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Since the body is short,
we made a smaller coffin.

2
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If the belly’s popping out,
the coffin won’t shut.

3
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That becomes a problem.

4
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The weight depends on the body.
At times it’s 50 kgs, at times it’s 100…

5
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It can even go up to 150 kgs.
You never know.

6
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If it’s an average fit person,

7
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the weight tends to be
around 60 to 70 kg.

8
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But if they have a big belly,
it goes upto 100 kg.

9
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As a legislator, she never
bothered visiting our area

10
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And then she comes
begging for votes.

11
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Nothing’s going to change here.

12
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All governments are busy
hogging people’s money.

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Did you vote?

14
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Yes.

15
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I went earlier this morning.

16
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I don’t get time later, you see.

17
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And your colleague?

18
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Yeah, he did too.

19
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Early morning!

20
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We went and fulfilled our duty.

21
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After all, each vote counts
for our nation.

22
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Even though it makes little difference
which party comes to power.

23
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Ain’t that right?

24
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Finally came.

25
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MORTUARY

26
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We’ve got to head to Chincholi
through SV Road, right?

27
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- Right?
- Yeah.

28
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What time do we have to reach there?

29
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10 pm.

30
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10 pm?

31
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So we have time.

32
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It was drizzling in Borivali
and pouring heavily here.

33
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Have you checked
the site of the grave?

34
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No, I’ll go check everything now.

35
00:03:40,070 --> 00:03:41,710
But it needs to be finalized…

36
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Yeah, I know.
I’ll check right away.

37
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After I drop you home,
I’ll head to the Oshiwara cemetery.

38
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After that you will come here?

39
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And I’ll come directly from there.

40
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Hold this.

41
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You go ahead.

42
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Yeah that way.

43
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- Should I hold it?
- No, it’s okay.

44
00:04:29,381 --> 00:04:31,981
No, it’s okay.
There’s not enough space.

45
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Careful… Go slow.

46
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We have to shift.

47
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I'll go in front.

48
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You hold here.

49
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Lift it above your shoulders.

50
00:04:52,797 --> 00:04:56,641
Careful... Go slow.

51
00:05:00,330 --> 00:05:01,293
Oh...

52
00:05:02,630 --> 00:05:03,580
You must be tired?

53
00:05:03,698 --> 00:05:06,232
No it’s okay. Don’t stop.

54
00:05:06,712 --> 00:05:07,631
It's last floor.

55
00:05:07,850 --> 00:05:08,700
Okay.

56
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Half an hour.

57
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9.30?

58
00:05:14,430 --> 00:05:15,501
Yeah, I’ll be back by then.

59
00:05:15,624 --> 00:05:16,559
Or 10.30?

60
00:05:16,857 --> 00:05:20,116
I’ll be back as soon as I can,
don’t worry.

61
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I’ll check on the conditions.

62
00:05:25,002 --> 00:05:25,739
When the Priest comes...

63
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When the Priest comes,
ask him to call me.

64
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Now where’s he gone?

65
00:05:38,772 --> 00:05:40,316
What a pain!

66
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[CHANTING PRAYER]

67
00:06:21,883 --> 00:06:23,137
Two teas, one coffee.

68
00:06:23,236 --> 00:06:25,107
One coffee, two tees...

69
00:06:27,682 --> 00:06:31,073
What, do you need a calculator?

70
00:06:32,577 --> 00:06:36,115
A cup of tea is 18 rupees.
How much for the coffee?

71
00:06:36,441 --> 00:06:37,133
Two tea...

72
00:06:37,281 --> 00:06:40,733
Look, one tea is 18 rupees,
a coffee is 22 rupees.

73
00:06:41,212 --> 00:06:42,464
So that’s 58.

74
00:06:42,732 --> 00:06:44,096
You confused the poor guy!

75
00:06:46,299 --> 00:06:48,584
The poor guy!

76
00:06:49,277 --> 00:06:53,480
I don’t live in a fancy flat.
I’m from the crowded chawls.

77
00:07:10,149 --> 00:07:12,917
When did they paint this?

78
00:07:14,276 --> 00:07:17,726
Why didn’t you switch the fan
on earlier? It’s still wet.

79
00:07:19,795 --> 00:07:21,095
It needs to dry.

80
00:07:24,058 --> 00:07:25,608
That’s Dilip, my son.

81
00:07:26,404 --> 00:07:30,004
He attends college in the morning
and works in the afternoon.

82
00:07:34,231 --> 00:07:36,281
Preparations for Diwali are on.

83
00:07:39,162 --> 00:07:40,712
I’ll have a bath now.

84
00:07:42,314 --> 00:07:45,068
I’ve to leave by 4 am tomorrow.

85
00:07:47,805 --> 00:07:49,605
My mother lives next door…

86
00:07:50,156 --> 00:07:51,847
My brother lives a bit ahead…

87
00:07:52,037 --> 00:07:54,144
And my in-laws live opposite us.

88
00:07:54,483 --> 00:07:56,259
- Ours was a love marriage.
- Really!

89
00:07:59,523 --> 00:08:01,573
Praful bhai works in that shop.

90
00:08:03,168 --> 00:08:04,027
What does he do?

91
00:08:04,172 --> 00:08:04,921
What?

92
00:08:05,408 --> 00:08:06,470
What exactly does he do?

93
00:08:06,855 --> 00:08:09,268
I don’t know what he does.
I just know he works in a shop.

94
00:08:09,392 --> 00:08:13,173
Most people just think that
he drives an ambulance.

95
00:08:13,439 --> 00:08:16,836
Nobody really knows what he does.

96
00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,922
They don’t ask, and we don’t tell.

97
00:08:28,397 --> 00:08:31,224
When I started out, I was scared.

98
00:08:32,117 --> 00:08:39,688
I took a flight to Delhi and then
traveled to Punjab in an ambulance.

99
00:08:40,385 --> 00:08:45,219
When we were returning with the body,
I got scared seeing the body at the morgue.

100
00:08:45,530 --> 00:08:46,461
I had never seen a corpse.

101
00:08:46,583 --> 00:08:48,409
We took a body for post-mortem.

102
00:08:49,718 --> 00:08:53,454
The helper had gone out
and the doctor was inside

103
00:08:53,623 --> 00:08:58,570
probably getting his operating tools.
There were two bodies on either side.

104
00:08:58,698 --> 00:09:03,323
I prayed to God
to make me disappear.

105
00:09:04,714 --> 00:09:06,978
I was terrified then,
but never again.

106
00:09:18,599 --> 00:09:21,595
Daya is upset.

107
00:09:21,934 --> 00:09:24,971
Let me tell you... Leave it.

108
00:09:25,781 --> 00:09:26,590
What?

109
00:09:28,084 --> 00:09:28,976
Hey...

110
00:09:30,540 --> 00:09:32,540
Come on, say it.

111
00:09:37,166 --> 00:09:42,047
If you send a cross like this next time,
I'll use it on the grave and not pay.

112
00:09:42,977 --> 00:09:46,430
Firstly, you need to know
how to lift a cross properly.

113
00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,230
You think I’ll teach clients how
to hold a cross at such times?

114
00:09:50,501 --> 00:09:53,476
They’ll pick it up however they can,
your argument is irrelevant.

115
00:09:53,711 --> 00:09:56,770
‘Hold it with two hands’,
should I tell them?

116
00:09:56,922 --> 00:10:00,985
'This is a real cross, not like yours',
he told me straight-up.

117
00:10:01,035 --> 00:10:03,019
How am I supposed to save face?

118
00:10:03,843 --> 00:10:08,265
Bring us all some tea!

119
00:10:09,748 --> 00:10:11,106
It’s his birthday today!

120
00:10:37,570 --> 00:10:39,776
My family often tries
to dissuade me...

121
00:10:39,869 --> 00:10:41,293
But I keep working.

122
00:10:42,721 --> 00:10:46,029
People look down upon
this kind of work

123
00:10:46,871 --> 00:10:50,187
Their point of view is
very different from mine.

124
00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:52,628
After all, no five fingers are equal.

125
00:10:53,335 --> 00:10:57,975
Mummy saw him working once,
face to face with the body…

126
00:10:58,170 --> 00:11:05,038
Someone in the neighbourhood died
and Papa took care of everything.

127
00:11:05,530 --> 00:11:08,062
She cried a lot that day.

128
00:11:08,465 --> 00:11:12,663
When we go to a funeral,
it feels so terrible...

129
00:11:12,796 --> 00:11:16,473
But for him, it’s a daily routine.
How must he be feeling?

130
00:11:21,403 --> 00:11:25,003
Everyone goes out…

131
00:11:25,973 --> 00:11:30,021
For work or business or school.
Something or the other.

132
00:11:30,829 --> 00:11:35,866
Eventually, we’ll all have to face
our last journey…

133
00:11:36,517 --> 00:11:40,682
We're all going to end up
in hospital or a mortuary.

134
00:11:40,769 --> 00:11:42,270
Who knows the future has in store.

135
00:11:42,428 --> 00:11:47,475
Some are cremated, some are buried.
Or God forbid, one could have an accident.

136
00:11:47,803 --> 00:11:50,654
You never know.
Life is absolutely unpredictable.

137
00:11:50,975 --> 00:11:53,145
Give it and close the matter.

138
00:11:53,259 --> 00:11:56,022
Put the 5′9″ coffin in my car.

139
00:12:02,755 --> 00:12:07,072
I can’t do anything without
the boss’s permission…

140
00:12:07,353 --> 00:12:11,333
I’m just an employee.
I only follow orders.

141
00:12:11,788 --> 00:12:15,309
You can’t just give away
an empty coffin.

142
00:12:16,226 --> 00:12:18,922
Of course you need paperwork.
Like a death certificate.

143
00:12:19,065 --> 00:12:20,531
What if someone puts a
murder victim in it?

144
00:12:20,647 --> 00:12:21,710
But why is that our problem?

145
00:12:21,796 --> 00:12:25,397
The police will question us
because we provided the coffin

146
00:12:26,807 --> 00:12:30,372
You’ll be in trouble too,
that’s why his boss refused.

147
00:12:31,223 --> 00:12:34,926
Once, they buried a body
in the cemetery behind the mosque

148
00:12:35,723 --> 00:12:37,102
So you have to check these details.

149
00:12:45,882 --> 00:12:47,667
The client backed out.

150
00:12:48,454 --> 00:12:51,104
He was Hindu,
but converted to Christianity

151
00:12:52,567 --> 00:12:55,229
His family was reluctant and confused

152
00:12:56,113 --> 00:12:57,365
But they finally cremated him.

153
00:12:57,739 --> 00:12:58,920
It happened last night.

154
00:12:59,528 --> 00:13:02,038
It’s alright... Can’t do much.

155
00:13:49,362 --> 00:13:50,112
Yes.

156
00:13:53,093 --> 00:13:54,695
If he doesn’t take his medicines…

157
00:13:54,745 --> 00:13:56,645
He’s bound to have problems!

158
00:13:59,734 --> 00:14:00,986
Oh Lord!

159
00:14:18,721 --> 00:14:19,621
Perfect.

160
00:14:21,909 --> 00:14:25,484
This kind of lowly work
does not befit a Brahmin.

161
00:14:25,754 --> 00:14:27,830
That’s what society has taught us.

162
00:14:28,378 --> 00:14:31,178
But he has no choice,
he’s not well educated.

163
00:14:31,683 --> 00:14:34,583
If he does another job,
how much would he earn?

164
00:14:35,236 --> 00:14:38,186
He knows this work like
the back of his hand...

165
00:14:38,546 --> 00:14:40,185
His boss can’t manage without him.

166
00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,530
The only thing that worries him is
his reputation back in his village.

167
00:14:44,792 --> 00:14:49,115
In villages, they won’t even let
a person from a lower caste

168
00:14:49,165 --> 00:14:51,362
stand in the vicinity of
a Brahmin household.

169
00:14:51,512 --> 00:14:55,691
They’re told to stay at a distance,
even while talking or greeting.

170
00:14:57,130 --> 00:15:00,153
He fears being ostracised for his profession,
otherwise he’s very chilled out.

171
00:15:00,297 --> 00:15:04,844
He shouldn’t waste his whole life
doing this job…

172
00:15:05,216 --> 00:15:09,100
He should switch to a more respectable job,
so we can live more comfortably.

173
00:15:09,206 --> 00:15:12,506
If we go to a funeral,
we’re unable to eat that day...

174
00:15:12,747 --> 00:15:14,302
And he attends funerals everyday.

175
00:15:15,738 --> 00:15:18,880
He’s been doing this work for years.

176
00:15:19,550 --> 00:15:23,734
And he understands it thoroughly.

177
00:15:24,721 --> 00:15:29,896
At this age, it would be impossible
for him to start afresh someplace else.

178
00:15:30,421 --> 00:15:32,807
The God of Death takes the soul away…

179
00:15:33,253 --> 00:15:36,016
But Praful takes care of the body 
and everything else.

180
00:15:55,281 --> 00:15:57,981
My principle is that 
once my work is done…

181
00:15:59,174 --> 00:16:01,561
I ask for forgiveness 
for any mistakes I made…

182
00:16:01,809 --> 00:16:02,495
And that’s it.

183
00:16:02,894 --> 00:16:05,409
I don’t dwell on it.
I move on.

184
00:16:05,674 --> 00:16:13,052
Often while working, one might
accidentally elbow or hurt someone.

185
00:16:14,173 --> 00:16:18,612
But a dead person can’t
tell me if I hurt them, right?

186
00:16:18,994 --> 00:16:20,505
So I make it a point to apologise.

187
00:16:21,502 --> 00:16:23,444
If I made a mistake, forgive me.

188
00:16:23,617 --> 00:16:25,467
I feel it’s very important.

189
00:16:25,706 --> 00:16:30,455
Whether a person is dead or alive,
one must say sorry regardless.

190
00:16:45,147 --> 00:16:47,700
Brother, how much for 
that round one?

191
00:16:47,750 --> 00:16:48,741
450 rupees.

192
00:16:49,156 --> 00:16:50,194
And the white one?

193
00:16:50,881 --> 00:16:53,420
Does that price include 
a train ticket to my village?

194
00:16:54,642 --> 00:16:57,149
The white one should come 
with a return ticket.

195
00:16:59,368 --> 00:17:00,684
There’s no light in it.

196
00:17:00,935 --> 00:17:02,220
You have to buy that separately.

197
00:17:05,691 --> 00:17:06,841
That red one…

198
00:17:10,608 --> 00:17:12,108
200 rupees for that?

199
00:17:21,739 --> 00:17:32,347
[Song]

200
00:17:40,201 --> 00:17:41,201
Mr Kamble!

201
00:17:41,828 --> 00:17:43,170
Who’s on duty?

202
00:17:45,246 --> 00:17:46,574
Who’s on duty?

203
00:17:50,769 --> 00:17:54,120
My wife keeps telling me
she doesn’t like my job.

204
00:17:54,170 --> 00:17:55,244
What can I do?

205
00:17:55,362 --> 00:17:57,500
I know that my work earns me
the blessings of many people

206
00:17:57,594 --> 00:18:00,173
And it’s those blessings have
helped me succeed.

207
00:18:00,407 --> 00:18:04,728
No cheating, fraud or dishonesty.
I’ve stuck by my principles.

208
00:18:19,259 --> 00:18:22,859
The goodwill this job earns me
is priceless and incomparable.

209
00:18:24,152 --> 00:18:27,252
To be able to serve someone on
their final journey…

210
00:18:27,573 --> 00:18:30,073
I consider it a matter
of great fortune.

211
00:18:31,714 --> 00:18:33,651
I’ve been doing this 
for so many years now…

212
00:18:34,066 --> 00:18:37,991
I’ve driven a rickshaw,
worked at a tea stall…

213
00:18:38,286 --> 00:18:40,998
Delivered couriers
and sold stationery…

214
00:18:41,950 --> 00:18:42,530
I never enjoyed that.

215
00:18:42,580 --> 00:18:45,438
I worked at a clothing store 
for two years…

216
00:18:46,106 --> 00:18:49,126
No customer left our shop
empty handed.

217
00:18:49,631 --> 00:18:51,131
I could ensure that.

218
00:18:52,589 --> 00:18:56,393
The rickshaw I drove was mine too.
But my heart wasn’t in it.

219
00:18:57,469 --> 00:19:00,391
I left all those jobs
and got hooked to this.

220
00:19:06,015 --> 00:19:09,393
Everyone’s on their way up.
No one lives forever.

221
00:19:41,011 --> 00:19:48,061
[CHANTING PRAYER]

222
00:20:47,478 --> 00:20:49,199
Have some tea?

223
00:20:50,022 --> 00:20:50,890
No?

224
00:20:51,665 --> 00:20:53,587
Come on, have a little!