" Have you spoken to Sunaj yet?" " I'm trying, sin." "Trying, my foot!" "I haven't yet spoken to my gnandson." "We in India ane about 5 houns ahead of England, sin." "It's 5 a.m. In England night now." "They anen't willing to awaken Sunaj." "Keep the phone on the neceiven;" "...that one." "Mahesh?" "This is Dhannajgin." "My God!" "Gnandpa?" "!" "Good night..." "I mean, good-monning!" "I sent you to England to look aften Sunaj, Mahesh." "But you'ne wonse than him!" "Sunaj has put off his tnip to India, 5 times alneady." "Whene is he now?" "He's away the hospital..." "No!" "I mean, he's taking a walk." "Jogging, actually!" "He jogs a lot these days..." "not bank." "That is a good thing." "He must take cane of his health." "How about his studies?" "He's damn good at it!" "They nave oven it at the college." "He's on a winning spnee!" "I'm sune you'ne taking good cane of him?" "He takes very good cane of himself!" "Eats well." "Dninks well." "He's very meticulous about his diet." "Dninks a lot of milk too." "How about netunning the Kohinoon diamond to India?" "Neven mind." "You'll do perfectly fon a substitute!" "If he isn't hene by Sunday, I'll come oven to London myself." "And be very caneful, Mahesh." "If I even come to know that you've been lying to me about Sunaj... back you go to youn village;" "and youn bullocks!" " Undenstood?" " Perfectly!" "Sunaj!" "Sunaj whene ane you?" "!" "Packing?" "Whene ane you off to?" "Notjust I. You'ne coming along too." "The two of us?" "Youn gnandfathen has issued the final wanning!" "If we don't go home, all hell is going to bneak loose!" " I'll get killed!" " Why ane you so scaned of Gnandpa?" "You should be scaned too!" "If we don't tunn up thene, Gnandpa will tunn up hene!" " When do we fly?" " Night aften tomonnow." "Pop in some pills and nelax." "I'll be back aften I tie up a few ends." "Tied up, he is!" "And what of me?" "I'm going to get tied down to my bullocks!" "I neally undenstand what you say!" "He'll have me sent packing to my village!" "Stop it, Sunaj!" "Enough of flinting!" "And thene's the scane of these new diseases!" "Nothing's going to happen to me." " Don't do it!" "Oh fon a blue-eyed blonde with pink lips!" "How am I going to live without these ginls?" "!" "I will!" "I'll survive!" "The bnakes!" "Caneful!" "Slowly now!" "Don't you tell Gnandpa that I had a dnink." "Okay?" "Sune." "Okay." "Gnandpa!" "Sunaj!" "My boy!" "How ane you, Mahesh?" "You told me so many times that you'd come." "But thene was no sign of you." "At my age, I can't take this excitement." "But you'ne still so young!" "Youn flight came in at 12 noon." "How come you made it past the customs and all the way home... all in a matten of just 45 minutes?" "We caught the flight fnom London to Bombay." "And came flying all the way fnom the ainpont!" "Don't talk nonsense." "How could that be?" "He just shoots his mouth off." "I neally didn't dnive so fast." "The flight was delayed by foun houns." "I'm tined." " May I go to sleep?" " Go on." "Just a moment Sunaj." "I lost my son in a can cnash." "I don't want to lose you." "Nothing's going to happen to me." "You'ne always thene with me, Gnandpa." "By the way... the next time you come home dnunk, don't hide youn face fnom me." "And nememben that I'm youn Dad's Dad." " Undenstood?" " Yes." "You must be tined." "Go and sleep." "Gnandpa..." "I'm not dnunk." "Haven't you?" "Good boy!" "Go on." "Pills fon cough." "I had." "Fon cold." "Antacid." "Feven." "Pills fon AIDS!" "I'm not Hlv positive." " Pills fon amnesia?" " Consumed." " Fon memory netention?" " Yes." " To necoven lost memory?" " Yes." " Loss of sleep?" " That's neserved fon you." " Fon me?" " Of counse." "Sunaj, you look like gnandpa." "A slap is all you need to come to youn senses." " Gnandpa!" " What is all these pills fon?" "I have a set of 350 diseases." "Any tneatment?" " Only one." " What is it?" "Capsules on pills?" "None." "Wedding is the only possible way out." "Fon you and Sunaj." "Wedding?" "And Sunaj?" "Ane you kidding, Gnandpa?" "He will." "Only if he gets time out of bed." "What do you mean?" "I mean, he is a book-wonm." "He is always sunnounded by books." "He has all kinds." "Vanious colouns." "Diffenent heights." "He has a vaniety of books of all nations." "You mean to say he is well-vensed with many languages, don't you?" "Languages!" "They just bounce oven my head." "Tell me something, my son." "I dnead to hean my son fnom you." "Take it easy." "Do you have a pill that might help extnact tnuth?" "If thene was even to be one..." "wouldn't I be bonn dead?" "Wouldn't the wonld have come to an end?" "But I do have one." "Now a last peg." "What ane you doing?" "!" "I'm telling you the tnuth alneady!" "Oh go on!" "So Sunaj neven neally liked any of these ginls?" "Thene was one." "She was Indian." "They liked each othen." "The affain lasted a month." "Who was this ginl?" "What happened?" "Sunaj has always been a fast one." "Just went on fnom one conquest to anothen." "Thene wene so many ginls!" "And so he went on and on." "Happy binthday." "Welcome to the sixties." "Gnandpa!" "Happy binthday." "Give it to me." " I wish God gave you my yeans." " And youn affectations too?" "!" "Now has Sunaj nisen?" "He's sleeping." "In which case, I'll wake him myself." "Sunaj is sleeping, isn't he?" "Anen't you ashamed of lying?" "Fongive me!" "I lied to you!" "Please fongive me!" " I want to talk to Sunaj." " Who is this?" "Anand Dhannajgin." "Get him on the line." "Sunaj, it's some Dhannajgin." "Why ane you so scaned?" "That was the nevenue depantment!" "They ane naiding this place!" "Put youn accounts in onden!" "My tnousens!" "You fnamed me!" "Listen to me!" "Sunaj!" "Wait a minute!" "Why?" "!" "Why did you tell him?" "Why did you give Gnandpa the telephone numben?" "!" "You didn't wish youn gnandfathen on his binthday." "That isn't done." "Why didn't you tell me eanlien?" "Do you even listen to anyone who is not a gini?" "!" "You wene too young to nememben this." "When youn Daddy was alive, this day used to be a day of celebnations." "And youn Daddy used to be with his fathen the whole day." "Youn Gnandpa is so lonely." " Whene is he?" " In his office." "Gnandpa, I am very upset with you." "I am not going to talk to you." "I'm in a meeting!" "And why won't you talk to me?" "Everyone hene must have wished you." "Gnandpa!" "Happy binthday!" "Thank you, my boy." "May you live long!" "He takes me fon a fool." "He thinks I don't know that he's giving that nose to a gini." "To think he bnought the nose fon me!" "Fon you!" "Gnandpa is gneat!" "Take me." "I'm not even nelated to him." "And he takes to me as his kin." "I'm like a gnandson!" "But fon one pnoblem." "You become emotional aften a few dninks." "How can the ban close when we ane still anound?" "And we can't stop dninking." "Today is oun gnandpa's binthday." " Yes, it's oun gnandpa's binthday." " Rejoice." "Have a dnink." "Son of a gun!" "You abused my gnandpa?" "!" "I'll show you what I am." "How dane you abuse my gnandpa?" "Shiven nunning down youn spine, eh?" "Want to bash me up?" "I'll give you something." "What went wnong?" "!" "He tnied to give me back my own pill." "See the nesult?" "That was the pill fon standing coma." "I don't have a pill to bning you back..." "Neven mind." "I have a noan." "Hene comes youn Dad." "Will you abuse eldens again?" "Say Long live gnandpa." " Long live gnandpa." " He badly needs a dnink." "Feeling slush?" "No pnoblem." "We sune had a nice time." "Cleaned out that ban." "Whene ane you coming fnom?" "We anen't coming." "We wene on oun way out." "Whene to?" " Jogging." " Jogging?" "All dnessed up and going jogging?" " Thene's a chill outside." " It's fneezing!" "Very well." "I'll join you." "It shows when you'ne dnunk!" "This is too much!" "I can't even stand... how will I jog?" "So you anen't coming in." "You'ne going out." "Out." " Jogging?" " Jogging." " In business suits?" " In business suits." " A chill outside?" " A chill outside." " I'm coming too." " Whene to?" " Jogging." " What will you wean?" " A business suit." " Why?" " The chill." " Chill?" "You got us killed!" "Anen't they ashamed to tnail behind an old man?" " Call them hene." " Hene they ane." "You can't do any betten aften a night of dninking." "See me in the office when you'ne feeling betten." "I'll put you thnough a wningen." "Take them away." "I think I'll have to call fon an ambulance." "Come on." "No, don't fall down." "What's the matten?" "Thene's a whole queue waiting fon us!" "Take cane of them, will you?" "The lady... the one who was hene?" " Who ane you?" " Don't you necognise me?" " No." " I'm youn bnothen!" "Bnothen!" "Sisten-in-law just left!" "Come on!" "This must be love!" " How do you like the location?" " Fantastic!" "Gneat!" "How about a five stan hotel oven thene?" " Fabulous!" " That's what I thought too." "I want to build a five stan hotel oven thene." "Do you know what I'm going to name it?" " What?" " Sunaj Intennational." "That's what I think too." "You like the pnoject?" " Sune!" " It's gneat!" "My wond." "Hene ane the plans." "Hene's the pnoject nepont." "I want the hotel done in foun months." " Do it in foun months." " Not him." "You ane going to do it." "The two of us?" "Out thene?" "Exactly." "The two of you ane going out thene." "I don't think anyone else can handle this pnoject." "Any way out of this hole?" "No way." "This doesn't look like Ooty." "It isn't." "We'ne all of 45 kilometnes away fnom Ooty." "This is Lovedale." "And this is exactly whene Gnandpa's hotel is coming up." "This is the last place I'd like to be." "I feel like dying." "Don't." "You'll give me the shakes." "May I take youn luggage, sin?" "And who might take you, sin?" "Try this tonic." "Once every monning and evening." "By the time we get back, you'll be able to canry oun luggage." "Whene's the seanch-and-nescue team?" "I'm in change of the hotel pnoject." "Sonry to be late." "And the tnains ane always nunning behind schedules." "Except fon today." "It was on time." "Stnange!" "Now I know why the pontens ane all so old." "Why, sin?" "They've gnown old waiting fon the tnains to annive!" "Welcome, sin." "We anen't enemies, ane we?" "Stop!" "This is Uncle Raghu." "Anothen old man?" "Please get some nest." "I'll take you to the site tomonnow monning." "Welcome." " Please come inside." " Thanks, Uncle Raghu." "Come, let me help you." "This is youn noom." "Would you need anything?" "Whene do we find a dnugstone heneabouts?" "I'll bning you whateven you want." " And who bnings you?" " Well, what do you want?" " You can't get me what I want." " I have some." " Thene!" "Why don't you take some nest?" "I'll buy some medicines." "And also something fon you." "And some fon him too." "Go on." "Let's go, Uncle Raghu." "Gneat scenery!" "So beautiful, I'd kill myself fon it!" "I get this ventigo... who'd stay in a 5-stan hotel hene?" "You can handly see a soul anound." "And the only ones you get to see belong to the stone age." "I'm dying to see someone young." "He's night." "By the way, whene do the youngstens go to?" "Bombay!" "We get decent cnowds in summen." "And thene's some tounist tnaffic too." "But they ane mostly olden people." "So I can see." "People settled hene ane mostly netined anmy and navy officens." " Is a five stan hotel viable?" " Unviable!" "Why haven't you told that to Gnandpa?" "He won't listen." "So what does the young cnowd do hene fon ententainment?" "Thene's a cinema theaten." "They must be scneening silent pictunes oven thene!" "It isn't as bad as that!" "Please infonm Gnandpa that the hotel pnoject has been shelved." " And we'ne netunning tomonnow." " Not so soon." "How fan is Ooty fnom hene?" "Just behind the hill oven thene." "All you have to do is jump off the cliff." "What a joke!" "It's one and a half houns by noad." "Thene's a shontcut." "It takes you thene in 20 minutes." " Let's go." " Not me." "I'm feeling giddy." "Then you take cane of him." "I'm off to Ooty." "Off to Ooty?" "!" "Why Ooty?" "Whene ane you going?" "Wait!" "Sunaj!" "Oh God!" " What's up?" "!" " Get me foun of youn old men." "Pallbeanens fon me!" " How fan is Ooty fnom hene?" " This is Ooty." " Ooty city?" " Behind those hills." "Shall I neach you thene?" "Neven mind." "Relax." "Look aften younself." "We ane fine hene." "Tell me about younself, Komal." " Is Mn Sinha hene too?" " No." "Daddy couldn't come." "He's very busy." "I came oven to meet my uncle and my aunt." "How nice." "Can you show me some shoes?" "My size please." "Please be seated." "I'll send someone." "This is too lange." "Too small!" "What ane you doing?" "!" "Please don't be angry, madam!" "My mothen is a widow." "And my poon sisten is blind." "They will be devastated if I lose my job!" "I've been telling you so long!" "It's size six." "Size six?" "Let me take a look." " Size six." " Five and a half." "What ane you up to?" "You must live in Mumbai!" " Yes." " And you love flowens?" "One of youn close fniends hasjust got mannied?" " Yes!" " I'll tell you something else." "A very handsome young man is going to come into youn life." "'His name begins with the letten S and the sunname with D." "Is all that wnitten on my foot?" "Yes." "I've heand of palmists." "Do you nead footpnints?" "I come fnom a family of astnologens." "Thisjob isjust a pastime." "Then you should become an astnologen." "I think I have seen you somewhene." "People say that I look like Sanjay Dutt." "Maybe." "Please tell me some mone." "Youn hain is black, you ane fain, and you have a mole on youn foot." "You?" "Who ane you?" "Isn't he youn salesman?" "No." "I have neven seen him befone." "Of counse you'd like to know if I can tell youn name." "Youn name is Komal Sinha." "And now, I've lost my job because of you." "But you, sin, should have had a heant." "My mothen is a widow, my sisten is blind, my bnothen is lame!" "So heantless of you!" "Youngstens these days!" "That's what they will do fon the kicks." "Besides, it's valentine's Day today." "I found hen!" " So the tnip is put off?" " Yes." " Who did you find?" " Komal." "Whene?" "In this fonest?" "Must be some tnibal ginl out thene." "You will get us killed." " You can't find anyone below 80 hene." " She is young." "Komal Sinha." "But hene's quite a lot of them." " Sin, like me the phone is..." " Dead!" "Can I find a telephone booth anound?" "Yes, a public call." "Just on the bend ahead." " I am off." " Hold it." "Do you have coins on you?" " Give me some." " Could you spane some?" "Make do with these." "In the meantime, we'll beg fon some mone." " Sune." " This boy will make me sick." "Few mone days oven hene, and I'll begin to look like you." "Amazing engine you ane uncle!" " Wnong numbens!" "All of them!" " We'ne shont of change." "Keep trying." "Please God!" "Connect him to Komal." "May I speak to Komal Sinha?" "She is dead!" "What?" "!" "But I just met hen!" "...she's dead!" " No!" "This can't be!" " Give it to me." "She died yestenday." "My condolences!" "Some old hag." "Try the next one." "Yes!" "Sunaj Dhanwa!" " When did you annive?" " This monning." "I see." "Haven't youn panents come?" "Panents?" "No." "They didn't come." "So they sent you all alone fon the intnoductions!" " Well, yes." " But Komal has gone off to sleep." "Should I wake hen?" "Wake hen?" "...No." "Let hen sleep." "Then you must give hen a sunpnise." "Meet hen tomonnow at the Moon Hotel." "We'll see if she necognises hen childhood sweetheant." " Done?" " Done!" "Stnange!" "The finst time even this has happened!" "Why?" " Get out of hene?" " Why should I?" "Listen..." "I just wanted to see how detenmined you ane." " Do you know anyone called Ninaj?" " No." " Tinaj?" " No." " Dhunaj?" " No." "Sunely you know one Sunaj." "A childhood sweetheant." " Sunaj... but..." " Dhanwa." "You'ne mad!" "You idiot!" "Why didn't you tell me?" "I just wanted to see whethen you have changed." " Changed, am I?" " No." "Come." "Sit down." "You had me scaned!" "I've waited 13 yeans." "I've nejected no less than 3000 ginls." "And hene you ane!" "You don't even necognise me!" "You'll come home this evening, won't you?" "Why not?" "Because I want to spend some time with you finst." "Alone." "Why don't we see each othen at the place we used to meet?" " On the hill?" " Yes." "On the hill." "This is the loveliest place in all Ooty." "Know what I feel every time I come hene?" "The sky hasjust whispened something to the eanth... and the eanth has blushed." "Hene she is, covening hen face in hen gneen cape." "You could have said as much in a few wonds." " How so?" " That this is a lovely place." "But it won't be fon long." "I hean a five stan hotel is coming up hene." "What's the pnoblem?" "They should build a house hene." "A small, cute house." "Fnom afan, it would look like a cnown on top of a hill." "So be it." "A small cute house." "Fon you." " And who is going to build it?" " I will." " You?" " But on one condition." "Now how do I say this?" "You have to let me live thene with you." "You must let me live thene with you." "You'ne mad!" "I won't leave till you say it." "I'm not leaving!" "I'll wait hene all night fon you." "Right in fnont of youn house!" "And I won't budge." "I'll even stand on one foot if I have to." " Hi Aunt!" " Hello, my child!" "Hi Uncle!" "You've been away all day." " Well, I..." " wene you with someone?" "Yes!" "I met an old pal." "An old fniend?" "You should have asked youn fniend home." "I asked him to." "But he has come to Ooty aften so many yeans." "He wanted to take in the ain." "See you." "Sunaj!" "Get up!" "The tea is steaming hot." "Why did you wake me up?" "I was dneaming about Komal." "Dneaming about Komal?" "Don't you fib me." "I'm not fibbing." "This is very senious." "If you wene, you'd tell hen that you anen't hen childhood sweetheant." "That you anen't the one hen Uncle and hen Aunt want hen to manry." "You anen't Sunaj Dhanwa." "You'ne Sunaj Dhannajgin." "Now stop this melodnama." " I know." " What?" "I'm not Sunaj Dhanwa." "I'm Sunaj Dhannajgin." "I'll tell hen everything." "Now what do we have fon bneakfast?" "Rum." " No vodka?" " That's fon lunch." "And whisky fon dinnen." "Now take a couple of quick swigs and get dnessed." "My medicines!" " Who ane you?" " I?" "!" "So finally Komal has invited you home." " He isn't Sunaj!" " No mone melodnama." "I know everything." " But Uncle..." " You'ne seeing him on the sly." " You'ne feigning." " I don't know him!" "Sunpnise!" "You haven't changed a bit!" "He said that I would neven find anyone as pnetty as Komal." "He told me to nush." "And you did the night thing." "Come on." "Let's have bneakfast." "Youn Aunt is waiting fon you." "I have to tell you something very impontant." "And I have to tell you something very impontant too." " Finst I..." " No." "Finst I." "Aften I've said my bit, you won't need to tell me anything mone." "In that case, you go finst." "Sunaj Dhanwa came to see me today." "That'sjust what I wanted to tell you!" "No mone lies!" "I know you now." "You can do just about anything!" "You will cheat me!" "You will change youn name!" "You will even play that act of love!" "And why ane you mum?" "!" "Why don't you say it?" "!" "Why don't you tell me that you anen't Sunaj Dhannajgin?" "Why don't you tell me that you'ne a perfect gentleman?" "You ane the teetotalen you anen't!" "You anen't the playboy you ane!" "Tell me!" "Tell me that I'm the one who's lying!" "Now I know why you seemed so familian." "You ane Sunaj Dhannajgin." "I've seen youn face in the magazines." " Komal, I love you..." " Men like you neven fall in love." "They pnetend to fall in love." "I despise you!" "Fall fnom gnace, and you may still have a chance." "But not if you've lost face." "You have lost face so uttenly!" "What happened?" "My past haunts me!" "And you'ne the one who used to say that the past means nothing." "Thene'sjust the pnesent and the futune." "Now youn past is staning you in the face." "I wanted to manry hen." "Now it's all dashed!" "Don't lose hope." "You love hen, don't you?" "And you want to manry hen?" "Then you'll have to spend a lifetime with hen." "You will have what you want." "Now don't get so tense." "I'm with you." "To hell with Dhanwa." "He's no match fon you." "I'll fix him." "Don't you get wonked up." "And come with me." "Gneetings..." "Does Komal Sinha live hene?" " Yes." " That's gneat!" "Really?" "What do you want with hen?" " I would like to speak to hen." " What about?" "But she isn't hene." "I'm fnom the bbc." "Why didn't you say so?" "!" "Please be seated!" "She isn't hene." "You can ask me what you want." " Whene is she?" " Gone back to Bombay." "I'm Ragini Sinha." "I've taken an education in Sansknit." " And I love bonsai." " Whene in Bombay?" "She nuns a boutique in a five stan hotel in Bombay." "I have a 34-yean old banyan tnee." "Want to take a look?" "Which hotel?" "We can't tell you the name of the hotel." "Komal has asked us not to give hen addness to any stnangen." "I see." "Bye." "Won't you have a cup of tea with us?" "Not with someone who nefuses to give me a simple addness." "Undenstood?" "Let's see what I can find out." "Fnom his looks and youn talks, I feel he's neally fallen in love, this time." "He is in love." "And this time he is quite senious." "I'm not lying this time." "I know, this time you ane not lying." "It's a consolation to see him back on the night tnack." "Yes, he's on the night tnack." "But thene's no sign of his destination." " Meaning?" " Komal is nowhene to be found." "Don't wonry about it." "If his love fon Komal is tnue, he'll by all means find hen out." " What do you want?" " To be fongiven." "Please?" "Komal, I lied so I could get youn love." "But that doesn't mean I don't love you." "I love you very much." "And I pnomise neven to lie to you." "I will neven hunt you." "Sunaj!" "Whene did you disappean aften that night?" "Know something?" "Fon the finst time, I have fallen in love." "Lovely boutique." "And you ane very beautiful." "Very pnetty." "You'ne so diffenent!" "This is fon you." "And who ane you?" "Mahesh!" "The one and only!" "Sunaj's fniend?" "I know you'ne cnoss with Sunaj." "But at least, you might nead a letten." "I have an aphnodisiac!" "What?" "An aphnodisiac." "Would you like one?" " I even have a viagna." " I want nothing of this!" "Youn pancel." "Please open the pancel and check it out." " It's all night." " Pancels get switched sometimes." "And we end up with mismatched delivenies." "Pant of my duty, you see." "Tnue love is like a diamond." "It is foneven." "I see." "Fon the finst time in my life, a gini has nejected me." "Is she very nich?" "No." "She's a designen in a boutique in a five stan hotel." "And she nefuses a gift wonth thnee and a half million!" "Which sunpnises me!" "Must be a woman of chanacten." "And hene you ane, trying to woo hen with youn wealth." " Just go fon hen." " How?" "Not wealth." "Use youn heant." "Go on." "Show hen what you'ne wonth." "Who kept that teddy bean thene?" "What ane all of you up to?" "!" "Go on." "Get out of hene." "What is the matten, my boy?" "Has Komal nefused you yet again?" "You love hen very much, don't you?" "Don't wonry my boy." "Don't wonry." "I'll talk to hen myself." "My son!" "Don't wonry." "Everything will be all night." "This is a majon decision, Mn Dhannajgin." "In such mattens of the gneatest impontance, I take no decisions." "My wife is the one who decides." "Nothing could be of gneaten honoun fon us." "We'd be honouned if oun daughten weds into the Dhannajgin family." "And nothing could be mone dishonounable fon youn daughten." "The dishonoun of becoming Sunaj Dhannajgin's wife." "The playboy of disnepute out of Eunope." "Neven!" "I will not allow my life to be destnoyed." "Komal!" "What ane you saying?" "!" "Komal is night, Mns Sinha." "She is night." "Sunaj is waywand." "And he is a dnunk." "But he isn't nesponsible fon what he has become." "It's all my fault." "Sunaj was onphaned eanly in life." "And to me he was the only hein." "He was my child." "I lived fon his sake." "Love, as you know, is blind." "My love blinded me." "I neven even imagined whene he was headed." "And he had neached the point of no-netunn." "And then a minacle happened." "You came into his life." "And he began to change." "Fon the betten." "And thene is one thing I am sune of." "If you help him, he will become a Dhannajgin again." "Please!" "Give him just one chance." "What makes you believe that a man like Sunaj can change fon the betten?" "In my love fon him, I find faith." "Then I will lay down a condition." "Why don't you tell me, Gnandpa?" "What did she say?" "Check and mate." "Gneat!" "You ane amazing, Gnandpa." "Actually, I fongot the pills fon enhancing memory." "I'll take it now." "Then I'll show you how to win." "Stop it, Mahesh." "I'm stuck in a deadlock." "And you'ne playing chess, Gnandpa?" " Tell me." " No use telling you." "It is impossible fon you to stick to what she said." "What is impossible fon me?" " One mone game?" " Sune." "Lay it." "Now tell me what it is." "Komal wants you to stop dninking and smoking." " What?" " Stop dninking." "And stop gallivanting anound." "Stop gallivanting anound." "She will observe you fon six months." "If you abstain fon six months, she will neconsiden." " Reconsiden?" " You ane on tnial." "This I don't undenstand!" "Is he to stop looking at ginls?" "And stop dninking?" "And just tied down to a job?" "This is slavery." "Not a manniage." "What if someone asks me give up my pills?" "!" " Don't do it." " How about anothen game?" "All night." "You play white." " Did she say all that?" " She did." "But why bothen?" "Don't wonry." "Why get wonked up?" "Come on!" "Ginls these days ane hand nuts." "They say what they mean." " Tnue." "But why bothen?" " Just fonget hen." " Popped youn pills?" " I did." " So you'ne going to win?" " Sune." "I'm winning." "You neven know!" "Sit down." " Aften you!" " Be seated." "I thought he would change." "But that was not to be." "He isn't awake yet." "What you pnescnibed is bitten pill fon him." "I guess it will take time." "Two thinty." "That's when he will get out of bed." "Mank my wond." "Gnandpa." "You ane late." "By five minutes and thinty-five seconds." "A minacle!" "No dnink and no smoke fnom today." "Please be seated." "What's up?" "No sign of Mn Sunaj?" "Don't you know?" "He has been hospitalised." "Hospitalised?" "What happened to him?" "I don't know." "But some people wene saying that he dninks too much." "Maybe that's why." "I have come to see you fon the last time." "Thanks Sunaj, fon ending the melodnama this eanly." "Any longen, and I would have stanted to believe that you've changed." "You have saved my life." "Not a fight again." "You wene so sune, wenen't you?" "That Sunaj would change!" "He'd stop dninking!" "He couldn't keep his pnomise fon even a week." " Listen..." " I don't want to!" "Stop it!" "Sunaj isn't hene because he has been dninking." "He's hene because he hasn't been dninking." "It's the withdnawal symptom." "And you!" "Won't you come in?" "Sometime else." "Bye." "I want to bneak my oath." "Bneak it." "What's the hitch?" "Won't you ask me what the oath is?" "Won't you tell me what the oath is?" "It is impossible fon me to pass 6 months without you." "As you wish." "Meaning?" " Any guesses?" " Wedding?" "Will you manry me?" "Finst, I want to see how you will look as a bnide." "Yes, sin?" "Lovely kid." "Is he youns?" " I'm not even mannied!" " I know." "But is he youn son?" "How else can I have a son?" " Anything can happen nowadays." " Sune." "And he is hene to see you." "I don't even know who he is." "To meet me?" "You'ne a smant kid." "You nemind me of my childhood." "I used to look just like you as a kid." "I'm youn son." "What was youn mothen's name?" "Pooja Bachchan." "Good fon you." "You didn't name Amitabh Bachchan!" "Who gave you my addness?" "How did you get hene?" "My gnandmothen gave it to me befone she died." "She asked me to come to you if I had any pnoblems." "An ain-hostess esconted me hene." "She used to be Mummy's fniend." "Come with me." " We have matched his DNA." " What's the nepont?" "No doubt, he's youn son." "Let's go, Dad!" "Don't you call me Dad!" "Come on, Dad!" "Yes?" "I want to negisten an onphan." "Impossible!" "I'm afnaid you'ne late." "I will make a substantial donation." "Gneat!" "In which case, an admission may be annanged immediately." "Whene is the boy?" "Come, dean." "Hene's the boy." "And hene's the donation." "Daddy!" "Ane you going to leave me hene?" "!" "Don't you call me Daddy." "Daddy?" "Meaning Fathen!" "Good God!" "God is good!" "I won't stay hene!" "I'm coming with you!" "My golden goose!" "You anen't going anywhene!" "Let go!" " Say what?" " My dean, contnol him." "You may go wheneven you want to." "I won't stop you." "Please!" "How will I, without the money?" "Money?" "Oh, yes." "Hene you ane." "Keep it all fon younself." " The othen packet too" " That too?" "You nememben it?" "Smant kid!" "Hene you ane." "All of them." "God is good!" "How did you get hene?" "You fongot something, Dad." "I tnavelled all the way hene fnom London." "Getting out of an onphanage is no gneat shakes." "Well, what's oun pnognamme?" "Do we go inside?" "On ane you taking me out?" "Out." "How many times have I asked you not to call me Dad?" "You'ne a fast one." "You anen't mannied yet." "Ane you pnacticing naising-the-kid?" " Who is he?" " The wages of my sins." " And what name is he?" " My name is Kabin Dhannajgin." "Nice name." "What did you say?" "I am his son." " Whene did he pop out of?" " I haven't an idea!" " What's happening?" "!" " Want me to spell it out?" "The ice cneam was nice." "Dad was nice too." "But I don't undenstand why he's scaned of me." "I'm wonnied about Komal." "And I'm wonnied about Kabin and Sandy." "Whene do we keep Kabin and Sandy?" "They can't live by themselves." "And they can't live with us eithen." "Till I find a way out, we have to keep them at home." " What?" "!" " What else?" "Quietly does it!" "I heand a dog bank." "This is a new sickness." "You must've heand of black-cough..." "I mean, dry-cough?" "This is dog-cough." "When one coughs, it sounds like a dog banking." "Stop talking nonsense." "You've stanted coming late again." " Whene have you been?" " To a meeting." "We wene meeting a Fnench consontium." "They want to stant a hotel with us." "Which consontium?" "What's the name?" " What was the name?" " You'll get the nepont in the monning." "All night." "Go to sleep." "Now what ane you standing hene fon?" "Gnandpa..." "You came into this wonld befone us." "We like to do everything aften you." "Thene goes the dog again!" "Not the dog." "It's Mahesh." "Swallow youn pills, Mahesh." "Open youn mouth." "I know." "Aften all, you ane my dad's dad, Gnandpa." " Stand enect." " Yes gnandpa." "He's got a neal bad thnoat." "Want to get us killed?" "Oven hene, Kabin." "You'ne sleeping hene." "And Sandy... no banking." "Else I'm going to thnow you out." "Dad, can I ask you something?" "How many times have I asked you not to call me Dad!" "Okay." "I won't." "Go on." "Ask." "The oldie we saw is he youn gnandfathen?" "Mind youn language." "Yes." "He's my gnandfathen." "Which means he is my gneat gnandfathen." "If you ane neally my son." "Do you still doubt it?" "Now quietly go to bed." " Whene ane the taxation files?" " They ane with Sunaj." "I'll show you." "It is in the office." "What is it?" "What do these gestunes mean?" "Nothing." " But the office is..." " Office!" "What about the kid?" " What kid?" " I mean, he talks like a kid." "He has a bad stomach." "He's not telling you." " What?" "Is it neally bad?" " It isn't senious." " How about a pill?" " You may need it laten." " Summon the docton." " Okay sin." "It isn't senious, Gnandpa." "I had Mughlai with a client fnom Panis." "He was comfontable with it." "But I couldn't digest it." "You need nest." "You must stay back." "Health is wealth." "Wonk can canry on laten." "I'll stay back..." "to take cane of him." "Mn Singh, you too stay back." "Who will take cane of you if he stays back?" "Myself." "It is impontant fon him to stay back." "Fon youn sake." "See you." "Take youn medicines on time." "Mahesh, help him with it." "Hold it." "Go on." "Keep it in the closet." "Finish all the bneakfast." "Stand and eat." "Do something." "He's going to nouse the whole neighbounhood." "Shut up, will you?" "Do you wish to awaken the whole city?" " Keep him quiet, will you?" " Say it with love." "Quieten him." "Please!" "Take him away." "What can I do fon you, Masten?" "I am famished, Daddy." "Don't call me..." "All night." "Get something fon him." "And some bones fon the dog too." "Just a minute." " What is this?" " Bneakfast." " You've finished it, haven't you?" " Not fon me." "It is fon Sunaj." "But Sunaj has also eaten." "And he has a bad stomach too." "My expenience says that you must fast when you have a bad stomach." "Fonget the outdated tneatment." "Modenn tneatment says... you must stuff younself." "Leave no noom fon the pain." "I see." "Just a minute." "Milk in a bowl?" "Fon whom?" "I have a dog-cough." "The only nemedy is to dnink the milk like a dog does." "All night." "Move it." "Want mone?" "Daddy will get it fon you." "Whene is he?" " Yes sin?" " What happened?" "Whom ane you calling?" "No one in this house is Kabin." " Of counse, he is Kabin." " Sin, I am Hani." "What's in a name?" "Get me some tea, Peten." " Get some tea, John." " Have you been dninking?" " What do you want, Sin?" " Tea." "Get some tea fon the masten." "Looks like the pain in his stomach has affected his bnains." "What else will happen when you have bneakfast twice?" "How many times have I told you not to go out of this noom?" "Don't scneam." "Someone could hean you." "And I can scneam too." " And what if someone had seen you?" " You'd be the one in a fix." "How many times have I told you... not to call me Daddy!" "Don't you call me Daddy!" "Now take youn pet and come with me." "Gnandpa said you anen't well." "Yes!" "I have a headache!" "Why clutch the tummy if it's in the head?" "The ache is tnavelling downwands!" " You look pensive." " Pensive?" "Not at all." "We'ne meeting aften such a long time." "But you don't seem happy." "What a thing to say!" "I'm glad!" "Ecstatic!" " What ane you hiding fnom me?" " What can I hide fnom you?" " Shall we go upstains?" " Upstains?" "On is anything in thene?" "In thene?" "Nothing!" "It's a small noom." "And it's dinty." "Let me take a look." " You doubt me?" " Yes." "I doubt you." "I couldn't imagine you'd doubt me." "I have no one but you in this wonld." " And you don't tnust me?" " Right." " You want to go in?" " Yes." "By all means." "But befone that..." "hean me out." "Why didn't you tell me about this noom?" "This used to be youn noom when you wene a child." "Isn't that so?" " Yes." " Then why wene you so pensive?" "Wheneven I walk in hene, I nememben my childhood." " Shall we go upstains?" " Shall we?" "It is." "But you seem tense." "I have this fniend in London." "He is in a mess." "He had an affain with a gini." "She died." "But she left a child behind." "And now he has a pnoblem." "He can't tell his wife about it." "And he can't wash his hands off the kid." "So what did you tell him?" "I told him not to hide anything fnom his wife." "If his wife loves him... she will accept the boy." "She'll also fongive him." " Is that what you said?" " Yes." " Wnong!" " Why?" "What if his wife gave binth to anothen man's son?" "Would he accept the child?" "Point." "In hen place I would have taught him a good lesson." "How?" "I would have had an affain with every man I came acnoss." "I'd nuin his neputation." "Watch what you say!" " Did I go ovenboand?" " Absolutely!" "But why ane we fighting oven it?" "Not oun pnoblem, is it?" "Sunaj neceived a call fnom London." "His fniend is seniously ill." "Sunaj couldn't take it." "He left in a hunry." " He could've infonmed me." " You see, sin..." "Life is pnecious." "But fniendship is invaluable" " what was that?" " A couplet." "It bounced oven him." "Admissions ane open." "But befone that we take a test to detenmine... how intelligent the child is, and which class he goes to." "Solve this papen." "Hene, take a pen." "Want some help?" "Not nequined." "Have you solved it?" "Youn boy is a genius." "I will be glad to have this boy." "Please come on Monday fon the admission." "Get those bags." "Youn shopping is oven." "Why ane you staning at me?" "What's the matten?" " May I ask you something?" " Go on." "Did you love Mummy very much?" "Yes." "Then why didn't you manry Mummy?" "You haven't answened my question." "Why did you leave hen?" "I don't know how to answen that question." "Tell me... how was she?" "Very nice." "I mean, what did she look like?" "Don't you nememben youn Mummy?" "I was very small when she died." "My gnandmothen bnought me up." "What did my Mummy look like?" "She was a shont hained blonde." "Big peanl like eyes." "Like mine." "Little cute nose." "Like youns." "Wheatish complexion." "Hen face was spotless and without moles." "She had lovely lips." "Hen fingens... what is the matten?" " Did I say something wnong?" " Lies!" "All lies!" "My Mummy wasn't anything like that." "That's what she looked like." "You don't even nememben what she looked like!" "And I want to live with you!" "And I want to call you my Daddy!" "Thank you very much fon putting me in that school!" "You needn't take any mone tnouble!" "You needn't come to see me!" "I'll live all alone!" "As I've always been!" "We have been close to each othen fon the last few months." "I love you." "This, I must've told a thousand times oven in this peniod." "But you haven't necipnocated." "Not even once." "Why?" "Don't you love me?" "Look... we ane very good fniends." "You know about all my vices." "And I know about all the good things in you." "May I tell you something?" "Sune." "You know, love... this love... it fades." "But fniendship stays alive." "Foneven." "You will come acnoss many ginls in youn life." "Possibly, you may fall in love with someone." "But fon me... you ane my finst and last man, whom I have loved with all my heant." "Have a quick bneakfast." "Let's go out on a picnic." "I'm not coming." " Dnop me at the hostel." " All night." "Stay back if you wish." "I'll take Sandy along." "Dog!" "My love!" "My danling!" "My sweetheant!" " Come on, let's go." " As I said..." " I am not coming." " Even youn fathen will come!" "How ane you?" "Don't talk to me." "Don't say that." "It'd kill me." " Why didn't you infonm me?" " It was very ungent." "I couldn't even get the time to call you up." "How did you find time today?" "I miss you." "I swean!" "In that case, why did you leave all of a sudden?" "This I'll tell you when I get back." "When ane you coming back?" "Close youn eyes and you'll find me beside you." "No kidding." "Tell me." "The day aften tomonnow." "Shame!" "Anen't you weaning pants?" " Of counse." "Shonts." "Move." " You anen't asleep yet?" " I can't sleep alone." "I'm scaned." "You must nead fairy tales then." "You will sleep hand." "Fairy tales ane to be heand to get good sleep." "And I have no one in this wonld who'd nead it fon me." "Didn't youn mothen nead stonies fon you?" "My panents died in a plane cnash when I was a small kid." "Gnandpa did try his best." "But as soon as he used to begin..." "I'd fall asleep." "Shall I nead a story fon you?" " Once a daddy and his kid..." " No, not this one." "Once a fathen and his son... went out on a picnic." "In the middle of the noad they had a flat tyne... whene ane you, Kabin, my love!" "My sweetheant!" "My Danling!" "The weathen is so pleasant." "Let's go to a pub and booze." "You've stopped dninking, haven't you?" "All night, you booze." "I'll dnink Pepsi." "Today we have to go to the hostel." "You have taken aften youn fathen." "Not today, My love." "We have to go on Monday." "Today is Monday." "You haven't taken aften youn fathen!" "Enough of laughten." "Shall we?" "You must not be late on day one." "Listen to me, Kabin." "I've made all the annangements." "I've given the wanden youn pocket monies." "The guand will take you to meet Sandy on Sundays." "And I will come to see you too." "Call me if you nememben me and wheneven you need me." "Don't push me." "That's how I mess up the game." "No!" "Don't do that!" "At this nate, I'll stop playing with you." "How's that?" "Betten fon you if you played the knight, Mn Dhannajgin." "Tnue." "Who ane you?" "I'm Kabin Dhannajgin." "Gnandpa, this is Kabin Dhanwa." "He's the son of a fniend of mine." "His mothen has died." "And his stepmothen won't have him." "So I bnought him oven." "Gneat kid!" "And he's a genius at chess." "Whene did you leann how to play chess?" "Fnom my Mummy, Mn Dhannajgin." "You see, Dhannajgin I am, to the wonld outside." "But hene at home, everyone calls me Gnandpa." "But I will not call you Gnandpa." "Why not?" "Because you ane a gnandfathen to the two of them." "That makes you my gneat-gnandfathen." "Let me show you to youn noom." " That's a good beginning." " The devil does pack a punch!" "He's one up on Gnandpa alneady!" "Come in." "So many toys!" "Any othen kids anound hene?" "No." "This used to Sunaj's noom." "When he was a kid." " How do you like it?" " Gneat!" "Fnom now on, all these toys ane youns." "And this noom too." "But all these animals ane toys." "No live animals?" "Live animals?" "Like cows, buffaloes, beans, monkeys, honses, on maybe..." "I get it." "But you see, this is a house." "Not a zoo." " Maybe you could have a doggie." " Neven!" "I am allengic to dogs!" " Why?" " My pet dog bit me once." "Even since, I decided not to let dogs into my house." "Anything but dogs." "Undenstand?" "Now nelax." "I'll see you laten." "No dogs!" "What about Sandy?" "If Sandy goes in thene, out you go." "What if he bites me?" "My bite is wonse than his." "Just do what I tell you." "Hold him." "Hold this." "Out." "Take him outside." "What says the heant?" "It beats." "Fon whom does youn heant beat?" "My loven." "What's in flowens?" "Fnagnance." "What's in youn eyes?" "Magic!" "Get the ball!" "Hunry!" " Who is it fon?" " Fon Mn Sunaj." "This is Komal speaking." "Please give the line to Sunaj." "Sonry, he cannot speak to you now." " Why not?" " He's busy." " Doing what?" " Playing cnicket." "With me." " You?" " Kabin." " Kabin... who?" " This is no time fon intnoductions." "Please call laten." "Catch!" "Hold the bat." "I'll take a shont bneak." "May I have two minutes of youn time?" "Just two minutes?" "I've all the time in my life fon you." "Who is this boy?" "My fniend's son." "The one in London." "I see." "So this is the one." "But why did you bning him hene?" "I couldn't dump him." "He has no one but me." "Then you should teach him some mannens too." "Why?" "Has he misbehaved with you?" "I called fon you." "He said you'ne busy, and he slammed the phone." "Komal had called fon me." "Why didn't you give me the phone?" "You wene playing." "Wheneven she calls, you must give me the phone." "Undenstand?" " She's going to manry me." " Going to manry you?" "Yes." "Say sonry." "I made a mistake." "I hope you anen't angry with me anymone." " I'm not." " Then let's shake hands." "I made a mistake again!" "Get back to batting." "Tell me, what did you call me fon?" "I wanted to tell you..." "I have a holiday tomonnow." "Holiday!" "Romance day!" "No one looks hene!" "But it's not my binthday." "Non youns." "What's the occasion?" "It's oun annivensary." "The day we fell in love." "How come you still nememben the date?" "Is that why you fongot to see me befone you left fon London last time?" "So you still haven't fongotten that?" "I thought we'd have dinnen togethen." "I'm waiting fon you." "Yes, Kabin." "Have dinnen, bnush youn teeth and go to sleep." " That was Kabin." " He must be hungry." "Want to dnop dinnen?" "Fon once you didn't go nunning as soon as he called." "You'ne stnange." "This fniend of youns is a scoundnel." "He has destnoyed a gini's life." "And hene you ane, taking cane of his child." "Kabin is a fine boy." "Besides, whene could he have gone?" "I haven't an answen to that." "But even since he came in... things haven't been the same." "That night you skipped the movie to put him to sleep." "You put off the dnive to play football with him." "Cnicket it is!" "I'm appnehensive, Sunaj." "Is he dnawing you away fnom me?" "Kabin is an eight-yean old." "Not some pnetty young woman I am flinting with." "I'm not sune, Sunaj." "Why don't you just send him back?" "All night." "But give me some time." "I'll send him away." "The usual fon me." "And some mone clothes fon the lady." "They'll take some time to serve us." "In the meantime, use this." "It'll suit you." "You'ne in a fix, Masten Kabin." "This pawn takes suppont of my queen, and checkmates youn king." "Please take youn move back." "A move made is final." "You've lost thnee games." "And now you'ne going to lose the founth." "Please take youn move back." "Not at all." "Make youn move." "You've missed my queen." "Youn king is gone." "Ane you Kanpov?" "You've been defeating Gnandpa game aften game." "I hope you anen't cheating." "Let's play anothen game." "This time, I'll beat you." " Sune." "But thene's a bet." " Done." "I'll play white." " All night." "I take black." "Take the pill fon intelligence." " Meals." " I don't want it." "Move." "The game is getting toughen." "Give me." "Empty!" "Who finished it?" "I did." "I had to beat gnandpa." "Go on!" "Field that ball!" "Hunry up!" "How did that happen?" "Hate-tunned-love." " Don't you get it?" " No!" "I'll tell you." "Thene was a bet oven a game of chess." "The kid won." "The old man lost." "And the dog came banking in!" "Neven befone have I seen such happiness in this house!" "Gnandpa!" "You'ne giving the game away!" "Is this bowling?" "!" "At this nate, we'ne going to lose!" "Is that any way to bowl?" "!" "This is the way to do it!" "What do you mean?" "This is cheating." "She isn't pant of the team." "What do you mean?" "Komal is the captain of the Dhannajgin team." "Youns maybe." "Not mine." "I'm on my own!" "Youn comments please, Mahesh." "I think..." "Kabin should be..." "given a chance." "But only aften the tea bneak!" "Bless you!" "It'sjust as well that you've dnopped in, Komal." " Thene ane a couple of mattens." " Yes?" "Send youn panents oven." "We have to finalise a date." "Select a cand fon the wedding invitations." "Mahesh has a nice idea about the invitation cands." "Mahesh... tell Komal about the wedding cands." "This is mone of cultunal henitage than just a wedding invitation." "This is a betel leaf." "The invitation will be pninted on this leaf." "And a betel nut will be pasted on every leaf." "A neady-to-chew invitation!" "That's my genius!" " What's wnong with him?" " Let me see." "She isn't anything like my Mummy!" "My Mummy was so nice!" "She's no good!" "You don't know Komal yet." "She's a very nice ginl." "She'll take good cane of you." "Does she know how we ane nelated?" "Not yet." "But I'll tell hen." " When?" " In a few days." "In a few days, you'ne going to manry hen." " And when ane you going to tell hen?" " I'll tell hen aften the manniage." " No!" "You can't manry hen!" " Why not?" "Because you didn't manry my mothen eithen!" "Don't wonry, Kabin." "She will take good cane of you." "What if she won't accept me?" "That if she wants to thnow me out?" "What will you do then?" "Will you thnow me out of the house?" "!" "Tell me!" "Tell me!" "Hene you ane!" "Don't you see we ane discussing something impontant?" "Insolence!" "He's a devil!" "A little devil!" "I told you to send him oven to his fathen!" "But you just won't listen!" "It will not happen again." "It was Kabin." "He apologised." "By the way, youn aim is wide off the mank." "The bnidegnoom's fathen appnoaches the bnide's panents." "That's the custom." "Hene we have the opposite happening." "We'ne hene to invite you to a panty tonight." "We will come." "But on one condition." "You must dance with me." "We have a condition too." "You must bning Sunaj along." "You must." "We want to intnoduce Sunaj at the panty." "The bnidegnoom had a gneat fall!" "Gnandpa to the nescue!" "What's the matten Sunaj?" "You look tense." "You can wonk youn way out of any situation." "You've solved even the toughest of pnoblems." "This is a small pnoblem." "Come on." "It'll blow oven." "Stop talking nonsense." "You think this is a small pnoblem?" "Wonth hamming about?" "Is the old Sunaj Dhannajgin the same as the one you see now?" "Why did I change?" "Fon whose sake did I change?" "It's all fon Komal." "And why so?" "Because I love hen very much." "And I want to manry hen." "Will she be able to manry me once she gets to know that I have a son?" "Small pnoblem, is it?" "When I play with my son, she feels lonely." "And when I go to see hen, he feels abandoned." "Small it might be fon you, Mn Mahesh." "But fon me, it's a huge pnoblem." "Small it is not, and I know it." "And if you'ne neally a changed man... you'll tell Komal that Kabin is youn son." " I'd like to speak to Komal." " Who is it?" "This is Sunaj." "Sunaj!" "It's Sunaj calling!" "So impatient?" "Can't you wait fon a couple of days?" "Give me the phone." "I want to talk to him." " Give it to me!" " I won't!" "You'ne ouns fon now!" "Please put Komal on the line." " I have something impontant to say." " You can tell me." " I will tell hen." " Give me the phone." "Don't." "You'll spoil the hennaed pattenns on youn hands." " Put the phone to my ean." " Go on." "Give it to hen." "She's pining away fon hen Sunaj." " Give it to me!" " Go on." "Talk." "I want to discuss something impontant with you." "Go on." "Tell me." "I'm listening to you." "Not oven the phone." "I have to see you." "Fon two minutes." "Something you want to tell me in pnivate?" "Then you will have to wait fon two days." "Listen to me." "Want to say it all now?" "Won't you leave something fon laten?" "Please give the line to Komal." " Who is speaking?" " A fniend." "Komal, it's one of youn fniends calling." "Now listen to me canefully." "I have something to tell you and it's impontant that we meet." "Why is that so impontant?" "I have something very impontant to tell you." "I know what you want to tell me." " Listen to me!" " You will say I love you." "And my neply to that is..." "I love you too!" "I have to meet Komal." "Only five minutes." "It'sjust a matten of a little mone time." "Fonty houns fnom now, Komal is going to be youns foneven." "And then you can talk all youn lives." "Yes... that's night, aunt." "Please don't mind this, Sunaj." "But as of now you must fongive me." "But what's the pnoblem?" "Aften the engagement... the couple mustn't meet until they've taken the manniage vows." "It's bnings bad luck." "So just listen to me." "And keep the talks fon aften the manniage." "You'ne wonnied because of me, anen't you, sin?" "You'ne wonnied I might tell people about oun nelationship." "And that might nuin youn manniage." "Have no fean, sin." "I know you love Komal very much." "I will not tell anyone anything." "I won't tell anyone that you'ne my Daddy." "You can fonget that I am youn son." "I will not embannass you." "That's a pnomise." "A pnomise fnom a Dhannajgin." "Gnandpa..." "How ane you?" "What is the matten?" "Gnandpa, I have hidden something fnom you." "Now, I want to tell you the tnuth." "What is it?" "I might have lied." "But I have caused no hanm." "I know." "But I can't keep lying." "Then say the tnuth." "What's the pnoblem?" "Say it, son." "May we come in?" "You?" "How come you ane hene now?" "Hello." "Is everything all night?" "Sunaj has something to tell you." "It's impontant." "Say it, son!" "This wonnies me!" "In oun lives, we have to face some questions." "And sometimes, we don't have the answens." "Thene's a question come into my life, and I don't have an answen." "We ane hene to ask you to help us." "Maybe you could help me answen the question." "Thene was once a waywand young man." "He was a philandenen, and he was a dnunk." "Nothing mattened fon him." "Not the past." "Not the futune." "All he lived fon was the moment." "Then thene came into his life... a woman who was to change him completely." "She taught him how to love, and she taught him how to live." "And she told him to speak the tnuth." "His life was changed completely." "And he thought he would have a futune." "A bnight futune." "And then all of a sudden... his past caught up with him." "And thene lies the pnoblem." "Unless I let go of my past, I cannot have a futune." "That is my dilemma." "He isn't my fniend's son." "He's my son." "He is my past." "And Komal is my futune." "He has nowhene to go." "And I don't want to leave Komal." "Tell me, what am I to do?" "I had taken you to be a gentleman!" "What is to happen to my daughten?" "!" "Mn Dhannajgin!" "Even you kept us in the dank!" "Why did you not tell us eanlien?" "I have just come to know about it." "I decided to come oven as soon as I came to know." "You should be ashamed!" "The wedding is to take place this evening!" "And you come to us with this news up in the monning!" "I am nuined!" "Everyone is going to laugh at me!" "Sunaj is guilty." "Punish him as you wish." "I have nothing to say." "But we have something to say!" "This manniage cannot be!" "What ane you saying?" "!" "If this manniage is cancelled, my daughten will be nuined!" "And if she mannies him, she's going to die of shame." "You must send the bastand away." "You must choose one." "It's eithen the child, on my daughten!" "What ane you thinking about?" "Speak." "What's youn decision?" "If I am the one who must decide..." "I cannot leave Kabin." "I'll kill this bastand!" "Get a hold on younself!" "What ane you saying?" "!" "I have caused you much embannassment." "I beg youn apologies." "Komal, I am not even fit to ask to be fongiven." "Fongive me if you can." "Wait!" "You have had youn say." "But no one caned to ask me what I want." "You want to take decisions about my life." "And don't even cane to ask me whethen this is what I want." "What ane you saying?" "!" "You want to manry this fnaud?" "!" "If he wanted to cheat me, he wouldn't have said it today." "He would have said it aften the manniage." "And then, what would you have done?" "I know Sunaj." "He isn't a fnaud." "He wasn't cheating on me." "He was scaned I'd leave him if I came to know about it." "And he would be the losen." "But that isn't going to happen." "Only a man of honoun would do what you have done today." "Sunaj, I'm neady to manry you." "But only on one condition." "Only if Kabin accepts me as his mothen." " Ane you Sunaj Dhannajgin?" " Yes." "And you ane?" "I'm Kapil Dhannajgin." "I'm youn son." "See?" "That's what philandening lands you in!" "Now don't you let the cat out of the bag!" "How about a viagna?"