The year Grandpa gifted the kiddy bank
How much?
Seventy rupees, sir.
Check how much this is.
This is seventeen, sir.
How much is short? -Fifty three.
Wait. I will get you right now.
Siri!
Dad!
Oho!
How come you are so heavy?
Or have I grown old?
Oh! Kiddy bank!
Wow! This looks quite heavy.
Shall we reduce its weight? -How?
Nothing! Give me the change.
I will drop the bills in this.
Then it becomes weightless.
First, give me the bills.
But I should know the value of the change before giving you the bills!
What is the password?
Grandpa told me not to share the password with anyone!
He told you not to share the password.
But you can always give a clue.
Hmm…the year of my birth!
Ah! 1992!
Right!
Ah…hold this.
I will be right back.
Hey, Siri! Why are you crying, hon?
Huh? Why are you crying, dear?
Dad wanted change and promised to give me notes…
but left with my hundred rupees.
Don’t cry, my precious, don’t cry.
Come here. Sit down.
He cheated me.
Don’t cry, dear. I will make up for it.
I will give it to you. Okay?
Here’s the hundred.
Now, my sweetheart will stop crying.
She will… she will. And she did.
Don’t cry, dear.
Look, how quietly Kalayani is sitting?
Once my sister gets it, it’s as good as I get it.
What’s wrong now? I gave you a hundred, right?
Am I not like your dad?
If he returned his hundred, it would have been two hundred.
Oh!
If you want the same hundred back, you will have to cry the rest of your life.
Wait, wait, wait.
I will recover the hundred from your dad.
Don’t cry. I will get it.
Brother!
Okay.
Ah! Here’s the hundred.
Happy?
My precious girl!
Keep your money safe. Okay?
Hey, is she not up yet?
No, mom. She is still in the blanket.
What time did she sleep last night?
She was rolling on bed the whole night. I fell asleep.
Devika, have you brought everything?
We have brought everything.
This one has laddoos. This is mixture.
Let me get the money.
Listen. Don’t leave without taking the betel leaf with nut.
Okay? -Hmm.
Hey, Rukmini! How are you? -Great!
I settled this match too.
They gave me ten thousand for the wedding and also a silk sari.
I think she is two years older than Kalyani.
Kalyani, how are you?
When are you going to gift me a silk sari?
My dear madam!
Don’t stress us for the sake of your silk sari.
How many times have I told you the elder one will get married first?
I don’t know, Devika.
I just don’t understand whether you are clever or innocent.
Which part don’t you understand?
Don’t you know a mother’s anxiety and her responsibility?
Tell me if it’s not in your capacity.
I will find an amazing match for my daughter.
Please do. That’s what everyone wants.
Ah! Aunty! Coming.
They have given me the responsibility of baby shower as well.
I must take care of hospitality.
Let’s go, mom.
Is she still invited to events?
She has prepared the sweets.
They had to invite her.
Who would call her otherwise?
She is still looking for a groom for her daughter.
Who would marry a girl from a family dealing in liquor?
Why can’t she give her daughter a piece of her mind?
How could she let a grown-up girl so free?
She is not even afraid what others might think.
Not everyone knows how to raise a girl.
My daughter, Shravani, is working.
But she is nothing like this.
Were you there when they attacked the bar?
Jeez! How is she able to lift her head?
What is it, sister-in-law?
How are you?
How is Shravani?
What was that?
You want to teach me how to raise a girl?
Did your heart ever swell with pride when you looked at your Shravani?
Did she ever surprise you with her courage at a such a young age?
Tell me!
Madhavi!
What did you say?
When an old gentleman went to your daughter’s office for his pension,
she demanded three hundred rupees from him
and didn’t that land her in jail for three weeks?
By the way,
what did you say?
That I don’t bother what others would think?
Why?
Why should I be afraid?
Those who do wrong should be afraid.
My daughter has done nothing wrong.
She stands on her feet and slogs for her family.
Why should I be afraid?
In fact, when she is with me, I feel brave.
One should be lucky enough to marry her.
Let’s go.
That’s the story.
It’s all in your hands, now. -Okay!
-Mr Writer! -Sir?
A complaint has to be filed. Please, come over.
Please note down all the names. I will take care of it.
Who attacked your bar?
Do you remember their names?
Uh… Doopgunta Ramani,
Karri Kantham, Rai Venkatalakshmi,
Duvvuru Shanta…
Write them down. Why do you hesitate?
What’s the problem, Srimathi?
Can I lodge a complaint without their names?
Did you see them?
What is the problem to give their names, then?
What makes you think so much?
SI sir assured us we won’t have any problem. Write the names down.
I am not able to, Dorababu.
I know them all from my childhood.
Are you insane?
If you consider these things, we can never reopen the bar.
Write now!
Srimathi!
Wait! Srimathi! Wait!
Enough?
I am defeated.
You kept telling me.
You went on telling me.
‘You are a girl.
You are alone.
What can you do?’
It happened just as you said.
I am beaten.
Everyone pounced all at once,
broke the glass, broke the doors and windows
and destroyed everything.
It’s all over.
None of them were outsiders, mom.
All of them were our own people.
Venkatalakshmi, sister Kanthammma,
Rajyalakshmi aunty, Jyothi’s grandma…
All of them pounced on me…
and when they were breaking all glass,
I could see the vehemence in their eyes…hatred…
when I think of them, I…
What was my fault, mom?
What crime did I commit?
Are you done?
Have you vented all your pain?
But what makes you feel so bad?
What has gone wrong now?
How much of this must I have seen?
Do you know I was the darling of my family?
Retorting to people,
standing against the world…
I didn’t even dare step out alone.
Without any warning, leaving no money in hand…
and with two children in my lap,
in a situation where I couldn’t even lift my eyes for shame,
your dad had deserted me and fled.
Look at me now!
How do you think I have turned into this?
True.
The moment our world broke into pieces, I thought it was the end of our life.
But when I looked at both of your faces…
I saw the fear in your eyes.
Along with fear,
I could also see your trust in your mother.
They inspired me to stand and fight.
We were sinking into deep humiliation with no support from around…
Today, if both of you have studied well …
and walking among the same people with pride,
if every celebration in the village is incomplete without our snacks,
what is the reason behind?
In spite of all humiliation, obstacles and hardships…
without giving up,
I have chiselled our lives into lives of dignity.
Siri, have you forgotten who you are?
You are one of those born and brought up in this village.
But it was you who remained aloof from them.
Open your heart to them and find a way to pull them to your side.
Don’t get into depression.
Get up.
Get up and get to work.
We are not ready to listen to you.
File a case or do whatever you want.
We won’t let the bar reopen.
You have no problem! Your business is flourishing.
Do you know what happens with us when our men come home drunk?
That’s exactly why I have called you.
Please share with me.
Tell her!
He beats. Her husband beats her black and blue.
Why do you sit mum? Tell her.
Why? Doesn’t your husband beat you?
He thrashes you till you bleed.
Hey, stop it!
Don’t tell on each other.
Tell her what happens in your home. That’s all.
If I made a mistake and he beat me,
I would think after all we are a couple.
He drinks somewhere, fights with somebody…
but comes home and takes out his anger. Is that fair?
My husband doesn’t beat me, poor man.
But he goes out on a bike after drinking.
One day he comes back with a broken elbow.
The next day it is a bruised knee.
I am worried sick what I would be hearing next.
Please tell me this.
It’s been a week since the bar closed.
Have your men stopped drinking during this week?
What, Shanta?
Why don’t you speak?
She wants to know. Tell her!
How can they suddenly stop? They have been going to Mandapet to drink.
They won’t come to their senses unless the bar there is also closed.
You mean you will close down all the bars in the district?
There is a difference between a local bar and a bar elsewhere, isn’t there?
Rajayalakshmi aunty!
Is it okay if your husband drinks in Mandapet and comes home on bike on highway?
Or is it better if he drinks here in this village?
I mean…
what does it matter when a man is likely to fall?
I will make sure no one who drinks at my bar drives his way home.
I will take care of their transport.
You will do that for a few days.
Then it will be back to square one.
Question me when it does.
Dropping service is fine.
Our men get drunk and beat us. Don’t you get it?
Doesn’t your husband beat you when he drinks at Mandapet?
Does he beat you only if he drinks at Ramarajulanka!
Shut up, mom!
I will make sure they don’t bring home their problems from outside.
What are you bothered about?
Forget about that.
They will come home in a great mood. Thereafter, it’s upto you.
That’s not the problem, dear.
Whenever my husband drinks, he sleeps in Thota Satyavathi’s house.
Whether he drinks or not, that is where your husband stays.
See, dear! If they squander all the money on the bar,
how can we run our homes?
Listen, aunty!
Your husband spends two hundred on alcohol when he goes out, right?
What two hundred? He spends three hundred.
But if he drinks in our village?
Do you know something?
For going all the way there,
these men drink half instead of a quarter.
I will see that they don’t drink over a limit.
For those who drink four pegs, even if it is a dent in my business,
I will serve only two pegs per hour.
Now that I know your problems,
let’s solve them together.
She is being open and honest.
And she is our own village girl.
What do you say?
I’m….
not just a girl from your village.
Consider me a member of your family.
(Indistinct conversation)
You are trying so hard.
We will see for a month.
If we still face a problem, we won’t listen to anyone.
What do you say?
Okay. Get up, get up.
Rice is boiling at home.
I wonder what happened.
TAJMAHAL BAR NEW RULES ONLY TWO PEGS PER HOUR
DROPPING SERVICE COMPULSORY NO FIGHTING AT BAR
LOTTERY SYSTEM IS CANCELED
“Hey, a new trend begins like this”
“Hey, don’t be so alight Cool down like this”
“You will get some today the price won’t rise the next day”
“Fast drink is a no-no A slow kick makes you happy more”
“No one will dare stop you”
“Welcomes you every day Tajmahal only when you honour it you get the thrill”
“Beckons you again, Tajmahal Keep frequenting so you can chill”
“Welcomes you every day Tajmahal only when you honour it you get the thrill”
“Beckons you again, Tajmahal Keep frequenting so you can chill”
Hey, this is not my husband.
Have you forgotten where your house is?
Get in!
Hey! Why are you drinking from my glass?
How dare you catch my shirt?
-Hey!
-Hey! You… -Hey!
“There is a limit and there is a red line The day changes while still in stupor”
“To make your body sway We have a way”
“It’s to drive away your pain the bar’s door is open”
“To unburden yourself the glass asks to be lifted”
“You sure want it But this will do”
Hey! What is this queue system as if we are visiting Tirupati temple?
It’s not that.
Alcoholics queuing up before bar.
Oh! Let’s see. Let’s see.
For you? One…
No, we are good. We are fasting.
It’s Thursday today.
What fasting? Didn’t you come here to drink?
Hey, what kind of gentleman are you?
If we sit here drinking, the bill will grow and the house will go.
Here you are.
Wow! Heavenly!
Shall we go one by two?
Get the same thing. Shared by two.
But you just said you were fasting.
I forgot. I fast on Fridays.
Cheers!
-He drinks an inch and acts a mile. -He does look like that.
Repeat.
There’s a rule in our bar.
If you want to drink again, -Huh? you will have to wait for an hour.
You are over the limit. -What’s that?
Just that. -Limit?
The bar won’t run this way.
“Welcomes you every day Tajmahal -Gone! It’s totally gone!
only when you honour it you get the thrill”
“Beckons you again, Tajmahal Keep frequenting so you can chill”
“Welcomes you every day Tajmahal only when you honour it you get the thrill”
“Beckons you again, Tajmahal Keep frequenting so you can chill”
Stop! Stop!
Can you take me to Tajmahal Bar and Restaurant?
Hey, we have just dropped you! Go home!
-Go on, bro. -You go home!
Sister! -Hmm?
Do you know how the priest blessed me?
‘May you get married soon!’
But how I can get married unless you marry first?
Sister, sister!
Look how beautiful the sun is!
If Santosh were here, he would take a hundred pictures by now.
He is so good at photography, isn’t he?
You like the photos?
Or the photographer?
Hey! Look at you blushing!
Does Santosh like you too?
I mean…
when Santosh first took photos of me,
I felt I look quite good.
Gradually, I started feeling he looks quite good too.
When did all this happen?
You are so immersed in the bar, you don’t even notice time.
I beg you.
All of us like Abhinav.
If you two come to an understanding and inform the elders,
they will get you married and then I will get married.
Please, please, please. Consider me a bit. Please!
‘Srichakra Raja Nilaya’
Srichakra Raja Nilaya
‘Sri Shiva Sri Shaktaikya Rupini’
Sri Shiva Sri Shaktaikya Rupini -Sri Shiva Shaktaikya….
‘Sri Shiva Shaktaikya…. ’
‘Uh… Lalitambika!’
Lalitambika…
‘Naam Naam Sahasra Jaguhu’ -Naam Naam Sahasra Jaguhu…
Dear all, we will meet again on Friday.
Please go home safe.
Okay, sir.
You have forgotten even Lalita Sahasra Nama.
After a few days, you will forget to wash your back.
What is it?
Until I began to forget you,
you didn’t remember me, did you?
You don’t have to be so adamant at this age, grandpa.
Don’t you understand? Huh?
You really don’t get it?
It scares me to look at you.
Sometimes you look as if a power has gone out of your body.
Until you remember, I am scared if you will remember at all.
And when you do,
I have this worry that you might forget again.
What do you want me to do?
I want to go with you.
But when I think of your pain when I don’t recognize you, it frightens me.
I will anyway forget everyone.
At least you remember me as before.
Fine.
Okay. What else can I do?
When you are willing to give up your favourite job for my sake,
how can I do nothing?
Huh?
Let’s go.
Hey, didn’t you ask me to come with you?
Are you saying this wholeheartedly?
When you are ready to clean my back, what do I have to lose?
Ah… I washed your back until you were four!
One time I think it was when you were eight.
I had to buy a soda on the street and ….
Hey, grandpa! No such details right now.
By the way there is no Brandy Jones next door.
Really?
Uh…No one? -Uh…ah.
Ah!
Go and make your arrangements. Go.
-Hi! -Hi.
-Been waiting for half an hour. -Sorry.
Am I late?
You are not late.
I came half an hour early.
Srimathi wants to talk about something
and my heart races as if it’s on a treadmill.
To be honest,
I feel the same.
But I am someone familiar.
When someone familiar gets more and more familiar, it feels strange.
Your words sound great.
Did you ever think about it?
The innocency we had when we first met?
-Innocence… -Hmm?
Nothing. Go ahead.
Then you left.
I got used to it.
Now we are like this.
And how about the future?
How is it going to be in future?
Will you marry me?
Hmm?
Tell me.
What?
I am not bold enough to ask the same question again and again.
If I have ever thought of a wedding in my life,
it’s only with you.
Somehow, I find clarity missing as we go further.
Can I take it as yes?
Is that a yes?
Hmm!
If you are going to be with me, you will always hold your head high.
Stiff neck awaits you for sure.
In our city…
they switch off lights between eight and nine every full moon.
You will really enjoy it when you come.
Here… lights don’t have to be switched off.
Power outage is automatic.
For full moon and new moon.
Amazing.
You said, ‘You will enjoy when you come. ’
How did you mean?
I was suggesting both of us move there.
Move in the sense?
Move! That’s it.
Please tell me.
Move in the sense…?
Move means… like move…
Move to live with me.
Shi… shift you mean?
I love you.
I will settle your loan with your uncle.
It’s my responsibility to make sure you don’t stress about anything.
Is that what you want?
Hmm.
Please!
If I stay back here…
Okay…it’s okay.
I don’t know why I felt you would stay back.
I don’t know why you felt I would go with you.
That’s not important.
I don’t want to get into the habit of being without each other.
But that was our original habit, Abhi.
This is something new.
“Love, O my love! Being with you I have discovered precious"
“I wanted to make amends and I wanted to reach out… afresh”
Kalyani!
What happened?
Hey!
What’s wrong?
Santosh said it won’t work out.
Wh…Why? What’s the problem?
How much?
150.
I am short of fifty rupees, Santosh.
How can that be?
You know each copy is 25 rupees. Don’t you know it’s 150 for six copies?
Why do you yell?
My dad will give you in the evening.
No way will I trust you girls.
I will give these two to your dad. Take the remaining for now.
No thanks.
Who is going to come back? -You just said you don’t have money.
I didn’t want to touch God’s money.
Anyway, your photos are not worth even a hundred rupees.
Your face doesn’t deserve my photography. Get going now.
Stay here. I will be right back.
For passport size photo, 50 rupees for four copies.
What is the problem?
She kept saying 99.
But turned out to be 98.
My people are particular about horoscope.
If they come to know she is six months older than me…?
They will never accept.
What, Santhosh?
Before you fell in love, did you see her heart? Or her Aadhar card?
She has her own fears.
What is it now?
If you are born in 98, won’t there be an auspicious hour?
Be honest.
Can you be happy parting ways with her?
No, sister. I am in terrible pain.
Can’t you see it?
I tried to call a few times…
but hung up not to cause problems, sister.
Stop calling me sister and try connecting again.
MY LOVE
What more?
What now? You want me to talk to her in front of you?
Come.
Master!
You want to tell me something?
I do want to say something.
But you seem to be in a bad mood.
It’s okay. Tell me.
It’s about the way our business is running.
As per the time granted by the court, we must reach our goal in three more months.
Our turnover is better than earlier.
But the margins are not like before.
Unless we discontinue the rules they imposed…
Master!
They didn’t impose those rules.
I did.
Think about it, dear.
The stock’s getting over. Please place an order.
No, dear.
Let the stock get over.
I have my own doubts.
Siri, it’s quite late. Let’s go home.
I thought the doctor advised you against fritters?
You can’t call one fritters..
Just one. It’s singular.
No kick in the drink without them.
And how can we not drink at such a happy moment?
Am I right?
Cheers!
Not even God can save her now. That’s it.
Hello, madam. Do you have costly drinks?
Aha! Menu!
You have cocktails.
They are my signature cocktails.
They are all my own recipes.
A rural bar and signature cocktails.
Wow!
-Bro! -Thataji!
There are some cocktails here. Would you like to come?
Hmm.
Something special from home.
Free? -Hmm.
Tajmahal Bar! Interior looks quite impressive.
Thank you.
Hello!
Without disturbing my friend much, can you tell us what you got?
Uh… would you like to try our signature cocktail, Somadhara?
We are already wary of a village bar.
Why go for signature cocktails?
Anything else?
Hmm... how about Pina Colada?
It’s not Pina Colada.
It’s Piña Colada!
Okay. Good for us.
Okay. Get one each.
You want it shaken or blended?
Oho! English!
Hey! Hmm.
Shaken. Hmm?
Thataji!
-Please, try. -Okay.
Terrific.
Superb!
Hey!
I heard this voice before.
Hey, hey, hey!
Hey, Nani! -Hey, it’s Nani!
Hey, wait!
Why did you faint like that?
Uh… fan.
Uh? -Fan.
Pina Colada…superb.
Thanks.
Uh? -Thanks.
I heard about your rules.
The way you run your bar, I became a fan of yours.
When did you hear?
A while ago. When you fainted on me.
I am such a huge fan of yours…
Such a huge fan…
How huge a fan?
Such a huge fan.
How much is such?
Such a huge fan who is three times bigger than your craziest fan. It’s me.
No chance.
Okay, you are a fan.
But there is a lady fan who is crazier.
In the beginning, she would say she was madly in love with me.
I thought fine it was only love.
But the love turned into madness.
Who is she?
There is one.
She used to send incessant emails.
She was from here, right? -Hmm.
She is from your place.
Naturalgirl... -Huh.
1992...
@gmail. com.
Naturalgirl1992@gmail. com.
Don’t tell me…
Since you stopped replying,
I stopped writing to you two months ago.
I blocked you four years ago.
Sorry.
Can you unblock me once, please?
-Please, sir. -Please do it, sir.
Please unblock her, sir.
Poor girl. Do it, bro.
Please unblock her, sir. -Please, sir.
If you give me a selfie.
I was in Ramarajulanka yesterday for a shoot.
I had a drink at Tajmahal Bar there.
Never saw a village like that before. And neither such a bar.
And definitely not a girl like that.
#TajmahalBar
#DrinkResponsibly
Hey! Nani was here!
Hey, shall we also go there once?
She made him some Pina Colada.
He was stunned by its taste.
#DRINK RESPONSBLY #TAJMAHAL BAR # RAMARAJU LANKA
Look at the crowd thronging here.
After Nani’s visit, people from the surroundings are pouring in here.
Not only from Ramaraju Lanka.
But people from the surrounding villages are also making a bee line here.
Pina Colada… RAMARAJU LANKA
Impressed by Tajmahal Bar, he even took a selfie.
Your serial number is 37.
Let me caution you. The wait is at least half an hour.
Our bar is making huge collections.
It looks as if we will soon own the house.
Once that’s done, my sister will get married.
And that means our line will be clear.
You have opened a bar that is congenial even for families.
I guess you found a horseshoe.
How is your bar running after Mr Nani’s visit?
HERO NANI VISITS TAHMAHAL BAR WHILE SHOOTING IN RAMARAJU LANKA It’s running really well.
I am very happy.
All the best, madam.
Thank you.
I went to her bar once.
No words. That’s all.
What do you mean no words?
Wine on one hand, music on the other.
Simply no words. -Really?
Tell me if you want to go on Tuesday. Let’s go together.
Hey, you have a customer in the chair.
Why does your father-son duo talk about drinking?
Lincondoops!
What did you say?
Why do you chat while working on customers?
You’ve used some abusive word. What was that?
Uh…
Come, come, Mr Keshava Rao.
I was sitting on your case.
Hero Nani comes and changes my entire story,
while you sit here smoking and having tea…
but telling me you are sitting on my case,
do I look like a fool to you to believe it?
if you want to feel what I feel, please listen to me in peace.
Tell me.
Last night I was watching cricket thinking about your case and there was a shower.
Not in our town. In Chinnaswamy Stadium.
So?
Hear me out.
The umpires had introduced the most unfair rule called Duckworth Lewis.
Since the match was stalled for an hour, they reduced 11 overs in the game.
I just don’t see the relevance.
Your recent heart attack…
(Belches)
I meant the heart attack you thought you had before you were told it was acidity.
I have already spoken to the new judge. -Huh?
I filed a petition saying we don’t have time.
It’s all set up.
The package has already reached the judge.
He will definitely reduce a month or month and half in the grace period given to her.
So, you are ready to make us win even if it means telling the court I am dying?
I am saying I won’t let you lose for your life.
Oh!
Keep the acidity part secret. -No, no!
Maintain it as heart attack.
Do you have any chilli fritters?