"I don't know what to do anymore" Lalit sighed as he slouched on the chair, rubbing a hand over his face trying to get rid of the tiredness.
"We can try and change the storyline here, and appease the fans?" Gul asked as she stared at the storyboard in front of her tyring to find the changes possible.
Both of their eyes strayed to the trashcan sitting in the corner, filled with the storyboard from the past.
"What's the plan?" Lalit asked, leaning forward and staring at the script intently.
"Well...the fans want us to make Arnav suffer?" Gul questioned as she tried finding a way to make that happen.
Lalit cursed under his breath, therw the script away in frustration and got up from the chair pacing the room.
"What else do they want?" He snapped.
Gul stared at her computer screen for a few minutes, reading some comments, "They really want to see Arnav suffer, and Khushi get a makeover" Gul sighed.
Before Lalit could respond, the door opened and Barun came barging in, Sanaya hot on his heels.
"What is this?" Baurn asked, shocked.
"How can you do this?" Sanaya asked, clutching the script tightly in her hands.
"Look-" Lalit tried explaining, but Sanaya cut him off,
"Gul! How can you do this to Khushi?" She asked, staring at her incredulously. Gul just shook her head in defeat and looked down.
"The fans are enraged with how the track was going, so we had to tweak here and there. But it seems like they still weren't happy wiht the changes, and so now we don't know what to do. So we are hoping to introduce a new twist" Lalit explained, regretting the decision he made a year back of giving into the fans and the many threats he received through email.
"By killing off Khushi?" Sanaya exclaimed.
"And I go into a mental asylum?" Barun exclaimed, looking fro Gul to Lalit, trying to find some answers.
"I thought this show was different? I thought you had the whole storyline figured out!" Barun questioned, but Lalit shook his head, running a hand through his hair.
"We did, Barun" Lalit sighed. "We did...but people were threatening that they were going to leave the show. People became obsessed!" He explained, but Barun shook his head defiantly.
"I know. I was pretty shocked by their reaction too, but you should have been strong Lalit! Now the show is going nowhere! Arnav's past still hasn't been explained. Khushi is about to die, Anjali has been pregnant for more than 9 months, Shyam is plotting with Hari Prakash, Om Prakash is back with a vengeance as well, Laxmi is missing and Mami wants to go to an Ashram and serve the poor kids!" Barun exclaimed. "What happened to our show?"
Gul and Lalit looked at each other helplessly.
The door opened once again, and Abhaas stormed in, holding a few pieces of paper.
"That's it!" He shouted. "I've had it. The hate mails have not stopped for more than a year, and the fans are getting ridiculously obsessed and creative on how i should die. They aren't even talking about Shyam dying anymore. They want me to die, so Shyam will cease to exist in the show!" He said, his form trembling from holding in the anger.
Lalit gave out a groan of frustration, "I am sorry about this Abhaas. If it's getting too much for you, we could always get Shyam a plastic surgery and get someone else to play his role?" Lalit offered, remembering some suggestion a fan has sent about how Shyam could die in a hospital.
Abhaas kept quiet, pondering over the idea, and Sanaya took the opportunity to speak up,
"Can I get plastic surgery too? I have been getting some mails about how Khushi is too weak. People are attacking on my appearance, etc etc. And I am getting sick and tired of it, honestly. I never experienced this in MJHT, and we were competing against DMG!"
Lalit nodded in understanding but didn't have an answer to any of their queries.
"Even my dog refuses to watch this show!" Barun exclaimed, as he threw the script away.
Gul got up, holding up her hands to calm everyone down.
"How about this? We "kill" everyone off, go forward a year, and a new generation. And then Arnav is entered in the show once more, with memory loss. Khushi is in a coma, and Arnav falls for her. Khushi wakes up, hates him. And it'll be like a fresh new start!" Gul suggested, and Lalit nodded in appreciation. They were going nowhere, but they had to do something to get the TRPs up.
"What about Shyam?" Abhaas asked confused.
"Er...well.." Gul hesitated, trying to think of a role, "He could still have the memory, and try to win over Khushi? Or we could make you a worker at the hospital Khushi is admitted in? Or you could be a servant at the RM mansion?"
Abhaas scowled, and went from there, muttering under his breath how hopeless this show had become.
"One more threat, and Shyam is getting a plastic surgery!" Abhaas shouted on his way out.
"My dog misses another episode, and Arnav is getting a plastic surgery!" Barun said on his way out.
"One more jibe at my appearance, and Khushi is getting a plastic surgery!" Sanaya shouted, as she took out her phone to call Mohit, and went back to her dressing room.
"I guess the fans got what they wanted" Lalit sighed.
"We should have stuck to the original storyline" Gul muttered, and sat back on her chair, defeated.
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