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00:30Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
01:00Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
01:10Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
01:20Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
01:30Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
01:40Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
01:50Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
02:00Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
02:10Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
02:20Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
02:30Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
02:40Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
02:50Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
03:00Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
03:10Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
03:20Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
03:30Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
03:40Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
03:50Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
04:00Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
04:10Marui, a girl who was born in the beautiful desert of Sindh in the year 1300 A.D.
04:20Marui, you are here? You didn't leave? Why? Did you change your decision?
04:45Do I have the right to make a decision? This is the real fight.
04:53Amma, I think I am too educated.
05:01Maybe I should accept you.
05:04What should I do?
05:11Even if you want to make a decision, isn't Chachi at home?
05:34Chachi?
05:58Kid?
05:59Hmm?
06:02You have left your studies incomplete and have become a truck driver.
06:09Does your life just stop here?
06:12Yes, it does.
06:16What else?
06:21If Hari's son becomes a sir, he will be able to become a player.
06:30That's it?
06:34Nothing else?
06:36This is my fate.
06:43My father?
06:47My father died after listening to Vadera's abuses.
06:56And I?
06:59And I will die the day I get tired of being humiliated by sir in the office.
07:25Marui, you are still awake?
07:49Yes, Papa. I couldn't sleep.
07:52I was worried.
07:54Are you worried?
07:57No, Papa.
07:59Sit.
08:07Did you hear what your mother said?
08:12Babla Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai says,
08:17If a fool dies of thirst on the surface of water,
08:23this is what will happen to your mother.
08:29Don't you have any advice, Papa?
08:32What does your mother say to me?
08:36She says, you are crazy.
08:39Do you know why she says that?
08:44Because I dream the same dreams that people dream for their sons.
08:58I dream the same dreams for my daughter.
09:03You just dream for your daughter?
09:07Son, not everyone dreams.
09:11Some people are lucky.
09:17When I was young, my father used to take me to Vadera.
09:27Vadera used to scold my father.
09:32He used to insult him.
09:37And I used to dream that when I grow up, I will become a police officer.
09:45I will take Vadera to the police station and beat him up.
09:51But when I grew up, I became a primary school teacher.
09:59Vadera is still on the 4th floor.
10:03I am still on the ground.
10:06Now, I dream that in front of the world, in front of Vadera's children,
10:25he should sit on the chair above him.
10:30He should never sit on the ground in front of anyone.
10:37He should never bow down in front of the slaves.
10:41Take this pen.
10:43Write it down.
10:45I will drop you in the car at 2 o'clock tomorrow.
11:10I can't forget you from the bottom of my heart.
11:16The roots are bound in life, like the thread of iron.
11:29The one who has countless desires in his heart.
11:41The one who has countless desires in his heart.
12:11Is the B block still far?
12:14Here, this is also one.
12:17This is the B block.
12:19Are you tired?
12:21Shall I pick up the box?
12:23No, thank you.
12:25It's your wish.
12:27By the way, what was the room number?
12:30105
12:35Yes, this is it.
12:37Come.
12:41Oh yeah!
12:48Take this.
12:50This is room number 105.
13:03Is there any more left here?
13:06Yes.
13:08Be careful.
13:11I will tell you.
13:13Girl!
13:15Not a girl, but an old woman.
13:18Not just me.
13:20She has made my life hell.
13:24I say.
13:26Wait for a day or two.
13:28Ask the elder one to change the room number.
13:32Now you speak the truth, brother.
13:35She will tell me the room number, aunty.
13:38I have also said.
13:39I have also said.
13:42Now see.
13:44Don't talk to this colourful aunty.
13:47I am also not a bad person.
13:50I am also respectful.
13:52If you want to say.
13:54Then call me aunt.
13:56Call me aunt.
13:58Call me aunty.
14:00Oh no!
14:02That girl.
14:04The girl is a different kind.
14:05Okay.
14:07I am leaving.
14:09If you need anything.
14:11Then don't trouble.
14:13This is not a hostel.
14:15This is my house.
14:17I am also everything here.
14:19Okay, I am leaving.
15:05What?
15:31Hello.
15:32Hello.
15:34Hello.
15:36Madam had warned me yesterday that now your freedom is over.
15:42Roommate is about to come.
15:44I was thinking that the roommate must be on the way.
15:47So let me enjoy a few moments of my freedom.
15:50By the way, you didn't tell me your name.
15:54When did you ask?
15:56I can't work with you.
15:58And anyway, my grammar is very weak.
16:00And I have a tendency to get beaten up.
16:04So what was your name?
16:07Thank you. I don't eat chewing gum.
16:10And I haven't told you my name yet.
16:14You haven't told me your name yet?
16:20At least tell me.
16:22Sorry, I talk too much.
16:25No, nothing special.
16:27My name is Marui.
16:30I have come from a small village in Tharparkar district.
16:33I have done my B.A. there.
16:36And now I have come here to do my Master's in Journalism.
16:40And I am Laila.
16:42Nothing else.
16:44I think.
16:46What?
16:48No, nothing.
16:50This might be yours.
16:52Oh, sorry.
16:54Drenched towel.
16:56It's just that my habits are spoilt.
16:59Otherwise, there is nothing else.
17:01I am ashamed of my bad habits.
17:04That's why three of my roommates have left this room before you.
17:11But don't take this decision so soon.
17:15Please.
17:17It's true.
17:19At night, this room feels like a deserted mansion in solitude.
17:25In which many ghosts live with me.
17:28Do ghosts have so much courage?
17:34Laila, where is your deserted beauty?
17:38That beautiful girl.
17:40That useless beauty.
17:42Don't talk nonsense.
17:44She is better than all of you.
17:46How is she?
17:48She must be wearing a traditional dress.
17:51And she must be wearing white bangles.
17:55And her silver jewelry.
17:58And she must be singing.
18:09Where are you?
18:11Where are you?
18:13I am here.
18:15I am applying nail polish on Laila's bed.
18:18That's it.
18:20Very good.
18:22That's because I am tolerating you.
18:26Come, Marvi.
18:28Come.
18:30We were waiting for you.
18:34You sit.
18:36She will sit.
18:38She won't lie down.
18:40Stop this nonsense.
18:42Learn to behave with guests.
18:45Come, Marvi.
18:46Why are you sitting there?
18:48All of them have run away from the asylum.
18:51Yes.
18:53She is the only nurse there.
18:55If any of you say anything, I will behead her.
18:59She will behead you.
19:04Marvi.
19:06This is Mona.
19:08This is Shubhi.
19:10This is Shiri.
19:12And this is Huma.
19:14Hello.
19:16Even the devil asks for shelter from this girl.
19:20No.
19:22I feel very good sitting among all of you.
19:25It's been three years since I have been to the university.
19:28I haven't met a single guy.
19:30This is a university, not a marriage bureau.
19:33You should study here.
19:35Whether we do M.A. or Ph.D.
19:39We have to go to Piya's house.
19:41We have to take care of Piya's children.
19:43And cook food.
19:45Why, Marvi?
19:48I don't know.
19:50I have come here with some other dream.
19:53In search of a new destination.
19:55In search of a new system.
19:58All of you should drown.
20:01Learn a lesson from her.
20:05Hello.
20:07Yes, mummy.
20:09How are you?
20:12I am absolutely fine.
20:15What?
20:17I can't hear you. Speak a little louder.
20:21For God's sake.
20:23Keep quiet for some time.
20:25Silence costs money.
20:27I will give you money.
20:29What?
20:31I wasn't talking to you.
20:33What?
20:35Had Ada called?
20:37What?
20:39When is Ada coming?
20:41Next month?
20:42Long live.
20:44Leave my hand.
20:46No, mummy.
20:48I can't come home right now.
20:50I get bored in your house.
20:52Yes.
20:54And yes.
20:56I have found a very good roommate.
20:58What?
21:01How long will you tolerate me?
21:03She will stay here all her life.
21:06Yes.
21:08Yes, I will bring her with me someday.
21:10Leave my hand.
21:12Yes.
21:14Okay.
21:16Okay, bye.
21:18Let's go, Marvi.
21:20Let's go.
21:22Where are we going now?
21:24To hell.
21:26To enjoy.
21:28We will have a cold drink there.
21:30You won't get a cold drink in hell.
21:32You will get a cold drink there.
21:34Let's go.
21:43Let's fly in the air.
21:45My black dupatta is from Malmal.
21:47My black dupatta is from Malmal.
21:49Yes, yes.
21:51Not from Malmal.
21:53From Georgia.
21:56Laila, let's go somewhere else.
21:58I don't like it here.
22:00Sit quietly.
22:02Learn to enjoy life.
22:05You won't get anything if you boycott life.
22:07You won't get anything if you boycott life.
22:09And a person doesn't just need a MA Journalism degree, right?
22:13To stay alive, you have to do a diploma on the subject of life, sweetheart.
22:17Drink it.
22:19Very good.
22:21I am sorry, Laila.
22:23I didn't come here to enjoy life.
22:26I came here to get life.
22:28Please.
22:30Let's go somewhere else.
22:32Please sit quietly.
22:34He is a fool.
22:35This is what he does.
22:37And right now, you have come with me just to have a cold drink.
22:42Don't waste my poor father's money.
22:45Please.
22:46Come on, drink it.
22:47Very good. Drink it.
22:49That's the spirit.
23:05Wow.
23:33Please sit.
23:35You came?
23:36Yes.
23:42Just a minute.
23:48So...
23:50Did you talk to Laila today?
23:53Yes.
23:55Did she tell you that Umar is coming?
23:57Yes, she told me.
23:59She is still not satisfied with the hostel.
24:03She is a strange girl.
24:06By the way, I have something to say.
24:08Your daughter is very different from you.
24:11You are the one who has spoiled her.
24:14Ali Nawaz, it is not good to be so lenient with your daughters.
24:18No, no, no.
24:20Look, what I am saying is that give up one hand of your daughters.
24:24That's it. That's enough.
24:26Then she won't go anywhere beyond that.
24:29Okay. As you say.
24:36Bakshu, get me some coffee.
24:39Listen.
24:41One for me.
24:42Yes, sir. For you.
24:46So, what were you saying?
24:48I wasn't saying anything.
24:50But I get very tired of all this.
24:56The thing is that we have become old.
24:59Yes.
25:01Me too. And you too.
25:03No. Not now.
25:06Okay.
25:08Let's go.
25:11I am thinking that I should go to London in March.
25:16Okay, okay.
25:18I have to get a feeling in my teeth.
25:20I will get my eyes tested.
25:22Then I will do some shopping.
25:26Yes. This was the real thing, sir.
25:29Whatever you say.
25:31But I won't go with you.
25:33I will go with my son.
25:34Because when I go with you,
25:36I start getting calls only after two days.
25:38It seems that no business of sugar mills can run without you.
25:42The entire landlord stops.
25:45Sir, I know this.
25:47When your son Umar comes,
25:49then where will you lift me?
25:52Our son is something else.
25:54And that too a son like Umar.
26:00Bakshu Baba.
26:02Yes.
26:03Keep these things.
26:05Madam will make it herself.
26:12So what have you been busy with all day?
26:15I am so tired today that I can't tell you.
26:20In God's presence,
26:22while distributing the sewing machines,
26:25my arms are completely numb.
26:27Oh.
26:29First of all, do this.
26:31This coffee is homemade.
26:33You were telling me about the sewing machines.
26:35It's a very good thing.
26:37Yes, there was so much filth there that I couldn't tell you.
26:42I forgot to take the mineral water with me.
26:46Please sit here.
26:48Okay.
26:50My throat was dry from here.
26:52And the women,
26:54they were breaking on the sewing machines in such a way
26:58that I couldn't tell you.
27:00No manners at all.
27:01I don't know how to behave at all.
27:04I don't understand this thing.
27:07What are you stuck in?
27:09Look, just attend these weddings.
27:12This is enough.
27:14As you say.
27:32Tch.
27:36Tch.
27:40Tch.
27:43Tch.
27:45What are you doing, Laila?
27:48It would have been better for me
27:50if I had found a non-alcoholic roommate.
27:54At least, I wouldn't have become a bookworm all the time.
27:58It would have been better if I had been deaf and dumb.
28:07What are you doing, Laila?
28:09My notes will get torn.
28:12They don't get torn.
28:14And they are made of paper.
28:16You don't have a heart.
28:18Consider this.
28:20Oh, Marvi.
28:22Sometimes, I feel like
28:24you are an old, dried-up well.
28:28An old soul.
28:30Doesn't the novelty of life
28:32attract you?
28:35You are right.
28:37I can't support you
28:39in these turbulent times of life, Laila.
28:43Because the small joys
28:45that you leave behind
28:47are like stars for us.
28:51They can't be counted.
28:52They can't be touched.
28:55Don't talk philosophy.
28:57I am not going to come in your form.
29:00I am telling the truth, Laila.
29:02I have come this far.
29:05These books that I have borrowed.
29:08The dream of a degree in MA Journalism.
29:13All of this feels like a dream.
29:17All of this feels like a dream.
29:23I have become a character
29:26in the story of Alif Laila for myself, Laila.
29:30Like a magical princess
29:34on a flying boat.
29:39What are you looking at?
29:41Marvi.
29:43Sometimes you say very strange things.
29:47Laila, you are one of those people
29:50who taste life with a gold spoon.
29:54That's why you find my words strange.
29:58I have tasted life with the fingers of this hand.
30:04By licking fingers?
30:06No.
30:08By filling water from the well.
30:09By licking the floor of the house.
30:13By blowing on wet wood.
30:17By cutting deeper branches than life
30:20in the light of a lantern.
30:27Oh my goodness, Marvi.
30:31Have you really lived such a life?
30:36Yes.
30:37Yes.
30:39Such a life.
30:46Look, Marvi.
30:48We are poor people.
30:51We sow seeds.
30:53Only then can we fill our stomachs.
30:56We hide our heads
30:59in the bushes of our land
31:02like insects.
31:03We live by eating
31:05only stale bread, chutney, and butter.
31:08We are trying to live.
31:12Don't forget your huts, your hunger,
31:15your poverty
31:17by going to the city
31:19and giving your wealth.
31:21Those who have forgotten their land,
31:24their soil,
31:26their lives are like
31:28unprofitable earnings.
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33:33I'll be alright
34:03I'll be alright
34:33Take off your shoes.
34:45Elders don't come home in their shoes.
34:47Come on, take it off.
34:49Come on.
35:03Come on, take it off.
35:19How did you come out today?
35:22What can I do?
35:25I've been thinking for a long time
35:27to touch your feet.
35:30But the stomach of the house is a well.
35:32No matter how much you work,
35:34it doesn't get filled.
35:37Didn't you stop Marvi from going to school?
35:40She's grown up now.
35:44Marvi, touch her feet.
35:47Come on, touch her feet.
35:51This is the result of teaching in school.
35:54Your seven generations
35:56ate our food.
35:59But your daughter
36:01won't do that.
36:05I swear on you,
36:08how can I not touch your feet?
36:11Come on, touch her feet.
36:14Come on.
36:15That's why I didn't teach my daughter
36:17in school.
36:21Your father has made you crazy.
36:24But I,
36:25I'll kill you.
36:28Come on.
36:29Hurry up.
36:30Touch her feet.
36:31Hurry up.
36:45Now go to sleep,
36:46my dear roommate.
36:49The night is for sleeping
36:51and the day is for waking up.
36:53And at night,
36:54fools wake up.
36:57You're still a good human being.
37:01Sorry.
37:13Babasaheb,
37:15the teacher is here.
37:22Assalamu alaikum.
37:32Hakim sahib,
37:33you reminded me.
37:37Sit.
37:47Hmm.
37:49How is your school going?
37:53Hakim sahib,
37:55what can I say?
37:58In this country,
37:59knowledge is like an orphan.
38:03No mother,
38:04no father,
38:05no guardian,
38:06no heir.
38:11You,
38:12the heir to knowledge
38:14sitting in this boat.
38:16Hakim sahib,
38:18what am I counting?
38:21All this is in your hands.
38:25In the last monsoon,
38:26the roof of the school had fallen.
38:29The walls are about to fall.
38:32The children sit under the tree and study.
38:35On the empty ground,
38:36the blackboard is half white.
38:41You too,
38:42the government...
38:43I have heard
38:44that you have sent your daughter
38:45to the university to study.
38:49Yes, Hakim sahib.
38:53You will make her an officer.
38:57Now,
38:58something will happen in your mind.
39:02Hakim sahib,
39:05she is a poor child.
39:07She will be able to read a few words.
39:10So...
39:18Listen to me, master.
39:22The world has already become very bad.
39:27This radio,
39:28TV,
39:30and newspapers
39:31have made people like you
39:34go crazy.
39:38The girls have become speechless.
39:43On top of that,
39:44you have sent your daughter to the city
39:46to study with this shamelessness.
39:52If anything happens tomorrow,
39:56then the whole world will be destroyed.
40:03Now,
40:04don't make any more mistakes.
40:16No one can compare us
40:19with the degree of this paper.
40:25And this...
40:27This is a matter of the honor of the entire family.
40:33Today, your daughter has left the house.
40:37Tomorrow,
40:38will all the daughters and daughters-in-law
40:39play cards?
40:47Be a man.
40:49Be a man, master.
40:53A daughter
40:54can never be the strength of a turban.
40:59Hakim sahib,
41:02my daughter is very innocent.
41:06If she studies,
41:07she will be able to eat a decent meal.
41:12A decent meal!
41:16So now,
41:18you are fed up
41:20You are fed up!
41:54Where are you, Khet?
42:01Are you happy?
42:03Where are you these days?
42:06I am here, uncle.
42:08Where else?
42:12Ada,
42:13send a cup of tea.
42:15Yes, sir.
42:16A lot of tea.
42:17Hey, boy,
42:18where are you?
42:20Khet sahib has come.
42:21Give him tea.
42:23Hey, Khet,
42:25is this newspaper for today?
42:28Yes, uncle.
42:29It's for today.
42:30You didn't even tell us the special news today.
42:34I will tell you now.
42:37These days, Khet sahib
42:40is not in a good mood, friends.
42:42Why?
42:43Is there a problem?
42:46Don't you know?
42:50Marvi has thrown him here.
42:53Uncle, she has gone to the city to become an officer.
42:56Oh,
42:57so Marvi will also become an officer.
43:01Wow!
43:03Then what will happen to poor Khet?
43:08Khet?
43:09Khet will roam in the desert
43:12looking for Marvi.
43:14What else will he do?
43:16That's right.
43:18I have heard
43:19that she studies with boys.
43:21Really?
43:22Why, Khet?
43:24Yes, sir.
43:25There was no decency in the world.
43:28After reading four words,
43:30why would Marvi accept Khet?
43:33Yes, yes.
43:34You are right, uncle.
43:36You are absolutely right.
43:38Why would Marvi accept him?
43:41Now she has become a fool.
43:44If a man like me had a wish,
43:48I would have tied it to his hair.
43:52That's right.
43:53Then I would have seen
43:54whom Marvi would fly on.
43:57Shut up!