02x04 - The Price Of w*r

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Hello, this is Akashvani.

The sad demise of Prime Minister
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

has left the nation in grief.

This morning, Panditji was shrouded
in the tricolor and moved from

Teen Murti Bhavan to Shantivan

where he was cremated.

Around 1.5 million people

gathered on streets of Delhi

to pay respects to Panditji.

After 17 years,

the nation awaits the leadership
of a new prime minister.

To fill in this position,

Lal Bahadur Shastri has
been chosen by the Congress.

Come in.

Sir, Dr. Bhabha has been
waiting for the past half hour.

Send him in.

Hello, Mr. Shastri.

- Homi, please sit.
- Thank you.

Would you like some bitter gourd juice?

Let's just say we are not in agreement.

Forgive me,
Homi, for the delay in meeting you.

- No problem.
- Ever since I got appointed,

I've been occupied with these proposals.

Grain production, milk production,

modernization of agriculture...

These should be your priority.

I too had sent a proposal

some months ago.

PURNIMA, it's a plutonium reactor.

Bhai was going to
approve it pretty soon.

Homi, you're aware of my ideals.

I prioritize serving the society,

- and the nation's needs...
- I too understand what the nation needs.

I know that we're
a milk deficient country

and we're struggling
with grain production

but the nation has other needs too.

Which I don't understand?

I'm sure you know, Mr. Shastri,

your party members are ready
to make a b*mb.

Homi, let's not get into a political
or ethical w*r.

If we're on the same side,

Then this is not a w*r, Mr. Shastri.

The b*mb is a necessity.

I have decided.

I want to improve the standard
of living of our people.

- and not put them in harm's way...
- Sir, we are so close.

Let's finish what we started.

Homi, your organization will invest

its time, effort and resources

in generating electricity.

PURNIMA reactor is not happening.

That's my final decision.

You know, I've had this argument before.

He too was a peaceful person like you.

Like you, he forsook weapons

and lost the w*r.

I miss him terribly.

Please don't make the same mistakes.

Have a good day, Mr. Prime Minister.

"33,000 Pakistani soldiers have
infiltrated the LOC

to take over Kashmir.

United Nations Security Council

has decreed with popular vote

that both countries have to end the

w*r unconditionally within 48 hours.

On one hand, the prime minister is

expected to win the w*r,

on the other, he is under pressure

to end the w*r and choose peace.

As Mr. Shastri was visiting Tashkent,

Defence minister Mr. Yashwantrao Chavan

Will helm the political tenure
of the country.'

'Mr. Chavan's first agenda
will be to manage

the growing uncertainty
and unrest in the country.

and keep the party united.'

Forgive me, General,

I didn't mean to interrupt your meeting.

- Look, Mr. Chavan...
- No, Mr. Chavan.

What's the update from Tashkent?

There's good news.

Thanks to Prime Minister Shastri,

the peace proposal

will be undertaken today.

A peace treaty doesn't guarantee peace.

We have to be alert.

I was just speaking
to the General about this..

I believe we should start
India's nuclear programme.

Madam, the party has unanimously decided

there will be no activity in AEC.

'After a 3-day discussion in Tashkent,'

'PM Shastri and Ayub Khan,
PM of Pakistan,'

'are close to agreeing on the deal'.

'After the Tashkent agreement pact,'

'Ending of the w*r
will soon be announced'.

'This will be a positive effort
towards...'

- Kaley, are we ready?
- Yes, sir.

Mr. Sahu!

We're just working on the finer details.

Everyone,

this is Mr. Kiran Karnik
from Doordarshan.

Good news, gentlemen.

We have got Doordarshan's studio

and a 500watts transmitter from AIR.

And this antenna from All India Radio.

It can carry signals as far as a
25 kilometer radius.

- Karnik?
- Yes, sir.

Can you please make a list of all
the villages that we'll be covering?

And also discuss

the nitty gritties of
the transmission with my team.

Sure.

- Mr. Sahu?
- Sir.

- Mr. Sahu.
- Yes.

You are getting us the TV sets, right?

Of course, sir, I made you a promise.

Sir, if the deal with NASA is on hold,

I think this will change their minds.

I really hope so.

What will you show on TV?

Some movie?

If yes, go for 'Naya Daur'.

Something like that.

- Have a look.
- Sure, sir.

- 'Krishi Darshan'?
- Yes.

Since we're broadcasting an education
programme for the country,

why not cater to our
most important citizens?

Our farmers.

Mr. Sahu, this will be
a programme like never before.

We'll educate our farmers about farming,
irrigation,

pesticides and other modern techniques.

Sir, Mr. Shastri will approve of this
gladly.

Can't wait for his return from Tashkent.

Yes, sir.

I'm telling you.. Homi has done it.
I've got confirmed news

What?

Proof? Proof that Homi has
converted the thorium reserves?

They will want proof.

Tell them loud and clear, that
it's impossible to get proof.

After that reactor attack...

I mean accident,
they've beefed up security.

Even I'm frisked 5 times a day.

How will I gather proof?

We can't do anything without proof.

USAEC wants proof

that Homi broke the contract.

- Let's go inside.
- You see, Mr. Prasanjit Dey,

I am trying..I am doing my job.

For a change, you all should, too.

Trying to blame me
for your incompetencies.

You guys have just
been all talks for years.

- Mr. Mathur..
- Yes?

I too, am doing my job.

But unlike you, I have proof.

Show me.

You.

You're alive.

Have some water.

I've been telling you since years that

You shouldn't come to the front office.

It's unseemly.

Hello?

Okay.

Raza is in Ahmedabad.

Raza?

What are you doing here?

Vikram,

please listen to me.

I'm not the traitor, someone else is.

I've been telling you

that bloody Raza is a loose canon.

He was suspicious of me.

He'll tell Vikram everything.

What if he has new evidence?

Raza has no evidence.

How can you be so sure?

We can't take this risk.
Understood?

What if Vikram gets to know? What then?

There's no risk.

How so?

How is there no risk?

I'd like to know. How is there no risk?

We wanted Raza to meet Vikram.

It was all part of the plan.

Mathur! He was in the
reactor room before me. Alone!

Come on, Raza. You were caught red-handed.
Homi himself saw you.

I wasn't even given
a chance to explain myself.

Look, Homi only

heeds you.

I approached you earlier as well

when I felt Homi's life was in danger.

Why would I want to k*ll him?

I guess Mathur is planning something
with Dey.

Plan, plan, plan!

What bloody plan?

Everybody seems to have some
kind of plan that I don't know about.

I'm fed up of this.
I will take all of you down!

You've been at it for 7 years.

I'm not impressed with your
little gizmos and your little machines.

I'm a man of science.
I'm a bloody scientist.

Don't be alarmed.

This is for you.

Hold it.

Go,

sh**t him.

You want him finished right, Mr. Mathur?

Go ahead then.

Raza is in Ahmedabad.
Go there.

Rather wait at his residence
and k*ll him when he returns.

Huh?

Don't know how to use it?

I'll teach you.

Point this here

and pull the trigger.
It's loaded.

The b*llet will hit Raza.

End of story.
Finished.

You can't even do that, Mr. Mathur.

Do you know why?

Because pulling the trigger...

requires courage.

And you have no courage.

It's simple.

You want to be the chairman, right?

Then do as I say.

Vikram! Vikram, Vikram..

- I came this far to meet you.
- Raza, what are you doing?

- Why would I do that?
- Let go of me. I don't know.

- Tell me.
- You were always against Homi's success.

Whatever it is, I don't really care...

Vikram, Vikram,

- please speak to Homi just once.
- Get away, Raza.

I'm not sure but

I have a strong feeling,
Mathur works for the CIA.

Speak to Homi just once.

Malli, dear

Go play outside, I'll join you soon.

Go, dear.

Listen to me carefully.

This is my house,
not the AEC complaint centre.

And I am not Homi's attorney.

Because of your crazy fad,

the whole space programme is suffering!
Our funding has been stopped.

I have nothing to do with AEC now.

Please leave.

- Vikram, listen to me once.
- Please.

Why don't you listen to me, Vikram?

- Hello?
- Hi, Vikram. This is Mathur.

- Yeah.
- Vikram,

did Raza try to meet you?

- Why?
- Well, no, nothing.

What's the matter?

Uhh... When we were clearing his desk,

we found some photos

of your family... Of
Kartikeya and Mrinalini.

Looked like surveillance photos.

I mean... I don't mean to alarm you

but it's about your family so...

The only thing I value
above my life and work...

is my family, Raza.

If I see you near my house ever again,

I'll do something I've never done
in my life before.

Suddenly? What's wrong, Vikram?

Get out of my house.

- But just listen...
- Get out!

Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri,
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin

and Pakistani President Ayub Khan

were involved in a week long discussion.

It can now be said
that the warring nations

have finally come to an agreement.

Sir, they're saying
that the treaty signed...

is a total sham.

What?

But...

It was the Russians who
drafted the contents of the deed.

I want to speak to Mr.
Kosygin right away.

We would like to speak
to Mr. Kosygin right now.

He has sent this file.

He has sent this file.

These are intercepted transcripts.

China plans to help
Pakistan to make their atom bombs.

These are intercepted transcripts.

China plans to help
Pakistan to make their atom bombs.

I feel...

America is in cahoots with them.

We assume the Americans are involved.

Yes.

America wants to strengthen its hold
over the Indian subcontinent.

If Pakistan sides with them...

Sir, America wants to strengthen
its hold over the Indian subcontinent.

If Pakistan sides with them...

What do you want from us

in lieu of this friendly exchange?

What do you want from
us for this friendly exchange?

The cold w*r might be going
on between America and the Soviets..

But it's affecting the entire world.

The cold w*r might be going
on between America and the Soviets...

But it's affecting the entire world.

This is just the start
of the nuclear warfare.

There's no way to escape it.

This is just the start
of the nuclear warfare.

There's no way to escape it.

Mr. Shastri,

Mr. Kosyngi has a message for you.

Please don't make the same mistake
as your predecessor.

With the Tashkent Declaration,

The India-Pakistan
w*r has come to an end.

Brave soldiers stationed on borders

can now return home.

Finally!

What did I tell you?

- Mrs. Singh.
- Pipsy!

- This is my mum.
- Pleasure to meet you.

Lovely meeting you.

Glad you got her. I told
her many times to get you to Delhi.

Please.

Thank you so much for looking
after my daughter...

- while Darius was gone.
- Oh please!

My husband might be their Commanding
Officer but they're family to me.

When you come to Bombay,
you definitely must stay with us.

Yes, of course!
In fact Pipsy said that

you have a beautiful gallery

and photo studio.

My husband and I will definitely come
for a family portrait.

You must.

Mrs. Singh... any other updates,
some letters perhaps?

I think they expect it in the evening...

Why don't you come
and join me for dinner today?

You know, I would have loved to

but my friends are coming
over for dinner, to celebrate..

- How lovely! That's really nice.
- Mrs. Singh?

I'll see you in a bit.

Do try the cheese. It's really lovely.

Thank you so much.

Where are Seher and Rukhsar?

They're playing outside as usual.

Ahhh... Did you tell them?

I will tell them,

dad's coming home.

Mrinalini, thank you so much.

Testing the satellites in villages
outside Delhi was truly a great idea.

You...

come here for Darpan's social
initiative programme, right?

You know.. I've asked the team to
identify 70-80 more such villages.

If this experiment is a success,

Then we'll repeat
it in the entire country.

Won't you say anything, Mrinalini?

Mrinalini, so many months have
passed since the performance.

I've been trying to talk
to you since then.

- I've apologized too.
- Vikram,

you asked me to show you
the villages and I'm doing that.

This does not change anything.

Mrinalini, what do you want?

How long will you avoid me?

On the stage that day...

What do you mean?

You left nothing unsaid
on stage that day.

In presence of my parents
and all of Ahmedabad

you said and did all that you wanted.

What was I to do, Vikram?

Walk out on you?

And to think that you are changing!

I was wrong...

yet again.

That's not what I meant.

What you saw on the stage,
that was my life, Vikram.

I was living that life.

Quietly,

seeing and knowing everything.

You have no idea about it, right?

What I was going through?

You think an apology

solves everything?!

I don't want to fight with you.

- I just want to talk to you.
- No!

You're trying to end the matter.

You want us to...

forget everything and move on
as if nothing happened.

What do we do then?

Should we lament over it forever?

Kamla has left and
I've said sorry to you.

What are you sorry about, Vikram?

For what happened?

Or because you got caught?

I love you, Mrinalini.

It's not love, Vikram.

It's guilt.

Can we please leave now?

We're getting late.

Mrinalini, I know I've hurt you.

I prioritized my life and dreams

knowing well it would hurt you.

And most importantly,

I broke your trust.

I've wronged the person
I valued the most.

I want just one more chance.

Please.

Take all the time you want.

I will wait.

I'll wait for you as long as it takes.

I love you, Mrinalini.

You're right.
There is guilt..

but not more than love.

Ma'am, Vikram sir asked
me to take you back.

Should I drop you to the hotel?

No, I'll wait.

Okay.

What happened? Why have you
called me here so late at night?

We have new intel about Bhabha.

Homi is in Delhi, right?

Do you have a stooge in DRDO also?!

You're not understanding.
This is about Tashkent.

Sir?

Arrange the secure line.

Hello, Mr. Shastri.

Hello.

Signed the deal?

Yes.

Congratulations.

Indu, speak to Homi.

Tell him...

it's time to finish the w*r.

It would be expected of us
to bug the place, right?

Who would even take that
chance to make that call?

But the Indians just faltered.

Indu, speak to Homi.
Tell him

it's time to finish the w*r.

- Homi uncle!
- How are you, my dearest?

- My favourite scientist.
- These are for you. - Thank you.

- Hello!
- Pipsy.

Come on in, boys.

Hi, how are you? Come.
Hi.

- Glad you could make it.
- Has anyone come yet?

- Well, yeah.
- Hey, Rukhsar.

- Homi uncle!
- How are you?

How are you?

I'm good.

Give me those.

Give me. Thank you, darling

A toast to the end of w*r.

Reunions and family coming home.

To the end of w*r.

To family coming home.

- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Cheers.

- What's that thing you used to say?
- I don't know. I say a lot of things.

I know you do.

Uh something about "make music, not w*r."

Ah! Did I say that?

Get on with it.

So wise.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Homi..

I'll wait for a confirmation from you.

I'll give it as soon as I can.

The drop off is at Kanchenjunga.

(Severe coughing)

- What happened?!
- Go quickly get the doctor!

Just a second!

Mrs. Singh, good evening!
Come in.

My friends are over.
You must come meet them.

What happened, Mrs. Singh?
Everything okay?

I'm really very sorry.

Sorry?

I just received this telegram.

In last week's firing...

I... I'm really very sorry.

The whole area was
covered in a snow storm.

I...

- All the bodies were recovered...
- I don't know what she's saying.

only yesterday.

Vikram, Homi!

What happened?

What is it?

No!

Please no! No! No, no, no, no

No! Please no!

No...

No! Please say no! no, no, no.

My little babies...

Please call him! Call him..

I'm sorry.

Homi.

There was a call
from Teen Murti Bhavan.

Madam has called us.

It seems to be urgent.

- You heard?
- No.

You might as well hear it now.
It's going to be all over the news.

Mrs. Gandhi?

The prime minister is dead.

Heart attack.

But... He was absolutely fine.

We have reason to
suspect he was poisoned.

His body was found blue
and greatly swollen.

Who would want to k*ll Mr. Shastri?

The official word will be heart attack.

We can't be seen as a nation

whose prime minister gets k*lled
amidst a peace treaty.

This w*r has greatly weakened us
and we need to show strength.

That's what Mr. Shastri said
when he called me last night.

He called you?

Why? What did he want?

He was asking for you.

He said it's time to finish the w*r.

This is an act of w*r, gentlemen.

They made the first move.

It's our turn now.

Are you asking us to make a b*mb, madam?

Mrs. Gandhi,
we may have lost this battle

but we will win the w*r.