A SHOCKING REVELATION?
“You can hide the truth, but never destroy it…
Even if you hide it in the darkest of the darkest places, light comes to it..
Even if you dig the deepest pit and bury it there, it will come out.. piercing the ground…”
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Pranav: I cannot marry you, Prachi..
Prachi keeps staring at Pranav…
[The next scenes takes place simultaneously]
“What do you have to say about this, Disha maasi?” Shahana asks, pointing at the photo on the wall…
Purab sits down and pics up the album, staring at the open page and some photos that were seperate from the album, with tears in his eyes…
Pranav: Prachi… What I am going to say now… Hear it carefully, very carefully…
Prachi nods her head..
Pranav takes a long breath…
Pranav: I am.. SUNNY… Disha and Purab’s son…
The photo that Shahana was pointing to is that of Disha with Pranav (a.k.a grown up Sunny)
One side of the album that Purab was looking had the childhood pics of Sunny with Disha and Purab and the other side had the picture of Disha with Pranav (a.k.a grown up Sunny)
[The scenes from now on takes place seperately]
Disha: Sunny is my son..
Shahana: Sunny? He is Pranav…
Disha: That is his name to the world… Pranav is Sunny… Sunny is Pranav…
[Prachi and Shahana will be asking the same question and Disha and Pranav will be giving similar answers]
Prachi: Pranav… Aap Sunny bhaiya… Disha massi’s beta? Then who is Mr.Tripati?
Shahana sees Disha staring at the wall.. she turns her head in the same direction and finds a group photo… With Uday, Uma, Pranav, Shrenu, Neeraj, etc..
Disha: Uday Tripathi is my brother.. Ajay Tripathi’s children.. Pranav… Sunny’s uncle…
Prachi: Disha maassi is Ajay Tripathi’s daughter?
Pranav: hmm…
Shahana: But Pragya maassi told that you were…
Pranav: when maa came to Delhi for higher studies, she kept her identity a secret.. My grandfather used to say.. “there will be many people with the person who have everything… the real good ones are those who are ready to help those with nothing…”
Disha: Pragya di was that good one, who helped me… I married Purab with my family’s consent… But, they were abroad and not in a state to return soon… I was planning to make the Mehras meet my actual family when that happened…
Prachi: so.. Uday uncle, Uma aunty… Everyone knew this?
Disha nods her head…
Pranav: I am the first grandchild of Mr Ajay Tripathi.. Thought dad and mom got married before maa, they didn’t have a child… When I and maa left the Mehra mansion, we came back to Mumbai…
Disha: I was in depression for a year… In this time period and even later, it was bhaiyya and bhabhi, who took care of Sunny…
Pranav: That is why I call them “dad” and “mom”…
Disha: Shrenu was born twelve years after bhaiyya and bhabhi’s marriage, that is, two years after I and Sunny left the Mehra mansion…
Pranav: For her,I am her own brother…
Prachi: but paapa told that Uday uncle and he was childhood friends…
Pranav: yes… they were classmates..
maa was with them for almost eight years, still they thought she was an orphan… Then what?
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Purab was hugging the album, moving his hand on Disha and Sunny’s photos…
“So… This was why I felt something special about him… so… this was why he was behaving like that…” Purab remembers the incidents that happened after Pranav came to Mehra mansion…
FLASHBACK INCIDENTS..
On the day they came to the Mehra mansion, Purab had spotted Pranav glaring at Aaliya, clenChing his fist…
When Abhi had asked him something, he had replied
“Yes chuc.. Abhi uncle..”
Once, when Purab had patted him on Pranav’s shoulder, he had felt a fatherly feeling…
Once,
Purab: Uday is really lucky… Every man will wish to have a son like you…
Pranav: oh God…
Purab: what happened?
Pranav: nothing… I was thinking about the irony of life…
Another day,
Abhi: Everyone will have some or the other idea with him of how they will be… Like, before joining the college, some will plan I will study daily, I will be the topper… Likewise, before getting married, every man will have some ideals to follow… So, what are your plans? Ranbir?
Ranbir: I will not only love, but also respect my wife… I will be the person who will be there with her in every steps of the life…
Uday: wow…
Purab: and you, Pranav?
Pranav: nothing much… A girl leaves behind her everything to become a wife, believing her husband… I will not break my wife’s trust.. I will never cheat on her…
(He said that while glaring at Purab)
Once when Pranav came to Purab’s office, he had seen Aaryan’s photo on the table..
Pranav: is Aaryan your only son?
Purab: yes…
Pranav’s eyes turned red… He made an excuse and stormed out of the cabin..
FLASHBACK ENDS…
Purab: It had been 22 years since you and your mother had left me… I was not yet finished loving you… Now… Even after being near me… I couldn’t love you… I couldn’t hold you close…
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Pranav: I met you as Shrenu’s friend.. I felt a connection with you that I shared with Shrenu… You resembled Kiara… I didn’t know then why I felt so… When you won prizes, I felt proud… When you were happy, I felt more happy… When you were sad, I felt restless… I didn’t know why I felt so… Until that day, 6 years back, when Pragya maasi came for the Diwali celebration…
6 years ago..
Prachi and Shahana reached the Tripathi Mansion…
Uma hugged both of them..
Shrenu made them eat sweets..
Shrenu: Where is Pragya aunty?
Pranav and Neeraj also come there…
Prachi: Maa… Yes… There she is..
Pragya walks towards them..
Pranav was surprised…
He stood there, staring at Pragya, his eyes gets teary…
Uday and Uma was looking at him… They too had recognised Pragya…
Pragya: Namaste…
Pranav breaks from his trance…
Pranav touches her feet…
Pragya hugs him…
Prachi was confused seeing Pranav’s reaction…
FLASHBACK ENDS…
Pranav: you are like.. no.. you are my younger sister… I can only see you like a little sister… Seeing the old Sunny in me when I am with you, mom misunderstood be to be in love with you…
Prachi hugs him..
Prachi: Sunny bhaiya…
Sunny hugs her back…
Here, they were happy… Pranav was able to open up and Prachi, found her long lost brother…
Unknown to them, a pair of brown orbs had witnessed them hugging… And that poor soul was broken… Ranbir…