'The nights in Kurukshetra are dark.'
'One moment cannot be seen by the other.'
'Even if the sun has risen..'
'..it seems as if it hasn't..'
'One night seems to..'
'..follow another.'
'Brave warriors tend to their wounds..'
'..and keep waiting with hope..'
'..for the darkness to end..'
'..so that they can cross over the border to light.'
'The Pandavas with Lord Krishna are at peace.'
'The Kauravas are alone and..'
'..restless with their shadows.'
Guard!
Yes, my lord!
Didn't sage Drona say anything before leaving?
If it were so, he would have told you.
- Go - Yes, my lord.
He must have gone to meet the Pandavas.
To tell them of his latest strategy and..
..how it can be defeated.
Why are you all looking at me thus?
When Bhishma could tell them how he could be defeated..
..why can't sage Drona?
We should not forget that these two great men..
..are alike in their loyalties.
Brave Shakuni.
There is no greater sin than doubting the loyalty..
..of Grandsire and sage Drona.
They could have fought for the Pandavas.
It is Duryodhan's good luck that..
..Grandsire fought under his banner and..
..sage Drona continues to do so.
I still do not like him but..
..I cannot accuse him of disloyalty.
I am proud to fight under his banner.
It was my bad luck I could not fight for Grandsire.
Please give due respect to warriors like..
..Grandsire Bhishma and sage Drona.
I respect those I feel are worthy of respect.
Respect is not that cheap in Gandhar.
Sage Drona is undoubtedly a brave warrior but..
..he's not as loyal as you are.
- But uncle.. - Let him talk.
I am not loyal, uncle.
I am indebted to my friend.
Debt and loyalty are different, uncle.
I can talk of loyalty after I have paid my debt.
But they are loyal.
If it were not so, why would Grandsire say..
..he would not kill the Pandavas?
Such people are to be respected.
Your tone has changed.
What is your dilemma?
Brave people never face a dilemma.
Even when they do evil..
..they never violate their limits.
If you wish to say that..
..you are only indebted to me..
..then I free you from the debt.
Till this day I thought that..
..it is our friendship that binds us.
If I relied on anything..
..it was your loyalty towards me.
Only your loyalty.
And today you say that you are not loyal..
..that you are not my friend, only my debtor.
How can I prove my loyalty without paying my debt?
A debtor has no right over anything.
My loyalty is also indebted to you.
Ask me if I am loyal to you or not..
..after I have paid back my debt.
You go, I release you..
..from all debts.
I cannot take charity.
Even the Gods have taken charity from me.
I've never taken charity from anybody.
If you doubt my loyalty..
- ..then here. - No.
Forgive me, friend.
Let us not have such words between friends.
- No place. - Friend.
Where were you O Sage?
My respects!
We were all worried where you were..
I was with Bhishma.
With Arjun around, Yudhishthir cannot be caught,
Leave Arjun to me,
Both Bhishma and I are disciples of sage Parshuram.
I don't doubt your bravery..
..but Arjun is still Arjun.
You have also faced him in the Virat war.
Then we should surrender.
That is worth thinking about.
O King of Gandhar!
Forgive me, O Commander!
Remember you all are fighting for me.
If your egos clash, my defeat is definite.
So, I pray to all of you..
..to keep your egos in check.
I agree with sage Drona that..
..with Arjun guarding Yudhishthir..
..we cannot capture Yudhishthir.
That's why I wish to ask who will accept..
..the task of separating the two brothers?
I cannot accept because..
..it will mean I'll have to run away from Arjun.
I cannot even pretend to do that.
I think, for this job we can approach..
..the King of Trigart.
The prince and the commander need not have..
..come to my tent to make this request.
O Sage!
To challenge Arjun is to invite death.
We are here to fight for Hastinapur.
So, we brothers accept death at Arjun's hands.
We regret you came here for this.
Had you even sent us an order..
..we would have given up our lives.
History will remember you as brave warriors.
Today, Hastinapur and I are indebted to you.
We vow that we will only return from the arena..
..after killing Arjun.
lf we cannot kill Arjun our corpses will return.
Arjun! Why fight nameless warriors?
Fight us because..
..we two brothers have sworn..
..to kill you or die.
King of Trigart!
That's not a challenge but sage Drona's strategy.
But they are challenging me.
Ignore them.
Sage Drona wants you to react.
They'll run away the moment you react.
This is the strategy to fight.
The strategy is that you follow them..
..so that Yudhishthir can be captured.
Who can do that with you on guard?
I can stop the Kaurava army but..
..not sage Drona.
Arjun! Can a warrior ignore a challenge?
Throw away the Gandiva.
King of Trigart!
Allow me to obey the warrior code.
He's asking me to throw away the Gandiva.
Anyone who says that..
..will not live.
Move ahead!
Arjun!
The Trigart brothers are taking away Arjun..
..like a river takes away the dam.
We must not delay the attack.
Arjun is near enough to protect Yudhishthir.
Why don't they run away? Why are they fighting?
They are brave! Sworn to die!
They are unable to face Arjun's arrows.
Remember! They are facing the warrior..
..who pushed back sage Drona's chariot.
For us it is a strategy but for them..
..it is war.
Arjun has gone too far.
Don't worry, brother.
I am not worried about my security but..
..if I am caught, the war will end because..
..a prisoner of war is a slave and..
..a slave has no rights.
Does Arjun not being here mean that..
..we all cannot protect brother?
None but Arjun can stop sage Drona.
Beware!
O disciple of Parshuram!
O brave warrior!
I salute your loyalty to Hastinapur.
You wanted me to remove Arjun so that..
..you could catch Yudhishthir.
I have arranged for that..
..at the cost of thousands of my soldiers.
You did not catch him..
..though you were close.
You seemed to be waiting for Arjun..
..to come and rescue Yudhishthir.
At least Grandsire had said openly that..
..he would not kill the Pandavas.
But you failed to keep your vow.
My friend!
I am not talking of victory or defeat.
I wish to know what my chief is doing.
I do not wish to lose because of him.
Hastinapur which has given him refuge..
..has the right to ask what he is doing.
Don't think I am not ashamed to ask my teacher.
But I must know on whose side he is.
The Pandavas or mine?
Grandsire.
I wish to know whether..
..I can trust you or not.
I am not a slave of your trust.
Learn to differentiate between war and play.
The result of war is not in our hands.
lf Arjun had gone further, I would have caught him.
'lf' is a very important word in war.
I'll remove Arjun from the arena..
..and make Yudhishthir a prisoner.
I'll create a trap..
..which none but Arjun can break through.
Where are you going?
I am going to king Yudhishthir.
Why?
According to the rules of war..
..both armies can freely mix..
..after sunset and before sunrise.
I am not asking you the rules.
I am asking you why you are going there.
You have no right to ask that.
Solider!
Is this how you talk to your commander?
Don't talk of that!
I haven't forgotten anything.
Honorable men have forgotten their duty.
Even the commander.
- Solider! - Ashwathama!
Anger is not the solution.
What have I forgotten?
The meaning of loyalty.
You should be loyal to Hastinapur.
You are loyal to the greed of the king and the prince.
I was going to tell king Yudhishthir that..
..tomorrow Arjun should not stray away from him.
You are to create a trap which..
..only Arjun can break.
I am doing my duty as a citizen.
If you are an enemy you will stop me.
O soldier!
Your courage and loyalty is to be respected.
As the commander I cannot allow a spy..
..to carry such an important message.
You will be judged after the war is over.
Take him away.
Why didn't you have him killed?
He was merely doing his duty.
His loyalty was taking him there.
It is true that..
..only Krishna and Arjun in that camp..
..know how to break the wheel trap.
A trap is important in both love and war.
You are an expert at love.
The eyes-trap.. the hair-trap..
..the smile-trap.. the lips-trap..
..the shyness-trap.
Your words are as accurate as your arrows.
How many war-traps do you know?
All except one.
Why the exception?
I only know half of it.
The wheel trap.
Why do you know only half of it?
Promise me you'll not sleep hearing it.
What does my sleeping have to do with it?
I don't want our unborn son to hear half of our discussion.
I was as yet unborn when my father told my mother about it.
I was listening.
He had told her how to enter the wheel trap..
..when she fell asleep.
So, I have incomplete knowledge.
I asked uncle Krishna..
..how to break out of the trap but..
..he told me to ask my father.
I never got to learn from my father.
You must not have insisted.
His smile does not allow you to do that.
Even my father does have such a weapon.
Had father not been in this war..
..it would be a big problem.
Sage Drona is not creating the trap only..
..because father is there.
Or else he would have laid the trap..
..and ended the war yesterday.
I don't like asking Susharma.
He is brave and bound by an oath.
No warrior can reject a strategy.
Let's go!
I know that Krishna but..
..if Susharma challenges me..
..I'll have to accept his challenge.
That is the warrior code.
Will you now explain the warrior code to me?
The defeat of the Pandavas means..
..the downfall of all virtue in society.
Your duty is the welfare of society.
Taking up the challenge is not the code..
..but your individual warrior's ego.
- Even then.. - Even then..
..that is your problem.
If you wish to take up the challenge, do so.
I am only a charioteer.
I'll do what you say.
How are you?
I am ashamed, prince.
I could not kill Arjun in the duel.
Nor could I die myself.
Arjun is a warrior..
..whom even sage Drona cannot fight all day.
You fought him all day.
I'll fulfill my vow tomorrow.
Today, brother has another request to ask of you.
A request.
The prince has a request?
I do not wish to see the day when..
..the prince will have to request me.
Give me an order.
What I am about to ask..
..cannot be termed as an order.
I'll obey it like an order.
Speak, prince!
I wanted to say that..
..tomorrow you'll not fight Arjun.
Not fight him?
That's impossible! I am bound by an oath.
That is sage Drona's strategy.
Is the strategy that I run away?
No! No! I did not mean that.
All I want to say is that..
..you take Arjun so far away from the battlefield..
..that he cannot return before sunset.
Why?
So that sage Drona can..
..capture Yudhishthir.
Why capture Yudhishthir?
The war will end.
Don't you want this war to end?
Who doesn't want that? Will you promise me one thing?
What promise?
I am indebted to Yudhishthir.
He freed me after capturing me in the Virat war.
If you promise to free him..
..after the capture..
..then I don' t mind this cheating.
Cheating?
This is not cheating!
This is nothing else but cheating.
All right!
I give you my word that..
..I'll free him on your guarantee.
Now speak.
Now I give you my word.
If need be..
..I'II take Arjun to the other corner of the earth.
"Duryodhan, using deceit.."
"..got what he wanted."
"He gave a false promise.."
"..and deceived a friend."