kabuliwala script
SCENE 1 :::
(One morning when narrator is in the midst of the seventeenth chapter of his new novel, his 5 years old daughter Mini enters into the room)
MINI ---Father! Ramdayal the door-keeper calls a crow a krow! He doesn't know anything, does he?"
NARRATOR--- Do you know the differences of languages in the world?
(Before the narrator could explain to her the differences of language in this world, Mini comes out with another question).
MINI---What do you think, Father? Bhola says there is an elephant in the clouds, blowing water out of his trunk, and that is why it rains!
(While the narrator sat still making ready some reply to this last saying, Mini puts another question)
MINI---Father! What relation is Mother to you?
NARRATOR---My dear little sister in the law! (Murmures involuntarily to himself) Go and play with Bhola, Mini! I am busy!
SCENE 2 :::
(The window of narrator’s room overlooks the road. The child has seated herself at narrator’s feet near his table, and is playing softly, drumming on her knees. Narrator is hard at work on his seventeenth chapter, where Protrap Singh, the hero, has just caught Kanchanmala, the heroine, in his arms, and is about to escape with her by the third story window of the castle when all of a sudden Mini leaves her play, and runs to the window)
NARRATOR--- Ah! (feels a sigh of relief)
MINI ---Kabuliwala O kabuliwala ( Shouts )
(In the street below is a kabuliwala, passing slowly along. He has worn the loose soiled clothing of his people, with a tall turban; there is a bag on his back, and he carries boxes of grapes in his hand.)
NARRATOR--- He will come in, and my seventeenth chapter will never be finished!
(The Cabuliwallah turned, and looked up at the child. When she saw this, overcome by terror, she fled to her mother's protection, and disappeared.She had a blind belief that inside the bag, which the big man carried, there were perhaps two or three other children like herself)
SCENE 3
(The pedlar enters
(One morning when narrator is in the midst of the seventeenth chapter of his new novel, his 5 years old daughter Mini enters into the room)
MINI ---Father! Ramdayal the door-keeper calls a crow a krow! He doesn't know anything, does he?"
NARRATOR--- Do you know the differences of languages in the world?
(Before the narrator could explain to her the differences of language in this world, Mini comes out with another question).
MINI---What do you think, Father? Bhola says there is an elephant in the clouds, blowing water out of his trunk, and that is why it rains!
(While the narrator sat still making ready some reply to this last saying, Mini puts another question)
MINI---Father! What relation is Mother to you?
NARRATOR---My dear little sister in the law! (Murmures involuntarily to himself) Go and play with Bhola, Mini! I am busy!
SCENE 2 :::
(The window of narrator’s room overlooks the road. The child has seated herself at narrator’s feet near his table, and is playing softly, drumming on her knees. Narrator is hard at work on his seventeenth chapter, where Protrap Singh, the hero, has just caught Kanchanmala, the heroine, in his arms, and is about to escape with her by the third story window of the castle when all of a sudden Mini leaves her play, and runs to the window)
NARRATOR--- Ah! (feels a sigh of relief)
MINI ---Kabuliwala O kabuliwala ( Shouts )
(In the street below is a kabuliwala, passing slowly along. He has worn the loose soiled clothing of his people, with a tall turban; there is a bag on his back, and he carries boxes of grapes in his hand.)
NARRATOR--- He will come in, and my seventeenth chapter will never be finished!
(The Cabuliwallah turned, and looked up at the child. When she saw this, overcome by terror, she fled to her mother's protection, and disappeared.She had a blind belief that inside the bag, which the big man carried, there were perhaps two or three other children like herself)
SCENE 3
(The pedlar enters