MADHUBALA - REMEMBER ME *Complete* - Page 5

@sayanti_ashiuv...Yeah that was sad and frustrating. I was mad for the whole day and had decided not to write anymore but then decided against it when I thought I couldn't left you hanging when I hated the same thing like hell. Anyway I'll try to update faster till the part I had updated last.

@war_is_peace... Yes I am trying balancing it with my work. I am updating the next part now.

MADHUBALA - REMEMBER ME

Part 7

Roma and Trishna were flying with colours in excitement as soon as the producer gifted Madhu the keys for the car. For a moment Madhu didn't know what was the key for but as she looked at it concentrating hard on Rajesh Kapoor's words she gasped for a second quietly to not to let him know how much shocked she was. But instantly or what her instinct told her she raised her hand to return the key back. "Sorry Kapoorji but I can't take it."

"But why?" he asked, confused with her action.

"I am comfortable in travelling in a taxi and you have already done a lot for us. I am in your debt for eternity with what you have done for us and this is just adding up the piles on my shoulders. Please try to understand. I can't accept it." She didn't want to break his heart but she didn't want to be on someone else's mercy. She was glad that he had gifted her a vanity van but it was more than enough. She heard disapproval from her back and she knew Trishna and Roma didn't like it. Adding to this awkward situation she saw him corner from her eyes, walking past her. He was looking at her and she knew why. He might be thinking what kind of fool she was but life had taught her some things were to be cleared on the spot than later.

"Okay. Take it as a loan and return it to me after the shooting. I don't want my heroine to travel in a taxi. What will people say about me? At least for my reputation Madhubalaji. And I have appointed a driver too and I'll pay him. It's not for your sake but for mine. Okay?" He handed her the key taking her hand from her side and when she nodded closing her fist he touched her head affectionately before walking out.

RK couldn't believe what he saw and heard. He was waiting at the passage to see her reaction. When Bittuji informed him that the work was done he had walked out of his van to see the situation himself. If need arose he would interfere he had thought but what he had found was never going to be out of his mind ever. She denied taking his gift'. His gift. She didn't know that but still it pinched him but a thought covered all his anger in an instant. She denied taking the gift no matter who's it was. His heart waved with the wind that touched him. He had seen girls in this Industry who never said no to him or anyone. They answered in affirmative every time you asked them no matter what it was. And here she was denying the gift he had bought for her not that she knew this but she travelled a level deep in his heart and respect for her in his heart deepened. He walked past her to see her reaction clearly and he had frown when she had denied taking it but he was grateful to Rajesh Kapoor for making her accept it. He walked in his full pace for the shooting area and took his seat glancing towards the entrance now and then. If he was mesmerized to see her in a night dress the last time they had met it was nothing compared to what she looked now. She was wearing a lavender colored suit with a bag on her shoulders and he couldn't help but stare at her. Their eyes met for a brief second and she looked away. He read his lines again and again trying to distract him from whatever thought had seized him but he couldn't. At last irritated with the paper after reading the same line too many times he threw it away. "Bittuji get me a coffee."

As he placed the key in her hand and caressed her hairs, her eyes brimmed with tears. She had never met a man so understanding and respectable in her 18 years of life. She stared at his disappearing figure and tears finally fell down on her cheeks. He knew what she was thinking and he had respected her. She hadn't moved out of the place if Trishna hadn't brought her out of her stupor. She was yet to change in her dress for the shooting and she was standing here dumbly staring at the end of the passage. She hurriedly changed into her dress in her vanity van and walked towards where the shoot was going on. She felt a strange feeling as soon as she crossed the door. She didn't know why and how but she looked up only to find him staring at her. His intense gaze confused her and she looked away desperately to search a life saver. If looks could kill she had been dead by now. It wasn't like he was dangerous but the way he was looking at her made her miss her heart beat for a second. She concentrated on Trishna and Roma who were walking ahead of her and took her seat.

The shot was ready and director explained them the scene again and what they had to do. She nodded glancing at him for a second and found him staring at her. She gulped hard. They were shooting in a college today where Priya, the female protagonist of the film was to meet the male protagonist. The scene was simple but the emotions that had to be created were hard like her life.

After drinking his coffee he felt good but it was short lived and soon he had to join her and the director. He denied glancing in her way but as he looked at her he couldn't do except stare at her. She looked as if someone had carved her out of the marble, so pure and plain. But his thoughts were disturbed when he heard someone shout.

"Action."

She didn't know how this happened but when she realized what was happening around her she pushed him hard only to fall on the ground taking him with her and RK fell on the top of her making her cringe with the pain.

They were shooting the first scene where the heroine of the movie was to meet the hero with a collision and they were to be lost in each other's eyes. It happened but with such intensity that when the director shouted cut they didn't move until Trishna called Madhu's name. They came out of their reverie and Madhubala pushed him confusing him more with her actions.

Spot boys ran to them to pick them up but they were again floating in their world where only two people existed, Madhu and Rishab. "Madhubala Madam, RK Sir, are you fine?" asked two spot boys lifting them up intruding their dream world. Madhubala nodded while RK said nothing and turned around in so much anger that had set the entire set in fire.

He didn't believe why he hadn't moved it felt like he was caged in her eyes her big brown eyes that held the world in them that held the warmth he was seeking for years. Her eyes showed every emotion and feeling she was having at that time and he knew she was lost in him too like he was in her. Maybe he was reading too much but her eyes had held him incapacitative and he thought he had died in that moment. Her eyes were smoldering with something that was alien to him and he couldn't point what it was. He wasn't supposed to feel that thing when he was already in love with someone else. Shrugging her thoughts out of his mind he took a deep breath to calm himself covering every corner and side to fill up the thoughts of his lady love who was arriving at the shooting tomorrow. Madhubala was in the same condition fighting a lost battle with her heart. She had never been in arms of a man let alone at close proximity. She never had come across to any man who felt appealing to her and this man made her feel things she didn't want to. She didn't know why but she couldn't come out of his hold when he had collided with her and had held her by her waist. His breath, his body heat, his fragrance had made a storm in her mind and something had took over it completely. She took a deep breath to calm herself when she heard a shout and she knew whose voice it was. "Move her."

RK was dialing her number to divert his mind to not to think about Madhu when something made him look towards her and he for the first time in his life felt fear for someone beside him. He shouted to move her out of the place but he could see no one was listening to him so he ran, ran to save her like his life depended on her survival. He launched himself on her to get her out of the way of the falling lights resulting in to fall on her and they rolled on the floor for a little distance. For the next moment neither of them heard anything except their beating hearts and then loud voices erupted and surrounded them.

"Madhubala Madam, RK Sir!!!"

"Madhu!!" Trishna and Roma shouted running towards them.

"Are you hurt?" he asked but she was nowhere to be breathing normally. Her sky-scrapping heart beats told him that she was scared, scared to her wits. He consoled her whispering soothing words and made her sit on the chair brought by one of the spot boys. She shook her head unable to voice herself. She was still recovering from the shock and could not believe what had she seen. When he had shouted she had turned to see why he was shouting and when he had run towards her she knew something was wrong. She had followed his gaze for a second and had frozen to see the falling lights. They were falling on the ground and she was standing between their meeting points. She had closed her eyes knowing she was going to be hurt but then she had felt something hard hitting her but from the wrong direction. She had opened her eyes only to find him embracing her safely in his arms and the lights were lying on the ground shattered and broken by the force of the fall. She gulped hard thinking what if he hadn't moved her from her place. She couldn't think more as she clutched his shirt tightly shaking in fear.

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@war_is_peace... no its the same. Its just that I am posting longer updates and the original 7th and 8th part is Part 7 now.

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Thank you for reading. Love you...

Originally posted by: ron.ansari

@war_is_peace... no its the same. Its just that I am posting longer updates and the original 7th and 8th part is Part 7 now.

@war_is_peace... I dont think so. I have updated till part 11.

MADHUBALA - REMEMBER ME

Part 8

When Madhu woke up on her bed she rewinded what had happened at the shooting. When lights had fallen the producer had called for a pack up and she had left with Trishna and Roma but she still remembered how RK had taken care for her and for the first time in her life she was thinking about a man after waking up. She didn't know if she was ever going to forget this incident but she knew that she wouldn't be able to resist him now. No one in her family knew how much she had liked RK when his first movie had released but she had hid this attraction behind her anger and had tried to hate him. But it was all just a sheer foolishness to push herself like this. It was all wasted now, now when she was acting with him and had lost herself to him, almost. She just hoped next two months would be easier for her to forget what she felt about him and forget his eyes she had lost herself to when she had seen him for the first time. Little did she know that it was not that easy to forget the one who was destined to be yours.

PRESENT TIME

"So Madhu liked him?" asked RK as Madhu straightened on her chair.

"Yes." Confirmed Madhu.

"Then why did she pretend that she didn't like him?" asked Ravi, the reporter this time.

"Madhu, she is a delicate personality. Her father had left a strong impression on her and she was still recovering from the fact that the man had tried to kill her. She had thought that all men were same and RK was the man she fell in love at first sight. But she denied her feelings in order to stay sane and that was the reason she pretended to hate him." explained Madhu smiling in the process.

"I think I can understand why you are trying to say. I can understand how you feel when your parents betray you. It's painful." said RK lost in his world.

Madhu snapped her fingers and brought him back to the table. "I think I am supposed to read out the story of Madhubala."

"Okay then what happened after?" asked RK leaning towards the table again.

NARRATION OF MADHU

That night he couldn't stop thinking about her. He was just living like a free bird for the past month with Deepali out of India but now she had been back and had called him last night to remind him about her and that she was coming to the shootings from the next day.

"Weird", he muttered. He had forgotten about Deepali and was living in a dream these past days where he was seeing her glimpses. What the hell was wrong with him? He was not supposed to think about her when he loved Deepali or did he? He questioned himself but scolded himself again for questioning his love for Deepali. His thoughts again wandered to her, her brown eyes warm like hot chocolate.

"Not again", he sighed dropping her shoulders. There was only one way to get away from this temptation and that was he would not try to stay away from her. This staying away thing was killing him and was pushing him towards her more. He decided that he would make amends and would talk to her to get her thoughts out of his mind but destiny had written something else for him.

He was trying to sleep when he heard her voice and groaned.

"Rishu! Are you sleeping?"

But he didn't say anything. He didn't want to talk to her now when he was already so much confused and was fighting his own feelings for a stranger.

"Okay you don't want to talk to me. I am leaving. Good Night Beta."

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Madhu was sitting on the stairs of her chawl, the only place where she found solace. She was trying to sleep for the past 2 hours and still sleep was far away from her eyes. The man of her dreams had taken her sleeps too. So she decided to sit on the stairs for a while to clear her head. She was sure that she wasn't succeeding in hiding her desires and attraction for RK. She knew she always melted like ice whenever she found his eyes staring at her and was pulled towards him like an iron to a magnet. She knew that too that her self control was fading away day by day and it was just a matter of time when she would not be able to hold herself back. She decided to not to stay away from him anymore she knew the more she would push herself the more the pull would get stronger. She thought to keep aside her pride to save her from this magnetism. She knew ignorance was not the best solution for a problem so she decided to face the problem not knowing where this decision was going to lend her into.

She was still looking at the stars contemplating her decision when she heard her. "Madhu what are you doing here late this night?" asked Trishna with concern, sitting beside her.

"I wasn't sleepy Didu." She was still looking at the stars trying to keep his thoughts out of her mind.

"Thinking about mom?" Trishna was trying to read her face like other days but today she found nothing but confusion. Madhu had never been liked this, it was like confusion had never been in her dictionary.

"Yes Didu." She lied and Trishna knew that something was bothering her but she knew that too that Madhu was not going to discuss it so she decided to leave her in her thoughts and chose to divert her mind. "You know Madhu when you were inside Mom, she used to sing songs of Madhubala. I don't know why but maybe her favourite actress was Madhubala so whenever you used to kick from inside mom used to start singing her movie songs. It was like a lullaby to you and that's why Roma named you Madhubala when you were born. It was the happiest day of our life. Mom was happy that she was a mother again, Roma was happy to get a kid to play with and I was the most happy of them all. I got you, my baby sister, my doll the smallest thing I had ever seen apart from my toys. You were a living toy for me. I used to play with your short fingers, your small hands and chubby cheeks. I still do." Trishna pulled her cheeks to prove it and Madhu closed her eyes in annoyance.

"Oho Didu how many time did I have told you that never touch my cheeks. It kind of hurts and you know you have told this story like a thousandth time." said Madhu a little irritated forgetting all about her previous worries.

"Come on get up. I am sleepy now." Trishna got up taking Madhu with her.

"And how are Jijaji-to-be?" teased Madhu as her mind clicked after searching for something to tease her sister.

"Stop it Madhu. We aren't talking about him now. It's late." Trishna blushed only to encourage Madhu more.

"Oho Didu, Blushing-slushing. Should I call jiju and tell him that you don't want to talk about him? Anyway you didn't tell me about your first date yet." Madhu provoked Trishna and broke into a run.

"Madhu Badmaash!! Come here!!!" Trishna ran behind Madhu raising her hand while Roma who was standing behind the door listening to their conversations chuckled. "Please don't make these smiles die." She wished looking up.

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Madhu was touching her make-up when she heard his voice behind her and turned around startled.

"Oh I am sorry. Did I scare you?" he asked amused by her face. Her eyes looked beautiful when she widened them like this, he thought. He thought to befriend her before Deepali arrived so that they could rehearse and shoot smoothly like he had decided last night.

"Yes you did." She answered and turned back continuing her touch-up.

"I think you don't like me." He stated feeling hurt by her actions. No one had ever turned their backs to him and there she did the same, hurting his human pride.

Madhu turned around again feeling the pain in the voice. "No. It's not like that. It's just I am not a people person." She wanted to tell him how much she liked him but her mind didn't allow her. Her mind overtook her heart and her feelings faded to an extent that it was easier to talk to him the pain blocked in a part where she couldn't feel it. She knew that Deepali was joining the shoot from that day and he was in a relationship with her. She would have talked with him normally like any other day she had with any normal person but today when she was walking inside she had heard producer and director talking about Deepali and her role in the film. She was upset but then had cheered her up convincing herself that he didn't matter to her. He was someone else's and she stood nowhere in his life. It had burned her heart but she had denied the pain, anger rising thinking it was the only way.

"Oh. Can we be friends?" he asked without hesitation. He knew there was no way he was going to wait for the right time and he being an impatient human could never be restricted for the matter of time.

If Madhu was shocked it was an understatement. Her eyes widened, her heart stopping for a moment but then her mind pushed her heart and it restarted. First she thought maybe he was lying but when he continued staring at him like a moon waiting for the sun to set to glow in the night she cleared her mind to forward right words to her mouth.

"Yes we can but I must warn you I am not a good friend sometimes." That was what she wanted right? To talk to him, to channel the attraction and pull she felt for him out of her to feel light and happy.

"Neither am I." he warned too and almost laughed at the comical reaction that appeared on her face but restrained him in the last second before it destroyed the new friendship he had just gained.

They didn't know what was happening till then they heard a yell. "What are you doing with my boyfriend?"