(The scene is set on top of Gol Gumbaz, a mega structure.)
The two characters - Musical and Praveen. Praveen is Musical's another name.
Musical: "Things look so tiny from here.
Praveen: "Yes, they do."
Praveen: "The houses, the trees, the roads, the automobiles..."
Musical: "...the people and their lives too."
(A pause)
Praveen: "Look at the National Highway. Just a streak of charcoal on a mighty forehead."
Musical: "The lorries following their dark fate-line remind me of red-ants."
Praveen: "Dark?"
Musical: "Highways are always dark you know."
Praveen: "Satirical."
Praveen: "Let's turn to the other side."
Musical: "Fine. Do you feel it's going to be different there?"
Praveen: "Stop your nonsense for a while and enjoy the cool breeze hugging you on all sides."
Praveen: "Feels like heaven."
Musical: "Yes, that is what the King wanted afterall."
Praveen: "Wow! Look at the Bhutnal Lake."
Musical: "The water from this lake runs through the life of Bijapur."
Praveen: "How true! And how beautiful it indeed is!"
Musical: "LIFE is beautiful!"
(A thousand words to say. A silence of thousand words.)
Praveen: "Never has the sky looked so bigger."
Musical: "And never has life looked so smaller."
(A pause)
Praveen: "You seem to have slipped into a transcendental mood. Speak simple."
Musical: "I am no mystic, dear! But I can be simple."
Musical: "Don't you see the smallness of life from here? See the houses there. A house is an effort of a lifetime. AN EFFORT OF A LIFETIME. Tiny cement structures silhouetted against vast black soil. Ants walking into and out of it. ANTS."
Praveen(a proud smile): "The Ibrahim Roza doesn't look like it."
(The Ibrahim Roza is a fairly huge structure built during the 16th century.)
Musical: "That is why you still remember who built it."
(The breeze carries away the pride on Praveen's face.)
Praveen(in a tone of confession): "Standing on the Gol Gumbaz alongside you today, I indeed see the hollowness of life."
Musical: "No my dear friend, life is not hollow. Life is beautiful! BEAUTIFUL.Like the sparkling water of the lake that runs through it."
Praveen: "I feel like the Almighty. Looking at life from above."
Musical: "Let's move downstairs. It is getting dark."
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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