The room has been decorated with a bouquet of flowers for Nayan in front of Amma’s dead body. Where Nayan’s virgin life will end. A man over sixty has been sent to Nayan’s house, a teenager who has just turned fifteen.
Nayan was sitting next to her Amma’s dead body and crying. At that time, the old man slowly approached Nayan. He touched Nayan’s face with his dirty hands. Nayan stepped back a little in fear. The man smiled faintly and said, “Why were you trying to escape? Now you have to live in front of your Amma. That too without marriage.”
Nayan was stunned in fear. The old man touched Nayan’s face again. The man’s hand slowly moved towards Nayan’s chest. Nayan was becoming more and more afraid. The closer the man’s hand came, the more Nayan heard her Amma’s words ringing in her ears. Nayan’s Amma said, “I will not let you get lost in the darkness of this hut. Even if it means giving my life, I will free you.”
Nayan looks at her mother’s dead body with calm eyes. Then she says to herself, “Will your sacrifice be in vain, mother?”
Nayan shakes her head ‘no’. Nayan grabs the man’s hand. Then she says in a pleading tone, “Let me go. Please let me go.”
Hearing this, the man laughs loudly. Then she says, “You were born here and asked for freedom.”
Nayan cries. She hugs the man’s legs and says, “I am your mother, let me go.”
The man kicks Nayan away. Then she says, “You are not brave enough. You claim to be my daughter after being born in this hut?”
The man looks at Nayan with angry eyes. Nayan gets a little scared. After a while, overcoming her fear, she says in a soft voice, “I made a mistake. Please forgive me.”
The man smiled. Nayan pleaded again, “Let me go. I….”
The man held Nayan’s face. Then he said, “If you let me go, will I get my money back?”
Saying this, the man pushed Nayan away. Nayan fell on her mother’s chest. Nayan understood that the man would not listen to her request. If the man was good, would he have come here? Nayan was losing all hope in life. At that moment, she remembered. Her mother was saying, “Nayan, you will have to fight a lot. If you want to get out of this darkness, you will have to fight. A fair fight.”
Nayan noticed that the sword that killed his mother was still in his stomach. It had not been taken out. Nayan, somewhat afraid, put his hand on the sword. On the other hand, the man started to undress from his own body. He took off his clothes and looked at Nayan and saw Nayan standing there with the sword in his hand. Before the man could understand anything, Nayan inserted the sword into his stomach. In a moment, the man fell to the floor. Although the sound of his scream went outside, no one came to the front of the room. Because everyone mistook this sound for another sound.
When Nayan realized that someone had killed him, he was shocked. He was very scared. He said in fear, “What have I done?”
Nayan could not control himself. He was quite broken. So much had happened in his life in one day today. Thinking of everything, he was quite broken.
It was almost two in the morning. Nayan had controlled himself by now. He slowly stood up. He took off the clothes that the man had taken off. She comes to the door of the room with a turban on her head. She opens the door and steps out, but turns around and looks back. Nayan steps out of the room, looking at her mother’s beautiful face for the last time. All the doors of the house are closed. Everyone is busy with their own work. Nayan takes this opportunity to open the main door and comes out.
There are many guards outside the house. Everyone is sleeping. Seeing Nayan in men’s clothes with sleepy eyes, they think she is a man. Nayan takes this opportunity to step out very carefully.
Nayan turns back once from outside the house and looks at the house. In front of the entrance of the two-story house, there is a big writing, “Kuthibari.”
Nayan cries as she recalls the beautiful moments spent with her mother. She controls herself after a while. She starts running. She starts running towards an unknown destination.
Night turns into day. Nayan gets tired of running. She also feels hungry. Hunger and fatigue combined together made Nayan’s eyes blurry. She lost consciousness and fell to the ground.
In the year 1725,
Rajesh hit Mala’s back with his whip. Mala screamed in pain. Rajesh said in amusement, “This is fun. This is great fun.”
Mala looked at Rajesh with helpless eyes. Rajesh hit Mala again with the whip. Then he said, “Tell me, Lord, I am your slave.”
Seeing that Mala was not saying anything with her mouth, Rajesh hit Mala harder. Mala screamed in pain. She said in a pained voice, “I am your slave.”
Rajesh was quite amused. He was happy and hit Mala again. Mala closed her eyes in fear. Seeing Rajesh’s expression, Mala was sure that this time she would be hit harder than before. So she closed her eyes in fear.
Mala opened her eyes as she did not feel the impact on Mala’s body. Mala was amazed at the scene in front of her. A smile appeared on his face. He said vaguely, “Bibijan.”
Rajesh was lying with his hands and feet tied. He was surrounded by six women. They were holding whips.
Two girls brought a seat and placed it in front of them. At some point, ‘Bibijan’ arrived. He came and sat on the seat, raising his legs. Rajesh saw him and said in an angry voice, “You are not doing the right thing, Bibijan.”
Immediately, Bibijan kicked Rajesh in the face. Then he said, “This is a brothel. Here, I am the king in my kingdom.”
Saying this, he hit Rajesh again. Bibijan ordered the six people with whips to hit Rajesh. They started hitting Rajesh. Seeing all this, Bibijan smiled and said, “This is a brothel. Here, women’s bodies are available for money. That means, not this, but you will also hit that body for pleasure. “This won’t work here.”
‘Kuthibari.’
This is a house where festivals are organized every night. Where Nawab Bahadur and other dignitaries attend. The women in this house entertain them by performing dances. Finally, a certain woman becomes a man in exchange for money.
This house has been going on for ages. Many chieftains have come to this. During their reign, men could torture women in exchange for money as well as pleasure. However, the current chieftain has declared it forbidden. However, Rajesh was doing this by invisibly scaring the women. Finally, he was caught by the chieftain.
After hitting Rajesh as he wanted, Mala came and stood in front of the chieftain. Then, addressing everyone, he said, “The chieftain of the Kuthibari has stopped the torture being done to me. So everyone, sing her praises.”
“Victory to the chieftain….”
Everyone started to shout victory. The chieftain raised her hand and stopped her. Everyone looked at her in surprise. She said in a calm voice, “Not the chieftain, Bibijan.”
Everyone felt a little embarrassed. Still, everyone said in unison, “Bibijan.”
