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| ASKAR
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(sings)
On seeing you I fell in love,
Hå jests at me who can’t love.
I
had much grief my beloved,
On
seeing you I fell in love.
I
love you so much
I
love you so much
I
love you so much, darling,
I
cannot he far from you
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Music
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| GULCHOHRA: |
I
would not see anyone
No
one could achieve my heart.
I
did not know what love meant.
On
seeing you I fell in love.
I
love you so much
I
love you so much
I
love you so much, darling,
I
cannot he far from you |
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Music
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Both
sing together
I see helped me my own fate.
Happy
love came very late.
You
made my life so happy
On
seeing you I fell in love.
I
love you so much
I
love you so much
I
love you so much, darling,
I
cannot he far from you |
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Music
plays
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| ASKAR:
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Khanim,
I am not your equal. |
| GULCHOHRA: |
I
don’t know, but I like you. |
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Music
goes on
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| ASKAR: |
People
are right saying that à soul must be
close to à soul, khanim... |
| GULCHOHRA: |
Don’t
call me khanim. My name is Gulchohra. |
| ASKAR: |
Gulchohra,
what should be done to make your father
agree to our marriage? |
| GULCHOHRA:
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Ask
permission from my father, if he agrees
I’ll be yours, but if he does not, then
I’ll not marry any other person... |
| ASKAR: |
(aside)
Very good. (Hå says to her). Your
father will marry you to another man
by force. |
| GULCHOHRA:
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I’ll
not marry by force. |
| ASKAR:
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You
will be used violence. |
| GULCHOHRA: |
I’ll
hang. |
| ASKAR:
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God
forbid! If it’s so, let’s think well.
May be I’ll find à way out. Now you
go home, otherwise somebody can see
us. Goodbye. |
| GULCHOHRA: |
Goodbye.
But don’t forget that my word is honest.
(She leaves). |
| ASKAR: |
(alone)
By God, I say, hearts can be à whole!
Poor girl likes me. And she doesn’t
know that I’m à rich merchant. I didn’t
say on purpose to test the girl. Good!
Now I’m going to send my aunt here under
some pretence. Let her come and see
what kind of girl I have chosen. |
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