"If she carries on like this, you and your daughter can stay here." "I'm leaving" "Have you seen what time it is?" "Twelve past two!" "But she said she'd be late" "How late?" "Ten or eleven at the most." "Not 2 in the morning!" "That was in our time." "At least she comes home every night." "Isn't that enough?" "Does she?" "Calls at 9 to say that she has to work all night." "The whole office will be staying up." "To hell with such an office!" "It's because she stayed up all those nights." "she got those awards today." "Six awards!" "Could we ever imagine?" "Now don't give me that crap!" "As if she was getting her awards till 2 in the morning?" "Is this some Film Awards or what?" "Hello?" "Yes, she's here." "Please hold on." "Wants Sahana Choudhury." "Says it's urgent." "Sahana!" "Call for you." "If you have to spend all night chatting on the phone." "they should call you on your mobile." "The battery's down, so I put it on the charger." "Sorry." "You're going to Calcutta too?" "Same pinch!" "Just like me." "We're going there to his niece's wedding." "You must be going to see your son" "How is Siddharth?" "Still with the same ad agency?" "Doing great we hear." "Must be having great time with him?" "Why hesitate?" "We have transport." "How far is his place from here?" "Did you want to go via his place?" "I thought that's where we're heading?" "So where is he now?" "You don't have to hide." "I can't scold him now. can I?" "True you can't scold him now." "Can't do anything about it either?" "Have they put the wrong date?" "But today is the eighteenth?" "Yes, but..." "Hello Ma." "Yes, it's over." "Can I call you back in a while?" "Ramratan" "This is Siddharth's mother." "We will be going to his house now." "It was 2 in the morning right?" "Where was he till then?" "Is the AC too cold?" "Shall I reduce it?" "We've reached." "Ramratan." "park the car and talk to the caretaker." "Tell him." "Siddharth's mother will be staying here for a while" "Why bother?" "Not at all." "Ramratan go ahead." "What time should I send the car tomorrow?" "What for?" "Ok." "Let me send it at 9." "Just in case you need to go somewhere." "It will wait." "Sahana will drop by in the morning." "Shall I keep it in the bedroom?" "No thanks." "This is no time for tips." "Ma'm." "Come and see for yourself." "When will you be coming Maa?" "Yours, Babu (Sid)" "Salaam." "I'm Karim, the security guard of this building" "Hello" "Your newspaper and milk" "Thank you." "Anything else?" "What a terrible thing to happen, Ma'm?" "Shall I get you some water?" "No it's okay." "You rest a little..." "I live downstairs." "Please call for me whenever." "Thanks." "Shall I make some tea for you?" "No it's ok." "Thanks." "One is enough" "That too for you." "Lovely breeze flows around here." ""This is a strange invitation"" ""Me the uninvited guest"" ""The householder disappeared"" ""Deserting his nest"" "Ma'm, the water supply is likely to stop for sometime soon." "Finish your shower quickly." "Will you please do me a favour?" "Can you please get me an egg case?" "I'll try" "Anything will go..." "But you called just now!" "I'd bought the food already." "It struck me maybe you'd not want anything lavish now?" "Did you eat anything last night?" "These fishes also starved." "No clue where to look for their food." "Relax, I'II check." "You will also eat with me?" "Ya..." "But..." "And you're not just having soup." "There is some noodles too." "No." "It was quite late by the time I got home." "Were you two in the same department?" "What?" "In case you need them at night." "You feed the fish noodles?" "Strange!" "Yes, they eat everything..." "Sid even gave them beer and stuff" "Did he drink a lot that night?" "Yes" "A bit more than usual." "Not quite deliberately." "We were generally having fun." "And not one of you stopped him?" "No, sorry!" "Besides. who wants to be a killjoy?" "And even if we had, he wouldn't have listened." "Aunty?" "Why not?" "There had to be some decorum." "Some restraint." "We told him repeatedly." "Got disconnected" "Showing Missed Call." "Shall I check?" "Please." "Nobody close to him for sure." "What about his Dad, Suresh?" "But then his name would be displayed, surely?" "But overseas calls don't always display the number." "I haven't." "I don't know if you people have." "Go ahead." "Could be his Dad again." "Trying to send a message" "Who is this Sameer Khaitan?" "Sid never told me." "So?" "He must have made Sid a job offer." "Aunty, please give us the ball." "Will you make me a list of what in this house belongs to the office?" "Tomorrow when office opens." "Can I come with you?" "No need." "Aunty." "I'll send someone." "I do want to come." "I'd like to see his work space." "He used to mail me of course." "You're right." "I should inform Sameer Khaitan." "Sahana madam?" "Will she be late?" "One second." "Maa kept asking why did I leave you alone here?" "Yes." "We all went there." "Will he get late?" "I'II just change and come." "How critical was he when the police informed you people?" "I don't know" "By the time we arrived." "he was in the hospital." "Let's go, Aunty." "I'll drop you and go home." "What did he wear that evening?" "A new navy blue blazer he'd ordered specially." "I'II show you his pictures, when you come to office tomorrow." "I wish to stay here for a while." "Pick me up tomorrow morning." "Every time he's driving at night." "on empty roads, he has to zip." "I've told him so many times, 'Babu (Sid) go slow." "Ease off.'" "Everything ok?" "But didn't think the timing would be so perfect." "Bye again." "Yes, I have" "Go forward towards the main door" "Oh!" "There's a room here!" "Hadn't seen it before." "So what do I do now?" "You're standing at the door, right?" "Yeah" "Now look straight" "Yes, I see a fax phone" "There's a desk to its right." "Where?" "I don't see anything." "Can't you see a printed list?" "Yes." "But Bapi Plumber that sort of thing" "Yes, now go down, go down" "Now where?" "Below that list..." "So. there you are." "Now dial." "Excuse me, then you have to hang up." "But isn't that an office phone?" "Now I'll call off." "You speak to him." "Suresh!" "This is Arati from Calcutta." "Sid's place." "Was a little thirsty" "Did you see his desk?" "Yes." "I imagined it much smaller and cramped." "This one is cosy, near the window." "He did have a smaller cramped desk before." "Well, Sahana was saying you want some of his things" "Just a few pictures from his soft-board." "And some personal stuff, if any" "Well, let me think about it." "I'll get back to you tomorrow?" "Not office documents." "Aunty, one second!" "The lift's here..." "Those were my own son's personal things." "which includes my own photograph." "And still I have to beg to have them?" "Only to be told that I'm being melodramatic?" "Doesn't matter." "He's not sorry!" "May be he wanted to put it differently." "It just came out that way" "And he wants to say something, and actually says something else?" "He may have wanted to avoid the issue." "What issue?" "But the reply would be the same anyway." "Why is the office car following us?" "Ask it to go back." "It will go back with me." "I have to be back by 5.30" "I won't say a word." "just let me be with you." "I thought that was the worst day in my life." "That nothing worse could ever happen to me." "Aunty, that's one of Sid's campaigns." "Ma said, 'What's the matter?" "'" "You're the first one to know." "The office car wants to know if Sahana wants to leave now?" "Sahana, its 5 already" "No." "Suresh this is Arati from Calcutta." ""With whom shall we play Holi today in Brajatown?"" ""The cruel handsome one has left, he's let us down."" ""Savourless Vrindavan." "flavourless forest"" ""All the milkmaid damsels are totally depressed"" ""With whom shall we play Holi today in Brajatown?"" ""Dark eyes flow, the girls' cheeks aglow"" "Shall we leave, Sir?" ""Why. handsome one." "why this cruel frown?"" ""Stop coming here so often."" ""Dark eyes flow, the girls' cheeks aglow"" ""Why. handsome one." "why this cruel frown?"" ""With whom shall we play Holi today in this cowherd town?"" "Siddharth's mother's on the phone." "Is your mobile switched off?" "Oh, did it at the condolence meeting." "Forgot to switch it on" "You were blaming him for no reason at all." "But there's some truth in it too." "Don't think about all this." "Just sleep tight, ok?" "Shall I make tea in the meanwhile?" "In my house guests don't make tea." "He can be replaced by another stud." "Give me my photo." "Let me take a look." "Was Doorknob here?" "His bag is on the table" "Call him up and tell him?" "I think his phone is in his bag" "Told you" "Then?" "He'll come back, don't worry." "Spoke to your Movers  Packers." "They can't do it so fast." "When are you leaving?" "Tomorrow" "They'll need a week." "I don't think he'll come back." "Will you return his bag?" "And this packet that he left behind." "Won't see him soon." "Aunty" "Later." "Don't worry, he'll send Ramratan, give it to him." "Shall I confirm with the Movers  Packers then?" "Your exact photocopy." "Just ten years older than me." "Probably you'll get psyched now" "Babu and you have the same caller tune." "Yeah, he took it from me" "That evening when I called you for Suresh's number," "I suddenly I felt I was calling Babu" "He called... he must be very drunk." "I remember asking him for it so many times." "He wouldn't give it to me." "Does Movers  Packers take a long time to shift stuff from Calcutta to Delhi?" "All this stuff will go to Delhi." "How else?" "Listen. all this love and romance is fine." "See a beautiful bird and put it in a cage." "see colourful fishes and immediately keep it in the aquarium." ""This is a strange invitation"" ""Who is waiting for whom?"" ""From guest to all at once"" ""The one in charge of home"" ""This is a strange invitation"" "One second, so much dirt?" "When did he buy so many clothes?" "You gave him." "I'm sure." "Gifted him" "I don't remember." "Can I say something?" "Promise, you won't react?" "It belongs to you, so I have to return it, don't I?" "It doesn't belong to me." "I've been wondering ever since I heard about this thing yesterday" "About what?" "Sid's abnormality." "Did it happen due to my negligence?" "After my divorce, Suresh went off to the US." "I drowned myself in work to get over it." "Maybe I didn't pay that much attention to him." "May be if I'd taken him to a psychiatrist or a counsellor then!" "Yes." "There are a few friends and acquaintances who specialize in this." "What's the point now?" "You are not a mother." "how will you understand?" "If you love my handloom sarees." "Go lay the table..." "I'll just finish packing" "You laid the table or what?" "No." "Got room service from a five star hotel" "You don't have spoons and forks?" "I eat with my hands" "Why?" "Just like that" "Must be some reason" "How?" "He was very scared of you in this matter." "Baldy!" "Should I ask Sahana to keep the aquarium?" "And what about your parents?" "They might want to know." "I'll tell them it belonged to Sid." "Who for?" ""With great care dressed for the tryst"" ""Found the right clothes"" ""Kohl in the eyes."" ""Dazzling guise"" ""In the hair flower rows"" ""Friend, to a tryst I go with him"" ""Tell me, is it real or just a dream?"" ""Yamuna's shore"" ""Deep darkness wore"" ""Between thick forest groves"" ""Where my love hides"" ""Danger abides"" ""Yet there he sit's and wait's"" ""Friend, to a tryst I go with him"" ""Tell me, is it real or just a dream?"" ""Friend." "I'm the hapless one"" ""Sat all alone in the darkness grim"" ""Even then he didn't come."" ""Friend I'm the hapless one"" ""The black kohl melts deep and dark"" ""Is a joyless abode"" ""On such a meaningless tryst."" ""Friend." "I'm the unfortunate one"" ""With great care dressed for the tryst"" "Should we close Sid's email account?" ""With great care dressed for the tryst"" ""Found the right clothes"" ""Kohl in the eyes."" ""Dazzling guise"" ""In the hair flower rows"" ""Friend, to a tryst I go with him"" ""Tell me, is it real or just a dream?"" "You didn't tell me it's your birthday tomorrow?" "I could have gone a day later" "Phut!" "I'll just stay at home on my own." "No office?" "Tell me something." "Will you really forget him in no time at all?" "Get involved with somebody else?" "It's possible right?" "Yes, it is possible..." "We all think, how bad can it be?" "This much. a little more maybe." "We'll manage somehow." "But then suddenly it hit's us so hard." "It's going to rain" "Lovely breeze" ""Moonlit night on the bank of the river,"" ""Where the lovely breeze does gently shiver"" ""The gathering's probably over"" ""Guests must all have left for home"" ""Only me unasked still waiting"" ""Hoping he returns from where he roams"" ""This is a strange invitation"" "What is it?" "Sid's mother has sent you a gift." "But she's gone already." "Ornob's driver dropped it off..." "You're looking very nice, Sir." "You know today's my birthday." "Wish me" "And remember we have to pick up" "Sid's fish tank on our way back home."