INT.

FAMILY HOME - NIGHT

KAIRA is sitting with her family at a get together living

room. She doesn’t have a great relationship with her parents
and doesn’t like her family friends. They think she should
get a “real” job and consider getting married.

AUNTY
Kiddo was so quiet, but Kaira, she
was a firecracker. Still like that.

MUM
Oh she would get angry at me the
more. Make faces, get annoyed.

UNCLE
You don’t understand how tough it
is to be a parent. Once a parent,
always a parent. No holiday. We
should be awarded a “Padmabushan”.

KAIRA
So end it right? Just end it.

UNCLE
What?

KAIRA
The job of a parent, end it right?

There is silence around the room.

KAIRA (CONT'D)
If it’s so hard to take care of
your kids just end it. Who told you
to keep being parents? Did someone
say it? First of all you didn’t
start the job properly. And then I
don’t understand, why keep going.
Just end it. Put an end to it.

When the kids need you the most,

you just easily leave them. Then
your entire life you go around
complaining. She makes faces, she
does this, she does that.

Whose idea was it to give birth to

kids? Yours, correct? And then
whatever you wanted you did with
them. And then you blame us and you
say it’s tough. What do you mean
it’s tough, tough - my foot.
 2.

MUM
Kaira.

KAIRA
How could you just abandon me? How
did you do that? How could you both
just leave? And then you came back
because I failed the second
standard.

Yes. I failed the second standard!

Baap re, shame shame. Dumb Kaira
failed the second standard. You
were so ashamed, that you came all
the way back to India only because
I failed the second standard.

And when I was finally happy,

finally happy with Pappi and Nani,
you took me from there as well.
Yes, Padmabhushan, just for that.

Oh and one firecracker, actually a

bomb. Are you ready? I have begun
therapy. Yes I am going to a mind
doctor. So if you’re going to call
me crazy behind my back, just say
it to me right now. Say it to my
face. Come on.

Say it, I’m crazy coo coo, Kaira’s

gone mad. That’s what you all think
right? You think I’m crazy.

Kaira walks out of the room.