Mother: Najia daughter… stand up… it is late night… you are waking early in the morning to go to course…
Najia: (Thrillingly) leave me mother… let me see what is the heroin doing… haven’t you seen how his mate treason with her…
Mother: (Unhappily) it is none of your business… I am telling you… are you hearing or not… what are in these films that you are watching… you have watched the cartoon film in the late afternoon… isn’t it enough?
Najia: (With anger) what the cartoon film will give me… these films are good… see the girl understood about the boy…
Mother: You are not obeying… I am telling you mad…
Father: (Impatiently) how much talking you are… leave her… don’t disturb her… let her watch the movie… when she get tired then she will sleep…
Mother: (Unhappily) these films are useless for her… all these are nonsense… she is a child… she will adopt the messages soon… I am saying it with pity not from the enmity…
Father: (Impatiently) what will she learn… what is there to learn… it is just a movie… she will pass her time…
Najia: (Thrillingly) hey see… look she slap her mate… she is doing well… if I were I was doing the same… he has not the right to sellout with her mate…
Mother: uf… uf… uf… the children of this generation… when I was in your age… I did only understand about the cows and sheeps… nothing else…
Najia: Mummy… those periods passed… haven’t you heard that now it is the era of technology…
Father: Don’t exchange words with your mummy…
Mother: I am going to sleep… when you planned to sleep then please turn off the television…
{Music}
(Crowing sound of the cock – sound of putting wood in the heater)
Mother: (Feeling cold) how cold was it tonight… I feel pain in my bones… let me turn on the heater… to warm up the room… Najia… hey Najia… wake up daughter… it is time to go to course… you are getting late… put on warm clothes…
Najia: (Sleepy) let me sleep for a moment…
Mother: At night when I am telling you to sleep earlier… you are not obeying…I turned on the heater… your father went early to work… he didn’t take his tea… wake up I am going to prepare the tea… have the tea and then go to course because you are getting late…
Najia: Mummy… I am not going today…
Mother: Why?… are you off today?
Najia: (Sleepy) no mummy… I don’t have the patience to go… it is long way to go… everywhere is muddy… it is hard to walk…
Mother: (Wondering) What are you saying?… how were you going in these few weeks? My daughter… studying has these kinds of problems…
Najia: Why aren’t we rich?… why should I go to the school by foot… why I don’t have proper clothes… I like to have a good life and have money…
Mother: (Wondering) you are mad… stand up… don’t be crazy… once you come back from the course then we will go to Nooria’s house… our old neighbor…
Najia: (Unhappily) I am not going to course… also not to the house of auntie Nooria… in this far way… if we had the car then we won’t go this long way by foot…
Mother: (With anger) I think you had a dream… I hate you that you are not going…
Nooria: (With Kindness) please have some tea… Najia’s mother… welcome… how is Najia Jan… is she grown up or not…
Najia’s Mom: (Happily) hope you be health Nooria Jan… she is fine… but the children of this generation is of the other type…
Nooria: (Laughing) this is right… it is due to the school… television… radio… the eyes and ears of everyone are opening…
Najia’s Mom: (Drinking tea) do you know that today Najia was saying that why we are not rich… why should I go to course… if we would have money I won’t go to the course this far way…
Nooria: You know… this is all because of these movies…
Najia’s Mom: You are saying the truth… until late she is watching the movies… as much I am saying… she is not obeying…
Nooria: Do you know Najia’s mom… keep her busy in another way… like she should study books… weave something… so that she watch less TV… because Najia is a child yet… she is silly yet… the elders movies will affect her… then it will also effect on her spirit…
Najia’s Mom: (Unhappily) what should I say…? I need to cut off the power of the television… as much she likes the dramas and she doesn’t like her studies…
Nooria: But please be sure… she is silly… I hope that she won’t behave like the heroin of the films… or some other thoughts may fall in her mind… you talk with her father not to let her watch the movies…
Najia’s Mom: (Enforcing) yes… I should let her father know… Najia is still child… she doesn’t know between the rights and wrongs… then she will learn from the movies…
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