Mektup
- Year:
- 1997
- 100 min
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I'd been following them since
the big city. They were fugitives.
At first I didn't understand why they
were coming to this secluded seaside town.
Your father had been involved
in some covert work for years.
That's why the organization
kept a close eye on him.
My youth, when I look
back at those years,
I could never have imagined my
life would turn out like this.
It'd been six months since I began
the assignment. I was a real novice.
I spent the six months doing absolutely
nothing. Then, one day they called on me.
I was really excited.
They assigned me to watch your father.
He was considered
dangerous from the start.
You wouldn't know;
you weren't around then.
It was winter, January or February.
The town was completely deserted.
What if I lost sight of them,
even for a minute?
How would I explain that to my bosses?
I constantly lives that fear.
Do you know your father did that to me?
How could I have known that I would
spend my whole life obsessed with him...
that I would witness
his frenzy, his pain?
I didn't understand why
they came to this town.
Were they planning to escape
to some other country?
But then, they didn't leave for anywhere.
They just got married.
After that I understood everything.
Then something very strange happened.
local and picked me up by the road.
All of a sudden I found myself
Your mother's family had no idea about
that clandestine wedding ceremony.
And your father, he had
The story of your father's life is
also partly my life story.
I must confess I'm having this
feeling for the first time in my life.
It's like I'm descending from the moon.
Is this my country or is it not?
I don't really know.
But I think I have some
idea about what to expect.
I'm going to visit your grave, meet your
friends, visit this country where I was born,
like a tourist, and then return to where
I live my life. And that's about it.
I'm just a singer.
Recording, film-clips, TV.
I couldn't' care less about them.
I like what I do, that's it.
I will never forget he said " I found you
in the womb where you were conceived."
- May he rest in peace.
- Hey, give us some money.
- I hope you won't get too frustarted
with all of this. - Why's that?
Oh come on... these graves, the dead.
We've prepared a list of the
people we're going to see.
- It looks like they're a pretty
colorful bunch. - Is that so?
Yes they really look interesting. Have you
really not seen this face for forty years?
Yes. The last time... the face.
I remember is very vague.
Anyway, he was always
going off somewhere.
Now, as I look at my house.
Everything is just like it was
when I was a child, isn't it?
- I don't know you. I don't know.
- This is where you were born?
I think it was in this room...
Wasn't it?
- I don't know.
- But I'm his son.
He doesn't believe me.
- Did he live here before he died?
- I don't know.
Listen, he just wants to speak
with people who knew his father.
- This is very important for him.
- I don't know.
been up and down these stairs.
So it happened all at one, did it?
You woke up one morning and realized
that you missed your country.
- Just like that. Does that seems funny
to you? - No, just a little strange.
Sure you'd find it strange,
you're still so young.
- What does this have to do with my age?
- If only I were your age.
- Are you ever presumptuous!
- I am not. I wonder what you'd do.
If you hadn't seen your
father for forty years?
- What are you laughing about?
- Oh, nothing.
- Am I really so old?
- Well, what is it then?
- You see that woman over there.
- She's been eyeing you for some time.
- Just give her the tongue.
- Nilufer, you're on.
- I'm coming.
He left, and never returned.
- I didn't know he had a son.
- How do you do, madam.
Do you know that his father did to me?
He called to me to the train station in that
awful town and said: The idiot is going
to India, to New Delhi. He wrote to
the university there and got registered.
I shouted out," Are you going
to come back?" as he left.
But he left, and never returned.
At least that's what I thought.
But he deceived me.
On top of that he had a child:
This kid standing right here across from
me in a daze, staring at me, not eating.
Don't you like it? I know you don't
like it. Who do you think you are
- not eating me food? Who
are you? - We will eat madam.
- Just a minute... - We will eat
madam, we were listening to you.
No, I don't need any love.
Just tell me frankly you don't like it.
- If you don't like it, then just leave.
- Please, just a minute...
- You've misunderstood us. - Get out
of my house right away. I said, go.
- Please just a minute. You've misunderstood us.
- Get out of here. Get out.
- So you don't like me you don't
like my food. - No I don't.
But you're going to eat it.
You'll have to eat it until you die.
Well, I'm eating it and I'm dying.
That woman has really aged. They say
she was really beautiful in her youth.
- So, what did your father do in India?
- He studied medicine
and became a pediatrician. My mother always
used to say, "Your father's an Indian."
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