My translation attempt of Marathi Drama एकच प्याला (Only one glass) written Ram Ganesh Gadkari)
Please suggest better option for words and phrases.
Act II
EPISODE III
(Venue: Arya Madira Mandal. Characters- Taliram, Bhausaheb, Bapusaheb, Raosaheb, Sonyabapu, Manyabapu, Janubhau, Shastri, Khudabaksh, Maganbhai, etc ... Hussain is filling the glasses for everyone. All are eating also.
Hussain: Sudhakar Saheb- (passes the glass.)
Sudhakar: Hussein, I don't want it now!
Shastri: Wow, Sudhakar, Why you say No? You should take!
Sudhakar: But I have lost my temper! Enough now!
Khudabaksh: No Sudhakar, our gathering is loosing harmony!
Bapusaheb: Take it, Sudhakar! You are getting your charter back tomorrow and today you are working like thief?( You are afraid of the deed)
Raosaheb: You are like a younger brother to us - and do you want to disobey our word? Wow, then it's OK.
Sudhakar: Yes, bring it to me! Now this is the last glass! (Drinks.)
Shastri: Hey, we are your true friends and you behave outside of us? We helped you in your need! And your so-called friends started mocking you because your charter was gone, and because the charter was gone, you started drinking, by telling this also they started slandering you in public.
Khudabaksh: Now answer them as soon as the charter starts tomorrow!
Sudhakar: Why just answer!I shall beat them with shoes in the office. Bad people!
Taliram: No, no. Dadasaheb. Come to the office tomorrow after drinking alcohol only to show them your resolve! Then respond to them aptly!
Sudhakar: Yes, I can go to the office after drinking alcohol! Tomorrow I shall go to the office after drinking alcohol and take everybody to task with my shoes! I have that courage!
Janubhau: Well done, definitely go to office after drink!
Raosaheb: You are like younger brother to us.We shall do anything for you! Go to the office after drinking alcohol! It doesn't matter even if the charter is cancelled forever! We will give you as many jobs as you want! Take this promise! I promise to give you as many big jobs as you want when you need them! Bhausaheb, Bapusaheb. You promise them too. (Everyone promises Sudhakar.)
Shastri: Sudhakar, You should not back down now!
Sudhakar: I do not dare to withdraw! I'm ready to go to the office now!
Khudabaksh: OK OK, Shastribuwa! All we have to do now is to drink like this till the office time tomorrow and take Sudhakar to the office like that!
Shastri: I like this idea!
Taliram: Hussain, give one more glass to Dadasaheb!
Hussain: Yes sir! (Gives a glass.)
Sudhakar: Not now. I will become unconscious!
Janubhau: We will give our lives for you! We will also become unconscious!
Sudhakar: No, not now. I have the guts- I can drink!
Taliram: Dadasaheb, now this is the last special - yes, this is the only glass!
(Sudhakar drinks and falls asleep. Everyone's glasses are ready. Soon Ramlal and Bhagirath come from one side.)
Ramlal: (To Bhagirath on one side) Yes Bhagirath, let's stand here for a while, and when all group gets drunk fully, we too can join!
Bhagirath: (To Ramlalas on one side) It's too late for us to come today!
Manyabapu: (starts crying loudly.) Janubhau, come here! (He hugs Janubhau's neck and starts crying loudly.)
Janubhau: Oh, why are you crying, Manyabapu!
Manyabapu: I have got too much!
Janubhau: So what should I do?
Manyabapu: Give me more!
Janubhau: Yes, take it. (Manyabapu drinks and starts crying again.) Oh, why are you crying now?
Manyabapu: I don't feel that much!
Janubhau: Then die (Janubhau drinks himself.)
Ramlal: (To Bhagirath on one side) Bhagirath, look at each other's actions!Why are you looking to me with surprise Bhagirath? Forgive me for lying with you for my purpose. I am not an alcoholic! I came with you to take a friend of mine – who is the only beauty of this city - Sudhakar back from here. Forgive me for cheating on you.
Manyabapu: Alcohol is a bad thing! Alcohol is a low grade item. Alcohol is a bad thing.
Janubhau: Manya! What are you blabbering on about?
Manyabapu: I am making a movement! Prohibiting alcohol.
Janubhau: Don't protest! Drink!
Manyabapu: Alcohol is a bad thing, alcohol is alcoholism, alcohol is a protest, alcohol is a movement!
Janubhau: Manya, Manya, take care. You're on fire!
Manyabapu: There is alcohol! Alcohol is unclean!
Janubhau: तीर्थोदकं च वन्हिश्च नान्यत: शुध्दिमर्हत:! Flowing water or fire are most pure things. A huge stream of liquor is flowing in four continents and there is fire in her stomach. Alcohol is doubly pure. This is being proved by above religious rhyme!
Manyabapu: Alcohol is unrighteous. Alcohol is irreligious!
Janubhau: Alcohol has also an atonement! After drinking alcohol at night and donating a copper pot to a Brahmin in the morning, it means that there is no sin left! Now if you do not close your mouth, you will have to suffer atonement.
Manyabapu: Alcohol causes quarrels and quarrels.
Janubhau: Manya! I will kill you by choking your throat (if you continue talking) now. Alcohol closes the quarrels continued since birth, In the court of alcohol fire and water live in harmony.
Manyabapu: Man starts blabbering on because of alcohol!
Janubhau: It is a clear lie! I've been blabbering on like little boys do.
Janubhau: You are not talking irrelevant at all.
Manyabapu: I am really blabbering on. Alcohol is bad, I'm blabbering on!
Janubhau: Not at all! You are saying Alcohol is good,. Alcohol is bad, do you admit it or not?
Manyabapu: I mean no. Alcohol is good!
Shastri: Oh, in the confusion of speech, you are fighting by changing your side!
Janubhau: Is it sot? OK! Come on Manya, let's fight on our side again from the beginning! (They both hug each other and cry for a while.)
Ramlal: Bhagirath, to escape the fever of love affair,do you come to this wreched place and rest? (Sonyabapu starts crying.)
Khudabaksh: Why Sonyabapu, why are you crying?
Sonyabapu: What a wonderful picture of the virtues of alcohol! Alas, it is unfortunate that our women are not able to take advantage of this, just like men!
Janubhau: Sonya seems to have courage to talk! These reformers have a great desire to adorn wives in every case! Why talk of feminism? This is why we get annoyed about these reformers!
Sonyabapu: Khudabaksh, injustice is being done to the weak! You are invincible! You are Greek! You are a Muslim! Have some pride in femininity!
Khudabaksh: Wives do not have soul!
Janubhau: Well done! Khansaheb, You gave a befitting answer! We are getting bored of these reformers only because of their praise of women! Is it not true Shastribuwa?
Shastri: No, I am not having attention on this aspect of the reformers! We do not want the confusion created by the reformers in the name of reform, damaging the religion! If you start drinking tomorrow, eating inedible food, eating meat as a reformer in the name of reforming - Khudabaksh, today you have cooked the meat. It is not good? - If you start giving up eating and drinking restrictions, we old people will not approve it. We do not approve eating meat - Oh Hussein, more meat ... a little. I do not like Agarkar is for this reason! It is also for this reason we respect Tilak!
Sonyabapu: Then why is there so much fuss about Tilak's Geeta Rahasya book?
(Shastri gets confused.)
Khudabaksh: I will tell you the reason. We have respect for Tilak; But in the Geeta Rahasya, Tilak has teased the great Shankaracharya. He has touched the basic concept of Arya Dharma! This is the damage to Sanatan Dharma, so ...
Shastri: Well done (hugs his neck.) Khudabaksh, today you have sided with Sanatan Aryadharma! Today I became a Muslim! Oh, someone pull out my shendy(head hairs) and stick it under my chin and make me with beard! Khudabaksh, today we have become Pagadbhai! (Turbans begin to be exchanged.)
Ramlal: Alas, Bhagirath, even the enmity of the former Hindu-Muslims for their respective religions, which are considered sacred by the rites, seems more pleasurable than the love of these beasts. Where is the Gitarahasya Granth of sacred merit, where is Sreesankaracharya, where is Sanatan Dharma and where are these roaring insects! Agarkar and Tilak's contradiction is the play of the stars in the sky! Ignorant people like you and me should look at them from our soil, and should chart our way in their brilliance! Tilak-Agarkar's names should be added to the list along with the twenty-four names of Sandhya prayer of holy Brahmins. Bhagirath, this event of wretched people, Bhagirath, this event is over!
Bhagirath: I never noticed this kind of slander as I drank with them from the beginning every day.
Ramlal: Bhagirath, look at these corpses! Do you drink alcohol with them? My friend, you are a young man of fresh blood, of sharp intellect, of a noble heart, alive in romance, and that is why I speak for you with a burning conscience. Did you turn to alcohol because of failure in love?
Nineteen hundred miles long and eighteen hundred miles wide, full of various calamities, plagued by thousands of afflictions, your country with thirty-three crores of sorry cries has been calling to you, you have not found any other way than drinking to make a living meaningless. On the other hand thank the God for freeing you from the world of selfishness due to such a love affair, and for giving you the opportunity to serve your homeland in such a humble way. Instead you started drinking and got added to these animals. Bhagirath, you are lucky to get opportunity to serve and help your most dear and loved ones in times of crisis. Such an opportunity is not possible unless you have your previous store of good deeds.
The temptation to take incarnations again and again for the salvation of the fallen, for the salvation of the saints, is not possible even to the real God. Bhagirath, our country with poor, low cast, hadicapped,orphans is looking to your youth with hope. You have remained unmarried but the entire cast of mothers giving birth to baby are still enslaved, millions of illiterate Shudras are yearning for enlightenment, people like six and a half crore people are just yearning for helping hand, go and lend a hand to any of these.
(राग- अडाणा, ताल- त्रिवट, चाल- सुंदरी मोरी का.)
झणी
दे कर या दीना।
प्रेमजलातुर मृतशा
दे जल ते या मीना॥
ध्रु.॥
वांछा
तरी उपकारमधूच्या।
या करि संतत पाना॥ 1॥
(Raga- Adana, Tal- Trivat, Chaal- Sundari Mori Ka.)
Please give
your hand to poor
Give love like water to fish dying
Drink always honey of helping others
Bhagirath: Ramlal, You are God who who gave new birth to Bhagirath, I am ignorant, I have lost my way; Be my guide from now on. From today, this Bhagirath has become the slave of Mother India.
Shastri: Bhagirath, what's wrong? Taliram, give it to Bhagirath! (Taliram fills the glass.)
Bhagirath: Friends, don't take this trouble for me. From today, this Bhagirath has become alien for you and your liquor.
Taliram: Bhagirath, what are you doing? This new? Oh, at least for group request - not so much just one glass! Just one glass!
Bhagirath: (Dropping the glass on the ground) One glass! One glass!
Act ends second.
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