The British government is conducting
a census all over India for the first time.
Do you know what the census is?
Census means the counting of the population.
So that the British government can know
how many people live in India, where they live,
how much money they earn, what work they do,
what is their religion, what is their caste,
how many of them are illiterate and how many have received education
and all.
But why does the British government need all this information?
What will they do with it?
What no one has ever done.
Salvation of you all.
The British Government has taken up this initiative.
They want to improve the condition of all of you by ruling India
the way they rule their own country.
You don't need to use your brain too much.
Just do as you are told.
- Maka and Gonda! - Yes, sir?
Start the work.
All of you have to come to that tent one by one.
You have to tell your name, your father's name and address.
But first of all, you have to get your name
registered according to your religion and caste. Come on.
Religion and caste-wise census?
Didn't sir tell you just now?
The government needs all the information.
Yes, but in Shirdi, everyone worships
their own God in their home.
But everyone's religion is the same here.
Humanity.
Because our Sai has the same religion.
There is no division here on the basis of caste, religion,
high-low, rich-poor, man-woman, or illiterate-educated.
Yes, sir.
No one is raising any questions in any village or city of India.
Do you people just have a hobby
of creating obstacles in the work of the government?
Listen carefully, all of you! No matter what Sai is for you people,
he is nothing for us.
Sai's village... Huh!
When the whole of India belongs to the British government,
then Shirdi also belongs to them.
Now let us do our job,
or else I will have to call the police again.
Sir, don't get angry. You can start your work.
All the villagers will cooperate.
[intense music playing]
[theme music playing]
Get in line. Come on, get in line.
Why are you smiling?
Go and stand in the queue.
You have not come here just to count the population.
[theme music playing]
You got it right.
Counting the population was just an excuse to come back to Shirdi
to arrest you.
You are an enemy of the British government!
Who is sir talking to?
I won't spare you.
Listen to me...
[dramatic music playing]
[theme music playing]
Get in line. Come on, get in line.
- Get in line. Come on, get in line. - Get in line.
Has everyone come for the census?
Yes, almost everyone has come.
Then where is Sai?
He might be in Dwarkamai.
[dramatic music playing]
- Makaji and Gondaji! - Yes, sir?
Do your work. I'll just be back.
[upbeat music playing]
- Is the way to Dwarkamai from here? - Yes, this way.
All right.
Looking at you, it seems that you are also a devotee of Sai.
- You guessed it right. - Hmm.
By the way, does your Sai stay in Shirdi only?
Does he not go out anywhere?
Sai lives in Shirdi only,
but people come to meet him from faraway places.
They say that Sai appeared to them.
- Hmm, Sai's miracle. - Yes.
- Do many people come to meet Sai? - Yes, a lot.
Some might come to visit during the day and some at night, right?
I have seen it during the day,
but I don't know about the night.
However, the door of Dwarkamai is always open for everyone.
Do all kinds of people come there?
Yes, of all kinds.
Sai does not discriminate against anyone.
- Thieves, robbers and rebels, too? - What?
There must be such people among all kinds of people, right?
Birsu had come to meet Sai, right?
He himself had confessed that.
Did you not see them both meeting?
I didn't, but I know one thing.
Even if someone is on the wrong path,
they come onto the right path after meeting Sai.
Uncle, what was sir asking?
He was asking me question after question about Sai.
Ranu, I don't know what enmity this man has with Sai.
- I don't understand. - God knows!
Everyone said that my mother was lost
and she would never return.
But, Sai, you said my mother would return.
And my mother has come back, Sai.
So I brought you some sweets.
I didn't do anything.
[soulful music playing]
It is the power of your inner self
that has brought your mother back.
Give it.
May God bless you.
Do you also perform the miracle of finding the lost?
Did you also lose someone?
Hypocrites like you don't work to find the lost,
but to snatch away even what one has.
[mellow music playing]
Nothing remains fragmented in this universe.
Those who are left behind,
we somehow get reunited with them.
Whatever is broken
gets mended in some way or the other.
[theme music playing]
Did you not hear my order to come there?
Or are you not a resident of Shirdi and hence did not come?
By the way, where are you from? What is your place of origin?
The place where every colour of nature comes from
- and returns. - Huh!
This is what people like you do.
Ask a question, and you answer something else.
And people wonder what a profound thing he said. Huh?
How old are you?
I have never counted the age of my body,
and it is not possible to count the age of consciousness.
[theme music playing]
When you get arrested and go to jail,
you'll get a lot of time with Birsu to create and solve such puzzles.
Keep them safe.
By the way,
what is your religion?
Only the one who divided it knows religion.
I belong to the one who is nowhere
but is everywhere.
Oh, I mean, you must be worshipping someone, right?
[soulful music playing]
Sharing my food with a hungry person is my worship.
Wiping the tears of a sad person is my prayer.
Showing the path to a lost person is my evening prayer.
It is my reverence to relieve the pain
of a helpless, mute creature.
When I water the dry land,
water a plant with love,
pay respect to a mountain,
that is my oblation.
You don't know anything about yourself.
Yet, you claim to find others' lost ones.
There is a limit to hypocrisy, Sai.
[dramatic music playing]
No matter how hard you try to hide your truth,
I will find it out,
because you will take me to my goal.
[devotional song playing]
Our progress goes hand in hand
with our intentions.
[devotional song playing]
Shinde sir has been in Dwarkamai for a long time.
He shot a bullet last time.
Who knows what he'll do this time?
Sir, I've seen Sai in Shirdi
ever since I grew up.
Where did Sai come from?
It's hard for me to say that, sir.
Please forgive me.
Hmm!
If you don't know it,
it doesn't mean nobody will know it.
Sai came here many years ago.
He was meditating under that tree
when we saw him first.
Since then, Sai has been here.
No, Abdul. You don't know it.
I'll tell you. Sai came here.
But he left Shirdi within a few days.
I remember. A storm had engulfed Shirdi.
It led to massive destruction.
Nobody knew where Sai went.
Then, after a few years,
Sai returned to Shirdi suddenly.
He has been here ever since.
Nobody knew his name here.
Then, is Sai's name, not Sai?
No. Mr Mhalsapati gave him that name.
When he saw him for the first time in the Khandoba temple,
he spontaneously said, 'Come, Sai.'
Since then, we have called him Sai.
He lives in a mosque
and also prays in the temple.
He knows the scriptures of every religion.
Everyone is the same for Sai.
Untouchability and caste discrimination
vanished after Sai came to Shirdi.
Since we believe in Sai,
we didn't feel the need to know anything else.
Sir!
Sir, we have information about almost everyone in Shirdi.
We tried a lot, sir.
However, we couldn't find anything on Sai.
That is why we called him here.
Sir, something seems fishy. No, sir. Everything is fishy.
This man seems suspicious to me.
Suspicious people are dangerous for the British government.
Not arresting him soon can lead to a problem.
[devotional song playing]
Why are you holding a 'pungi'?
You're a government official. Right?
He is a government official, sir.
However, he belongs to a snake charmer family.
That's why he carries a 'pungi' with him.
Who knows when a snake might appear?
You all should be ashamed.
You work for the British government.
Yet, you fear a superstition that has been spread by a deceiver.
[mellow music playing]
[devotional song playing]
There's no other way now.
We must arrest him.
At least one of my wishes has come true.
Bring him in.
- Yes, sir. - Yes, sir.
Sai, come.
[mellow music playing]
Allah is supreme!
I am Mhalsapati, the priest of the Khandoba temple.
Why have you brought Sai here, sir?
We don't have any information about him.
Such people are included in the list of suspects.
That's why I'm arresting him.
Which law states that you can arrest someone
if you don't have any information about him?
Don't teach the law to me.
No, sir. You misunderstood me.
As far as I understand,
a census is about counting people, sir.
As you know, our Sai lives in Shirdi.
He lives in Dwarkamai.
So, his name will be included in Shirdi's population.
However, sir, not knowing his age,
religion, and caste cannot be a reason to arrest him.
No book could say that.
[tense music playing]
Our sir does everything according to the law.
He'll show you the law for arresting him.
Shinde sir, what's written in it?
Sir, we can arrest him. Right?
The rule states
that if someone doesn't have an identity
but has been living in a place for more than ten years and five people
who have been identified can be his guarantors,
that man cannot be arrested.
[tense music playing]
What does the guarantee mean, sir?
Assurance.
Five people's assurance?
Tell us, sir. The entire Shirdi will be here for Sai.
That won't be needed.
I cannot arrest him. You can go.
Makaji and Kondaji, wrap up your work quickly.
We have to leave for Ahmednagar.
- Yes, sir. - Yes, sir.
You're excited to come to Shirdi
and leave, as well.
I was excited to come because I wanted to arrest you.
Seeing the blind faith of these fools in your deception
boils my blood.
I can understand.
[tense music playing]
I don't want to stay here for a second. Finish up everything!
Stay here for the day.
You can leave for Ahmednagar tomorrow morning.
[suspenseful music playing]
Save your advice for your blind devotees.
I don't need your permission.
I will go whenever I wish.
[song playing]
May God Ram bless you.
[tense music playing]
What have you both done? Huh?
I'll have to write that again.
Sir, it'll take
around three to four hours to rewrite it.
By then, it'll be nightfall.
Then, how will we go to Ahmednagar?
Sai is so deceptive.
It's not deception. He's got a black tongue.
He told you to stay back.
Now, we have to stay back.
[coughing]
I learnt you'd be staying here for the night.
That's why I've brought food for you.
Hmm.
[suspenseful music playing]
Listen!
All Shirdi residents are being informed
about not leaving for Ahmednagar tonight.
There was a landslide some time ago.
Many people who left for Ahmednagar
are still stuck on the way.
[devotional song playing]
Makaji,
Sai stopped us from going.
Now, there was an announcement about a landslide.
What if Sai is omniscient?
Be quiet, both of you.
Nobody can be omniscient.
It's a mere coincidence, nothing else.
I won't spare you if you say
such superstitious things in front of me again.
- Kondaji? - Yes?
- Let's go back, eat food and sleep. - Yes.
[mellow music playing]
'How does Sai perform such magic tricks?'
'Who is he?'
[flute playing]
[dramatic music playing]