[devotional song playing]
'Lakshmana, King Rama's order is final!'
'Please drop off Sita outside Ayodhya,'
'in the forest!'
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'These are our last few moments together.'
'Do you wish to remain sad'
'or stay joyous?'
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'Lord, the choice is yours.'
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'Sita, please sit.'
'Sita,'
'Bharata ruled Ayodhya for 14 years.'
'He completed this task wholeheartedly.'
'Can't he take over Ayodhya's rule?'
'Lord,'
'how powerful a king is?'
[mellow music playing]
'Sita, you shouldn't ask this question in the current situation.'
'Lord, that's not the answer to my question.'
'Sita, a king has three pillars of strength.'
'Gurus and sages are a king's willpower.'
'Justice and knowledge are a king's mental strength.'
'The army and his wealth are a king's physical strength.'
[mellow music playing]
'Aren't subjects a king's strength?'
'Subjects are the medium'
'of these strengths.'
'They are the supreme power.'
'They are as eternal as God.'
'Without the love and trust of subjects,'
'a king is like a culprit.'
'It means renouncing that supreme power'
'is disrespectful.'
'Lord, abandoning the ones'
'who gave us everything'
'is akin to treason!'
'When you entered Janakpur,'
'Sage Rishyashringa said'
'that you would usher in a new era.'
'Every valorous king can protect the subjects'
'and kill the enemies.'
'However, only those who build a new era'
'are truly revered.'
'They provide a better future'
'to their subjects.'
'This world will revere you for ages.'
'I'll also be revered'
'because of you.'
'It will happen on the condition'
'that we choose duty'
'over happiness.'
'We should sacrifice our happiness.'
'Lord, your duty is to rule the kingdom.'
'I, Sita, am your happiness.'
[mellow music playing]
'You'd be selfish to sacrifice your kingdom.'
'However, you'd be considered big-hearted'
'if you sacrificed me, Sita.'
'Rama and Sita's names'
'will be remembered together for ages!'
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[bell clanging]
[theme song playing]
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[poignant music playing]
[horses neighing]
Mother Sita, this place is quite far from the city.
- Can I drop you... - No, Lakshmana.
The plants here
are similar to Ayodhya's.
This location
and its climate aren't too different from Ayodhya.
Please move the chariot forward.
We haven't reached our destination yet.
As you say, Mother Sita.
[suspenseful music playing]
[horses neighing]
[suspenseful music playing]
Lakshmana, please stop.
This place will suit me the most.
[horses neighing]
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[dramatic music playing]
Mother Sita, it's a dense forest.
It would be a hundred times more dangerous.
Lakshmana, I don't care if it's dangerous
because I'm going to live in the forest.
According to the rule of asceticism,
one's family shouldn't be visible,
one shouldn't hear the voice of a friend,
and one shouldn't even remember
their enemies.
Lakshmana, I must go far away
so that Ayodhya forgets me.
It will help King Rama win the trust
of the people of Ayodhya.
[dramatic music playing]
Why me?
Why, Mother Sita?
I don't understand.
Why did Rama make me sin?
I saw you suffer
for 14 years.
I've seen a king and queen
wandering from one forest to another, helplessly,
like forest dwellers.
I witnessed your sufferings.
Why was I entrusted
to leave you in the forest to suffer once again?
[dramatic music playing]
Lakshmana, will you please bring me water?
[crickets chirping]
Yes, Mother Sita.
[mellow music playing]
[melancholic music playing]
Here you are, Mother Sita.
[mellow music playing]
Only water
can extinguish the fire.
This is the answer
to both your question and your pain.
You were chosen
because you witnessed Shri Rama and my journey
for 14 years.
Shri Rama and I
considered you a son for 14 years.
You served me, your Mother Sita,
wholeheartedly.
[mellow music playing]
Mother, how could you make your son suffer?
Lakshmana, our exile is over.
You aren't merely Shri Rama's younger brother
and my son.
You're Ayodhya's commander.
A commander must not be committed
to his mother
or sister-in-law.
They should be committed to protecting Ayodhya.
[mellow music playing]
It was important for me to be unattached to you.
Mother Sita, I don't have the courage
to commit such a heinous sin,
even though I'm a commander.
[gloomy music playing]
Bringing dutifulness into your thinking
will make you powerful
and courageous.
Following the king's command is your duty.
I have the same wish
and command.
Lakshmana, please remember.
Whether I stay alive or not...
[dramatic music playing]
My blessings will always be with you.
[dramatic music playing]
[chortling]
I told you...
I told you that my weapon
never misses the target.
I was proven right.
The deceptive Sahasramukharavana
accomplished a feat
that even the great Dashanan Ravana could not.
I entrapped
the great Shri Rama.
It was me.
I'm the reason, Rama abandoned Sita.
He challenged his wife.
[chortling]
Welcome, Shurpanakha.
Please come in.
I knew you'd come.
I knew my victory would bring you here.
Come and enjoy the celebration.
For the first time,
we won our war against Rama.
Let's celebrate.
[chortling]
Sahasramukharavana, we shouldn't celebrate so soon.
You won on a single front, not the entire war!
You just crossed a single threshold of our win.
He is Rama after all!
He can easily overcome pain.
He'd never succumb to it!
[dramatic music playing]
Rama!
Shurpanakha, what do you think?
Don't I, Sahasramukharavana, know this?
[suspenseful music playing]
Rama's name is eternal.
I've already planned my next move
against Rama.
I've planned
to snatch happiness
and peace from him
forever.
This celebration
is the announcement
of orchestrating my plan.
[chortling]
Let Ayodhya be consumed by this dark night.
Let the catastrophic clouds
cover Ayodhya's sky.
Let me celebrate
Rama's defeat.
Because tomorrow,
every house in Ayodhya
will face a struggle.
[chortling]
[sombre music playing]
[thunder cracking]
'No, Sita!'
[mellow music playing]
'I can't sacrifice love to fulfil my duty.'
'I can't break the promises I made during our wedding.'
'I vowed to look after you during all three phases of our lives.'
[mellow music playing]
'Sita, I can't leave you stranded in a forest.'
'Your promises helped me'
'endure the torture in Ashoka Vatika'
'and patiently bear'
'our unbearable separation.'
'I'll continue to live in the forest'
'with the strength of your promises.'
'And you...'
'You'll live with the strength'
'of the promise that King Rama made to Ayodhya.'
'You promised to teach values'
'and duties to your subjects.'
'You promised to save Ayodhya'
'from evil, ill intentions,'
'and rumours,'
'and to give it a bright future.'
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[vocalising]
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[thunder rumbling]
'You told me'
'that we need time to establish Rama's rule.'
'We need to persevere.'
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'However, our child'
'will soon be born.'
'What if'
'it is considered illegitimate?'
'What if it falls prey to gossip?'
'Will our ancestors ever forgive us?'
'Lord, will you ever be able'
'to forgive yourself for this crime?'
[gloomy music playing]
'Lord, I no longer have the strength to forgive myself.'
'Sita, you're right.'
[poignant music playing]
'Parents must sacrifice for their children.'
'But, Sita, why should you sacrifice alone?'
'Lord, who said that I would suffer alone?'
'Shri Rama's Sita'
'will be incomplete in the forest,'
'and Sita's Shri Rama will also be incomplete'
'in Ayodhya.'
'Lord, it's a 'yajna'.'
'Both of us are sitting on the opposite sides of the 'yajna vedi'.'
'And we'll give the offerings of our duties.'
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'Lord, we're separating today'
'for the bright future of our child.'
'Please educate your subjects'
'and I will impart values to our child.'
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'But I'm confident'
'of our good fortune.'
'We are destined'
'to meet again.'
'Lord, our thoughts are similar.'
'So, even if we live separately,'
'nobody can prevent our union!'
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