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As she burns up pot after pot of sap, sometimes producing nothing and at times rancid Gur that won’t even sell for half the price, Moti begins to lose all the accumulated respect at the market.
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She wishes he’d do something else just so she’d be free from being forced to do something she’s not interested in. She doesn’t get her husband’s obsession with Gur.
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Winter arrives, as it must, with the Gur season and a test of Moti and Phoolbano’s marriage. Her lush youthful beauty is an analogy of the spring that the lovestruck young couple fritter away in an oxytocin haze. And therefore more than the divorce it is the besmirching of her good name that pains Majubi.īut she leaves, signalling the end of winter and Phoolbano enters. In a country, at a time when young widows were subjected to so much scrutiny, their pristine character was often the only thing they had to protect themselves from society and the ubiquitous male gaze. I would have left the way I had come here, unblemished.”
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This is Nutan’s shining moment, her righteous rage spills out at the accusation, “All you had to do was tell me that the Gur season is over and my services were no longer required. Exit Majubi with expertise in making the Gur enter the sexy PhoolbanoĪs winter draws to a close signalling the end of the Gur season, Moti accuses Majubi of infidelity in the presence of a Qazi, seeking to divorce her. On one hand wanting to do good by his daughter, getting a high bride price so he can start a savings account for her and on the other hand complicit in the exploitation of another woman’s emotional and physical labour, while reducing his own daughter to a beast that requires control. Instead Phoolbano’s father has great admiration for Moti’s ‘straight talk’ and agrees that he’s the right man for Phoolbano because he’d be able to ‘control’ her. One would imagine that any normal father would chase such a suitor off with a stout stick. As soon as the season changes and the sap runs dry, I will divorce Majubi.” When Phoolbano’s father tries to break the ‘engagement’, refusing to send his daughter as Moti’s second wife, Moti makes a chillingly unabashed confession, “In the winter as long as there is sap in the trees and my body needs warming, Majubi will stay with me. The ‘bro code’ that holds up patriarchy and ‘control’ of women She voluntarily diminishes her role in his success, calling it her ‘Miyan’s Gur’. She becomes his chief ally and cheerleader even suggesting ways in which to make the Gur tastier.
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She never once complains over the ever increasing pots of sap that Moti brings in. She sleeps with him at night and by day, all day, she slaves over the Gur cooking on open fires. She cooks and cleans and turns the pigsty of a bachelor’s quarters into a home. Unlike slaves who were incentivised by fear of violence, Majubi does it for the most powerful driver, love. Moti rents more and more trees to tap and drives Majubi to work harder than ever into producing even more Gur. Īnd just like that Moti the expert tapper cleaves away at the hard exterior of Majubi and drives his spiel into her vulnerable, tender heart to drain her of her life blood. She, who is so sharp and savvy when it comes to money, finds herself weak in the face of praise and hope that here is one person who perhaps sees her true worth and her instinct and resistance crumble in the face of it. Loneliness and a hard life have prematurely aged Majubi.
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And so we learn to drink beer and scream at the TV screen and delude ourselves into believing that we are this cool girl, superior to other girls. She falls for the same trap that many of us have at one time or another, when we are told we are not like other girls- They are so silly, you are so smart, you are so cool, no other girls likes football or cricket or whatever else the man wishes to groom us for. At first Majubi is dismissive, but when Moti compares young girls to raw sap and Majubi to the earthy toddy of fermented sap or the complex sweetness of Nolen Gur, Majubi is entranced. On a cold winter’s night, Moti knocks on Majubi’s door to propose marriage to her. Netting the woman who can make gur worth its weight in gold And so, Moti the Saudagar hatches a nefarious plan. Moti’s resentment peaks when he falls in love with the lissome young Phoolbano (Padma Khanna), but cannot afford princely Rs.500/- meher or bride price her father demands. Majubi is very firm about her worth and in her struggle to eke out an existence, Majubi has no time/ interest in Moti’s fripperies. Never miss real stories from India's women.