SOT: Monk - Scene 3 Worm's Karma: MNK 9480
Director: Anand Gandhi; Cinematographer: Pankaj Kumar
Duration: 00:01:34; Aspect Ratio: 1.778:1; Hue: 27.931; Saturation: 0.072; Lightness: 0.341; Volume: 0.099; Cuts per Minute: 4.436; Words per Minute: 151.456
Summary: Chapter 2: Monk
Scene: USED
Scene 3: Worm's Karma
Characters: Maitreya, Charvaka
Shot Description:
Maitreya and Charvaka talk about the worm's life
Highcourt
Maitreya and Charvaka talk about the worm's life
YOUNG LAWYER
Now that you have saved its life, will you also give it a proper upbringing and a good education? What if it was the worm's karma to just lie there and get crushed?
MAITREYA
Well, is it lying there getting crushed? So, perhaps, it wasn't.
YOUNG LAWYER
Or worse, the worm was trying to commit suicide and you've put it in the pot, and now it has to crawl it’s way back to nirvana.
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YOUNG LAWYER
Charvaka.
Maitreya
Really? Your parents named you that?
Charvaka
No. My parents named me Madhava after the great theologist, Madhavacharya.
But I decided to switch sides at the age of fourteen.
Maitreya laughs.
Yeah, I do believe in our case, but I am here, uh, to learn to win an argument from both sides.
A call rings out in the distance.
Ok, we got to go.
Maitreya and Charvaka get up and make their way to the court room.
Maitreya
We are all blind men trying to perceive the elephant.
Charvaka
How are you blind? You're just wearing glasses.
MAITREYA
Really? Your parents named you that?
CHARVAKA
No.
My parents named me Madhava after the great theologist, Madhavacharya. But I decided to switch sides at the age of fourteen.
Yeah, I do believe in our case, but I am here, uh, to learn to win an argument from both sides.
MAITREYA
To show how futile it is to argue?
CHARVAKA
Not necessarily. To see that there can be truth in both cases.
MAITREYA
We are all blind men trying to perceive the elephant.
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