Essay on kabuliwala script - 1251 Words

SCENE 1 ::: (One morning when narrator is in the midst of the seventeenth chapter of his new novel, his 5 years old daughter Mini enters into the room) MINI ---Father! Ramdayal the door-keeper calls a crow a krow! He doesnt know anything, does he? NARRATOR--- Do you know the differences of languages in the world? (Before the narrator could explain to her the differences of language in this world, Mini comes out with another question). MINI---What do you think, Father? Bhola says there is an elephant in the clouds, blowing water out of his trunk, and that is why it rains! (While the narrator sat still making ready some reply to this last saying, Mini puts another question) MINI---Father! What relation is Mother to you? NARRATOR---My dear†¦show more content†¦NARRATOR--- Mini must get rid of her false fear(Says to himself) (Mini stood by narrator’s chair, and looked at the Cabuliwallah and his bag) KABULIWALA---( offered her nuts and raisins) SCENE 4 (One morning, however, not many days later, as narrator is leaving the house, he is startled to find Mini, seated on a bench near the door, laughing and talking, with the great Cabuliwallah at her feet) NARRATOR---Why did you give her those? (taking out an eight-anna bit, narrator handed it to him.) (AFTER SOME TIME WHEN NARRATOR RETURNS) (Cabuliwallah had given the coin that narrator pays him, to Mini, and her mother catches sight of the bright round object) MINI’S MOTHER---Where did you get that eight-anna bit? MINI---The Cabuliwallah gave it me MINI’S MOTHER---The Cabuliwallah gave it you! Oh, Mini! how could you take it from him? (NARRATOR ENTERS) (Narrator saved her from her mother’s scoldings) (It was not the first or second time that the two had met.) (They had many quaint jokes, which afforded them much amusement. MINI---O Cabuliwallah, Cabuliwallah, what have you got in your bag? KABULIWALA---An elephant! (Not much cause for