Saturday, July 27, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN....296
INTO
THE PAST WITH PAIN…296
Dr K Prabhakar Rao
(It is busy
street opposite to Institute of Medical sciences and Gandhi, Patel and
Nehru are also seen on the street. There is some commotion in the area and many ambulances are seen parked. Doctors
in white coats and steths in pockets are
busy moving around. Some are really busy while many appear to act busy. )
Gandhi. Patel. What can be the matter today. All appear busy
here and there is commotion. Was there any earth quake or train disaster.
Nehru. There could be some food poisoning in some school.
Patel. Why do you
wish such things at schools?
Gandhi. I am upset at things. What can go wrong here?
Patel. Bapu. Ask what can not go wrong here? Any how I shall
enquire from some guy.
( Patel and Nehru go to a corner and approach an elderly man whose name is Pyarelal
Patel. Bhai. What
went wrong?
Lal. All is wrong.
Guys are mad. They are nuts. They are a bunch of clowns.
Patel. Be clear sir. Whom you are blaming? Are they patients
or doctors?
Lal. I am telling about patients. The
hospital is full of congress men
and leaders.
Nehru. Why only congress men.?
Patel. Was there any
food poisoning at some big rally held by them?At these rallies free food is given.
Lal. Nothing of that sort happened.
Patel. Then what happened? Recently summer heat has been
very high and they held a rally in hot weather. I hope they suffered sun
stroke.
Lal. No . Not at all.Doctors promised that they would occasionally put TV display about the
situation.
( Gandhi also approaches them slowly. He is seen coughing
loudly)
Gandhi. Hugh.. Hugh.. Bhai. What happened here? Patel, you
said you would come quickly. You left this old guy alone. Even Jawaharlal left me.(
Sings)
Ab kaun hai mera . ab kaun hai mera
Faryad hai.. Faryad hai takdeer ne loota hai basera ( Surendranath from Anmol Ghadi..
1946)
Patel. Come on Bapu. Have we deserted you? We came here to
get some information for you. You must have patience too.
Gandhi. Oh . You started replying back.
Patel. Sorry Bapu. Please
try to understand. Do not be angry.
Gandhi. It is OK, Relax. I am fine. What he is saying?
Patel. He said that the hospital is full of patients from
Congress party.
Gandhi. Why so. Have they come for blood donation?
Patel. Bapu. Can it be so? Since 1947 that party was in
power for most of the time and sucked away all the blood from people.
Nehru. Come on Patel. No jokes please now. I am hurt.
Patel. Face things squarely dear. Search your heart for a
while. Answer will be clear. Subhash
chandra bose said. Give me blood. I shall give freedom to you. How about the
present guys?
Gandhi. What they say?
Patel. Give us blood. We shall drink or sell. Make money
too.
Gandhi. Come on guys.
Find out what happened to the patients here.
Patel. Bhail Lal, Tell us
what exactly happened.
Lal. Look sir. These guys developed some strange ailment and for many days no one could diagnose what
exactly was the disease.
Patel. Hee..Hee
Nehru. What is there to laugh?
Patel. If one guy was there, I would not have laughed. He says there are hundreds here.
Lal. True. There are hundreds. All have the same symptoms.
Gandhi. What are these symptoms?
Lal. They get sudden
convulsions. They get into delirium. They
shout sounding Audi.. Audi..
Gandhi. What can be this Audi Patel?
Patel. Bapu, Audi is a very
costly car introduced in India.
Very few can afford it.
Gandhi. Then why all these guys keep taking its name. Did
the leaders at top promise them these
cars?
Patel. I do not think so.
Gandhi. This appears to be a
mystery. We must solve it.
Nehru. Relax. It is not our job. Doctors there who got degrees like MBBS, MS MD DM etc.
Gandhi. True. But many doctors are donation type too.
They purchased seats in private colleges
paying crores of money. More over the private medical colleges have no
standards. They are apology to the name medical college.
Patel. Hee.. Hee.. Bapu. Let us not get
into that shit pot. We can not come out.
Gandhi. Well said. Now how
do we go about?
Lal. Bhai. I suspect
that these men are scared of Modi sahib
of Gujrat.
( In the mean time there is a big commotion near the TV screens. People gather pushing
around each other . Patel also runs there.
He reads the screen loudly. “” Dear Onlookers know what happened to all these
patients. The medical team has
investigated everything in detail and has concluded that these are suffering
from.. Modioisis aka Thrombo, pulmano, Gastro enteric craziasis that is incurable. It is worst than cancer.)
Gandhi. How sad! That means these guys have suffered Modi phobia ever since he
became popular in the country.
Patel. True Bapu. They are scared. All the time they discuss
about Modiji. They use all phrases
against him. They leave no stone unturned in condemning him. Finally They got it while Modiji is fine. Hee..hee..
Gandhi. I feel sad
for the guys. They were crazy of dynasty. May god bless them with some wisdom. In democracy every one has right to
contest and win. No one has right to do character assassination.
Patel. But Bapu what exactly goes on now is Character
assassination only.
Gandhi. What we can do. Hope god will give them some light.
Let us go.
Patel. OK. Thanks Mr Lal for all the help.
Lal. Never mind sir. I am also like you.
( the trio
walks away )
CURTAIN FALLS
INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN...297
INTO THE
PAST WITH PAIN……. 297
Dr K Prabhakar Rao
Gandhi, Patel and Nehru are seen at Abids circle in Hyderabad. They are
strolling lazily and they find a Sweet corn masala shop. Smells is sweet and
Patel is attracted.
Patel. Bapu, How about a cup of boiled corn with Masala each?
Gandhi. I do not mind Patel. Weather is also stimulating.
Few rain drops around make it more convincing. OK
Nehru. Come on Bapu, Do you eat on road side shop.
Gandhi. What is wrong in it. We are on road side now. Sp we
are eating on road side shop. Will the shop be in sky?
Nehru. Ohfo. I didn’t mean that way. Roadside shop means a
clumsy one.
Gandhi. Jawaharlal, You are ego is not yet dead although you were dead long ago. We are nothing now in
society. All of us died long ago and guys have forgotten us. Here and
there one can find my statue and your
statue too. Most of the statues are badly maintained. Of course at very few
places they are looked after because they are needed for garlanding on our
death and birth days. I hardly find statues of Patel.
Patel. Bapu. Mans
actions are not measured by statues. More the statues are erected less
work is indicated. More statues mean some
image exploitation for social and political purpose.
Gandhi. That I agree.
But for some guys in India there is
a statue at every crossing as if they are standing to direct passers in different directions like police
men. Hee..hee… In that way we are lucky.
I feel sad because at many places
our statues are surrounded by filth, pigs, stray dogs, urchins and dust bins
and pissing guys. Some also ease themselves at night.
Patel. That is very befitting because you struggled to clean
up public toilets when you were alive.
Gandhi. Hee..Hee.
That is the befitting tribute by the nation to me. I am very happy. (
sings and does also jig. Some on- lookers gather around and clap)
Look my brothers , please
listen to me
I struggled all my
life half naked and in rain
Strangely the nation looks other way today
However I do not feel
a pinch of any pain
Patel ( sings)
Bapu, Well done , you
composed nicely
It is very great and
I can not any more dwell
You are a born poet
in this thankless world
And I can see also that you do jig very well
Nehru. Come on guys, Other guys are watching us.
Gandhi. So what. This is a free country and we are free
people.
Patel And we have freedom of Expression.
Onlooker. I am Phaltu Sareen. You sang poems well and also
acted well.
Gandhi. What do you mean acted well ?
Sareen. Then what you were doing?
Patel. We were not acting. We are real guys. Not actors.
Sareen. I thought you were on some street play. I wasted my
time.
Nehru. No one asked to stay brother.
( On lookers melt away)
Patel. We forgot about sweet corn. Let us have some fun.
( The trio goes to the vendor )
Patel. Please give us three cups of corn.
Vendor. Sweet or sour?
Patel. I want sweet one
Nehru. I want sour one.
Gandhi. I want mixed.
Vendor. I can not make mixed one.
Gandhi. Why. Shall I help you.
Vendor. I shall try
( Vendor gives them cups and they start munching )
Gandhi. Why you guys preferred different tastes?
Patel. I am a sweet guy. So I take a sweet one.
Nehru. Do you mean I am bad guy because I took a sour one?
Patel. Did I say that? It is up to you.
Gandhi. I am a mixture of good and bad. So I tool mixed one.
( They finish off the cups and start walking and
arrive at the circle)
Nehru. Bapu, Have you seen my statue holding a pigeon and
releasing it from palm
Gandhi. Yeah. I see it. I happy you released it and not made
a breakfast of it. But why so many strings are tied to the neck
Patel. Whenever some political party has a program they tie
their flag strings to his neck in every direction. It looks as if his statue is
hung by strings. Hee..hee..hee. Now all paper flags are withered way and only
strings remain. Haa..haaa.haaa
Gandhi. I feel bad
for the disrespect to the statue.
Patel. Bapu. Do you think they are erected out of respect?
It is pure exploitation of our images and memories.
Nehru. I can not keep watching this nonsense. I shall remove
strings
( Nehru tries to jump the fence of the enclosure and he is
caught by a police man)
Police man. Hey. What are you doing? Why are jumping over
the fence?
Nehru. I want to remove the strings around.
Police man. That is not your job.
Nehru. Then is it your job?
Police man. Neither mine. It is the work of city municipality. Go away. Or else I shall take
to police station.
Nehru. Please take me if you can.
Police man. Can’t I take you?
Gandhi. Look Constable. Please leave him. He is a bit
upset.
Police man. Why.?
Patel. The statue looks like him
( Police man again looks at Nehru and statue in turns)
Police man. True. He looks like statue.
Patel. Sorry. Statue looks like him
Police man. Correct. I understand his problem. You can go now.
( The police man goes away)
Patel. Bapu. I think we must leave now. It is getting very
cloudy.
Gandhi. True
( The trio walks away
fast )
CURTAIN FALLS
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INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN...295
INTO THE PAST WITH
PAIN… 295
Dr K
Prabhakar Rao
Gandhi, Nehru and Patel are
seen at Haridwar and they are on their way to Kedar nath. They are in
usual dress and of course carrying simple
bags )
Gandhi. Patel. At last we
have reached this place.
Patel. Bapu , We are
still far away from our destination.
Gandhi. I know that.
Let us take bath in Ganges before we
start our journey.
Patel. True. Some sins will be washed off.
Nehru. Patel. Please do not joke. It is hurting.
Patel. If by taking
dip in Ganga if all sins are washed off
then why do many yaganas , Yagas and other Bhajans etc.
Gandhi. I can not answer these questions. Did I say that
sins will be washed off if we take bath in Ganges?
Please do not waste time.
( They go to the bathing ghat and enter waters. Suddenly some object of large
size submerged in water rises up and Nehru falls on it. )
Nehru. Eee..eee.. What is this wrapped up in cloths?
( Nehru standing in neck deep waters trys to pull out from the clothes. He findsa human hand coming
off from the bag )
Nehru. Eee…eeee…. Aahh..aaah.. It is part of dead
body.. chee..chee. He throws it off into
water. But it hangs around him
Patel. What happened Jawaharlal. Why are you shouting. Are
you feeling cold?
Nehru. This place
looks like a grave yard. This bag has a
dead body.
Patel. Jawaharlal. Some people leave the dead in Ganges as a last ritual. Probably this is one. Any how
you are in waters of Ganges.
No sin will be attached to you. Relax.
Nehru. Bapu. Let us come out of this place. Enough of this
Gandhi. As you wish .
( The trio come out of water and stand in sun so that their bodies get dried
up..They slowly walk to the Bus stand.
They meet the bus conductors there.)
Gandhi. Brother. We are on our way to Kedar nath.Are some
buses plying?
Conductor. Have you not read news papers.
Patel. Why? That we read every day. Last three days we did
not read.
Conductor. Look friends. At Keadr nath great tragedy has
occurred. There were torrential rains and
rivers flowing down the mountains destroyed everything in Kedar nath
except temple pouring boulders and mud all over. All roads are cut off.
Thousands have been killed. Large rescue
operations by Army and other para
military forces are going on. You can not go there.
Gandhi. Ohfo.. No..
We must go there and help the distressed.
Conductor. You guys
appear famished. I thought you are also victims of that tragedy. Why you
want to go there? How can you go there?
Who will take you? All routes are blocked.
Gandhi. Now what to
do?
Patel. Bapu. Let us do Ram bhajan and pray to the god to
save people.
Nehru. True. We must do.
Gandhi. But I can not keep looking at things like this. I
must be at Kedarnath and help people.
Nehru. True Bapu. But we can not go there.
Conductor. Some
helicopters ply to that area. But
they are meant for VIPs.
Gandhi. We are also VIPs
Conductor( Laughs) hee..hee.. Are you VIP. In what way? Are
you a minister at center or state? What are you? You guys look like beggars.
Hee..heee.. Who will believe you?
Gandhi. Come on. I am MK Gandhi Father of nation. He is
Patel the iron man of India.
This guy is Nehru the former PM of India.
Conductor. Haa. Haa.. ( Shouts) Brothers come here and watch
the Tamasha for toady.
( Gandhi gets embarrassed)
Gandhi. Can we hire the chopper.
Conductor. Probably Yes. For very large sum you can have it.
But to day only one chopper is present. You may try.
( Gandhi Goes to the chopper pilot)
Gandhi. Pilotji. Can we hire your chopper today.
Pilot. Baba. Where do you want to go at this time?
Gandhi. We want to go to Kedarnath and take part in
humanitarian activities.
Pilot. Sorry. This chopper is waiting for some VIP.
Please excuse us.
( In the mean time some Innova cars arrive
and from them get down many leaders , all well dressed in white clothes
sporting gold rings and chains. All are sporting different colored scarves
around their necks)
Patel. Oh, Bapu , These are
from different political parties
The leaders rush towards the chopper. They are stopped by
the pilot.)
Pilot. Look sir . This
chopper is booked by a minister from AP for his followers. Only they can
travel.
Leader 1. So what. We are also VIP. There is nothing like
booking chopper. You have to take us also.
Leader 2. True. We are from AP. You must take us
Leader 3.. We are
also in line. You can not neglect
Leader1. You guys.
Leader 3 is not from our party. Throw him out.
Leader 3. How dare you say that. I shall see your end today.
Pilot. Sir If you behave like this I shall take none.
Ledaer1. How dare you say that! After all you are a pilot
and employee. I shall get you sacked soon.
Pilot. That you can not do. I have seen many jokers like
you.
Leader 1. How dare you call mea joker! I shall see your end.
Pilot. Please do it. Now I am not going to fly this chopper.
Gandhi. Pilot sahib. Please forgive these men. They are
clueless. Theya re all eager to go. So tempers are high.
Pilot. You appear to be a nice guy If I fly today I shall
take you three.
Patel. Thanks dear
Leader. Look Plot. I am listening everything.. You can not
take these beggars along with us.
Pilot. Did I say that I shall fly you guys.
Leader. I shall see How
you will not fly us today.
Pilot. Keep trying sir.
( Leader 1 with his
supporters try to rush into the Chopper. They are stopped by Leader 2 and his
followers. Leader 3 with his followers
rain blows on others. Soon there is big commotion and there is free for
all. Stones keep flying. People are
abusing others in the most filthiest words. )
Patel. Bapu. I am
hearing today the choicest abuses
all over.
Nehru. I am sure you are enjoying them.
Patel. You can also do that. Nothing prevents you.
(The leaders and their followers after great amount of fight
find themselves in torn clothes, shaggy and look like pigs rolling in shit
pond. In stone throwing the chopper is badly damaged. Its front glass is
shattered. Rotor blades are badly bent.
It has become not airworthy. All the people
are badly injured in fist fight and stone throwing and ae found lying on ground with bleeding wounds. )
Pilot. Sorry Guys.
The chopper is no more air worthy. I am going from here and I have to report to
Head quarters. (He goes away)
Gandhi. What a sorry state of affairs!.
Patel. Bapu. All these guys are MsLA and ministers from various states. All
are badly injured. Many are with broken limbs and smashed teeth. Some guys have lost their ears. They were bitten
off.Look. Bapu, Some guys are lying naked with wounds all over. It was a free
for all. I have not seen this type of
Tamasha in my life time. Haa..haa..haaa
Nehru. Patel. Is this the time for jokes. Feel pity for
them.
Patel. Why pity these nuts. They do not deserve any
sympathy. Let us leave these guys to their fate.
Gandhi. In the night jackals
and Hyenas would arrive and tear
them to bits when they are alive
Patel. It is a correct punishment for them.
Gandhi. Please do not say that.. We must take pity on them
and save them. We need not go to Kedarnath now.
Patel. Bapu. You are a great guy. You have seen what type of
nuts these guys were. Still you want to save them.
Gandhi. True. They are ignorant guys. So we must help them.
Please follow me.
( The trio go to the injured people to take care of them )
CURTAIN FALLS
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