[students clamoring]
[chanting] Two, four, six, eight! We don't wanna radiate!
Two, four, six, eight! We don't wanna radiate!
[officer] Stay back! Stay back!
[chanting continues]
Hey, um, hi. I-I-- I got stung.
Have a seat.
[groans]
On such things do revolutions founder.
Are you taking the piss?
Yeah, a bit.
Hardly Joan of Arc stuff, is it?
Yeah, well, it really hurt, all right?
I suppose you think they should just kick all of our heads in, hey?
Never mind our right to peacefully protest.
What, you think I'm with them?
I'm a student here. It's just my weekend gig to pay the rent.
You go here?
Philosophy undergrad.
May not change the world, but I'll think about it.
[protester chuckles]
So, what? Are you, like, a mature student? I mean, how old are you anyway?
Takes some of us a little longer to get to where we need to be.
[whistles blowing] -[protestor] Are you with me?
[students clamoring]
[glass shatters]
[clamoring continues]
Shouldn't you be out there?
What's your name? -Gemma.
Nice to meet you, Gemma. I'm Dale.
[both sigh]
So, Dale...
bet you've got a lot of fun drugs in here.
I can get you some aspirin if you want.
Boring.
You always this boring, Dale?
If you're gonna be rude, I might have to throw you out of my ambulance.
[Gemma chuckles]
[banging] -[gasps, sighs]
[Karla's voice] I'm staying right here with you.
[groans] -[Karla shushes] You're okay.
What are you doing here?
I just wanted to see you one last time, baby.
I owe you that.
One last time?
They sentenced you to 19 years, Dale.
I did it so we could go to India.
Baby... [scoffs] ...I don't want you to worry about me.
I got clean.
Dad paid for a clinic.
I'm gonna be all right.
[chuckling]
You're gonna be all right?
[laughs]
[Lin panting]
[coughs]
Hey. Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey. Take it easy. [shushes]
No, no. You can't be here.
Just lay down. -I have cholera.
It's not safe. -It's okay.
[breathes heavily] -[shushes]
Who's Gemma, by the way?
What are you doing here?
Maybe you're not the only one who needs a salvation ride.
Can you have some of that?
[knocks]
[worker, in Hindi] Stand back against the wall.
[door opens]
[grunts]
[door slams]
[worker shouting in Hindi]
[banging]
[worker shouts in Hindi]
[worker shouting]
[gasps]
[Padma speaks Hindi]
You-- You cover that side! -[guard speaks Hindi]
[Padma] You-- You with me. Find her!
[worker 2 shouts] -[guard 2 speaks Hindi]
[in Hindi] Go! Go! -[guard 2 speaks Hindi]
[guards, Padma speaking Hindi]
[Padma] Down here!
[guard 2 speaks Hindi]
[cries, breathes shakily]
[speaks Hindi]
She's here.
Take her back. -[footsteps approaching]
Leave me. Leave me.
[crying] Leave me.
[Nishant grunting] -[banging]
[in English] Please tell your parents to sell this goddamn sixth-floor flat...
[grunts]
...and buy a new one of a nice new building
with a lift.
[in Hindi] Please take these inside.
[Kavita, in English] What is all this?
Red notices.
[squeals]
[Nishant] If Lin is a fugitive, we will find him here in these files.
Officer Mishra here is one of the conditions I had to agree to
since CBI property is technically not allowed off-site.
So your apartment is now a temporary CBI facility
with a staff of exactly one.
Any other conditions I should know?
Oh, haan, also promised my uncle we'd give him the lead
if Lin's involved in something serious.
If he's in here, then it is something serious.
[Lin spits, sighs] I feel so much better.
Did you undress me?
I couldn't let you lie in your own mess.
Why? Self-conscious?
Only that I shit myself.
Not exactly how I pictured you seeing me for the first time, you know?
You pictured that, huh?
[both chuckle]
You're not a good person, picking on a dying man.
You're not dying. And I never said I was a good person.
Eat.
Good.
What did you mean before, about salvation?
What?
You said I wasn't the only one who needed a salvation ride.
It's not nothing, you coming here. Risking this.
I think it's 'cause you feel guilty.
So what am I guilty for?
Madame Zhou. The stuff at the Palace.
I mean, Zhou came after me,
so technically it's your fault that I got robbed
and ended up here catching cholera, almost dying.
Everything's my fault.
I'm joking.
Doesn't mean you're not right.
I did know the risk. I just didn't know you. Not then.
So I used you.
When we were there, Zhou mentioned Ahmed, the guy whose suit I was wearing.
What happened there? Were you and he... -No, no. God, no.
We were friends.
Ahmed was in love with one of Zhou's girls, Christina.
Forced Zhou to let her go, but Zhou couldn't let that stand.
And then she sent her guys after him?
After Christina.
Someone threw a jar of acid in her face.
Ahmed wanted revenge.
I thought I talked him down, but I was wrong.
Body turned up a few days later.
Zhou killed him, not you.
[scoffs] Yeah.
Ahmed loved Christina. And I never trusted her.
I thought she was just using him.
But he didn't wanna listen.
And then Christina got approached about working at the Palace.
She knew I worked with Zhou, so she came to me.
And I told her it was all gonna be okay.
I wanted her gone.
[Lin] You can't blame yourself for that.
[Karla] Someone came after you, and that started the fire.
You told me that little boy's mom was dead because of you.
How is that your fault, not theirs?
Ahmed is dead because of me.
[lively music playing on PA]
[in Hindi] Was Sunita here?
I know the face of every man who comes into my house.
I have not seen you here before.
I can pay you some money.
[money thuds]
I did have a girl named Sunita, but she left the house a few days ago.
That's not enough.
It would be better if I didn't commit your face to memory, yes?
[in English] I'm gonna have to leave town.
Kavita's been poking around me
since I got drunk and ran my mouth at Reynaldo's.
She wants to do a story about me.
I could try and talk to her. Convince her to stop.
Would you listen if you were her? Or just get more excited?
I don't have a choice.
They find me, I'm going back to jail, or worse.
But I don't wanna leave because...
'Cause I'm in love with you.
I told you how I feel about that.
Yeah, and I call bullshit.
Look, I'm not asking you to say it back, and you can call it whatever you want,
but you can't deny how you feel-- -I do like you, Lin.
I could get head over heels in like with you.
That's probably another reason why you should leave.
We need clean water.
[in Hindi] Go. You have permission to court my daughter.
[in English] What time is it?
Karla?
[chattering in Hindi]
[neighbor 1, in Hindi] Look, look. Linbaba is okay now.
[people clamoring]
[in English] Arre, Linbaba! [laughs]
[both groan]
Three whole days since I have seen your face.
I am too happy you are alive. What a lucky morning, yaar!
I have such good news, huh?
Just now, I was giving help at Kumar's chai shop,
and they are telling me I can court Parvati, boss!
That's great. Listen, Prabhu. -None of this would be possible without--
Yes? -I need to shit.
If I go, are they all gonna follow me?
I will deal with this for you.
[in Marathi] Listen! Linbaba wants to go shit.
By himself!
[in English] Thanks, mate. -Welcome.
[speaks Marathi]
[in English] Come, come. So you slept okay?
Yeah.
Yeah? Where is Karla Ma'am?
[Lin] Good question.
[Raheem] 200,000.
It's all there.
That Lisa,
she's something, hey?
[chuckles]
Her and I nearly broke the damn bed, oh.
Shit nearly broke my damn dick.
[Raheem imitates thumping] -[gangster chuckles]
[Raheem] I thought maybe she was your woman,
but no way you share a piece like that, right?
You're right. It's all here.
[door slams] -[all chuckle]
[people clamoring]
Oh, come on. This is silly. -Arre, don't worry.
Go and do your business. Do your business, yaar.
Are you getting involved now too? -I'm happy. That's why.
[in Hindi] He isn't who you think he is.
[speaks Hindi]
Bastard!
He is a murderer!
What is this, Ravi?
He killed my mother.
We talked about this-- -He killed her.
He tried to save your mother's life, Ravi--
He set the fire.
I heard him and the gora woman. He killed her!
He started it! -Listen to me.
Whatever you think you heard--
Look, Ravi...
by telling this lie, you are the one setting the fire.
Lin was with me when the fire started.
No, he was with me. -[stammers]
He was with me.
If I hear this from you again,
I'll talk to Qasimbhai and tell him you are spreading lies. Understand?
Now go.
[in English] Is that our money?
Raheem said you two had quite a time.
Was it worth it?
Did you enjoy it, Lisa?
Did I enjoy what?
The hours he spent fucking me?
No, look at me. You started this.
That's our money because of me. Because of what I let him do to me.
I earned it.
I did my part for us, and I can be proud of that unless you make it dirty.
Where are you going?
You gotta be kidding me.
You show up, start this bullshit, and then run away?
You wanted this. Come on. Let's have it!
[sighs] -Sebastian--
[chattering]
[goondas shouting in Hindi]
[shouting continues]
[goondas shouting]
[speaks Hindi]
[in English] Fuck is he doing here? -[Rafiq speaks Hindi]
[Lin] These are Walid Shah's men. -[Prabhu] What do they want, Linbaba?
[Lin, in English] Deep down, I knew this was on me.
My deal with the devil had just come due. -[in Hindi] Walidbhai sends a message.
There will be no more deals with Khader Khan.
No more water for you.
Your water... done.
[all speaking Hindi]
[villagers shouting]
[speaks Hindi]
[grunting, shouting] -[glass shattering]
[Prabhu speaks Hindi]
No, Lin, there are too many.
[shouting continues] -[glass shattering]
[Rafiq, in English] You're still on the wrong side, doctor man.
[shouting in Hindi]
[Qasim] Hey, what are you doing?
[speaks Hindi]
We'll visit every day.
Why are you doing this? -[speaks Hindi]
[all shouting in Hindi]
[shouting continues]
[in English] Happy, Mr. Lin?
See what happens when you do deals with gangsters?
[speaks Hindi]
We're in the middle of a war now. And you brought this on us.
This is all your fault.
[speaks Hindi]
[Karla, in English] Did you tell Khader I've been with Lin?
No.
That doesn't mean someone won't. He has many new friends in Sagar Wada.
Because of Lin.
[scoffs] So much for us all staying away.
Yeah, Lin came to him.
How is he? Lin?
He'll be fine.
How are you?
I'll be fine too.
I know you don't like this, but it will be over soon.
[thudding] -[keys jingle]
Sunita, yes?
I'm sorry to have kept you waiting so long.
I know it hasn't been easy.
[in Hindi] Sorry, let me speak in Hindi.
[speaks Hindi]
Are you Madame Zhou?
No, but I asked for you to be brought here.
Padma bought your debt for me.
Why?
We have business, you and I.
[sighs] I don't know what you are talking about.
Forget about that. I will get the money.
I have friends, important friends--
I want to talk about your friend.
Your friend from Khandala.
[Sunita breathes shakily, stutters] -Do not say his name, Sunita.
Do as I ask.
Your debt will be paid.
You'll be free to go and do whatever you want.
What do I have to do?
I need you to call your friend.
Tell him that everything is fine. And invite him here for a visit.
Just a phone call and you're free.
No.
I know he's been good to you, but is whatever he's paying worth this?
He's not paying, and I won't hurt him.
Not for a bitch like you.
I love him, and he loves me. Understand?
Out.
Get out!
[door closes, locks]
[in English] All right.
You're all set, Johnny. -Thank you, Linbaba.
[both speak Hindi]
[in English] Do you need something?
Ravi told me you were the one who started the fire.
Pretty much.
Friends do not keep secrets.
Not about such things.
How am I supposed to help you if I do not know you are needing help?
It's okay. I told Ravi I was with you when the fire started.
Why would you lie?
It is in the past.
Let the lie be the truth if it makes things better.
Like your medicine.
I see it. You're doing so many good things to make up for one bad.
You know, you are leaving soon, na?
If you took away the people's faith now, how selfish would that be?
I've been selfish the whole time.
[chuckles] How can you say this?
All the things you have done for us, almost dying, bringing the water--
It wasn't about you. It was about me.
Qasim warned me about Khan,
and I went anyway because I wanted to make myself feel better.
I wanted to pay my debt so that I could leave.
And if you hadn't...
maybe my Parvati would be dead.
You are a good man, and you think too much.
[footsteps approaching]
Whoever you're trying to manipulate, this girl loves him.
And she believes he loves her.
[Karla] You were listening.
Of course.
There is nothing more stupid or stubborn than a whore in love.
Are you speaking from experience?
Is that hard to believe?
There are so many stories about you.
Who knows? -Yeah.
And I came up with most of them myself.
But the best tales always have a bit of truth.
I'm sure you heard the one where I was mistress to a KGB spymaster.
Mm-hmm.
Mmm.
They say...
one day he left India, leaving me behind.
The men who were after him caught me instead.
Used me to take out their frustrations.
The only thing stronger than love is the hate left behind when it's gone.
Let the fear build. Let this Sunita question her love.
Take that love away, and she will do anything you want.
In the end, you will be doing her a favor.
Are you happy?
This place, what you've built,
does it bring you any pleasure?
It gives me power, control.
And those make you happy?
Happier than I was without them.
You never wish you'd taken a different path?
To where?
What is happily ever after for a forsaken whore?
Maybe we could ask your Sunita.
[door slams] -[Modena] I'm back.
Do you want me to take this to Raheem?
No.
You know, I had a visit from Abdullah Taheri the other night
telling me to stop our dealing. -The other-- And you didn't tell me?
He could've been watching when I went to Raheem for the money!
Yeah, well, how did he know, huh?
Who did you tell? -No, no one.
Fuck.
What about Didier? -Didier.
Didier, he-- [stammers] You asked him to send us clients.
Didier keeps half the secrets in Colaba. -Fuck.
Huh? Who would want to fuck us this way?
What about Lin?
He's friends with Abdullah and Didier.
And you two hate each other.
You know, I saw them together just the other day.
He made some stupid remark, sacco di merda.
I should cut his fucking throat, that guy.
[sighs, sniffs] -Lin.
You know, it-- Well, fuck Lin.
Fuck Lin.
Fuck Lin, fuck Khader Khan, fuck Raheem, and fuck Zhou, huh?
We keep this 200, okay? We sell the drugs we have at a discount...
No, no.
...and get the fuck out of Bombay before anybody knows we screwed them. Hey!
Look, if you're out, I'm gonna go by myself,
but you get none of this. -Oh, fuck. Fuck.
Fuck, fuck. -None of this.
Look at me.
All or nothing, Modena.
Come on, Modena. Huh? Fuck them all.
Huh? -Okay.
Okay, okay. -Okay? Sì?
Okay. Yeah. -Sì?
[Maurizio] Okay.
Andiamo. Let's go, huh?
[Khaderbhai] Walid Shah leads one of the other companies.
Companies?
You mean gangs, right?
Why does he care about you giving away water?
He knows I want to buy Sagar Wada.
He wants it also.
Lin.
At least sit.
Please.
Drink something. -No, thank you.
Sagar Wada sits on a large tract
of the most valuable real estate in the world.
Walid Shah has bought the loyalty of the land minister,
believing that he will still prevail.
But there are many thousands who live in Sagar Wada,
and where there are people, there is power.
Walid owns the minister. He does not want me controlling the votes.
So you want them to do what?
Vote for the destruction of their own homes?
It's a unique irony of our city
that the poor have no say in whether they are evicted,
but they have a very great say in who gets to evict them.
Do you not think I understand what I'm taking from them?
How could you?
My own home was stolen from me when I was 15.
That is not a pain that goes away.
I have funded your clinic.
Donated medicine, water.
I want to help these people any way I can while their homes still stand.
But Sagar Wada will be sold.
This is bullshit. -This is Bombay.
Why didn't you tell me before?
Because you may not have accepted the water.
So now they're in a war.
Will they fight? -I don't fucking know.
I'm done being the middleman, Khaderbhai.
You want something from them, you ask them yourself.
Very well.
[Lisa] Hey.
Hey yourself.
It's good to see you.
[Lisa] You too.
See, that's the thing. No one really knows him.
Maybe because he never speaks. [chuckles]
He was the youngest of nine and he grew up dirt poor,
so no one ever really paid him any attention, and that's how he got by.
But when it's just the two of us, he's different.
He's funny, you know?
And sweet. -[bottle pops]
And he just wants me to be happy.
But he's so weak.
I know it doesn't seem like it, but I did what you said
and I took fucking responsibility for myself and for him.
And, yeah, I had to fuck this Raheem guy, but so what?
'Cause this morning, when Modena walked in with the money,
for the first time I felt...
empowered, maybe.
I probably sound crazy.
Well, if you came to me looking for life advice, then yeah, you're crazy.
Whatever you decide to do...
there's always a place here for you.
But I think you should leave with Modena while you can.
Just take whatever you've got and get out of Bombay.
["Euthanasie" plays]
Ooh. -[chuckles]
[music continues]
[no audible dialogue]
[music continues]
[chuckling] -[music ends]
It's late.
You can go if you'd like. I have Mishra.
Or...
at least I think I did.
[sighs, scoffs]
[Nishant] At least he took his shoes off, na?
So what are you going to show me that'll change our situation, huh?
Machine guns that'll chase off these goondas?
You don't listen, you don't learn, yet you want to make all the decisions.
Nope. I'm done with that.
That's why you're here.
Assalamu alaikum.
Wa alaikumu assalam.
You honor me with your presence, Qasimbhai.
Hmm. We both know the opposite is true.
And that, I assume, was the point.
I arranged for Khader to come so he could make his case to you directly.
Lin says you are a reasonable man.
Despite what he thinks, Mr. Lin knows very little about me.
Or you, or anything much for that matter.
He knows that loyalty cannot be bought. It must be earned.
A fact that I needed reminding of.
I've come to discuss a path forward.
And does your path forward allow me to keep my home?
No.
Not in the end.
At least we're being truthful about it.
Please.
This morning, a man came to me with this.
He wanted me to give it to you.
This gold, it's not real, but--
but this ring has been in his family for three generations.
It has history.
And that is not something to be given up lightly.
"If you had known the virtue of the ring, half her worthiness that gave the ring,
or your own honor to contain the ring,
you would not then have parted with the ring."
I give the man a ring, and he gives me a riddle.
Look, uh, forgive me--
Thank you, Khaderbhai, for bringing up my lack of education.
Qasim, no.
I meant no disrespect.
It is a quote from a play.
I see your ring as a similar test.
If I win the right to your land,
it will be years before development begins.
I would like to help your community in that time.
At the beginning, the construction site will need electricity, uh,
proper plumbing, and so on.
You will have the benefits of these until we break ground.
I would also like to help find employment, legitimate employment.
If you take our homes from us,
you must give us a chance to grow beyond them.
We are of the same mind.
I have noticed some desks on my way here.
I will build you a school, pay for teachers, books.
And after you break ground?
What becomes of us then?
I will help you find places to go, inshallah.
[sighs]
Give me back the ring.
I will return it to the man to give to his daughter.
And for her children, and for all those who follow.
[smacks lips, inhales]
The person who wrote your play is a wise man.
I believe that all of the questions and most of the answers to life
are in Shakespeare.
Tell me, Qasim, what is your answer?
Huh? Huh?
300,000 in there, huh?
[singsongy] Enough to go wherever the fuck we like, huh? Huh?
I wanna take a piss.
We're gonna leave tonight before Raheem gets suspicious.
I need to go get Lisa.
Lisa, Lisa, Lisa. Fuck Lisa.
She's not coming with us.
She served her purpose, okay?
And I'm not giving up any of this money to a whore.
You have to choose, Modena. The cash and me, or her.
And believe me, with this money,
we're gonna find easy pussy anywhere we're gonna go.
You know, Lisa, she's not so special, Modena.
You know, we gonna find you one a night every night
in every city we're gonna visit.
[toilet flushes]
What do you think, Modena?
Where do you wanna go? Italia? Spain? South Am-merica...
[door closes]
[in Hindi] If you want me to beg, you will wait a long time.
I'm tired of begging.
Sorry about what I said earlier.
I shouldn't have made assumptions.
The world has no place for me.
[scoffs] My own mother sold me.
Men used me.
But Akash loves me.
You think it's easy for someone like him to love someone like me?
If anyone found out about us,
he would lose his position, his family, everything.
If he can't leave his job or leave his family...
If they really are more important than you,
then your love is not equal.
Men love differently to us.
It's a rare man who doesn't love himself most in the end.
You're a whore from Kamathipura, Sunita.
He pretends he'll run off with you, but he won't.
Not for you. Not for anyone.
When he turns his back on you, where would you go?
Then you will realize that your life without him was better anyway.
What do you want from him?
Only for him to do his job.
I mean Akash no ill will.
[in English] I promise.
[in Hindi] You have my word that if you make the call,
I will do him no harm.
Madame Zhou owns your debt now.
She's going to put you to work soon enough.
Will Pandey want you then?
Make the call, and if he comes to take you away,
then we will know he loves you as you say.
I don't think you've ever loved anyone in your life.
[scoffs]
[vehicles approaching]
[speaking Hindi]
Go to hell, motherfucking bhenchods!
You are wanting our water? Take it from my dead fucking hands!
[all shouting]
[grunting, groaning]
[shouts in Hindi]
[grunting]
[shouting, grunting continue]
[grunts]
[Rafiq grunts]
[people cheering]
[speaks Hindi]
[cheering continues]
[speaks Marathi]
[chattering]
[roars] -[children giggle]
[Johnny] Ah, Linbaba!
[in English] Should I call you Johnny Dangerous?
Arun's Life. Enjoy.
No, no. Not for me. -I insist.
[chattering]
[Lin] I could feel my heart breaking as I watched them all enjoy their victory.
Whatever came next, no one could take today from them.
I'd stayed because I owed them something.
But now the last thing I wanted to do was leave.
[speaking Hindi]
[Johnny] Arre, Linbaba!
[chuckles]
[Qasim speaks Hindi]
[in English] Catapult.
You're a bad shot.
Bad for me, anyway.
What did my brother Lin do to deserve this?
He killed my mother.
And they say he didn't, but I know it is true.
My mother is dead too. We have this in common.
What did you do?
I found something new to belong to.
Abdel Khader Khan is a general.
And a general always needs warriors.
Someday I want a bike like yours.
[chuckles]
One day, maybe.
But a warrior has to follow orders, even when they don't like them.
Just tell me what to do. I can do anything.
Lin is important to Khaderbhai.
He's a warrior too.
We will be upset if anything happened to him.
Do we understand each other? -Yes.
A warrior needs his weapon.
Get some practice. For all our sakes.
[Kumar speaks Hindi]
Oh! -Oh! [chuckles]
[chattering]
[no audible dialogue]
[Lin] Someone once asked me,
"If you could be really happy,
but knew from the start that it would end in sadness,
would you choose that happiness or would you avoid it?"
In that moment, I realized my answer.
I would choose the happiness. No matter how much it hurt.
But I still had to run.