Baddhakisthaan ( Translation = land of laziness )
A man, in a hurry while walking on the road, accidentally steps on and kills some ants because he is trying to save another person. The person he saves is a parrot astrologer. Out of gratitude for saving him, the astrologer asks a parrot to pick a tarot card for him. The card says:
“Today, both Kubera ( God of wealth ) and Yama ( God of death ) have come to you. That means today you will become wealthy, but there is also danger of death. Be careful.”
After that, the man goes to meet another person — a swamiji-like figure. He goes there to take money because he has an idea and needs investment to start a company.
His idea is this:
“If a person pays one crore rupees, they never have to work for the rest of their life. We will provide food, pleasures, shelter — everything.”
To prove that the idea works, he already has six members as evidence who joined and are successfully living that way. But to expand the company further, he needs more money, which is why he approaches the swamiji.
He takes the money from the swamiji and starts returning home.
On the way, someone suddenly hits him from behind, ties him inside a white sack, and beats him brutally like people beat a stray dog. The man inside the sack asks:
“Why are you beating me?”
The attacker says:
“Because of your idea, countless problems happened in the future. So many people joined your company and stopped working completely. They stayed with you only for comfort and pleasure without doing any work. Laziness increased everywhere. Human resources became useless because of you.
When war came upon our country, people had become weak and lazy because of your idea. We lost the war because of that. The condition of our nation today is because of your worthless idea.”
The sack in which the man is tied has spring-like tension at the top and bottom edges, so it can be stretched like the string of a bow. In front of the sack, there is a sharp spear placed upright.
The attacker slowly pulls the stretched sack backward, planning to release it and make the man inside get pierced by the spear.
As he keeps pulling it back, the man inside notices the sharp spear in front of him. He realizes that if he hits it, he will die. Terrified and not knowing what to do, he somehow loosens his hands inside the sack while distracting the attacker through conversation.
At the moment the attacker finally aims him toward the spear, the man inside suddenly grabs the attacker tightly and forcefully pulls him forward instead. Because of that sudden force, the attacker falls directly onto the spear.
The meaning behind this is:
Just like earlier he had saved the parrot astrologer, now even while trapped inside the sack, he uses his own strength to make the spear hit the attacker instead.
After some time, he somehow escapes from the sack and says:
“When you decide to kill someone, you shouldn’t waste time talking nonsense.”
Then he comes out and looks at the dead attacker.
Shock.
The attacker looks exactly like him.
He mentally breaks for a moment.
“How does this man look exactly like me?”
The spear has pierced through the attacker’s stomach, and blood is flowing everywhere.
Terrified, he slowly walks away from that place toward a nearby pond to wash himself.
But suddenly he starts feeling strange. His throat begins hurting unbearably. He grabs his neck and writhes in pain violently. Unable to tolerate the pain, he dies there.
CUT TO:
The person who actually spoke with the swamiji earlier was not this man — it was the attacker who came to kill him.
The swamiji had secretly hired that attacker to kill him.
Earlier in the film, we show it in such a way that the audience believes the protagonist is speaking with the swamiji.
But in reality, the protagonist was speaking to a temple idol inside a temple.
Because the money used to start the company was actually stolen from the temple hundi donation box.
The protagonist stands before the deity and says proudly:
“See, swami… six people already joined this company and became successful.”
But through editing and shot design, we make the audience think he is talking to the swamiji.
And the reason the attacker looks exactly like him is this:
At the very beginning, the protagonist unknowingly stepped on and killed an ant.
That ant cursed him in its own language:
“The one who comes to kill you will look exactly like you. If he dies, you will die too.”
Finally, a line of ants is shown walking again.
This time, another person runs quickly past them, but his foot does not crush the ants.
The ants continue peacefully on their path.
CUT.
A “Shubham” card appears.
TITLE:
“Baddakisthaan”