Shravan Kumar.
Shravan Kumar. Only in name.
He dodged his responsibility
and he owes the government Rs.50000.
But you don't be Shravan Kumar of modern times.
For immediate payment of your electricity bill...
-Electricity wire! -Down with the government!
The government wants to opt for privatization.
Because for the government it's merely paperwork.
But it will prove to be a detrimental change for all employees.
So it's all employees' chief duty to raise their voice against privatization.
Those who have participated in the rally are not demonstrators.
They are revolutionaries. Revolutionaries.
Those who are not participating in the rally are traitors of labor union.
Mishra.
Come and sit for some time.
What will I do there?
Okay. I will come in some time.
You have been evading it since one month.
The labor union wishes everybody well.
Forgo your selfishness and do a noble deed.
It's not a noble deed. It's just a rally.
-Did you say something? -No. All I was saying...
I will come. For sure.
Let me first go and mark my attendance.
-Electricity wire! -Down with the government!
Electricity wire...
-Yes. -Have the reports arrived?
Not yet. Some have arrived. Some haven't arrived.
Okay. Do one thing...
Tiwari.
How are you, Annu?
-Great! You tell me. -Great!
I have got chocolate for your son.
My son doesn't eat chocolate.
Is that so?
Shall I go?
He is talking on the phone.
With whom?
He won't tell me that, will he?
He is MD. He gets calls even from DM.
Let me talk to him once. I will arrange a trip to Thailand.
-For whom? -For the doctor.
He has been to Amsterdam.
And you want to send him to Thailand.
When did he go to Amsterdam?
The previous trip was organized by WMR
The doctor prescribed that company's tablet in his clinic.
For the entire year.
With that money he purchased two plots.
He converted one plot into parking space and the other into a warehouse.
Is that so?
Okay. Listen.
You have come with the plan of Thailand. So forget it.
There is RO filter. Drink pure water and leave.
Listen, Tiwari.
Let me meet the doctor just once.
Listen...
Listen to me, Tiwari. Listen.
Let me meet him once.
I will send him to Amsterdam and you to Thailand.
-And diet chocolate for your son. -Hey!
At least see the CCTV.
Where is it installed?
It's okay. I will do.
Oh man! Gupta!
Start the generator.
I hadn't saved the file.
It's the limit.
A power cut in the electricity department.
Why are you shouting so much, Mr. Mishra?
Gupta is at the rally.
Everybody is supporting it besides you.
What's the problem?
No. It's nothing like that, Bade Babu.
Support the union, Mr. Mishra.
In the near future if you face any problem then
the union won't support you.
Look, Mr. Mishtra.
I am your colleague and your well-wisher.
That's why I have come to explain to you.
If you want to stay in the department, you will have to support the union.
The union doesn't run the department, sir.
Is that so?
Who runs it then?
Okay. Tell me something.
Who pays us salary?
-The government. -So I am supporting the government.
I am supporting the one who is paying me salary
and helping me look after my family.
And I will always support that.
It's not good to be so stubborn, Mr. Mishra.
No, Bade Babu. I am not being stubborn.
It's a humble disagreement.
Nothing else.
Fine.
Mr. Mishra.
LTA!
Amazing!
Wow!
I see.
-Here. -Yes.
Claim it.
It's pending since three years. Otherwise it will get cancelled.
Others?
Others got their LTA long back.
-Is that so? -Yes.
Return my money.
Money in the pocket and runs made in cricket cannot be returned, Mr. Mishra.
Fine. You will also remember me.
-Okay. Tell me something. -Yes.
Did Bade Babu get it?
Bade Babu went for the trip too.
-Is that so? -He is taking maximum advantage of it.
He doesn't want to work. So he is participating in the rally.
Okay. Who else has got it?
Sharma. Verma. Vishwakarma.
Everybody.
Yes. That's why I was wondering where Vishwakarma has gone.
Everybody goes for a vacation. It's a country of wanderers.
The one who doesn't go anywhere goes to his in-law's place twice a year.
Oh no! In-law's place is not a place for vacation.
That's where Bade Babu had gone.
-What do you mean? -His in-laws live in Nainital.
-I see. -Yes.
You are the only honest worker here.
Officer.
My sons call me an honest officer.
What have you planned? Where are you going?
-Oh man... -Don't think so much, Mr. Mishra.
Go by train and charge flight ticket.
Smile.
You have a government job.
Mr Sharma has come.
'Congratulations. He has received LTA.'
'Once in a year or two years or five years'
'Rahu meets Ketu and river meets the bridge.'
'When the sun sets at dusk'
'that's when LTA arrives in middle-class families.'
'LTA. Meaning, Leave Travel Allowance.'
'It doesn't arrive alone.'
'It brings hope along with it.'
'The hope of a vacation. Of an outing.'
'If nothing else, then the hope of buying sweetmeats.'
'Like today the king of Boondi, gram flour, cashew nut'
'square pieces, dry fruits, round pieces that is, Kalakand will go home.'
'It will be served on the plate proudly.'
'And there will be a dilemma of whether to eat it alone'
'or distribute it among the neighbors.'
"At times plays. At times mischief."
"Be it crooked or simple."
"A little rigid. A little entangled."
"But we grabbed it all the same."
"A little moist. A little dry."
"At times happy. At times sad."
"It dissolves like cardamom."
"It strikes the cord of the heart."
"Life was a piggy bank of memories."
"Life was a piggy bank."
Where is it written that when you will get it?
It's just an intimation letter. I will have to claim it.
When will you claim it?
I will claim it in a few days.
In how many days?
Oh man! It's LTA. It's not quick like whatsapp forward.
I have received it. I will claim it at the right time.
When will the right time come?
The administration is changing, Mrs. Shanti.
You also change.
'Kalakand' has also not changed. Did you buy it from Banua, papa?
No. His sweetmeat is quite pathetic.
I suspect he adulterates it.
-With what? -Intoxicants.
His sweetmeats sell like hot cakes.
His stuff is good too.
But after eating it, you feel very lazy.
I also ate 'Gulab Jamun' once. I slept for three days.
Yes.
Why did you bring 'Kalakand', papa?
Did you sell a transformer illegally?
Hey!
Your father is an honest man.
Mummy, after how many years has papa bought 'Kalakand'?
After two years. Last time he had bought it when uncle Pinky had come.
Your papa has received LTA letter.
What are you saying? Papa, wow!
Well done.
After 4 years.
After 3 years. Yes. How much is the LTA?
Damn it!
Nobody values the man.
Everybody is asking only one thing. How much? How much?
That's what matters, papa.
Is that so? Tell me. How?
We will get extra money. We will make an extra room.
We will get extra toilet and stairs.
We might even go to Thailand.
I will take everybody for a trip to Thailand.
Son, first let your next month's salary come.
I will get voucher for annual trip.
It's not like your government job. That I will get LTA after 3 years.
Are you doing smuggling or a job?
It's a private job. That's the beauty, mummy.
I will get more pension than your salary.
We will see when you get pension.
There is annual increment in private job.
And you lose your job also easily.
You eat dinner and go to sleep. While you are dreaming, you get the message.
You are hired.
-You are fired, papa. -Exactly.
Hired and fired.
Fine. Let's bet and prove whose job is better.
Let's bet for Rs.5000.
Reduce the amount, brother Annu.
Papa is a traditional gambler since his childhood.
-Nonsense. -I will bet.
What?
He will not take us for the trip.
Let's go then.
I have got LTA.
We will use that money for the trip.
-Where will we go? -Anywhere. Wherever you say.
When was the last time we went for a vacation?
Last time...
Last time also you had got LTA.
You said we will go to Kashmir.
What happened of that, Mr. Mishra?
There is tension in Kashmir, mummy.
What tension?
Kashmir is India's inseparable part.
An Indian citizen can go there whenever he wants.
Forget Kashmir. You never took us to Katra.
It's in the market. If you want, shall I take you there in the evening?
-Do you want to go? -Vaishno Devi's Katra.
That's also in Kashmir, mummy.
It's in Jammu.
Have you done PhD on Kashmir?
-Every Indian citizen has done that. -Yes.
In his youth he used to tell me... Shanti, I love traveling.
We will travel a lot after our marriage.
But in the name of traveling you haven't gone beyond the park.
Every year you say that you will take me on a tour of India.
A tour of India.
You haven't even taken me on a tour of the district.
Is there anything worth seeing in the district?
Yes. There is a zoo. There is jogger's park.
There is a national park without trees.
There is a new bridge without any water below.
You take me to the bridge for 'Chaat' treat.
It's so dusty that dust enters 'Chaat'.
And you ask me, "Shanti, how is the Chaat?"
That's what you have been doing dedicatedly.
Who is that, mummy?
-Your uncle, son. -Where does he live?
When should you speak?
Where should you speak? How much should you speak?
How much you shouldn't speak? When will you understand all that?
Do that. Change the topic.
Keep changing the topic.
Since you work in electricity department
you entangle everybody like a wire.
You always talk about irrelevant topics.
That's how you have been mincing words and winning so far.
Today also you will do as you please.
What do you want?
I should tell you that?
Had you brought sugar free sweets I would have also eaten it.
'Food cooked in happiness. Food cooked in sorrow.'
'Different food for fasting.'
'Homemade food for the picnic.'
'Food that was cooked during fever.'
'Food that was cooked during festival.'
'Days, months, years and centuries.'
'Only food.'
'The only difference is that some people only eat food.'
'And some people only cook food.'
'You will say it's an old thing.'
'I thought I will tell you in a new way.'
You should have got sugar free.
Do you even get sugar free sweets?
Those who have diabetes eat the same sweetmeat
morning and evening and say that their sugar is in control.
Oh man! How will you placate mother?
Papa, take mummy to granny's place.
Pinky is there.
Then take her out for a movie.
She won't come for a movie.
Why?
She had gone many years ago when both of you were not even born.
At that time your mother loved watching movies.
Now she doesn't watch movies.
Mummy stopped watching movies after we were born.
After all, you are unlucky.
I am lucky.
'Soldier' was the last movie.
Now even Bobby Deol is not interested in doing movies.
He has become a DJ.
Papa, go and talk to Mummy.
I have spoken to her many times.
But she always makes excuses.
Is it that mummy's penchant has died, papa?
I didn't say anything to papa.
Papa was saying that Banua mixes intoxicants in his sweetmeats.
This time I am thinking we will go to Kanyakumari during winters.
Both of us will sing that song together.
"These beautiful valleys."
What do you say?
That was Kashmir.
So what happened?
I will take you to all places from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.
I have three years' LTA pending. It's a lot of money.
I don't want to go anywhere.
Let's go.
You always thwart my plans.
Yes. So you make plans. Let me make food.
Today you won't cook food.
What will you eat?
We will go out for dinner.
At whichever restaurant you want.
I don't want to go anywhere.
Please come.
You are under my oath.
Nothing is going to happen to you or to me.
You can keep on giving oath.
You are under Annu and Aman's oath.
You are under your sons' oath.
Please.
Annu! Aman! The plan is fixed.
We are going out for dinner.
Your mother has agreed to go to the restaurant.
-Come on. -Papa, let's go to Dragon Dhaba.
We will eat 'Litti Chokha' with schezwan chutney.
-It will be great. -When did you go to Dragon Dhaba?
Do you see this, papa? He doesn't remember any formula.
But he knows the eatery's menu by heart.
You will sit here and memorize the formula.
It's okay. Let him come.
-No. He has... -Let's go somewhere
where there is family atmosphere.
It's called fine dine.
Fine. Let's go.
There is orchestra.
You are pronouncing it wrong.
And classical music is played.
What's the name?
Classical restaurant.
Its three circles ahead of the round circle.
Do you want to go? Or shall I cook food?
We are going.
Come on. Get ready quickly.
-My ID. Give my ID. -Here.
Bring my shoes quickly.
Yes, Bittu.
Yes. Fine. I am coming.
Wear anything. You are going to look ugly, as it is.
We will use that song. Right?
Cut. Cut.
Do this step.
Do this one.
No, man.
Do this one. Look.
Do it.
Do you know moonwalk?
-Aman. -Coming, mummy.
Yes. I know.
Do it.
Hold on.
You are doing it superbly, Bittu.
How will you become famous?
You will have to do it badly.
Only when you do it badly, will you get views.
Look.
Do half moonwalk.
Like this.
-Like this. -Yes.
Aman, come downstairs.
I am coming, mummy.
-Hold the phone. -Is it done, Aman?
-Yes. It's an amazing video. -I think it's sprained.
-What? -My leg.
-Where are you going? -Dinner.
-Location? -Fine dine.
What have you sprayed so much?
Cobra.
Mummy.
My beloved, let's go.
Look. She is looking beautiful.
-Isn't it? -Your papa didn't even iron his shirt.
-Yes, papa! -Amazing!
Annu's mother.
Move aside.
You are looking nice.
My cylinder got over.
I thought I will exchange it with you.
I don't have a filled cylinder.
The cylinder man had come day before yesterday.
He must have come. But he didn't come to our house.
How come? He had come to your house.
My cylinder is also about to get over.
If I give you the cylinder, how will I cook food?
Who cooks food and goes out for dinner?
How do you know we are going out for dinner?
Don't you know?
Aman told Bittu. Bittu told me.
And I told myself.
I thought that everybody stands by you in your grief.
But the one who shares your happiness is your true neighbor.
I thought I won't go. But no.
Fate didn't want that.
As soon as I switched on the gas the stove released red smoke.
I patted it, thumped it and shook it.
It didn't work. It got angry.
It said, "Take me for a walk."
I asked, "Where?" It said, "To Annu's mother's house."
So I brought it here.
Annu's papa has got LTA.
So we are going out for dinner.
Annu's papa.
Why are you hiding inside like an enemy's army?
Come out. Take me also out for dinner.
You...
No. Just like that.
Nowhere. Just...
It's a get-together.
It's a nice plan.
Yes.
Brother Aman, where are we going for dinner?
I am also ready.
Son, give me.
Where are we going for dinner?
What are you doing here?
Shall we go, brother?
'Yes. Let's go.'
'No. Not with the family.'
'But with everybody.'
'Middle-class families don't understand'
'the notions of me time, he time and she time.'
'Middle-class families believe in we time.'
'We the people of India.'
'Of the people of India.'
'For the people of India.'
'And by the people of India.'
'It's written in the constitution.'
'But you must be wondering that as per the constitution'
'Mishra family's fundamental rights have been flouted here.'
'No. If somebody's fundamental rights have been flouted'
'then it's the musicians' rights.'
'They have been compelled to play music in the restaurant'
'where mushroom dish has been named Raag Malhar.'
'Eat it. The entire country is eating it.'
'And smile.'
'Because LTA has come.'
'It's not a train journey.'
'But you can sit in a fake train compartment'
'and eat real food.'
'And hum that song.'
'These beautiful valleys and open sky.'