HOLY SPIRIT OF INDIA ! = ACT 1 - SCENE 12 = KALANK ! PASSIONATE LOVE DURING BLOODY RIOTS BETWEEN MUSLIMS, SIKHS & HINDUS

This new composition of mine is based on the beautiful and deeply moving 2019 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film ‹ Kalank ›, whose epic action and passionate love affairs occur in the midst of violent and bloody riots against Hindus and Sikhs.

The original film’s plot involves three main characters within a powerful love triangle.

At first we meet Satya Chaudhry, a young woman who is told by her doctor that she has cancer and will die soon.

So she goes back to her native village in the Rajputana area, and requests her childhood acquaintance, a lovely young woman named Roop, to provide companionship to her husband, Dev Chaudhry, who runs a liberal newspaper.

Roop keeps rejecting Satya's proposal, but later gets convinced by her father, Dharampal, to do so, and therefore agrees, but on the condition that she will marry Dev, to which Satya agrees.

Once married, Dev tells Roop that he still loves Satya, and that their relationship will only be cordial and platonic.

A depressed Roop takes solace in music, which she begins by learning from the madam of a brothel, Bahaar Begum.

She also begins working in her husband's publishing house, to use her education to their advantage.

Roop expresses interest in writing about the condition of the locality in which the brothel is located, during which time she meets with a handsome, womanizing blacksmith, named Zafar.

The handsome Zafar wants to exact revenge on his parents, Bahaar Begum and Balraj Chaudhry - who abandoned Zafar after ending his extramarital affair with Bahaar - by seducing lovely Roop, since she is married to Balraj's legitimate son, Dev.

But Roop misconstrues Zafar's intentions, and actually falls in love with him.

Roop also begins to develop a friendship with Dev, much to Satya's happiness as well as sadness.

Before dying, Satya urges Dev to give Roop a chance, and to forgive Balraj for his affair.

As part of another effort to humiliate Balraj, Zafar instigates communal hatred in his friend, Abdul Khan, by demanding for the partition of India on religious grounds, which Balraj and Dev do not support.

When Balraj becomes aware of Roop and Zafar's love, he confronts Bahaar and Zafar.

Bahaar, who disagrees with Zafar's approach, warns Roop and tells her about Zafar's real intentions.

Heartbroken, Roop consummates her marriage with Dev, but insists that she will never be able to fully love him.

As Abdul's political stance gains leverage, riots against Hindus and Sikhs in the city take place, during which the Chaudhrys decide to flee to Amritsar with the help of Zafar. But not before Saroj, the benevolent maid, is brutally stabbed to death.

Zafar confesses to Roop that he eventually fell in love with her, despite his early manipulative intentions.

While boarding a train to flee the violence in town, Zafar is stabbed in his stomach four times with a dagger by Abdul, while Roop and Dev manage to escape.

The story ends ten years later, when Roop and Dev are interviewed about their experience by Aditya, a journalist documenting the partition; with Roop remembering Zafar, and Roop's inner voice saying that the color of both love and hate is red. But that it is love that, alas all too often gets wounded.

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Teri'irere Ito'arai
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The Holy Spirit of India !