Gaitonde's birthday party and his first sight of Bipin Bhonsle
A Mithun impersonator dances at Gaitonde's first-ever birthday party, where a local Hindu committee man with political dreams comes asking for favours.
Trivedi
6 moments · 8 min
Guruji tells Trivedi the wheel has 25 years left
Gaitonde introduces the milk-drinking bureaucrat Trivedi, who kneels before Guruji and hears that the world will turn within twenty-five years.
Bhonsle introduces Trivedi, who hails Gaitonde as Shiva reborn
Trivedi flatters Gaitonde with divine comparisons and talks of spreading 'our community'; Gaitonde finds the riddles tiresome and wants plain speech.
The duck riddle: Gaitonde refuses to leave Bombay
Asked to go overseas as a general for the coming war, Gaitonde answers with a three-duck riddle and a crude threat, then walks out with the jalebis.
Trivedi explains how the Mahabharata begins while Gaitonde is beaten
Gaitonde learns who was really behind his torture, while the men watching joke he is unkillable and Trivedi turns a king's seed and a fish into India's birth.
Trivedi smuggles a phone to Gaitonde: Guruji wants a word
Barely alive in the cell, Gaitonde is told to chant that he is Brahma, then hears a stranger promise him, with total certainty, that he will not die.