31:53,923 --> 01:31:54,719 What crime? 1119 01:31:54,791 --> 01:31:56,725 It's nothing, yaar. The poor man is cracked. 1120 01:31:56,793 --> 01:31:58,920 The bombs are looking for me.. Take it easy, okay. 1121 01:31:58,995 --> 01:32:00,360 And don't ride that thing anymore. 1122 01:32:33,763 --> 01:32:37,062 Everything is tickety-boo. 1123 01:33:18,328 --> 01:33:20,558 Most of my family died in that war. 1124 01:33:21,364 --> 01:33:23,525 L, orphaned, survived. 1125 01:33:24,534 --> 01:33:28,630 For six years, I slept, brained by a silver spittoon. 1126 01:33:28,838 --> 01:33:31,306 Wiped clean, remembering nothing. 1127 01:33:37,347 --> 01:33:42,444 After six years, I awoke, and was shipped off to another war. 1128 01:33:42,518 --> 01:33:43,610 Torch, please. 1129 01:33:44,821 --> 01:33:46,721 This time, a civil war. 1130 01:33:47,490 --> 01:33:48,616 Awake, are we? 1131 01:33:48,725 --> 01:33:51,285 Right on time to get shipped off to east Pakistan. 1132 01:33:51,361 --> 01:33:55,923 Pakistan's east wing fighting for its independence against the west. 1133 01:34:16,753 --> 01:34:17,720 Shahid. 1134 01:34:18,488 --> 01:34:19,546 Shahid. 1135 01:34:24,961 --> 01:34:26,360 No memory 1136 01:34:27,830 --> 01:34:30,958 refuses to talk. All he's good for is sniffing, yaar. 1137 01:34:31,934 --> 01:34:33,959 He gives me the creeps, yaar. ...Creeps? 1138 01:34:36,539 --> 01:34:37,631 Hear that? Empty. 1139 01:34:37,707 --> 01:34:38,799 Nobody's home. 1140 01:34:40,810 --> 01:34:41,742 Asshole. 1141 01:34:52,388 --> 01:34:55,880 In three short weeks, Pakistan had lost half its Navy 1142 01:34:56,426 --> 01:34:59,554 a third of its army, and a quarter of its air force. 1143 01:35:00,930 --> 01:35:04,491 By the time I tumbled into the war, it was all over. 1144 01:35:13,476 --> 01:35:17,378 East paklstan 1971 1145 01:37:59,875 --> 01:38:00,773 general. 1146 01:38:10,753 --> 01:38:12,243 Good. That's that. 1147 01:38:13,289 --> 01:38:15,257 I'm sorry for your loss in the battle, zulfi. 1148 01:38:16,926 --> 01:38:17,915 Thank you, sir. 1149 01:38:19,795 --> 01:38:20,659 Shiva. 1150 01:38:22,498 --> 01:38:25,899 Our most decorated officer. He fought quite a battle 1151 01:38:26,335 --> 01:38:27,302 good show, major. 1152 01:38:28,404 --> 01:38:29,302 Zulfi. 1153 01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:41,475 When general zulfikar surrendered to his old friend, 1154 01:38:41,550 --> 01:38:43,347 general aurora of lndia... 1155 01:38:43,753 --> 01:38:46,813 Pakistan also lost more than half its population... 1156 01:38:47,289 --> 01:38:49,780 who became citizens of Bangladesh. 1157 01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:54,794 In those days, all our wars were fights between friends. 1158 01:39:00,436 --> 01:39:04,600 Magicians had been brought from lndia to entertain the crowds... 1159 01:39:04,674 --> 01:39:07,939 and that day, everyone believed in magic. 1160 01:39:09,712 --> 01:39:12,704 Dacca, Bangladesh 1971 1161 01:39:33,035 --> 01:39:33,967 Parvati. 1162 01:39:34,537 --> 01:39:35,561 Parvati. 1163 01:39:36,005 --> 01:39:38,667 Parvati the witch! Parvati! 1164 01:39:39,508 --> 01:39:42,033 Parvati! Parvati the witch! 1165 01:39:44,013 --> 01:39:45,037 Parvati! 1166 01:39:47,883 --> 01:39:48,907 Saleem? 1167 01:39:49,351 --> 01:39:50,477 Saleem? 1168 01:39:51,887 --> 01:39:54,481 Saleem! That's it! 1169 01:39:55,524 --> 01:39:57,515 And I thought I was dreaming the whole thing. 1170 01:39:59,895 --> 01:40:00,759 Come! 1171 01:40:01,464 --> 01:40:02,726 Come up. 1172 01:40:25,621 --> 01:40:26,952 Abracadabra. 1173 01:40:27,455 --> 01:40:28,717 Abracadabra. 1174 01:40:28,991 --> 01:40:30,253 Abracadabra. 1175 01:40:36,565 --> 01:40:39,033 Hey, you there! Hurry up, they're boarding the plane. 1176 01:40:39,602 --> 01:40:40,432 Sir. 1177 01:40:46,542 --> 01:40:47,566 What's in this? 1178 01:40:47,943 --> 01:40:50,912 Don't disturb her. It's a personal snake. 1179 01:40:52,815 --> 01:40:53,713 And this one? 1180 01:40:53,783 --> 01:40:55,512 It's empty, sir. Take a look. 1181 01:40:57,953 --> 01:40:58,851 Very good. 1182 01:40:59,288 --> 01:41:01,089 Gather your belongings and board the aircraft. 1183 01:41:01,791 --> 01:41:02,815 Is it okay? 1184 01:41:18,707 --> 01:41:22,939 And so it came to pass that without passport or permit... 1185 01:41:23,445 --> 01:41:28,542 I returned in Parvati's basket of invisibility to lndia. 1186 01:41:29,685 --> 01:41:32,950 My lndia. The land of my birth. 1187 01:41:33,756 --> 01:41:37,351 Delhl, lndla 1972 1188 01:41:59,415 --> 01:42:04,284 abracadabra. Abracadabra. Abracadabra. 1189 01:43:31,407 --> 01:43:31,907 Yes. 1190 01:43:39,281 --> 01:43:40,270 Bye, saleem. 1191 01:43:40,349 --> 01:43:40,644 Bye. 1192 01:43:40,716 --> 01:43:41,876 "Picture Singh..." 1193 01:43:42,618 --> 01:43:45,519 "...the most charming man in the world..." 1194 01:43:46,288 --> 01:43:50,019 "charm your friends with that eastman Kodak." That's me. 1195 01:43:52,761 --> 01:43:53,728 Captain. 1196 01:43:55,030 --> 01:43:57,396 Parvati is a good girl. 1197 01:43:58,267 --> 01:43:59,734 Very sensible girl. 1198 01:44:00,869 --> 01:44:02,200 But she's an orphan. 1199 01:44:03,772 --> 01:44:06,206 She's your good friend. 1200 01:44:07,309 --> 01:44:09,607 How to take care of her? 1201 01:44:12,381 --> 01:44:14,679 Any idea? 1202 01:44:21,490 --> 01:44:22,582 Picture-ji... 1203 01:44:24,626 --> 01:44:25,684 Do you want tea? 1204 01:44:25,894 --> 01:44:27,259 Tea. 1205 01:44:27,396 --> 01:44:28,260 Then go make some. 1206 01:44:29,999 --> 01:44:30,761 Okay. 1207 01:44:33,469 --> 01:44:34,299 No. 1208 01:44:34,436 --> 01:44:35,334 No. 1209 01:44:35,704 --> 01:44:36,636 Karan, don't. 1210 01:45:00,362 --> 01:45:01,556 Abracadabra. 1211 01:45:12,908 --> 01:45:15,536 Finally, I have someone who knows my magic is real. 1212 01:45:16,879 --> 01:45:18,642 Why don't you tell the others? 1213 01:45:20,516 --> 01:45:21,642 Have you ever met... 1214 01:45:22,584 --> 01:45:25,485 magicians who believe in real magic? 1215 01:45:27,856 --> 01:45:29,756 They don't want witches around here. 1216 01:45:32,227 --> 01:45:33,489 Not even picture Singh? 1217 01:45:37,966 --> 01:45:39,456 Not even picture Singh. 1218 01:46:02,758 --> 01:46:04,282 Midnight's children. 1219 01:46:05,627 --> 01:46:09,256 You and me. That's something else. 1220 01:46:47,002 --> 01:46:47,969 Parvati. 1221 01:46:51,707 --> 01:46:55,040 Parvati, please talk to me. ...No, you talk to me, saleem! 1222 01:46:59,314 --> 01:47:01,646 Lt... it changes. 1223 01:47:06,321 --> 01:47:07,253 I'm sorry. 1224 01:47:11,426 --> 01:47:12,757 Are you too grand for me? 1225 01:47:12,828 --> 01:47:14,762 Remember I know a secret about you. 1226 01:47:18,534 --> 01:47:19,796 You haven't told anyone. 1227 01:47:20,302 --> 01:47:21,269 I could have. 1228 01:47:22,538 --> 01:47:23,630 I met the other one. 1229 01:47:23,939 --> 01:47:24,837 The other one? 1230 01:47:25,407 --> 01:47:26,465 The one you're scared of. 1231 01:47:27,910 --> 01:47:31,744 He was there at the victory parade. The biggest hero of the whole war. 1232 01:47:32,981 --> 01:47:33,970 Your old buddy. 1233 01:47:35,784 --> 01:47:37,581 You met him? ...Yes. 1234 01:47:39,555 --> 01:47:40,579 And you told him. 1235 01:47:41,990 --> 01:47:42,786 No. 1236 01:47:45,027 --> 01:47:46,551 But maybe I should send for him. 1237 01:47:47,796 --> 01:47:48,888 Send for him? 1238 01:47:49,865 --> 01:47:51,355 And you think he'll come to you? 1239 01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:53,058 To hell with you! 1240 01:48:11,920 --> 01:48:13,410 No further, picture-ji. 1241 01:48:45,988 --> 01:48:48,855 Come to me. Abracadabra. 1242 01:48:50,892 --> 01:48:51,984 Come to me. 1243 01:48:52,894 --> 01:48:56,125 Nuclear test, lndla 1974 1244 01:49:21,636 --> 01:49:24,400 certain ironies must not pass unnoticed, 1245 01:49:25,040 --> 01:49:27,474 for had not Shiva risen as I fell? 1246 01:49:28,677 --> 01:49:30,542 Which of us became a slum-dweller, 1247 01:49:31,347 --> 01:49:35,408 and who was the hero; The most powerful of midnight's children? 1248 01:49:36,618 --> 01:49:38,415 There's nothing like war... 1249 01:49:39,221 --> 01:49:41,246 for the reinvention of lives. 1250 01:49:45,227 --> 01:49:48,219 Who are you, hmm? Woman? 1251 01:49:49,331 --> 01:49:50,525 I'm the witch. 1252 01:49:50,632 --> 01:49:52,156 Mmhm. 1253 01:49:53,335 --> 01:49:55,235 Another midnight's child. 1254 01:50:01,543 --> 01:50:02,908 You. 1255 01:50:03,679 --> 01:50:05,237 I have nothing to say to you. 1256 01:50:06,148 --> 01:50:07,479 I'm leaving. 1257 01:50:08,384 --> 01:50:10,045 Come back to me. 1258 01:50:31,173 --> 01:50:32,140 Hey! 1259 01:50:36,979 --> 01:50:38,071 Saleem. 1260 01:50:42,951 --> 01:50:44,145 Woof woof. 1261 01:50:46,455 --> 01:50:50,186 How much is that doggie in the window? 1262 01:50:50,592 --> 01:50:54,722 I do hope that doggie's for sale 1263 01:51:21,323 --> 01:51:23,450 I had many families and no family. 1264 01:51:24,560 --> 01:51:27,188 There were the parents I never knew who gave me life. 1265 01:51:28,163 --> 01:51:30,961 And the parents who raised me, whom I lost. 1266 01:51:31,934 --> 01:51:35,961 And midnight's children, who were taken from me for a time. 1267 01:51:37,339 --> 01:51:41,400 I wandered among them all, and at last I was ready. 1268 01:52:13,075 --> 01:52:15,373 I called him because I was angry with you. 1269 01:52:16,011 --> 01:52:17,000 I know. 1270 01:52:22,050 --> 01:52:23,574 He left his child with me. 1271 01:52:24,920 --> 01:52:28,686 Parvati. Maybe it's not his child. 1272 01:52:30,025 --> 01:52:31,253 What do you mean? 1273 01:52:33,228 --> 01:52:35,253 When we get married, it will be ours. 1274 01:52:36,298 --> 01:52:37,162 What? 1275 01:52:37,366 --> 01:52:40,597 When we get married, it'll be ours. 1276 01:54:25,140 --> 01:54:26,573 Your face. 1277 01:54:29,848 --> 01:54:31,281 What about my face now? 1278 01:54:31,382 --> 01:54:32,849 Nothing... 1279 01:54:35,123 --> 01:54:38,581 Parvati, it's so beautiful. 1280 01:54:49,058 --> 01:54:53,085 June 12, 1975, will be remembered as a historic date. 1281 01:54:53,362 --> 01:54:55,159 At 2:15 this afternoon 1282 01:54:55,197 --> 01:54:58,394 the prime minister was found guilty of electoral malpractice. 1283 01:54:59,168 --> 01:55:01,830 From a specially built podium, Mrs. Gandhi told 1284 01:55:01,904 --> 01:55:03,337 the crowd that she was a victim... 1285 01:55:03,973 --> 01:55:05,565 "Emergency." 1286 01:55:06,008 --> 01:55:09,273 the word "emergency" was heard for the first time. 1287 01:55:09,345 --> 01:55:10,505 Saleem! 1288 01:55:13,314 --> 01:55:17,842 The censorship of the press, arrest of subversive elements... 1289 01:55:18,650 --> 01:55:20,709 and forced sterilization. 1290 01:55:21,298 --> 01:55:25,632 Some things were ending, something was being born. 1291 01:55:25,702 --> 01:55:27,033 Saleem! 1292 01:55:27,237 --> 01:55:29,637 It's a baby boy! 1293 01:55:41,518 --> 01:55:46,114 Look at your ears, they're so big! 1294 01:55:47,748 --> 01:55:49,215 Who knows what things you'll hear? 1295 01:55:51,018 --> 01:55:52,315 Aadam. 1296 01:55:53,287 --> 01:55:55,084 Aadam sinai. 1297 01:55:56,090 --> 01:55:57,990 Anything you want... 1298 01:55:58,125 --> 01:56:00,719 to be, you can be... 1299 01:56:01,962 --> 01:56:03,862 You can be... 1300 01:56:04,765 --> 01:56:07,359 just whatever you want. 1301 01:56:36,030 --> 01:56:38,157 With the declaration of the "emergency," 1302 01:56:39,967 --> 01:56:46,236 and the birth of a new, unfree lndia, a dark night fell. 1303 01:56:48,842 --> 01:56:51,242 A continuous midnight that would last... 1304 01:56:51,779 --> 01:56:53,007 for years. 1305 01:56:56,183 --> 01:57:00,176 What's happening? Where is the daylight? 1306 01:57:01,822 --> 01:57:04,313 A curse has come upon us. 1307 01:57:05,993 --> 01:57:07,984 I have never seen such a thing. 1308 01:57:14,835 --> 01:57:16,962 No doubt about it, madam. 1309 01:57:17,171 --> 01:57:21,733 Your horoscope clearly states that you are one with the motherland. 1310 01:57:22,509 --> 01:57:24,875 India is the prime minister, 1311 01:57:25,079 --> 01:57:27,070 prime minister is lndia. 1312 01:57:28,182 --> 01:57:31,117 And we started to think of her as "devi" 1313 01:57:31,185 --> 01:57:33,847 "the mother goddess." 1314 01:57:34,255 --> 01:57:38,248 those who would be gods fear all other potential deities. 1315 01:57:39,460 --> 01:57:41,485 And that's why she hated us. 1316 01:57:42,129 --> 01:57:44,154 The magical children of midnight. 1317 01:57:53,307 --> 01:57:55,798 It is astrologically proven... 1318 01:57:56,143 --> 01:57:58,168 a threat to the nation, madam... 1319 01:57:59,046 --> 01:58:01,844 is a threat to the prime minister also. 1320 01:58:12,426 --> 01:58:13,791 - Saleem? - Huh? 1321 01:58:14,094 --> 01:58:15,823 - Saleem? - Huh? 1322 01:58:15,929 --> 01:58:17,294 Did you hear that? 1323 01:58:25,239 --> 01:58:28,106 A civic beautification has been authorized in this sector. 1324 01:58:28,976 --> 01:58:32,207 This slum contains subversive elements, it's an eyesore... 1325 01:58:32,279 --> 01:58:33,974 and a public scandal. 1326 01:58:34,315 --> 01:58:36,875 All persons must vacate immediately! 1327 01:58:55,903 --> 01:58:58,133 Why are you doing this? 1328 01:59:01,375 --> 01:59:03,809 Parvati! Parvati! Aadam! 1329 01:59:03,877 --> 01:59:05,105 Go save them! 1330 01:59:14,121 --> 01:59:15,349 Parvati! 1331 01:59:16,457 --> 01:59:17,424 Shiva! 1332 01:59:17,791 --> 01:59:18,815 Rich kid. 1333 01:59:21,929 --> 01:59:23,021 Parvati! 1334 01:59:27,167 --> 01:59:30,000 Shiva! Shiva, stop! 1335 01:59:30,237 --> 01:59:32,034 Now tell me where the other children are. 1336 01:59:33,507 --> 01:59:34,201 Parvati! 1337 01:59:34,274 --> 01:59:35,298 - Where are they? - Little aadam! 1338 01:59:35,409 --> 01:59:36,808 He's your son! 1339 02:00:04,271 --> 02:00:05,431 Abracadabra. 1340 02:00:34,301 --> 02:00:35,996 The "emergency"... 1341 02:00:36,170 --> 02:00:40,937 was necessary and justified. 1342 02:00:41,141 --> 02:00:46,238 Democracy was under threat. It had to be protected. 1343 02:00:52,886 --> 02:00:54,285 We think you're very dangerous. 1344 02:00:54,888 --> 02:00:57,015 Or what you might be capable of, potentially. 1345 02:00:57,324 --> 02:00:58,848 What you're plotting to do. 1346 02:00:59,126 --> 02:01:01,890 Or might be plotting at a future date. 1347 02:01:02,763 --> 02:01:04,230 We're going to nip you in the bud. 1348 02:01:04,298 --> 02:01:06,163 Cut you off at the source. 1349 02:01:06,233 --> 02:01:08,793 Prevention is better than cure. 1350 02:01:09,136 --> 02:01:10,797 This is an "emergency." 1351 02:01:10,871 --> 02:01:12,202 your gang of freaks? 1352 02:01:12,806 --> 02:01:16,139 It will have to be smashed... with your help. 1353 02:01:16,443 --> 02:01:17,740 Of course. 1354 02:01:18,912 --> 02:01:21,472 Names. Addresses. 1355 02:01:22,916 --> 02:01:24,383 Physical descriptions. 1356 02:01:24,852 --> 02:01:28,879 Nature of peculiar capabilities. All of it. 1357 02:01:30,724 --> 02:01:31,884 Thank you in advance. 1358 02:01:32,226 --> 02:01:33,716 Thank you very much. 1359 02:01:35,796 --> 02:01:38,959 No. Never. 1360 02:01:48,208 --> 02:01:49,971 That wasn't too bad, was it? 1361 02:01:50,077 --> 02:01:51,135 Not so bad at all. 1362 02:01:52,813 --> 02:01:54,303 Shiva... 1363 02:01:55,082 --> 02:01:56,913 he's really me. 1364 02:01:59,019 --> 02:02:01,351 You two, out. 1365 02:02:03,257 --> 02:02:03,985 Now! 1366 02:02:13,200 --> 02:02:14,640 What the hell are you talking about? 1367 02:02:14,935 --> 02:02:16,027 Hm? 1368 02:02:17,971 --> 02:02:19,438 Two babies. 1369 02:02:21,775 --> 02:02:23,140 Born together. 1370 02:02:23,877 --> 02:02:27,711 Same place, same time. 1371 02:02:28,248 --> 02:02:29,272 And? 1372 02:02:30,217 --> 02:02:35,746 Swapped, see? Swapped. 1373 02:02:41,194 --> 02:02:42,286 Speak up. 1374 02:02:48,368 --> 02:02:52,304 I stole your life. 1375 02:03:01,048 --> 02:03:02,743 Rich boy. 1376 02:03:05,986 --> 02:03:07,283 Bastard. 1377 02:03:07,688 --> 02:03:10,782 Saleem and Shiva. Shiva and saleem. 1378 02:03:41,955 --> 02:03:45,288 Shiva. No! Stop! 1379 02:04:01,908 --> 02:04:04,900 Let them go! Let them go! Let them go! 1380 02:04:14,988 --> 02:04:16,148 Forgive me. 1381 02:04:17,891 --> 02:04:21,054 I'm sorry to inform you that we're obliged to operate. 1382 02:04:21,428 --> 02:04:23,953 Operate? What, what... what operation? 1383 02:04:24,031 --> 02:04:25,191 "Sperectomy." 1384 02:04:32,739 --> 02:04:34,434 I'm going to take your life away... 1385 02:04:36,376 --> 02:04:41,040 bit by bit, like you took mine. 1386 02:04:41,848 --> 02:04:45,750 No! Don't! No, stop! Stop! 1387 02:04:45,819 --> 02:04:48,982 Don't do this! Don't do this! 1388 02:04:50,891 --> 02:04:53,792 Stop... stop. Stop. 1389 02:04:57,064 --> 02:04:58,088 Take the pyjama off. 1390 02:04:58,198 --> 02:05:00,393 The "emergency, " everyone called it... 1391 02:05:00,901 --> 02:05:02,698 but it was really a betrayal. 1392 02:05:03,003 --> 02:05:04,163 Her betrayal... 1393 02:05:04,237 --> 02:05:06,034 of her father's dreams. 1394 02:05:07,040 --> 02:05:11,272 Who were we? We were the promises of independence. 1395 02:05:21,188 --> 02:05:24,749 And like all promises, made to be broken. 1396 02:05:25,692 --> 02:05:26,920 Vasectomy. 1397 02:05:28,295 --> 02:05:29,853 In a stunning upset, 1398 02:05:29,930 --> 02:05:32,330 the prime minister lndira Gandhi has been... 1399 02:05:32,399 --> 02:05:35,163 unceremoniously flung out of office. 1400 02:05:35,736 --> 02:05:38,227 Sure of a triumph, she called an election, 1401 02:05:38,305 --> 02:05:40,330 only to have it backfire on her. 1402 02:05:40,407 --> 02:05:43,137 The emergency is over. 1403 02:07:07,794 --> 02:07:11,890 Four hundred and twenty of us stood, blinking in the sunlight. 1404 02:07:13,733 --> 02:07:17,396 And then dispersed into the healing privacy of the crowds. 1405 02:07:19,806 --> 02:07:21,000 And what of Shiva? 1406 02:07:21,908 --> 02:07:24,103 Shiva, who was now a wanted man. 1407 02:09:11,751 --> 02:09:13,082 Parvati...? 1408 02:09:15,922 --> 02:09:18,823 Unfortunately, she... 1409 02:09:24,097 --> 02:09:27,999 But captain... you have a son. 1410 02:09:28,969 --> 02:09:32,029 Come. Come with me. 1411 02:10:10,477 --> 02:10:12,172 Come. 1412 02:10:23,823 --> 02:10:26,348 She didn't even use her magic to save her life. 1413 02:10:28,328 --> 02:10:33,061 You see, picture-ji, Parvati gave up all of that before he was born. 1414 02:10:33,967 --> 02:10:35,867 She didn't give it up. 1415 02:10:37,070 --> 02:10:40,437 I found aadam in her basket of invisibility. 1416 02:10:41,241 --> 02:10:43,869 The soldiers looked inside and shouted... 1417 02:10:43,943 --> 02:10:45,740 It's empty! It's empty! 1418 02:10:46,012 --> 02:10:47,912 I heard them with my own ears. 1419 02:10:48,882 --> 02:10:50,406 But you saw him? 1420 02:10:50,884 --> 02:10:54,513 I believed in her magic. 1421 02:10:55,789 --> 02:10:58,883 Always knew it was not a trick. 1422 02:11:07,233 --> 02:11:11,226 He's a fine child, child of dignity. 1423 02:11:13,440 --> 02:11:16,375 No matter he doesn't speak but he will, 1424 02:11:16,810 --> 02:11:21,372 when he has something to say. 1425 02:11:31,024 --> 02:11:35,723 This chutney! What's this? Where's it from? 1426 02:11:44,804 --> 02:11:46,032 Here, sir. 1427 02:11:47,507 --> 02:11:52,945 Oh! One from famous braganza pickles of Bombay. 1428 02:11:56,783 --> 02:11:58,842 Picture-ji, we must go to Bombay. 1429 02:11:59,919 --> 02:12:01,147 Just now? 1430 02:12:04,390 --> 02:12:05,414 Now. 1431 02:12:08,962 --> 02:12:10,691 Parvati was gone. 1432 02:12:12,031 --> 02:12:14,829 But in the five-syllable monotony of the wheels, 1433 02:12:14,901 --> 02:12:16,869 I heard her magic spell. 1434 02:12:17,403 --> 02:12:20,133 "Abracadabra, abracadabra, abracadabra, "... 1435 02:12:20,373 --> 02:12:24,707 sang the wheels, as they bore us back to Bombay. 1436 02:12:41,261 --> 02:12:42,785 Ls mrs braganza here? 1437 02:12:42,862 --> 02:12:45,854 Yes, but you can't meet with her. Where are you going? 1438 02:12:47,333 --> 02:12:48,322 Hello? 1439 02:13:01,848 --> 02:13:03,315 Who is it? 1440 02:13:14,027 --> 02:13:15,392 Saleem. 1441 02:13:18,331 --> 02:13:19,958 Oh... 1442 02:13:30,176 --> 02:13:34,010 You've become so thin. Let me kiss you. 1443 02:13:43,256 --> 02:13:46,748 Mary, this is my son, aadam. 1444 02:13:50,330 --> 02:13:51,763 And aadam... 1445 02:14:07,413 --> 02:14:09,904 Come here. 1446 02:14:13,253 --> 02:14:14,720 Come, little baba. 1447 02:14:54,961 --> 02:14:57,987 Blow. Blow. 1448 02:15:12,278 --> 02:15:13,802 Happy Birthday. 1449 02:15:15,114 --> 02:15:16,046 Bless you. 1450 02:15:22,989 --> 02:15:23,978 Abba... 1451 02:15:24,190 --> 02:15:25,122 He spoke! 1452 02:15:26,459 --> 02:15:28,017 He's speaking. 1453 02:15:28,928 --> 02:15:30,020 Abba... 1454 02:15:30,263 --> 02:15:31,821 My God. 1455 02:15:33,099 --> 02:15:34,828 He's calling me "father". 1456 02:15:35,435 --> 02:15:37,733 Speak son, speak. 1457 02:15:38,237 --> 02:15:40,171 Abracadabra. 1458 02:15:43,710 --> 02:15:45,405 What did you say? 1459 02:15:46,846 --> 02:15:48,711 Abracadabra. 1460 02:15:49,315 --> 02:15:51,977 Another magic child. 1461 02:15:55,455 --> 02:16:00,017 So. A new generation... But more careful. 1462 02:16:01,728 --> 02:16:02,752 Tougher. 1463 02:16:10,236 --> 02:16:15,833 A child and a country were born at midnight, once upon a time. 1464 02:16:17,110 --> 02:16:19,271 Great things were expected of us both. 1465 02:16:20,380 --> 02:16:23,747 The truth has been less glorious than the dream. 1466 02:16:25,184 --> 02:16:28,051 But we have survived and made our way. 1467 02:16:28,821 --> 02:16:31,813 And our lives have been, in spite of everything, 1468 02:16:33,292 --> 02:16:34,418 acts of love.