outsourced (2006)

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people might talk, you know?

so what if they talk?

i should be more careful. i can't be seen with you, speaking like this.

like how?

intensely.

(exasperated) oh why not? you're a free woman. why can't you speak intensely, if you want to? why do you worry so much about what people think?

because i am engaged to be married.

engaged?

yes.

how long have you been engaged?

since i was four years old. our families have known each other for generations. his name is ashok. he has a very good job, he's very polite. we will be married in july.

but do you love him?

not yet.

i can't believe this. i just can't believe that someone as strong and as smart and opinionated as you, would settle for an arranged marriage.

i will learn to love him.

but what about your right to choose for yourself?

my parents met each other on their wedding day. they love each other

to me that's crazy.

some people would say that america's 50% divorce rate is crazy.

and will you tell ashok about us?

no, of course not. no one must know.

so what do you call this? what you and i are doing

holiday in goa.

what?

it's something my friends and i say. a friend of mine, priyanka, she fell in love with a boy one month before she had to get married. he was a boy from the school. so she told her family she was under a lot of stress and she had to go and take a holiday in goa. alone. so she and the boy went to the beach, they had three weeks together, and then she came back and got married.

oh. so... i am just your 'holiday in goa.'

not just! (tears) my only 'holiday in goa.'

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