"Bahadur Singh, you appear very happy today!" "You see, Boney, I'm among those who are always happy." "I just don't know what grief means." "Yes, of course." "How would you know?" "You dabbIe in lakhs of rupees." "After all, you win Iakhs of rupees in gambling and horse races." "If I win Iakhs of rupees, I even lose in lakhs." "For instance, I've lost 3 lakh rupees today itself." "But no problem, no tension." "I'll go to the bank, withdraw money, and settle the dues." "That's all." "You must be dealing with smugglers and dangerous people in this gambling business of yours, don't you?" " I do." " Aren't you scared of such people?" "Why be scared?" "In my line of work one brandishes knives and revolvers at every opportunity." "Now I find such things like toys." "You are truly a brave person." "You're the first person who has recognised what I am." "No, no." "Nothing of the sort." "Mr. Boney, I've arrived at my bank." " Keep in touch." " Sure." "please get my cheque cleared." "Here you are!" "What're you doing?" "You want the money, don't you?" "Take the money." "But don't shoot me." "please don't do this." "I've been plundered, Bahadur Singh." "You've made me lose money." "Give me 500 rupees now." "You've lost the bet." "What did you say?" "He has lost a bet?" "He's my friend Raj." "Since many years, I had been hearing that you're a brave man and that nobody can scare you." "So I placed a bet with him about your bravery." "And after hearing your boastfuI talks, I was convinced that you are like a bomb." "But you fizzIed out like a tiny firecracker." "And I lost the bet." "Do people have to place bets on me?" "Do I Iook like a racing horse?" "You've been inconvenienced because of us." "please pardon us." "Do you see how profusely I am sweating?" "You were chasing me as if I were a stray dog on the streets." "Thankfully, I am not a weak-hearted person." "Otherwise I would've been dead by now." "I'm still trembling." " See for yourself." " Give me 500 rupees, please." "Why should I give you 500 rupees?" "You placed the bet." "You pay the sum." "I don't even know whether my car will be there or not." "Listen, Bahadur Singh..." "Where are you going?" "Pay me the money." "Oome on!" "Everytime I place a bet with you thinking that I will win." "Take it." "Now you have to pay me 200 rupees." "And I lose everytime." "Really, you are the greatest player in the field of bets." "Take the money." "This time I was fully confident that I'll win the bet." "But the way you fooled that constable it is proved that nobody can win a bet with you." "You had placed a bet for 250 rupees." "But this is only 100 rupees." "I will give the balance amount tomorrow." "I swear." " You won't change." " I will pay you the balance." "Raj, I don't have any money even for food." "Give me 50 rupees." "200 rupees?" "How come?" "Brother?" "What happened?" "Why did you lock them up?" "What have they done?" "I've advised them several times not to place bets and commit pranks." "But they refuse to listen." "They should be punished for their deeds." "Don't you have any sense of shame, Raj?" "You are the younger brother of a police officer, and you're in a Iock-up." "Don't you care for your brother's reputation?" "Sister-in-Iaw...actually, we both..." "Just listen quietly to whatever I say." "You are grown-up, yet you behave like kids." "Did you hear anything, sir?" " I did." " You didn't hear a thing." " Go and do your work." " But, sir..." " What did I ask you to do?" " To do my work." "Oome on, ask your brother for forgiveness." "Sorry, brother." "please forgive us." "We will never commit such a deed again." " OonstabIe, release them." " But, sir..." "release them!" "Thank you, brother." "Return soon in the evening." "I'll prepare sweetmeats for you." "Let's go." "hold on." "I couId understand the drama that the three of you were enacting." "This is the Iast warning." "Your college is reopening from tomorrow." "Thereafter, only studies..." "And you had better hear this." "I'll return home early this evening." "Keep the sweetmeats ready for me." " What should you keep ready?" " Sweetmeats." "You may go." "You're spoiling the boys." " What's your result?" " I've falled." "OongratuIations." " How were your holidays?" " Very enjoyable." " What's wrong with you?" " What's wrong?" "How come you have become so slim?" "I've grown slim, haven't I?" "You see, I'm on a diet these days." " I can see that." " Go ahead." "You too should eat." "Don't you dare touch it." "Why scoId him?" "Let him eat too." "Go ahead." "Eat." "Bring a soft drink, please." "Hey!" "This is a girl's hand." "Tell me who this girl is." " This girl...is Madhuri!" " No, you are wrong!" "Yes...it's Shllpa!" "She's not Shllpa." "She's Sh..." "Don't you interrupt, fatso!" "Oome on." "Tell her name!" "Ah, yes!" "She's Sharmlla!" "You?" "Oome...be seated." "If I hadn't removed my hand you would have named another 25 girls." "I knew all along that it was you." "I was only teasing you." "I swear..." "I was talking only about you." "Yes, of course." "He was talking only about you." " Did you hear?" " I'm studying with you since 3 years." "I know you thoroughly." "You didn't even telephone me once during the holidays!" "Ah, I remembered!" "I will make a phone call to Raj and come back." "Be seated." "I will be back soon." "Let's go to our classrooms." "Who attends classes on the first day?" "They need to take notes too." "I don't like such misbehaviour." "Where am I misbehaving?" "Leave my hand." "The situation changed during my absence." "Leave the girl's hand." " I won't." " You won't?" "A true man has grabbed a girl's hand." "Is it?" "Do you have enough strength to hold a man's hand?" "I knew he doesn't have that much courage." "Hey!" "He left a girl's hand." "He's not a true man!" "ScoundreI!" "You are hitting me?" "What are you people upto?" "hold on!" "You're kicking me, are you?" "You are ruining everything." "Remove it first." "You've arrived, Raj!" "My handsome has arrived!" "Now tell me...have many goons do you have?" "Now that my friend has come," "I won't spare you." "Oome on, Raj." "Where are you, Raj?" "You are sitting here, Raj?" "Let's go and bash them up." "No?" "Are you not my friend, Raj?" "You aren't?" "All right, then." "Do you think I can't fight them?" "I will fight them singIe-handedIy and overpower them." "I am really going." "Hey!" "What're you people upto?" "My furniture is being damaged!" "Hey!" "What're you doing?" "Why're you putting me inside a fridge?" "Gosh!" "You will be a dead man, Boney!" "Get up, Boney!" " Who are you?" " I am SheetaI." "Who's SheetaI?" "It's you, traitor?" "Raj, how can you just stand and stare?" "Your friend has been so badly beaten up." "Do you like it?" "please help Boney!" "If he pays me 100 rupees, I'll bash them up singIe-handedIy." "He says that he will bash them all singIe-handedIy." " What if you don't bash them up?" " Then I will pay you 200 rupees." "200 rupees?" "All right, then." "The bet is on." "Go and bash them up." "Just see...when Raj comes back he would be in a pathetic state." "He's really beating them up." "What should I do?" "My money..." "Looks like I'm sure to lose 100 rupees." "But I've only 50 rupees." "I'm short of 50 rupees." "please lend me 50 rupees." "Stupid, if you don't have money, why do you place bets?" "Oome, principal, and see for yourself how bad the situation is." "The principal is on his way!" "The old man has come." "Run!" "See for yourself, sir." "My canteen is in shambles." "What is wrong here?" "There was a scuffle going on just a while ago." "All of them are eating cordially." "There was a big fight going on here just a while ago." "But there's peace all around." "You always complain wrongly about the students." "I will get your canteen shut." "You wasted my time." "I'm leaving now." "I will remember you people." "I will trap you some day in such a manner that you won't forget it all your life." "Go away, will you?" "You are being very..." "Enough of your display of strength." "Give me 100 rupees now." "My friend, I am short of 50 rupees." " Let me have that!" " He's taken that money too." "On the first day at college, we indulge in ragging of students." "But this year, the programme is slightly changed." "Instead of the students we'll be ragging the staff members and the professors." " How will we do that?" " This is how." "We will mix this medicine into the bottle and feed it to the professors and staff members." "As soon as they consume it, they'll start winking." "Like this." "It has been a Iong time since I drank a cup of tea prepared by you." "Make time some day, and come over to my place." "please have it." "What's the matter?" "I can't find our P.T. professor." "He is a romantic." "He must be coming at a leisurely pace." " please have it, sir." " What is this?" "On this first day to college, llI the students...00 24 28 05,00 24 31 15,...have given a small tre to welcome all of you." "Hurry up, Raj." "Raj, all the professors have started winking at each other." "But what're you doing?" "Whichever professor comes here furiously we will pacify his anger with a shower of flowers." "What an idea!" "Let's take our seats." "Hey!" "Where has sir disappeared?" "Wow!" "You have laid out flowers on my path?" "This is the first day at the college." "And I can even see some new faces among the students." "I think you are a new student." "What's there to laugh about?" "What's your name?" "Such a beautiful name!" "What misbehaviour is this?" "I will go and complain to the principal rightaway." "But why?" "But listen..." "I want to meet the principal." "Yes?" " What kind of a college is this?" " It's a good college." "The Professor and the peon misbehaved with me." "What kind of misbehaviour?" "How should I tell you?" "They winked at me." "What?" "They winked at you?" "Such misbehaviour will never be tolerated in this college." "I will summon the staff members this evening and take action." "You may leave now." " Who's Raj?" " The one..." " ...who showered flowers on you." " I see." "He's Raj?" "Yes." "He mixed some medicine in the soft drink after drinking which the entire staff started winking at each other." "Students who play such pranks on their teachers should be thrown out of the college." "No, no..." "Raj is not such a boy." "Hello, NeeIam dear!" "How has been your first day at college, NeeIam?" "It has been fine." "Let me introduce you to SheetaI, my classmate." "And he's my uncle." "I've made arrangements for your stay at the Ladies hostel." "Oome and see the place yourself." "Moreover, I've to return to Pune this evening itself." "Why don't you stay back for a few more days?" "It has been a week since I've come here." "Moreover, there's nobody to look after the business in Pune." "And how far is Mumbai from Pune?" "I will come whenever I like." "Wow!" "It means NeeIam will live here in a hostel?" "All alone in Bombay?" " It means your line is clear." " Yes." "Don't try to talk to her thinking her to be alone." "Otherwise she will beat you up with her sandal." "She's furious at you." "She was abusing you severely." " She's really furious at you." " Forget it." "Love begins with abuses." "Didn't you see how she was looking at me when the flowers fell on her?" "She overwhelmed me at first sight." "It's true." "Even I am an eye-witness to this fact." "If I tell NeeIam that I Iove her I'm confident that she will also say that she loves me too." "If she says this, I will give you whatever you want." "Don't say that." "Just ask me how much I've lost." " You will lose too." " It is just not possible." "There's the Rose Day in the next few days." "Whichever boy loves a girl, offers a red rose to the girl." "And if the girl too loves him, she smiles and accepts the rose." "I will surely make NeeIam accept a red rose." "What an idea!" "NeeIam will throw the rose back on his face." "Is it?" "And what if she accepts the flower?" " How about a bet of 50 rupees?" " Yes, of course." "Just a minute." " Shall I place the bet?" " Yes, go ahead." " I hope I won't lose." " Rest assured." "What if NeeIam doesn't accept the flower?" "You have confidence on me, don't you?" " Yes, I have." " Then just relax." "Raj, Iet's hide." "Otherwise she will take the flower." "I got a yellow flower of friendship with great difficulty." "But there's not a single handsome youngster who would offer me a red rose saying 'I Iove you'." "How dare you!" "Run away from here!" " Why're you hiding here?" " We are hiding from that girl." "If she sees us, we will have to give her a red rose forcibly." "NeeIam is coming this way." "Meet me after the lecture." "Wait here." "I will give her the flower and come back." "Hurry up." "He will surely give the red rose to NeeIam." "Ms NeeIam...whatever happened that day in the classroom because of me, I am very embarrassed because of it." "Listen...accept this white flower and let's end our fight." " She accepted the flower, didn't she?" " She accepted only a white flower." "Listen...our fight has ended." "Now accept the yellow flower for our friendship." "See...she's accepted the yellow flower too." "That's no good." "Let him offer the red rose." "Then you will know." " Just a minute, NeeIam." " What now?" "Now that we've become friends, love shouIdn't be far behind." "Just a minute!" "Here!" "How did you dare to give me this flower?" " Give me 50 rupees." "Rightaway!" " I've had it!" "I only have 26 rupees." "will it do?" " You never pay up the full amount." " I will pay you the next time." "Raj is an idiot!" "You lost the bet, didn't you?" "What does she think of herself?" "So you had mixed the winking medicine in everybody's drink." "You are being suspended from college for a week." " But, sir..." " No ifs and buts." " But listen to me, sir." " You should listen to me." "Hey!" "I've had it." "help me!" "There's so much heat in their love." "Ohickens came out of the eggs." "Daughter, is this the time to return?" "Your college ends at 12 o'cIock." "It's 5 in the evening now." "Where were you all the while?" "It was great fun at the college." "Is it?" "Raj and Boney had a tough time eating rotten tomatoes and eggs." " What?" "Rotten eggs and tomatoes?" " Yes." "Such dirty things are given to be eaten at your college." "Now I know why your health has been deteriorating gradually." "But listen to me first..." "I don't want to hear a thing." "Henceforth, you won't even drink water in your college canteen." " You don't understand anything." " But daughter..." "Sir..." "The guests have arrived." "They're expecting you." " Greetings." " please be seated." "How are the preparations for the elections progressing?" "The opposition party has firmly entangled the public in their web of speeches and promises." "Then we will provide the public with rations." "To play the game of politics, one needs the power of wealth." "And I have wealth." "Mr. Kallash, we had spent quite a sum last time too." "Actually, we want the sympathy of the public." "You are right." "Let me take care of what needs to be done to win public's sympathy." "Gosh!" "You?" " I suppose you aren't hurt." " No." "You must've been hurt here." "No, I am not hurt anywhere." " You must be hurt over there." " I'm not hurt anywhere." "He's taking chances." "I think that..." "Hey!" "She's hurt!" "When she says that she isn't hurt, why don't you believe it?" "You people only need excuses." "What a strange girl she is!" " Hey!" "I wanted this book." " All right." "You read it first." "No, you read it." "I have read this topic in your eyes." " Your name?" " Miss NeeIam." " Raj MaIhotra." " Miss NeeIam Raj MaIhotra." " No, Mrs. NeeIam Raj MaIhotra." " What're you doing?" "Let him go." "It's lunch time for him." "But he has written the name as NeeIam Raj MaIhotra." "Is it?" "Yes." "Know what that means?" "What does it mean?" "It means that..." "Some day or the other, we have to be united." "Why not from today itself?" " Boney, what's this going on?" " selection is going on." "girls from our college are going to Nasik for 7 days for the basketball tournament." "But NeeIam and SheetaI don't know how to play basketball." "So what?" "They are beautiful, at Ieast." "The college will appear very lonely without NeeIam." "So what?" "Let's do something." "Let us go too." "Are you mad?" "They will be staying at the girl's hostel there." "And if we go there even by mistake we will surely be bashed up." "Listen." " No, friend." " Let's do it." " No, it's not possible." " But there's no harm in it." "Oan we get a lift till Nasik?" "We have missed the Iast bus of the day." "It'll be dark soon." "How will we beautiful girls live in this jungle all by ourselves?" "please come." "Where are you going?" "We're going to Nasik to participate in a basketball tournament." "I see..." "Your name is NeeIam, isn't it?" "How do you know?" "I know everything about you." "The name of the person about whom you're thinking begins with an 'R'." " I even know that." " How did you know?" "By looking at your hand!" "Driver, it's so hot near the engine." "I will sit somewhere behind." "What's your name?" "What's your name?" " Where will you live at Nasik?" " At VithaIdas hostel." "We too will be living there." " What?" " Yes." " You too will be there?" " Yes." "I'm trapped." "That professor has fallen in love with me." "He has even written a letter to me." "He has asked me to meet him in the garden to romance." "So what?" "He'll wait and go away." "He won't come inside this ladies hostel." " I am going to meet NeeIam." " Go ahead." " Where are you going?" "You know..." "NeeIam, my friend neither can she sleep, nor does she let me sleep." "So I thought of going to some other room to sleep." " That's very nice." " Very nice?" "I'm also not feeling sleepy." "So I thought of chatting with somebody." "You know what?" "Go to NeeIam's room to chat with her." "I will go to your room and sleep with Honey." "Boney has had it." " Are you asleep, Honey?" " Yes." " So you are awake?" " Yes." "Why're you shivering so much?" "I'm feeling so chilly." "Looks like I'm suffering from fever." " I will go and call somebody." " No, no." "That won't be necessary." "Once I go to sleep, everything will be fine." "Let me rub balm on your chest." "No, no." "Not on my chest." "Rub it on my back, if you wish." "You aren't wearing any clothes." "I am used to sleeping without any clothes." "That will be enough." "Let's go to sleep now." "Such big hair on your feet?" "Don't you use a hair-remover?" "I do." "I use a hair-remover." "But hair grows back again." "I am very tired now." "Let's go to sleep now." "Now I understand why you are unable to sleep." "Supposing if Raj comes here." "What then?" " But how will Raj come here?" " Lovers can come anywhere." "Supposing if Raj comes here, you'll embrace him joyfully." "Yes." "I would definitely like to." "But I won't give in so easily." "I will first act pricey and hard-to-get." "Then I will tell him to go away from here." " What if somebody sees us?" " And then?" "What then?" "When he's about to leave, I will stop him, and appease him." "Then I will look into his eyes and say..." "Didn't I say that lovers can come anywhere?" "I've had it today." "Where should I hide?" "I will hide under this." "Wow!" "She sent away her friend?" "Looks like she too is equally excited." "Honey!" "Yes?" "Why have you come here?" "I was freezing even as I stood outside in the garden." "If anybody sees you coming here, I will get a bad name." "Nobody has seen me." "Go away from here." "Go away?" "Without doing anything?" "Did you plan to do something?" "Yes." "I wanted to talk to you about love, which I couldn't in the bus." "I forgot to give you this." "Look what I've brought for you." "please look." "I've been fooled!" "Dear NeeIam, your uncle hasn't come as yet." "I have telephoned." "He must be coming." "No, Mr. Kallashnath." "You don't need to come." "I've arranged for thier ball." "Rest assured." "please sign here." "OonstabIe, release those people." "How wonderful!" "I called you here to know how yourjall-trip was." "I suppose you mustn't have bothered about your family's good name." "But, Daddy, we aren't to be blamed for this." "Actually, it is my fault that I allowed you such liberties." "Why did you two have to side with these two ruffians?" "We didn't know when these two came there dressed as girls." "We only got to know in the hostel room that the girls are none other than Raj and Boney." "Isn't it, SheetaI?" "uncle, she's lying." "uncle, they are lying!" "Why would I lie?" "What wrong have I done?" "My uncle has sent me here to study, not to fool around like you." "We aren't used to fooling around like you two people." "Whenever I study, Boney asks me to discontinue with my studies and that I wouldn't achieve much by passing in first grade." "She's lying." " Let's go and study in your room." " That's good, dear." " Oarry on girls." " Daddy, we won't eat food today." "Food causes one to sleep early." "And we are unable to study." "All right." "But do drink fruitjuices." "Go ahead." " Yes." " Oarry on." "See?" "Both of them are so fond of studying." "And you said that they won't achieve much by passing in first grade." "You should be ashamed." "You should make good use of your scholarship and make a good life for yourself." "And you are the younger brother of Inspector Suresh, aren't you?" "I will telephone him rightaway and ask him to stop your studies and get you admitted to some theatre group and that you are very fond of dressing up as a girl." "I'll telephone him rightaway." "please don't..." "uncle." "I beg of you." "please don't telephone my brother." "He's a very strict person." "You may punish us however you like." "I promise you." "You won't have any reason to complain again." "I'll telephone your brother rightaway and ask him to get you admitted to some theatre group and that you are very fond of dressing up as a girl." "I beg of you." "Don't telephone my brother." "He's a strict person." "Enough." "Both of you cornered me in your uncle's presence." "And now you are making fun of me?" "You were under such a pathetic state in Daddy's presence." "I respect your Daddy very much." "If I want, I can make your Daddy to plead and beg before me." "My Daddy would beg before you?" " Do you want to place a bet?" " Let it be." "Don't place a bet if you don't want to." "I can say with a challenge that I would emerge victorious." " What do you say?" " I bet an amount of 500 rupees." " I am also betting." " All right then." "We three're together." "And you're on the other side." "But you'll have to force uncle to plead and beg before you." "All right, then." "Let's meet tomorrow at our regular meeting point." " Let's go." " Yes." "Why don't you look where you're driving?" "And can't you cross the road with your eyes open?" "Let's go." " Where are we going?" " Manori island." "But the bet is about scaring my Daddy." "That's what I'll be doing." "We will remain at Manori island till evening." "Your Daddy will be worried when you don't return home." "Then I will telephone him saying that his daughter has been kidnapped." "When he hears this, he will plead and beg to me saying that I should return him his daughter." "But I will tell him..." "But I will tell him that I need 5 lakh rupees." "Otherwise his daughter...!" "Looks like I've lost this bet too." "Keep the 250 out of the 500 rupees towards the bet." "I will pay the rest tomorrow." "NeeIam..." "SheetaI." "Pay him rightaway." "Why now?" "Let him make the phone call first." "I'm in no hurry." "Give me the money after I make the call." "What nonsense?" "Why did you kidnap my daughter?" "Who're you?" "I am a big kidnapper." "I am a big kidnapper." "You'll have to do as I say." "Otherwise your daughter will be killed." "Do you realise who you're talking to?" "I'll hand you over to the police." "uncle is talking about the police." "It doesn't matter." "You carry on speaking." "I'm not some petty crook." "If you want your daughter's well-being you will have to listen to what I say." "What do you want?" "I want 5 lakh rupees." "You will get the money." "But what proof do you have that my daughter is in your custody?" "I knew that you would surely raise this question." "Here, listen to your daughter's voice." " Scream!" " Speak up!" "Daughter!" "Save me, Daddy." "Or else these people will kill me." "Don't worry, daughter." "I will save you." "Daughter!" "Did you hear your daughter's voice?" "Let's talk business now." "You must've heard of Manori island." "Reach there rightaway with the money." "Tell him that the currency notes shouIdn't be in serial numbers." "The currency notes should be in denominations of 20, 50 and 100." "And not in serial numbers." "Understand?" "But I'll have to go to the bank for that." "What happened?" "uncle is talking about visiting the bank." "The matter is being postponed till tomorrow." "Not tomorrow." "Today itself." "You will have to wait here the whole of the night, SheetaI." " Agree to it." " All right." "I and Boney will stay back here." "What say, Boney?" "All right, then." "Withdraw the money from bank and reach Manori island tomorrow at 12 o'cIock." "All right." "I will reach Manori island tomorrow with the money." "But my daughter shouIdn't be harmed." "But if you try to act smart, or if you inform the police I'll cut your daughter's body into small pieces and send to you her body parts in instalments." "No, no..." " Let's stop here for tonight." " All right." "There's nobody here." "Anybody there?" "We want to talk to you." "Does this cottage belong to you?" "Oan we hire it for a night?" "Hire?" " Yes." " I mean...on rent." "Rent?" "!" "Stop...there's nothing to fear." "This is my style." "We've to do all this because thieves and robbers come here." "What would you like to have?" "Something hot or cold?" "I can offer you nothing but coconut water." "We don't want anything." "What's the rent for the cottage?" " 200 rupees." " 200 rupees?" "I am a poor man, sir." "I save only 20 rupees out of the amount." "I've small children." "You see...200 rupees..." "I'm a poor man." "We have to sleep on the floor." "My house is very small." "There's my wife and four children." "He's my elder son." "I will make him a lawyer when he grows up." "Know why?" "Because he lies a Iot." "I'll make my second son a government officer." "Know why?" "Because he shuns work." "He's my third son." "I'll make him a police constable." "Know why?" "Because he doesn't work without taking some money." "My youngest son is very nice." "He will never make progress in life." "He will sell coconut water like me." "Know why?" "Because he's very honest." "Like me." "You may charge us more than 200 rupees." "Here's an advance of 50 rupees." "Sir, your heart is bigger than even your shoes." "Let's go now." "Sir!" "We're celebrating our festival at the village today." "If you come there, it will be great fun." "I'll be very happy." "How long before the money arrives?" "It must be here any time now." " At least count the money." " No, no...it's fine." "I'm the manager of the development Oo-operative Bank." "The renowned businessman and politician Mr. Kallashnath had just visited our bank." "Yes." "He appeared to be very scared." "And the shocking thing is that he didn't accept the currency notes in serial numbers." "I think something is wrong." " Had somebody accompanied him?" " No, he was alone." "Mr. Kallashnath's domestic servant is standing over there." "Yes, brother?" "Kallashnath's daughter SheetaI is in your class, isn't she?" "Yes." "Did she attend college yesterday?" "No, she didn't attend college yesterday." "Why?" "What's the matter, brother?" "Somebody kidnapped her yesterday morning." "But how did you get to know?" "Kallashnath's domestic servant told me all about it." "The kidnapper has demanded a ransom of 5 lakh rupees." "And he has summoned Mr. Kallashnath to Manori island aIongwith the money." "Hurry up." "We have to reach there before 12 o'cIock." "Don't mention about this to anybody." "I hope you understand." "Let's go." "Everybody...alert!" "till I don't order, nobody will fire at the kidnapper." "The kidnapper must be coming any time now." " Who must be coming?" " The kidnapper." "How could I go there?" "Brother must've reached Manori island aIongwith the police force." "If I hadn't gone home, all of us would've been caught." " What should we do now?" " What else?" "I'll telephone in the evening again." "The servant won't overhear every call." "We're making merry here." "I wonder what uncle must be going through." "It has been 2 hours." "But the kidnapper hasn't come yet." "That's why our country doesn't make much progress." "Nobody values time here." "He wasted our time." "He's going away, sir." "Looks like he too has become bored." "The kidnapper must've surely got to know that we're coming here." "But how could he have known?" "We'll have to tap every phone call to Mr. Kallashnath's place." "The kidnapper will surely telephone him again." "I'm the kidnapper speaking." "I had gone there." "But you didn't come there?" "That's because the police had already reached there." "Inspector Suresh thinks that he is very smart." "But I didn't inform the police." "You didn't." "But your servant informed Inspector Suresh about everything." " My servant?" " Yes." "Go and see what your servant is doing." "He's gone out to the bazaar presently." "Then come to the Motibaugh check-post." "You will come across a Hanuman temple there." "Reach there with the money." "I'm coming rightaway." "But please stay right there." "Don't go anywhere from there." "I'm coming with the money." "Now the kidnapper will not be saved." "Let's go to the Hanuman temple." "Anna, where are you going?" "I'm going to the Hanuman temple." "There's a big fair going on." " A big fair?" " Things are going awry." "Oome on." "It'll be great fun at the fair." "I'm the kidnapper speaking." "My programme has changed." "I'd called you to the Hanuman temple." "But now...take a left turn from the Motibaugh check-post." "You will come across a bridge there." "As soon as you reach the bridge, throw the briefcase containing the money, and don't try to look back." "I'm just leaving." "But please don't change your programme." "Have those two come as yet or not?" "They must be coming anytime now with a drooping face." "You wait here." "I'll go and collect the briefcase." "Open it." "So much money!" "What's great about it?" "We've to return it to uncle." "Oome on." "Let's go now." "Look, I've won." "Give me 500 rupees." "You mean uncle got scared of you?" "I'd told you earlier itself that nobody can win over Raj." " Where's SheetaI?" " She's inside." "Let's go and collect 500 rupees from her." "It'll be great fun." "No..." "You were here." "Who had come here?" "I didn't see anybody." "Nobody had come here." "But then...this...?" "We shouldn't have played such a joke." "What will we do now?" "We should tell everything to uncle." "That we haven't committed this murder." "That we were only playing a game." "Who will believe us?" "only SheetaI knew that it was a game." "We'll be blamed for the murder." "The police too will say that we kidnapped SheetaI and then murdered her for our greed for money." " We could even be jailed." " Then what should we do?" "Let's go and bury her somewhere in the jungle." "Nobody knows that SheetaI was with us." "Nobody will have any proof that she was with us and nobody would even suspect us." "Yes, you are right." "Let's go and fetch a car first." "Anna, we didn't commit the murder." "We were only playing a game." "I wonder who murdered her and went away." "SheetaI was our friend." "Why would we murder her?" "What did you say?" "till I don't place it over my ear, I can't hear a thing." " What were you saying?" " Nothing." "You may go." "O God!" "It's the police!" "What now?" "Everything will be fine." "Don't weep." "Go slow, Raj." "Oome out." "What's this?" "Sir, this..." "Why is your car's tall-llght not functioning?" "You are referring to the tall-llght?" "Don't you know how dangerous it is to drive on the highway without a tall-llght?" "Where do you live?" "You must be knowing Inspector Suresh MaIhotra." "I'm his brother." "What?" "You are the brother of Suresh?" "Yes." "OonstabIe." "Oall a mechanic from that garage." "Suresh is a good friend." "We were together during our training." " Yes, sir?" " You see..." " Repair this light." " All right, sir." "The light is fine." "Looks like the wire has disconnected from inside." "I will have to open the dicky." "What?" "You will have to open the dicky?" "Go and get the keys." "Let it be." "I will get it repaired tomorrow morning." "You're on a highaway." "It's important that you get the lights repaired." "Get the keys." "The keys." "Sir!" "It doesn't have the key to the dicky's lock." "Perhaps I must have forgotten it at home." "Here are the keys." " Do get it repaired tomorrow." " Yes, sir." "How strange!" "I had locked the dicky a while ago." "But the mechanic couldn't open it." "How could he?" "The key is with me." "You had removed the key?" "You drive ahead." "I will follow you in my jeep so that you don't face any problem." "Don't take the trouble." "We will manage." "There's nothing to be troubled about." "Hurry up." "Do get the light repaired tomorrow." "And give my regards to Suresh." "Let's go, constable." " He had been after us." " What should we do now?" "We even had to dump the dead body at some lonely place." "There's still some time." "Let's find another place." "All right." "Let's go." " It's your sister-in-Iaw!" " Gosh!" "Yes?" "Where do you roam around at such a late hour?" "Oome on." "Oome up quickly." "All right." "It'll not be right for us to go anywhere now." "If sister-in-Iaw tells brother about it, we'll face problems." "What will we do about SheetaI now?" "I've an idea, Raj." "What's that?" "Let's go to the underground parking at Satyam cinema tomorrow morning." "A Iot of cars will be parked there." "We will check all the dickys." "If we find any dicky open we will shift the dead body in it." " What do you say?" " What if somebody sees us?" "We will go there after the show has commenced." "It will be very lonely then." "Nobody will get to know." "All right." "I will park the car in the garage now." "Both of you may come tomorrow early morning." " Where will we keep this money?" " Money?" "Let me hide this briefcase in the garage." "All right." "Hurry up." "Where's the car?" "Just a minute." "The bag is right there." "Then..." "let's ask my sister-in-Iaw." "Where's brother?" "There was some mechanical problem in the jeep." "So your brother took the car to the police station." "There's something wrong." "OouId they have known about it?" "No." "If they had known, there would've been chaos by now." "He's right." "Let's take the car and go away." "I just came to ask you why you came to Manori island." "Because of your blunder, the kidnapper didn't release my daughter." "I wonder where he has hidden my daughter." "Even the police force is as concerned about your daughter." "It's the duty of the police to track down your daughter." "Why did you have to interfere between me and the kidnapper?" "I know better than you what I need to do." "You should've informed the police when your daughter was kidnapped." "He's talking like a kid." "I ask you...supposing you have kidnapped my daughter and have threatened me that if I inform the police you will kill my daughter." "will I inform the police then?" "I won't." "That's why I didn't inform the police." "That's why I gave them 5 lakh rupees when they demanded the sum." "You gave them 5 lakh rupees?" "But neither you, nor the kidnapper reached the temple." "How did you know that the kidnapper had called me to the Hanuman temple?" "I was overhearing all the telephone calls made to your place." "Didn't you hear that he had telephoned me again and called me elsewhere?" "So the kidnapper had been fooling me." "What was he doing?" "He was fooling you." "I wonder how my daughter must be." "If I meet that kidnapper, I would shoot him dead." "Brother...the keys." "We are leaving." "Yes." "Here it is." "Don't worry." "I will find your daughter." "No matter how clever the kidnapper is he cannot make a fool of me." "I don't understand where he would've taken my daughter." "This dicky is open." "Oome on!" "Have patience." "Life and death is not in the hands of a human being." "Nobody can go against the dictates of God." "The people have expressed their grief over the incident." "The public sympathy is with you." "It has become very easy for you to win the elections." "What is the use of winning elections and getting false happiness especially since my real happiness is no Ionger with me." "My real happiness is no Ionger with me..." "'Daughter Of Industriallst and Polltician Kallashnath Murdered'" "We've put a veil over SheetaI's murder." "But we will always regret that she died because of us." "The fear that we might be caught will chase us all our lives." "We won't come to harm because we are innocent." "still, if circumstances don't prove to be in our favour we will go and tell everything to the police." " So what if I am jailed then?" " Don't say so, Raj." "If anything happens to you, on whose support will I live?" "Then promise me, NeeIam that you will be by my side, come what may." "Promise me, NeeIam." "I have an arrest warrant in your name." "First you people kidnapped an innocent girl." "And then murdered her!" " No, we didn't commit any murder." " No nonsense!" "OonstabIe...arrest him." "We didn't commit any murder." "Belleve me." "We haven't done a thing." "What happened?" " Nothing." " Get up and get ready now." "Your brother has called you and Boney to the police station." "SheetaI was your classmate." "I've called you both in connection with the enquiry of her murder case." "Both of you were very close to her." "With your help, I want to make investigations and catch the killer." "Looks like we will get to know of the killer right now." " How's that?" " A man has come who knows a Iot about SheetaI's murder." "His name is Anna." "Send him in." " We're leaving, brother." " Yes." "Shall we leave?" "Be seated." "I want to ask you something." "Greetings, sir." "What do you know about the murder?" "Four days ago, this girl had come to my cottage." "She had come to your cottage?" "Who else was there with her?" "There was one more girl with her." "And there were two other boys." "There were a total of four." "They came to my cottage together." "They came on a picnic." "I gave them the cottage against an advance of 50 rupees." "Thereafter I don't know when they left the cottage and vanished." "I came here after I read about it." "They didn't even pay me the money." "I've small children, sir." "The two boys and the girl who had accompanied this girl can you identify them?" "Why wouldn't I?" "I can recognise them even with closed eyes." "If I find them, I will catch them and bring them to you." "My money, sir..." "my children are so small." "Tell me...how was their appearance?" "Their appearance...?" "What do you mean by appearance?" "What did they look like?" "One of the three was a girl." "Very beautiful." "One boy." "Tall and fair-compIexioned." "He wore shoes of size 12." "The other boy was just like a loafer." "If I find him anytime, I will chop his neck like a coconut." "They didn't pay me my money." "I've such small..." "Ohlldren?" "Just a minute." "What did they discuss among themselves?" "Among themselves...?" "I don't know what they talked about." "What were they saying?" "I didn't hear." "I've a hearing problem." "I forgot to put this in place that day." " Did you see anything?" " I have had tea." " Did you see anything?" " I've had my meals." "Put this in place." " Did you see anything?" " I did." "Their faces were sweating profusely." "They must have surely killed the girl.... ...and then they must have dumped the dead body." "Looks like he has himself committed the murder." "And now he is passing the blame on someone else." "Shall we lock him inside and bash him up?" "He will confess to everything." "You are out of your mind." "Did you hear what I said?" "I am out of my mind." "Where's that cottage?" "After they left, did anybody else come here?" "Nobody." "Nobody comes here." "They forgot this book here." "This book belongs to them." " Why hasn't brother returned yet?" " That's what I'm wondering too." "OouId he have found some evidence?" "Yes, sister-in-Iaw?" "Oome, I will serve dinner." "Your brother too has arrived." "Now at Ieast you will eat." "What happened?" "Did you find anything?" "The killer will be in police custody tomorrow." "How's that?" "Through this novel." "I got this novel at that cottage." "I just met Mr. Kallashnath." "He told me that his daughter SheetaI was not at all fond of reading novels." "It proves that the killer was used to reading novels." "I will know the killer's name from the national Library tomorrow." "Thereafter it will not be difficult at all to catch that killer." "Give it to me." "We are safe." "He will find somebody else's name at the library tomorrow." " Not at all." " Why?" "I had borrowed that novel." "NeeIam's name and my name has been entered there." "You?" "NeeIam?" "Gosh!" "We will have to go to the national Library rightaway." "Search...search." "There it is!" "How did I leave the register here?" "I had better shut it." "I should be going now." "My name is Inspector Suresh MaIhotra." "Don't you interrupt!" "This novel is from your library." "I want that person's name who borrowed this novel from here." "Hey!" "What's this?" "This page is torn!" "It means the killer had got to know that I'll be coming here." "But how did he know?" "Who's this killer?" "You?" "Yes, it is me." "Oome." "Why've you come here?" "It has been so many days." "You didn't come to meet me." "And why should you?" "After all, your purpose has been served." "That's why I came over to meet you on my own." "OouIdn't you have telephoned me?" "Why did you have to come here?" "Why?" "What's the problem in coming here?" "Now I can stay here forever." "Forget seeing such dreams." "I'm a respectable person of this city." "I've a position and status in society." "Weren't you reminded of your position and status when you..." "Shut up." "Get lost from here." "I know that men like you change colours like a chameleon." "I want to show you some photographs after seeing which you will be dumbfounded." "Did you like them?" "I see." "So you want to blackmail me?" "No, no." "I just want to make a deal, darling." "How much money do you want?" "Just sign a blank cheque with your lovely hands." "I will fill the figures on my own." "And you'll be attending my stage show as the chief guest." " Your stage show?" " Yes." "All right." "I will bring the cheque with me on that day." "The college has ended for the day." "Everybody is coming out." "Identity which are the boys and the girl who had gone to that cottage with SheetaI that day." "I am looking attentively, sir." "Who has been selected for today's show aIongwith Julle?" "Raj and Boney have been selected for today's dance programme." " Raj and Boney have been selected?" " Yes." "What is Anna doing here with the Inspector?" "Let's slip out of here." "Hey!" " What happened?" " Anna and brother..." "...are standing out there." " Is it?" "But what are they doing here?" "Looks like brother has come with Anna to identify us." "Let's get out of the back exit." "None of them are those people." "One of those boys used to put this in his nose." " Put what?" " This...sniffing habit." "It means Boney...?" "Did you recognise Julle who was dancing with us?" "Ah, yes." "Why had you been staring at her repeatedly?" "This is the same girl whose car would've run over SheetaI." " What do you mean?" " OouId she have wanted to kill SheetaI since she had been murdered on the next day?" "You're talking like a mad person." "It's possible that I might be wrong." "But what's the harm in meeting her?" "Wait for me at the lobby downstairs aIongwith NeeIam." "I'll be back." "Oome soon." "We have to go to the dinner party." "Yes, I will be back." "Do wait for my return." "You beat me?" "I did so much for you." "I tried to run the car over SheetaI and NeeIam on your say-so." "I supported you at the time of killing SheetaI." "Just because I asked you for money, you beat me?" "I will telephone the police rightaway and tell them everything about SheetaI and those photographs." "I am not worried about what happens to me." "But I will make sure that you are sent to the gallows." "Boney hasn't come yet." "When would we reach the party?" "telephone the police and go to the hostel straightaway." " Where's Boney?" " Some crooks have taken Boney away by force." "Raj too has gone after them." " Orooks took him away?" " Yes." "Where?" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Brother!" "Boney has gone that way." "Orooks are behind him." "That way, brother." "The road is closed on this side too." "Who were those people?" "Why do they want to kill you?" "NeeIam's life is in danger." "NeeIam's life is in danger?" "Who wants to kill her?" "SheetaI's killer wants to kill her." "But according to Anna's statement, SheetaI was with you people." "Yes, brother." "We did kidnap her." "But we didn't kill her." "You people didn't kill her?" "Then who is her killer?" "Who's her killer?" "Did you see him?" "Yes." "Let's take him to the hospital first." "His life is in danger." "Let's hurry up." "NeeIam, I hope you are fine." "Yes, I am fine." "But where are you calling from?" "Where's Boney?" "He's seriously injured." "He has been admitted to the hospital." "Who all are there at the hostel right now?" "Everybody has gone to the party." "I am all alone." "Shut all the doors and windows." "Don't open them till I come there." "Why?" "What's the matter?" "Do as I say." "Your life's in danger." "My life is in danger?" "Who wants to kill me?" "What happened, NeeIam?" "The electricity has been cut off here." "Where has the watchman gone?" "Who are you?" "It's you, uncle?" "Why do you want to kill me?" "OonstabIe...record his statement." "Tell me...why did you want to kill your niece NeeIam?" "Neither is she my niece, nor am I her uncle." "What?" "I was a manager at the factory of NeeIam's father, Anupam Ohaudhary." "He used to trust me completely." "One day he met with an accident, and there was no hope of his survival." "Under such circumstances he handed over his 3-year-oId daughter NeeIam and his entire business to me, and then he breathed his last." "And then?" "15 years later when NeeIam turned 18 her father's lawyer came to me with a will." " What does the will state?" " The will states that when NeeIam turns 18 all the property should be transferred to NeeIam's name." "And if anything were to happen to NeeIam being her guardian, her property will remain with you." "Hearing this, I thought why not murder NeeIam and become the owner of the property." "I deliberately brought NeeIam to Mumbai from Pune." "I wanted her death to seem like an accident." "So I contacted a dancer named Julle, who would do anything for money." "One day, NeeIam was going with her friends on a picnic." "When Julle tried to crush her under the car she failed." "And then, she came and met me." "What happened?" "I was about to crush her." "But her friend rescued her." "Where have they gone?" "Perhaps towards the highway." "Let's follow them." "We followed them to Manori island." "There I noticed that they were talking of staying at a cottage." "I would've killed NeeIam then and there." "But Raj, Boney and SheetaI were present there." "We returned." "But I went there again the next day." "Nobody was there." "NeeIam was all alone." "I turned towards the rear." "Have those two come as yet or not?" "They must be coming anytime now with a drooping face." "I entered inside through the window." "NeeIam was seated on the sofa." "Then I began to stab her." "suddenly I heard a noise from outside." "When I went and saw, NeeIam was out there." "With Raj and Boney." "I was shocked." "I turned and saw that it was SheetaI." "I slipped out immediately through the back-door." "This is how I killed SheetaI instead of NeeIam." "But why did you kill Julle?" "She used to work for you." "Julle was a professional bIackmaller." "She wanted to blackmail me." "So I killed her." "Boney saw me killing her." "So I sent crooks to kill him." "And you reached the hostel to kill NeeIam." "OonstabIe..." "lock him up." "I suppose you aren't hurt seriously." "We are very sorry for what we have done." "Son..." "I cannot get my daughter back now." "But never play such a joke with anybody which would change lives, or cause to risk lives." "Sir, I came to tell you that these three were with the girl who had been murdered." "Ask them to pay me my money." "I am a poor person, sir." "You've caught him too, sir?" "You've done a nice thing." "He brings girls to my cottage and pays me only 20 rupees." "And he used to warn me not to tell anybody." "Or else he would beat me severely." "That's why I never complained." "I'm a poor man." "I've such small children." "This small?" "Are they children or what?" "How amazing!" "You even know my surname!"