Well
as with everything, the party can't last forever. A car pulls up outside and
stops at the gate. An angry man sees the throng of people gathered at the wall
as well as the broken pottery lying all over the ground. He furiously tells
everyone to get lost and shoos them all away. He then proceeds inside the wall
to find his daughter carousing with the local minstrel boy and his mother.
It's sentences like that last one that make me realize just how much I enjoy writing these articles.
P. N. Oberoi (our angry father) stomps over and smacks his daughter in the face, telling her to get inside. He then turns to Jimmy and his mother. He threatens them, but Jimmy defiantly steps in front of his mother. He explains that they're there at the behest of Oberoi's daughter (although I hope he does so more eloquently than the subtitles suggest) and that he need not beat them up. Oberoi isn't taking any suggestions today, so instead he flings Jimmy's mother to the side, where she gently and delicately (seriously) hits her head on the lawn furniture.
Jimmy
flies into a rage, but is easily stopped by Oberoi who begins applying several
hearty slaps to Jimmy's head and face. He eventually throws Jimmy across the
yard, where he lands almost on top of the guitar they were playing a few merry
moments ago. He grasps the neck of the guitar and races towards Oberoi, but is
intercepted by a police officer that has conveniently showed up. Oberoi tells
the cops to beat Jimmy so hard that he never comes back. Surprisingly, they are
more than happy to comply with this request and begin slapping Jimmy in the
head.
Mother begins begging Oberoi to call them off, as she fears for her son's life. For some reason this little disturbance is the only thing worth going to today, as several more police officers rush into the garden. Oberoi looks at the guitar again, and comes up with a plan. He tells the police that Jimmy stole his guitar. Jimmy protests that this is not true but they take the guitar away from him.
Jimmy's mother steps in and says that the guitar caught Jimmy's eye, but she actually took it. Jimmy tells the police that his mom is only covering for him, but the police just don't seem to care about these piddly little details.
We cut to the holding cell at the police station where Mom is behind bars. Jimmy has arrived with some bread that he's made, and feeds her. He tells her not to worry - he's waiting outside the prison for her to be released. He also assures her that he has decided to grow up fast, so that he can have his vengeance on "the man in the house."
We
cut to the village where some of the ladies of the town are washing clothes at a
well. They mutter to each other for a bit until we hear the cry of "Mother and
Son are thieves!" being chanted by a veritable parade of children. They're
marching through the town behind Jimmy and his mom as they plod their way home
with heads hung low. Jimmy does try to defend their honor (more specifically his
mother's) but they are jeered at and the torment continues unabated.
They reach their house and mom closes the door behind them. She weeps into her hands as Jimmy goes to get a knife. He tells her that he'll chop off every wagging tongue, but she tells him that it really won't help any. She tells him that as long as he knows the truth, that's all she cares about. With that, they decide to skip town.
We
also skip ahead about twelve years and see a much older Jimmy performing with
some musicians at a wedding. There, a large woman is apparently marrying a
midget. Everyone is dancing and singing happily and a good time is had by all. The bride wears out from all the dancing and tells the band that they are done.
She thanks them and gives them a nice tip as the wedding party heads inside.
Jimmy walks over to his band and hands each of them their cut of the payment. They all look at the money with a very clear air of, "All that for just this?" Jimmy can tell they are all disappointed, but he tells them not to get disheartened. He promises that once he makes it big, they will all be rolling in wealth.
That evening we find Jimmy at home with his mother. She's aged well, with the only apparent changes being a lot of baby powder was dumped into her hair. She comments that Jimmy has grown up quite a bit, but she does find it odd that he still wants her to feed him. I'll have to side with Mom on this one, and agree that this is a little odd.
