On seeing the man, Mr. Singhania gets up immediately, goes near him and greets him with a hug, “Aah Mayank what a pleasant surprise!” Mr. Singhania then turns towards Deep and says, “Deep, this is one of our most important business associates, Mr. Mayank Raichand” and then towards Mr. Raichand, “This is my one and only son, Deep Singhania!” Both the men shake their heads and then their hands. Mr. Singhania, “So Mr. Raichand, what made you come here? You are always a mysterious person who never turns up for any parties? Then how come here?” Mr. Raichand, “After all this party is about the success behind the India’s best make-up artist and I wanted to meet that artist personally whose hands can beautify anyone!” Deep teasingly asks, “Do you want me to try my hands on you Sir?” Mr Raichand, “Ummm…not on me but on my daughter!” Deep is surprised with his demand, “Your daughter?” Mr. Raichand, “Yes my daughter Ms. Tara Raichand” Deep questions, “So that’s what made you come here?” Mr. Raichand, “Yes, I want to see your hands make my daughter look even more beautiful than she is” Deep pauses to think for a moment and says, “But Sir I have a deep hatred for ugly or deformed things!” Mr. Raichand, “I never said my daughter is ugly! Infact, when you meet her you will realize that you have met one of the most beautiful women of the world” Deep’s eyes blink with curiosity on hearing that and he asks, “Then why do you want me to try my hands on her Sir?” Mr. Raichand, “Because I want to see your talent, I want to see how your hands can work on a beautiful face and make it look even more beautiful” Deep nods in agreement and asks, “So when will I be able to meet your daughter…Ummm…Ms. Tara?” Mr. Raichand, “Tonight around 10:30 pm!” Deep’s heart skips a beat, “10:30pm? Isn’t it quite late, Sir? Mr. Raichand, “I don’t think it is wrong to hold a meeting in the night time to meet a beautiful person because the night time is the most beautiful of all times!” Deep, “Will you come along with her Sir?” Mr. Raichand, “I wish to but she said that she wants to meet you personally, so when she has the guts, why should I stop her? And Deep I’m her father, when I’m not worried why you are? You work your hands on her and send her back to me which is more than enough for me to see how well your hands work ” Deep smiles blushingly and then quickly takes out his studio’s visiting card. He hands it over to Mr. Raichand saying, “Give this to your daughter and ask her meet me here tonight.” Mr. Raichand, “Sure, and I assure you will never forget this night once you meet my Tara!” Deep’s heart fluttered in excitement. Mr. Raichand soon bids adieu and leaves from the party with a crafty smirk on his face.
Narrator: Deep was always obsessed with beauty and wanted to achieve all that is the most beautiful in this world. When he heard that Tara is one of the most beautiful women he would ever find, his heart raced with excitement and eyes anticipated on meeting Tara.
Night time, around 10:00
After listening to all of Deep’s insults. Aarohi came back home and put up a cheerful face in front of her Dad, to let him not know whatever had happened. After supper, making sure that her father is sound asleep. Aarohi sneaked out of her house and wandered with her cycle near her father’s stable. Her head was still filled with what Deep had told her that day “bony…ugly…creature…no place in my heart”. As those words, turned in and out again and again through her head, she puts sudden brakes on her cycle and falls down at a steep place. On the other side, Deep reaches his studio and cleans it up to make it a good meeting place for Tara. Here, Aarohi after falling down, does not look back at her cycle whose wheels were still in motion rather she gathers her strength, sits down and takes out the lamp locked from around her neck and talks to it, “All I wanted was to make you remember our…..” While, Deep in his studio looked out through the window into the night sky and said, “I have always wanted the woman in my life to be most beautiful looking woman I would ever find, why does my heart say that Ms. Tara Raichand is going to be that special one, he soon sees a shooting star in the sky and makes a wish, “I wish I find the woman of my life soon!” On the other side, Aarohi again remembers Deep’s words, “bony…ugly…creature…no place in my heart” feels hurt and says “Alright if you do not want me in your heart then I too don’t want to keep you in mine!” She pulls and breaks the chain containing the lamp locket, hurting her neck and flings it unto the night sky just as the shooting star which Deep had earlier seen passes right in front of her. The star shoots through Mr. Kashyap’s stable and soon a loud bang is heard from beside the stable. Mr. Kashyap, his neighbours and Aarohi all get alarmed with the sudden bang sound. Aarohi realizes that the sound would have woken up her dad and make him find out that she had been wandering outside in the night. She soon picks up her cycle, races back to her house. There, she sees her Dad opening the front door and looking towards the place where the sound had come. As he walks out towards that place, Aarohi slowly sneaks inside. Mr. Kashyap and all his neighbors rush towards the spot where the sound had come from and find fire all over the place. It was the place where Mr. Kashyap used to keep hay for his cows. He and his neighbors together bring buckets of water and try to put off the fire. As they were trying to light off the fire, one of them asks, “What happened here that the whole place was lit with fire?” Just then a woman is seen walking outside from the place unbeknownst to the eyes of any of the men standing there (Iss ishq mein marjawan song plays). She has the lamp lock around her neck which Aarohi had flung into the air just a few minutes earlier. The woman walks past the place, (Iss ishq mein marjawan still playing), into the roads. The woman was a stunning looking woman in pretty black dress with diamond jewelry. She had a star tattoo on her right leg. She walks through the road, towards Deep’s studio, opens its doors and says, “Hello Mr. Singhania”. Deep turns around. The tune ends and the scene freezes there on the woman, Aarohi and Deep’s faces.
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To be continued.
