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The men who enter
our building...
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are not so good.
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They are drunk.
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They come inside
and shout and swear.
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The women ask me...
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''When are you going
to join the line?''
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They say it won't be long.
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lt's almost impossible to photograph
in the red light district.
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Everyone is terrified
of the camera.
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They are frightened
of being found out.
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Everything is illegal.
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There's a whole separate society
within itself...
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l mean, you just walk down
that one lane and it's another world.
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l knew l couldn't do this
as a visitor.
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l wanted to stay with them, live
with them and understand their lives.
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And of course, as soon as
l entered the brothels...
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l met the children.
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The brothels are filled with children,
they are everywhere.
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And they were so curious.
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They didn't understand why this woman
had come and what l was doing there.
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They were all over me,
and l would play with them.
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And take their photographs
and they would take mine.
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They wanted to learn
how to use the camera.
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That's when l thought it would be
really great to teach them...
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and to see this World
through their eyes.
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Kochi is in the class.
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She's the quiet type,
shy with the camera.
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And if Shanti doesn't get her way,
she get's mad and runs away.
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l like Avijit but he gets upset
if someone calls him fat.
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And Suchitra...
whatever you give her...
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she quietly takes it.
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She doesn't fight with anyone.
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When they beat Manik,
he gets mad.
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He never bothers anyone.
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Gour, if someone calls Gour
''garu'', ''cow'' he gets mad.
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He picks his teeth all the time.
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My name is Puja Mukerjee.
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l live in Abinash Kaviraj Lane.
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l'm ten years old.
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For Geeta Masi upstairs,
l do dishes...
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l bring tea, do errands.
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She gives us money.
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l mop twice a day.
The porch too.
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ln the evenings, if they want,
l do shopping.
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Until 1 1:00 at night,
if they want curry or rice...
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l have to get it.
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l keep thinking...
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if l could...
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go some place else...
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and get education.
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When you hold the camera,
take your time to look.
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Don't just go like this.
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lf it's not right here...
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l'll move a little bit...
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and make sure everything
in the whole square...
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looks good and then
l'll take the picture.
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So just do it more slowly.
So l want her to look.
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Just today, l took someone's picture
and he badmouthed me.
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l didn't mind. You really have
to put up with a lot...
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if you want to learn
to do something well.
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l never really...
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think about being rich.
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Even if l was poor...
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l would have a happy life.
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One has to accept...
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life as being...
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sad and painful...
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that's all.
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Pick up the bucket.
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You do it.
l don't have any more to do.
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You selfish fucking bitch.
You can't even fetch water properly.
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Hey, l didn't take your water.
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You know how to use
your filthy mouth all right.
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You worthless little cunt.
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Go tell your mother
to get fucked.
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l have to do something...
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with my sewing and photography.
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l need to make a living and
take care of my sister and me.
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People ask me why am l in lndia,
why l come and do this work.
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There's no rational,
logical reason why l do this...
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but l feel very connected
to the women...
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and now their children.
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Does she like this one?
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She should be able to say why she
likes a photo or doesn't like it.
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She doesn't have to agree
with anyone.
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l don't like this one because
it's just one head sticking out.
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You know what? She's right,
it's one head sticking out.
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That's why l like it
and that's why she doesn't like it.
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l like Zana Auntie's class a lot.
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l like taking pictures.
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Editing pictures...
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l only like a little.
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l like taking pictures more.
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l feel shy taking pictures
in public.
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People tease us
and say mean things.
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They say...
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''Look at them
taking photographs...''
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''Who knows where they
could have bought...
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those cameras from!''
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Can you see, Grandma?
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Look carefully.
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Grandma, please...
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look carefully.
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Close one eye...
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open the other...
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and take a look.
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-Can you see it now?
-Yes.
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Sister, let me see.
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My God, how beautiful!
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This picture is funny to me.
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Maybe it's just because
l'm a westerner...
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but they look like an old married couple
holding their twins.
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He is like my brother!
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No, no way... l'm not going
to do anything anymore.
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Why are you lying so much?
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Avijit keeps teasing me.
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lt's a funny photograph
because l know that's not true.
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ln the photography class,
l like to do the selection thing...
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like...
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l like this one, or that one...
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He gets to run around
taking pictures.
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But our parents
don't let me go anywhere.
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He beats me up all the time...
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-Why?
-l don't know. l don't do anything...
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He punches me
if l touch his kites.
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And what if you get separated
from Manik...
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would that be okay?
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Yes.
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When l was taking this picture...
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Shanti came and put her hand
in front of the light...
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and so her hand came into
the picture.
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Dad, they tore up
one of my kites.
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When l was little...
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the police
used to take my mom.
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My dad would take me
to the court to get her.
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They'd ask her:
''Are you going to do it again?''
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She'd say no.
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Then they'd let her go.
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My mom is very worried
about Shanti's future.
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ln our room...
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there is a rod...
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and from there
we close the curtain...
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that way we don't see
anything that's going on.
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When my mom works
in the room...
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we go up on the roof
and play there.
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lt's a lot better
to fly a kite in the evening.
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l live here with my grandmother...
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because my mother
can't take care of me.
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My father tried to sell me.
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lf my sister didn't come to get me,
my father would have sold me.
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l worry that
l might become like them.
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Kochi is very shy and demure.
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So if somebody is gonna force her into
prostitution she's not going to say no.
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She's never said no
in her life.
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So you can imagine
what's going to happen to her very soon.
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The children ask me for help.
They ask for it all the time.
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And it's heartbreaking,
there's so little l can do...
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all l can do is try.
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Why do you want to put her
in our boarding school?
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Kochi has a very hard life.
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From 4 o'clock in the morning,
she works with me cleaning houses.
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She works so hard that
she doesn't even have time to rest.
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But now she makes some money
cleaning houses.
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lf she gets into the home.
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that money won't be there anymore.
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Yes, true...
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but l'll manage it somehow.
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Why did you bring her in
and not her mother?
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She's sitting right over there.
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There's...
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no problem with her mother...
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just that she's temperamental.
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She's lost six sons,
her husband died too.
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She tried to kill herself
by jumping off the Howrah Bridge.
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Since then,
she doesn't behave normally.
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Was there any treatment for her?
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Yes, there was, but they said
she has emotional problems.
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Maybe it will get better over time.
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So, you want to admit Kochi
in the boarding school...
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Yes.
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Yes, l want Kochi
to fill in the application...
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and l want her to go
to the boarding school and study.
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lt would be good if she could study.
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But we have certain rules
and regulations over here...
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l can't...
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promise anything.
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But we'll take in the application.
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We need three copies
of her photograph...
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passport size...
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and the grades from her school.
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Babu...
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finding her papers without
her brother's help is difficult.
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l have eaten and l will throw up!
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Move!
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You're taking them
on a visit to the zoo?
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Son of a swine, sit!
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Avijit won't let me
sit in his lap.
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This is even hurting me!
Riding like this tends to hurt.
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Wow!
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Look that building!
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l'm gonna take a picture to.
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Faster, faster.
They're going to beat us!
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00:21:09,736 --> 00:21:12,500
Why don't you go faster?
You're going so slowly!
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Am l doing it right?
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The animals in the zoo
are shut in their cages...
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they are fed only once a day,
and that too just a little.
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The elephant
is running towards us.
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He must be hungry.
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People feed them plastic bags.
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The animals don't know.
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They think it's food
and eat it up...
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which is harmful
for their health.
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You shot two rolls
of film which is very good.
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But the pictures all came out
blank which was not very good.
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-Why?
-Because you went out at night, right?
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You should know by now...
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you can't shoot at night
without a flash.
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l had absolutely forgotten.
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What are they doing?
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They're carrying a dead man
to the graveyard...
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when you pass away,
l'll carry you just like that.
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Yeah, right.
You'll die way before me!
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No, l won't!
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One day, l opened the camera
and the whole roll got burnt...
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so l don't open it anymore.
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She's really good at photographing
on the street...
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and no one has really done that
in her neighborhood.
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Like outside her house.
And she's very bold.
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Tell her that you know
how people get angry on the street...
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but she's so bold
she gets away with it.
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She's one of the few people
in the class.
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Generally, people get angry
if shots are taken on the roads.
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No, nobody gets mad at me.
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Yeah, because she is very strong.
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One girl got mad and said:
''Why did you take my picture?''
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She tore up her picture and said:
''Give me the negative!''
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l said: ''Heck, no negatives''.
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Then l walked away,
she said nothing.
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The greatgrandmother, the grandmother
the mother are prostitutes...
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but they have better surroundings.
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lt's a Brahman family,
they're very sort of regal...
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because she eats well,
she's dressed well...
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she's not obviously poor...
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but she's heading for prostitution.
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Pest of a bird.
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ls she always this quiet?
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Quiet? My God!
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She never listens to me.
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She never listens to me.
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My mother is lying a lot.
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She said her mom is lying.
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Just ask my grandmother.
253
00:25:55,555 --> 00:25:57,390
She's asked
to ask her grandmother.
254
00:25:57,390 --> 00:25:58,691
Oh my God...
255
00:25:58,691 --> 00:26:01,159
how much has to be done!
256
00:26:02,195 --> 00:26:04,264
My voice will crack...
257
00:26:04,264 --> 00:26:06,391
and hands will ache.
258
00:26:10,570 --> 00:26:14,301
l like the way Puja behaves.
259
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,570
Whenever she eats something,
she shares it with others.
260
00:26:18,711 --> 00:26:20,508
You don't even have to ask.
261
00:26:21,481 --> 00:26:26,748
One day, l went to Puja's house
and saw her dad beating up her mom.
262
00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:28,883
l asked Puja about it...
263
00:26:29,222 --> 00:26:30,423
She said...
264
00:26:30,423 --> 00:26:34,154
''My mom didn't give money to my
dad for his drinking...
265
00:26:34,394 --> 00:26:37,420
so he beat her''.
266
00:26:38,932 --> 00:26:44,165
l wish l could
take Puja away from here.
267
00:26:44,237 --> 00:26:46,865
When she grows up,
she'll end up on the streets.
268
00:26:47,106 --> 00:26:51,702
She'll do drugs
and snatch people's money.
269
00:27:08,094 --> 00:27:09,061
lt's my picture.
270
00:27:09,128 --> 00:27:10,891
Why do you think it is yours?
271
00:27:11,231 --> 00:27:12,562
lt was taken with my camera.
272
00:27:12,632 --> 00:27:14,964
l know! But just because
it's your camera...
273
00:27:15,034 --> 00:27:17,093
doesn't mean it's your photo.
274
00:27:20,773 --> 00:27:24,140
A composition means
how you put shapes into the box.
275
00:27:24,444 --> 00:27:26,105
The lines of a picture.
276
00:27:26,379 --> 00:27:29,109
These are all very,
very good compositions.
277
00:27:30,350 --> 00:27:32,552
You can see everything
that is going on around.
278
00:27:32,552 --> 00:27:34,645
There's so much information
in this picture.
279
00:27:34,754 --> 00:27:36,745
There's layers of people
in the foreground...
280
00:27:36,956 --> 00:27:39,516
middle, back...
and it's just a beautiful photograph.
281
00:27:45,164 --> 00:27:46,222
Suchitra!
282
00:27:46,566 --> 00:27:48,227
Tell us about your picture.
283
00:27:50,203 --> 00:27:52,728
This is my friend's sister.
284
00:27:53,206 --> 00:27:56,642
One day, she was drying clothes
on the terrace...
285
00:27:57,243 --> 00:27:59,370
she asked me to take her photo...
286
00:27:59,612 --> 00:28:01,546
so l got irritated
and took the picture.
287
00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:08,344
Suchitra's mother is dead.
288
00:28:09,956 --> 00:28:14,256
But her aunt wants to send her
to Bombay to work ''in the line''.
289
00:28:16,262 --> 00:28:18,822
She's talked to me about it
many times...
290
00:28:19,232 --> 00:28:21,598
and asked me not to tell anyone.
291
00:28:26,306 --> 00:28:28,900
l know about her family...
292
00:28:30,443 --> 00:28:33,503
she has pressure on her.
293
00:28:33,713 --> 00:28:36,307
All the girls in Suchitra's house
are in the line.
294
00:28:36,382 --> 00:28:39,215
That's why she never goes.
295
00:28:39,285 --> 00:28:43,381
Suchitra's aunt will put her in the line
because she'll make money on her.
296
00:28:44,357 --> 00:28:47,349
Do you see any solution
to all this?
297
00:28:50,797 --> 00:28:51,729
No.
298
00:29:35,775 --> 00:29:38,869
One of the girls
was already married off at age 1 1.
299
00:29:39,345 --> 00:29:42,109
Another was forced
into prostitution at age 1 4.
300
00:29:42,315 --> 00:29:43,748
These are all my students.
301
00:29:43,850 --> 00:29:46,944
They have absolutely no opportunity
without education.
302
00:29:48,955 --> 00:29:51,287
The question is can l find
a school? A good school...
303
00:29:51,424 --> 00:29:55,190
that will take kids
that are children of prostitutes.
304
00:30:05,171 --> 00:30:08,107
l'm totally independent.
l've been living and working...
305
00:30:08,107 --> 00:30:11,099
in the red light district
in North Calcutta for a number of years.
306
00:30:11,177 --> 00:30:14,271
-Which red light district?
-Ramagana Sonogachi.
307
00:30:14,747 --> 00:30:16,749
Where you've been living
for a number of years?
308
00:30:16,749 --> 00:30:20,286
On and off, so l've been teaching well.
Basically.
309
00:30:20,286 --> 00:30:23,619
l'm a photographer and l've been
photographing the lives of the women...
310
00:30:23,689 --> 00:30:25,384
and l got very close
to the children...
311
00:30:25,491 --> 00:30:28,289
and l started teaching them
photography two years ago.
312
00:30:28,461 --> 00:30:30,563
There's one group l'm very close to...
313
00:30:30,563 --> 00:30:32,758
and l'm trying
to get them out of the brothels.
314
00:30:33,199 --> 00:30:35,935
Trying to find schools,
good schools for them, but...
315
00:30:35,935 --> 00:30:37,937
l'm looking for a boarding school...
316
00:30:37,937 --> 00:30:40,462
cause otherwise they go back
to the red light district and then...
317
00:30:40,540 --> 00:30:43,100
One of the girls was already forced
into prostitution.
318
00:30:43,576 --> 00:30:45,611
These kids want to be out of there.
319
00:30:45,611 --> 00:30:47,909
Are there any boarding schools
that will take them?
320
00:30:48,114 --> 00:30:51,106
Cause l found that people don't want
to deal with children of sex workers.
321
00:30:51,317 --> 00:30:54,150
No place is the right place.
Nobody will take them.
322
00:30:54,387 --> 00:30:55,513
Who will take them?
323
00:31:53,179 --> 00:31:54,747
l take pictures to show...
324
00:31:54,747 --> 00:31:56,772
how people in this city live.
325
00:31:58,484 --> 00:32:01,612
People here live in chaos.
326
00:32:04,657 --> 00:32:05,258
ln the village...
327
00:32:05,258 --> 00:32:09,217
people may have a mud house,
but they are happy.
328
00:32:10,563 --> 00:32:14,192
Nobody lives as filthily
as we do in our country.
329
00:32:16,202 --> 00:32:19,228
Wherever there are dirty plates,
we find shoes right next to them.
330
00:32:19,305 --> 00:32:21,865
ln no other country have l seen this.
331
00:32:23,242 --> 00:32:25,233
That is why l like photography...
332
00:32:25,311 --> 00:32:27,779
l want to put across
the behavior of man.
333
00:32:29,182 --> 00:32:32,515
Whose pictures do you think are better,
yours or Manik's?
334
00:32:33,786 --> 00:32:35,185
Avijit's.
335
00:32:44,263 --> 00:32:46,458
When a camera is in my hands...
336
00:32:46,899 --> 00:32:49,697
l can take a picture of someone...
337
00:32:49,902 --> 00:32:52,530
who has gone away,
died or been lost.
338
00:32:52,772 --> 00:32:55,172
And have something
that l'll be able to look at...
339
00:32:55,241 --> 00:32:57,300
for the rest of my life.
340
00:33:03,649 --> 00:33:05,514
l like to draw pictures...
341
00:33:05,785 --> 00:33:09,448
because l want to express
what's on my mind.
342
00:33:12,458 --> 00:33:17,191
l want to put my thoughts
into colors.
343
00:33:19,966 --> 00:33:23,595
Come and see all that my grandson
has won because of his paintings.
344
00:33:23,869 --> 00:33:26,269
This one is full.
The box below is full.
345
00:33:26,339 --> 00:33:29,308
All these boxes
are full of awards that he has won.
346
00:33:31,644 --> 00:33:33,771
He has drawn and won everything.
347
00:33:35,214 --> 00:33:39,150
When he was small...
lt's a picture of that time.
348
00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:44,150
Avijit's picture as a baby.
349
00:33:46,225 --> 00:33:49,126
l love this,
because it's a self portrait...
350
00:33:49,395 --> 00:33:51,420
but you can also see the street.
351
00:33:51,697 --> 00:33:53,289
You can see the environment
where he is.
352
00:33:53,599 --> 00:33:57,729
He's just got so many different kinds
of pictures on this one contact sheet.
353
00:33:57,937 --> 00:34:01,134
And the details here, the windows,
the shutters and wires.
354
00:34:01,807 --> 00:34:05,140
So many different angles, and things
in the foreground, and background...
355
00:34:05,211 --> 00:34:07,702
and men sleeping and walking
and everything.
356
00:34:08,247 --> 00:34:10,511
Just a very good contact sheet.
357
00:34:13,319 --> 00:34:15,810
ln our room, liquor is sold...
358
00:34:16,589 --> 00:34:18,454
almost first thing in the morning.
359
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,123
The men drink
and then go to the girls...
360
00:34:24,764 --> 00:34:27,665
give them some money,
and spend time with them.
361
00:34:29,435 --> 00:34:32,199
Some men drink and don't pay.
362
00:34:34,307 --> 00:34:37,299
Then l have to go after
them and be mean...
363
00:34:39,178 --> 00:34:41,373
because that's all we have.
364
00:34:47,820 --> 00:34:50,118
My father's name is Sunil Halder...
365
00:34:50,489 --> 00:34:52,821
and he is almost forty.
366
00:34:55,561 --> 00:34:58,792
When l was two, he married my mother,
and at that point...
367
00:34:58,898 --> 00:35:01,230
another man got my father
addicted to smoking hash.
368
00:35:03,336 --> 00:35:05,201
At the time...
369
00:35:05,438 --> 00:35:09,568
a man got my father adicted
to hashish.
370
00:35:12,144 --> 00:35:14,135
ln the past...
371
00:35:16,215 --> 00:35:21,118
my father was a very good man.
372
00:35:21,921 --> 00:35:24,116
He used to be very fat...
373
00:35:24,223 --> 00:35:27,386
and he could easily beat up
two men at one time.
374
00:35:27,660 --> 00:35:29,150
He was well known and even now...
375
00:35:29,228 --> 00:35:31,163
if his name is mentioned
in the Bazaar...
376
00:35:31,163 --> 00:35:32,596
people recognize him.
377
00:35:32,832 --> 00:35:36,893
But now, my mother has left
and he just smokes all day.
378
00:35:39,939 --> 00:35:43,170
That is why nobody pays attention
to my father.
379
00:35:44,744 --> 00:35:46,143
But even then...
380
00:35:46,379 --> 00:35:49,348
l try to love him a little.
381
00:36:00,359 --> 00:36:02,486
My mom lives in the village.
382
00:36:02,895 --> 00:36:05,523
Nobody cares about her.
383
00:36:10,503 --> 00:36:13,870
My mom used to say jokingly...
384
00:36:14,140 --> 00:36:17,473
''l'm going to send you
to London to study''.
385
00:36:17,710 --> 00:36:22,670
We don't have the money to live,
let alone for studies.
386
00:37:03,389 --> 00:37:05,254
Hurry up. The bus is here.
387
00:37:06,492 --> 00:37:08,153
Hurry. Everyone's waiting.
388
00:37:08,994 --> 00:37:10,894
l've been waiting
for such a long time.
389
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:17,196
Can l sit by the window?
l want to take pictures.
390
00:37:17,269 --> 00:37:18,327
Everybody is finally here.
We can leave.
391
00:37:19,271 --> 00:37:21,398
-We're leaving. Let's go!
-One minute!
392
00:37:21,474 --> 00:37:23,101
One minute. One minute.
393
00:37:23,209 --> 00:37:24,608
One minute. One minute.
394
00:37:24,810 --> 00:37:28,473
Could you ask everyone if they've got
their cameras cause l don't see them all.
395
00:37:29,748 --> 00:37:30,578
Okay.
396
00:37:36,188 --> 00:37:37,450
We're leaving.
397
00:38:32,444 --> 00:38:33,502
Look at the water!
398
00:38:33,812 --> 00:38:35,279
There are animals there.
399
00:39:52,291 --> 00:39:53,815
Look at the ocean!
400
00:39:54,893 --> 00:39:56,190
Gour!
401
00:39:56,829 --> 00:39:58,888
lt's you and me!
402
00:40:11,143 --> 00:40:13,703
A big one is coming!
403
00:40:19,852 --> 00:40:23,117
This time we're gonna get wet.
404
00:41:16,275 --> 00:41:17,503
Take a picture of me.
405
00:41:35,627 --> 00:41:38,255
Look at the sky. The moon!
406
00:44:21,326 --> 00:44:22,725
Let me go!
407
00:44:23,328 --> 00:44:24,659
Let me go!
408
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:29,897
Let me go!
409
00:44:30,302 --> 00:44:33,601
Beat that son of a bitch.
Beat the son of a cunt fucking bitch.
410
00:44:33,872 --> 00:44:35,203
Oh God!
411
00:44:37,309 --> 00:44:41,370
You aren't the only one
who's brought up kids.
412
00:44:42,147 --> 00:44:44,240
Naked fucking whore...
413
00:44:44,316 --> 00:44:47,717
giving out all the time
in your room.
414
00:44:47,886 --> 00:44:50,116
l'll have you and fucking
Latka thrown out!
415
00:44:50,422 --> 00:44:54,688
Acting the part of a butt
fucking saintly wife!
416
00:44:55,193 --> 00:44:57,889
lf we are sluts, what are you?
417
00:44:58,196 --> 00:45:01,131
You are twice the sluts we are.
418
00:45:01,366 --> 00:45:02,799
Do you hear me...
419
00:45:03,235 --> 00:45:06,136
or do you have
a dick in your ear?
420
00:45:06,505 --> 00:45:10,305
You fucked your son
and your grandson.
421
00:45:10,676 --> 00:45:12,541
Go and fuck your ass.
422
00:45:13,178 --> 00:45:15,738
l'll give it to the motherfucker.
423
00:45:17,215 --> 00:45:21,208
You get angry at him
and take it out on us.
424
00:45:23,388 --> 00:45:24,377
Get over here.
425
00:45:26,658 --> 00:45:31,152
Pretending to be saintly
in Sonagachi!
426
00:45:37,869 --> 00:45:40,804
l'm not a social worker.
l'm not a teacher, even.
427
00:45:41,206 --> 00:45:44,369
That's my fear, you know,
that l really can't do anything.
428
00:45:44,476 --> 00:45:48,242
And that even helping them to get
an education is not going to do anything.
429
00:45:48,447 --> 00:45:50,711
But without help,
they're doomed.
430
00:45:54,219 --> 00:45:57,450
l can try to find a boarding
school for you...
431
00:45:57,723 --> 00:45:59,418
but you will have to study.
432
00:45:59,624 --> 00:46:02,388
He never studies.
He only plays with his kites.
433
00:46:04,229 --> 00:46:06,288
So do you want to go
to a boarding school?
434
00:46:08,567 --> 00:46:11,092
Do you want to go
to a better school?
435
00:46:12,771 --> 00:46:16,730
You'll have to work hard
and improve your grades.
436
00:46:28,854 --> 00:46:32,449
We're going to go and find out exactly
what we need for the school applications.
437
00:46:33,158 --> 00:46:36,355
l've got the original birth certificates,
Xeroxes of the birth certificates.
438
00:46:36,595 --> 00:46:40,656
The reason this is so difficult is
cause their parents cannot be criminals.
439
00:46:41,099 --> 00:46:42,726
And their parents are all criminals.
440
00:46:43,135 --> 00:46:46,571
They're all prostitutes, dealing drugs,
selling alcohol illegally.
441
00:46:47,139 --> 00:46:48,197
l don't understand, you know.
442
00:46:48,273 --> 00:46:50,605
Everyday.
Come tomorrow, it will be done.
443
00:46:51,276 --> 00:46:54,268
You said it would be done today.
You promised it would be done today.
444
00:46:54,679 --> 00:46:58,638
You promised it would be done last
Tuesday. You can't put a stamp on this?
445
00:47:00,519 --> 00:47:03,079
-What is his father's name?
-Sunil.
446
00:47:03,789 --> 00:47:07,748
He spells it with a ''V''.
lt's on his birth certificate as a ''V''.
447
00:47:08,393 --> 00:47:10,827
The original ration card says ''V''.
448
00:47:11,863 --> 00:47:13,228
V. l.
449
00:47:15,634 --> 00:47:17,534
Aiy, V. l. V. V.
450
00:47:18,703 --> 00:47:23,163
First you have to make an application
saying that l lost my card.
451
00:47:24,076 --> 00:47:27,671
Take it to the Ration Officer
at Amherst Street, Calcutta.
452
00:47:28,313 --> 00:47:32,409
Then he will forward you a letter
after putting a stamp on it.
453
00:47:33,618 --> 00:47:37,213
Then you make another report
and take it to the police.
454
00:47:37,389 --> 00:47:41,189
Once it is brought back here,
you will be given another form.
455
00:47:45,831 --> 00:47:49,927
Then fill that form in and bring
it back to this office.
456
00:47:51,436 --> 00:47:54,803
l just wanna know how long it's supposed
to take once you have all this stuff.
457
00:47:57,576 --> 00:47:59,203
Seven days to a month.
458
00:48:00,178 --> 00:48:02,408
l could kill this ration guy.
459
00:48:23,401 --> 00:48:25,767
So now you die here, stupid!
Die, die.
460
00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:30,174
She always has to get her way.
461
00:49:03,441 --> 00:49:06,968
So l need to go over everything
that they need because l don't, l don't...
462
00:49:07,078 --> 00:49:10,104
-Yeah, birth certificates.
-l have birth certificates.
463
00:49:12,184 --> 00:49:14,175
And ration cards.
464
00:49:14,319 --> 00:49:17,982
They don't, l mean, if l have
to go to that ration card office again...
465
00:49:18,223 --> 00:49:20,714
l think l'll just jump off a bridge.
466
00:49:21,893 --> 00:49:23,656
Oh my God. l've already...
467
00:49:25,230 --> 00:49:26,162
Okay.
468
00:49:26,932 --> 00:49:29,196
Medical certificate,
some sort of medical certificate.
469
00:49:29,267 --> 00:49:31,258
Are they HlV positive?
470
00:49:31,937 --> 00:49:32,961
l have no idea.
471
00:49:33,305 --> 00:49:36,206
Do you think it would be possible
that they might be carriers?
472
00:49:36,274 --> 00:49:39,641
Yes, definitely.
lt's clearly possible, l don't know.
473
00:49:40,111 --> 00:49:42,511
l mean, l'll do it,
if you want, but l don't know.
474
00:49:42,647 --> 00:49:45,480
Just get a medical certification.
475
00:49:46,418 --> 00:49:48,545
So l'll have to take them to the doctor.
476
00:49:55,227 --> 00:49:57,195
Kianti: bad news.
477
00:49:58,196 --> 00:49:59,788
Potentially devastating news.
478
00:50:00,665 --> 00:50:04,431
She called and she said that
the medical tests are compulsory...
479
00:50:04,669 --> 00:50:08,127
and they can't move ahead until
l have the results of the HlV tests.
480
00:50:08,206 --> 00:50:10,367
And that if they have HlV,
they won't take them.
481
00:50:16,615 --> 00:50:18,446
-You'll just take a little blood, right?
-Yes...
482
00:50:18,516 --> 00:50:20,211
you won't even notice.
483
00:50:21,586 --> 00:50:23,178
Like an ant bite?
484
00:50:23,255 --> 00:50:25,519
Not even an ant bite.
485
00:50:28,393 --> 00:50:29,951
lnjections, God.
486
00:50:31,796 --> 00:50:34,390
-l don't like shots.
-lt won't hurt...
487
00:50:36,001 --> 00:50:38,162
Just like an ant bite.
Like candy.
488
00:50:38,236 --> 00:50:40,295
Yeah, right, just like candy.
489
00:50:51,483 --> 00:50:54,247
Now l'm gonna tie the band.
490
00:50:54,686 --> 00:50:57,746
-ls it tight? lt has to be. Does it hurt?
-A little bit.
491
00:50:59,724 --> 00:51:02,784
-lt hurts!
-No no, it won't hurt at all.
492
00:51:03,895 --> 00:51:05,294
lt is hurting!
493
00:51:12,437 --> 00:51:14,371
Let's see this vein.
494
00:51:14,739 --> 00:51:15,899
l'm afraid.
495
00:51:26,951 --> 00:51:28,509
Take it easy.
We're done.
496
00:51:30,922 --> 00:51:31,946
Perfect.
497
00:51:32,324 --> 00:51:33,313
That's it.
498
00:51:33,925 --> 00:51:35,153
Very good.
499
00:51:35,226 --> 00:51:38,457
Keep your arm like this
and hold it tight.
500
00:51:44,669 --> 00:51:47,103
Good news.
They're all negative.
501
00:51:50,175 --> 00:51:51,199
Very happy.
502
00:52:27,412 --> 00:52:31,940
Does her mother
have to tell her to work?
503
00:52:32,884 --> 00:52:35,682
l'll throw you out,
you little bitch.
504
00:52:37,722 --> 00:52:43,294
l like her, but sometimes
she says such mean things.
505
00:52:43,294 --> 00:52:46,286
But l don't care.
After all, she's my mother.
506
00:52:51,703 --> 00:52:55,264
l know what she does for work...
507
00:52:55,540 --> 00:52:58,304
and l feel bad
talking about these things.
508
00:53:02,147 --> 00:53:04,911
l don't want to say it,
but the more l'm growing up...
509
00:53:05,216 --> 00:53:08,674
the older Ma is getting.
510
00:53:10,255 --> 00:53:12,621
She'll pass away someday.
511
00:53:12,891 --> 00:53:15,724
l have a small sister.
l'll have to take care of her.
512
00:53:16,327 --> 00:53:20,229
My sister has taken
four pictures like this.
513
00:54:06,144 --> 00:54:08,135
Right now,
l'm looking for grant money.
514
00:54:08,213 --> 00:54:10,147
My goal now is, l mean,
is to teach them...
515
00:54:10,348 --> 00:54:13,408
but also to raise money for them
using their own photography...
516
00:54:14,185 --> 00:54:17,382
selling their photographs
to raise money for them.
517
00:54:18,790 --> 00:54:22,351
Amnesty lnternational is going to use
the kids'photos for their calendar.
518
00:54:22,660 --> 00:54:25,151
And the photos are being
auctioned at Sotheby's.
519
00:54:27,198 --> 00:54:29,666
The whole point of this is
to get the kids out of the brothels.
520
00:54:35,507 --> 00:54:36,735
lt's Shantis photograph.
521
00:54:55,894 --> 00:54:58,556
l don't know if you know Robert
Pledge from contact Press lmages...
522
00:54:58,663 --> 00:55:01,063
but he's come out
to teach the kids.
523
00:55:01,165 --> 00:55:03,497
He runs a pretty major photo agency
in New York City.
524
00:55:04,269 --> 00:55:07,864
He's become very involved
in the project, and very supportive.
525
00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:13,176
Can you all look here and tell me
if there are other pictures...
526
00:55:13,278 --> 00:55:17,214
in this series that
any one of you like particularly.
527
00:55:20,184 --> 00:55:21,446
-And uh...
-Sorry.
528
00:55:22,253 --> 00:55:27,122
When l first saw this picture
it was very strange because...
529
00:55:27,225 --> 00:55:31,218
The tone of the sky has almost
joined with the tone of the real paper.
530
00:55:31,496 --> 00:55:35,262
lt looks like the body starts
from the top of the paper...
531
00:55:35,867 --> 00:55:40,634
Almost as if the top half of her body
didn't really exist!
532
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,673
So l was very surprised
when l saw it...
533
00:55:44,676 --> 00:55:46,473
for the first time.
534
00:55:51,215 --> 00:55:53,445
Avijit is very, very exceptional.
535
00:55:53,885 --> 00:55:55,216
Very special.
536
00:55:55,453 --> 00:55:58,286
He has a natural talent.
And...
537
00:55:58,556 --> 00:56:03,357
this organization in Holland,
called the World Press Photo Foundation...
538
00:56:04,228 --> 00:56:08,164
every year invites nine children
from all over the world...
539
00:56:08,866 --> 00:56:11,426
to come and spend one week in
Amsterdam...
540
00:56:11,803 --> 00:56:13,703
and look at photographs...
541
00:56:14,238 --> 00:56:17,401
that are made by 4,000 photographers
all over the world.
542
00:56:17,709 --> 00:56:20,735
And one of our ideas is to get...
543
00:56:21,179 --> 00:56:25,240
Avijit to come and be
the child photographer from lndia...
544
00:56:25,316 --> 00:56:29,116
to be present at this show.
And this is a very special thing.
545
00:56:29,420 --> 00:56:32,685
As a grandmother, you should feel
very happy and very proud.
546
00:56:37,562 --> 00:56:39,757
lf you are pleased, so are we.
547
00:56:40,365 --> 00:56:44,859
So far we've had two exhibitions in NY,
but you haven't been able to be there.
548
00:56:45,136 --> 00:56:45,637
So...
549
00:56:45,637 --> 00:56:49,164
l've organized an exhibition
at the Oxford bookstore on Park Street...
550
00:56:49,641 --> 00:56:51,199
of your photographs.
551
00:56:51,442 --> 00:56:53,501
Only of your photographs.
And...
552
00:56:54,312 --> 00:56:56,678
So you will all be
the guests of honor.
553
00:56:57,281 --> 00:56:59,579
You're mothers are invited
as well, so all of your...
554
00:56:59,717 --> 00:57:02,880
Ma can't come,
she has to cook.
555
00:57:04,222 --> 00:57:05,450
What is it?
556
00:57:06,257 --> 00:57:08,521
An invitation
to the exhibition.
557
00:57:11,195 --> 00:57:13,129
Who is the second one for?
Mother?
558
00:57:13,364 --> 00:57:15,161
Mother can't go.
559
00:57:15,833 --> 00:57:17,300
Because of the baby.
560
00:57:17,835 --> 00:57:19,598
Will Tapasi have to go?
561
00:57:20,138 --> 00:57:23,130
lf anybody looks after the baby,
they want 10 rupees.
562
00:57:23,741 --> 00:57:25,572
We don't have it.
563
00:57:25,743 --> 00:57:27,904
Nobody here understands
anything but money.
564
00:57:28,813 --> 00:57:31,680
Every morning l read just one palm,
not all day.
565
00:57:31,816 --> 00:57:34,216
Do mine, do mine!
566
00:57:35,153 --> 00:57:37,246
Will l get a lot of money?
567
00:57:45,463 --> 00:57:48,296
No, money will not remain
with you.
568
00:57:53,738 --> 00:57:55,137
Look at his hair!
569
00:57:57,241 --> 00:57:58,572
There it is!
570
00:57:58,976 --> 00:58:01,171
Oh, they're all here.
Amazing.
571
00:58:01,245 --> 00:58:04,180
-How are you?
-l am very well, thank you. How are you?
572
00:58:05,950 --> 00:58:08,180
ln yesterday's newspaper...
573
00:58:08,553 --> 00:58:10,282
there's an article.
574
00:58:10,388 --> 00:58:15,189
You are published on the front page
of the biggest newspaper in lndia.
575
00:58:16,661 --> 00:58:18,526
World famous.
576
00:58:18,963 --> 00:58:21,523
l'm gonna show you the pictures
we're gonna put on the wall.
577
00:58:21,666 --> 00:58:23,497
-Who's picture is this?
-Shanti.
578
00:58:23,768 --> 00:58:25,565
Shanti. Like it?
579
00:58:27,472 --> 00:58:28,837
This is another picture.
580
00:58:30,575 --> 00:58:31,872
What do you think?
581
00:58:32,710 --> 00:58:35,110
lt's so pretty!
The moon looks so beautiful.
582
00:58:35,213 --> 00:58:36,703
This is... these are who's?
583
00:58:36,981 --> 00:58:38,209
Avijit.
584
00:58:48,526 --> 00:58:52,223
And the last picture
is the one that's in the newspaper.
585
00:58:57,435 --> 00:58:59,232
That's it. Congratulations.
586
00:59:03,207 --> 00:59:04,640
Enough! Please, relax.
587
00:59:05,376 --> 00:59:07,936
And now,
they get to sign the pictures.
588
00:59:17,321 --> 00:59:19,812
My hands are shaking.
589
00:59:27,498 --> 00:59:28,624
Zana Auntie?
590
00:59:28,900 --> 00:59:31,835
There will be a lot of people
at the Oxford Gallery, yes?
591
00:59:32,403 --> 00:59:33,870
Yes, lots of people.
592
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:37,171
Here it is.
593
00:59:44,949 --> 00:59:46,109
Oh my God.
594
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:50,184
Our pictures.
595
00:59:51,489 --> 00:59:52,649
That's us there.
596
00:59:57,261 --> 00:59:59,593
l like it very much.
597
00:59:59,831 --> 01:00:02,629
-l like it...
-l like it...
598
01:00:02,867 --> 01:00:04,129
-very much.
-very much.
599
01:00:04,602 --> 01:00:05,694
This is her hand.
600
01:00:05,770 --> 01:00:08,261
Her hand in front of the camera.
601
01:00:18,216 --> 01:00:20,150
l shot this one and that one.
602
01:00:20,551 --> 01:00:21,745
Did you do it by yourself?
603
01:00:24,322 --> 01:00:27,314
At first l didn't really get it.
604
01:00:27,525 --> 01:00:31,655
But then Zana Antie said:
''Come on, Saturday...''
605
01:00:31,896 --> 01:00:36,595
and l went and saw a camera
for the first time.
606
01:00:36,868 --> 01:00:40,338
So we met Zana Auntie
and liked her...
607
01:00:40,338 --> 01:00:42,238
as soon as we saw her.
608
01:00:42,607 --> 01:00:46,099
And since then Zana Auntie has been
teaching us with a lot of interest.
609
01:00:49,146 --> 01:00:52,274
She teaches us so well that
everything goes into our brain.
610
01:00:52,516 --> 01:00:54,452
We like doing photography so much...
611
01:00:54,452 --> 01:00:56,443
that we forget to do our work.
612
01:00:59,190 --> 01:01:01,249
What do you want to be
when you grow up?
613
01:01:01,559 --> 01:01:03,823
l'm not sure...
614
01:01:04,428 --> 01:01:06,658
but l want to be a photographer.
615
01:01:06,864 --> 01:01:09,731
These photographs will now travel
to different parts of the world.
616
01:01:09,967 --> 01:01:12,834
And the proceeds from these exhibitions
will go to one single purpose...
617
01:01:13,004 --> 01:01:15,700
a decent education for the children,
and hopefully a chance...
618
01:01:15,773 --> 01:01:18,708
to know a world outside
of the Red Light areas of Calcutta.
619
01:01:18,776 --> 01:01:20,471
Star News.
620
01:01:53,444 --> 01:01:55,139
Avijit's mother died.
621
01:01:55,379 --> 01:01:58,906
Some kind of kitchen explosion accident.
l hope it wasn't...
622
01:02:03,621 --> 01:02:06,021
Do you know how she died,
what happened?
623
01:02:06,357 --> 01:02:09,724
Her pimp set fire to her
in the kitchen.
624
01:02:10,061 --> 01:02:11,585
He burned her.
625
01:02:13,431 --> 01:02:16,923
That's what l thought,
as soon as l heard kitchen accident.
626
01:02:17,168 --> 01:02:20,501
l'm very worried about him now
with this news.
627
01:02:21,539 --> 01:02:23,131
Will there be any police?
628
01:02:24,475 --> 01:02:25,601
Nothing.
629
01:02:27,244 --> 01:02:28,370
So sad.
630
01:02:36,821 --> 01:02:38,550
l used to want to be a doctor.
631
01:02:43,127 --> 01:02:46,119
Then l wanted to become an artist.
632
01:02:50,267 --> 01:02:53,703
There is nothing called
hope in my future.
633
01:03:02,179 --> 01:03:06,707
He isn't going to school at all.
634
01:03:07,651 --> 01:03:13,248
lf he doesn't study,
how will he grow up?
635
01:03:14,458 --> 01:03:17,120
He has to become someone of standing,
he will have to grow up.
636
01:03:17,395 --> 01:03:21,263
Tell me, how will he do that
if he doesn't study?
637
01:03:21,632 --> 01:03:23,156
l am studying.
638
01:03:23,901 --> 01:03:27,428
Even if he misses his mother...
639
01:03:27,671 --> 01:03:29,798
his exams are staring him
in the face.
640
01:03:30,241 --> 01:03:32,334
They start this Wednesday.
641
01:03:37,581 --> 01:03:39,811
l'm always carrying his bags!
642
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:44,415
Wait, wait, wait.
l want to talk about this.
643
01:03:44,555 --> 01:03:46,147
Where's Avijit?
644
01:03:46,223 --> 01:03:48,623
He won't be coming today.
645
01:03:50,261 --> 01:03:52,092
He's gone out with friends.
646
01:03:53,164 --> 01:03:56,656
Everybody knows that Avijit
is supposed to go to Amsterdam.
647
01:03:56,967 --> 01:03:58,569
He still hasn't got his passport...
648
01:03:58,569 --> 01:04:00,230
because there were
a lot of problems.
649
01:04:00,304 --> 01:04:05,105
But if he goes, he's going to represent
all of you and the photo class...
650
01:04:05,176 --> 01:04:07,167
and all of the hard work
that you've been doing.
651
01:04:14,118 --> 01:04:15,642
Did they invited us in?
652
01:04:17,455 --> 01:04:19,582
-Why didn't you come today?
-l went to art class.
653
01:04:19,824 --> 01:04:22,122
Why didn't you tell us
you weren't coming?
654
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:24,425
l didn't know...
655
01:04:25,262 --> 01:04:28,129
my friends had to come tell me.
656
01:04:28,599 --> 01:04:32,467
l want to get
his two rolls of film.
657
01:04:32,970 --> 01:04:35,768
l go to study in the morning,
then l go to school.
658
01:04:36,173 --> 01:04:39,233
ln the afternoon l have no time,
and in the evening it gets dark.
659
01:04:39,310 --> 01:04:42,177
He's got school in the morning and
he's got school until five, right?
660
01:04:42,780 --> 01:04:46,181
What about your photography?
You don't care?
661
01:04:46,450 --> 01:04:47,508
No.
662
01:04:48,185 --> 01:04:49,880
l'll do it later.
663
01:05:07,605 --> 01:05:10,403
l could not get a passport
for that kid.
664
01:05:10,674 --> 01:05:13,234
l went through everything.
l couldn't do it.
665
01:05:13,477 --> 01:05:15,104
Actually, it hasn't
even been confirmed...
666
01:05:15,179 --> 01:05:18,910
so l can't even tell you his passport
application has been accepted.
667
01:05:19,984 --> 01:05:22,851
There is no way to get
this kid's passport...
668
01:05:22,987 --> 01:05:25,455
because he lives
in the Red Light district.
669
01:05:25,789 --> 01:05:28,223
l'm afraid the whole thing's
going to fall through because of...
670
01:05:28,459 --> 01:05:31,155
Well, l'm afraid the whole
thing's going to fall through too.
671
01:05:31,228 --> 01:05:35,187
Avijit hasn't shot anything at all,
because he's just... somewhere else.
672
01:05:40,504 --> 01:05:41,664
You guys, you...
673
01:05:41,872 --> 01:05:43,703
and you, and you...
674
01:05:44,108 --> 01:05:46,736
have been accepted into a school.
675
01:05:52,349 --> 01:05:56,080
My Granny will never let me go
to a boarding school.
676
01:05:56,187 --> 01:05:58,121
l'm the only child.
677
01:05:59,290 --> 01:06:01,850
She can visit.
lt's not like it's far.
678
01:06:04,161 --> 01:06:06,721
Will we have to eat
only veggie food there?
679
01:06:07,198 --> 01:06:09,166
Yuck, l don't like veggie food.
680
01:06:09,233 --> 01:06:11,360
Which is more important?
681
01:06:12,937 --> 01:06:16,429
Eating chicken
or going to a good school?
682
01:06:46,537 --> 01:06:49,062
This is where
they will keep their clothes...
683
01:06:49,206 --> 01:06:51,538
Also, they will have to make
their own beds.
684
01:06:51,775 --> 01:06:55,711
They help the small kids, but
the big kids have to do it themselves.
685
01:06:56,113 --> 01:06:58,343
My daughter?
She'll have to do it herself?
686
01:06:58,415 --> 01:07:00,076
She'll have to.
687
01:07:00,150 --> 01:07:03,415
But small kids won't have to.
688
01:07:04,922 --> 01:07:06,412
That's good.
689
01:07:08,158 --> 01:07:10,126
-l wanna use it too.
-Hold on.
690
01:07:11,895 --> 01:07:13,795
Can't do it. What do l do?
691
01:07:14,531 --> 01:07:15,964
When l learn the computer...
692
01:07:16,033 --> 01:07:18,331
l can write to Zana Auntie
in America.
693
01:07:19,870 --> 01:07:24,204
lf they're ready to admit the girls,
they have to understand a few things.
694
01:07:24,708 --> 01:07:27,199
We want our girls
to go to University.
695
01:07:31,181 --> 01:07:33,376
lf they admit their kids here...
696
01:07:36,186 --> 01:07:38,211
the girl can be a doctor...
697
01:07:40,090 --> 01:07:41,523
can be an engineer...
698
01:07:42,226 --> 01:07:43,853
can be a lawyer...
699
01:07:44,395 --> 01:07:46,386
They will have a normal life.
700
01:07:46,630 --> 01:07:50,293
So there is one thing, very important,
that l am asking now.
701
01:07:50,968 --> 01:07:53,170
They can admit the kids today.
702
01:07:53,170 --> 01:07:55,297
And they can remove the kids
whenever they want.
703
01:07:55,539 --> 01:07:57,769
This is not a jail, they are free.
704
01:07:58,208 --> 01:08:01,336
But today,
l want their verbal commitment...
705
01:08:01,779 --> 01:08:05,579
that they won't remove their kids
until they finish their studies.
706
01:08:05,816 --> 01:08:07,681
lt means another ten years.
707
01:08:08,552 --> 01:08:12,386
They have two or three holidays
of ten days each, per year.
708
01:08:13,457 --> 01:08:16,153
But for example,
when there are wedding ceremonies...
709
01:08:17,361 --> 01:08:19,158
when the grandma has died...
710
01:08:19,296 --> 01:08:21,264
or the birth of a nephew...
711
01:08:21,465 --> 01:08:23,433
No wedding ceremonies,
no birthdays...
712
01:08:23,701 --> 01:08:26,192
no grandmothers,
no dead bodies, nothing.
713
01:08:26,737 --> 01:08:29,262
For all these things,
they cannot remove their kids.
714
01:08:29,540 --> 01:08:32,907
Their first priority
is their studies, their schooling.
715
01:08:39,717 --> 01:08:42,185
Puja won't eat well by herself.
716
01:08:43,654 --> 01:08:45,417
She eats just fine.
717
01:08:48,659 --> 01:08:51,526
The fact is, Puja's mother
spoils her a little.
718
01:08:51,762 --> 01:08:54,098
She has to learn to eat by herself.
719
01:08:54,098 --> 01:08:58,432
-They gave us so much rice and meat...
-Baisakhi left half of it.
720
01:09:13,250 --> 01:09:15,912
-See you tomorrow.
-Bye, bye.
721
01:09:22,393 --> 01:09:25,157
Are we getting off
in front of our house?
722
01:09:26,663 --> 01:09:28,221
Stop the car.
723
01:09:33,337 --> 01:09:34,861
-Bye.
-Bye.
724
01:09:36,573 --> 01:09:38,598
-Tomorrow, at eleven.
-Bring your camera.
725
01:09:38,942 --> 01:09:42,946
You're coming tomorrow
to our place to take her...
726
01:09:42,946 --> 01:09:44,573
right?
727
01:09:44,915 --> 01:09:47,543
Please, write me the address, okay?
728
01:10:08,739 --> 01:10:11,469
This guy, Tim Grandage,
who runs Future Hope...
729
01:10:11,809 --> 01:10:14,778
only wants kids from bad backgrounds...
730
01:10:14,912 --> 01:10:17,904
so the children of sex workers.
lt's for boys only.
731
01:10:18,248 --> 01:10:21,081
And there's pretty much
nowhere else for these kids to go.
732
01:10:21,118 --> 01:10:23,018
Nobody else will take them.
733
01:10:24,188 --> 01:10:27,282
l would say there are two that need
to get out very urgently.
734
01:10:27,524 --> 01:10:28,821
Do they know each other?
735
01:10:29,092 --> 01:10:30,855
Yeah,
they live in the same brothel.
736
01:10:31,361 --> 01:10:33,921
-Which one you're most worried about?
-Avijit.
737
01:10:33,997 --> 01:10:36,099
l mean, Avijit always's asking me...
738
01:10:36,099 --> 01:10:39,262
he says l hate it here, l can't
do anything here, l can't study.
739
01:10:39,503 --> 01:10:43,564
His one grandmother, l think, really cares
for him but has no control over him.
740
01:10:43,907 --> 01:10:48,674
His grandfather and his father
are just sort of not effective at all.
741
01:10:49,213 --> 01:10:54,412
l think he's gonna turn out to be a real
bad kid soon if he doesn't get real help.
742
01:10:55,152 --> 01:10:57,677
He's got an ego, for sure.
743
01:10:58,355 --> 01:11:01,119
l think if he's in
the right environment he'll also...
744
01:11:01,191 --> 01:11:03,421
He wants to be good.
But he has no guidance.
745
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:07,218
ln the last few weeks he's had
a real change of heart about everything.
746
01:11:07,297 --> 01:11:10,789
And he seems to be pretty apathetic.
l think he's reached a critical point...
747
01:11:11,268 --> 01:11:14,237
and if he doesn't get out of there
really soon, he's lost.
748
01:11:14,338 --> 01:11:17,774
That's how l'm feeling about Avijit.
He's a very bright kid, very talented.
749
01:11:18,442 --> 01:11:23,106
Give us five minutes. Give us a chance
and let us chat next door.
750
01:11:24,014 --> 01:11:26,141
-Give us five minutes.
-Ok, thank you.
751
01:11:30,254 --> 01:11:32,722
lf you don't have a good foundation,
you can't build.
752
01:11:33,257 --> 01:11:35,589
But they have to start
at a certain standard.
753
01:11:35,759 --> 01:11:37,920
And if you work hard,
then you go up very quickly.
754
01:11:38,095 --> 01:11:41,292
l'm not going if...
755
01:11:41,498 --> 01:11:44,126
they put me back two grades.
756
01:11:47,971 --> 01:11:50,337
lsn't it better to be with good people
that care about you?
757
01:11:50,541 --> 01:11:54,136
And that want to teach you well?
Than a number?
758
01:11:57,247 --> 01:11:58,646
But, you know, it's up to you.
759
01:11:58,916 --> 01:12:01,316
l wanna go to school.
760
01:12:03,153 --> 01:12:05,417
And as for you,
if you want to go...
761
01:12:05,589 --> 01:12:06,556
they'll take you.
762
01:12:07,057 --> 01:12:08,115
Yes, l'll go.
763
01:12:13,897 --> 01:12:16,491
But he understands, right?
This is the only choice.
764
01:12:16,633 --> 01:12:19,158
lf he doesn't take this offer
then that's it, he stays at home.
765
01:12:19,236 --> 01:12:21,704
There's nothing more l can do.
Or want to do.
766
01:12:26,543 --> 01:12:30,912
Maneck has also, l think, been accepted
into the same school as Avijit.
767
01:12:31,448 --> 01:12:35,248
Oh, l'll be happy
to get rid of that brat.
768
01:12:35,752 --> 01:12:39,347
l told him to go to his class
and he ran away.
769
01:12:39,723 --> 01:12:43,591
l told him to earn me 200 rupees
per month so l can feed him.
770
01:12:43,860 --> 01:12:47,331
So he gave me 2 rupees...
771
01:12:47,331 --> 01:12:50,129
and ran away to play marbles.
772
01:12:50,367 --> 01:12:54,667
Shanti's all right, but this one
is a weasel because he's younger.
773
01:13:02,279 --> 01:13:05,737
l'm not worried
about sending her off...
774
01:13:06,149 --> 01:13:08,413
in fact l feel happy,
l feel good.
775
01:13:08,485 --> 01:13:10,350
lf only it wasn't today.
776
01:13:10,420 --> 01:13:13,355
My mother died on a Thursday
at five in the afternoon...
777
01:13:13,624 --> 01:13:16,889
Since then, l don't do
anything special on Thursdays.
778
01:13:19,262 --> 01:13:21,196
Ma, can l go?
779
01:13:21,698 --> 01:13:23,689
You can go tomorrow,
but not today.
780
01:13:23,967 --> 01:13:28,097
Everyone is going today. lt's the last
chance. There's no other opportunity.
781
01:13:28,171 --> 01:13:30,696
l can't let her go on a Thursday.
782
01:13:30,941 --> 01:13:36,311
The last time l did something
on a Thursday l suffered greatly...
783
01:13:36,546 --> 01:13:39,606
l'm still carrying on that suffering.
784
01:13:40,317 --> 01:13:41,215
l'm leaving.
785
01:13:41,318 --> 01:13:44,810
You didn't touch your mother's feet.
786
01:13:45,822 --> 01:13:48,188
You didn't touch your mother's feet.
787
01:13:57,734 --> 01:13:59,258
Now you can go?
788
01:14:00,537 --> 01:14:03,563
lt's good for her. Her future.
789
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:07,269
-l know, she will grow up well.
-You can see her. Every month.
790
01:14:07,544 --> 01:14:08,511
One time.
791
01:14:23,860 --> 01:14:27,557
l only cried a little
but my mother was so sad.
792
01:14:28,498 --> 01:14:30,557
But you will get used to it.
793
01:14:31,234 --> 01:14:33,259
Wow, you've got a whole lot of things.
794
01:14:40,510 --> 01:14:41,670
Shanti.
795
01:14:44,114 --> 01:14:45,081
Shanti.
796
01:14:46,116 --> 01:14:49,415
Look, there's no need to be sad.
l'm not crying.
797
01:14:52,756 --> 01:14:54,348
Bye, Manik.
798
01:14:59,196 --> 01:15:01,494
Don't cry.
Everything is gonna be alright.
799
01:15:04,434 --> 01:15:07,369
Gour's going to miss me a lot,
that's for sure!
800
01:15:07,471 --> 01:15:09,336
They're not coming back anymore
801
01:15:09,606 --> 01:15:11,335
They're not coming back
802
01:15:11,508 --> 01:15:15,205
They're gone forever
803
01:15:19,583 --> 01:15:22,177
Now l'm going to go live with Ross
804
01:15:22,919 --> 01:15:26,320
There's Sabera.
''Sabera'' is written right there!
805
01:15:43,807 --> 01:15:47,436
There is no way that
l'm going to get Avijit's passport...
806
01:15:47,677 --> 01:15:50,669
without someone higher up intervening.
807
01:15:51,314 --> 01:15:54,215
l don't think this kid
is going to get a passport.
808
01:15:56,186 --> 01:15:58,347
School thing. His birth certificate.
809
01:15:58,588 --> 01:16:00,317
A letter from student counselor.
810
01:16:00,757 --> 01:16:02,659
A copy of the ration card.
811
01:16:02,659 --> 01:16:04,217
Corrections for the ration card.
812
01:16:04,427 --> 01:16:07,726
Letter from Bob.
Letter from World Press Photo.
813
01:16:08,265 --> 01:16:10,324
And an invitation letter for Avijit.
814
01:16:11,668 --> 01:16:14,535
So, if that doesn't do it,
then nothing will.
815
01:16:41,364 --> 01:16:44,060
-Avijit, where are you going?
-Amsterdam.
816
01:16:45,168 --> 01:16:46,658
-When?
-Tomorrow.
817
01:16:47,637 --> 01:16:49,434
-Are you excited?
-Yes.
818
01:17:01,418 --> 01:17:04,114
l'll see you soon.
819
01:17:06,656 --> 01:17:07,918
We'll see you later. Bye bye.
820
01:17:08,091 --> 01:17:10,423
Please, drive slowly.
lf there's an accident, l won't get there.
821
01:17:10,493 --> 01:17:13,087
l won't fulfill my dreams.
822
01:17:24,207 --> 01:17:26,300
Priya Auntie, does the window open?
823
01:17:26,543 --> 01:17:29,171
-Can l open the window?
-No.
824
01:17:31,915 --> 01:17:34,315
Now l feel like taking pictures.
825
01:18:00,210 --> 01:18:02,303
This is a good picture.
826
01:18:03,346 --> 01:18:06,679
We get a good sense
of how these people live.
827
01:18:08,218 --> 01:18:10,743
And though there is sadness in it...
828
01:18:11,955 --> 01:18:16,722
And though it's hard to face,
we must look at it because it is truth.
829
01:18:24,434 --> 01:18:25,628
Hold them together.
830
01:18:59,402 --> 01:19:02,462
Avijit returned to Calcutta...
831
01:19:02,605 --> 01:19:06,905
and chose to enter
the Future Hope school.
832
01:19:13,216 --> 01:19:19,177
Manik's father
would not let him go to school.
833
01:19:23,126 --> 01:19:27,859
Puja's mother withdrew her
from the Sabera school.
834
01:19:30,633 --> 01:19:36,799
Shanti left the Sabera school
of her own accord.
835
01:19:39,275 --> 01:19:42,412
Gour still lives at home...
836
01:19:42,412 --> 01:19:46,246
and hopes to go to university.
837
01:19:49,252 --> 01:19:51,921
Tapasi ran away from home...
838
01:19:51,921 --> 01:19:55,721
and went to the Sanlaap
school for girls.
839
01:19:57,894 --> 01:20:00,563
Suchitra's aunt refused...
840
01:20:00,563 --> 01:20:04,522
to let her leave the brothel.
841
01:20:06,803 --> 01:20:10,466
Kochi chose to stay at Sabera.
842
01:20:10,540 --> 01:20:15,910
She is happy and doing well.
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