Barfi Shodi: You've Been Snowed

"Ali, I will give you this. You must run fast. Faster than ever in your life, before the snowflakes melt. Please don't get caught..." Joyously dancing in the snowfall, Jamshed hands Ali the enclosed envelope, made out of quick paper, stuffed with a fistful of snow. Jamshed returns inside, closes the door and watches Ali pacing through snowflakes. Within minutes Ali is running so fast toward the closed door and a crowd of young boys chasing him. Jamsheed rushes to open the gate and closes the door on the face of the panting young faces.

Ali opens the window and shouts, "Barfi shoden! You're snowed. Now you must throw in the party of the year." Jamsheed happily utters from the other corner of the room, "Snowflakes don't lie. They arrived inside your home before your feet could touch the ground. Those quick feet of Ali, oh, to bring them to you... What do you say? Should we come over tonight for the party and wait until your entire lamp-chops (landi) is dried up under the winter snow...?"

Ali adds, "No, we wait for the landi for sure..." The young boys outside the door wait and listen to Ali and Jamsheed's demands restlessly. One of the boys is still carrying long-burned coal in his right hand. He hoped to catch Ali and leave him coaled-face under the snow. He wipes his palm against the snow and looks at Ali, " The first snow of next year, I barfi you..."