There was something different about the hustle bustle of Saiyaara fashion house today. It was because of fear. Fear of a certain Sahir Azeem Chaudhary who was coming today for it was one of his 3 days in a week visit to the fashion house.
Sahir Azeem Chaudhary, the richest man in the country, the one who has businesses worldwide and is very diversified, still spares 3 days every week to visit this particular fashion house that is a tiny part of his huge conglomerate for the only reason that this fashion house, Saiyaara, was started by his late sister, Noor Azeem Chaudhary.
Even though she belonged to the richest family in the country, Noor, at the age of 12 had already decided that she wanted to become a fashion designer and start her own fashion house. By 17 she had already set up a small boutique owing to the investment made by her elder brothers Sahir and Zaki. It was her talent and determination that brought Saiyaara in the ranks of the leading fashion houses after 5 years of hard work. Saiyaara was her baby.
Noor had bigger plans for Saiyaara but all of them faced a major setback when Noor died in an accident. It took one drunk driver to destroy numerous dreams of a 25-year-old girl.
Since after her death, the ownership fell into the hands of Sahir and Zaki. Though Noor died, both the brothers wanted to keep her vestige alive. Saiyaara is close to both of them because of it being the closest thing to their sister. So they take turns in visiting Saiyaara, Zaki is the boss for the first 3 days of the week and the last 3 days are for Sahir. Sunday being the holiday.
Now, Zaki is a fun kind of boss, the one with whom everyone gets along well but Sahir is the one who gets the nicknames like Sadiyal, Khoonkhar, Gabbar etc, that is, the one boss that is too strict and can't be made happy with just trying; you have to be the best, do the best to get his approval. The employees fear him.
Sahir was in the conference room looking at the photographs of models who made it to the final list of candidates for the selection of one who can portray the theme that they have been given for their latest project. Saiyaara was contacted by famous director Rajdeep Kundra to design costumes for his new project which was a passionate love story between a girl with a bad past and a carefree and fun loving guy.
Out of the whole collection, only a few outfits will be used for the movie while the rest of it will be later showcased in a separate fashion show.
They had the costumes ready but they were in search of someone who could exhibit the emotions they wanted to portray through their designs. This particular meeting was held for that purpose only. So right now Sahir was looking at the pictures of the models so selected; they were given one outfit out of the whole collection and were asked to portray the theme, the emotion called passion.
"Junoon." Sahir muttered, "Is this what you call passion? Yeh hai junoon?" he threw the photographs away and slammed a hand on the desk hard, making the employees fear for their lives.
"None of these models have portrayed the emotion of theme correctly. It clearly looks as if they are faking it! Did you seriously choose these not capable models? Is this the quality of Saiyaara?" Sahir's voice boomed in the conference room. He was really angry as they had only a few days time left for the final submission but they still didn't have a model to do the job!
"Ahem, excuse me, sir?!" everybody stared at Tarini, the head designer working on the project.
(Tarini Bose - Portrayed by Tejaswi Prakash Wayangankar)
"What?" spat Sahir.
Tarini picked up her tablet and went towards Sahir, "I do have someone in mind, someone who can portray 'Junoon' perfectly. But I ain't sure that she will agree." Tarini unlocked her tablet and gave it to Sahir so he could look at the photographs of the woman whom she thought could portray the emotion.
A gasp escaped Sahir's lips as he recognized the woman and the emotion in the photographs that Tarini had just shown him;
It was her.
The woman with whom one night just wasn't enough, the woman of whom he had been continuously dreaming about. That woman who invoked his dormant desires, provoked them to a limit that his desires knew no limit and he had to act upon them.
The one who seems to have imprinted on his mind, his memory. The one whom he can't seem to forget. Maybe just one more night, just one more time and his addiction, his infatuation with her will vanish.
"Who is she?" Sahir couldn't deny the fact that this beautiful stranger had perfectly portrayed the emotion that he was looking for, passion, junoon. You can see it her eyes, her postures, her style, everything about her tells a passionate story. And Sahir was very well aware of how passionate she was.
"Maya, Maya Mehrotra." Tarini said with a smile on her face. She knew that Sahir would surely like this. Only a blind person wouldn't be able to see the junoon that Maya's personality reflected.
"Give her a call. She is going to model for this project." Sahir said with finality in his tone.
"Now that's the problem." Tarini had an impish smile on her face.
"What's the problem? Is she committed to some other project? Tell her that she is being offered by Saiyaara, no model would refuse Saiyaara." Sahir asked.
"That is exactly the problem. She isn't actually a model, sir." Tarini took her tablet from Sahir and said, "Maya Mehrotra is the owner of Fashion & City, the top fashion magazine of the country."
That piece of information had no effect on Sahir's decision, "Arrange a meeting with Miss Mehrotra." he said, "Maya Mehrotra will model for this project. Only Maya."
Though he didn't show but Sahir was surprised when he got to know that Maya was actually the owner of Fashion & City. He knew about her, though he had never seen considering the fact that Maya is a very private person and stays away from media, but he had read about her.
There had been numerous articles about her but to be honest, he had read only a few. One of those few was an article about India's leading businesswoman and had featured Noor as well so it was obvious for him to read it.
Sahir leaned back on the chair while everybody else walked out of the conference room. He took out the bracelet, Maya's bracelet and raised it up to his eye-level, "It's time to take you to where you belong."
Arjun was really tensed as he couldn't forget the late night conversation that he had with Saanjh and his Mom. After he had told them about Maya's weird behaviour with him, they had begun with their 'Maya is mad' mantra. They warned him that from now on Maya will stop giving him any work, make him feel as if he is useless because Maya had only given him the job of the chief photographer just to keep him close to herself.
And now that he had broken up with Maya, she will try to lure him back again by showing just how insignificant he is without her. And now Arjun was really worried thinking about it.
"Mr. Sharma?" he was brought out of his thoughts when he heard Maya yell his name, well, not exactly his name.
"Huh?" Arjun stood up from his chair with a surprised look on his face, "Maya...Ma'am, aap yahan?" it was still a bit difficult for him to start calling her Ma'am again.
"Why didn't you pick up the phone?! What's the thing that you were so busy doing it that you didn't answer the damn phone?!" Maya muttered angrily.
"I am sorry." Arjun apologized knowing well that reasoning with Maya won't work, "What's the matter?"
Maya huffed angrily and said, "We have got a new project. Mrinalini Desai wants us to feature her latest collection in our magazine. I am assigning you on the project. Here are the details." Maya threw the file on his desk and was about to leave but stopped on hearing Arjun ask, "You are actually giving me work?"
Arjun was astonished that Maya actually gave him something to do, something to work on.
"Am I supposed to pay you for doing nothing?" Maya let out a mocking chuckle.
Arjun fumbled with his words, "No, I was just.."
"Whatever Mr. Sharma. I do not care. Just don't mess up with the project, else you will really not have any work to do." Arjun knew that Maya's words held a warning.
Arjun was an intelligent man.
So here's the third chapter! I hope you really enjoyed it, even if Sahir and Maya didn't meet. But don't worry, they will be meeting in the next chapter definitely!
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