00:00It was the year 1936 when Britain's empire extended across the world.
00:04At the same time, the Iban people lived in Sarawak, a state in Malaysia.
00:09They had a very strange tradition.
00:11those who did not know their language
00:13These tribes used to teach them their language with the help of their girls.
00:17In return, the learner had to sleep with the girls who taught him.
00:21Those girls were called sleeping dictionaries
00:23At that time, those who wanted a government job were required to first work in a remote settlement.
00:29Go and work.
00:30After serving for the stipulated period, they would return to their country and get a job.
00:36A young man named Jaan is sent to Sarawag to work.
01:06He also tells that tomorrow when the people of Kabele will celebrate their festival, Sai will come to take you.
01:12The next day, Sai brings Jaan to Kabele, where he meets the chieftain of Kabele and his father Malaka.
01:17Is.
01:18Then Salima, a girl from the tribe, brings him rice wine.
01:22John refuses to let him drink.
01:24On this, Sahi tells him that if he refuses, the people of the tribe will consider it an insult to themselves.
01:28Out of compulsion she makes John drink, then John's eyes fall on Salima.
01:32Seeing her beauty, John's gaze remains fixed on her face, and the evening passes while they drink alcohol.
01:38Salima dances to her Param with the girls. John loses sight of her for a moment.
01:43He couldn't take his eyes off her, and Salima was watching him too. Then, for the next performance, Salima
01:48She chooses John.
01:49John recites a poem to everyone which no one except Sai understands because no one understands it.
01:54They did not know the language and neither did John know their language.
01:57Seeing everyone's strange faces, John picks up Sai and starts dancing with him, which makes everyone laugh.
02:03John faints from excessive intoxication. The next morning, Henry tells John about this.
02:08The place is full of minerals and metals.
02:23The tribe leader Malaka arrives with Salima and tells Henry John, "We want
02:29It is that you learn the language of the tribe within 6 months which Salima will teach you and for that
02:34She will stay with you like your wife.
02:48Because his principles prevented him from doing so, Harry angrily tells John, "So you have to do this."
02:53And find a way to learn the local language because without learning their language they cannot educate the people of their tribe.
02:58John then learns that Sal
03:16Salima sees that Sai has replaced the heads of Chinese people with monkey heads.
03:20She gets angry at Sai. Sai tells her that she has chosen a fool. Then she
03:25They both return to their place. There, John's juice
03:46She fires him from his job and leaves. The next morning, John finds
03:50Salima was sleeping outside the house. Her cook tells John that she will never return.
03:56Because it chose you and you didn't choose it.
04:13Jaan says yes and requests her to try again.
04:17Salima gives him another chance. Then, at Kabele, John meets Henry's wife, Aggie.
04:23She knows about his sleeping dictionary.
04:25she asks. Before John can answer, Henry arrives and calls out to John.
04:31Before leaving, Aggie tells him, "You should start sleeping with him. Otherwise, these people
04:36Salima will be misunderstood. At night, Salim
04:38She begins to teach Jaan her language, but Jaan still goes to sleep in the next room.
04:43When Salima asks him, he tells her that he only sleeps with his wife. Salima then confronts him.
04:49She says, if you don't know how to have sex
04:52If you do it then it will be for your wife after marriage.
04:54It would be like a nightmare
04:56John laughs and says to him, "So I
04:58I will work overtime and learn this and then that.
05:00touching Salima's fingers and asking her
05:02She tells me why you chose me.
05:05That's why you're different from everyone else
05:07The next morning Sai John was brought to his tribe by his
05:10I don't agree with the idea of teaching English.
05:12So John takes her underwater
05:14Who can hold their breath the longest?
05:17challenges to
05:18Sai was the champion so he accepts the challenge.
05:21But he comes out of the water within five minutes.
05:24John comes out of the water after a full ten minutes.
05:44His daughter Cecilia is coming here for Christmas.
05:47At night, John sees Salima reading a book.
05:50Which his mother used to read to him sometimes.
05:52Salima tells him that her father used to read it to her as a child before leaving for England.
05:57She reads four lines to John. John then writes the names of body parts on Salima's body.
06:02He starts. Salima
06:18Salima always went back to her bed afterward. So John sat her down one night.
06:23He tells her to go to sleep. Salima tells him, "We have a tradition. If a man and
06:29And after sleeping for five days continuously, go to the same bed in the morning.
06:48But John tells him the truth.
06:50The next morning, John arrives to resolve a land dispute between two tribesmen.
06:55He arranges a tug of war between them in which Sai's people win.
06:59Cecilia comes there with John and starts taking photos of people.
07:12He suggests going to their tribe with Salima and Sai to find out about them.
07:20Although Henry's wife, Aggie, did not want this,
07:23Because the people of that tribe kill people with poisoned arrows,
07:26But Henry gives him permission to go,
07:28Later, Aggie came to John and offered him her daughter Cecilia in marriage.
07:33Is,
07:34John suddenly doesn't understand this and asks for some time.
07:38Aggie tells him to answer quickly,
07:40Back at his cottage at night, John confronts Salima about Cecilia's inability to stop him from taking his photo.
07:46I apologize for,
07:47But Salima is so angry that she tells John,
07:50I have no love for you, you are like an outsider to me,
07:54who has come to learn our language, and I want to have sex with you in return,
07:58John, seeing her anger and listening to her, leaves the place.
08:01As soon as morning comes, they all go to the nearby Kabele, the people there are experts in hiding themselves,
08:07There he sees that many people are dead and many are sick,
08:10Then someone shoots John from hiding but Sai saves him in the nick of time.
08:14They chase the shooter.
08:16At one point, they find Dutch people mining silver.
08:19After that they come back from there.
08:22So we see, everyone has left from there, and Salima suddenly becomes ill, then that
08:26The tribe's hunter warriors surround them, believing John and his men are carrying a deadly disease.
08:32Salima explains to him that this is God
08:35He has come to cure your illness, there John understands that he has rice
08:39Slow poison is being given in it, so that people get sick and vacate this place.
08:44And then the Dutch can easily take away the silver from here.
08:47Sai tells them everything, and in anger they kill all the Dutch people.
08:52Salima recovers in a few days, John proposes to Salima for marriage,
08:57But Salima tells him, for this we have to run away from here.
09:00Because people won't let that happen, John tells him, don't worry, I'll talk to him, then back
09:06John arrives and tells Henry about his desire to marry Salima, but Henry becomes angry with John, and their
09:12This news spreads throughout the area.
09:13Then Aggie tells John, if you don't listen, you'll be tried for murdering Dutch.
09:18You will be tried, then sentenced to ten years in prison and will not be able to return to Sarawak for the rest of your life.
09:24You will be able to meet Salima, here in Kabele there is murder and
09:37Mahan comes and asks him to stop several times, when John doesn't listen, Henry reluctantly
09:42Just as John is about to be charged and sentenced, Salima breaks down, and Henry
09:48She stops John and says, I told you, our marriage
09:51It can't be, Henry wasn't happy to see them both unhappy either, a year after this incident John
09:56He returns to London and marries Cecilia. On the wedding night, Cecilia tells John, "I know that your
10:02There was a sleeping dictionary, but I
10:04It doesn't matter because you love me, that's what Cecilia was actually told,
10:09that John himself had proposed to Cecilia's parents, and John would tell her
10:14It is said that Salima married Sai.
10:29Cecilia also realizes this, and then at night, while being intimate, Cecilia bites John.
10:34She takes it, he screams in pain, she says, I thought Salima might do the same thing,
10:39Then she shows him his photo and asks him, is this him?
10:42John says yes, but then their cook starts making drunken noises, and Cecilia angrily fires him.
10:48John is forced to take his cook to Naval, where he sees
10:53that Naval had written to his sleeping dictionary
10:55is badly beaten. John is furious at Naval and tells the girl if this
11:00If he hits you again, cut off his private parts while he's sleeping. The girl smiles and says yes. Sham
11:05John returns home. He sees
11:21While doing these things, John sees Salima with an English boy on the riverbank.
11:26He goes straight to his cook and confronts her.
11:51So she explains to John, if anyone sees us, they will kill us.
11:55John still meets his son and recites the same poem to him, which was once sung by his mother and Salima's father.
12:00I used to narrate it to him in my childhood.
12:02The next day John brings his son a wooden boat, but this time the Naval
12:07He sees it and informs Sai about it.
12:32He will have to stay here, and reveals a secret of his that Salima is his daughter, her mother Henry's.
12:37There was a sleeping dictionary, about which Salima knows nothing, he continues, I asked about the people here
12:43To manage your life, choose your duty.
12:59The punishment has to be pronounced, but then at night, Jaan himself gives Sai his gun and frees him from his captivity.
13:04He gives it to Salima and promises to run away with her in the morning, because now he will have to live for his country, history.
13:10And he had chosen Salima from his language.
13:13As soon as Henry learns of this, he locks John in his office.
13:17But he leaves and goes straight to his house to get his things, where Cecilia tells him
13:23that she is pregnant, meanwhile Aggie Salima gets Naval's sleeping di
13:39I thought you loved me, that's why you married me, and all I want is your love
13:45It was the kind of love that tells me to go with you and Salima, the same love that tells me to go with Salima Jaan.
13:52comes to the dock for
14:09She knows he is her father. With tears in his eyes, Henry embraces Salima for the first time.
14:15And sends him away from there.
14:39Jaan frees himself and begins to fight. Salima then shoots Naval. However, Naval manages to escape.
14:45Just as he is about to kill him, a local tribal man shoots a poisonous arrow at Naval.
14:50They kill Jaan and Salima.
14:52They allow him to stay in their tribe because John saved their entire tribe.
14:57There both of them give a pause to their love and stay together forever.
15:01John lives happily with his son and finds his love.
15:05This story tells us that true love transcends all social bonds, traditions and rules.
15:11John followed his heart without caring about his job, his country and his future.
15:17Salima also went against her traditions and chose her love.
15:20Henry's character is also very important in this story.
15:23A father who couldn't accept his daughter, but ultimately risked everything for her happiness.
15:29He puts it on.
15:29Hope you liked this story.
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