Ballu seems interested in the deal. He tells Pandey to take down a complicated list of directions to a temple, where he tells the cops they can pray that he'll eventually give up the information. See what a card this Ballu is? There's a lot of this cute little head tilting thing that Ballu does, then the scene ends.
We
find ourselves outside with Pandey again. He's having a meal at what we assume
is his house. His wife joins him with pictures of Tiny, their daughter. Pandey
is dismayed at the clothes she's wearing in the picture, as they are rather
revealing. Apparently Tiny has written to say that she will only be wed to Ram
Sinha. Pandey tells his wife that Ram has pledged his heart to Ganga and is not
an option.
Ram joins them at the table and they do some "comic" stuff. This eventually leads to them asking Ram when he intends to marry. He tells them that he has taken a vow not to marry until he is able to bring down the boss of Ballu's gang. This reply puts a sour expression on Mrs. Pandey's face, and we flee to the next scene.
We see we are at the jail again, with a shirtless prisoner sitting at a desk in a room full of cops. Ballu is led in in cuffs, and asked if he recognizes the man with no shirt. It's Munna, who was also at the assassination. He's been doing some talking to the police about some of the upcoming events the gang had planned. Ballu looks mad as they list off the plans they now know about. Munna also told the cops that Ballu's mother was still alive. Ballu tries to play this off by saying that he's an orphan, and addresses every older woman he sees as "mother."
Ballu
starts making a big speech to the cops that they shouldn't be so rough on poor
Munna, since he's "just a kid." As he does this, he makes his way over to the
chair Munna is sitting in, and takes his head into his arms. He begins
whispering into Munna's ear about how becoming a state's witness was a bad
career move, then begins strangling him. All the cops jump up and try to pull
him off of Munna, but he manages to kill him. Then in a move that I'm sure is
standard, four cops hold down his limbs and keep him on the floor while Ram
stomps on his torso with dress shoes.
During all this, Ballu is laughing like a maniac and saying how cool he is for having killed their star witness right in front of them. They eventually drag him out of the room as he thanks them for making his job of eliminating the witness so easy.
We see Roshan watching the news of Munna's death on TV. They are able to deduce from the story of Munna's movements which area Ballu is being held in. Those guys are so crafty.
Back to jail! Ballu is complaining that he gets beaten too much, and could really go for a drink. The cop that's with him foolishly lets Ballu have his "stick of the law." That's what they call it.
I've see the cops carrying these things in several of these movies. Most of them look pretty serious. They're shorter than a nightstick, maybe about three feet long. They don't have the perpendicular handle that our nightsticks do. Most of the ones in the movies also have metal (it looks to be brass) ends on them. The one we see here doesn't have the metal ends though.
Ballu
asks if this stick in particular belongs to Ram. The cop says that it does, and
Ballu snaps it in half over his head. Now, I'm not saying that's impossible. But
it does seem rather suspicious that the broken ends of the stick would be
perfectly flat, with no splinters to be seen. Either that was cut beforehand, or
Ballu is just that good. He eventually gets around to smacking the cop
around with the remains of the stick.
The guards go to Ram and complain that Ballu "has become rather carefree these days." Well, that's one way to put it. Ram tells them to get a bottle of booze from town, and to bring it to him. He takes off his tie in a very clear "time to take out the trash!" manner. He goes to Ballu's cell and yanks him into the hallway. He leads Ballu to a courtyard with a big fountain and what I'm assuming is a washing pool. There are also prisoners going through a meal line here. Along the way he tosses him into the wall a few times while dramatic music plays.
Ram
grabs the booze he sent for and force feeds it to Ballu. He tears off Ballu's
shirt and challenges him to a fight. This fight starts off kind of weird. It
reminded me of that game we'd see the tough guys playing at recess called
"Mercy." The object there was to see who could bend the other kids' wrists back
until they yelled out for mercy. Though, in a prison setting, I would probably
read this scene the wrong way.
Lots of yelling and acrobatics follow, with Ram and Ballu having a grand old time of whaling on each other. Eventually Ram gets the upper hand and throws Ballu into the washing basin. After holding him underwater, he pulls him out and bashes his face on the rock rim a few times. This is all in front of many, many people. We're a little beyond self-defense here, so I'd think we'd be getting in trouble about now, eh Ram?
