Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: dying zamindar has been shifted from mansion to outbuilding, Fact2: widow life has been plagued by misfortune, Fact3: ill-omened young girl was blamed by villagers for untimely death of father and then for own abandonment by mother, Fact4: Shanichari 's early marriage to drunkard named ends abruptly, Fact5: husband succumbs to outbreak of plague at village fair
Output (English): As the narrative begins, the dying zamindar Thakur translation: landlord Amjad Khan of the desert village of Barna has been shifted from his mansion to an outbuilding and is performing the rite of godaan or gifting a cow to a brahman. Anticipating his imminent death, and realizing that none of his close relatives are likely to mourn him, he summons a rudaali named Bhikni Rakhee from a nearby town. While waiting for her client to die, Bhikni temporarily lodges in the modest home of Shanichari Dimple Kapadia, a widow whose life has been plagued by misfortune. Born on a Saturday a badluck day ruled by the malefic planet Shanichar or Saturn, the illomened young girl was blamed by villagers for the untimely death of her father, and then for her own abandonment by her mother, Peewli, who ran off to join a nautanki folk theatre troupe. The tale of Shanichari’s life, told to the sympathetic Bhikni, unfolds in a series of flashbacks. Shanicharis early marriage to a drunkard named Ganju ends abruptly when her husband succumbs to an outbreak of plague at a village fair. She is left with a son, Budhua played as an adult by Raghuveer Yadav, whom she adores, though she realizes that he has inherited her mothers penchant for irresponsible wandering. Her poverty is relieved somewhat by employment at the zamindars haveli mansion after the masters son, Lakshman Singh Raj Babbar takes a fancy to her. She attends on his spoiled but strictly secluded wife, and periodically converses with her benefactor, who lectures her on social equality and urges her to look up into his eyes when speaking to him. This romance leads to the masters gift to Shanichari, one night after a singing performance, of her own house and two acres of land—a gesture that offers her a modicum of financial security within the village. One day, Budhua brings home a pregnant young prostitute, Mungri Sushmita Mukherjee as his wife. Their marriage is brief, as the quarrelsome Mungri aborts their child, Shanicharis hopedfor grandson. Budhua then runs away from home. Shanicharis painful reminiscences of these trials—throughout which, she says, she has never been able to shed a tear—alternate with scenes in the present, depicting her growing bond with Bhikni. On the very night of the old zamindars longawaited death, Bhikni is called over to meet Bhimdata from the neighbouring village. As Shanichari bids adieu to Lakshman Singh, who plans to leave the village after his fathers death, a messenger comes from Bhimdata. The messenger tells her of Bhiknis untimely death due to the plague, and of how in her dying breath she had asked Shanichari to be informed of how she was actually Peewli, her mother. This unleashes Shanicharis pentup emotions and transforms her, too, into a rudaali.