Ekta Sandesh (Message of Unity) (Waquar P Khan)

Ekta Sandesh (Message of Unity)

Director: Waquar P Khan

Duration: 00:57:31; Aspect Ratio: 1.222:1; Hue: 31.243; Saturation: 0.219; Lightness: 0.297; Volume: 0.259; Cuts per Minute: 11.038; Words per Minute: 91.763

This short film, directed and produced by the late Waqar P. Khan with the help of Bhau Korde, and in collaboration with the Mohalla Committee, was part of an endeavor to promote communal harmony in Mumbai, after the Gujarat carnage. The Mohalla Committee was set up by J. F. Ribero in the Dharavi slums in the aftermath of the 1992 Mumbai riots. The film has interviews with Shaikh Salauddin, Ravinder Jain, M. N. Singh, Satish Kumar, Sahni, J. F. Ribero and Ameen Sayani, interspersed with scenes from various Bollywood films. The film features talks on communal harmony, fictionalised rioting scenes and patriotic songs, and inspirational hymns.

Copy Reads: Mohalla Committee Movement Trust and Mumbai Police Presents
Message of Unity
Cameraman: Chinu Shah
Editor & Associate Director: Anil Ronsa
Produced and Directed By: Waqar.P.Khan

Voiceover: We will break the thorns of hatred. We will sleep on a bed of flowers and get lost in the dreams of the future. After all it is a new day.
Mohalla
Movement
Mumbai Police
bed
committee
credits
dreams
flowers
future
hatred
message
song
thorns
trust
unity

SS:The whole world is aware of this reality and we need to keep our culture and decorum alive. In these changing times we need to bring an end this atmosphere of hatred.We need to save the society from getting divided on the basis of religion,language and territory.We need to follow the light of this torch of communal harmony which has bees lit by the Mumbai Mohalla Committee and Mumbai Police. Along with this we need to spread the message of communal harmony and unity to each home.We are presenting a small offering of ours called " We are one", maybe my message will seep into your heart.
Mumbai Mohalla Committee
Mumbai Police
Shaikh Salauddin
alive
aware
communal harmony
culture
divided
hatred
language
oneness
reality
religion
society
territory
unity
world

An old man in a skull cap cries while in the background people are running away from riot mobs.
VO: Look at how blood is getting separated from blood.
blood
look
movie
riot
scene
separated

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Following is a montage of three films, it includes riot scenes from Bombay where the mob wreaks havoc on people and property alike. The angry mob burns a man alive. In the midst of the commotion Manisha Koirala and Arwind Swamy search the streets for their lost children. In another scene a Hindu and a Muslim man embrace each other in a hospital while their children look on. In a scene from another movie Sanajay Khan carries an injured Feroz khan in his arms.
VO: What a union is this today,
a brothers embraces his brother such,
like in his own hands one would carry his own corpse.
Bombay
brother
corpse
embrace
fire
mob
movie
riots
scene
union

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Scene of mob setting a man on fire.Two badly injured kids lie in a rubble of debris, holding the Indian flag in hand.
Bombay
VO: As a funeral pyre burns in each breath,
such is the game of fate.
children
clip
injured
movie
riot
scene

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Riot mob shown killing people mercilessly.
Bombay
mob
movie
riots
scene
violence

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Riot mob throws makeshift bottle bombs and stones at the police. The police opens fire in response.
Bombay
fire
firing
mob
movie
police
riots
scene
violence

VO: Look at how blood is getting separated from blood.
Bombay
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Scene from Bombay where Manisha Koirala and Arwind Swamy are frantically looking for their kids. In another scene Feroz Khan dies in the arms of Sanjay Khan.
blood
mob
movie
riots
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violence

RJ:Namaskar(greetings), dear brothers and friends, I'm not here to give a speech.I'm here to tear away the veil of ignorance from the minds of a few misguided people.I've read about Ayodhya Kaand(incident) and the Uttara Kaand in the Ramayana, lately I've been hearing about a new Kaand " The Godhra Kaand". I call it an extremely out of tune Kaand. I think about who has written this Kaand. I don't see any of us involved in this.The people I know, like my Muslim friend from Aligarh or my friends from Mumbai or Calcutta.I've never sensed any feeling of hatred or enmity from the people I'm acquainted with or the people who know me.There is a Ghazal (a collection of couplets) that I often recite which is much appreciated by my friends: Those who disagree with the laws of religions, (x2)
Forgive me but I'm not with them. (x2)
I will forever be against such people who,
incite me against Ram and you against Rahim.
Go and tell the Sheikh and the Brahmin that my home,
is the premise of love and loyalty so they should perform Tawaf here.
Aligarh
Calcutta
Godhra
Kaand
Mumbai
Muslim
Ravinder Jain
Tawaf
against
disagree
enmity
friends
ghazal
greetings
hatred
ignorance
incite
laws
love
loyalty
misguided
poem
religions
sher
veil

Those Pundits (scholars) those Mullahs (clergy),
and those political leaders are playing this game of
power,
otherwise Om and Saat Saon Chiyaasi(786) have coexisted in India for centuries.
India
Mullahs
Om
Pundits
Ravinder Jain
Saat Saon Chiyaasi
Sher
clergy
coexisted
leaders
poem
political
power
scholars

DK: We Indians..
Prisoners: We Indians...
DK: ...keep our respective Gods as witness...
Prisoners: ...keep our respective Gods as witness...
DK: ...take this oath...
Prisoners: ...take this oath...
DK: ... that from today...
Prisoners: ... that from today...
DK: ... each step of ours...
Prisoners: ... each step of ours...
DK: ...inspite of our caste,creed and religion...
Prisoners: ...inspite of our caste,creed and religion...
DK: ... will be for the good and betterment of our country and of humankind...
Prisoners: ... will be for the good and betterment of our country and of humankind...
DK: Jai Hind (Long live India)
Prisoners: Jai Hind (Long live India)
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091328/Karma
Scene from the movie Karma in which Dilip Kumar leads the prisoners in an oath of patriotic fervor.
God
Indians
Jai Hind
Karma
betterment
caste
clip
country
creed
humankind
long live India
movie
oath
religion
scene
secular

Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091328/Karma
Man on top a tower sings.
VO: He wont ask you your cast,creed or religion,
God will only ask you " man what were your deeds".
God
Karma
cast
clip
creed
deeds
movie
religion
scene

NT: All our deeds will be for you my country... (x2)
We've given our hearts to you and will give our lives too for you, my country...(x2)
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Nutan leads the prisoners in singing a patriotic song, on the occasion of the Independence Day.
Karma
clip
country
deeds
hearts
lives
movie
scene
song
song

Prisoners: All our deeds will be for you my country... (x2)
We've given our hearts to you and will give our lives too for you, my country...(x2)
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091328/Karma
Prisoners follow Nutan's lead in singing the song. And a little girl in a green ghagra (skirt) choli (top) dances to the music.
Karma
clip
country
deeds
hearts
lives
movie
scene
song

NT: You are my karma and my religion,
your are my pride.
Prisoners: My country, my beloved I'll sacrifice my life for you. (x2)
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Nutan and the prisoners sing a patriotic song.
Karma
beloved
clip
country
karma
life
movie
religion
sacrifice
scene
song

PM: We will live and die for you, my country.
PM2: We've given our hearts to you and will give our lives too for you, my country...(x2)
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091328/Karma
One of Nutan's son in the movie accompanies her in singing, while the other plays a musical instrument.
Karma
clip
country
die
hearts
life
lives
movie
scene
song

DK: Hindu,Muslim,Sikh,Christians we are all one nation and one name.
Prisoners: Hindu,Muslim,Sikh,Christians we are all one nation and one name.
DK:That which separates them is not religion but a curse.
Prisoner: We will live and die for you, my country. (x2)
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The prisoners sing and dance on the occasion of Holi.
Christians
Hindu
Karma
Muslim
Sikh
clip
country
movie
one nation
religion
scene
song

Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264210/Zor
Sunny Deol tries to make Milind Gunaji realize how a couple of devious politicians and leaders are using religion to divide the country for their personal gains.
SD: Which religion teaches one to hate eachother or to create walls between men,to kill people from other religions.Go ask any hardworking person or a laborer, he is not concerned about any temple or mosque, he just wants to make a living. Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christians none of them want to kill or die. Some people are making us fight eachother for their own benefit, apni roti sekne ke liye dusron ki lashey jala rahein hain (they are baking their bread on the funeral pyres of others), can't you understand this. When an educated person like you can get caught in their trap, what will happen to our country?
Zor
benefit
bread
caught
country
create
eachother
educated
fight
funeral pyre
hatred
living
mosque
movie
religion
scene
teach
temple
trap
walls

SD: Satyanand has called me here. Who has sent you? Satyanand? or Shah Aalam? What this means is they both have different names but one objective, the destruction of this country. They want to handicap India by feeding us the opium of religion. We are just puppets in their hands. We're pointing guns at eachother in the name of religion, caste and language. I wont let this continue. We'll have to fight another war of independence.We'll have to protect our country from the Satyanands and the Shah Aalams of the world. We'll have to make our people realize their own unity ,strength and power. And you will accompany me.
India
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264210/Zor
Sunny Deol convinces Milind Gunaji of the evil intentions that some religious and political leaders and how they are using religion to control the masses.
Zor
caste
clip
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destruction
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fight
guns
handicap
independence
language
movie
movie
names
objective
opium
people
power
puppets
religion
religion
scene
strength
unity
war

MNS: I think there are two big challenges facing our country today, the first challenge is our rapidly increasing population, and the second challenge is communalism. This problem of communalism going on in our country today, is almost like this era of communalist madness that has started. It is very important to stop this, we felt this need and that's why we celebrated the communal harmony week with the Mohalla Committee and Tata Institute of Social Sciences. We got a good response from many people and we felt that the population of Mumbai city, it's residents, want peace and harmony to reign here. They don't want any kind of communal riots to take place. Because the residents of Mumbai city had experienced the riots of 1992-93, and those memories are still fresh in their minds. We sensed the restlessness in the minds of the people here and thats why we celebrated the communal harmony week, and we got a very good response.
1992-93
M.N. Singh
Mohalla Committee
Mumbai
TISS
challenges
communal
communalism
country
harmony week
madness
memories
population
residents
riots

MNS: According to me communal disharmony or communalism can prove to be very dangerous for the unity of our country. History is witness to the fact that this was the reason why our country was divided. Today, again the mentality of people is going in that direction.I think it is very important to stop this.Fortunately whenever situations like this arose in Mumbai, the people supported the police and police took necessary actions to stop it.Today Mumbai is peaceful and devoid of any kind of communal problems. The whole country is praising this. If peace can be sustained in Mumbai then it can be sustained in other parts of the country also.
M.N. Singh
Mumbai
communal
communalism
country
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divided
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peace
peaceful
people
police
supported
unity
witness

MNS: I would like to make an appeal to the people to recognize this danger,forget personal fights and to live in in peace as brothers.The progress of the nation and the good of men depends on this. Jai Hind (Long live India).
M.N. Singh
appeal
brothers
danger
fights
forget
good
live
men
nation
peace
people
progress
recognize

SS: A handful of antisocial people are weakening the country by, inciting the Hindus and Muslims against eachother on religious grounds and by burning national property. They are causing harm themselves.We can only pray for these people, may God grant them knowledge.
Hindu, Muslim,Christians and Sikhs were brothers,
they used to love each other and risk their lives for each other.
Why have they become thirsty for each other's blood,
whose evil eye has done this to Hindustan(India).
Christians
Hindus
India
Muslim
Shaikh Salauddin
Sikhs
against
antisocial
blood
country
evil
eye
handful
harm
inciting
lives
love
people
pray
religious grounds
risk
thirsty
weakening

AS: No!
Scene Change
Brothers please stop! In the name of God stop.I beg you to spare them.
Scene Change
Man From Mob: Wait! Where are you running! I will not spare you today.I won't let you live! I'll kill you.
MIW: Stop! I said stop!
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112553/Bumbai
Riot scene, where a eunuch tries to stop an infuriated mob from killing a man.A group of sword bearing men wearing skull caps, chase after a man to kill him, and an elderly man dressed in white tells them to stop.
Bombay
God
clip
kill
mob
movie
riot
scene
scene
stop

AS: Go away!Leave!Stop all this! Enough
WM: I beg you to leave. These are all Baal bachhe Wale (married people with children).In the name of your God please leave.
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A group of men in orange head scarves pour kerosene on a Muslim family to burn them, they are stopped by Arwind Swamy. A begs a riot mob to leave in the name of God.
Bombay
God
beg
clip
leave
movie
riot
scene
stop

MO: Enough! Enough!Enough! In the name of God please stop this blood shedding. It is enough!
Scene changes.
AS: Enough!You've killed enough people.The whole city is on fire.
MOB: Burn him.
AS: Yes burn me.Burn me! Burn me!
Scene changes.
LB: Stop!Stop!
Scene changes.
I wont let you pass!
Scene changes.
AS: Some people are making a fool out of you and you are hell bent on killing each other. These politicians are taking advantage of you to sustain their power. Thugs are robbing people in your name. The big people are taking advantage of you and misguiding you. Go and kill them first and then come here.
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112553/Bumbai
Arwind Swamy stops the saffron mob from burning a Muslim family and later tries to make them realize that a couple of politicians are taking advantage of them by instigating them in the name of religion. A lady in a black burkha screams at a Muslim mob asking them to stop.
Bombay
God
advantage
bloodshed
burn
city
enough
fire
fooling
killing
misguiding
movie scene
people
politicians
riots
robbing
scene
stop

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A few scenes of individuals trying to dissuade the mob from killing people.
WB: Throw down your weapons! I say throw down your weapons! Throw them!Throw them away! Throw them!
Scene changes.
MM: You are also a Muslim, Kill him! Kill him!
MW: No!
Scene changes.
MS: First let's burn this fool.
AS: Yes burn me. Burn me!
MK: NO, what are you doing Shekhar.Shekhar!
AS: Burn me! Burn me! Why don't you burn me.
Scene changes.
Kill me! Kill me! Go away from here!
Scene changes.
AS: Burn me!Come!You're not going to burn me.
Scene changes.
LB: This is my child.Mine!This is my sister! My sister.
Bombay
Muslim
burn
kill
mob
movie clip
riots
scene
throw
weapons

AS: Burn!Burn!Burn!
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Arwind Swami screams in anger asking the mob to burn him. Scene of the mob throwing their weapons away.
Bombay
movie clip
riots
scene

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Scene of riots ending and Manisha Koirala and Arwind Swamy reuniting with their kids.
VO: Give us enough strength O God,
that our faith doesn't weaken.
We walk on the path of righteousness,
and not make a mistake even by mistake.

Give us enough strength O God,
that our faith doesn't weaken.
We walk on the path of righteousness,
and not make a mistake even by mistake.

Give us enough strength O God,
that our faith doesn't weaken.
Ankush
Bombay
God
clip
faith
movie
path
righteousness
riots
scene
strength
walk
weaken

Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112553/Bumbai
Scene from Bombay where Manisha Koirala and Arwind Swamy are reuniting with their kids. The send scene is from Ankush.
Voiceover: May the darkness of ignorance go away,
please give us the light of knowledge.
That we stay away from all evil,
however long a life you grant us let it be a life of goodness.

No one should hate another,
nor should there be vengeful feelings in our minds.
That we walk on a path of righteousness,
and not make a mistake even by mistake.

Give us enough strength O God,
that our faith doesn't weaken.
Ankush
Bombay
God
darkness
evil
faith
goodness
hate
ignorance
knowledge
life
light
mistake
movie clip
path
righteousness
scene
song
strength
vengeful

VO:We must not think, about what we've received
but about what we've offered.
We must distributed flowers of happiness to everyone,
so that everyones life becomes a garden.
Let the waters of your mercy flow
and purify each corner of our minds.

That we walk on a path of righteousness,
and not make a mistake even by mistake.
Give us enough strength O God,
that our faith doesn't weaken.
Ankush
God
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157316/Ankush
Scene from Ankush in which a hymn with a message of hope is being sung.
hymn
mercy
movie
song

SKS: Communal riots have done a lot of damage to this country. If you remember our
country faced the partition also because of communalism. It is our duty to root out this disease.How do we remove this? According to me there is just one solution to this, that we keep our coming generation from any kind of communalism. To achieve tis we'll have to pay attention to education. When we send our children to study, they don't have any information about religion, by religion I mean organized religion.Whatever information they have about it, they receive that at home.It is important that we educate children, and give them good and correct information, about other religions in schools.This will give birth to a feeling of tolerance in their minds and that tolerance will stay will them even when they grow up. According to me this is the only way to remove communalism, I don't see another way.
Satish Kumar Sahni
children
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damage
disease
duty
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generation
inform
other religions
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riots
root out
schools
solution
tolerance

DK: Why don't any of you say anything? I'm I wrong? Don't you believe me? I've been staying in this Basti (settlement) I've seen lots of fights here, fights between mothers in law and daughters in law.I've seen brothers fight each other, I've seen you grown ups fight because of your kids.But I've never seen anyone fight in the name of religion. Suddenly today where has this division of Hindu and Muslim come from.Why don't you understand that the people who set fire to our Basti were neither Hindu nor Muslim.They were the thugs of a couple of gaddar (traitor) politicians.
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110280/Krantiveer
Scene from Krantiveer in which Dimple Kapadia is addressing the dwellers of a settlement whose houses were set on fire.
Basti
Hindu
Krantiveer
Muslim
division
movie clip
political leaders
scene
thugs
traitors

DK: All these politicians want that we develop a hatred based on religion, that in the name of religion we kill each other and shed blood.So that they can sit and enjoy the spectacle.We won't let this happen.
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110280/Krantiveer
Dimple Kapadia addresses the crowd.
Krantiveer
enjoy
hatred
kill
movie clip
politicians
religion
scene
slap
spectacle
violence

Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110280/Krantiveer
WV: Stop lecturing! You want to know the reality.Come!Come with me.Look at this, this is reality.These are my innocent children ask them who killed my wife. Ask them who killed their mother.Ask? Speak beta (child),speak who has killed your mother?
Kids: Hindu has killed!
WV: Did you hear that.
Dimple Kapadia
Hindu
Krantiveer
child
killed
movie clip
reality
religion
scene
violence

NP: Tell me something who told these innocents about Hindu and Muslim? You did!They can't even tell their own names , who told them about their mother's killer and his religion? You did! Look Ismael, you are planting the seed of enmity in the hearts of these innocents.You want to know the reality right? Come here! Who's this?
WV: Kalyan Ji.
NP: Kalyan Ji Bhai (brother). He's a Hindu. Who's this?
WV: Ganga Bhabhi (sister in law).
NP: Ganga Bhabhi.Who's taking care of your kids?
WV: Ganga Bhabhi
NP: Ganga Bhabhi She's a Hindu. Why didn't you kill them.
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110280/Krantiveer
Nana Patekar admonishes a man for teaching his kids about hatred and communal difference.
Hindu
Krantiveer
Muslim
brother
children
enmity
hatred
hearts
innocents
killer
movie clip
religion
scene

NP: Here, this is a Muslim's blood and this is a Hindu's blood.Tell me which one is Hindu's and which one is Muslim's?Tell me? Saale (cuss-word) the creator hasn't made us different who are you to create a difference. This kalam waali bai (writer woman) is telling the truth, but the harsh truth she is telling will not effect your minds.Who killed who? Who burnt who? Till yesterday we were taking part in each others festivals, ans sharing our joys and sorrows with each other.You used to carry the Ganpati (idol of Lord Ganesha) on your head into the water and dance, why?
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110280/Krantiveer
Scene from Krantiveer, starring Nana Patekar.
Hindu
Krantiveer
Muslim
Nana Patekar
blood
burnt
communal harmony
creator
crush
difference
finger
joys
killed
movie clip
scene
share
sorrows
truth
violence

NP:__________ Who taught me the Durood Sharif? Because of the conspiracy of those traitors you want to bury our brotherhood.
WV: Forgive me Partap, I had gone astray.
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110280/Krantiveer
Scene from Krantiveer, starring Nana Patekar.
Durood Sharif
Krantiveer
communal harmony
conspiracy
movie clip
scene
taught
traitors

NP: Wow look at them, they've come here to sympathize. They've brought along the the news reporters and the Press so that their photo is printed on the front page tomorrow.They donate two drops of blood but create such a hype about it in the newspapers as if they've spilled rivers of blood for the poor. These butchers can sell their own sisters and daughters for political power.
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110280/Krantiveer
Scene from Krantiveer, starring Nana Patekar.
Krantiveer
Nana Patekar
blood
daughters
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hype
movie clip
newspapers
photo
political
politicians
poor
power
press
reporters
scene
sell
sisters
sympathy

PO: That's ok. Everything is fine.
NP: Don't take your impure steps towards us, we'll break your legs and hang it around your neck. Today you've tried to kill Ram and Allah. But remember this, we might call God by different names but our religion is one, humanity. Hypocrites like you cannot spread the poison of hatred in the name of religion, among us.
Allah
God
Krantiveer
Ram
Related Links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110280/Krantiveer
Scene from Krantiveer, starring Nana Patekar.
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Geeta
Quran
RJ: Friends, some people believe that the riots that are going on have got something to do with temples and mosques. About temples and mosques I'd just like to say that: This is not a fight for Ram or Rehman,
this fight is not for Geeta or Quran.
Temples and mosques are both made of bricks,
we are just fighting for a house of bricks.
Ram
Rehman
believe
bricks
fighting
house
mosques
people
poem
riots
temples

A couple of lines are coming to my mind,I'm just saying whatever is coming to my mind, nothing is preplanned.
Characters like Sri Ram, Muhammad,Nanak and Christ don't exist anymore, (x2)
their followers are not holy like them anymore.
Images of love in the hearts of people have been replaced by blood,
Hindus,Muslims,Sikhs and Christians are not friends anymore.(x2)
Christ
Christians
Hindu
Muhammad
Muslim
Nanak
Ram
Sikh
anymore
blood
followers
love
not friends
not holy
poem
replaced

RJ: I'm singing a couple of lines:
Our country should not get divided on the basis of religion,
and mutual brotherhood should continue,
Caste and religion are unimportant in comparison with the country, (x2)
Our country which is dearer than life itself must remain safe.

Our country should not get divided on the basis of religion.
There are many aadmimen but few insaanhumans. (x2)
The human race is disappointed with itself. (x2)
H is for Hindu and M is for Muslim,
When H and M meet Hum (us or we) is formed. (x2)
Hindu
Muslim
brotherhood
caste
country
divided
humans
life
men
poem
religion
safe
unimportant

RJ: I hope that our minds cannot be easily manipulated, (x2)
I hope that our minds remain safe.
Our country should not get divided on the basis of religion,
and mutual brotherhood should continue.
Caste and religion are unimportant in comparison with the country, (x2)
Our country which is dearer than life itself must remain safe.
Our country should not get divided on the basis of religion.
communal
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dearer
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AB: Break the laathi sticks of hatred,
throw away the dagger of greed.
Don't run after stubbornness,
you are birds of love, nation lovers.
Nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers.
My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers.
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AB: Break the laathi sticks of hatred,
throw away the dagger of greed.
Don't run after stubbornness,
you are birds of love, nation lovers.
My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers.
My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers.
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AB: Don't mix poison in sweet water,
whenever you speak think before doing so.
Even a deep wound made by a bullet heals,
but wounds made by bitter speech are difficult to heal.
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AB: So speak sweet words.
Children: My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers. (x2)
My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers. (x2)
AB: Look this earth is our mother,
think about our relation to each other.
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AB: If we are busy fighting each other,
who will take care of our country.
Some outsider will come and
expel us from our country.
Come back to your senses please.
My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers.
My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers.
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AB: Break down these walls of
four different directions.
Don't stop the path of,
these joyous winds.
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AB: You people of the east, west, north and south,
what I mean is...
First ask this earth what it's,
religion and language is.
Then come and talk to me.
My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers.
My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers.
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Women: My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers. (x2)
My nation lovers, love each other, my nation lovers. (x2)
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LP: My, Kanhaiya wants to marry Laajo. Marriage is not a sin.
PT: It's a very big sin, if the boy is from another religion.You are a Muslim women, are you trying to fool the world by giving your child a Hindu name. Both of you are attempting to profane our religion.
LP: That's not true Choudhary, completely untrue. I might be a Muslim woman but my Kanhaiya is not Muslim. I've brought him up like my son, but I didn't change his religion.
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Scene from the movie Mela, starring Lalita Pawar,Sanjay Khan and Mumtaz.
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LP: Twenty years ago,I had found this child in the city on a crossroad. I was a widow, so I got him along with me.
PT: You've brought him up by your on hands, and then you claim that you didn't change his religion.I want to know how this boy is still a Hindu after, living with a Muslim woman for twenty years.
LP: You cannot convert people's religion by touching them Choudhary. Religion teaches people to love and that's the love I've given to this child. Hindu or Muslim, mothers are the same no matter what the religion. If I would have left this child to roam the streets helpless, I wonder what would have happened to him.
What wrong have I done by educating him and making him a good person.
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LP: If this is considered a crime in your society then punish me for it. Please don't be unfair to my child Choudhary, please don't be unfair.
RT: Till the time yiu are related to this boy, our society doesn't have any place for him. If you're concerned about his wellbeing go back to the city.
LP: If his wellbeing depends on this, then I'll return to the city. But I beg of you please don't take my son's happiness away. Choudhary, I beg you as a mother...Choudhary.
SK: What are you doing Ma (mother). Don't beg these people. None of them are humans, they are just rusted old minds. For centuries these people have butchered the desires of innocent hearts , in the name of religion and society.
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SK: Don't beg them for mercy.
RT: You should marry Laajo off as soon as possible.
OW: You all should blacken your faces, instead of talking of marrying Laajo off.Choudhary, it's better if you just throw your daughter down a well.
PT: Shut up, Bansi.
OW: Bansilal will have his say today. Understandable, that Kanhaiya's mother is a Muslim and your daughter a Hindu. But despite the fact that Billo and I are both Hindus you still don't approve of our relationship, because I'm a Baniya (Merchant caste) and Billo a Pundit (scholar caste). Shame on you!
PT: Stop talking nonsense.
OW: I'm not talking nonsense Choudhary sahaab, I'm trying to talk some sense into you. For how long are you going to keep making a big fuss over religion. In my colony,Pundit Ramdeen has a bitch and Maulvi (religious cleric) Imamuddin has a dog, they both feed them together. Yesterday the bitch gave birth to puppies, are those
pups Hindu or Muslim? Tell me!
RT: He's gone mad, give him two whacks and throw him out of the Panchayat (assembly of five wise and respected elders).
OW: Who are you to throw me out, I want to leave anyway.
Baniya
Hindu
Mela
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Pundit
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JFR: Despite the fact that our country has people from different religions and cultures we are all one, we are Hindustani (Indians). We all should walk together.But there are many political parties that use religion to keep the people divided. Our country's progress depends on the united efforts of everyone.
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JFR: It's a really bad thing, that some political parties use religion to garner votes or political power. There religious communities that have been staying in India for a very long time, they are not recent arrivals. For example the Parsi people, they came to our country 400 or 500 years back, and they have integrated beautifully with our culture.Similarly people from different religions came to our country. All religions are good, we can't say one is better than the other. Every religion teaches you to differentiate between good and bad.And all men and women should believe in the good teachings of the religions. If this happens our country can progress together.
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SD: They are using the weapon of religion to hunt us Dharam aur mazhab ke machan pe chadkar ye shikar kar rahein hain hamara. They are trying to convert the color of human blood into different colors. And they are being helped by these sycophantic politicians, who have no place in the hearts of people but have their names written in the cuss words of middle men and the red diaries of lawyers. People don't even have a roof over their heads but, even their bathrooms are air conditioned. People don't even have food to eat but, their families make trips abroad to take walks. Politicians,religious leaders and the mafia are stuck to our country like leeches. They've made Hindustan (India) hollow. They are responsible for all the riots that happened from 1947 to 97.
Scene from a movie starring Sunny Deol.
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SD: They are behind all the assassinations from Gandhi to Gandhi.These are the people who have sown fields of guns from Punjab to Kashmir. These are the people responsible for fights based on temples and mosques.Do you know why, your honor, because they know that in this country justice works at the pace of a tortoise. Committees are made, investigative commissions are formed and when the reports come after five-ten years, they are locked away in some file. And these people will continue with this trade of death.
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SD: There are different countries for every religion in the world, there are Muslim States, Hindu States and Christian States. The only country whose heart has a place for all religions is Hindustan (India). A day will come when our country will cease to exist in the map of the world, because of the way these people are dividing our hearts and cutting our country into pieces. It will cease to exist.
Christian
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Muslim
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AS: The fragrances and winds of all religions have always come and gone in my life. I read in the Quran that when we praise God and say ________, even the Riga Veda says Ekam sat, vipara bahuda vadanti. Whichever religion I looked into I found this message that all religions are one.
Whether you say Ram and he says Rahim, You are referring to the same God.
Whether you read The Geeta or the Quran, You are reading the same thing.
When all religions have been given by one Bhagwan (God), one Khuda (God) and one God, they are just different paths to reach the same destination, then what is the point of fighting amongst each other. Alright, the paths might differ but the destination is common, right.
Ameen Sayani
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Khuda
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AS: he unity of all religions is deeply embedded in my life, it is the basis of my life. And so I question why these problems,terror,violence and riots take place. And then one understands that the person who starts the first fire or gets it started by someone else, and the person who attacks first or gets the attack made by someone else, he is neither a Hindu nor a Muslim, he doesn't have any religion he is an infidel. Because no religion teaches you to kill or murder innocent people or to start fights or riots. So brothers and sisters if all of us come together to think about the person who starts the fight or the fire,first, and try to find out who he is. We should catch him,surround him and make him understand that for his profit he is depriving other people.That to satisfy his lust he is looting peoples homes and lives. What sort of a thing is this.
Ameen Sayani
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AS: You need to make him understand, that if he continues to do what he is doing, the problems here will persist but you will benefit from it only temporarily. Tomorrow this violence and fire will kill you too. Your family will also not be spared from this fire. So brother please come on the right track. God has given you so much, he's given you nice things,so we should keep this wonderful world of ours with care and love. We should stay together in harmony and help each other out and progress together. If we want only ourselves to progress and gain and the others to stay behind and keep loosing, no one will gain from that. No one will be able to progress and the world will get destroyed.
Ameen Sayani
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AR: Namaste Pandit Ji. Salaam Mullah Ji. I'll take one drag from the hukkah (smoking pipe) and then go buy milk for you. Can you turn the mouth of the hukkah this side.
ML: Forgive me Abdul Chaacha (uncle) but the biradari (brotherhood) has ostracized you.
AR: The biradari (brotherhood) has ostracized me. What sin have I committed.
MC: You've given shelter to the sin of another.
MC2: And now you're bringing up that sin.
ML: This child is your sin.
AR: This delicate child is my sin.
MC: Yes.
AR: Are you listening to this Pundit ji.I committed a sin by picking him up off the road. Is it a sin that I'm bringing him up believing that this child is God's amaanat (something that belongs to God and not to Man and which will be taken away at some unspecified time).
PJ: Abdul Chaacha, panch parmeshwar hote hain ( elders of the community are like God), whether they are Hindu or Muslim.
ML: And their decision is the decision of God.
Others: Absolutely.
AR: Such elders and their decision can go to hell.
MC: Abdul Chaacha this is the voice of all the Hindus and Muslims of the colony.
AR: Shame on such Hindus and Muslims who consider it a sin to take care of a human child.
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AR: Why Mullah JI, it is legal to raise a dog? Why Pundit Ji it's legal to raise a cat? It is legal to raise these parrots and quail but it is illegal to raise a human child? You can raise a kitten, a pup, an animal but not a human child. So this is your religion?
ML: Abdul Chaacha (uncle)! you are disrespecting religion.
AR: Mullah Ji, Not me but you are killing humanity under the guise of religion. Whoever he may be he is a human, and it is the duty of all humans and all religions, to protect humans.__________ that Muslim is not a Muslim and that Hindu is not a Hindu.
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AR: You wont become a Hindu or a Muslim,
you are the child of humanity and will become a human. (x2)
It's good that you haven't been named as yet,
you don't have anything to do with any religion as yet.
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AR: It's good that you haven't been named as yet,
you don't have anything to do with any religion as yet.
The knowledge which has divided humans,
you are blameless of that knowledge.
You will become the identity of changed times,
you are the child of humanity and will become a human.
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AR: You wont become a Hindu or a Muslim,
you are the child of humanity and will become a human. (x2)
God has made humans, human
we have made them Hindus or Muslims. (x2)
Nature had given us just one earth,
we divided it into Bharat (India) and Iran.
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You wont become a Hindu or a Muslim,
you are the child of humanity and will become a human. (x2)
The religion that teaches hatred is not yours,
the step that crushes humans is not yours. (x2)
That which doesn't have your temple is not Quran,
and that which doesn't have your haram (Islamic holy site).
You will become the message of peace,
you are the child of humanity and will become a human.
You wont become a Hindu or a Muslim,
you are the child of humanity and will become a human.
Dhool Ka Phool
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RJ: Who can a man trust today,
men have become killers of men. (x2)
Everyone came unmarked from God's home, (x2)
later they become Hindu and Muslim. (x2)
They are appeased after burning their neighbor's home,
men don't just burn men like that. (x2)
Everyone has the same joys and sorrows,
and all are one life. (x2)
If they understand this,
then men will not kill another.
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RJ: If they understand this,
then men will not kill another.
Who can a man trust today,
men have become enemies of men.
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RJ: I'm presenting a couple of lines that have come to my mind:
Where will we go after breaking 2000 years old relations, (x2)
where will we go after abandoning the land where we were born.
Where will we go after turning away from the confluence of Ram and Rehman,
We will live here itself, together in harmony,
We all will live here itself, together in harmony.
Where will the 14 crore (140 million) go. (x2)
2000 years
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RJ: And in the end I would like to make a small request:
Don't rub ash on the dignity of your motherland, (x2)
this is your country live here fearlessly.
Be the pride of your country,
be the naak (pride) of your country.
Let Pak remain in it's place,
you be pure while staying in hind (India).
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Voiceover: God it shouldn't take long for this situation to change,
this darkness that we've seen shouldn't happen again o God.
We can't see this atmosphere of destructions,
the people suffering in this destroyed world.
Arvind Swami
Bombay
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VO: We can't see this atmosphere of destructions,
the people suffering in this destroyed world.
Scene Change
VO:Your name is Allah,
your name is Ishwar.
Please grant sanmati (good sense) to everyone O God. (x2)
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VO: Your name is Allah,
your name is Ishwar.
Please grant sanmati good sense to everyone O God. (x2)
Don't let the vermilion be wiped away from our foreheads, (x2)
don't let the hope of mothers and sisters be broken. (x2)
Don't let souls separate from bodies.
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VO: Please grant sanmati good sense to everyone O God.
Your name is Allah.
O protector of the whole world, (x2)
the provider of strength to the weak. (x2)
Grant knowledge to the strong. (x2)
Please grant sanmati good sense to everyone O God.
Your name is Allah.
Your name is Ishwar. (x3)
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