The Doll’s Wedding

 translated by: M.A.Andar

1st Lane:

Nazia and Matin are celebrating Nazia’s doll wedding. They are singing a song. Peddler comes and they welcome him. Matin asks him to help them in choosing a song for the doll’s wedding. Peddler tells them a song regarding the wedding. Nazia and Matin sing it. Peddler gives a tambourine to each of them as a gift and he goes to the other alley.

2nd Lane:

Safia and Piroz have a picnic in their garden. They bring boiled potatoes to the picnic. They also invite peddler to take part in their picnic too. Piroz gives some boiled potatoes to peddler for eating. Peddler praises the boiled potatoes and asks the children that what more could be cooked from potatoes.

Safia says that Bolani could also be cooked from potato and Piroz says that chips could be cooked from it.

Peddler turns on a tape recorder. A Child says that they cook Sambosa and Qorma (pot roast) from potato. Another child says that we cook potatoes in clods of earth. The peddler turns off the tape recorder and gives some potatoes to the children and asks them to cook varieties of dishes from them and he goes to the alley of the story.

The Lane of Story:

Samira asks Samim if he remembers the previous part of the story, Angry Zahra. Samim says yes, he remembers that: One-day Zahra took his doll and went to Ghotai’s house. Ghotai brought her doll too. Ghotai had worn nice clothes to her doll because next day was the wedding of her doll. While they were practicing a song, Ghotai’s mother called them for the lunch. After the lunch, Zahra went to wash her hands and drink some water. She brought a glass of water to Ghotai too. Ghotai says that she also wants to wash her hands and then she would drink the water. When Ghotai went to wash her hands, suddenly she shouted.

The peddler says that Zahra soon went to see what has been happening. She saw that the leg of Ghotai’s doll was broken.

2nd Episode:

 Ghotai said to Zahra that someone has broken her doll’s leg. Zahra said that it could be broken by itself but Ghotai murmured with herself that when Zahra went out for drinking water, she might have broken the doll’s leg. Zahra invited her to calmness and said that they would celebrate Zahra’s doll wedding next day. When Ghotai heard these words, she became sure that Zahra has broken her doll’s leg and asked Zahra to leave their house as soon as possible.

End of the 2nd episode.