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five years ago i joined dutyright in this police station, sir. after that manysub-inspectors came and left. but you're the first si who wantsto know something about this case. and on the first day of your duty. it's a good thing, but i wouldlike to give you an advise, sir. you must work slowly here. this is a very dangerous area, sir. and the case you're talkingabout doesn't even have a file yet. this case is just a rumor, sir.

even i heard it as hearsay. it's okay. sometimes rumorsare interesting. tell me. this incident occurred 8 years ago. pigeon competitions area common thing around here. and this murder was the reasonof one such competition, sir. pigeon competition? what's that? i am sure you didn't hear about it. but this competition isa common thing in this city. this has been going on for many years.

there are two typesof pigeon competition, sir. one is the race to get home. in this, every competitorpitches in 5- 10 pigeons. one day before the race,these competitors.. ..arrive at the raceclub with their pigeons. every pigeon is tagged. a secret coded ring istied to the pigeon's feet. later all these pigeonsare locked in a box.. ..and transported faraway in a truck or a train.

owing to the distance of every race,different cities are chosen. like chennai, delhi, bhopal..etcetera. then these cages are linedup..and they are all opened together. no matter how far these pigeons are,but they fly back to their masters. and one that reachesfirst is the winner. isn't that amazing, sir? this competition isorganized very honestly. there's no gambling involved,but you do tend to make enemies. and enmity was thecause of that murder.

even today people talk aboutclosed doors about this murder. who committed that murder? a well known don of this place,kol velu. maybe you heard his name. he rules the entire city. he smuggles red sandalwood. he's been a fan of thiscompetition for many years. the murderer is from his gang. a 22 year old young man,who wasn't even a gangster back then.

he used to raise pigeons. he used to look afterkol velu's pigeons. one night some membersof the other gang barged in.. ..and slit the throatof one his favorite pigeon. what then?he attacked them with a knife. goons which the entirecity was scared of. what are you doing? where are you going? where are you running? stop.

this way, an ordinary boy who used toraise pigeons turned into a criminal. and in the last years he's becomeso big, that we can't even touch him. what did you say his name was? maari! ã¬maari.ã® kol velu has a hold on many areas. and he's given oneof his areas to maari. on the 1st of every month,velu gets his cut. velu's main businessis smuggling red sandalwood.

this is a very big illegalbusiness which is carried out.. ..in the southernregion of our country. one can earn millions byselling red sandalwood abroad. there are many cases registeredagainst velu. and he has many enemies. that's why he never comes forward. he makes maari doall his illegal business. there's another member in velu's gang.pappu panchi. he wants to be a partnerin velu's business as well. but velu's favorite is maari.

velu never interferes in maari's area. maari never giveshim a chance to complain. hey..shell out the money, or else i willbreak down your shop like last week. see this,he's looting me in broad daylight. is there no one who can do justice? he's been standing outhere under the hot sun... ..and asking youfor money so politely. can't you give him the money politely? and you call yourself a goon.

what are you beingso polite with him for? thrash him.- he's a goon. whenever he's angry,everyone around him run away. but there's one thing. whenever he's with his pigeons,he's completely different. soft-hearted. bird-lover. no one cansay that he's the same gangster. velu was running thiscompetition for many years. now he's handed it over to maari.

these goons are completely honestwhen it comes to pigeon competition. this competition is held underthe supervision of senior racers. and if anyone's caught cheating, thenmawaari turns into a gangster again. do the people in his area like him? not at all.they don't like him at all. he's just got some useless friends. everyone else isgrown tired of him, sir. he's a hoodlum. he scares peoplejust for the fun of it.

he troubles them in different ways. once he went for a haircut. he was going to sit onthe seat before it was his turn. a customer that was waiting for histurn stopped him and sat on the seat. what more. he got off that seat only aftergetting all his hair shaved off. and just last week..he gotdrunk he went to a tv showroom.. ..to watch a match.- watch now, he'll hit a six. one ball three run,how is it possible.

it was a india-pakistan match,and unfortunately for the shopkeeper.. ..india lost that match.- ..and that's out. and pakistan has won the world cup. very interesting matchand wonderful performance. shoaib akhtar hasled the entire team.. who is the owner of shop? come out! india lost in all the televisions, theycould have won on one of them. - no. this is all your fault. give me the bat.

my tv..he broke all of it. bloody tv. not just elders,he doesn't spare kids either. what do you mean by that? that's how you recover money,understand. hey..come here. - what? get lost. he even calls robert, a guy that roamsaround with him.. 'punching bag'. whenever maari gets angry,he sends someone to call robert.

and he calms down onlyafter thrashing robert. why is cold drink so expensive?tell me. - ask kalia. why is it so hot? why is it so hot?why did you wake me up so early? couldn't you let me sleep?acting too smart. - you asked me to. how dare you answer back.how dare you? couldn't you wake me up on time?why did you wake me up late? you fool. we lost this match because of anushka. tell him to return the ticket.. there's another guythat roams around him.

his name is shanivaar. - shanivaar?what kind of a name is that? drinking on a saturdayis compulsory for me. so you don't drink on other days.- who said that? what's to say? that's not it. you're crazy. it's more important todrink on the rest of the days. then why is it compulsoryto drink on saturday? drinking on saturdayis my birth right. scratching your brain, he's confused.

shanivaar selects fewpeople from his area.. ..and then makes themdance in front of maari. doesn't make a differencewhether anyone can dance or not. good morning ladies and gentlemen.- morning? brother, whenever you wake up,its morning. is this a new one?- i just made that up. i am very happy to see you all. today night special program by mr.maari and team. so we proudly present thegame 'make us laugh or die'.

what kind of a name is that?'make us laugh or die'. the dancer will dance, and if maaridoesn't laugh then dancer will die. do it properly. how is it? there's no punch in his sway,beat him. that's it..now he'sswaying to the beat. make boss happy.come on..dance. dance look over the boss.- that's enough, next one. come on. - come on, dance.

hey slow-motion. are you meena kumari. dance like katrina. well done. you should take a coursebefore dancing in front of boss. this is what happens here.but there's nothing we can do. people are scared of him. even yesterday therewas a tournament held here.. ..and like always maari won it. the police can do nothing in his area. today is velu bhai's happy birthday.

if our show is a flop,i'll make you dance. i've arranged for a specialitem for the boss. - show me. what is this scrap? it's really nice. - show me. coming out..out. who is he? - his name is dilruba. dil what? - ruba.. dilruba. ruba.. how will he make him laugh?- by shaking his waist.

boss, he plays a songand sways his waist. - correct. show me what you got.- hey, i need some instruments. give him instruments. hey.. wait, wait. we don't have any drums or trumpet,show us what you can do without them. okay, i'll dance.- the boss should get impressed. what is this getup? cap, goggles..jacket. get rid of this, go spruce him up.

let's go change your garb. - hey..i am delicate. we should ignore themand concentrate on our duty. by the way,where are we going now, sir? we're going in maari's area. - sir. i've been tipped that there's going.. ..to be illegal bettingin the pigeon competition. i'll show him realpower of the police. but sir, without his permission..howcan we go in his area? - why? are we the police or is he?start the jeep.

yes, it'll be done. weren't you banned fromthe pigeon race this year? what are you doing here?get lost. i came to see the race.am i banned from seeing the race too? get lost. - come on. look..what a amazing maneuver. old man, wasn't that amazing.- superb. what's that? he's landing so soon.didn't you feed him properly? who's that lady? she's drivingaway our pigeons. is she crazy?

i don't even know her.what are you saying, sir? hey madam,we're having a tournament here. go dry your clothes somewhere else. hey..she's his wife. - no. he's taken his wife's help. you stooped so low to win. - no. who hits on his wifeafter the marriage? is she his wife? - i am sure she is. old man, write it down he cheated.

how dare you make yourwife cheat..- i didn't cheat. what are they doing here? spoil the fun, like always.what else. where's maari? look at that, first theybarged in here without permission.. ..and no respect whiletaking maari's name either. i was informed that there'sillegal betting going on here. betting here? someone's fooled him. we only make pigeons fly.

and we enjoy watching them fly. we don't bet here. yes. holding such competitions withoutpolice permission isn't allowed. stop it right now and call maari. and you, disperse this crowd. what's going on there?- move back. did they come to askus for protection? - no, boss. then what's the police doing here? the police will bewherever the hooligans are.

hooligans? we calmly hold competitions of thesepigeons and you call this hooliganism. we do it for our honor,and not for betting. i think one of my enemywrongly informed you. those who do illegalthings have enemies. go away, sir. i am only politeto police officers once. such threats don't affect me. i have evidence..thatwill get you behind bars.

evidence. evidence. evidence. evidence. hey..monkey face, come here. come on, come on.. come quickly. - come on. so..remember what i didto you last year when you cheated. this year i put a ban on your entry. but why did you have to falsely makea complaint about me to the police? naughty.

you know there's nothing illegal here. sir, he's my friend..iknow him really well. say it..tell sir.. tell him. -what are you doing? are you scared? won't you tell him? don't you have a tongue?- hey.. hey! sir, control..sir. ask him does anythingillegal happen here.

come, sir, let's go. come on. who is he?- he's the area's new sub inspector. if you rebel against me again.. i will kill you. 'i am only politeto police officers once.' 'hey..' sir. - go. don't take this so seriously.what else can we do?

he's well connected. we'll adjust a little, sir. stop. - not just you,other police officers adjust too. i am not like theother police officers. he's committed a murder, and ifi can't put him behind bars for it.. ..then what's the point of my uniform? yes, right. get lost.but what else can we do? rumors originate from the truth. someone told you about this,and someone else told him.

if we start linking these rumors.. ..then we'll definitely findthe truth at the end of the line. we'll start on this from tomorrow. and our search will end on maari. mummy. mummy.you said you'll get me new school bag. i don't have enough money torun the house, and you want a new bag. use the old bag for some days. my bag's torn, mother.everyone at school teases me. when you return inthe evening i will sew it.

you're always demanding something. if i don't get a new bag tomorrow,i won't go to school. you can go if you want,don't go if you don't want to. i don't care. mummy, mummy,please buy me a new bag. please, mom.- hey, loudspeaker kavita. i am in a bad moon, don't bother me. see that..she's blaming me instead. she ruined my sleep with heryelling and you're in a bad mood.

you've such a hoarse voice. mummy. mummy..soundslike you swallowed a frog. mom, why don't you say somethingto him. he's always teasing me. what? he's got a habit ofteasing everyone. don't you know? you've been seeing it sinceyou were a kid. go to school. this has become adaily habit with you. as soon as you wake up,you start troubling her. you're no less either.you're doing the same thing. poor thing's only asking for a bag.why don't you give it to her?

i see..who will pay for it? if your husband doesn't drinkfor two days, you'll have the money. if you're so concerned,then why don't you pay for it! i would have if you had married me.you missed that chance. shameless. maari, did you know that anew tenant is coming in room no. 8? no, no one told me anything. meaning they entered inour area without permission. bloody painters,stop painting and stay where you are.

no painting here without permission,understand. don't we have any respect here?madam, go out. it's a real statue.- why are you standing there idle? hang this clock on the wall.- okay, aunty. what? aunty said to hang this on the wall.. why don't you goinside and make tea too. have you lost your mind? did you comehere to hang clothes or scare them? you..

what did you do?why did you break the clock? aunty, you humiliated usby entering without permission. and now you're scaring us. who are you guys?why are you making a racket? smarty, you need maari's permissionto stay in this area. understand. i see..so you're trying to hustle us. no, i was being funny,this is called hustling. yes, this is hustling.- what are you doing? stop. our broker never toldus anything about it.

he said that he did. - what? no, sir.when did you tell us? i didn't tell you two. - then? i told her. how dare you assault a man?- hey maari bro, she is lady. how dare you touch another man? if you weren't a woman,i would've broken your teeth. look, please don't do that. justyesterday she filled cement in her teeth. then she should brush twice. it's not my fault.we're just doing our duty. - exactly.

hasina, did the brokertell you? - yes. then why didn't you tell me?- mom, why should we pay these goons. tomorrow when i open a boutique,they will ask for money again. so mother-daughter aregoing to open a beauty parlor. you bumpkin, it's a boutique. mom, you think theyknow the difference. listen to me. pointing fingers at me. put it down. this is my home.i'll do as i please, understand.

madam, whether you opena beauty shop or a boutique.. ..and you can hire him as well. - yes. you can do anything you want. but who's going togive you protection for it. so just give me my cut,and lifetime protection guaranteed. protection? protection from whom? and what if i don't?- anything is possible. that glass could shatter. my dowry. - see.

that cupboard can fall down and break.- daughter's dowry. it's too heavy, maari.say something lighter. i see.. that tv can fall down and shatter too.- no, no, not the tv. today is the climaxof my favorite series. listen, give themwhat they want. - here. my tv. this is for the home,now for the butki. boutique. - whatever. double the amount for a english shop.

we don't have money now.give us some time and we'll pay up. fine, we give you time. look, i'll go to the police. -we'll drop you at the police station. we've to collect money from them too. she is very funny. boss, the way you were looking atthat girl, felt like you're in love. what love? first timei wanted to slap a girl hard. but i spared herbecause i respect girls. but boss, i've seen in movies that..

..the wind blows and then the heroineabuses the hero in slow motion. then she smiles. and then thehero falls in love with the heroine. how many times have i toldyou not to watch such films? i would rather fallsick then fall in love. then my path's clear. - what? the road's clear, no traffic ahead. that girl is too smart,keep her in control. left, left, left..carefully.raise it a bit more. perfect. - that's fine.

isn't it nice? - yes. nice. look, mom - where are you hiding? what are you doing? - show yourself. punch! careful..give me a hand.up, up.. what are you doing?higher. how much higher?this looks fine. hello, why are you putting that uphere? - we put it up here every year.

this is our lucky spot. if you put it up here,how will we go inside? you can crawl inside on your knees. don't make me say such thingsin front of the ladies. get lost. what?why are you staring at me? let's go, dear.- like it. i did, boss. i don't think she did. ugly krk.- what was i saying?

higher..still higher. listen everyone.. next say, i'll jump and die. no, this is my style. the pigeon competition is overand now..for the prize distribution. winners should quietlycollect their reward. -yes. oh yes, one importantannouncement. - what? lot of people take partin the competition thinking.. ..they will win third or fourth prize.

but we've broughtold utensils for them. medals. - whatever it is, distributeit amongst these poor people. maari is coming, clap. now maari will felicitatethe old players and judges. there he goes. clap. and like every year, maari'spigeons have defeated other pigeons.. ..and made maari win first prize. everyone clap and smile, becauseanyone's picture can come in the papers. we give such expensiveinjections to our pigeons.

so why do maari'spigeons win every time? keep clapping. - there's novalue of our pigeons in the market. you know, his pigeons are indemand in delhi and kolkata as well. everything will change from tomorrow. and now for the poor people.. ..which goes to pappu panchi,like always. you go get it. you're pappu panchi, aren't you?you come and get it. - coming, coming. here..put it around his neck. - yes.

clap, clap. enough..that's enough. stop. this year pappu panchi wantsto organize the pigeon competition. you're the benefactor of this place.if you say yes.. it's not easy to organizesuch a competition. if anything goes wrong,then maari will get a bad name. nothing will go wrongin the competition. we'll take special care.

what's the guaranteethat you won't cheat. you're getting it wrong. you will be the winner, we'llbe happy hosting the competition.. ..and this way the value of ourpigeons will increase in the market. once i had a reputation as well,but now people buy only your pigeons. i am only asking for a small favor. we've no dearth of menand money for the organization. whatever we earn from the entry fee,we'll give you half the share. you can take part too..noneed to give entry fees.

listen..he's got such a big heart.- sorry, maari. i didn't mean it. this isn't about hostingthe tournament or making money. what's important is to upholdthe chastity of the tournament. i won't give you an opportunityto complain. trust me once. maari, we should give him one chance. thanks, maari.- our pigeons won't take part. but why is that, maari? if you hold a competition and we win,then you'll be humiliated. no, maari. if your pigeons will,we'll feel proud.

when did i tell you about any murder?are you drunk? hey, you told me aboutit at this very spot. have you lost your mind? you're talking nonsenseabout him here. sir, i just blurted something. that tea-seller selva told me this. no, sir. i really don't know anything. if you hadn't dropped the glass,i would've believed you. now tell me the truth.

some people say therewas no murder committed. and some say it did happen, sir. who are those people? it's muthu, sir. he lives in budhnu. muthu who, that drunkard. one murder did take place, sir. 8 years ago a murder wascommitted during the gangwar. that's all i know. we couldn't find any information.

by the way, there's a man called anbu. he and his son are pickpockets. anbu is an old player.but his son is a novice. he was caught last weekpicking someone pocket. there's a case registered against him,and he's also scared about it. this fir is goodenough to make him talk. 8 years ago, maari murdered someone. what do you guys know about it? about maari?

no, sir. we know nothing about him. someone.. maybe you're mistaken, sir. do one thing,put his son behind bars. no, sir. don't do that.- there's a case against you. father, why don'tyou tell them the truth? you want to know about maari, right.- be quiet. why? why should i keep quiet?what will he do to us? sir, you can ask anything you want.

tell us frankly..no onewill get a whiff of it. tell us. back then velu'sgang was not in power. there was a gangster pandi. he was the biggest gangster. velu and pandi never got along. one day those two hadan argument over something. it's said that maari stabbedpandi in a fit of rage. after that the gangwar kept rising. slowly..pandi's gangwas completely wiped out.

after that day the influence of velu'sgang in that area kept increasing. do you know anyone whosaw this murder? - no, sir. there's no one in my knowledgewho would be the witness to this case. there was no case registeredwith the police either. and as soon as velu came into power,he made the file disappear. how's that possible? such a powerful man was murdered,and no case was registered. maari became a biggangster after that murder. the entire area is scared of him.

but no one knows whokilled pandi and how. how would anyone know?what never happened can never be true. think about it yourself, sir. if a goon kills a gangster,then he becomes the hero. sir, why would hehide such a big thing? the truth is nothinglike this ever happened, sir. you're only wastingyour time with this case. o beautiful lady, welcome, welcome.you came personally. you're here to meet maari.you also brought your mother along.

look maari,the beauty from butki is here. hello, sir. we didn't know about youthat's why we behaved that way. sir, we're ready topay your protection money. just give us some time. earlier we livedin a rich neighborhood. but we suffered heavylosses in business.. ..and so our condition is a bit tight. our condition is tightevery night, right?

look at yourself, who would understandour condition better than you. we're here to apologiesfor the other day. looking at your daughter doesn'tlook like she's here to say sorry. she's standing there like a statue.- haseena, say sorry. sorry. i didn't know who you are,that's why i argued with you. now you know who he is. how did you talk to him?- with manners. without manners?

yes. without manners?- like a princess. yes..like a princess. you were behaving likeyou had a crown on your head. you're absolutely right,like a crown on my head. stop it..don't stare so much,your eyeballs will pop out. think about it.she'll look like a witch. say sorry. i forgive you, go. maari forgives you, go.

sir, is it okay if we givethe rest of the money later? no need. thank you, sir. see, dear. everyone'sright about him having a big heart. you must make me a partnerin your business instead. what? - unexpected. make me a partner in your business. i'll recover the remainingmoney from there. okay. move. what was he blabbering? what partner?

isn't that good news? now thatshop is no longer yours, its ours. welcome to family. i threatened the priestto give me an auspicious time.. ..and from now on we're partners,okay. shake hands. we're equal partners in her business,so to say. but that's just for saying. shouldn't our picturebe seen on the poster as well. do something, boss. - change it. do i look like katrina?

maaki sawant. boss, how's this? - this one. unique. nice. first the neck. maari, customers are here. please..- customers are here, go get coffee.. black coffee - later..but.. clothes. - come back next year. go. let's go. - go. the milk will boil fast.

this one's nice, right.- how do you like this cloth? madam, we've customer.buy it madam, it's the same. it's really airy, like open terrace.- we don't want. stop. - didn't like it? its okay, madam.i really like it. oh, god! who will be the judgeto judge our pigeons? who else can it be in maari's area?it'll be our old judge. take care. - don't worry.

hold the bird carefully. should i tell him aboutthe pigeons you lost? he's threatening me. are pigeons here? - mr.maari. take his name with respect. who are you? pappu sent me. the old judge's gone somewhere else. and he's sent me in his place.- why didn't he send the old judge? we must tell pappu panchi about this.

what's this? another competition? yes..pappu panchi is organizingthis one. - who? pappu panchi? is maari out of the game? my son..what a maneuver. bravo my boy. shani, look what he is writing? this somersault was not right. how can you say that it was not right? i have trained in olympic style.so i am saying that it was not right.

his somersault was absolutely right. do you think i am blind? i cannot see. i am giving you last warning. if the next somersaultis not correct then you are out. will you out our team? chani. wow! great. now ask him to see. no, no.who has trained him? it is neither of kari nor sali.it is out.

how come he is out? from the last three yearsit is wining the competition. so what? but this yearit is not performing well. it is out, whatever is wrong is wrong. hey, if anyone is wronghere then it is you. speak carefully.- sorry. there is no place forfighting in this competition. i think all are useless here. do you know how to train pigeons?

or you have tamed them as a hobby. oh, so that is the case. just wait.for some time take those pigeons out. tell me that among these whichflies lower and which flies higher. what are you asking?- you just answer the question. this one is hawai gota khor. the way you were lookingat the pigeons i came to know that. you are a fraud. none of them are hawai gota khor.

exactly. i had a doubt whenhe came in place of the old judge. you will out our pigeonsand call our men cheat. and you think you willgo back alive from here. look at our product.experience of 20 years. we caught your lies.no, i did not mean that. sometime ago you said something. you said somethingabout taming the pigeons. no, i did not say anything. i heard it. tell me what did you say?

i had said that if the pigeondoes not do somersault properly.. ..then he will be out. did he say this?- he must have said this. do you think i am deaf? tell him to say it correctly. speak, idiot. say what you said at that time. i had said that everyone is uselesshere. i did not know about you. why did you speak if you did not know?

according to you my pigeonscannot do somersault. you had said this. tell me how somersault is done. they fly in air and then turn. it is difficult to explain this way. if you cannot explainthen do it and show. maari. how was this somersault?- superb. anyone who will go against me..

..will be chopped off. what was the need to come tobillu bhai for such a small matter? it must be a small matter for you.what if someone touches your men? no one can dare to touch my men. we did it wrong. if there was no referee.. ..then we should not havesent an inexperienced person there. there was dearth of judges. it was his plan to out our pigeons.

hey, let me talk. tell me. look, you should nothave raised hand on him. either you should have sorted it amongyourself or would have come to me. billu bhai, compromise for what? tell him, what did you say? what did you say? by mistake said that theydo not know how to tame pigeons. billu brother, pigeons is my life sowill i keep quiet listening to this. will you remain quiet afterlistening to these bitter talks?

if it was i then iwould have chopped him off. still if you think i am at faultthen you can give me any punishment. brother, from today onwardshe will not do competition. hey, i am sittinghere to take decision. you both are at fault in this. the problem has startedbecause of this competition. from today this workwill be done by mani. come on shake your hands. and after leaving fromhere concentrate on your work.

no brother.- do quietly whatever i have said. shake hands. just spit on it. you wasted your timefor this useless fellow. he will never change. - what? just wash your hands.come on letã­s go. brother.- what is it? for last many days i wantedto say something to you. what did you want to say?

nowadays the demand forlalchandan has increased. i have found a partywho wants to buy it. if in this business i join you. pappu, you could notmanage the competitions well.. ..and you want todo such a big business. do the work that you are doing.understood. i will manage this work. hello.- hi. come in.- thank you.

please come in. i saw your designson your facebook page. they have a personal touch in them. we do not find suchdesigns in big shops. thank you. thank you so much. we will buy dresses formehendi and reception from here. as you think is right. i am okay. madam, i want to give myfriends the sarees with same design. that too you design.

sure madam. you will get as you want. look at its fabric. it is very.- have you trapped a new customer? here he comes again. hi, i am maari.- hello. we both are business partners. hello sir. my name is hansmukh. then smile properly. i too am a partnerin fatherã­s business. jewellery shop.- he is gone now.

is that the case? very nice. we want the best clothes. you have come at the right place. the marriage is on 23rdand mehendi function on 22nd. hey, you are marrying this girl.. ..and you are bothered aboutthe function of a girl named mehendi. shall i knock you down?- no, you understood wrong. i am talking about themehendi which is put on hands. hey, apologize to him.- sorry brother.

he is keeping a separatefunction for mehendi. but we cannot afford the expensesof court marriage. isnã­t it? has.. what is it? i thought i had to laugh. i was calling hasina.- sorry brother. hasina, have you fixed the rate? no, we are still selecting the design. let it go on and i will fix the rate.

thank you. so here.- has, hasina. i had told you thati will fix the rate. donã­t you have mannersto ask the partner? maari.- take this, madam. this is too much, sir. madam, this is a specialshop so the rate is also special. is this the budget ofclothes or of entire country? hey.- mother.

listen, stupid fellow. you are going toget married only once.. ..then why are you beingstingy in buying clothes. okay, we will leave nowand will confirm on the phone. okay sir, we will call. sit down.- didnã­t you hear what brother said? sit down. you will have to buy clothesfrom here and at this rate. 50% advance and rest 50% on delivery.do you agree?

sister, your brotherhas come down to hooliganism. maari..- do you think i am rowdy? no.- but i am rowdy. i have some respect. i am giving you money, sir.- okay, give. partner,this is called doing business. such a big company willnot run on small money. by evening i should get my share. are you going tomarry this meena kumari? at the time of farewellhe is going to cry more than you.

do not cry like this. keep quiet.- come on. coming, brother.i was just consoling the groom. i am so sorry. i did not know that..- what is happening? i am really sorry. you.. sir, in last two days i haveseen so many death certificates that.. ..now even in dreamsi see dead bodies. all deaths are registeredin police records. under such circumstancesit is not possible.. ..to find a deathon which we can doubt.

i have checked each record. there is no mentionof maari in any case. no such murder took place, sir.letã­s close this matter here. stop, stop here. hasina baby, come out.look who has come to meet you? what drama are you doing? what is it?- are you mad? so partner,why has my share not reached me yet? those people cancelled their order.

hey, he cancelled the order. how dare he?let me go and set her groom right. there is no need to go there.- why is there no need? will we let him go anywhereelse after cancelling the order? they have not gone anywhere else.- then where have they gone? they cancelled the marriage.- why so? when you threatened him thenhe started crying like a child. and seeing this thatgirl refused to marry. divorce before marriage.

good. what was going to happen aftermarriage happened before marriage? hey, you should never get involvedin the matter of love and girl. nobody knows whenshe would ditch anyone. after hearing thisi am getting goose bumps. stop laughing. with great difficulty i hadarranged a loan for these materials. if i would have got this order.. ..then i would havebeen able to repay the loan. hey, repay the loan fromthe advance given by jewellery shop.

i gave that money back to them.- why? i will not earn money by wrong means. truthful woman. if you are going to runthe company in this way.. ..then we will notbe able to earn anything. i have lots of work.you worry about your loan. i am leaving. bye. brother, look.- what happened? madam has started crying.

i swear on my motheri have not done anything. even i have not done anything. you should not havereturned the money. who have you taken loan from? father arranged thisloan with great difficulty. from some pappu panchi. hey, she has taken loanfrom some pappu panchi. very bad. canã­t do anything.- i am sorry we canã­t do anything. come on sit. come.

who are you all?- we have come to buy clothes. get a side. hey, come on start the work. come on put it in the car.- stop it that is my dress. come on hurry up. quickly remove it. sir, my father is not at home. no problem.i have not come here with a proposal. sir, please do not do all this.- we are not doing anything. we are just closing yourshop and opening our shop.

sir, i will repay your loan.let the business settle down. it is our honesty that we arejust touching the things of the shop. do you understand?- hey, we do not have the entire day. sir, please sir. i have put in a lot of effort.i request you. please. hey, look what is happening outside. break it nicely. come on break it. hey, what are you doing?- hey, break the rear one.

hey. maari, do you rememberwhat billu brother had said? pappu, we are doingwhat billu brother had said. you touched our propertyso we broke your property. same to same brother. this shop belongs to us also.what madam? you did not him about our partnership. hey, pappu i will not spare you.- hey, she had taken loan from us. donã­t interfere in this matter.- it is your mistake.

did you take permission frombrother before giving her the loan? you have just come for the repayment. calm down.- he is right. we did not know that it is his shop. hey, white shirt.donã­t try to act smart by coming here. billu brother hadasked us not to fight. so that is why wejust damaged your car. otherwise i would havehit you on your head. now go away from here.- hey.

lower the volume. bloody idiot. just because of a girlyou are starting enmity with us. even you take money from her.what about that? this girl belongs to our area. we may take money from heror break her shop it is our wish. go away from here with your men.understood. maari, the matter will not end here. okay, so it finishes now.- hey!

go now the picture is over. go, go. bloody idiot.- maari. thanks a lot. now you understood this protection. hey donã­t hold this pigeon together. keep seperate.- he told me keep together. are you going tosettle them in a family? what is the problem in looking at them?- hello. why have you come?

yesterday after youwent they had called. they were saying thatthey do not need money now. i could not believe.that is why i came here to say thanks. okay, okay go. till now i thought thatyou only trouble people here. you scare them. but now i know that peopleare safe because you are here. they are not scared of anything. you are not thatbad as i used to think.

you are right. absolutely right. i am worst than what you think. that..- donã­t smile on every matter. go away from here. hey, she is a girl so behave nicely. you are feeling pity on her. what is it? now she is saying thanks.. ..but tomorrow if we go and ask for ourshare and she refuses then will it do. tell me.

i will work for you. i will repay your moneywith whatever salary i will get. hey, have you gone mad? will you do job for aperson like me who is a goon. first set your dupatta right. you do business of sellingclothes so canã­t you wear it properly. people are right that youbehave respectfully with women. that is why i came here to thank you. she just cannot keep quiet.- maari, think from heart.

these pigeons are fed up of our faces. if she comes then allof them will start fluttering. hey, keep quiet. brother, he is right.she is a girl. keep her on work. because of her our sinswill also be washed away. what sin have we done? you must have sinned.go and do your work. this maari will notlet my line to be cleared. tell me one thing.

suddenly, why are youshowing so much interest in me? not suddenly. but i am interestedin you from the time.. ..i saw you flying pigeons. when you used to win the race thenhow lovingly you used to catch them. you looked very innocent.i just liked that. i saw the face thatyou hide from the world. that is why. i will come from tomorrow morning.bye.

brother, which faceof yours we have not seen. the one which i will show you now. brother maari, earlier i had a doubt.. ..but now it is confirmedthat the girl loves you. hey, she looks likea heroine and i am just.. even you are no less than a hero. that is there but ihave troubled her a lot. why will she get attracted to me? maari, try to understandthe depth of the situation.

if you want to woo a girl thenthe first step is to torture her. in the first step you torturedher so much that you passed. nowadays girls like roughand tough boys like us. she may not like us at first sight.. will do in the next meeting. hey, will the girlsee me for the second time. hey! suppose that girl likes me. so it is not compulsorythat i also like her. she is not of my type. let it go

really, this matter will not go ahead. brother, your pair is made in china. that is called madefor each other, stupid. hey, even you are matricfail and will teach me english. hey, only i can hit him. i am sorry brother.i think that girl is perfect for you. she is so beautiful like a mermaid. her mind and body is so beautiful. i love her so much..

..but even god isnot helping me maari. this dialogue is from which movie.- from om shanti om. but come to the point, brother. yes brother maari,people of the area stare at her. and leaving all of us she sees you. you are lucky. just give it a try. what confusion?am i a right person for her? yes, you are not. we know this thing butthat crazy girl does not know.

i think you will be beaten today. this is not happeningfor the first time. so many girls havespoiled their life.. ..by getting involved with wrong men. you will become topper of that list. hey!- look brother. she might get a handsomehusband than me. but where will she find a man asbig hearted as you are, brother maari. he is saying the truth, brother.

today because of that girl you havefound a good opportunity to pull my leg. pull my leg as much as you want. how should i explain you? we are safe among men. we can do whatever we wish to.we feel totally happy and free. but as soon as the girl enters.. ..the fun is gone andeverything goes wrong. we cannot get along. it will perfectly match.maari. hasina.

hasina. maari. it will be a good pair.- stop talking nonsense. you meet that girland say i love you to her. what if anything goes wrong?- then it is maariã­s problem. hey, leave. should i specially tell it to you? whom is he telling? we.. yes, even you leave.go. even you leave. then what was thefun of getting us along?

hi. hey, it is the same shirt.at last you wore it. it is fitting perfectly. do you know you are lookingvery handsome in this? hey, you have started liking me. so, even i have started liking you. first time i saw youi felt like slapping you. but after the way youtook care of my pigeons.. ..i love you. did i say something wrong?

this is said in english. i love you. i love you. i love you. i am so sorry. i thinkthere is some misunderstanding. i like you but notfrom that point of view. if i have given you somewrong hint then i am sorry. so you do not love me.okay fine. matter ends here. this is what i was telling bothof them but those fools confused me. and forced me to say this. so no problem.let us both do our own work.

wait, wait..- what? ..please do not understand me wrong. it is not that i donã­t like you. that means you like me. yes, i like you.- then i love you. come on letã­s sing a song. not like that.i like you the way we do to humans. obviously you will like humans as.. ..animals are not seenfrom that point of view.

but i hardly know anything about you. what do you do? how is your life? what do i do? how is my life? after getting up in themorning i spend time with pigeons. after that i go to mill ownerand do whatever work he asks me to do. in the evening i go outwith my friends and have fun. at night i drink andthen go off to sleep. i sleep soundly. and then..

this is my daily routine.- hey, i did not ask that. how do i explain it to him? you are nice man but you are a goon. so?- i should be scared of you. my parentsã­ will never givepermission for this marriage. then we will kill them.- what? no, no give me some time. i will think and then let you know.- there is no need to think. i think i am confusing you a lot.

i will leave.donã­t take so much tension. okay bye. what happened and what we had thought. faithless.. in your love.- faithless. what a pain? maari, something wrong. is your stomach upset?- that is fine.. ..but why that girl doesnã­t like you. hey, what do i know?- brother, did you say it correctly? hey, i told her by saying i love you,i love you. you should not have said it like this.- not this way?

i love you.. you should have spoken musically. why one thing has bedivided into three parts? they are three different words,brother. hey, that means i loveyou is not a single word. they are three words, brother.- isnã­t it one word? i am telling you that..- hey, you should have told me earlier. why didnã­t you tell me earlier? hey, did you call this girl here?

she wants to talk to you. you must have come to be my friend.so come and sit. come and sit here. you all go.it is time for you all to go. come and sit here. sit.- come on letã­s go. here, drink this.- i donã­t drink. she will not drink local made. she must be drinkingin five star hotels. i wanted to talk somethingpersonal with you.

talk. i did not mean to saythat i donã­t like you. i had just asked for sometime so that i can know you better. what do you want to know? who are you?since when are you living this life? what do you mean byasking this kind of life? what do you mean by this kind?- i mean everyone is scared of you. even i am scared of you. hey, do you think i am a mean fellow?

i may be wicked but i am a man. i have never touched any lady.- i did not mean that. i have that much faith on you. but there must be some reason behind.. ..the fact that peopleare so scared of you. beating, murder.. murder? nothing like that. murder..

..you cannot call that murder. it was not murder butsomething like murder. you can call it a kind of murder. there was a gangsterby the name pandi. he was a big shot.it was impossible to reach him. one day out of angeri poked knife in him. come on.. but that time he did notdie so it was not a murder. but after two days he was killedand i was held responsible for that.

we cannot get along well.go home and think coolly. if it is okay it isokay otherwise good bye. whatever thinking hasto be done you have to do it. donã­t trouble me. go away from here. go. get out, get out.. what has happened.. hey policeman, why have youcome here early in the morning? we have arrest warrant for maari. hey, how can youarrest warrant for him?

keep quiet, he will listen.- do you think i am scared? donã­t shout otherwisei will shoot you. sir, officer has come toarrest you as he has arrest warrant. which officer? hey, wake me up as iam seeing a very bad dream. get up quickly.we have come to arrest you. arrest, for what? not murder but something like murder. you can call it a murder.

absolutely big shot.it was impossible to reach to him. one day out of angeri poked knife into him. so you insulted me by having doubt. this the way you do business. i cannot tolerate it more.i will go to the police. listen to me.you donã­t get involved in this matter. donã­t teach me all that.i want to meet si and thatã­s it. what is the matter? nothing sir. it is a very petty case.

sir, i want to file a caseagainst maari for hooliganism. please write a fir. i am ready to be witness in the court. i value your courage. i would file your firbut he will easily escape. and after that hewill trouble you more. we will have to traphim in a bigger case. i will do as you say. after a lot of search..

..i have found a closedfile which was very interesting. a murder was attempted on pandi. the appearance and age ofthe murderer fit well on maari. but this is not enough. we need some solid proofto get maari punished. how can i help? how will you repay my money?- i will work for you. seeing him i feel likesaying something else. it is hangover, brother.

hold him, hold him..- be careful brother. have i ever got hangover? pick this up. because of that girl i have tosee the face of these gloomy people. it was an absolutely nice plan.very good. all my life i was a rowdy. i broke the limbs of peopleand also head of some people. but no one could harm me. but for the firsttime i fell in love..

..and they are putting me behind bars. this is called luck. fall in love, maari.tell her that you love her. say i love you to her. and now i am finished. now what are you looking at.do whatever you came here to do. i agree that the plan was hisbut how did the girl agree easily. the world has gone quite ahead buthow could we be left behind. - sir.. hey, wait.

are my hair fine?- comb them a little. which side?- left, left.. okay?- perfect. hey, why are you bursting crackers? is someone gettingmarried in the colony? it is not anyoneã­s marriage.. ..but the entire colonyis celebrating on your arrest. so much celebration donot take place during ganesha.. ..immersion as much itis happening on my arrest.

so, you have torn this also. hey, manage business wellnow that i am not there. understood. and if a girl says i loveyou then take a u turn and leave. what will i do if you go? i will miss you somuch so what will i do. now you say.- we do not have anyone except you. i am not enjoying.it seems to be over acting. your brother-in-law staysin madurai so visit him for few days. so you have won, sir.

you took help of a womanbut a victory is a victory. the first time when youcame to our area without.. ..permission i shouldhave kept an eye on you. where is that cheater girl? she must be enjoyingseeing me like this. madam, i have to believethat you are top class actor. by your sweet talks you destroyed me. he really insulted me.- and did not give cello tape. come on sit in the car.

i just make a statementwith love only once. hey, this is my dialogue. you say it. your goodtime is going on so you say it. say it. be happy all of you. till i come back. isnã­t there ac here? after six months. hey, brother has come.look maari has come.

hey, how are you all?are you fine, uncle? were you eating doublewhile missing me? you have become so fat. are you fine?- yes brother. and other matters? you are looking slim, brother. was i fat like you?- letã­s drink tea. buntya, four cups of tea with cream.- so uncle, what is new? is everyone livingpeacefully in our area?

no brother. after you leftthe condition has become worst. why? what happened? because brother billuwas also put behind bars. what are you saying? we were feeling verybored after you went to jail. that is why we bothhad gone out for some days. when we came back themap of the area had changed. then i understood that he wasnot making target without any reason. that was his plan.- brother..

stupid, idiot, they arrestedmaari and you are telling me now. were you sleeping afterdrinking at that time? hey, take the car out.we will have to release him from jail. sir, the case of smugglinghas been filed against you. sir, is the allegationput on you true? we have got information that illegal.. ..business of redsandalwood is going on here. they are officersof revenue department. and they have comewith a search warrant.

hey, do you knowwhom are you talking to? keep quiet.media people are standing in front. how did the media comebefore the search is complete? i donã­t know sir. maybe someone hasleaked the information. sir, start the search. after seeing thearrest of billu on tv.. ..his men and ministersturned away from him. no one came ahead for his bail.

take him. just because the hooliganismof the area was finished. arjunã­s position andrespect was on a high. everyone was happy. people had started respectingarjun a lot, brother. one night arjun came in the area. he had made some plan. you must have seen news ofarrest of smugglers of red sandalwood. forest department has takena decision to legally sell that wood.

they need many workers for this work. i felt this is agood opportunity for.. ..unemployed people ofthis area to get employment. those who are willing towork can get their names written. arjun sir is saying for our benefit. come on get your names written. the work has come to you,so go and get your name written. why are you standing?go and get your name written. come on, letã­s get our names written.- leave it.

i do not have faith on policemen. there are two types of woods here. red sandalwood and normal teakwood. you have to fill each truck withsome red sandalwood and some teakwood. this is your job. people worked here day andnight without asking any questions. for 3-4 days thiswent on continuously. but one day arjun didnot reach the godown.. ..and that night some governmentofficial raided the godown.

seal the entire areaand confiscate the material. arrest all of themand no one should escape. sir, government work is going on here. i know very well what government.. ..work is going onin the middle of the night. sir, there is some misunderstanding. you can ask inspector arjun. he has put us on work. as soon as we came to knowabout the godown we went to him.

he has given permission of the raid.come on now. take them all. you get to work. go inside. vegetable is not good. why is he coming running?- hey wait. why are you running? police raided the godown where..- yes. ..work of red sandalwoodwas going on and arrested everyone. arjun sir had given that work.did you talk to him?

i am coming from police station. there i came to knowthat he has gone on leave. from that day not only the attitude ofsi changed but also of pappu panchi. hey, listen to me carefully. from today every shop ofthis market is under pappu bhai. everyoneã­s weekly paymentshould reach us regularly. otherwise you willnot be able to work here. maari has gone so nowyou want weekly payment. nobody here gives bribe anymore!

do you have any idea whatwill happen if arjun sir finds out? you are correct! if arjun finds out,he won't spare anyone! hey, does anyone else have any doubts? nobody will take maari'sname in this area after today! whatever i say willbe the law from now on! and that day i found out.. ..that arjun and pappupanchi had come together. sir, you said thiswas a government job..

..but the police saysyou're smuggling things. yes madam.i sent them to smuggle things. pappu and i planned all of this. if i told everyone about it beforehand,would you have agreed to it? we were doing it for the first time,somebody leaked this information. and that is why there was a raid. sir if you speak as their witnessand tell the court they are innocent.. ..they can be bailed out sooner. why not? they'll getbail and i'll end up in jail!

go away from here. -sir. i helped you becausei thought you were a good man. how can you get influencedby them and do this? i didn't come under their influence! this was all planned by me! do you know why we putvelu and maari into jail? so that we could take their places! and i told you to reopenmaari's case for only this reason. you are no longer usefulto us since maari is in jail now.

now stop asking stupidquestions and go away! no, i won't sit quietly! what will you do? what will you do? sir this is wrong! arnold, make them go away! sir! - didn't you hear me? we should help them,they have no other way out. arnold, do as i say!kick them out of here! they had been planningto kick you and velu..

..out of this area, maari. so that they could controlthe smuggling of sandalwood! and to become the king of this area! the role of handling the pigeonraces is with pappu panchi now. there is no place for sincerityand kindness anymore over there. now everything happens accordingto their convenience now. a lot of bird lovers have startedstaying away from such contests. brother velu sent a messagefor you after finding out.. ..that you were out of jail.

he wants you to leave thisarea so that you can stay safe. ok. - so we should leave this area? what else can we do? if brother velu wants this,who are we to argue with him? bring in all my pigeons from there. and all my things as well! hey punching bag didn't you hear him? go and get everything ready,i will send in a tempo. where are they going with alltheir things? - let's go ask them.

robert, where are you going? maari is out of jail, right?where is he now? can't you see,we are going away from here! maari won't come back either,are you happy now? we have to leavebecause of your greed! hey robert, we are tensed as well. this was had to happen,go on and trust the police now! we will carry out ourbusiness someplace else. your shops will shut down,just wait and watch.

let's go. hey, look at them.where are they running away? hey scared crow goand call your maari! how will he come out? he canno longer show his face to anyone. you betrayed maari.. ..you didn't win any olympic medal!now go away! hey, you think you're tough.show me what you can do! don't hit me. - hit him! he thinks he is tough!

stay away from me! maari used to beat you up every day! and you used to get beat up quietly.- yes, hit him! today i'll beat you upand you'll get beat up quietly. let it go, he's going away. get to one side. hit him. - don't touch me. if maari finds out,he'll beat up everyone. "maari.."

let's go. - now that maari is here,you're running away. i am telling you, don't touch me! you thought too much of yourself,didn't you! what happened? lost all the attitude? go straight to thepolice and tell them.. ..maari will stay here now! he may have control over this area.. ..but maari is always out of control. only i have the right to beat him up.

if anyone goes against me.. ..i will kill them. are you here to meet maari? he's not here.go away from here. go away! we will leave onlyafter meeting maari. nobody respects me!- maari! we have been in a lotof trouble since you left. that policeman arrestedour men in a fake case. he also increasedthe bribe by three times.

what will one do?- we will die out of starvation. we were scared for so long.. ..we are finally strongernow that you are back. do you remember.. ..you were the ones whocelebrated the most on my arrest! and this one took offhis pants and started dancing. you wanted to trust the policemen,didn't you? now suffer! now go away from here. - go away.

go away! come on, come on! do you even have a brain?he was leaving peacefully. you screwed with himand made him stay over here. how does it botherus even if he stays? we will get rid of him atthe right time in the right place. go and see if thosepigeons are alright or not. i will take a look at theyounger pigeon in the morning. ok brother. - we'll starttraining them from tomorrow.

we hardly have any time left. hey, are you here to betray us again? i came to apologise to maari. i'm sorry. i did what i felt wasright in that situation. i thought it was your fault. if i knew the truth,i would've never done this. i never knew so much would happen. i know you must be hurt.

you must have felt bad,but the situation was such. so i'm really sorry. maari, don't get fooled. i am saying sorry to you.. ..if you don't want toforgive me at least be mad at me. ok i forgive you. now go. come on, you're forgiven,you heard him, right. we are anyways unable toget drunk, now go away. do you know why maariattacked that man?

because that mankilled maari's pigeon! you place your handon your heart and tell us.. ..should we have spared that man? maari shouldn't have been mad at him? why do you pesterthe villagers so much? can't you be as kind with humansas you are towards the pigeons? why should we be kind? for what? did they do the rightthing with maari? when maari was a child,why weren't they kind to him then?

they didn't show any kindnesswhen we had nowhere to go. he did everything on his own. only these pigeons had his back then. they were his companions. maari would've died ifit wasn't for these pigeons. maari always tells us.. ..we can trust the pigeonsbut we can never trust human beings. and you proved him right. i did what i feltwas right at that time.

you shouldn't be talkingabout right or wrong. i agree we aren't good people,but we never betrayed anyone. what do you think, we'll forgeteverything if you ask for forgiveness? listen to me, maari hates you.. ..after what you did to him. don't show us your face. don't talk to her, come on now. and now she wants to apologise! what happened to you now?

either tell me your problemor go away from here. i had to pay my school feesright after you went to jail.. ..and we couldn't pay it. that's when the school staff told me.. ..that you used to pay my school fees. i didn't pay for your fees. don't you lie,you used to pay for my school fees. don't you worry, i won't tell anyone. are you mad?i told you i didn't do it.

i don't care if you go toschool or not. now go away from here! that policeman put you intojail for a false case, right? he hit you a lot, right? it must've hurt. poor man! it didn't hurt that much, now go away. i was talking aboutthe inspector, not you. he won't surviveif you caught him once. go and sleep now.

you're stubborn! the competition will start next week. our pigeons are absolutely ready! after that our nexttarget will be arjun! my hands have anywaysbeen itching for a long time. it must be an allergy. - shut up! we have to teach arjunand pappu panchi a lesson. he's a policeman,we can't do anything in a hurry. let's calm down and thinkof something. - oh intelligent!

there is nothing to do,i get bore all day. i want to do a job! god did he lose hisbrains after going to jail? what will you do?you can't even read or write! remember we used to breakpeople's bones earlier? we used to get people to leavetheir houses and collect bribes. that's not called a job! right since i've been back from jail.. ..i've been noticingthat you're talking a lot.

no brother. - but tell uswhat do you exactly want to do? i'll do any job! - any? i just said any! then i can get you a job ofa painter at murgan painter's shop. painting is the job of an artist,not mine. beating up people isalso a form of painting. there is a difference between the two,why don't you understand that? there is a mechanic in my area, manny. should we make him go awayand open our garage in that area?

making him run away isn't a big deal.. ..but if we have any doubts,how will we call him back? you're saying no for every job! hey, you're telling me aboutonly those jobs that i can't do! do you remember sister rani? we had picked up her autobecause she couldn't pay us. we still have that auto.- hey, that's a good idea. so we'll dismantle the auto andsell the parts in the market? - no! we'll drive that auto!

talking won't take that auto anywhere,we'll have to actually drive it. come here, near me. i can hear from there.- no, come here, come and sit. sit down. - brother. sit down. what were you saying? i meant the auto.- speak up, a little louder! that auto.. - no i mean. is it? okay. i will drive the autofrom tomorrow onwards.

all the best for your job! hey, sit inside. what will we do?- i told you to sit inside. sit inside! you come as well! now what this new drama all about? brother! - brother! brother there's an aunty in front.please be careful! hey listen, do you wantto go in an auto. - yes, no!

where will you go?- i'm going to the bombay central. you can't go to bombaycentral by an auto? no, no, i'll go by the bus. - come on! no, no! - what willyou do if you go by bus? no! come on inside. we have reached. come on, pay the rent! what are you counting?i'll see for myself.

i had to buy underwear,at least leave some money with me. take his wallet as well. come on leave. ã± brother stop! what are you doing here eating food,come on we'll get you some fresh air. come on, sit down uncle. do you want an auto?- are you selling one or what? oh come on sit. - i have a bike sir. come on, sit inside. hey. - put me down.

come on sit here. - please let me go. brother wait, wait! sit in that auto.- what are you doing? my vegetable fell down! drive brother drive! maari they refused to enter our names. you go and talk to them. the last date to enter is gone maari. sir told us not totake anymore entries.

we could enter after the last datebefore as well, call and ask muthuji he isn't the president anymore. you'll have to take permission fromthe new president for a late entry. he's here, you can talk to him. he is the president! maari, you're here to enter you name! last day has gone,you should've come earlier. sorry i forgot you were in jail. one minute, manager what can we do?

we can't do anything. if he requests you,only then something can happen, sir. that's correct.tell him to request me. we have to requestthat to pappu panchi. we'll try next year maari! what happened? you're scared? oh you'll lose it and you won'tbe able to do anything about it. don't forget this areais under my control now. how does that make any difference?

pappu you're using yourpigeons in the race right? yes! ok, ok! why are you laughing so much? no, no, nothing, you do your work. hey, what are you laughing at? do you see that board? i've been winningfor the past 13 years. now that i'm not thereyou can try. come on!

what do you think,your pigeons will beat my pigeons? if you have any doubts,let us enter, you can confirm. i'll give you a chance this time.consider it gift. manager, enter their names! brother, don't talk tohim - i will see how he wins. i'm giving you a chance,you can win this year! you'll lose this time.come one let's go! does he even have a brain? i don't know. you heard the president,enter our names.

we stopped maari from enteringthe race so that you can win. he knew if he made fun of you,you'd get stuck in his trap! and you'll let him enter,and that's what happened. don't take any tension,when it comes to training.. ..his pigeons are3 months behind mine. and neither does he have any money forthe medicines and food for his pigeons. we have imported the pigeons aswell as their medicines from abroad. and they are being trained well. we will win this year.

you've been trying for the past4 years, why didn't you win till now? you'll win only when youunderstand the enemy's strengths. you never used you brain when it comesto the game, or else you would've won! he may have startedtraining them late.. ..and made them drink only tap water.. ..even then his pigeonswill win because he is maari! that is why i told younot to give him an entry! what do you know about pigeons? remember one thing..

..as the race comescloser you'll turn nervous.. ..and then youã­ll come to me.wait and watch! give them food but don'tstare at them after that! they won't be able to digest the food. maari, did theyannounce the trial date? our pigeons are getting ready.what happened? hey, why are you hitting him? he told me not to comebut i came in anyways. you do help others withouttelling anyone right?

just like kavita,you were paying her fees.. ..without telling anyone. whose fees? that loudspeaker, kavita? he didn't tell us. - go away! you don't want the worldto see your good side. i misunderstood you in the beginning. i finally got to knowabout your good side. you are a good hearted person. you can't get rid of me,that's for sure.

no matter how many times you say no,i'll always be there to help you. you already helped me a lot. what do you want to achieveout of following a gangster like me? you seem very proud to be a gangster? it's better to be called agangster than to be called a betrayer! hey, you go and start collectingthe bribes. -yes brother. hey, don't miss out any shop. -yes. come on, fast.-you take forever to bring it. make it fast, give up everything.

greetings brother!- take out the bribe! come on go. laugh at times! did all the auto driversgive the money? - everyone did. there is a new auto driver. he started driving an auto now! did he give the money?- he refused to pay up. he refused and you agreed. hey, take out the money. give us our bribe like agood man or else we have our ways.

you go away. hey, go! you're going to pick it up? you won't be able touse that hand after that. bloody idiot! how much uncle? let it be maari, its ok. - ok? "maari!" what is this? you got scared of a man?

you should have beatenhim up right then and there. how will he know anything?we were the ones who were beaten up. what did you say?- nothing, sir, nothing. let it go this time, doesn'tmatter if we lose out on a bribe. what do you think,why do we collect bribe from people? that money isn't a huge sum for us.. ..we take small amountsfrom those poor people because.. ..it helps us havea control over them. if even a single one of them refusesto pay up they will stop fearing us.

and that should not happen,we will take care of this tomorrow. hey, this chain used tobe heavier before i went to jail. how come it's so light? shanivaar had all the chains.- did he mess up or something? he likes food not gold! are we anything less than pure gold? brother maari, the policeman. so it's true,maari drives an auto now. i thought this area's gangsterafter being realised from jail..

..would go back to hisold ways and collect bribes. but he ended up changing his line. maari i heard you refusedto pay the bribe to pappu. you were going to run away fromhere right? that would've been better. you have absolutely no respect left,put that in your brain! if i have no respect left, thenwhy are you here for those people? are you working for them? seems like the old maari, issomewhere deep down this auto driver. why? - he should die.

drop that cigarette. i told you to drop the cigarette. brother maari.why are you hitting him? stop maari, he's a policeman.we'll get into a lot of trouble. sir we don't want a fight, let it go. why should i let it go?i am here to fight. sir, why are you hitting him?let him go. sir we're telling you to let him go. sir, don't hit him.

don't hit him. sir let him go. it's enough, sir. let him go sir. move it. - no sir! sir! - stop it, that's enough. i am the new boss over here,understood? take your pigeons and go away. or else stay quiet like a little dog.

whenever i feel like it,i'll come and beat you up. from today onwardsyou're my punching bag. give me a cigarette. the thing is.. ..if a mosquito bites a sleeping man,he doesn't become a hero. if it bites a man who is up,he'll be squished to death. i'll wait for that day. how can he just hit anyonejust because he came in a uniform? he should come withouthis uniform once.

we won't sit quietly now maari. now we need to dosomething or the other. we need to get brothervelu out of the jail. this man won't let him come out. you have to meet brother.- come on walk. i don't know anythingabout this maari. i helped him but i hadno clue he was a bad man. if i did i wouldn'thave helped him. - hey! i need all the informationrelated to him.

and i know you know everything. now speak up! if i say anything, i'll be fired. if you don't speak up now,we'll kill you. - will that do? i don't know the pathhis trucks take but i do know.. ..to avoid the checksat the tolls he used big cars.. ..instead of trucks. and takes them from some other route! hey, looks like these menare from the customs, we are screwed.

sir, we got it sir. -what did you say? it means we got the things. -open up! jackpot. - what do you mean? we got it! give me clap. hello. - sir the pressis here at the police station. did you call them?- what did you say? press? who gave you this news? as you can see!- does this case involve any minister?

not yet. - what doesthe government say about this? we will take strict action. look our sir is here,go and talk to him. take his photo. he did a big thing. and he still isn't taking any credit. thank you once again arjun sir.- welcome. our department is thankful to you. please keep on doing such stunts.

he loves doing such things.- keep up the good work. hey, what is all this? sir why are you joking with me? you did a good job. - what did i do? these sandalwood sticks werehere when i came in the morning. and the smugglers were in the lockup. i understood you did this. that's why i calledin the revenue department. are you mad?- it will get recorded sir.

listen, i didn't do this.somebody else did. there must be some reasonfor such a big success. something seems off. - yes! he had such a perfect timingfor catching these smugglers. i had my doubts on him, what if he..- no, no! he is very sincere. - really? you're wondering howcome your warehouse.. ..consignment reachedthe police station. you don't have as muchcontrol as you think you do.

i have nothing to do with this case. i rpomise we won't spare anyone. we didn't just getyour sticks caught.. ..we also slapped yourmen and made them confess. he is ready to speak upin front of the revenue officer. imagine what will happento you if he speaks up! if you let us we'll get thepress to listen to your speech. this is the same mosquitothat was biting me when i was asleep. yes it's him.- what did i say that day?

if he bites someone who's awake,he'll be squished to death. did the soul fly away?- with the uniform! what do you want? brother velu's bail! how can that happen?there is solid proof against him. what is this officer? do we needto teach you how to do things now? put any of your men inside. or else we do havesolid proof as well. hey punching bag. - present sir.

i was just checking. somebody interview him,he did such a big thing. he cleaned up the whole area! hey! hey! come to him one by one. everyone will getan interview and a photo. keep me in your prayers, officer. come on move.- take his interview properly! you'll let velu go? don't commit such a mistake.

you were his enemybut i was his right hand. but i still betrayed him. my name would make his blood boil. that's not all sir. if velu comes out,maari will be unstoppable. what do you want?i should go to jail for you? what can i do if yourman got caught red handed? i gave you one delivery job. and you messed that up as well.look what happened.

think of something fast, if somethinghappens all of us will be in trouble. there is only one way out,velu's bail. after going to jail, thepoliticians stopped supporting him. even if he comes out.. ..he won't be able to do anythingagainst a policeman, we'll handle him. you're a policeman you'll survive,what if he target's us? that's your problem. but sir, what will happen to us? your driver got caught.

i could've put youin trouble and left. be thankful i didn't do so. don't commit the same mistake twice;i won't be able to do anything then. look how his attitude changed. he threatened us and went off. we'll have to keep an eye on him. move, move! did you get the garland? here take the flower one.

brother move aside. brother velu, welcome, come, come. this is good. father! - son! even after telling younot to go there you still did. are you ok?- yes nothing happened to me father. how did you get out of the jail? first the police released velu.. ..then inspector arjun said weall were innocent and let us all go.

we would've never comeout if it wasn't for maari. when i got the news of your bail.. ..i knew then thatyou'd get me out of there. but you wasted such strong evidence. you came out of there,what more do we want? if we go and complaint tothe revenue department about them.. ..they can will get into trouble.we can't spare them this easy. you think i'll spare the personwho put you behind bars this easily? i'll give him a special treatment.

let go of it brother,its diwali tomorrow. and you're also out of the jail.. ..we'll show themwhat real diwali is like! brother stop, stop! get out fast! brother, wait one minute! one, two, three, four!one, two, one, stop! oh one, two, one, two, one! why are you coming in between,come on!

where have you been? you should spin with me. come on.- letã­s go. come here. come on, spin now! hey, you!- how about some more? hey, you bald guy!where are you headed? look, they are up withtheir hooliganism again. donã­t talk rubbish. weã­reout of jail only because of them. get your hair shaved.

get out.- go.. go on! thank you. we could getout of jail because of you. really? stupid old man!- we didnã­t have them released.. ..but mr. vellu. these people got out along with him. come on, get out of here! get out!- get lost! i brought them to their true position.- hell. how are you, sir? - iã­m fine.

everything cool?- absolutely. thatã­s more like it! heã­s back to make our lives miserable. get to work, everyone! junior, you should start from there. he got scared.- listen to me. drive them away. - give us our bit. itã­s the holiday season.- it is for me too, isnã­t it? come on, give us the money.

hey, should i come there? sir, please give me the money.i need to go home. maari, give me the money, please. poor guy! gentlemen, you should pay up too. what are you waiting for?get out of here.. ..else, i will burst the next fire-cracker right under your ã«dhotiã­. letã­s go. come on. get in the car. maari, letã­s leave.

take only the amountthat we usually do.. ..give them the rest of it back. happy diwali.- thank you! i love you all! what is the update onthe training of our pigeons? we sent 50 out for training,but only 20 returned. what about maariã­s pigeons? there were 30 andall of them returned. what!

whatã­s so funny? do you remember whati said the other day. the closer the day of the race gets,the more youã­ll need me. how can you help us in this? what if there are no pigeons left?- donã­t even think about it. forget it.this race is a very serious matter. keep an eye on him. makesure he doesnã­t do anything stupid. mr. arjun, you have done a lot for us,but please stop now. who says i did this for you?

i wanted to hurt him. i want him to suffer. donã­t do anything without asking mr.pappu, sir. i have done what i had to. hey, who is that? maari, 10 of our pigeons got burnt. when the fire erupted,none of us were here. haseena risked her lifeto save the other pigeons. god knows what would havehappened had she not been there.

while saving these pigeons,she burnt her hands too. everything wouldã­vebeen over if not for her. all our pigeons wouldhave burnt down to ashes. maari, pigeons neverreturn to a burnt cage. they fear it. our pigeons will never return too. maari, donã­t take me wrong.. ..but we must leave this place. there is nothing left for us here.

why should we live here in suffering? mr. vellu is back andhe will handle everything. this battle will never end.they could have attacked us. why did they have toattack those innocent pigeons? i know you wonã­t listen to me,but i cannot see you upset. let us get out of here. hey, you. bring the carout and put the luggage in it. i said, go on! shani look there.

you said that pigeons neverreturn to burnt cages, right? then why did this one return? because these pigeonsconsider this as home.. ..but you guys clearly donã­t. this is our home. i told you to stay outof this matter, didnã­t i? if they find out thati caused that fire.. ..i will be banned fromthe pigeon race forever. what difference does it make?

are you out of your mind? i knew you would put us in trouble.- hey! stop shouting! you are at this positiononly because of me. what is so important about this race? youã­re making a mountainout of a molehill. you wonã­t understand. this tradition.. ..has been going onsince ancestral times. are you going tofollow his orders now? donã­t hit me. donã­t try to act smart.

mr. arjun is theone who is helping you. oh! so, now you are supporting him!you fool! you have caused me a huge loss. you have taken a huge riskby doing that to maariã­s pigeons. what risk? what can he do? he was just waitingfor an opportunity.. ..and you have given him one. he can attack at any time. iã­m not at fault in this, maari.

donã­t hit him, maari. i was silent consideringyouã­re a policeman. but because you killed my pigeons.. ..i took a vow to kill you and hence,i came here. maari, forgive me. maari, hear me out for just a minute. stop, maari. stop, maari. listen to me. i told the policeman not to do this,but he didnã­t listen.

iã­m not responsiblefor burning those cages. for all the misdeedshe has ever done.. ..iã­m willing to testify against them. hey! i donã­t even trust angels.. ..so how do you expectme to trust the devil? did you say youã­ll testify?you want to send me to prison? i will kill him and prove in court.. ..that you killed him to seek revenge. what have you done, you scoundrel?

i asked you not to trust him! get up. letã­s go.come on. easy! careful. surround them from all sides. come on! hey.. hey, what are you doing?take him. hold him. sir, are you alright? how dare you hit him! say that again what you normally say.. ..that youã­ll chop me into pieces. i have given you a fitting response.

now you will rot in prison forever. what are you doing?this guy has helped us instead. he is the culprit. get him. hey, why are you taking me? leave me.- sir.. why are you arresting me? stop your act!we have a witness against you. one of my men is inthe revenue department. i will get the powerthat i lost, back. i just need a witness..

..who could unveil thesecrets of arjunã­s misdeeds.. ..before the police and court. sir, if you and mr. maari are by me.. ..iã­m ready to testify in court. hey, what did you say?a fitting response? that was a great dialog.it was really nice. and listen up.donã­t even try to come out of prison. stay in there. youã­ll be safe there. ã«the revenue departmenthas arrested arjun..ã­

ã«..accusing him of involvementin laalchandanã­s smuggling.ã­ i just canã­t decide whetheryouã­re a good guy or a bad guy. what is there to decide?iã­m a bad guy. good people can turn bad in a second.. ..whereas the one wholook good but are truly bad.. ..are the ones to watch out for. but the people who saythat they are bad people.. ..but they are actuallygood at heart.. ..thatã­s whom one should love.

youã­re one of those. what do you mean? i mean, i had told you thati would like to know you better. now that i know you..iã­ll be very honest with you. i feel that iã­m in love with you. oh! no, maã­am. to heck with love. i donã­t know anything about love. i have my pigeons, my friends..

..and the villagers to trouble me. iã­m a very happy and jolly guy. there is one thing we can do.we can be friends, if you want. okay? bye. take a picture of us.just the two of us. you may keep this down.- put this on him. maari!- sir. this area is so calm after arjun left. to be honest,maari, the joy that we feel..

..roaming about withoutany protection.. ..is quite evidenton everyoneã­s faces. we cannot thank you enough, maari.. ..for this joy that you have given us. heã­s trying to persuade him. the losses that i incurredwhile i was in prison.. ..the expenses for havingyou all released from jail.. ..and the protection moneythat you havenã­t paid all this time.. ..along with servicetax and cleanliness tax..

how much does that add up to be?- rs. 7 lakhs. you need to pay rs. 7 lakhs! if you donã­t pay me this amount.. ..i know how to get it from you.- what is he saying? hail the pigeons!- thatã­s how he is. yet another joke by maari!- and now his time is done. iã­m talking about something serious.. ..and you think itã­s a joke? transfer the entire amountin my account in a month..

..or i will not spare you.get out now. so, will you becomea hooligan again, maari? hey! was i ever a good man? i have always been ahooligan and i will always be.

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as a beauty therapist, it's my job tomake people look and feel fantastic. does that look all right to you?yes. excellent! some people can be quite shy andare embarrassed by coming in, so you have to be a littlebit sensitive towards them. just the slightest bit --if you take the slightest bit out, just under there,you know -- the better. most of our customers arewomen but more and more guys are starting to takecare of their appearance. it's great to see a guywho looks after himself.

just close your eyesfor me, please. my day usually starts at8.30 in the morning. i have to set up all the equipmentand turn things on. i check messages ... i can actuallybook you in for one o'clock. ... return calls,put the sign out. hmmm, think i might havea cuppa before i start. no time for that, elena.keep moving. my job can be pretty full on at times.some days can be very draining if youhave a lot of clients.

the job is both mentallyand physically demanding. you at school, annette, or are you ...? at tafe. at tafe. i love having a chat and enjoythe variety in my work. an eyebrow wax and tint. aneyelash tint, thank you. we don't get to pick the type oftreatments we do for the day. the client tends to choose the beauticianthey want and we go from there. ok. we just want a light colourjust to go over the whole eyelid. i do all sorts of beauty work -- nails,waxing, pedicures, facials and even make-up. you could say i beautify everything-- from your head to your toes.

ok, now this is just the lipliner i'm going to put on. there's no one treatment that's my favourite.i like them all. i do a lot of waxing and acrylic nails.they seem to be very popular. what can i do for you today?eyebrow shape and wax. it's always good to learnnew skills in the salon, so we can offer our clients agreater range of treatments. the next thing i'll probably learnis bowen therapy or reiki. i've wanted to be in the beautyindustry ever since high school. i did work experience at a beautysalon in year 10 and loved it.

ever since then, i'venever looked back. i'll just get you to closeyour eyes for me. beautiful. to become a qualified beautytherapist, i studied at tafe for two years and completed adiploma in beauty therapy. alana dawn potts. i'm also a qualified nail technician, thanksto the traineeship i did here at dazzlers. you're alwayslearning in this job. even now i've qualified, i'mstill asking sue questions. paraffin wax ... she's beena really great mentor.

there's a lot of theory whenyou're studying. you have to know all about the bones andmuscles and how the skin works. i didn't realise you had to learn allabout this but it's really interesting. hmmm, your legsare very dry too. been moisturising? not too bad?no, not really. to be successful in this job, youneed great communication skills this is half the funof going to a ball. yeah, that's it -- getting allpampered and your make-up done.

we share life experiences andchat about anything from beauty products to beautyproblems with our clients. i actually pluck that oneoccasionally but it comes back. just need a trim people tell you all sorts of things, soto survive in this job, you have to learn not to take too much on board and tryto keep things on a professional level. hi, elena. how are you going there? your next client's in.do you want a hand or ... ? on the job i've learnt how to manage my timeeffectively and how to be a team player. the pay is not too bad to start with. asyou grow in experience, so does your pay.

all right? so we'll see you then.yes. bye. see you, tim. there's always someone in theworld that needs pampering, so this line of work is greatif you want to travel. i might do the travel thing but my goal for thefuture is to end up owning my own salon. it's been a busy day for me todayso the girls are giving me a treat. it's nice to be on the other sideof the table every once in a while.

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good evening. i'm the james dickeycurator of contemporary art and it is a pleasure to welcome you here tonight forour collectors' roundtable program. before we begin if i could just ask everyone toturn off cell phones and any other mobile devices. we're going to have a short question andanswer period following the lecture this evening. i would just ask that if youdo have a question for our speaker, if you could speak into the microphones,which we normally have in the aisles, but i don't see them tonight so maybe we'renot, we're dispensing with that. at any rate, but i do encouragequestions and if these microphones

appear in the aisles at the end of theprogram, please direct your questions from themicrophone so that our audience who's tuning in via webcast can hear yourquestion and the answer. tonight's program is the third and finallecture in our collectors' roundtable series, which is designed to offerinsights and advice from museum directors, collectors, dealers from acrossthe country. the series is made possible by the thelma and melvin lenkin foundation and we're joined tonight by our sponsors which weare very very grateful for. our speaker this evening is robert lehrman, adc-based collector and philanthropist,

with a passion for contemporary art,which he's going to describe, i think, in a fascinating lecture. he's intending to address a variety ofsubjects. each of them, huge lectures in and of themselves, but in particular, ithink, that of great importance. the role of art in our society and culture,the relationship between aesthetic and financial value, and how to read art thatseems unintelligible, which is that's a huge question. roberthas been collecting since 1979 with a primary focus on art of our times. his collection includes painting andsculpture and consists predominantly

only of american and european artists,namely william christenberry, damien hirst, agnes martin, gerhard richter, andy warhol. he also has one of the mostcomprehensive collections of joseph cornell. as founder and president ofthe voyager foundation he collaborated with the smithsonian american art museumto produce what became an award-winning book and an interactive dvd-rom on the life and work of joseph cornell. robert has lectured extensively on art,art appreciation, at museums, and universities across the country.

he believes intensely that collectingand supporting art organizations is a vital civic responsibility. heserves on the board of trustees at the hirshhorn museum and sculpture gardenhere in washington, where he was chairman of the board of from 1998 - 2003. it is my distinct pleasure to welcomerobert to the stage. thanks joanna. the opportunity tospeak to you tonight is a thrill to me. i also want to thank betsy broun who, as you all known, runs the show here.also, nona martin who has done all the legwork to make this possible.

when i was asked to speak, i gave aworking title called, "secrets of art" and in the process of thinking about whatthey might be, to lewer you in here, it occurred to me and that there is abig and broad topic that i want to broach with you. in the past i've donevarying lectures on how you collect and how i got to my collection. i hopeyou'll find this overview a little more interesting. i want to consider a topic tonightthat's broader than the many components of collecting. we will take a visit throughthe many venues where artist is seen, judged, appreciated, and eventually sold.the word itself has a host of

connotations, and they're not alwaysconsidered polite. our journey will take you to what i've learned not only inmuseums, galleries, art fairs, and auctions but also, and i think most importantly,from living with and thinking about contemporary art for the last 30 years.on this journey i've learned much from many colleagues and mentors, some who areactually here tonight, and i'm very grateful to them, and truly feel likethey're not only my kindred spirits but actually a part of my extended family.for me this adventure has been a search for another way of perceiving andperhaps understanding and appreciating the often unintelligible and alwaysdemanding and ever evolving world of

contemporary art. if it takes usbriefly to consider the mire of money, which to some as an inappropriatesubject, then i hope you'll bear with me. becausethe path of art from conception in the artist's mind, to its creation in thestudio does move through the galleries into the marketplace of ideaswhere it will be judged for its originality and it's staying power untilit gets, hopefully to its final resting place in a museum, where the financialfacets fade and the money is a reflection of society's validationdisappears. along the way, money is nevertheless an interesting is somefield distorting metric.

it's certainly not the only one and notvery polite, but still a compelling part of the story for no other reason thanit's an easy measure to understand. sometimes not so easy to understand. it's important to note that fair marketvalue is not the same as actual worth when we're thinking about art. even atits immensely high price, a popular piece of artwork, could andoften does eventually fall out of out of favor and lose its appeal. sometimes that will come back, often itdoesn't. this speaks to both the subjectivity of what's considered fairmarket value and also its fluctuations

and time and place. other works withno marketable fair market value nonetheless can become treasured - thinkfor instance of van gogh - or be priceless to you for other reasons. how does this market differentiatebetween these wide range of differences? that's one of the things that we'regoing to explore tonight. i'd like to share an idea and propose a hypothesisthat i find fascinating in which might be helpful if not necessarily entirelyaccurate. our society, and by extension the humancondition, prizes and benefits from quality ofthinking in its many manifestations in

science, technology, medicine, politicalthinking, and also of course the arts. our lives benefit from this darwinian marchout of our not too distant primordial pasts by the innumerable advancesgenerated by our curiosity and our need. one of our most distinctivetraits is our growth capacity to evolve. the symbolsthat reflect our state of being also move with us, hopscotching from the cavesof lascaux, to the religious art of feudal times, up through theenlightenment, and the renaissance, the industrial revolution, and eventuallythis history of enormously complex ideas takes us, as it were, to putting a man onthe moon.

similarly in the arts we've come to seeand experience of vastly different world thanks to a progression of innovativeideas that open and ever widening field the flowering possibilities and manyfaceted expressions of visual creation. it has been said that the history of20th century art starting with picasso and continuing through duchamp and themany fascinating march of the isms has been driven by, and largely based on thisevolution of ideas, made manifest not just an old fashion pictorial space butin an explosion of media and mediums that continue to both provoked challengeand reward our explorations. what i'd like to suggest as we're about tojump into the actual lecture is that in

science r&d, research and development, if 99% of any experiments fail they canbe forgiven, if the one percent finds a new drug for the cure. similarly great art takes us to newlevels of insight and appreciation and eventually a richer and deeper and morenuanced understanding of the human condition. this, i really fervently believe, is what it'sall about. with that as a prologue i'm hoping to be able to show you, notonly the agony of doubt, but also the

ecstasy of discovery, the 'aha' momentsthat exists on both sides of the creative process. the artist making thework, and you the audience considering these metaphors of existence are trulybeyond the metrics of money whether you view them as worthless or priceless. the question of what's truly new is, ithink, essential to looking at contemporary art. the difference and imight add that these photographs were taken getting off a plane from afinancial management banking company that was trying to adopt art as its newpet, and interesting and very i think unusual position for the financialcommunity, but it's something we're

seeing more and more. what is really new, versus what's onlynovelty. these tennis sneakers were from the gift store of a murakami exhibition atthe brooklyn museum of art. the louis vuitton branding, i thought, wasenormously surprising to see the museum even in the gift store. but theconnection of course to the branding of the world of art is something we'regoing to see and talk a little bit more about. this picture was far more funny,"bwana devil in 3d," from the fifties before the actual 3d of the recent movieand has made it seem more credible. but i do think that contemporary art and itsmany ideas help us.

if it is successful they allow us tosee the world with a much more vibrant vision, not just of the art that we are actually seeing but as we'll look back to this idea of the world beyond that weexperience and have to navigate. ultimately when you're collecting andwhen you're looking at art what turns you on is the arbiter of your enjoyment.you can decide whether you like it or not. althought as marcia tucker, theformer director of the new museum, told me, she said, "robert when you're lookingat art don't wear the roman emperors toga and have your thumb up if you loveit and your thumb down if you don't. actually listen to it and try to learnfrom it, and even if you don't think you

like it give it a chance to speak toyou and see what it's saying." it's often those kinds of additional effortsthat allow us, when we see things that aren't initially clear, that help us toenjoy them in new and i think dynamic ways. there is a battle going on, always between truth and beauty. we're lookingat a picture that is obviously conceptual by john baldessari. it sayspure beauty. i'd like to read, this will be the last time i'll have aprepared script, from no less an authority than steve martin who said, "ifthere's something i can pretend to have

learned from modern art, it's that you can't make somethingbeautiful by trying to make something beautiful. it becomes beautiful in the process ofbecoming something else." now, let's see what that something elsemight mean. when we start looking at art, there are a lot of sources out therecertainly subscribing to the major art museums gives us an easy and quickoverview of what's going on in the world. there are books, and this group suggestsan education on some of the classics, but in addition going to thegalleries will allow you to get artist

monographs and learn what differentcurators are thinking is interesting what's out there what's happening at themoment. there are art exhibitions that can be seen in washington, in new york, inlos angeles and of course they are offering us new ideas for new times. thisis an image of course of bilbao. it's interesting how the medium changesof the message. bilbao and frank gehry's amazing miracle, the first post modernbuilding of the 21st century, could never have been created without theexceptional advancement of computer-generated technology whichallowed these unpredictable curves actually be built, to be predicted, to bemanufactured. i mention that because

one of the questions that i'm constantlycoming to terms with is, "how do new modes of technology effect expressions andcontemporary art?" we'll see some of those as we move forward as you look atthe things in the art galleries, in the museums, and in other places. i keep a running diary that allows me toboth note things i don't understand and then try to return to them oftenwith the benefit of reviews by more knowledgeable, orexperienced, or poetic art critics than myself. you can see that the same methodology ofapplying a certain structure, in this

case a grid of many colored cubes, isused by three different artists in different ways. there is no substitute of course foractually seeing these things in person in order to get the scale, the presence,the physicality and the real sense of what they are about. traveling is one ofthe great perks of being curious in the art world. one of the things that i thought was aback story on this cold wintry day when my wife and i went to see the gatesproject in central park in new york. christo and his wife worked on this forabout 25 years, could not get it approved.

the reason i was told, and i think thisis fascinating, that it was approved for february was that the mayor recognize thatthis was a lull in new york's tourism business, and they would bring an influxof potential business to the great city of new york. they scheduled itfor the winter, and it was a fascinating experience, as christo's experiences almostalways are, and yet another example of how you really do have to be there tounderstand and feel what it's about. there is a chance to go to art fairs.you'll see that my son and my wife's is a enormously impressed with thedamien hirst picture behind him. but he's considering something on the other wallwith evidently great uncertainty, and i

certainly know that feeling. when we go,as i said, as marcia tucker suggested, having an attitude of openness ofinquiry in which we can celebrate the new is an important component of gettingsomething back from your efforts and from your time. pictured below is an extraordinary, in mymind, juxtaposition in the far distant "marilyn monroe's lips a hundred times" byandy warhol and hanging down are a series of hangers that a local artist,dan steinhilber, created and above that the three circles. those are sweet'n low, splendid, and

other artificial sweeteners that wereplaced in the auspicious setting of a garbage can top, and then made into awork of art. i have one of those in my collection and am thrilled and love havingit. better living through chemistry is of course something that we all experienceand that damien hirst, one of the british, young british artist, has made anenormous focus on. what you are looking at now is a cabinet that is full of boxesof medicine. it is the kind of thing that i think wecould easily dismiss and which raises an enormous set of interesting questionswhich we're going to approach tangentially and directly. i can tell youby cutting to the chase that at some

point have been seen enough of these, andhe did his first as his senior thesis when he was an art college graduate. hetook, i'm told, the contents of his grandmother's bathroom and decided thathe would make a medicine cabinet and then he did another 11 of them andpresented them as his work of art for his senior thesis show. now when i go,as you will see when we move further along, in to a drugstore i think ofdamien hirst and i'm going oh my goodness he's managed to change the wayi see things! this is aclose-up of an extraordinary work in which there is a bright shiny reflectivebackground.

the pills that are on these shelves areno longer actual pills, because their shelf life would not extend as long asdamon wants his art to last, which we presume is forever, but they arefacsimile is made out of some sort of painted metal - perhaps bronze. i think you can get a sense of theirenormous decorative quality. i was walking through the museum ingermany and i saw a huge pill cabinet, must have been20 feet across by about ten feet tall. it had this remarkable presencewhich is part of the preconditioning that i think gave me that sense when i,subsequently years later, walked into a

drug store and thought of damien. nowdamien is the person who has provoked a lot of controversy in the art world. the art forum cover story here, from april2006 it appears to be, has to do with the the human skull that he covered withdiamonds and his title, and damon is brilliant in his use of titles, is aquote from his mother in which he said, "for the love of god." it certainly raises many interestingquestions and we're going to address those questions fourth with. one of thequestions that comes out of course is, "can you see the art for the money that issparkling through the diamonds?"

there are all kinds of doubts about howand why damien created this kind of work. he brings up issues of life and death.this slide is a little fuzzy because i took it from a hirshhorn lecture of simonschama, so i give simon credit for showing us the dove on the right ascending up into the heavens and theskull on the left. damien is playing with issues of lifeand death. whether this huge and very controversial work that he made, a hugetiger shark, that was put into the formaldehyde case. i should mention toyou that this case changes your experience of what that shark is. if wesaw this shark in a natural history

museum it would not work the way youwould imagine an object of it's sort would, because the cadencing of thosevertical white struts shifts in a very dramatic way, your experience of it. so you are certainly looking at one ofthe ideas, the metaphor, of how can you experience death. now we're looking at a copy of the artnewspaper, and i wanted to point out to you that the question of commerce hasnow entered into this. all you have to do is look over there and see that onthe bottom left the title says, "hirst: better than microsoft or oracle.

the shark has yielded an annual returnof 41.6 percent over the last 13 years." to which we can only say,"well what's that about?" now there is an enormous push backagainst this commodification of art with its rising prices. it produced a bookthat really got my goat and it's called, "the $12 million dollars stuffed shark." it was written by someone who actually tried, i think, to suggest that it was alla rouse as it were, that the contemporary art world was in effectjust wearing the emperor's new clothes. it was all about vanity and hadnothing to do with the quality of thinking that, i think, in fact informsand has invested in these works. but the

metrics of money are appealing. they can't help but get people'sattention and i can tell you that in the world out there, art has become - and here's one of thesecrets of the art world - a new alternative asset class. when i firststarted collecting my parents thought i was crazy. my mother said, "you paid good money for,that?" my banker said, "i'm sorry son please take these things off yourfinancial statement. i have no way of valuing them and they do not belong inyour portfoli, as i understand it."

i want to point out to you that thatbest buy logo, which i caught from the back of a cab as i was leaving new yorkcity, uses both the color and the exact type of ed ruscha oof. now oof was put there because, i was thinking,"well how do you talk about the metrics of art as it gets confused by money?" for me, one of the proofs of the oof was something ed ruscha said. he said, "whenyou're looking at art, what you want to get first is the 'huh' and then go to the'wow.' what you don't want is to see it first and go 'wow' and then eventually 'huh'?"

that's one easy secret about how youcan judge what you're looking at. damien hirst, who i mentioned, put theshark in formaldehyde also preceded to put other animals, some of which i might add were sawed inhalf. i should tell you, that when i first sawthis work it offended many people, because they thought that damien hadsome kind of cruel sense of fascination with death, that ignored the sanctity oflife. my reaction, while i think that is a credible one, and no single reactionor art is compelling, perhaps i'm the black sheep in this story,in that i actually thought that these

works were enormously compassionate. asit were, we've seen that diamond-encrusted skull. they could be the modern memento morireminding you that the joy of this moment in the world is something that'sfleeting, that your time here is limited, and in fact you should consider theissues of life and death, which i think are in fact juxtaposed and absolutelyconsciously put for us to look at with these two animals. of course damien isvery clever. he is an enormously successful entrepreneur. something imight add that is somewhat unusual, the myth of the starving artist is no longerthe role model that contemporary artists

follow. in this particular work, damien, i think, was playfully talkingabout the golden calf that the israelites were found worshipping whenmoses came down from the mount sinai to deliver the ten commandments. thefact that the frame is gold and that there's this gold septer on top of thecalf and the formaldehyde was a intentional tongue and cheek, punintended, gesture to that question. i can tell you that when the single salewas held there were people - and this was not from that sale but when you go to anauction houses you head up the stairs sometimes this is what you'll see. thereis that sense of celebration and of

being sold something. as john russell oncesaid in the meanings of modern art a work of art is an idea bank, it is also an emblem of the good life,but more than that it is about what it is trying to tell us. damien hirst learned that you couldbuild the brand. you're looking here at a enormousvariety of the kind of works that he is done. of course you don't have any sense ofscale. you can see in the upper left there is a spin picture which has askull underneath it. it is a set of

cigarette butts of work that we will returnto. on the bottom left are dot paintings, butterfly paintings, and ofcourse the better living through chemistry damien hirst brand of his useof pills as a metaphor for modern living. of course you may have heard, but if youhaven't on literally the day that lehman brothers fell damien hirst sold a$198 million dollars worth of his art directly at auction. he did not go through a dealer and itwould appear that he is an enormously clever promoter, but beyond that, i thinkhe's an enormously gifted artist. i want to shift now to the notion of howbranding and advertising is something

that we see every day. those companies that sell thecosmetics and the hair salon shampoos are in this image, of course, trading onbotticelli's venus. on the right, you see, an advertisement that i saw drivingthrough the streets of new york and its original source. here you see the italianexpresso taken at some airport trading off of the leonardo da vinciimage of the man circle in the square, except in this instance it's a woman.of course who better than andy warhol to represent this notion ofcrossover between graphic design - you may know that andy warhol's careerin new york started as a graphic

designer, and so he could appreciate andhe knew what got people's interest. he knew as an illustrator how you couldsell something to someone because he had done it over and over and over, and hewas one of the best. then of course he appropriated theimage of marilyn monroe. this image was taken from a publicityshot by philippe halsman. you can see that it, what better idea of selling someoneelse's fame of branding her face then taking a publicity shot of marilynmonroe and making it into art. i think it's an interesting statementabout how good warhol was at what he

did. that at least in new york among thatgroup if you show people a picture of warhol's image on the right and ask themwhat they're looking at they generally say i'm looking at anandy warhol, they don't say i'm looking at a marilyn monroe. it just goes toshow you how much that crossover actually exist in people's minds. ofcourse art influences advertising. it's a full circle. on the left you see an andywarhol. interestingly enough, i photographed this just over the weekend up at one ofthe auction houses. it appears that levi strausscommissioned andy to do one of his multiple images. on the same day i waswalking down madison avenue some 20 or

so years later 25 years later and youcan see how the advertising on the right of whatever the shop was selling wasborrowing andy's very beautiful and clever use of colors, and repetition ofimagery to suggest something. in addition high art borrows kitsch. thisis another one of our friend damien hirst's amazingly large works. it is a butterfly picture he hasappropriated the image of the heart which of course is a very kitschy image.no conversation about contemporary art and kitsch is successful without atleast making an honorable mention of jeff koons who did this amazingly highfinish.

you will soon see the scale of ablue heart, and if you don't like the color blue you can get in and lots of other colors.jeff is a very interesting artists. he is somebody that i've never fully come tounderstand. this is an example of the kind of research i do when i'm lookingat art. i read the articles, i underline them, i make my notes and i'm not gonnalinger too long on this because you may find me being more critical than isappropriate. here the heart appears in art + auction. now you can see the scale of it. it is,certainly i would say, about 7 foot tall

and probably about 12 feet across. it became one of the trophy artacquisitions of the 2008 bubble, the art bubble. of course jeff started out bycelebrating kitsch. you can see some of the earlier works he did from a series he called"finality". i frankly did not get these pieces. i am not a person thatcelebrates finality, i have been, by many collector friends of mine, told i'mmissing the boat and that in fact i'm a snob because i don't get it. but the dumbingdown that jeff does is something that he

changed, and he created some amazingsculptural works in the ensuing decade. on the right i think is one of the bestworks of the 1990s, in terms of sculpture. it's called "the bunny". it isabout the life size of the bunny you would buy if you were at the zoo and yougot that plastic bunny, but of course it's covered with this enormously brightand brilliant aluminum patina. on the left, and you can see the scale of thework called "the puppy" by jeff koons, and it is covered withflowers. it is one of the most popular andsuccessful crowd drawers. it is now located, i believe one of the versions isin front of bilbao, the museum that frank

gehry built. last but certainly notleast, "balloon dog" you can see the scale of this piece by the size of theescalator behind it. as i said if you don't like in a blue you can get in red. in addition to that you can see thatjeff was making, i think, a very conscious homage to andy warhol with theeasy, fun, silver balloon that is on the wall to the right in which the redballoon dog is reflected. that is a, for those of you that know warhol'scareer of course the factory in new york he covered with silver tin foil to giveit the shimmering sense, and he actually did a project where he released silverballoons.

so this whole notion of artists lookingover their shoulder and borrowing methodologies of getting their work seengetting their work understood is something that i think is a threadthrough contemporary art. of course when i was down in miami, i actually saw a billboard that wasbeing erected that i think was a joke. i never called that particular number tofind out, but it certainly is clear that that has become a part of the mentalityof artists working today. i don't think that's necessarily bad. warhol is, of course, the darling of theauction houses. he is the single perhaps

most consistent and successful artist inthat regard. this was taken actually just three daysago on the trip that i made to preview the auctions. as we will soon discuss, anauction house can be a very interesting place to look at art for any number ofreasons. in this instance some people are thereto see the art, and in other instances they are there to see, well you can guessit. this is a work that warhol made around1961. it's, i believe, 200 $1 bills, silkscreened and it set a enormous price. i think somewhere in the neighborhood of,and i may be wrong on this, but $25

million dollars. can you see the art on the wall whenyou're actually looking at the money? it's a question that i'm not actuallysure how to answer but i'm going to try momentarily. i want to speak to you when people askme then, "well so how's the art market?" there is no single art market thatanyone can describe. in fact there are a number of art markets. you start out with the young and therestless, which is the broadest group. then there are up-and-coming artists whohad a show or two, and whose work are a

little bit more known. they might havebeen written about they probably been seen. then there are the more mature artistwhose careers have been around for some time. at the top of this pricepyramid, and that's all it is is a price pyramid, is the trophy art. warholis the darling of the trophy art world, in that regard. the financial institutions, that at one timesaid art had no metric and i think they were right in terms of saying if wedon't understand the metrics of money we shouldn't include because we don't haveto deal with it

things should and are appropriatelyconservative about alternative asset classes that are not their skill set. butnow in new york you'll be interested to know that they're actually art capitalgroup private banking for the art world. my administrative assistant, wholong-sufferingly help me put this together, said you know even some of the financialinstitutions have their own art collections now. of course that is a new phase of artwhere it has become of interest. in exploring the new, of course, video issomething that's always coming into new forms. i recommend to your attentionupstairs,

there is a gallery that john hanhardt,who the new curator coming here to the american art museum from first thewhitney and the guggenheim, it's the gallery upstairs is called "watch this". we have a great nam june paik upstairsand he will be doing a retrospective of nam june paik. if you'reinterested in what's possible nam june paik was one of the earliest and still, ithink, most influential video artist. it's a great chance for you tofamiliarize yourself with it. if you have the time go upstairs to see namjune's work "electronic super highway" which is a very interesting work.it should come as no surprise that

the world around us is going to echosome of the same characteristics that the art world is trying to take on. thisis an image of one of the many moments in times square in new york as you'releaving, no actually, barclays, it might be london.but in any case, it is this ubiquitous vista of media and lights. i was mesmerised in one window where isaw these images just flying in front of you. i should tell you that it echoesa feeling i have as a collector. for all of my efforts, i'm often baffled as anyone else is about where the nextpossible statement of quality of

thinking is going to come, and how i canbe prepared for it. we see in this world something thatpeter schjeldahl, i think, referred to somewhat disparagingas bright shiny things. on the left there is a actual "the bunny" by jeffkoons and coincidentally on the media screen to as if the bunny is looking ata image of himself floating up there in the macy's dayparade. i thought that was hilarious. it was a show called pop art in the tategallery and not one that i thought was a celebration of the best quality ofthinking, although, it did have enormously goodworks. then on the right is a series

of media screens which reflects thediversity of possibilities that are now being explored by artist. while we'reon the subject of bright shiny things, i went to london to explore a work byanish kapoor who was making these kind of fun house mirrors. i looked at this particular one in theshow, and i wasn't as wild about these works, because i didn't understand wherethey fit in terms of expanding the vocabulary. but when i went to the friezeart fair, he had done a variation of it that hadthis kind of octagon, almost like a bees', or an insects' eye

pixelating effects. it just knockedmy socks off. it is, as you can see, very large. it's 8 feet across. if you wantto know what that little girl was actually reacting to, if you look at this close-up of her faceshe's smiling. i think that that's an important role for contemporary art. i don'tmean to suggest that it always has to be obscure or difficult or impossible tounderstand. that smile was reflected by my wife's smile. that's what happens when you stand infront of the work. i bumped into anishafter purchasing this work and i thanked

him for his enormous creativity but ialso told him that i thought because i had seen my wife's face in his work thatit was even more beautiful than he might have imaged. he said, "fine, i'm really glad you likeit." that's because the check had cleared. ishould also tell you, and here's a secret of the art world, when we were down at asmall island we decided that we'd ride around and take a look at some of theproperty out of total and utterly idle curiosity. the realtor down theretold us that this beautiful lot was owned by an artist by the name of anish kapoor. i went, "oh that's really interesting."

he said and actually he made amistake because he tore the house down here thinking he was going to build herebut then he bought another lot and now he's got two lots here. i thoughtisn't it interesting that now the collectors are renting and the artistsare buying and building the houses. i think it's a good thing. you don't alwayshave to pay a trophy art price to get a work of art you love. this work by stefandean which is called "prayer mill" is made of dye chromatic glass, which is put into a post card rack that has an interac so that, in the former iteration thestored postcards would be available to the merchant to restock, and the outsiderack and when the sunlight hits it is

truly miraculous in its colors. ifind it enormously rich and rewarding. i think it's important that you rememberthat in looking at art, you need to take time to understand it. agood work of art is something like a good friend, it gets better with age. art thatstands the test of time continues to have broader sense of possibilities andmetaphors. just as you grow and bring more experiences to it, it will expandand allow you to engage in a richer and more dynamic dialogue with it. i want to mention that for all of myefforts to be focused and disciplined

and follow the rules often chance playsa big role. of course 90% of success is showing up and then what elsehappens can often be a matter of chance. this is a reproduction of a wonderfulrichard diebenkorn painting that i dearly wanted to buy. it reflected a lot of wheremy collection at that time was focused, which is to say gestural romantic painting. it had that quality oflooking through the artist studio in ocean park california waking up and smellingthe coffee. while i was at that particular preview, and this is one ofthe reasons i mentioned you that auctions can be a very interesting placeto see art, i happened to bump into this

picture, and it knocked my socks off. it was one of the most powerfulexpressions of andy warhol's, what is now referred to as his death and disaster.an image of jackie kennedy with the veil on at the funeral following theassassination of the president. i thought to myself now that is an amazingpicture. i came back and spoke to the head of the hirshhorn and said i reallythink this is a history picture that has its place in washington. i think you should get it. we have themarilyn monroe lips hundred times, but we don't have this kind of iconic image. he said you know, i agree with you, but

i think right now it's sometimes morecomplicated for museums on short notice to be able to pull together thenecessary finances and approvals to make this kind of acquisition. hesaid why don't you get it, and you can give it to us when you're done with it. i actually bid at auction for thiswork and when i purchased it, this is an example of what i wasthinking on the phone. this is an example of how i felt, themunch's scream, when i became the successful bidder. in fact, my agent went one bid above what ihad authorized to him. i had said, if we get

to that number you should call mebecause we were on the phone together, and tell me if i'm going to do one morebid. of course one more bit could take you up to the heavens. i said to him,so who is that at our stretch number, and he said that's us pal. i said but i didn't authorize you todo that, you were supposed to ask me. he said well we're there pal. let's pause from this drama of commerceand go to what andy was actually, i think, about. the "16 jackie's 1965" it will helpyou to know come out of warhol's interest. that, ithink, started when he was a child in

pittsburgh. he was so poor that his momwould take he and his brothers to the church. i believe it's a russian orthodox. it'snot well known but andy warhol was an observant catholic. those images ofthe saints that you see on either side of the altarpiece was something that hetook quite seriously. something got imprinted on him. believe it or not this is what andy hadliterally right next to his bed in new york. it's a picture, as you can see, amadonna and child. you can see the crucifix on hisnightstand, this is a man who having all

of the brash and bright social world ofnew york nonetheless had quiet convictions. if you want to knowwhere the cowl and the image from that sad day in 1963 came from, i suggest you can go back in art historyand look at this 16th century image by chima bowie and certainly jackie stoodas our madonna of the sorrows. i almost hesitated to buy the warholbecause i did feel it's angelic power might be sad for me to live with. i can tell youthat it has not, over time, to prove, to be difficult to live with it is actuallyenormously inspiring. that sense, this

is a picture that is a variation of theimage of jackie, warhol did i think six different ones. i hope you can get some sense of theiconic power that warhol is aware of. he was looking at fame with marilyn, hewas looking at fortune or the lack thereof in terms of this sad tragedy, buthe had his finger on the pulse of something that became very important.that is in part the quality of thinking and the distance that he was able to getto give us a more accurate mirror of our times. sometimes art will offer you anopportunity to have a very surprising juxtapositions. when i bought the damienhirst cabinet of cigarette butts, on the

left, again the issue of better livingthrough chemistry is at least inferred by that. in a million years i neverimagined that it would work well with the 16 jackie's. however as you can seejuxtaposed across from each other, the repetition and the use of a very cleanand simple grid is something that seems to speak one work to the other. when people look at art that they don'tunderstand, one of the simplest ways to get it, as itwere, is just to say well what is it i'm looking at? when i have this kind ofdiscussion with people to come to understand what this cabinet ofcigarettes are about,

it's very easy to quickly say well it's about cigarettes, and what do cigarettes mean? they mean cancer. why do people smoke? because well they're addicted. why do they still smoke?well it gives them pleasure. how is it presented? it's very clean,it's very antiseptic, it's behind glass. within 30 seconds we've talked abouta work of art that has pleasure and pain, and life and death, and medicine, anddisposable trash and treasure. i mean, it's an enormously rich set of ideas thathirst, i think, has managed to put into a seemingly worthless disposable object.just the way andy warhol took yesterday's newspaper

with the images of jackie and by representing it to us in a new way, gave it new meaning. good ideas take us to new places. isaw this advertisement at the train station on my way back. invest in imagination, is something that i believe in. here it's being used as a commercial promotional for ishares, but ithink it applies equally to the world of the quality of thinking that we look atin art, which expands our world. this is another advertisement. what didyou do today? that kind of sense, have you expanded, your on lopez, your day and producedsomething meaningful?

here is an image of my office from mydesk. you'll see that the prayer mill sculpture that is shining with the light,you can actually see it on the concrete floor. i often think of my office when it's notpure pandemonium, as a laboratory for me to live with and look at art. if you lookto the left through that doorway you'll see that there is a very blue light thatyou might perceive now that i've pointed out to you. it comes from a sculpture and traceyemin is the name of this neon sculptor. one of the happy discoveries, and iinitially was not keen on her work.

i saw this work at an art fair with mywife. she thought it was sincere, i thought it was ironic. we both agreethat it was something that we could enjoy and it consistently reminds methat her love emanates from her office, even when she's not there. the world of art is a very complicatednetwork of people. if you are a collector you will getknown for what your passions are, for what your attitude is. it is thisgroup of people that as you get to know will help you to learn more about theart and eventually, if you are fortunate and sincere and work at it, and it is, ithink, something that you have to be

dedicated to do well to have access toit. going to galleries is a great way of course to see it this will give you somesense of the scale of some of damien hirst's works. another way to get access to a lot ofart is to go to the art fairs. if you think it's easy to go through, this is an overview of what an art fairlooks like, this is the, i believe, it's the miami art fair. that littlesmiley face down there on the right is how you start, but it's after a whilefinding the needle in the haystack that matches your particular interest cansometimes be a daunting experience. but

if nothing else it gives you theopportunity under one roof to see hundreds and hundreds of differentgalleries. each who show about, i would say, 10 different artists who haveprobably worked at least two years on a body of work. if you do the math what you're lookingat when you look into an art fair is about 2,000 years of human experience. often i come from these explorations which i sometimes called due diligenceto just keep up with the art market and wonder what's wrong with me that i havenot been able to find anything that's inspiring to me. nonetheless beingout there helps us to know more about

what's going on. another way, and it's notone that i could speak to because i don't use it, is the online. i have notbought nor do i think it's good to try to do so, artwork from online. on the other hand, saatchi has his online explorations. in this information age you can get a lot of information online. you can getaccess, of course, through auctions. does money create taste? i don't doubtthat it does. i have to tell you that the name 'wall power' in terms of lookingat art, some people think of wall power as themoney that the art represents. i think of

wall power as being a creative energythat the artwork emanates. does it affect the way we look at things? i think itdoes. overcoming the doubt of the new is achallenge i'm constantly trying to come up with. i should say to you that the john currannude on the right was obviously a representation of the eve from lucaschronic going back hundreds and hundreds of years. for a long time i couldn'tfigure out what it was about, and i thought that i might actually likethe picture for the wrong reason. i mentioned that in passing when i had achance to talk to peter schjeldahl, the

art critic from the new yorker, who ithink is one of most thoughtful and poetic of reviewers. he said, "robert there canbe no wrong reason to like art. if you like it, you like it." i shouldalso tell you that one of the secrets of the art world is that, even if you are acommitted collector there is more money in the world then there is great art. if you accept the possibility that this painting on theright is one of those objects. i actually spent about five or six yearstalking and working with the gallery hoping that they would offer me a workof art, and when they called me and

finally told me that this work wasavailable i could not believe my lucky stars. there were probably 25people in new york alone who would jump at the chance to get a picture like this.the dealer told me i had one day, and i didn't need one day. i really only neededone heartbeat to say i wanted it. you don't always get it. this is aninteresting work by mike kelly, or a couple of works, in which he was playingoff of some ideas. i'm not going to try to elaborate them, but certainly he wastalking about childhood and cutesy and many other things. i just want to pointout to you that it's ok not to get things. one of the secrets of theart world is that museum support, which

is, i think, important, and i've worked onthe board of trustees of museums in washington and elsewhere, not only tosupport them, but to learn from their intellectual currency that they share inthe process of bringing you along as a trustee. museum support is beingseriously challenged by a new wave of new museums. this is one of the best that i've seen, the de la cruz museum in miami. just finishing its construction, this isthe interior that as you can see very spare, very beautiful, very white, veryopen. they allow collectors to have their own works in a private foundationor museum. the museums are often open to

the public by appointment and haveeducational outreach. this is another example, far more busy,also in miami, owned by marty margulies. you can see the monitor screens in themiddle of the video image of the artist whose work i actually cannot tell you. ithought it was fascinating and i didn't get the name. there is a question what lasts forever? of course that is the ultimatequestion. will the artwork last? not only be of its time and timely but transcendits time. i suggest to you in this adventure of looking that what you see is probablymore based upon what's behind your eyes

than what's in front of them. this is a reproduction of a billboard. fifty percent of the creative processis in the eyes of the viewer. this is a reproduction of a photograph. you probably know that it is the marlboro man. instantly marlboro being thebrand that needs no name to tell you what it is. i saw this by richard prince back in the80s when the appropriation art was something new, at least new to me. iasked a wonderful collector, who was much older and more experienced, how will thispicture look in 50 years, arthur? arthur goldberg said to me, "robert

it will look a lot better than you willin 50 years." he added the only way you're goingto find out how it's going to stand the test of time is to live with it. ihave, and i'm very glad that i did. this is a view of an installation -lawrence weiner, at the whitney museum of art. if i leave you with no other thought,that i hope will be helpful to you, it is that the mind can see farther than theeye and that your engagement in that regard will be rewarding. it can be areligious experience. these are damien hirst windows. i flew out to los angeles to see theshow fully expecting that the gesture

was so mannered and so baroque that itwould somehow not be compelling and convincing, and i have to tell you, i wasthrilled upon arrival to learn that i was wrong.it was enormously compelling it is a matter of faith, in terms ofbelieving, that you get that moment where you see something and it clicks and theworld looks differently. it's a hard place to get to but it's aworth the effort, and it can be an ecstatic journey. what we're looking athere is, of course, the ecstasy of st. theresa which is in rome at the cornaro chapel, santa maria della vittoria. it is a remarkable sculpture, and i encourage youas you try to advance your contemporary eye,

that you also stick with the classicswhich teaches every bit as much and more. the picture that i mentioned thati eventually got at the damien hirst show in los angeles is this butterfly picture.it is what they call a kaleidoscope picture because of the repetition. i was a little worried by all thecommercial hype that damien hirst was generating. i said to my sister "you know, with all damien's bravado i'mnot so sure about these butterfly pictures" and she said to me, "robert when have you ever heard the wordbutterfly and bravado on the same

sentence." the adventure of collecting for youis about seeing with the mind's eye. this is a picture made in the museum ofmodern art of jackson pollock. when he first started doing his pictures in thelate thirties and forties people didn't quite understand what it was about. ithink we now have come see that it's opened up enormous newworlds of possibilities. i hope that in the process you enjoy thejourney. speaking of the journey that cansometimes be enormously physical experience. this is a very poorphotograph of one of richard sarah's

huge sculptures. you can see by the scalein front of you that it is probably 18 feet tall. they are called torqued ellipses. asyou enter them you get to have the sense of beingsqueezed, then you move through them and all of a sudden you're aware that themateriality which makes physical impression upon you is balanced by thelight that comes down from above. this image is from james tourelles rodencrater, where you cannot walk up those stairs but you can see the light of theheavens coming through. a phenomenological work of art that ispart of the land art. i hope that this lecture has been something of anenlightening experience for you.

what you're looking at is a corner pieceby dan flavian. i was mesmerized by the colors that these tubes of fluorescentlight bathed the walls with the blue and the yellow and the merging colors. i want to say to you that art comes inand out of favor. our most cherished vermeer painter in his time was popular,than fell out of favor. these are two pictures. the one on theright actually is from the national gallery and you can see it there. i should point out you it even way backthen the masters were aware of the difference between the temporal riches,as you see the arrow directors your eye to the

table top which has both money, pearls,and the balance. in the background is in a image of jesus up in the heavensperhaps this is a and a reminder that the day of judgment will come, and howyou judge things will be based upon your core values and who you are. it is not always a walk in the park butit is often a very rewarding experience. as we close out you're looking atanother dan flavin and that is on the back side of the royal academy in london, in which you go up this grandstaircase and what would have been in that niche, i can't tell you.

we know generically it would besomething of the sort of a king or perhaps a duke or someone of power, butwhat in fact was placed there was another dan flavin. i viewed that astruly a startling secular annunciation. celebration of light and you can see howthe entire niche is colored with this ethereal light. this is a plaque from one of the truismsof jenny holster. i think it's true that finding extreme pleasure will make you abetter person if you're careful about what thrills you. that is the end ofthe secrets of the art world lecture. we were told there would be a short question andanswer period. i'm happy to linger

longer if you have pressing questions. anybody want to throw one out? break the ice? yes? well that's a good question. they are enormous, you would probablyneed to have a lot of land and a place where you could enjoy it outside. although you saw it actually in agallery if you can imagine it. the galleries in new york it was by nosurprise the gagosian gallery. i'm told that the cost of getting thoseworks in is in the seven figures. that's

what it costs to transport them and putthem. so your ambition you need to be aninstitution museum or an individual with the wherewithal that you can actuallyhave that amount of space that amount of light and that amount of budget to beable to get them where you want them. they are compelling experiences and ifyou do have a chance to see one i really recommend you go in them. one of my artists dealer friends thatmade the observation she said if the earth was revisited 30,000 years fromnow by some alien race, all they would need to know about the end of the 20thcentury could be discovered by going

through richard serra sculpture. shout it out, and i'll repeat your question. thank you very much, it was very interesting. i'mjust curious your earlier days of collectingart did the artwork actually get eventually get recognized, andappreciated at all? that's my first question. my secondquestion is i actually collect the african and the caribbean art, paintings. i actually have a website theworldartgallery.com i don't know, i just buy them.i go to galleries where i travel to those

countries, and i go to visit galleriesand shows to pick up things. i wonder whether there is a network ormarket here in washington or in the u.s. at all? i'm going to answer the first questionand say that whether a young artists work get seen and recognized andappreciated is dependent upon a number of very complex factors. i think themost important one is the quality of their creative input. it's my belief and my experience that, yes, young artists do get seen. they get seen, they get shown, they getwritten about, they get appreciated.

they do. in terms of your secondquestion i am not person to tell you how to network in art because i come at itfrom a different point of view. but certainly i believe there are manyavenues by which you can do so. i encourage you to explore them becausewith your interest you're likely to broaden your horizonsas well as those of people who share your interests. yes, the question was: are there artcritics that i read and pay attention to? i try to read as much as i can in artcriticism. my favorite, i've already mentioned, his name is peter schjeldahl, andhe writes for the new yorker. he is

enormously poetic. another art critic who,i think, is extraordinarily brilliant is named dave hickey. blade gutnick used towrite for the washington post and he's gone on to newsweek. he is very thoughtful. there are a numberof other art critics that i could mention, but rather than give you a longlist, those are three. certainly blake's brother adam gutnick, when hewrites about artist he's a genius. he's also very brilliant. he writes less about art that i wouldlike, but those are a number of my favorites. i used to love readingrobert hughes. he doesn't write anymore,

but i thought he had that sort of abovethe tree view of the art world. i learned a lot from reading him as well. well i can't speak about others. i thinkthat is true. the question is if i started out buying what i love did itchange as i got more experienced, and the effortbecame more researched? my mentor walter hops told me that thethree legs of the stool are always the same. first you have to fall in love, then youhave to do your homework, and third you have to pay a premium, above a high price,to get a great work of art. my art world

mentor aunt nathalie told me that if youlove the work of art you can never go wrong. if it goes up in value,people will think you're smart. if it stays what you paid for it, you gotthe benefit of the bargain that you made. if it goes down in value, and thatcan happen, as long as you love it then it doesn't really matter that it wentdown. so it is true that i do more homework, i do more research. part of theresearch is to get as much information as you can about the artist. artists havegood, better, best works and it's always important to make those kind ofdiscoveries. some of it is subjective, what you like the best.

but art will speak to you over time andyou learn the difference. one of the exercises that i try to do is when i gointo an art gallery and i look at a group of objects, whether it's by singleartist or many artists, whether it's an art gallery or an art museum, i look around and i say, which work do ilike the most, and why? it's an exercise in refining your eye. bydoing research, galleries have an incentive to help you to learn, but youultimately need to do it yourself. so while it has changed in terms of medoing more work, it hasn't changed in terms of i willnever buy anything that i don't love and

that i don't want to live with. the question is do i want to have my ownmuseum? the answer is absolutely not. i think washington has an enormouslyrich diversity of museums, and i am a team player. i do think that if someof my art is up to the standard that would be great if it could complementand be given as jim dimitri and suggested to the museum's of washington. i do not need to have my taste validatedby having my own museum. oh, joseph cornell is an artist whoi have long admired. my mentor walter hops brought me to his work while i waslooking at the young and the restless

artists in the eighties. i subsequently became fascinated bycornell's vast cosmology of ideas and eventually put together a group of boxesthat was based upon the notion that the sum of the boxes would be larger thanany individual part. so i do love and have collected cornell with an enormousrespect. the book and the dvd rom which i collaborated with the american artmuseum, here, was an attempt to reflect what i discovered in cornell's work. which was that you go through the looking glass, which i think is true inalmost any work of art, by a good or great artist and enter a whole nother cosmology of ideas that were as broad

a science, nature, poetry, dance, the arts in a broad array of interestingassociations. cornell is an artist who i think you can learn a lot if youhave the patience to not go for the bright shiny thing that peter schjeldahldescribed was the rage of the last decade, but to the more quiet clearcontemplative possibilities of the intimacy of his art, which has enormousmetaphorical range of possiblities. i used to have more work. the question is:do i have enough space to display all my artwork and is there a warehouse somewhere? the answer to that is no, and yes.

no i don't have enough space to displayall that, and yes there's a warehouse somewhere, but i have tried to live withthe art that i have because i really want it to be up. sometimes worksmove, they go to museums, on loan, they are rotated, and often that requiresyou to rehang an entire room. another secret quote unquote of theart world is that art will tell you where it wants to be. so that when onework of art leaves for whatever combination of reasons, perhaps a museumloan, the next work that comes in may create a game of musical chairs whereyou reshuffle everything. i'm not the type of collector that hasvast warehouses of art. i used to have

more of that and i have tried to tradeup with works, that if i can't enjoy them i try to find places where they can beseen or appreciated by way of sometimes getting two or three works and thengetting one, trading that for another work, or in some instances giving itto institutions that would like to have the work that i may no longer have thespace for. any other questions? well, the voyager foundation wascreated to do educational art projects. the first of which was the josephcornell book and the dvd -rom and the next project that the foundation isgoing to do i'm hoping is a book that

will follow some of the course of ideasthat we were looking at tonight. the question is: have i everconsidered aquiring contemporary art from china or other emerging markets? i have very actively considered that. i find it one of the more challenging,and for me at the moment, unclear directions. part of my logicis that i don't think that i have enough understanding of the issues that thosesocieties have gelled in the artist to truly appreciate their work. i'veseen it because it has become a very, chinese art is big. it's in the art market, it is in thegalleries, in the auctions. i have to say

this is not meant as a criticism it isjust meant as a description that i find much of that work grotesque. i don't understand thesocial backstory that generates this and it doesn't resonate with me. so because idon't love it and haven't yet fully come to understand it, i have not tried to collect it. but i doactively look at it and i should tell you that i found it more and moreinteresting with time. it is not without considerable interest but i have notbought any myself. i'm glad you brought that up.

i don't think that art is a goodfinancial investment to the average person. it's sort of like the bestknowledge i can give you is going to the racetrack. don't go to the racetrack to try to makemoney, go to have a good time and if you happen to pick a winner, that's great. art is very expensive,it costs money to maintain, you have to ensure it. the works of art that you saw here havebeen reported on by the press because they represent the very small percentageof art that has been financially

successful. the thing that it does give you isunlimited dividends of joy if you love it. i don't mean to say, and i put that upthere intentionally so i'm very grateful to you for mentioning it, i don't mean to say that art can't be agood financial investment. it is an alternative asset class, but i would tellyou that it is a very risky one. one that you should not, i think, enterexpecting to get those kind of rewards. any more than you could go into thestock market and pick a startup company

now and predicted that will be the nextgoogle or facebook. that's not to say it can't be, just that i don't think itis what i would call a good one. it's a great one if you pickthe right horse. well i think reproductions aregreat in terms of allowing you to be inspired. every college kidhas a story about how the reproductions were up on their wall and that reallygot them to thinking. so i think it's wonderful. i think it has enormouspossibilities. in terms of my own experience, i came from that. yeah, wheni was a college kid i had reproductions up. i can't exactly remember what theywere,

however as a collector i'm reallyinterested in the artists hand and the gesture. the notion of reproductions for me issomething that i may have moved through, but i think it's fabulous. you have to have an enormouscuriosity to be a in a position to have a mentor. i think you need to make the kind ofcommitment to spend time with a person and then you need to figure out who thatperson is and where they they might be. part of it is luck, it was, ithappened to be that i've had many

mentors, several, i should say not many. it is a product of being in themuseum community. somebody you start a conversation with over a period oftime you learned that there's an awful lot you can do. walter hops when he would come to town, iwould take a vacation day for my job and just drive him around because i wantedto learn from him. by creating that space of time which was very unorthodox, i had a chance to build a rapport withhim i was friendly with people he was friendly with, and he saw my interests incornell. much to my delight, i learned

that after i did the cornell dvd-rom,which was largely an attempt to express what i've learned from him and on my own. i later learned, although he didn't tellme this but one of his friends did, that he was enormously proud of me. that i hadlearned what he had tried to share with me and that it reflected in a way thathe was pleased about. it comes out, i think first, from yourpassion, a shared interest, and being willing to do the work, and put the time in, and hopefully a lucky coincidence of access to people of kindred spirit andinterest. i have found that the great people in any profession respect andadmire that kind of interest in our

willing to reciprocate it to help you tofollow the path. your path as they have followed there's. all right well i thankyou very much for your time.