Roshan Seth credited as playing...
Chattar Lal
- Indiana Jones: Captain Blumburtt was just telling me something of the interesting history of the palace; the importance it played in the mutiny.
- Chattar Lal: It seems the British never forget the mutiny of 1857.
- [Captain Blumburtt laughs]
- Indiana Jones: Yes, well you know I think there were other events before the mutiny going back a century - back to the time of Clive that are more interesting.
- Chattar Lal: And what events are those Dr Jones?
- Indiana Jones: Well, if memory serves me correctly this area, this province was the centre eventuity of the Thuggee.
- Chattar Lal: Dr Jones, you know perfectly well that the Thuggee cult has been dead for nearly a century.
- Captain Blumburtt: Yes, of course. The Thuggee was an obscenity that worshipped Kali with human sacrifices. The British Army Knights did away with them.
- Indiana Jones: Well, I suppose stories of the Thuggee die hard.
- Chattar Lal: There are no stories anymore.
- Indiana Jones: I'm not so sure. We came from a small village; peasants there told us Pankot Palace was growing powerful again because of some ancient evil.
- Chattar Lal: Village stories, Dr Jones. They're just fear and folklore; you're beginning to worry Captain Blumburtt.
- Captain Blumburtt: Not worried, Mr Prime Minister, just erm... just erm... interested.
- Indiana Jones: You know, the villagers also told us Pankot Palace had taken something.
- Chattar Lal: Dr Jones, in our country it's not usual for a guest to insult his host.
- Indiana Jones: I'm sorry. I thought we were talking about folklore.
- Captain Blumburtt: What exactly was it they say was stolen?
- Indiana Jones: A sacred rock.
- Chattar Lal: [he laughs dismissively] Hah! You see, Captain? A rock.
- Indiana Jones: Something connected - the villager's rock and the old legend of the Sankara stones.
- Chattar Lal: Dr Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumour. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than an archaeologist.
- Indiana Jones: Well, the newspapers greatly exaggerated the incident.
- Chattar Lal: And wasn't it the Sultana Madagascar who threatened to cut your head off if you ever returned to his country?
- Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my head.
- Chattar Lal: Then your hands, perhaps?
- Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my hands... it was my
- [looks downward]
- Indiana Jones: ... misunderstanding.
- Chattar Lal: Dr Jones, wasn't it the Sultan of Madagascar who threatened to cut off your head if you ever returned to his country?
- Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my head.
- Chattar Lal: Then your hands, perhaps?
- Indiana Jones: No, it wasn't my hands. It was my...
- [looks down at his groin]
- Indiana Jones: My misunderstanding.
- Chattar Lal: I should say you look rather lost, but then I can't imagine where in the world the three of you would look at home.
- Chattar Lal: [to a possessed Indiana as Willie is about to be sacrificed to Kali] Your friend has seen, and she has heard. Now she will not talk.