Gauri arrived at Jha house. Sharmila was fuming with anger looking at her. "What are you doing here? Get out of the house." Sharmila shouted at her. "Relax. I am here back in my house. Who are you to stop me from coming here" Gauri replied. "This is not your house anymore. Get out yourself else i will kick you out" Sharmila warned. "Let her come in" Vishwa came and ordered. Gauri gave winning smile to Sharmila and entered. She came forward and touched manjiri's feet who was lifeless on wheel chair. "How are you manji maa" Gauri asked. Sharmila felt disgusted by Gauri's behaviour. "What do you want?" Vishwa asked. "I want to talk to you in private" Gauri said and vishwa took her in his room. Why Gauri is here and what she is discussing with Vishwa, Sharmila was thoughtful.
Night At party venue,
Tina reached there. Balraj asked Tina to get ready for performance. She headed towards changing room. Her mom was simply taken over with lavish arragement at party in terms of food and drinks. Two jerks came and tried to stop Tina when she was heading towards changing room alone. "So you are the singer from Mumbai who is going to perform today" they said blocking her way. "Yes why?" Tina replied. "Nothing we were eagerly waiting to meet you" they said trying to put bad eye on her. "Ok. meet me after performance. anyways today is Raksha bandhan so i can tie rakhi on yours hand" Tina gave fit reply to them and left making them forcefully unblocking her way. They were bowled over by her attitude. "What a master piece she is. I think we really need to meet her after performance" they thought cunningly.
Just after Tina left the place, Yug arrived there. He called up his assitant and asked if all preparations are done. Assistant gave positive reply. "Whether that singer is here. Have you picked up from her hotel?" Yug asked. "Yes sir she is already here" assitant replied. Yug took out a paper from his file. "This is list of song they have demanded her to peform. Give it to her and instruct her not to make any mistake. These people are ruthless. They can create huge chaos on small mistake" Yug warned and gave paper to him. Assitant left. Yug looked around and found preparation for party is perfect. He went to bar corner and ordered drink for himself. He was disturbed again. Whenever he used to be alone Kali's dying face haunted him. He kept drinking one drink after another to get rid of that.
"What mad people are these? I am supposed to go on stage in five minutes and these people have not provided me song list yet. Where the heck this event manager is" Tina was all furious and decided to find out herself.
Out in garden in bruch area, her mom was enjoying all variety of dishes. Balraj was also happy over lavish arrangement at party. He suddenly spotted Tina wondering around. "What she is doing here?" He thought. Finally Tina managed to get hold of guy from Yug's event management company. "Excuse me. I am here singer for tonight. I have been informed that I will get list of songs from you people. But I havent got any" Tina complained. "Sorry mam, I am new here and i dont have any clue about it. why dont you check with our event manager Mr. Yug? He is there" he pointed out at Yug sitting at bar corner. "Ok. I will check" she said and started moving in Yug's direction. Standing just behind him she was about to tap Yug's shoulder when Balraj pulled her away. "What are you doing here? You are supposed to be on stage right now." he said. "Yes. But I havent got list of songs yet which needs to be performed" Tina replied. "How does that matter? Sing any song you wish, these people will enjoy." he said and dragged her near stage. "Balraj listen", before she could say anything he pushed her on stage.
First time ever she felt disgusted looking at crowd. All boys were present and she found herself alone trapped admist of those. "Why these maroons are looking at me like they have never seen any girl before. Better way I will sing a song with closed eyes" she thought to herself. She closed her eyes and thought for a moment which song to sing.
Jal rahi hain raah ka ban kar diya.
Jaane kitani raato se teri siya...
Khoke baithi khudko tujhme main ramji...
Apni khatir to main hoon bas naam ki..
Aake meri raat din barsa karein..
Ek jhalak paane ko bas tarsa karein...
Yug was stunned for a moment. This song.. her voice... He turned to see who is singing it. But he was too drunk to have clear vision in front of his eyes. He got up from seat and his steps started moving in direction of stage trying to see her face. But his senses were
working partially to understand anything. On other end, Balraj was confused which song she is singing.
Kaali raato ki subah bhi aayegi..
Ek din jeevan main khushiya chaayegi...
Aas maine dil se apne bandh li...
Ek manauti dil se apne maan li...
Aaoge tum aaoge.. ek din kabhi...
Sun lo meri ilataja o ramji...
She was really engrossed singing this song from soul. Her voice was pulling Yug near to her.
Pyaar apna main dikha sakti nahin..
Aur dil mein bhi daba sakti nahin..
Raat din baichain dhadkan kisliye...
Ishq hain to hain ye uljhan kisliye..
Kaisi hain yeh dhund kuchh dikhata nahin...
Rah tum dikhalao mujhko ramji...
She stopped singing song and opened up her eyes. She herself was confused which song this was, how does she even know this song. And her ramji was standing exactly in front of her down the stage.
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