Scene 1:
(It’s 3 am. The cab driver honks outside the gate of huge corner bungalow. A giant figure opens the gate quietly, making little sound and pulls two bulky suitcases. The cab driver quickly opens the boot and dumps two suitcases.)
Giant figure (GF) to driver: You are already late! Drive fast now.
GF murmurs: These cab drivers will remain drivers all their lives…lazy bum!
Driver: What Ma?
GF: nothing, just thinking you can never become a pilot!
Driver: Why Ma?
GF: Because you can’t fly your car, how will your fly a plane.
Scene 2:
3.15 am: Footsteps on the stairs that lead to the drawing room. A fat lady (aunty) with a dirty night gown climbs the stairs and then there is some noise in the bathroom.
Aunty: Wears the bucket like a crown and screams…hahaha another one…
Scene 3:
7.30 am:
Indarani: Oh my God, where did the second bucket go? God, I need to soak my clothes and leave for office. Us Chudhel nein kuch kiya hoga? Is aurat ko shrap lagega, narak mein jaegi ye!
Priyanka: Don’t panic yaar. Why don’t you take someone else’s bucket?
Scene 4:
9 am:
Aunty: Ah, all girls left. Now I must do some cleaning in the house.
She goes to the kitchen and starts taking out wheat floor, tomatoes and other stuff.
Aunty calls her daugther-in-law: Aree Amu, jaara wo bucket le kar aa jo maine aaj subah kaamaya tha.
Dauther In Law: Kamaya tha ya churaya tha. Ma, wo uska tha na jo aaj PG chor kar chali gayi.
Aunty: Haan haan wohi. Get it quickly beta, I need to put this stuff in it to carry it to the storeroom upstairs.
Scene 5:
8 pm:
Aunty to girls: I work very hard, beta! I spend from morning to evening cleaning these beds.
Indrani murmurs: Well, who knows you spend those hours cleaning our beds, sweeping Your floor with our detergent, cleaning Your toilet with our disinfectant, cooking Your lunch using our LPG. Who knows?
aunty while pulling up her dingy, stinky gown and showing her extra wide legs: Look at my legs beta.
Do you see those bandages, beta? Now you can imagine how difficult it is to work all the day in this condition. I don’t charge any money for all the work I do, beta. We are honest people beta, we are not after money.”
Indrani murmurs: oh yes, why would you charge money for all this sweeping. You are paid in kinds, although you think we don’t know this fact.
Aunty: What beta, are you calling me chor beta? You can leave my PG right now! Girls are waiting to come to my PG. You don’t know. Go out and see the world beta. I don’t do this for money. I just want to help all of you.
Indrani: Yes, I’ll vacate your PG tomorrow, or I’ll have to part with m all my combs, buckets, soaps, and shampoos.
Aunty: Go, Go!
And yes, I will not return your advance. You didn’t give me one month notice.
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