Khirkeeyaan Episode 3 - One Lane
Director: Shaina Anand
Duration: 01:15:41; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 226.192; Saturation: 0.044; Lightness: 0.438; Volume: 0.299; Cuts per Minute: 1.480; Words per Minute: 161.151
Summary: KhirkeeYaan is an exploration of an open-circuit tv system as a local area network communication, micro-media generation and feedback device.
It employed security apparatus,otherwise used for surveillance and 'secret' use. Television sets and cheap surveillance equipment, coupled with an RF modulator, mics, audio mixer and metres of coax cable were laid out to form collaborative conversation systems for the 'use' of the community-at-large. TV's and electricity, consent and participation were sourced on-site(s) often drawing from a multitude of sources.
Khirkeeyaan's seven episodes were generated through seven sets of installations in different neighbourhoods in and around Khirkee Extension, New Delhi over three weeks, during Shaina Anand's associate residency at Khoj studios in April, 2006. For more on the Khirkeeyaan project, see
http://chitrakarkhana.net/khirkeeyaan.htm.
Khirkee Extn. has no sense of community, said Hemant, who manages the residencies at khoj. "Its semblance plays itself out in the evenings, when the streets become extended drawing rooms".
Gambhir. He had come to pick me up from the airport, a week ago and was to work with us on this project, ‘about the Khirkee community’. He lived in the lane and is the only local youth who hangs out in the evenings at Khoj and even attends events. His family owns a lot of the land around Khirkee Extn. and even flats in other places in Delhi. I was told that he was a 'techie' and was to intern with me. Our working relationship was cut short very soon, as it appeared that he hated work of any kind, having never done any in his life, as he said he lived off the rent they made. To kill time he’d asked his father to open a little general store for him, but tells us that he soon realized manning a storefront was a lot of work. His shop, now an STD booth, in the Khoj lane, was never open. Moreover, his refusal to come with me on my first walk in Khirkee, (because I was heading right, in the direction of Hauzrani and not left in the direction of Khirkee Village), revealed too many problems and biases, none of which belonged to the project.
We had left our cables out after the session with the Nepali Women. In the evening we began to re-lay these cables down the Khoj lane. The patch bay had to be located on the street near DADA S-20, chai shop and cables were stretched to a maximum in order to reach the first and last shops in the lane. Thus, we had Mukhtar bhai, propreitor of Mama Genrel Store, and Sunrise Hair Cutting salon from the Right and Mohan Hair Cutting and Kajal Genrel Store, owned by a character I had been hearing much about, RajuBhai aka BabyUncle, to the left. It had taken us a long time to lay the cables, we were just three in the crew and relaying a cable meant you had to drag and move whole lengths of 100 mts, from one end to the other through the sandy lane. (Would have been easier to roll them up and re-lay them.) It was late when we started, way past nine; the lane had watched the set-ups all day with amusement, now most were drunk, happy, and shop owners were doing rapid last hour business.
So 2 general stores, one on either side and 2 hair cutting saloons where most of the menfolk hang out. There are four 'saloons' in the lane. The men were wired and for about 15 minutes the exchange was through loud boyish banter, ‘Chichorapana’. Baby uncle would lead by example and crack jokes that were limited to likening the mic and its cord to the male organ, asking everyone who spoke whether they were speaking from ‘up or down’, and other flat boy jokes with innuendos of the ‘lullee’ (dick). For more on episode 3, see
http://chitrakarkhana.net/Khirkeeyan/K3.htm
Sunrise Saloon: Speak! Speak!
Mama General store: Hey baldie!
Mama General store: I'm unable to see anything.
Sunrise Saloon (Brown shirt): Hey brother! It's a trick brother!
Mama General store: No, not at all.
Kajal General store(Brown shirt): Hey brother, how are you brother?
Mohan's saloon: I'm ok brother.
Kajal General store: Where have you been?
CCTV
Community media
Street
Television
The four screens, clockwise from the top left, show Mama General Store, Sunrise Saloon, Kajal General Store and Mohan's Saloon.
Khirkee Extension, Delhi
Kajal General store (Raju): Then move your body down a little I can't see your head!
Mama General store (Mukhtar): Eh?
Sunrise Saloon: Hello?
Kajal General store: (Raju): I can't see your head! Move down and sit.
Kajal General store: (Raju): That's like it! Be like that only! God has given you a bum to rest on and sit down right?
Mama General store (Mukhtar): I can be seen only...
Kajal General store (Raju): Yeah, now you can be seen. Now you can be seen clearly.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Keep looking at me!
Kajal General store (Raju): The sound is low. Your mike is a bit away from you.
Mama General store(Mukhtar): Okay, so I should take the mike near right?
Kajal General store (Raju): Yes, take it nearby.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey!
Mama General store(Mukhtar): Yes!
Kajal General Store(Raju): Listen!
Screen goes off in the set up mode
Tin of oil
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): What?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Listen! My father, are you listening?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): I can hear your voice.
Kajal General Store(Raju): Where is the tin of oil for my ears?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Eh?
Kajal General Store (Raju): The tin of oil!
Mama General Store(Mukhtar): What do you want?
Kajal General Store (Raju): The tin of oil!
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Yes!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Where has it been kept?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Tin of oil?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes!
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Behind your house.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yeah... put it in your partitions!
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Hahaha! (Laughs)
Kajal General Store (Raju): Put it in your eardrums... your eardrums...
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): No,not in my eardrums, it has been kept behind your house.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): This which was making disturbances...
Kajal General Store (Brown): Listen to me father... listen to me...
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Yes, speak.
Mohan's Saloon: Can you hear my voice?
Kajal General Store (Brown): Listen to what I have to say father.
Sunrise Saloon: Hey Bholaram!
Kajal General Store: (Raju): Yes Gambhir, speak!
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Can you hear me?
Kajal General Store (Gambhir): I can see your body too, brother!
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Can you hear my voice?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, your voice is absoultely clear.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): It is coming right?
Mama General Store(Mukhtar): Let me run my shop!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Will you die if you don't run your shop for a day?
Mama General Store(Mukhtar): I have to, to feed myself.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hah! Settle down a bit I can't see your face.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): You can see quite a lot, you can see my tummy.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Can you hear my voice?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yours, brother?
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Yes!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Your voice can be heard.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): But I can't hear you.
Kajal General Store (Brown): Talk to a child.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Brother! Hey brother!
Kajal General Store (Brown): Yes brother, speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Listen, see your mike is not in a proper condition. Like, keep it on the counter in one place as per your convenience. I can hear you sharply at times and very low at times.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Now I kept it here.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Eh?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay, now can you see the mike here?
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Yes.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Can you hear me a little?
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Come near a bit.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Can you hear me?
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Yes.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Can you hear me properly now?
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Go behind a little.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Can you hear me?
Kajal General Store (Raju): I can hear you very clearly.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): But I can't hear you clearly. I have kept this in this hand here. See, at this distance. Can you still hear me?
Kajal General Store (Raju): I can still hear you clearly.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Now, you can't hear us at all yet?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey what are you showing like this? Are you gonna hit us?
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): I'll hit you on your rear right there, don't worry my friend.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Brother, is it of nay use to hit me on my rear?
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Why, will you hit my ****
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, tomorrow I will shoot at Sandeep's.
Mama General Store(Mukhtar): I can give this example.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey brother, can you hear me now?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey Gambhir! Can you hear me now?
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): I can hear you a little.
Screeen 3 (Raju): Can you hear me?
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Yes I can.
Kajal General Store (Raju):Then say something.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): Chikola!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey Chikola I think my mike is bad. You are speaking so well and I can hear you so clearly.
Sunrise Saloon (Gambhir): My (pointing at his ears) this is bad... hearing system. Output is good, the one who is hearing is bad.
Kajal General Store (Raju): My (pointing at his ears) is good.
Sunrise Saloon: (Pointing at the man in brown) Talk to this new uncle.
Brown uncle: Your brain has gone bad everything else is fine.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Uncle!
Sunrise Saloon (uncle): Yes!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Can you hear me?
Sunrise Saloon (uncle): Yes!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Keep listening and answer my questions.
Sunrise Saloon (uncle): Okay, ask.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Since how many days are you coming here in the shop?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Uncle answer my question!
Sunrise Saloon (uncle): Hey the noise here is increasing a lot!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Then shoo them away you sisterfucker! You have bloody unnecessarily gathered everyone.
Sunrise Saloon (uncle): Yes, speak.
Kajal General Store (Raju): I have spent lakhs to talk to you!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey!
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Yes!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Jafferbhai!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak!
Kajal General Store (Raju): How are you?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): I'm just fine
Kajal General Store (Raju): You could recognize me?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes I could.
Kajal General Store (Raju): So, how are you doing?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): You can hear me now...?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Great. Pass on the milkman!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Eh?
Kajal General Store (Raju): To the milkman...
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Milkman?
Kajal General Store (Raju): He is right behind you.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): He is not taking milk now, he will take it in the morning.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay, however what is his name?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Can't hear you.
Kajal General Store (Raju): What's his name?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): What?
Kajal General Store (Raju): What's his name?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Name...
Kajal General Store (Raju): What's his name?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): My name?
Kajal General Store (Raju): No, the one standing behind you.
Mama General Store: Mukhtaralam.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, yes, Muktaralam. Understood my brother.
Mama General Store(Mukhtar): Understood or not, brother? Understood right?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, understood.
Mama General Store(Mukhtar): Really, understood?
Kajal General Store (Middle): Listen to me a bit boss. The fact that you have come today...
Kajal General Store (Hanky): Hey brother!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Jafferbhai!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Is everything fine at home?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, okay.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Seen you after a long time. Where do you stay?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): I stay here in the adjoining lane.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Do you know who has put this?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Eh?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Do you understand who has put this?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, yes, speak.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Do you know someone has put this system?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): I can't hear anything.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Bloody someone catch his ears and get them fixed!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hey, brother!
Kajal General Store (Raju): I was just saying... how are you?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hey he ran away!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yeah, speak, speak!
Kajal General Store (Raju): I am sitting cross legged someone bother to speak atleast!
Sunrise Saloon: (Rakesh): Hello! Hello!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Say something further!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey there's a lot of commotion here!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Is there or isn't there a lot of commotion?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Please keep quiet there. Wherever this has been set up.
Kajal General Store (Raju): I haven't even had a baby it's quiet here on my side.
Kajal General Store (Raju): I don't even have a wife!
Kajal General Store (Raju): I don't even have a kid!
Sunrise Saloon: (Rakesh): Yeah.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Then how will I cause chaos?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Just keep quiet, wherever this has been set up, just keep quiet there first.
Kajal General Store (Raju): First tell me where all this has been set up.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Why are you scratching your head?
Kajal General Store (Raju): I'm not scratching my head, I'm just making my antennas stand up! Bloody the signal is weak.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Okay, okay!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yeah, the signal is weak.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Signal weak... (laughs)... okay now it's done...(laughs).
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): There is a lot of commotion.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): There is a lot of commotion.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Now tell me, now it's okay?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Now ask me for answers.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hey brother Rakesh!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, speak!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yeah, ask me questions!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Talk loudly, I can't hear you.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Sorry, sorry, just talk to this milkman.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yeah, the milkman is standing here.
Kajal General Store (Brown): I called for milk but it didn't come today.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): No it isn't expensive it's the same. Today is a hot day, right?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Jafferbhai!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Tell me one thing.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes...
Kajal General Store (Raju): If you can't hear the sound of my voice, should I put it below?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): No.. (laughs). It's right up there itself.
Kajal General Store (Raju): I, bloody! If you can't hear the sound of my voice what should I do?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Eh?
Kajal General Store (Raju): What should I do, you tell me?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): You say what you should do.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Are you unable to hear me?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): No, it's clear.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Should I make you talk to my wife?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): With my wife?
Kajal General Store (Brown): No, with my wife.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Okay, meaning, okay speak.
Kajal General Store (Brown): How are you?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Fine
Kajal General Store (Brown): Where do you stay?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): You got malaria!
Kajal General Store (Brown): No, sir! I was waiting for you for many days sir!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): You were waiting for me?
Kajal General Store (Brown): Yes sir! I was thinking that I should meet you near Saibaba temple sir..
Mama General Store(Jaffer): No, no.. don't cry like this.
Kajal General Store (Brown): No sir, I would request you sir. It's like this sir that I wanted to meet you very urgently sir. I am in love with you sir.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Love? From where?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): You become lovesick here and I will quieten everything here!
Kajal General Store (Raju): By doing this will one become lovesick? Ask him!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Rakeshbhai! Rakeshbhai!
Kajal General Store (Raju): What you've got, he's got too.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): No, no!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Then what will you do by infecting him with love?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): I know what is done by infecting one with love, right?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Jafferbhai!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Say something, you are sitting here quitely, atleast say something.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): There isn't anyone in the vegetable shop so I am not saying anything.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Say something, we will take care of the rest.
Kajal General Store (Brown): Sir one pose as madam and one pose as a gent.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Speak.
Kajal General Store (Brown): Are you posing as a madam or as a gent?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): You pose as madam.
Kajal General Store (Brown): Okay sir, I madam requestfully tell you that sir I like someone else, if I find someone else... if someone has such a trouble then...
Sunrise Saloon (New man): Hello brother.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes.
Sunrise Saloon (New): Jafferbhai!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak!
Sunrise Saloon (New man): Hey brother, what are you doing brother?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hey brother, where did you reach brother?
Sunrise Saloon (New man): Hmmm, well, don't ask brother! Today I have come to Rakesh's shop.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Is it?
Mohan's Saloon: Then what do we do? Gamble?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Is there a lot of crowd?
Sunrise Saloon (New man): Hello, brother?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak!
Sunrise Saloon (New man): What's the state of butter?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Curds... Makhanlal isn't here now!
Sunrise Saloon (New man): Makhanlal isn't there..
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Price of butter!
Sunrise Saloon (New man): Yes!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Oh brother, I thought Makhanlal! I thought where did Makhanlal come from!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hello?
Sunrise Saloon (New man): And say...
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes say, today you know...
Sunrise Saloon (New man): Today is the selling of people more or that of goods is more?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): No...(laughs)
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hello, hello, Mehendiwale brother!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Where is Daler Mehendi here?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): I give bananas myself.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hello!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, say.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Uncle has gone.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yeah. What's this one's name brother? What's the name of the one who is laughing?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Whose?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): That one's. The brother with the TV.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Aashiq.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hey brother Aashiq.
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Yes, brother speak.
Aligarh
Mama General Store(Jaffer): How are you?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): I' great brother!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Where did you reach brother?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Me, Aligarh!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Which station got missed by you?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): The station of love!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Eh?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Love got missed!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Because it is the capital you got a missed call is it?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Yeah, it was a Bombay ticket itself.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Bombay?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Yeah.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Have you been to Bombay?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Yeah.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hello?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Yes? Speak.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): What happened to that shop of yours?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): The shop is okay.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Is it okay? Or is Lala coming and creating a chaos?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Well, we will create a chaos at all of Lala's things.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Mohan sir, can you hear me? Mohan sir!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes sir!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey Jafferbhai!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey, brother Aashiq!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hey brother what's this!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey listen up!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak.
Kajal General Store (Raju): I'll ask you one thing.
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Yes, sir?
Kajal General Store (Raju): You are in Aligarh now right?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): No!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Then?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): I am near this shop now.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You yourself said that you are in Aligarh!
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): That I said to him!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): You eat this mouse!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Hello?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak!
Kajal General Store (Raju): I am saying that brother Aashiq is in Aligarh.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yeah, he is in Aligarh.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Where are you?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): No, I have come from the capital.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Where?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Or, Delhi?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Till where have you reached?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Delhi, in Hauzrani.
Kajal General Store (Raju): In Hauzrani.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes.
Kajal General Store (Raju): And (?) is in Aligarh.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): That brother Aashiq was in Aligarh, right?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, now where is he?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Now I don't know where he is.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): He has come from Aligarh dude!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): He has come?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Then what!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Okay give my regards to him!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Convey my regards too!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yeah, do so.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): May I know your name please?
Sunrise Saloon(Rakesh): That's a bad thing.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey don't call it a bad thing..
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): That's right, not to call it a bad thing...
Kajal General Store (Raju): That will be an insult to me. Say good things.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): No, let's talk of good things.
Kajal General Store (Raju): So, what happens after marriage?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): After marriage is the first night!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yeah, that's a good thing! Tell about that then!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Everyone knows what happens in the first night.
Kajal General Store (Raju): So tell me about that, mine hasn't happened as yet.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): That's okay brother.
First night
Marriage
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): During the first night it was very sweaty
Kajal General Store (Raju): Who?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Both.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Brother Rakesh! Brother Rakesh!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes speak!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Can you see this?
Sunrise Saloon: (Rakesh): Yes, everything can be seen.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): What?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): (Holding up something) This. (Laughter)
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): What have you been holding in your hand?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Eh?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): You have... have you held a mouse or what?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): mouse...
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hah?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Mouse... It's a mouse.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes, so now I can see the mouse.
Mouse
She- Mouse
Mama General Store(Jaffer): It can be seen?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): It isn't a mouse!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): It is a mouse or a she-mouse?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): It isn't a she-mouse it's a mouse.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Go and find that out on the first night.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesj): If you will keep it, it will be a mouse and if a woman will keep it, it will be a she-mouse.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Listen to one thing brother...
Mohan's Saloon: Hey, listen for a bit what I have to say...
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yeah, say.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You smile a lot.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Whole life is ahead for smiling.
Mohan's Saloon: Listen to me for a while.
Kajal General Store (Rakesh): Yeah, speak.
Mohan's Saloon: You know, you ... just shift things in your (?) a bit. Balwant sir, right?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yeah, are you listening to me?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Speaks in Punjabi. The man here is involved. You, you don't scratch your head.
Kajal General Store (Raju): I am not scratching my head.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): He is playing the tabla.
Kajal General Store (Raju): I am (?) my tower.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Brother with the tower! Brother with the tower! Are you Paresh Rawal?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Are you Paresh Rawal's relative or his twin brother?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Oh no brother! Listen to what I have to say!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak you are very behind.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): I... I... I don't have a kid. Nor do I have a wife. So, I cannot...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay, tell me one thing do you own it then?
Mohan's Saloon(Mr Jha): No, I don't rent it but then I can't shut up the public also.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay tell me one thing, from where are you talking? With your mouth?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Even I didn't have a kid. My wife is decent. But I don't have a kid. But you can understand that by looking at you guys I will give birth to a kid.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, no. It's very grateful of you to have told all this.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hello?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Everybody is quiet at once or what?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): No no!
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Are you out of topics?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): No I thought that I will listen to your voice and then speak.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Okay then you speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): No you speak first.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): No you first.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): No you speak first.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Talking in this manner a train will be missed then!
Mohan's Saloon(Mr Jha): No, you see the train will arrive shortly.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh) Don't talk abotu Lucknow. I'm from Lucknow.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey brother Aashiq!
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): You're from Lucknow?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): The fact that I'm from Lucknow doesn't mean...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, Mahendra sir, speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh) : Say some poetry and all..
Mama General Store(Jaffer): I don't know any poetry.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Burn those beautiful women who are proud about themselves.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): You sit up a bit.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Here, listen!
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): You can't be seen.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I am sitting up itself.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): A bit up more.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Here, I am sitting up now.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Burn those beautiful women who are proud about themselves (twice), with hair falling across their face, those who taint the decent ones.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): If you burn them down then from where..
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey pick your veil from the ground or else it may get tainted (twice), hide your beauty from the world or else there may be a fire. Say, say something then even I will say something.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): We are not into poetry dude..
Poetry
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey, say something.
Mohan's Saloon (Orange): Hello? Hello? Sir, I would like to tell you that beautiful ladies who have long hair are like a trick to capture and hang us.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey you (who is) crazy about beautiful ladies!
Mohan's Saloon (Orange): Beautiful ladies who have long hair are like a trick to capture and hang us. They play with the blood of their lovers and thats why their cheeks are red.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Very good, that was good! Very good!
(People in Mohan's Saloon clap).
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Her waist was thin, she was standing near the tap.
Kajal General Store (Orange): My name is Shiv Shankar Kumar.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hello?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Her waist was thin, she was standing near the tap.
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Why are yo talking so loudly? Can't you hear me?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): You can hear me right?
Mohan's Saloon (Orange): Yes, I can hear you.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Her waist was thin, she was standing near the tap.
Mohan's Saloon (Orange): Oh.. okay.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Would have caught her but the public was standing. (People behind applaud).
Mohan's Saloon (Orange): I have written it just now.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hello?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): Yes, speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey, hear something atleast.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Brother Rakesh! Brother Rakesh!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, speak.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Brother Rakesh!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Can you hear me?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Yes brother!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay, speak.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Say something about the political situation today.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): It's very bad. Tear of brother Rakesh's heart and see it's very bad.
(Aashiq in Sunrise Saloon stands up and pretends to tear apart his heart, laughter).
Offscreen: Who is this little boy who popped up in the middle? (Twice).
Mama General Store(Jaffer): The little boy has an elder brother.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): What's the use of humming? What's the use of smiling?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Say something sensible. Stop small talk.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): It's not small talk. What can happen by humming? What can happen by smiling? What's the use of being so far? Come near so that something can happen. (Cheer and loud applause of people behind him.)
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): 300 to 400 have died now. Have you thought about them?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Should I shut shop and keep thinking about them the whole day? What profit will I reap by thiking about 300 and 400 people?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Now that you have spoken about poetry so then I will talk about poetry. I am sorry about being indecent and I beg you to forgive me.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Now let's talk about politics.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I am sorry and I apologize to you.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Hindu, Muslim brothers have died on the 4th and 5th day...and your Muslim brothers..
Politicians
Politics
Sealing of shops
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): All of us are brothers, I mean when it comes to poetry..
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Forget about poetry!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): You talk about your politics, talk about your busines, things work for a day's bread and earnings, eat your daily bread and your earnings..
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): I have a small request. Can you say something about these politicians of today?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): What are these politicians of today? What are these politicians of today? Our house is full. With the income of the relatives the house is filled. Politicians... I mean... the people's... suck their blood and drink it...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey brother, that's why he has become weak by sucking blood.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey brother, I am not weak. Nothing works before the politicians. But the politicians are due to us, we are not due to the politicians.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): What do you have to say of the sealing that's happening to our shops? Can you say something about the sealing that's happening to our shops?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): The sealing that's happening to our shops...
Mama General Store: Sealing or selling?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Don't talk about ceiling or selling.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey Jafferbhai! Listen to me, let these people blabber. Since many days I was...
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): When your and my shops will be sealed, won't we come on the streets
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey Jafferbhai!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): We will never come on the streets!
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Why won't we come?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Why we won't come... that I will tell you now.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): When our shops will be sealed we will definitely come.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey brother Aashiq! Hey brother Aashiq!
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): When your shops will be sealed, where will you go to earn your bread?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey Mohan Sir! Mohan Sir!
Kajal General Store (Mohan): Yes, sir.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Listen to one thing I have to say. This system that has been set up, does it have any meaning? Whatever we are talking now is small talk.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Yes.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey Aashiq!
Offscreen: Yes sir!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Listen to what I am saying! I am saying something.
Offscreen: Yes, speak brother.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You are posing as a bridegroom and talking. What do you think?
Offscreen: Here, now speak.
Kajal General Store (Raju): I am saying, that this system that we have set up...
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Yes, sir.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Is on something. And the madam who wants to know about it. If we talk about that then it will be better. It's not of any use to do small talk. See madam is staying up for nights, wasting her time, wasting her money. The question whose answer she wants, we better answer that.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Very much.
Kajal General Store (Raju: Yes, so the point is. Are you listening to me?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Yes speak.
Kajal General Store (Raju): First tell me your problem.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): My problem is that...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes?...
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): As all our shops are being sealed...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Brother Aashiq, listen to what he saying.
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Yes, sir. Okay.
Sealing of shops
Kajal General Store (Raju): Speak Mohan Sir, speak.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): As our shops will be sealed, where will the small scale shopkeepers go?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Then they will come to he streets.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): If they will come to the streets then what should be done?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Those who will suffer will answer that.
Kajal General Store (Raju): If something should be done, then one neighbouring shop of yours got sealed. What did you do about that?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Brother Aashiq, the neighbouring shop of yours, of CD's and cassettes, what did you do about that?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): What should I do? I didn't do anything!
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Why didn't you do anything?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): What should we do, you tell us?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan)You are a citizen of your area. So what did you do?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Right now, I have not done anything.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Why didn't you do anything?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Unless you guys tell me something till then what can I do?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): When you all were over there, why didn't you inform all the shopkeepers?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): I can't talk about everyone brother but I myself wasn't there.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): We all shopkeepers are brothers, we should have walked together.
Kajal General Store (Green): So regarding this...
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): If all your services are sealed, what can you do about it? Our daily bread, our children's daily bread will be lost.
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): What you are telling is right but the main thing is that nothing will happen by you and me intervening unless anybody comes in the middle to talk.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): If we don't stand united, how will things work?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): That's right.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): What all do you do in your work?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Brother Aashiq! Hey brother Aashiq!
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): What work does this big boss do?
Screen (Raju): Which big boss?
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): He is saying...
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): That's why it is a bog problem of this country.
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): Yes, sir.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): They will leave Delhi. The government thinks that Biharis are criminals and that they should be kicked off to their villages.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Yes, so where will you guys go and where will we go?
Kajal General Store (Raju): And where will you kick the citizens of Delhi?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): In your rear!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Where will it hit me?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): You will understand when it will hit you.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey ! Listen to me and don't get yourself in trouble,! We are the citizens of Delhi!
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): You don't understand (?) right? You stoop down to small talk. (Speaks in Bihari).
Sunrise Saloon (Aashiq): I haven't seen (?) till now.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Speaks in Bihari.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Hello?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, Jafferbhai speak.
Mama General Store (jaffer): Yes, sorry.
Kajal General Store (Raju): For what?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): For the lights going off.
Kajal General Store (Raju): No light went off at my place.
Employment
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Brother, there was some disturbance in my board, there was something wrong with the board. So with you... Hello?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Yes, brother speak. Brother shopkeeper.. one minute brother, unless we all shopkeepers won't stand united, then our shops will get sealed. Anybody, big or small whose (shops) get sealed. So what is the solution to that? And what should be done?
Mama General Store(Jaffer): No everybody together should..
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Yes, that's what I want that those who have a business should get together and have a meeting and after that a solution should be found. If everybody's shops get sealed then what will happen? Our daily bread is dependent on that
Mama General Store: Everybody will be unemploed.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): If you will be unemployed then how will you feel?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I am telling you straight..
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): You will have to or you won't have to?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Brother will you shut up for a minute?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Yes, speak, speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): All you people out there please shut up for a minute.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Okay, brother I will shut up for not one but for five minutes. Yet, you keep saying the same thing.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Brother, all you homeless and jobless people in my shop, please vacate the shop and get lost.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey Aunty! You are vacating your shop?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Just shut up...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Thanks to Allah, listen to what I have to say..
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Madam has come to my shop, keep don't create a chaos.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Tell me your name, it becomes difficult to talk time and again.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): No, it isn't difficult for me. Madam...
Kajal General Store (Raju): What's your name?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Your madam is having difficulty.
Kajal General Store (Raju): No, what's your name?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): My name is Rakesh Kumar.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay, okay, then it's fine.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Okay, what's your shop about brother?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Mine is a haircutting shop.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): What brother?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey brother I know you very well, what you are saying, I know, I know where your shop is..
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Brother Rakesh!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes!
Cleaning
Sewer
Shop
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Brother Rakesh!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes!
Mama General Store (Jaffer): The lane which is in front of you..
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes!
Mama General Store (Jaffer): What are you thinking about that lane?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): What am I thinking..?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): For so many days it is flowing like a dirty sewer...
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I am thinking brother that the sooner it gets cleaned the better...if the dirt in front of my shop gets cleaned...
Kajal General Store (Raju): You have cleaned your shop very well inside.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Now who will clean it? Will you and me clean it?
Kajal General Store (Raju): No, you have cleaned your shop very well.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): In the same way if you even keep your lane clean. There is more water in front of your... your shop like a sewer.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Water keeps flowing like a sewer in front of my shop?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): What's this one's name? I keep forgetting. Hey borther Raju!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, speak speak.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Brother Raju!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): It's worse in your lane though.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Look in front of my lane and sidewalk.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Yes, sir? Can't hear again.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Shoo away the stupid man then you will be able to hear.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): There isn't any hen.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Stupid, stupid!
Mama General Store (Jaffer): He is saying stupid, I heard hen.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Sir, I have a request sir.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Yes, speak.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): From this Saibaba temple, who are you talking? First tell me this.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): I am talking from the front of Hotel Munna.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Can you see this road going from ahead of Saibaba temple?
Kajal General Store (Jaffer): No, the road is correctly in a Hindu area.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, can you see this road?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Yes, I can see.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Brother Jaffer!
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Yes?
Kajal General Store (Raju): You spoke about the road now.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Yes.
Kajal General Store (Raju): How much have you contributed for your road outside?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): We have contributed so much, don't even ask.
Kajal General Store (Raju): What is it? Tell me! Tell me something.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): We have contributed so much, we put our money into it.
Sunrise Saloon (Raju): Where did you put it?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Here, by pitching.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Where? I have in front of your shop atleast 50...
Sunrise Saloon (Raju): In front of my shop and in front of other apartments, I have pitched so much, you just don't ask. You come here in the morning and have a look, I know you.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You know me?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Then what?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay... I...
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Okay? I will come to your shop and talk if you don't believe it.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Okay?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Brother Raju!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): But it is so dirty here, that I alone cannot do it right? The apartments that are on either sides can do it all but assume that it is only you and even I am there, if we both do it together then too it is something. Alone I cannot do anything. If you stay alone on the assurance of a politician then the politician alone cannot do anything. The politician is on our assurance. We do not rely on the assurance of the politician.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay, do you drink?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, no, how do we realize that brother Raju is...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey, I am not talking to you! I am not talking to you.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, no, speak again. Speak again!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes, speak.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey will you eat 5 lakhs here or should I come there? Hey, I didn't talk about your drink! I was asking Rakesh.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): The station is also in the front.
Mama General Store: Has an argument started? Hello, brother..?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Has an argument started?
Kajal General Store (Raju): No this Rakesh...
Hindu Muslim Unity
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): No, don't tell me this. Hey brother Raju! It's like this. The question arises..
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Can you tell me something about our Hindu-Muslim unity for all these people?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Now see brother this Hindu-Muslim unity...
Mohan's Saloon (Raju): As people say... some say 'Pakistan Zindabad' some say 'Hindustan Zindabad'. Congress says that let Pakistan be ruined and others say let Hindustan be ruined.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Pakistan has been made from Hindustan itself. Hello?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Yes, brother Raju speak.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Pakistan has been made from Hindustan itself, Pakistan isn't a different country.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Are you scared out of your wits now?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Hello? Hello brother Raju? Brother Raju?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): No, you are not saying how we will stay united.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): No, no, you said that when Pakistan and India. It was written in Pakistan...
Kajal General Store (Raju): In India?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Who said now that Pakistan...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Sir answer the question he is asking you.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): I am asking him, first it was about Pakistan. It in India. It was in India right? Cutting India it became Pakistan and Bangladesh was also made.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): In one house... when...it turns into four houses then from where do Hindu and Muslim come?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey Rakesh Sir!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes, sir!
Kajal General Store (Raju): You are drunk right?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): No sir.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Don't lie.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I swear!
Sunrise Saloon (Raju): It's shaking at your bottom too!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I swear it unto you!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Your legs are shaking!
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Raju where are you taking the conversation?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I don't indulge in such activities.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Look brother we are talking about how we will stay united... we won't do blooshed amongst ourselves just as it happened now in Aligarh.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey leave the topic of Aligarh. Aligarh is a place where chaos and rebellions happen. Why ae you talking about it?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): How should we be then?
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Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Let one person speak and the rest will listen.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay I will ask you.
Screen (Mukhtar): Okay ask.
Kajal General Store (Raju): First tell your name.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): You... many... you know my name...
Kajal General Store (Raju): You, you please shut up for a minute.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You tell..
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yeah, now I am quiet.
Kajal General Store (Raju): First you tell me milkman.
Sunrise Saloon (Mukhtar): Name Mukhtar.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Your name is Mukhtar. From where are you?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): West Bengal.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Since how many days have you come to Delhi?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): 22 years.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Its been 22 years..
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Yes.
Kajal General Store (Raju): How much difference do you find between West Bengal and Delhi?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother raju please keep quiet. Madam is saying something here and I am listening.
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Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, speak. How much difference do you find between West Bengal and Delhi?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Raju Madam is saying something...
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): What difference I found between Bengal and Delhi?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, tell.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): See, I spent 22 years in Delhi..
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes..
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): And I found Delhi to be nice.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): I earn a living here.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): So I found Delhi to be nice.
Kajal General Store (Raju): And?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): If I would earn the same living in Bengal..
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes...
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Then Bengal would be nice for me.
Sunrise Saloon (Raju): Is Bengal different from India?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Brother, I want to ask you a question, that what is Khoj?
Kajal General Store (Raju): What is Khoj?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Yes, sir.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Can you see it in front of you?
Scree 4 (Mr Jha): No.
Kajal General Store (Raju): What can be a better answer than this?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): I don't know what thing Khoj is. Tell me about Khoj.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Put a dirty foot on your face.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Yes, sir.
Artists
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Khoj
Pradeep Sachdeva
Kajal General Store (Raju): Your voice isn't audible.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): I am still unable to understand what Khoj is. If you can tell that then please do.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Please tell him in detail about Khoj.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Khoj operates in five areas.
Jaffer: Hello brotherRaju!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, brother jaffer speak.
Jaffer: You got tired talking about Khoj and stopped alking altogether right? Think something about the lane atleast.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Hello?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Hey brother Raju!
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Hello sir! I haven't understood here about Khoj till now, what exactly is Khoj? I want to know about this... about Khoj.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Madam! Hello madam... brother Raju is behind madam... You were talking about the road what happened to the road? Brother Raju! Tell him about Khoj. He is asking what is Khoj.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Khoj is a studio. It is for advertising.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Hand over to madam.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Brother Raju, I request you that haven't understood anything about Khoj till now, what exactly is Khoj.
Mama General Store (Jaffer): Hello!
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): I can't hear you.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Hello?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Brother Raju?
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Yeah, you want to know about Khoj?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Madam I request you...
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Yes I am telling you...
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): I wanted to know about Khoj, what exactly is Khoj?
Kajal General Store (Aastha): No, I am telling you, if you would be quiet for 2 minutes then I will tell you.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Yes madam
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Yes, are you listening? First tell me your name.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): One, one minute madam. I can't hear you a bit.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Now can you hear me?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Yes madam.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Okay, what is your name?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): A K Jha.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Okay, Mr. Jha, Khoj is an institution of artists which has been shifted to this building after the architect Pradeep Sachdeva who used to stay here. And people related to art come and work here. And we are working here in the community to create a medium to communicate with you all through television, painting, mural etc. Okay? Any other question?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): This projection which is happening through us... what is it?
Kajal General Store (Aastha): This is one of the projects of Khoj. Many other such projects keep happening.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Okay, many other such projects which happen through us... this... meeting up of people like this... okay, understood, understood.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Okay, fine, thank you.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Madam, one minute, sorry sorry! I had one request madam. That please listen to me.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Okay, talk fast.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): I... one.. it's been a long time also. I am listening to a song. And if you don't mind then I will make you listen to it.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): This set up which we had done was to enable people to talk to each other. There are so many shops on this road but nobody knows each other. At the most they know their neighbours names and more than that they don't know anything. There is no mode of communication. The television set which you get is of some other country, of something else. So this has been set up to allow you all to exchange your news, your experiences, your thoughts and how it has been to be staying on this lane Khirkee.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Okay.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): This was not set up to listen to songs but if you want to sing then you may.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, if you may allow then I will sing. Some request, please. For just a minute.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): But please don't shout. Do anything but don't shout.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): I will make you listen to just one line. (Sings): Breaking the world of hatred in the world of love.. stay my friend. When an animal kills a man, then everything ends, this is our meeting. Thank you madam.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Yes, thank you.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Hello!
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Yes brother Jaffer your voice... Brother Mohammed, brother jaffer your screen isn't appearing you have shifted your camera.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): What should I do for the picture to come?
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Okay we are coming, just wait. We are coming to your place.
Mama General Store: (Jaffer): Hello, from where are you talking? Are you talking from the salon?
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Rakesh sir!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes madam!
Kajal General Store (Aastha): No communication happened with your shop...
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes speak I will answer you, you question me, will answer.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): How lomg have you been here? In Khirkee?
Sunrise Saloon (White): Yes, what is the matter?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): She is asking Rakesh but you are answering.
Development
Khirkee Village
Progress
Sunrise Saloon (White) Eleven years... eleven.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Rakesh sir, madam is asking since when have you been in Khirkee?
Sunrise Saloon (White): It's been a long time and you are uncessarily bugging me.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Rakesh sir, madam is asking since when have you been staying in Khirkee village?
Kajal General Store (Rakesh): Since 1987.
Mama General Store: Hello brother Raju start this screen even we are waiting okay?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): If you have been staying here since '87, then then since before...was the state of Khirkee village just as this before or was it better?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): The state of Khirkee village is better now than what it was. First nobody even had a cycle and now there are four Marutis in people's houses.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): You are understanding what I am saying right?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Yes, sir, speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): First they used to collect money for their kid's fees by selling boiled vegetables. Now Khirkee village is much better.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): So you mean to say that Khirkee village is progressing.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Don't even ask how much Khirkee village has progressed.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): You too take some knowledge about Khoj from madam.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Talk to madam.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes, make me talk to madam.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Madam ? Brother Raju just hand the mike to madam brother Rakesh wants to talk to her.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): I had spoken now for everyone so he must have heard what Khoj does and all.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Rakesh talk to madam.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes, sir, speak.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): This shop Rakesh sir is yours or of the one sitting near you?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I am the manager of this shop.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Rakesh! Hello, brother Rakesh! You kept the microphone. Madam wanted to talk to you. And she still wishes to talk to you.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes, tell me.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): You have been staying here for so long in this place. So do tell any memorable instances, any experiences, any stories...
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Madam I am new here.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Okay.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): I don't know much but I have heard a lot about Khoj. And I am happy that (?) is Khoj, which is right around there. I wish that our Khoj progreses and that it becomes world fampous.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Thank you.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): That's all I want. And as far as we can we will co operate.
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Hello?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Yes, who is this speaking?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes, what do you want to ask?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Yes, speak.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes brother speak. Do you stay here itself in Khirkee?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes.
Kajal General Store (raju): Since when are you staying here?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Almost 7-8 years.
Kajal General Store (Raju): What's your name?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): My name is Saqil.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Are you from any region?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): I do the work of exports here.
Kajal General Store (Raju): No, from which region are you?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): I am from Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You are from Lucknow.
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You have been here for 8 years right?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes.
Kajal General Store (Raju): How much of change have you seen in Khirkee in 8 years?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Well if you ask me about changes then a lot of changes have happened. Buildings were 3 storeyed before and now they are 4-5 storeyed.
Kajal General Store (Raju): They are becoming.
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes, sir. And the roads are the same though.
Kajal General Store (Raju): What can be done about this now?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Sorry?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Who can improve the roads?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Now roads can be made by teh government here. You and I can't construct them.
Kajal General Store (Raju): No I mean by coming together.. can it be done in any way?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Sorry?
Kajal General Store (Raju): By coming together, I mean forming a society or something..
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yeah, talk a bit loudly please. I can't hear you. I am sitting a bit away from the TV.
Mohan's Saloon (Red): Yes brother you talk a bit loudly.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You please increase the volume of your TV.
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Okay. Now it's loud. Now talk
Kajal General Store (raju): I was saying that if we form a society, or union or an instituion of four people then can this be improved?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes, why not? If four people sit together and talk then every problem can be resolved.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Have you ever thought about it?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): But it that it is very necessary for cohesiveness and unity to be there.
Kajal General Store (Raju): How is unity possible?
Construction
Jam
Road
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): There will be unity if you, me and all of us come together and do it. It is not possible for itto happen just like this.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Saqil !
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes!
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): If to construct this road..
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): If we have a road jam near Saibaba temple...
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Then the DM...
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes..
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): And the SP...
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes..
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): They will be rocked off their seats!
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes, somehow the problem can be solved. Not much but atleast somewhat it can be solved.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): If you want to shake a tree then its branches must be shaken. Then the tree will definitely shake. One day we gave an application to the DM here.
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Okay.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): But I say we sit over there...near the Saibaba temple.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Is it time for you to shut your shop?
Mama General Store (Jaffer): No...(?)
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Sir, the voices here are becoming louder and your voice is becoming lower compared to that. There is a lot of public here. You can see it here.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Sir, I want to talk to you for a while.
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes, speak.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): What is this thing called samosas?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Samosas?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Yes sir.
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Samosas are triangular butterflies things which you fry in a vessel and remove from a vessel and eat it. But you won't eat buterflies.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Are you talking about samosas?
Kajal General Store (raju): Brother saqil! Hey brother Saqil! Can you hear me?
Samosas
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes, you talk.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Where do you get the best samosas here in this lane of ours?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Here for the best samosas you may consider...I haven't eaten till now so I can't say...
Kajal General Store (Raju): No I am not asking you for the count of the samosas I am asking about the quality.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, whenever I eat the samosas sir... then that Sai Sweets which is there sir..
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey my answer is not there it's in our lane.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, this is Mr. Jha's shop sir.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Mr. Jha's shop is good.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): In Mr. Jha's shop you get samosas made of paneer.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Brother, can I tell one thing?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, sir.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I am Rakesh speaking.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Yes, Sir.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Of all the samosas I like Sai Sweets.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Okay, sir.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Did you understand what I am saying?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Even I have eaten samosas from Sai Sweets but samosas are such sir, that better than those you get samosas made of paneer in Mr Jha's shop.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey, Mr Jha is temporary. He is there today, he won't be there tomorrow.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, no sir there is nothing of the sort that Mr. Jha is there today and he won't be there tomorrow... nothing of the sort.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You are from Mr. Jha's side. That's why you will talk about Mr Jha.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, I am not talking about Jha.
Kajal General Store (raju): No Mr. Rakesh I am not talking about you I am talking about Jha.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey brother you are under Mr. Jha's service.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Yes.
Screen (Rakesh): You are under Mr. Jha's service and so you are appreciating him.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Yes.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): I am not talking about that brother. I am not talking in secret I am talking openly.
Sunrise Saloon (Raju): Rakesh sir, you are right this Jha is under Jha's service itself.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): I am at fault too, sorry...
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): There is a way of making samosas.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, yes, brother Mukhtar speak.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): One minute, one minute, listen to what I have to say also. it is my mistake too.
Kajal General Store (Raju): So many people are standing outside talk to them too.
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): Listen to what I have to say ... I sir, I had eaten (?)
Mama General Store (Shaina): Now brother Mukhtar or brother Mohammed who is in this shop wants to talk to you. Quitely listen to him. If you want to contribute anything apart from samosas then talk but he wants to talk to you. Now you have a mike as well as a TV from which you can listen so please listen for God's sake.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Madam give him the microphone to talk.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): I want to say this to you here that all you labourers here and your conditions here... the labourers here are in trouble, the labourers here are running away. What will happen to a person like us here? You are understanding what I am saying right?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay)): Yes.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Why are they running? See, what will happen to you and me?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): See sir the thing is, the ban which is here, as the buildings are closed, the labourers who work in the buildings won't get work in to do in the buildings and when buildings which are constructed will be demolished, then labourers won't get work. And labourers are here to work. They are not here to have fun. Noida, Gurgaon whatever they get work they will go and work there. If not here then they will go somewhere else and work. Just by sitting nothing will work.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Why are the buildings being demolished?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): This can be explained by the DC's we don't know anything much about it. Just as the one there near the cycle.. go get him.
Government
Labourers
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): The shops which have been made now, they will be bought by rich traders. They are shops amountng to 80-90 lacs. We small, poor brothers won't be able to buy them.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Yes, I am saying the same thing.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): The government wants to drive out all the poor people from Delhi.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Okay.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): So, tell me what have you thought about it?
Mama General Store (Mushtak): No, they will drive out poor people..
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Okay.
Mohan's Saloon (Mukhtar): But what will the poor people do?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): All the shops have been grabbed away.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): If the government is thining to drive out the poor from Delhi then what do the poor think?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): That will have to be thought of.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): What should be thought of?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): That building will have to be sold, by getting together all the labourers, poor workers, small and big ones.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Go in Burgaon, Burgaon is becoming like Delhi.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): No, wait, I will go to Burgaon where will you go?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Where?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): You apartment which is here...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Then I will follow you.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Then what will happen here?
Kajal General Store (Raju): It's over. It's all over here.
Offscreen: Brother Raju! Brother Raju!
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Understand one thing, before you...
Offscreen: Brother Raju! Brother Raju!
Mohan's Saloon (White): Brother Raju I want to ask you a question.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Ask a question.
Mohan's Saloon (White): Here the discussion of road was going on..
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes...
Mohan's Saloon (White): If we all get together and create a jam near Saibaba temple then the government will be profitted by that too.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey, first of all Khoj will be upset.
Mohan's Saloon (White): Khoj is already upset. That's not what I want to say. Is it okay? Because the government wants to as it is shut the shops in this lane.
Offscreen: Then from where do they come in Saibaba temple?
Mohan's Saloon (White): Listen to what I have to say. That's not what I want to say. What I am saying is, that for constructing the road, are only shopkeepers thinking or is every person here thinking?
Mohan's Saloon (White): That's what I want to know.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Every person thinks.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Every person thinks?
Kajal General Store (Raju): But first of all the question is who will lead?
Mohan's Saloon (Mr Jha): No, then how come you said that go to Burgaon?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Raju, in Khirkee village...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Listen to that answer, first this circle was totally new. The labourers had work here. But first if there were just 100 labourers and now there are 1000... do you agree to this?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Yes we totally agree.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You are staying here for 22 years, how far can you take anything?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Which thing?
Kajal General Store (Raju): I mean how many days can you keep constructing any building or any house?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): This topic of how far can you construct... it is a different matter if a labourer goes away if he does not get work.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Tell me one thing. You have been here for 22 years and I have been here for 6 years in this shop. I have never seen any worker being kicked out of Khirkee.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): No, who kicked anyone out?
Kajal General Store (Raju): Then how did you say that workers are running away from here?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): No, they are running out of here when their business is not working due to which...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Work is not relied on the government my friend.
Governement
Responsibility
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Then on whom is it?
Kajal General Store (Raju): You should understand who it is on.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): On the labourer... the public in India is the responsibility of the government.
Kajal General Store (Raju): So the responsibility is in Bengal too, not only in Delhi.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey brother Raju, can I say one thing?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Isn't the government taking the responsibility of the public? Isn'nt the government in Bihar shouldering it? Isn't the government in Uttar Pradesh shouldering it? Isn't the government in Maharashtra shouldering it?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hey brother Raju!
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): It is their responsibilty. They are responsible.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, yes, brother Rakesh speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Brother Raju, first you shut him up.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Rakesh please shut up first let him speak.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): As he said you know..that he is sending the shop to Burgaon. Tell me one thing.,... I have bought my apartment and shop out of my money. Assume that it's on rent and I have put my money into it. Where should I go.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Okay, tell me one thing brother Rakesh.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Brother Raju!
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Let's take it that you are the landlord of the people in Khirkee. We are the tenants and we have purchased a flat and have become the holders of the flat. Did you understand what I am saying? Are you listening?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Rakesh! Just hand over the microphone to brother Saqil. Just hand over to brother Saqil who is doing the setting behind you.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Just a minute. There is a lot of noise.
Kajal General Store (Raju): No, you speak brother Rakesh. What did you want to say?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Raju. I want to talk to you.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Yes, speak.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): See, first of all please keep quiet.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Rakesh! Hand over the phone to brother Saqil. He is doing the setting. Please keep quiet, I am talking to brother Saqil.
Mama General Store (Shaina): Listen ! Listen! When I am looking at these four screens, I am an outsider, I am from Bombay. I am in these lanes, in Khoj since the apast 8 days. I have sharp eyes, I observe a lot. Looking at these four screens I am able to see the mentality of people very much. One of the things is that we don't listen to each other. This one is saying something, that one is saying something and you all are shouting amongst each other. That means that for each one his opinion is important what someone else is saying, you don't bother to listen. Is it true or not?
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes, that is true, good, very, very good.
Mama General Store (Shaina): When you sat at the tea vendor's shop, you shout and talk.
Screen (Saqil): That's why I kept quiet. I thought these people are talking amongst themselves, let them talk. What should I say to them. I thought that you better listen first to what these people have got to say.
Mama General Store (Shaina): That's not the thing, I am not talking to you, I am talking to everyone. I am just saying that when we listen to others with a quiet mind then we can support each other. If in the Khirkee lane, let's talk about Bombay or else, in a day if we all...
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes..
Mama General Store (Shaina): Shut up!
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Yes...
Mama General Store (Shaina): Drunkard bloody!
Sunrise Saloon (Saqil): Drunkard! Haha!
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Hello, look brother is madam out there?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Hello?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Hello, brother Saqil! I want to talk to brother Saqil.
History
Khirkee
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes, talk.
Mohan's Saloon (Red): Brother Saqil tell me one thing. Should we be united or should we fight amongst ourselves? Tell me. Should we maintain Hindu Muslim unity or fight amongst ourselves? Brother Saqil.
Mama General Store (Mushtak): What, do you fight in Khirkee?
Mohan's Saloon (Red): No, brother, see now it's not the topic of Khirkee, he's from Kanpur.
Mama General Store (Mushtak): Okay.
Mohan's Saloon (Red): He's from Lucknow, riots have happened in Aligarh.
Mama General Store (Mushtak): Now it's not about Kanpur, now we are talking about Khirkee.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Now go according to the situation also. It's not that everything should be about Khirkee.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Okay, now listen to me. You tell me the history of this place- what had happened here? What is here? What will happen further? Tell me this.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Do you know the history here? Do you know what used to happen in this area in the post-British period?
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Yes, tell me that thing.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): There was farming of cabbage and leafy vegetables here.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Okay.
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Then after that when the partition happened those who left Pakistan came here and settled here. So maximum of the people here are immigrants from Lahore. This is the history.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): They are settled here.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Speak Mukhtar sir, speak further.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): No, I want to know what is the history of this place, what is the situation today.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Hey, now you just heard the history that all those who are the inhabitants here are from Pakistan. So, they work here. First farming of cabbage and leafy vegetables used to happen here. So you know so much history. I am new here.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Yes, let's talk about these things. Talking about vegetables, samosas is a waste. You talk-talk about good things. If you are into politics then talk about politics. If we are becoming unemployed here then what should we do about it? What will happen if something will be done? Like, if I don't know something then tell me about it. If this will be done then this will happen. What?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): If searching for employment and not getting employment in Delhi, then I will go to Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, even till Gujarat. Wherever I will get an employment opportunity, I will work there. Okay? If not in Delhi, if my brothers don't get employed in Delhi, then for feeding my stomach I can go anywhere.
Sunrise Saloon: Commotion.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): If employment stops here then I will go to some other region and work there. I will feed myself and my family.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Very right.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Now, ask another question about this.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Madam was aomgst you and she said that she has come from Mumbai.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): This ... about Bombay, Maharashtra, Calcutta...
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Some time ago madam had come amongst you.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Yes.
Mohan's Saloon (Mukhtar): She said that she is from Mumbai.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): Yes.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Now, if I would have questioned her from the microphone about us people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar being driven out from there. Bal Thackerey said that Drive out Biharis and UPites. If Upites and Bhaiyas get out from there then what will be the condition of Maharashtra you tell me first?
Kajal General Store (Raju): This can be told by madam.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): She can also say first that I wasn't in Maharashtra.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): If Maharashtra is there today then it is there for the people of UP and Bihar only. Because of their efforts only Maharashtra is what it is. I have lived there for 3 years.
Mama General Store (Mukhtar): That is decided. Where there are no subjects, the King rules and where there are no labourers, the boss rules.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): The minister there, Bal Thackerey says that drive everyone out. One day Amitabh Bachchan said that give rent to our brothers and they will go back to their land. There he shut up.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey brother Mukhtar where are you going?
Offscreen: First tell me what work do you do?
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): I, brother work as a hairdresser.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey, Mr Jha!
Kajal General Store (Raju): Shut your shop. Have you gone off to peel?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): What should I go off to peel again?
Kajal General Store (Raju): See where he has reached leaving his neighbour.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Yeah look! Now when will his tea get over? Hey Rakesh sir! Shave his moustache.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Yeah, I will cut it. I will give you Rs. 101/-. And now if you don't look at the TV I will shave off your moustache. It is a question of our caste.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Not now, in the morning.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): The morning is over, it is a question of now.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): No, brother I...
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Otherwise I will come with a razor to your shop.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Brother Mahendra, listen to one thing. I am not a royal barber
Kajal General Store (Raju): Not since childhood.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Brother Rakesh, brother Rakesh, the one who is shaving nearby you..
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hey, Mohan you are behind Saqil only!
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Hey, I am asking him a question. You only tell me.
Kajal General Store (Raju): You are stuck to brother Saqil !
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): What are you saying brother Raju, I want to say something...
Kajal General Store (Raju): Hello brother with a cap!
Sunrise Saloon (Green towel): Hey Mirinda shut the shop atleast!
Mama General Store (Cap): Hey Coca Cola! Campa Coca Cola!
Sunrise Saloon (Green towel): Mirinda! Shut the shop atleast!
Mama General Store (Cap): I will turn you into Coca Cola!
Sunrise Saloon (Green towel): But you are Mirinda!
Mama General Store (Cap): Hey Coca Cola, you are Mirinda!
Sunrise Saloon (Green towel): What? You are Mirinda!
Mama General Store (Cap): Shouting pointlessly.
Kajal General Store (Raju): Go, get drowned and die bloody if you want to say so much. (Speaks pointlessly).
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Rakesh! Rakesh! Can you hear me?
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yes, sir.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Give the microphone to the man sitting near you and getting himself shaved.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Yeah, it is with him only.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): And give the phone to madam who is also near you.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Madam! Madam!
Bal Thackery
Biharis
Uttar Pradesh
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): Madam I want to talk to you.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): Yes, talk quickly.
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): I am Ajay Sharma speaking.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): Yes?
Mohan's Saloon (Mohan): I am Ajay Sharma speaking.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): Okay. I am Shaina.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): You were saying that you are from Mumbai.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): Yes.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Now, it's a matter 2-3 years back, when our brothers were being driven out of Mumbai.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): Yes.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Bal Thackerey said that people of UP and Bihar should leave Mumbai.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): Yes.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): If in Mumbai.. if people of UP and Bihar leave Mumbai then what will be the state of Mumbai? Give us some knowledge about this.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): No, I don't agree to what Bal Thackerey has said. Not at all. I believe that be it Bombay or Delhi or Khirkee, a person can go anywhere and he has the right to come to Bombay from UP or to come to Delhi from Bihar or to go to Kolkatta. Everybody has the right. Everybody has the right to work and be employed. This is my.. yes, that is right.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): So, madam, now in Delhi..
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): So what Bal Thackerey says is absolutely wrong. If all UPites are driven out of Bombay then there will be no taxis. That is also the truth. Rickshaws won't be driven.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): I have lived there for 3 years. I have complete knowledge of there. And I am only saying this that as now in Delhi there is no employment being given to people from UP and Bihar.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): Yes.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): So they are running and some are going to Haryana, some are going to Punjab, some are going to Baroda. If the same situation pervades in Delhi, then what will the people here do?
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): This will happen. The sad part is, that this will happen. You see sealing is taking place- one after the other. Then people will have to shift work. This is the truth. If you want to get together and do something then you will need a lot, lot of unity.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Madam I don't think that unity will happen.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): Unity never happens. Has it happened even in one lane? You tell me.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): No, unity won't happen.
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): It doesn't happen with neighbours. We are in this condition. Where will it happen? Where will it happen? You both are sitting there are you will get drunk and start fighting. So where will unity happen? In this lane someone says I am a Hindu, I am a Muslim, I am from a Pandit caste, there down that is a Shudra, I won't talk to him, I won't eat his food, I won't meet his eye, then what will happen?
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): Till we will be like this nothing will happen.
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): There's that saying you know...
Sunrise Saloon (Shaina): And as I was saying before, four people don't want to listen to each other. Our opinion is the most important. If we have forgotten the deal of talking with each other... we have forgotten the etiquettes of sitting and talking with each other. So then, nothing will happen. Okay, Good night!
Mohan's Saloon (Ajay): Good night!
Kajal General Store (Aastha): Shaina! Wrap up? I'm pulling the wires out.
Sunrise Saloon (Rakesh): Goodbye to all ladies and gentlemen.
Night mode of camera. Wires being pulled out. Men are talking amongst themselves.
A man is discussing the previous episode. 'They talk about topics which can have no answer at all. ' Jha's paneer pakodas are being discussed and mocked about. Camera pans to the right. A man says, 'Now someone talks about Pakistan and India, neither you are Gen. Pervez Musharraf nor am I APJ Abdul Kalam that we sit down to take decisions. If they would have been so intelligent then bloody they would have taken decisions lomg time back. If we discuss things on telephone then money will be spent.'
They are discussing about Khirkiyaan. A man says, 'We are staying in the lane, but what have we done for the lane?' 'India and Pakistan is a big issue. Why are you talking about it with each other?'
The camera captures the interaction of two men with each other.
Cables are being removed and taken into Khoj.
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