SR NO TIME IN TIME OUT ENGLISH 0001 00:00:27:03 00:00:30:08 One day I’d gone to Bandra for some work. 0002 00:00:30:17 00:00:34:07 While roaming the alleyways, I happened to see 0003 00:00:34:15 00:00:37:15 a man standing with a cage, 0004 00:00:37:24 00:00:41:16 selling tiny chicks to little boys and girls. 0005 00:00:42:00 00:00:45:24 I asked the man, ‘How much?’ He said ‘Ten rupees’. 0006 00:00:46:13 00:00:50:06 For ten rupees, I thought... ‘This will be a great toy for my cats!’ 0007 00:01:01:06 00:01:04:07 Actually, Uncle is fond of bringing all these things... pets ‘n all 0008 00:01:04:09 00:01:06:20 But raising them is left to us, to me atleast. 0009 00:01:07:02 00:01:09:14 I do get asked every now and then... 0010 00:01:09:16 00:01:10:22 ‘How did this happen?’ 0011 00:01:11:00 00:01:13:22 This was one of those classic ‘my dad’ moments. 0012 00:01:19:17 00:01:22:09 Mostly these chicks don’t survive more than two or three days. 0013 00:01:22:11 00:01:24:18 I’m also surprised at how this one has survived, 0014 00:01:24:23 00:01:28:04 I have a feeling that the cats bullying him 0015 00:01:28:08 00:01:31:13 Kind of made him a little strong and think, ‘I want to survive’. 0016 00:01:31:22 00:01:34:09 Come to think of it he’s been with us for six months. 0017 00:01:34:18 00:01:38:06 Normally, chickens are easily frightened. 0018 00:01:38:11 00:01:40:16 But like they say... 0019 00:01:41:00 00:01:44:06 as the tide turned, this guy became a don! 0020 00:01:47:00 00:01:49:13 Now he’s a full blown terror in the house. 0021 00:01:49:15 00:01:53:01 He just does not let people stay in peace. 0022 00:02:01:13 00:02:05:11 When he was little, I’d want to cuddle him all the time. 0023 00:02:05:15 00:02:08:03 But now that he’s fully grown, I’m scared by him. 0024 00:02:11:07 00:02:15:03 Now that he’s big, I have a feeling he doesn’t like me that much. 0025 00:02:15:10 00:02:17:03 Let’s just face it, I mean... 0026 00:02:17:05 00:02:18:13 he hates me perhaps. 0027 00:02:18:19 00:02:21:00 Usually, he feels attracted to my mom. 0028 00:02:21:02 00:02:22:23 I see him going behind her 0029 00:02:23:00 00:02:25:18 like she’s the actual mother hen of the house. 0030 00:02:25:20 00:02:27:13 And he just follows her around. 0031 00:02:27:21 00:02:30:07 If i’m in the kitchen he’ll come to me 0032 00:02:30:09 00:02:31:18 to see what i’m doing. 0033 00:02:31:23 00:02:35:15 And I have to give him something or he tries to peck at my feet. 0034 00:02:39:02 00:02:41:07 He eats everything. 0035 00:02:41:11 00:02:43:11 It doesn’t matter if it’s veg or non-veg. 0036 00:02:43:15 00:02:46:21 This chicken even eats chicken! 0037 00:02:51:12 00:02:54:23 I don’t know why he gets into this ‘cannibalism mode’. 0038 00:02:55:11 00:02:58:16 I’m also not sure if chickens are supposed to eat chicken. 0039 00:02:58:20 00:03:01:09 He’s ready to eat whatever you give him. 0040 00:03:08:15 00:03:10:09 He can tell we’re talking about him. 0041 00:03:26:03 00:03:28:12 The rooster’s nature... I don’t think it has changed. 0042 00:03:28:14 00:03:30:01 He’s following a pattern. 0043 00:03:30:06 00:03:33:20 All roosters are like this. I’ve seen them in my native place. 0044 00:03:34:00 00:03:37:05 They’re usually up to something, chasing hens, pecking around. 0045 00:03:37:10 00:03:40:10 So he’s also doing the same thing Only, he doesn’t have a hen around... 0046 00:03:40:21 00:03:42:13 so he’s taking out his anger on us. 0047 00:03:44:24 00:03:47:09 So he has these very hard nails. 0048 00:03:47:11 00:03:50:01 And he also has a pecking problem. 0049 00:03:50:03 00:03:52:03 I just don’t want to be pecked by a chicken. 0050 00:03:54:18 00:03:57:06 Well I’m the sort of guy, 0051 00:03:57:08 00:04:03:01 who can sleep through the noise of drums and firecrackers. 0052 00:04:03:03 00:04:04:13 Nothing can wake me up! 0053 00:04:31:02 00:04:34:13 The biggest problem about having this rooster is that he starts... 0054 00:04:34:21 00:04:37:01 crapping everywhere he goes. 0055 00:04:37:10 00:04:39:11 And nobody likes to clean up shit all the time. 0056 00:04:39:13 00:04:42:05 He’s not like us humans, we crap once in 24 hours. 0057 00:04:42:07 00:04:44:07 But this guy can poop up to five times in an hour also. 0058 00:04:48:11 00:04:50:07 He has a mind of his own. 0059 00:04:50:15 00:04:53:09 He comes and goes as he pleases. 0060 00:04:53:23 00:04:56:06 It’s as if he likes to be everywhere at the same time. 0061 00:05:12:00 00:05:16:07 So, my dad has a village upbringing. 0062 00:05:16:09 00:05:19:23 In his early years, he was maybe living... 0063 00:05:20:00 00:05:22:18 with many such, perhaps, chickens. 0064 00:05:22:23 00:05:26:16 A parrot is fine, maybe an owl is fine. Maybe even an eagle is fine. 0065 00:05:26:18 00:05:30:10 But I don’t see what a rooster can add to a household. 0066 00:05:34:19 00:05:39:24 People keep rabbits, dogs, cats. Those are within reason. 0067 00:05:40:01 00:05:45:06 But I bet no one has thought of keeping a rooster as a pet, till now. 0068 00:05:47:24 00:05:50:10 I tell people I have two cats. But... 0069 00:05:50:15 00:05:53:13 once I’m closer to people, comfortable with people 0070 00:05:53:15 00:05:56:04 only then I’ll tell them, ‘Oh, I also have a rooster’. 0071 00:06:05:06 00:06:08:14 I see that he’s quite changed now. 0072 00:06:08:16 00:06:12:13 I feel he’s also developed affection for us. 0073 00:06:13:07 00:06:15:17 He has now become like a member of our family. 0074 00:06:49:10 00:06:51:19 The entire neighbourhood has come to know... 0075 00:06:52:07 00:06:53:06 that we have a rooster. 0076 00:06:53:08 00:06:55:14 Actually, we thought the rooster will not crow. 0077 00:06:55:16 00:06:57:06 Because he is of the Broiler variety. 0078 00:06:57:14 00:06:59:07 That’s what the chicken seller told us. 0079 00:07:03:05 00:07:08:06 I thought that Indian roosters usually crow around 5:30 in the morning. 0080 00:07:08:11 00:07:11:18 This must be a counterfeit rooster, crows whenever he feels like it. 0081 00:07:13:18 00:07:17:21 So, one method my dad has learnt to shut the rooster up, 0082 00:07:18:02 00:07:21:06 is that whenever the rooster starts crowing he just run behind it. 0083 00:07:22:24 00:07:24:24 That’s all I see my dad doing with the rooster. 0084 00:07:25:20 00:07:29:01 Catching him... that’s actually an art. 0085 00:07:30:01 00:07:33:18 Normally when I would chase chickens back in my village. 0086 00:07:33:20 00:07:36:15 they’d only run along the ground. 0087 00:07:36:23 00:07:38:22 But this fellow’s learnt a new trick... 0088 00:07:38:24 00:07:40:04 He takes flight! 0089 00:07:56:22 00:07:59:01 Actually when uncle tries to catch him, its quite comical. 0090 00:07:59:03 00:08:01:14 because it reminds me of a charcter from the film ‘Mandi’. 0091 00:08:01:16 00:08:04:06 which was played by Naseerudin Shah. 0092 00:08:04:08 00:08:05:19 And he was called ‘Tungrus’ in that. 0093 00:08:06:00 00:08:10:01 So whenever he tries to catch the chicken I call out ‘Tungrus is catching the chicken!’ 0094 00:08:10:13 00:08:13:20 We both have chased each other all over this house. 0095 00:08:13:23 00:08:19:00 But all-in-all, this activity is absorbing and interesting. 0096 00:08:25:14 00:08:28:13 If anybody wants to adopt a rooster 0097 00:08:28:15 00:08:29:21 do your research. 0098 00:08:30:00 00:08:31:14 and like all pets, 0099 00:08:31:16 00:08:34:05 be prepared for your life to become hell. 0100 00:08:42:10 00:08:44:16 I don’t think he’s happy with us. 0101 00:08:44:18 00:08:46:11 But then I feel he’s got a better deal. 0102 00:08:48:23 00:08:51:06 Actually when I think about it... 0103 00:08:51:17 00:08:54:00 compared to the chickens that roam the streets 0104 00:08:54:03 00:08:57:16 he is aware that he’s been excessively pampered. 0105 00:08:58:01 00:09:01:11 On some level he knows, and I can tell. 0106 00:09:10:13 00:09:11:21 It’s not as easy as you think. 0107 00:09:12:06 00:09:15:16 Rearing a chicken in a flat; it’s difficult. 0108 00:09:16:09 00:09:20:15 And all considered, what’s the end result? 0109 00:09:20:19 00:09:22:08 He’s got to be killed. 0110 00:09:23:01 00:09:26:17 He knows what’s coming. And we know what has to be done. 0111 00:09:26:19 00:09:29:01 If not today, then tomorrow, we’ll have to slaughter him. 0112 00:09:29:03 00:09:34:06 Let’s see how much longer he’ll live. But eventually, he’s got to go! 0113 00:09:48:19 00:09:51:11 I think my dad is the only one in my family 0114 00:09:51:14 00:09:53:17 who leans... 0115 00:09:53:19 00:09:55:05 ...towards eating it. 0116 00:09:55:15 00:09:58:21 Actually, my elder son loves chicken. He won’t eat anything else. 0117 00:09:59:06 00:10:01:01 But he won’t eat this chicken! 0118 00:10:01:20 00:10:04:15 I don’t know the chickens that I’m eating, right? 0119 00:10:09:07 00:10:10:24 I would rather get rid of the rooster. 0120 00:10:11:01 00:10:13:00 I don’t like to have him in the house. 0121 00:10:13:06 00:10:15:02 But I’d also rather not have him killed. 0122 00:10:18:02 00:10:21:05 He’s kinda cute, so I wouldn’t want to kill and eat him. 0123 00:10:21:08 00:10:24:18 If I don’t see him being killed, I can eat him. But before my eyes...I’d feel bad. 0124 00:10:31:14 00:10:35:01 We will have to eat him. We can’t care for him much longer. 0125 00:10:35:08 00:10:38:08 My sons tell me, ‘No dad, let’s give him up for adoption.’ 0126 00:10:38:15 00:10:43:11 I tell them, if we did that he’d be butchered within the hour! 0127 00:10:45:00 00:10:49:10 So rather than feed him to strangers, why shouldn’t I be the one to eat him? 0128 00:10:59:19 00:11:01:21 We’ve had this chicken for the last six months now. 0129 00:11:01:23 00:11:05:09 And since we’ve raised him from a day old-chick to this, 0130 00:11:06:09 00:11:09:22 if he’s not there around the house we will feel a little odd, in the sense... 0131 00:11:10:00 00:11:11:22 a little emptiness will be there... 0132 00:11:19:06 00:11:21:11 I mean, it is clearly a hassle. 0133 00:11:22:08 00:11:26:05 But you don’t want to come to a point where you can’t let go. 0134 00:11:26:23 00:11:28:01 I won’t miss him. 0135 00:11:28:07 00:11:29:21 Maybe for a few days... 0136 00:11:29:23 00:11:31:14 but I don’t think ill miss him. 0137 00:11:32:09 00:11:34:07 I will definitely slaughter him. 0138 00:11:34:17 00:11:35:21 And I will eat him. 0139 00:11:36:02 00:11:38:19 Whoever doesn’t want to join me, can stay away. I will eat him. 0140 00:12:22:20 00:12:24:16 See Ginger, Garlic, see! 0141 00:12:40:09 00:12:42:16 They aren’t really scared of him. 0142 00:12:50:15 00:12:51:13 Should I do it again?