Chapter 3

                              Part - 2

Maan comes home very late...

He is frustrated and angry with himself for what he did the day before...how could he do that?

He shouldn't have gone there...he curses himself for landing into trouble all by himself...

It's none of his business...he had never gone to Hoshiarpur, his native place, since his dadaji's passing away...

He had fond memories of his childhood holidays spent with his dadaji. Mr.Lala Amarnath Khurana , in the fields of Hoshiarpur...

Those were the happiest days of his life...

After his parents left him one after another, Dadi left Hoshiarpur and came to Delhi to look after him and his elder brother Vicky...

As Mr.Madanlal Khurana, Maan's father suddenly died after launching the new business in Delhi, Vicky had to give up his studies and take charge of KC...

Maan used to spend his holidays with Lalaji at Hoshiarpur, dadu always waited for the holidays eagerly...

Maan ko abhi bhi yaad hai, dadaji ke paas ek bail gadhi(bullock cart) thi, dadaji Maan ko lene railway station bhi ussi mein aathe the...

Maan used to enjoy those bumpy rides...dadaji let Maan ride the cart always...and he always praises Maan's takent... riding that may not need a license but it needs some skill, haina?

And they used to go to the nearby town to watch Amitabh movies in that same cart, while they return both of them fall asleep but the bullocks know the right way back to Hoshiarpur...

Maan loved those rides very much, and dadaji is a great cook too...

He used to make delicious food for Maan, dadaji Maan ke liye specialy chicken banathe the, aur uska naam tha Hoshiarpur chicken, he used to say that there is a unoque flavor in Hoshiarpur's land and water and that is not available in Delhi...

Maan had not had such good chicken afterwards...Maan knows that only his dadaji can brind that taste with all his love and care...since Maan's mom left him when he was too young everyone took care of him with utmost care and attention...

After a couple of years dadaji fell ill, he suffered from dementia...he lost his memory slowly...

He used to forget his meals and sometimes even to bath, Dadi used to make fun of him...

Then after a few days he needed someone to take care of him...he had to be taken care off just like a child...dadi had a tough time taking care of everyone...

And all the relatives suggested that Maan be sent to a boarding school...

Vicky never liked that idea and he sternly said no to that...

He took care of Maan relieving dadi instead...

That's when Maan became so close to Vicky...

But later he even forgot Maan...Maan felt very bad...

And the worst part is that he had to locked up like a culprit in a separate room for he used to get wild and even tried to jump off the terrace once...

Maan can't forget his pain and suffering in those last days...

Dadaji was such a nice man, he didn't deserve such an end...

Kabhi kabhi Maan ko lagtha tha ki isse achcha woh jaldh hi marjaathe...

Aur ek din Maan ka ichcha oura hua, dadaji Maan ko chodke chale gaye...

After that Maan became so dependent on Vicky...

Vicky used to take him to KC in the holidays...for Maan was so depressed thinking about dadaji...

Maan ki Hoshiarpur ki yadein kuch aaise hai toh Geet ki baat bahut hi alag hai...

She never liked Hosiarpur, it reminds her of her useless alcoholic father...

She comes to Hoshiarpur only for the festive season that too only to see her elder sisters...

She hates her father so much... he is the worst father a girl can have...

He got his eldest daughter married off as a second wife to a man who made sure that she will never have a child of her own after marriage and married her just to take care of his children...

She was made to undergo sterilization even before she was married to that man...

Then her younger sister Rajji loved her neighbor Gurvinder and ran away with him as she knew very well about her father...

Geet is happy that at least she had the choice to choose her partner...she hopes her didi is living happily with Gurvinder somewhere...

Geet stopped going to Hoshiarpur after that until her father literally abducted her from Amritsar, where she lived happily with her mausi...

Maan's room...

Geet blows off all the candles and waits in the darkness...for the devil to come...

Maan enters his room unaware of the lurking danger...

He is still thinking about the unwanted things that happened the day before and how he could come out of this mess...

He doesn't know neither about dadi's plans for him nor his beloved wifey's plans...

He is completely exhausted and just wants to lie down and take some rest...

At the present scenario it's very hard for him to fall asleep, at least he could pretend to be sleeping with his eyes closed...haina babaji? But that too seems to be very difficult...

Maan is about to switch on the lights when someone attacks him from behind...

Maan catches hold of that person and pushes that stranger hard to defend himself...

In that process they fall on the bed and are entangled in the decorations made for SR...

Maan could feel that it's definitely not a man...

Geet is lying beneath him and is struggling to push him off...

It takes a couple of minutes for Maan to realize that it's his new bride who had tried to attack him and not any outsider...

He immediately gets off and switches on the lights...

Geet quickly recovers herself and gets ready to attack him again with the knife in her hand...

Geet had used the fruit knife for her defence...

Maan snatches the knife from her and arrests her hands behind her back...

Geet: hare, kamine, choda mujhe

Maan gets angry seeing her in his room...

Her presence annoys him more than her strange behavior...

Maan: tum, tum yahan kya kar rahi ho?

Geet: chodo mere haath

Maan: tum kya chahathi ho? pagal ladhki, tum mujhe jaan se maroge? Maan Singh Khurana ko?

Maan shows all his might and poor Geet is no match for him...

But still she fights back...

Geet: haan, mein aaj nahi toh kal tummare jaan leloongi, tum samajthe kya apne aapko? Tere paas paise hai toh tum bagwaan banjaathe? Aur sab tere seva karenge?

Maan: chup...bilkul chup

Geet: mein chup nahi rehne wali, samjhe tum, paise dekhe tum mujhe nahi kareedh sakthe, kuthe, kamine, tere ko toh mein

Geet tries hard to get off his hold...she continues her galiyan...

Maan ko lagtha hai ki isske haath ko nahi pehle muh ko band karna padega...

He takes off her duppatta and shuts her mouth...

He then takes a deep breath and realizes that it's dadima's plan to trap him...but Maan is not going to give-up his bachelor's oath easily...

He then holds Geet's hand and tries to get her out of his room...

Geet mistakes him for trying to rape her and she resists ...

She tries to escape and starts kicking him...

Maan then lifts her up and carries her on his shoulders...

Geet hits him hard on his back but this man is too strong...

He has got a body of steel and her tiny hands would just tickle him...

She feels like a tiny doll caught in the hands of an evil giant...yes, she is such an innocent doll...

Even Maan could notice her innocence and he very well knows that she is still a little girl, soni pari...

Maan takes her to the Out House...

By this time Geet had untied her mouth and starts shouting for help...

Geet: bachao...koi mujhe bachaooo

Maan is embarrassed...her voice echoes in the silence of the night...

Maan couldn't bear it...

He rushes in and throws her on the bed...

He then jumps over and shuts her mouth with his hand...

Geet looks scared...

Maan: chup...bilkul chup...

Maan looks into her frightened eyes...

Geet looks at him like a villain...

She is trying to save herself from him...

Maan is hurt as he had fallen so low in her views...

Though he isn't bothered about his image he doesn't want to scare her more...

He too knows her plight very well...if his life is full of misfortunes in some way so is Geet's, as this marriage is an equally unfortunate affair for her too...

Maan: darne ki koi zaroorat nahi

Geet aur dar jaathi...

Geet thinks that he is out of his mind, after treating his so called newly married wife like that he is asking her not to be afraid ... truly this man is nothing less than a mystery...

Maan: meine kaha na, darne ki koi baat nahi

Maan raises his voice seeing her still afraid of him...

Geet shivers under his arms...

Maan moves away relieving her...

Geet gasps and tries to get up...

Maan pushes her back and he gets up to leave...

Maan: ab ye kamra tera hai

So saying he leaves...

Geet is astonished by that...she keeps looking his back till he vanishes...

She then goes and locks the door...

She couldn't believe what happened and wonders why the hell did he marry her?

She closes her eyes and thinks about her life...

She is determined to live her life as she wanted, no one can stop her, even that devil MSK...

She prays to her babaji to give her all the strength she needs to face this devil...

She gears up for the fight...she is not afraid of anyone...haina babaji?