[Title Montage]
[Hemant] Due to the rising cases of tension in the country,
the government has issued...
...notice for extension of city-wide curfew.
[Jagdish] Okay, I am giving.
You are hence informed that school will remain shut over...
...the coming week.
- [Jagdish] Will you have biscuits? - [Kalpana] No, I won't eat.
[Babbo] Early in the morning.
[Hemant] Schools and offices are shut again.
What's happening in this country?
How can anyone run their business?
The churning is going.
This is the only way to separate the nectar from the poison.
[Astha] Hemant. The pressure cooker has conked off.
The city has shut down. Use it till you can.
Will worry about it later.
[Babbo] Don't your in-laws pray together?
How do I know? I am asking you.
Okay, leave it.
What have you cooked for breakfast?
[Aru & Aki] Holiday!
Enough.
Stop shouting. And what's this?
Is the pillow used as a doormat?
Keep it on the bed.
Why have you climbed with shoes on the bed?
Do you know what's happening outside?
Curfew has been imposed.
Everybody is fighting outside.
So, we are locked in our homes like in jail. Trapped.
We can't even go anywhere outside.
[Astha] Granny is going on ringing the bell downstairs.
And you are screaming here as naughty kids.
Your dad is only worried about toilet seats and commodes.
And your aunty is curious to know over the phone...
...what Timsi's sister-in-law has cooked.
So, I can't even make a call.
This house has turned into a pressure cooker.
[Sighs]
Why are you staring at me? Clean the room immediately.
[Clatters]
[Cooker whistle blows]
What happened?
What's this?
[Siren wailing]
[Hemant] How will the cooker be repaired during the curfew?
How could you send her alone?
I haven't sent her.
Can I stop her when she is so obsessed?
[Kalpana] Food can't be cooked without the cooker.
And she left.
Are you going to break it?
What do I do when it doesn't work?
So, break it, papa.
Take the showpiece and break the TV screen.
[Hemant] Come on, break it.
Break the screen. Who changed the remote?
[Announcement] All of you know that the curfew has been imposed.
Just a minute, madam.
Where are you going, madam?
Look, the pressure cooked has conked off.
Food can't be cooked in this. Everybody is hungry at home.
I just need to get it repaired.
Curfew has been imposed all over the city.
- It's very dangerous for you. - I know, sir.
Yet I have come. Because there isn't any food at home for anyone.
Please, sir. I will quickly get it repaired and rush back home.
- Okay, hurry up and go. - Thank you.
[Indistinct conversation]
[Doorbell ringing]
[Door opens]
It is broken!
Astha, such broken items are not repaired here.
Wrong. Every broken item can be mended.
I have repaired this pressure cooker many times.
Look, it was very stupid of me to meet your mom.
I shouldn't have done it.
But if I returned home with this pressure cooker,
it would be much more stupid.
I don't have an extra pressure cooker.
You do.
You do have an extra pressure cooker.
It is in the third drawer of your kitchen.
[Clatters]
Take it and leave.
Why did your mom say you were bad news?
Wow. Is she still calling me that?
She needs to expand her vocabulary.
You hate her.
She hates you and you hate her.
[Peeplika] Just look at yourself.
It seems you have crossed the oceans.
- You want to change? - No.
And you don't change the topic.
I am asking you something.
[Astha] Just answer a simple question of mine.
Listen, Peeplika.
I have revealed everything about my life to you.
And you are so secretive.
If you want to accept me, then do it wholeheartedly.
Let me in completely, please.
Peepli, talk to me.
We are together because we converse.
I don't want another uncommunicative partner.
These things can't be told this way.
When I am competing with the f**king pressure cooker's repair time.
Curfew has been imposed.
Yet I am here. I want to talk to you.
- What else should I do? - [Peeplika laughs]
- You want to talk? - [Astha] Yes.
- Then come with me. - [Astha] Where?
Spend the whole day and night with me.
I am leaving for Fatehpur relief camp tomorrow to volunteer.
Will you join me?
[Peeplika] We'll talk to our heart's content.
[Kalpana] Why are you just shuffling?
Deal the cards.
- I am doing it. - [Babbo] Papa, play with us.
Mom, this is yours.
I've cooked granny's special recipe for fritters made of carom seeds.
- Wow. - Yes.
Wine for you and fritters for us.
Come on.
- [Hemant] Has everyone placed their bets? - Yes.
- Colour sequence. - Wow.
- [Astha] Trio. - [Babbo] Oh no.
[Kalpana] Look at this first.
Hemant. Astha is revealing herself with time.
Okay, Astha. Go and throw the peels.
[Hemant] Babbo, I don't underestimate Astha.
My turn will come too.
Just wait and watch.
[Kalpana] Yes, it will surely come.
[Door opens]
[Cycle bell ringing]
You are here.
Hurry up or I might change my mind.
[Trunk door closes]
[Car door opens]
[Car door closes & opens]
[Car door closes]
Show. Sequence.
Bro, it is your unlucky day today.
- What? - 82.
Oh no!
Astha is on my team.
Aki, go and call mom.
Or else your aunt is going to win everything today.
- Yes, I will. - [Phone ringing]
Okay, wait.
- Come and sit next to me. - Sit in her lap.
Come, dear.
Ridhima had called me.
Chittu is feeling very sick.
- [Astha] He has a high fever. - Calm down, Astha.
I can't understand.
Tell me clearly.
[Astha] She was panicking on the call.
I didn't know what to do. I just left. Sorry.
[Hemant] But during the curfew?
And who is Chitti?
Her nephew.
He has come from Kerala.
He has a high fever.
She couldn't manage everything alone.
[Astha] So, I am here.
- Okay, fine. - [Astha] Okay, bye.
Hello?
Astha, hello?
[Sighs]
Your name, Peeplika.
What does it mean?
An ant.
Really?
No?
Really?
[Both giggling]
You have metamorphosed from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
How will you go back to your cocoon?
[Song playing]
Fatehpur Sikri Relief Camp
[Song playing]
[Astha] In my entire life,
I have always followed others.
At first, it was my mother.
Because after dad's death,
I feared that mother would feel lonely.
After I got married,
I followed Hemant.
I feared...
...that I might make a mistake.
And that Hemant would leave me alone.
I am not following but walking along someone.
Like I had my own individuality.
I am doing something for myself not because I am fearful of others.
- What are you doing? - What are you doing?
They all ran away.
Just a minute.
Astha.
Peace offering.
You are a psycho.
You know that, right?
Ants for the ant.
Cute, but.
[Song playing]
[Peeplika] It is a stolen night.
Stole you from your husband and kids.
When I asked you,
I didn't think that you would actually come.
[Astha] You have not stolen anything.
I came on my own will.
Don't you know?
I am an open book.
I have told you everything about my life.
But you are secretive.
But it is okay.
So, you take your time.
I am happy in this moment.
You know.
Aijaz had a lot of love in him.
But I could predict his love.
You.
You surprise me.
Layer by layer.
You do something new and amazing everyday.
That day,
I meant it.
Neither would I have spoken to you again.
Nor met you.
This is the only topic...
...on which even Aijaz had given up.
My mother.
But I will try.
[Woman 1] Leave me. What are you doing?
Just a second.
What happened?
Listen. Peepli.
[Woman 1] Leave me. Don't hit me.
- [Woman 1] What are you doing? - [Man 1] Answer me.
- [Man 1] How dare you! - [Woman 1] Please spare her.
- How dare you! - [Slapping]
- [Man 1] How dare you! - [Peeplika] Leave her.
- [Peeplika] How dare you hit the girl! - Leave him.
[Woman 1] It is my family matter. Please don't hit him.
[Peeplika] How dare you raise your hand on her?
Somebody, please help.
[Woman 1] It is my family matter. Please help.
- Sister. - How did you raise your hand?
Sister, please stop her.
Help me. Stop her.
- [Astha] Peepli, leave him. - [Woman 1] Leave him.
What are you doing? It is their internal matter.
Police will look into it.
What can the police do?
Bloody animal.
If you ever raise your hand on someone again,
then I will break your bones.
Please take him away.
Take him away from here.
- [Woman 1] Yes, let's go. - All of you can leave from here.
Dinner is served.
Please go from here. This isn't a show.
Peepli. Just a minute.
[Astha] What happened?
What's wrong?
What happened to you all of a sudden?
Why did you do this? Why?
Did my mother tell you?
What?
Then it hasn't happened.
Nothing has happened.
- Okay? Nothing has happened. - [Peeplika crying]
Nothing at all.
[Peeplika crying]
[Astha] I am right here. I am not going anywhere.
You are fine. We are safe.
Enough.
Nothing is going to happen to you.
[News on TV] Now the most sensational news.
Breaking news.
Which will shake you up.
The situation in New Delhi is worsening...
...because of the issue of Ram mandir.
The whole country is engulfed by this fire.
Papa, why are we not attending school?
The entire city is shut, dear.
Even I am not going to office.
- We will enjoy ourselves at home. Okay? - [Phone ringing]
Babbo.
[Phone ringing]
[News on TV] The common people want peace.
[Jagdish] Hello.
Yes, Ridhima. Is everything okay?
Tell Astha that I can pick her up. It is not safe outside.
She is upstairs.
Making tomato sauce is the easiest.
Astha can cook it.
[Ridhima] Why would I call Astha home...
...just to make sauce?
Isn't Astha there?
The call got disconnected.
[Car halting]
[Car door opens]
[Car door closes]
[Keys jingling]
[Phone ringing]
[Peeplika] Hello. Need to check in.
[Man 2] Okay.
- I want to make a call. - Sure, ma'am.
- Where is the phone? - This way.
[Peeplika] Please fill it up, ma'am.
Hello, Hemant.
- [Astha] Is everyone fine at home? - Yes, everything is fine here.
- How are things there? - [Astha] Everything is fine.
I will have to stay back here for moral support.
- Okay. - Please inform mom.
- [Hemant] Yes. - Okay, bye.
Papa, you misunderstood it.
Astha is there.
[Hemant] Must have been in another room.
She said it very clearly that Astha wasn't there.
[Jagdish] Babbo, make me a sandwich.
[Receptionist] Ma'am, 9th floor. Last room.
[Music playing]
[Song playing]
[Ridhima] Everybody loved the sauce.
That's why I called.
I am sorry. I am just talking about myself.
You tell me, what will you drink?
Some hot filter coffee?
No, nothing.
[Ridhima] Decoction is ready. It will just take two minutes.
No, Ridhima, it is fine.
I will come on Sunday.
I will meet...
- ...Rakesh as well. Thank you. - [Ridhima] Okay.
[Song playing]
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Door opens]
[Hemant] How is your affair going?
[Theme music playing]