THAT'S HOW IT STARTED - Part 20

Part 20





Scene changes


Kidnapper: Yahi same story chal raha hai...from many generations...Abe...jab car kharidhte ho, mileage n motor check karte ho na...but when you start dating a girl...why don't you check whether she has a lover or not?? Idiots!!! Now u won't be able to control anything...
[This same story is going on...from many generations...you fool...when you buy a car, you check mileage and motor...but, when you start dating a girl, why, don't you check whether she has a lover or not?? Idiots!!! Now u won't be able to control anything...]



Maan: Everything IS under my control



The kidnapper was maintaining the same expression, suddenly Maan takes out the gun and points at kidnappers' forehead...




Maan: Give me the keys of the vehicle...



Instead of taking the keys...the kidnapper takes the bullets of the vehicle...in the palm of his hand...


Kidnapper: That gun is empty dear...with a sarcastic smile on his face, he throws away the bullets in the fire and says, 
Without proposal...girl won't fall for u...
Without bullet...gun too, will not fire...
You have failed in both.



Maan was frustrated to the core, don't give me your stupid explanations...


Continuing a sarcastic smile on his face, the kidnapper forcefully takes off the gun from Maan while he was trying to free himself from the rope tied to his hands...


Kidnapper: Chod na...kyon bekaar mein try karta hai...chal continue kar...
[leave it now, you do you try in vain, continue the story]









Scene changes

Maan is seen isolated from the family.
Annie and Arjun try to cheer him up, but he seems to be withdrawn.
Geet calls him innumerable times but he didn't feel like picking them up.


Days pass by, but nothing changes.
Annie and Arjun too, take a leave of them as the holidays couldn't be extended.
Savitri tried to cheer him up, she had seen Maan picking up geet's calls at the first two rings but now she just saw him ignoring Geet's calls, she thought breakup might be the reason.






She goes to Maan's room.
Maan was hugging his pillow sitting on the bed and was in a deep thought...


Savitri: Maan...


He didn't hear her


Savitri: Maan...!!! Get up I say...


Maan - Jao na maa
[please leave mom]


Savitri - I said get up, Didn't i?


When he continued to ignore her, she pulled out a stick from her hand and hit him on his right hand, Maan was surprised to the core...


Savitri: Won't u get up when I say?


Maan: But..why are you beating me?
Saying so he got up..


Savitri started hitting his leg, in order to escape her, he ran throughout the house but savitri kept on hitting him hurting him more.


Maan: Maa...what are you doing? What...he got a beating on his leg...oouch...what's this?


Savitri: You are acting too much? Huh? You wont even talk to me now?


Maan: Arey maa!!! he yelled in pain this time...


Savitri: What maa..huh..she keeps hitting him with the stick somehow, taking out her frustration.


Maan: SAVITRI


This time Savitri was stunned...


Savitri - Maa ko naam se bulata hai...besharam..
[You call your mother by name, you shameless]


She tries to hit him but this he was too fast, she was tired and was breathing heavily, she took the support of balcony's railing and stood there.






After sometime Maan was back with a bottle of water


Maan - Is umar mein ye sab karna zaruri tha?
[Did you really want to do this, at your age?]


She drank the water and Maan took it to re-cap the bottle...


She side-hugged him with a tiny smile and said, its been 10yrs since your dad passed away...agar mein ussi pal mein jee rahi hoti toh aaj kya hum aise hote?
[If I had stayed at that moment in time, then where would we be now??]


Maan saw his mother with a blank expression


Savitri - Karibi logon ke jaane se bahut dukh hota hai...I know its difficult to bare the loss of near and dear ones...kuch log unki kammi ke wajah se saari umar dukhi hi reh jaate hai...but...some..only a few actually...spend the life happily with departed soul's sweet memories...You are my son...I think I don't have to tell you what you have to do...
[When loved ones pass away, it is really difficult to cope up, I know its difficult to bear the loss of near and dear ones...some people stay sad their whole lives because of it...but...some..only a few actually...spend the life happily with departed soul's sweet memories...You are my son...I think I don't have to tell you what you have to do...]


Maan again drifted into thoughts, this time positive ones, he wanted to live life happily, for his mom. She doesn't deserve any more sad moments in life, not because of him..it was the least he could do...


Maa...movie dekhne chale...
[Mom, let's go to a movie]


And they enjoyed their day









Maan tried to move on in his life concentrating on his career. His friends to tried to cheer him up, they spend most of their free time with Maan cracking jokes and partying so that Geet didn't invade his thoughts....






Time passed by.........


After 6 months

Scene changes [Geet's home]

It was Geet's birthday




Few of her relatives and friends came to wish her and she received few gifts from them.
While she and her mother were mingling with their friends and relatives, one of her mom's friends came up to her..



Friend 1: Toh rano...iski shaadi kab kar rahe ho?
[When are you getting Geet married?]


Rano[Geet's mom]: That's not yet decided... with lot of hesitation and awkwardness


Friend 1: Arey Rano...we have to decide quickly... girls of this generation change their minds very quickly...gap nahi dena chahiye aaj kal ke baccho ko...
[They shouldn't be given any gap of time]


With a small mean smile on her face that lady walked away leaving mother and daughter.




On the way to upstairs, Rano heard her husband mohinder talk on mobile phone


Mohinder[Geet's father]: If you get devil as your wife then the husband is bound to become a philosopher like me...samajhthe nahi ho yaar tum..pata hai ye kisne kaha hai..the great Socrates...
[If you get devil as your wife then the husband is bound to become a philosopher like me...You don't understand, it was said by the great Socrates]


And then he turns to see his wife, he gulped his saliva seeing her angry glare, I will call you in a moment..


Rano: Come upstairs....to our room, now


He nodded his head and followed her


Mohinder: What happened?


Rano: I feel humiliated...try to answer those peoples' questions...you will know the pain...there is no use in criticizing your wife on phone...


Her voice was so loud that Geet could hear it from outside...


Rano: Where is Dev?
When is the engagement?


Geet was saddened and she left the place and went to her room


Rano: I can't, I can't answer those questions


Mohinder: Did I ask her not to marry Dev?
Did I ask to break the relationship with Dev?


Even in her room with door closed, she could hear her parents voice, her eyes filled with tears..


Mohinder: She did as she liked... what is my fault in that??


Tears flowed from her eyes


Rano: Its not your fault
Its all my fault

Geet hides her face in her lap and starts crying




*flashback starts*
Scene: 

Dev and geet alone at her place..in the kitchen


They both enter the kitchen and Geet opens the fridge and starts finding something


Dev: If left to dad, then he will telecast our wedding live on television yaar


Geet laughes and takes milk from the fridge


Geet: Maybe, but Maan will do a better job..


Dev was amused


Geet: Haan Dev...really, he is news director in tv-5, even anchors sometimes.


She was so enthusiastic while telling all this..she kept the vessel on the stove and switched on the stove and turned back immediately ans says, and do you know what?


Dev made a questioning face


Geet: He does it soo well


Dev had a small smile


Checking the milk on stove and taking all the ingredients she started scolding Maan, I wonder what that idiot fellow is doing now..!! She turned to him and asked, ek baar apna mobile dena dev
[Give me your mobile, Dev]


She took it from him and dialed Maan's number...it was switched off at that time, she made a disgusting face


Dev: Maan ko kiya tha?
[You called Maan?]


Geet - Hmmm...switched off hai, I don't understand Dev...ek phone ka bhi reply nahi de raha na hi e-mail ka...you know its so irritating
[Yes, it is switched off, I don't understand Dev...he didn't reply to my calls and e-mails, you know its so irritating]


She started pouring milk in the 2 mugs to make coffee and headed off outside kitchen to the dining area with the mugs, Dev followed her


Dev: Why do you...in first place ...call him and then get irritated...


Geet: He is my friend Dev


Dev had a big smile when she said that


Geet was confused with that smile


Geet: What? What does that smile mean?


Dev: Nothing dear...take it easy


Geet: No..tell me


Dev: Geet..there is no rule that if you are engaged then you shouldn't like another man


Geet was stunned when he said that and looked at him with shocked expression


Geet: What?
What are you saying?


Dev: Ever since you returned from Hyderabad..you have made 30 calls and 20 messages from my mobile alone...


Geet: So what?


Dev: No..no I am not doubting you


Geet: Then u kept the count of 30 calls and 20 messages??


Dev: Geet..all I am trying to say is..some relationships turn into friendship and some friendships turn into love...it all happens without our knowledge...without ourselves actually realizing it


Geet was blank now
Geet: So you think I am in love with Maan?


Dev: I am just telling you to check yourself


Geet was like okay and nodded her head saying, so you think after being engaged to you..you suspect that I am in love with another man? Right?


Dev had nothing to say..he just ran his hand through his hair...he tried to explain her, Geet!! all it could be is...


Geet: Wait wait wait
You want me to check before marriage?
What if you feel like checking it after our marriage?


Dev: Its not so yaar..


Geet was tensed for a second but composing herself she said, you know what Dev, if you don't trust me...this won't work...


She walks away saying, this is over...

*flashback ends*























TO BE CONTINUED

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MY CRY BABY - Part 11

Part Eleven



I don’t know how time passed, 17 years to be precise. Only dark phase I remember was the loss of my parents in a car accident, a few years back. The people whom I took for granted left me alone in this world. It was a difficult phase which brought me closer to my daughter. 


Back in India for the funeral proceedings, my sister took care of everything. No words were exchanged when we saw each other. She ran and just hugged me tightly and I just couldn’t stop myself anymore. Her presence itself was soothing. That day, the lost the only link I had to my ancestral home.


And now all I could remember was the time spent with my daughter. We both opening up to each other, teaching each other a lot of things and becoming friends was the best part. I wouldn’t say best friends but she was open to talking about most of the things.
I used to get terrified whenever there was the mention of mother-daughter dance, graduation night and prom night. Prom night was by far the scariest part for me. But when a boy her age came and asked my permission to take her to prom, I had a talk with him. I hoped it scared him to the core. Everything went well that day and my angel was happy. I was relieved.


When the same boy came years later and asked my daughter’s hand in marriage, I was shocked. They both turned out to be middle-school sweethearts still I never knew. I immediately disagreed. They were children and still studying. But that boy pleaded that he was about to get into medical school and that would take years for him to get settled. I was adamant. 


My daughter was annoyed with me for a while but still, they both were together even after 2 years and then, I had to agree. My daughter’s happiness grew no bounds. She kissed my cheek and gave me the tightest hug. 


Her marriage was fixed and I went to the airport to wait for the arrival of my sister’s family.


Hers was a completely different story. She managed to get her daughter married to a groom of her choice but her son was a totally distinct case. He refused to get married at any cost and threatened to leave home for the same. He wanted to continue with his medical studies and didn’t want to have personal commitments. Instead, my nephew adopted a beautiful girl who was left behind in his hospital just hours after giving birth, near the garbage, crying. 



My sister was a very proud grandmother.



My thoughts broke when their flight was announced. I was happy to see di and Jjiju. The children couldn’t make it due to some commitments.


They brought 4 different kinds of lehengas and took care of most of the rituals and customs. I was relieved. I really missed my wife and my parents, they would have loved every bit of today.


An Indian wedding was followed by a Christian one. My daughter looked like an angel on earth in both the occasions. Personally I felt she looked brighter in the Indian wedding. I always feel the white Christian bridal outfits don’t do justice to the women’s beauty, it lacks colour. But I kept my opinion to myself.


Post wedding rituals made me very emotional especially father daughter dance. The thought of letting her go terrified me. She was my anchor who kept me sane. 


My daughter bid her final goodbye.


Di and jiju also took leave as soon as everything was settled.

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THAT'S HOW IT STARTED - Part 19

Part 19



Maan: Hello..kaun?
[Who is this?]

It was Geet's call from a telephone booth

Geet: Maan..I am leaving.

Maan: What? Why so soon??

Geet: Tum railway station aa jao na
[Come to railway station]

Maan: You wait...I am coming




He travels so fast that he reaches there in almost half the actual time, running through the platforms, he spots Geet


Maan: Geet.

Geet: Tum itna kyon bhaag ke aye ho?
[Why did you run?]

Maan: Tum itni jaldi kyon ja rahi ho?
[Why are you going this early?]

Geet: Papa told to come urgently Maan...I can't deny it.


With a gloomy look on his face....he walked ahead of her to so that their back faced each other


Almost yelling, Maan said, do u really have to go today? Can't u just...just avoid it?

Geet: I have stayed longer than I should Maan

Maan ran his hand through his hair in this helpless situation...



Geet: Waise tum phone pe kuch kehne wale the?
[By the way, what did you want to say?]


Maan turns to face her


Geet: What is it Maan?



With a nervous smile oh his face, he continued, 
Do u remember our first meeting...in that marriage.

She nodded her head to a yes.

Maan: Then...then the second one...we met na.

Geet: Ya maan....we again met na...hmmm..

Maan watched with a confused expression on his face.

Geet: Then the fourth time..and burst out laughing..Bolna kya chahthe ho?? First..second...
she continued laughing.
[What do you want to say?]



She looked over his shoulder and smiled brighter, she looked more beautiful to him with her smile reaching her eyes, after that split moment, she ran and hugged a guy.


Maan felt a stabbing pain in his heart seeing them.


Then Geet started hitting him playfully.


He just walked towards them a few steps in trance.
Then that guy noticed him.


Is he Maan? Looking at Geet again he enquired, to which she nodded.


He moved towards Maan, Dude... and hugged him...finally I got to meet you, really!! awesome to see you yaar, you know how unfair it is? She used to talk only for half an hour and for 20 min she used to speak about you only...maan ne ye kiya maan ne woh kiya..
[Maan did this, he did that]


Both the guys looked at Geet, who was smiling brightly.


Bringing her bit closer....pehle toh bahut boring lagta tha...then I was simply bowled over by the one who took care of my girl so well...
[Firstly the talk was all boring to me, then I simply then I was simply bowled over by the one who took care of my girl so well...]


Maan was utterly speechless, he just stood numb.


That man: That's why I love you...seeing Maan


Geet: You are just shameless.


That man: Why won't I be? The day I saw ur photo, I said yes, I liked u madly. Didn't we get engaged then and there??


Geet hit him on his shoulder.


Turning to Maan, shaadi bhi ho jati maan..but this brat stopped it, pointing to Geet
[Wedding also would have been over, but this brat stopped it]


Maan was clueless to what was going on.


Just then a train announcement is made and it arrives on the platform.


That man: I will check with the tickets, I am taking the luggage, come fast, okay? to which geet nodded...



Geet: Hyderabad meine bahut bahut enjoy kiya...sab kuch tumhari wajah se...Iss baar tumhe Bangalore aana hai...ok? By the way he is Dev
[I enjoyed in Hyderabad, only because of you. Now you have to come to Bangalore, okay? By the way, he is Dev]


Before he could respond DEV calls them...


Dev: Geet jaldi karo.
[come fast]


The next moment...Geet hugs Maan tightly...


Geet: Bye Maan....thank you.


She turns and leaves...and Dev helps her to get into the train...


Geet: I will call you from Bangalore...take care and thanks for everything...


Saying so, she goes away.


Maan was left numb....















TO BE CONTINUED

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