[Title Montage]
You have reached home safely.
I miss you already.
Then don't go.
- What? - Let's elope.
Sure.
I have kids.
We will take them along.
Baby.
Once the caterpillar has left the cocoon...
...to become a butterfly,
it can't go back.
I don't want to go back.
Good night.
[Car door opens]
[Car door closes]
[Gate opens]
[Gate closes]
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Light turns on]
So, how is your affair going?
Affair?
Don't try to be secretive.
I have come to know everything.
[Hemant] So, what is the guy's name?
There isn't a man.
[Hemant] You have many qualities, Astha.
[Water splashing]
Average cook.
Decent mother.
Average wife.
Average party host.
I wouldn't know what kind of a teacher you are.
But there is a quality which you don't possess at all.
You can't lie.
I am not lying, Hemant.
There isn't any man.
[Hemant] You think I am a fool?
Right?
I a toilet seat seller who watches TV serials.
Middle class idiot, right?
No.
That's not true.
I know that you were not at Ridhima's place.
I am not a bloody fool.
I saw Peeplika Khan...
...dropping you at the corner of the street.
I saw you.
[Hemant] Where were you? You were with her for two days.
How is she related to you?
Supplier?
You were even fond of her husband.
So, you were always involved in plays and rehearsals.
- [Hemant] Crying and sobbing. - Keep quiet, Hemant.
What are you saying?
I didn't go to Ridhima's house.
I went to Fatehpur with Peeplika.
Why?
For myself.
- What? - There was a relief camp there.
Peeplika works with an NGO.
I too wanted to work.
That's why I went there.
Hemant, you know,
the country is burning.
[Astha] We are so lucky.
We have no idea about it by being at home during the curfew.
I realized when I went on the streets.
People's lives have been ruined, Hemant.
If we don't take any steps during the crisis,
there will be nothing left for our next generation.
I have saved deposits for them.
It will be saved.
I have even secured our daughter's life.
What is the use of securing the future...
...when there might not be a future?
What is the use of the money if they can't step out of their homes?
What do you even know, Astha?
You are just a housewife.
[Hemant] What can be done with your rubbish teaching job?
Have you ever run the house with your own money?
You will not be able to survive for a day...
...without the comforts which I provide you.
Financial future is everything.
The country is burning.
Stop burning the chapatis first.
Then try saving the country.
I do everything possible...
...to make our family happy.
What have I done for which you...
You need to sleep. Please sleep.
I love you a lot, Astha.
[Hemant] Despite everything,
I trust you.
[Hemant] I love you, Astha.
I love you.
[Bell ringing]
Papa.
- Hope you haven't added sugar. - No, this is for you.
[News on radio]
- [Aru] Aki. - [Jagdish] Be careful.
Slowly.
Oh no.
- [Aru] Aki. - Just a minute.
What happened? What's wrong?
[Aru] He has taken my clip.
Return it to her.
Don't fight. Let's have breakfast.
Astha, if you intend to stay out at night the next time,
please inform where the emergency lights are.
We were in darkness the whole night.
Babbo, relax.
We all got a holiday due to the curfew.
Only Astha had double duty.
[Hemant] So just imagine that Astha was on a holiday for a night.
- Thank you. - [Kalpana] Astha, but it is true.
[Kalpana] It is okay if you went out for the night.
But you should inform us. We miss you at home.
[Cooker whistle blows]
Pick up the socks, Aru. Are they supposed to be kept on the sofa?
Aru, please pick up your socks.
Learn to do your own work.
Your mom is very tired. She might run off again.
Babbo.
[Babbo] I am just joking with my sister-in-law.
Oh God.
[Jagdish] Are your guys done?
I am having an affair.
My husband knows this somehow.
I have already crossed the boundary.
But I am not feeling good.
[Jagdish] Kids are running around. They are screaming.
Talking amongst themselves.
[Phone ringing]
- Hello. - [Peeplika] I had warned you.
[Peeplika] When I am love, I am quite the monster.
Now, I will be very demanding.
My friends are coming over.
I want to introduce you to them.
I will let you know.
I can't make a promise.
I will see.
[Peeplika] I know you will come. 100 percent.
Love you.
[Piyu] Oh God, look at that smile.
Can you stop smiling?
[Giggling]
I think Astha has made you fall in love crazily. Like first love.
What to do?
You know, she has captured my heart.
And she is not even my type.
If you meet her, you will come to know.
She is special.
But she is ordinary.
I mean I don't know.
How do I explain?
It is like...
...when she walks into a room,
everything starts glowing.
Life makes sense.
[Astha] We don't live in a vacuum.
Our past is in our present and our present is in our future.
I love it.
But it could be better.
I think one more draft and your essay will be perfect.
[Shubroto] Thank you so much, ma'am.
- All the best, Shubroto. Keep this in the staff room. - Thank you.
[Shubroto] Sure. Thank you, ma'am.
Thanks.
Teacher.
I too have questions about the past, present and future.
Come.
You are here?
You are really good, by the way.
Really good.
I love it. But one more draft.
The student is motivated and also happy.
Wow.
Thanks.
You know, Piyu was very motivated yesterday.
She read the poetry of Faiz very expressively.
I am really sorry. I couldn't come yesterday.
This is the second time.
What the f**k is going on?
I...
[Astha] Wait, stop.
I mean I don't get it.
- Just a minute. - What am I doing wrong?
You haven't done anything wrong. Please don't say this.
It is not you.
Then what is it? Tell me.
I think I am just feeling guilty.
Because I feel...
...that I am doing something wrong.
- Good morning, ma'am. - Good morning.
Okay, I don't love Hemant.
- I know that. - Okay.
I love you. I have fallen for you.
I know that too. But everything is very complicated.
My life.
My life is connected to Hemant's. We have kids.
It is like my life is a blanket.
Hemant and I have together stitched...
...each and every thread of it.
Which thread should I pull off?
How do I manage Aki and Aru?
- I don't understand. - Astha.
- That's why I feel guilty. - The bell has been rung.
Class is over.
You are not writing a book on blanket threads.
I mean all I asked you was to meet my friends.
- I Know. - Did I ask you to elope with me?
- Raise babies with me? No. - No.
And to use your metaphor,
you are sleeping with your husband under that blanket.
I am the one who sleeps alone.
I mean you can't even meet my friends.
Why are you even discussing about threads?
I wanted to come. I was even ready. I swear.
I even wore your favourite red saree.
I wanted to see you smile.
I wanted to impress your friends.
- But I was not able to leave. - Why?
Because when I was leaving home,
Aki gave me an invitation card...
...which the kids make on their own.
The colony kids were performing a program.
Mrs. Chadha had cooked chicken lollipops.
- Aki danced a lot on movie songs. - Oh my God.
So was Mrs. Chadha's lollipops more important than me?
No.
But Peepli, my kids are.
[Peeplika] Really, Astha?
You are going to use that card? Your kids.
It is not a card.
My kids are important.
Maybe you will never be able to understand.
As you don't have kids. Oh my God. You know what?
I think your mom is right about you.
Ouch.
So below the belt.
- Amazing. - No.
No. Wait. Listen. I am sorry.
I am sorry. I shouldn't have said that.
Why are we even fighting?
- I don't want to fight. - If you come to know...
...about what my mother said,
you will definitely leave me.
It is better to split now.
- So long, babe. - What? No.
I don't want to go anywhere. I want to hear.
I want to hear everything. Whatever you want to say.
Talk to me. Tell me. I want to hear it.
But you will not be able to handle it, Astha.
I will. Try me.
Try me.
Listen, I want to hear.
I have never shared this with anyone.
Not even to Aijaz.
[Peeplika] It is not even worth the effort.
Everyone leaves me and goes away.
You will too.
No, I will not leave.
I am right here. I want to hear.
I want to know.
I do.
- Come home. - Yes.
Today evening. I will.
[Peeplika] I will reveal everything.
Okay.
I am sorry.
- Sure? - Sure.
Okay. Which way?
[Sighs]
[Phone ringing]
Hello.
Who?
Just a second. Calm down, dear.
Yes, Astha. She is right here.
Just a second. Come soon. Call for you.
Hello.
- I have come for Mrs. Kapoor. - No, sir.
Exams are going on. You cannot enter.
She teaches here. She is a professor, Astha Kapoor.
- [Watchman] Wait for a minute. - The situation is very tense.
- [Watchman] Okay. Drive inside. - I have come to pick her up.
Park this side.
Astha!
- Astha. - [Astha] Dariyaganj. Hurry up.
Hurry up.
[Car door opens]
[Car door closes]
[Car engine revving]
Please take the shortcut. Not the long route.
Don't stop near the cops.
[Astha] Okay, let me talk.
Sir, I have some important work. Can I please go?
- [Constable 1] Okay. - Thank you.
[Mouthing]
[Footsteps]
Mudassar.
Aunt.
I will be back.
What are you doing here?
[Astha] What are you doing here, Mudassar?
This is not you.
Timsi had called me. She is very worried.
Your parents too are very worried.
What are you doing here?
- You are not like them. - [Mudassar] Please, aunt.
Are you even aware of what's happening with us?
And have you forgotten...
...how mercilessly Aijaz was killed?
Why? Because he belonged to our community.
What are you saying? This isn't true.
It is not about us or them. Mudassar.
He always spoke about humanity.
You also believed in that.
What has happened to you?
Aunt, it is very easy to say this...
...till you don't lose anyone of your own.
[Mudassar] Just think about it.
If something happened to Uncle Hemant...
...in a bomb blast, what would you have done?
Aunt, you cannot even imagine...
...the atrocities done to our community.
Everybody is tormented.
There is terror everywhere. There is hatred all around.
And who is suffering because of this?
Common people like you and me.
Look, Mudassar.
Had Aijaz been here,
he would have said the same thing what I am trying to tell you.
If educated people like you...
...live in peace and harmony...
- [Explosion] - [Screaming]
[Fire crackling]
[Shouting]
[Fighting]
[Footsteps]
What are you doing here, Hemant?
I thought...
...you were really having an affair.
So, when I saw you hurriedly leaving from college,
I thought you were leaving me and going away.
So, I...
I followed you here.
Hemant.
What did you tell Babbo?
- That you slipped. - No.
I...
I slipped.
Have I fallen in your eyes?
What are you saying, Hemant?
You have just got hurt.
[Hemant] What have I not done?
I do everything for us.
For our family.
I even washed the stinking lunch box last week.
I am very scared.
Hemant.
You...
What if you leave me again?
This is all my life is about.
You, kids, parents, and their health.
[Hemant] But now, I feel...
...that the dream...
You wanted to work after marriage. I never stopped you.
But now.
[Hemant] Why are you getting involved in politics?
What if something happened to you today?
What would happen to me?
What would happen to our kids?
[Hemant] A person gets married to feel secure.
I feel as if you are breaking our joint account.
And withdrawing everything without informing me.
- No. - I don't know.
What I should do?
I don't know what you are doing.
I don't know.
- [Sushing] - [Hemant] Please don't.
[Song playing]
[Footsteps]
- [Song playing] - [Footsteps]
[Classical music playing]
[Liquor pouring]
[Music playing]
[Ram Singh] Amit. Someone got inside the house.
The things are broken.
Where were you all?
Madam, she...
Spit it out.
Call DCP.
Madam, I wonder who entered the house.
- Ram Singh. - Where were you?
- Even the guard wasn't there. - Ram Singh.
- No need to call anyone. - Okay, madam.
I know who has done this.
[Classical music playing]
[Theme music playing]