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For some people, "the point of no return" begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others' existence.
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The intercom beeped and a very occupied Sid Hooda looked up... Being the CEO of Hooda industries and the founding member of Ishreet Foundation wasn't a easy feat.. He worked non stop for the 10 hours each day at work but beyond that only family existed for him..
"Sir Mr Mehrotra the Senior Advocate from high court is here" informed his secretary.
"Let's meet him in the conference room then" said Sid.
He quickly wrapped his stuff and headed towards the conference hall. Mr Mehrotra after the initial pleasantries gave him a set of documents and said "Sir this is now registered with the Honorable High Court of Delhi , it's official now from this day you can be called Sidarth Ishaan Amarnath Hooda."
His eyes become numb and yet he felt elated.
It had taken more than a decade to it achieve yet he had done it... done it for their Kavya..
Kavya Ishan Rizwan Khan Hooda.. she was turning 18 today and today she would recieve the legacy her parents had left for her.. their love their family..
He still had the day fresh in his memory.. the day he had called Rizwan/ISHAAN his god and Preet bhabhi stopping him and the very next day she had informed the whole family about his reality that he was Rizwan- a terrorist a neighbouring country agent.
Earth had shook from its axis for him and his family... they had denied and Preet had stood on the truth & finally they had to accept the truth...
His father had not been able to bear the betrayal and succumbed to a severe heart attack.. das had almost reached his end.. a shock so severe that it had shaken his existence & his ma kept crying failing to understand why would someone play with them their love and most importantly why them what had they done wrong..
Amidst all this confusion he had felt lost but he knew he had to take care of his family he can't let his family ripped..
But everywhere he turned he saw only Ishaan & his memories of taking care of the family. Ishaans words still rung in his ears that he will have to take the responsibility of the family he will have to double up his learning.. he couldn't believe that had been some some hours back.
He had steeled himself to take care & protect his family.. somewhere he wanted to hate Rizwan but couldn't because amidst all his haunting memories he couldn't pinpoint a single moment where Ishaan had taken anything from anyone instead had always given...
Unwantingly he had to follow the man who he adored idolized because he had only Ishaan/ Rizwan who had taught him all he knew about family.
On his ma's insistence Preet too had left the house to stop Rizwan to stop the evil and curb the darkness but in the evening they had received bits and pieces of ragged torn burnt flesh wrapped in piece of torn cloth..
Initially his ma had refused to accept the pieces as it had pieces of rizwan too... it was another blow in a matter of few hours but when authorities had explained and Mr Shergill had confirmed that they can't be separated unwantingly they had accepted the whole thing because of Preet bhabhi.
She was their guiding light.. funerals had been arranged and the whole rituals were done hurriedly.
To the media they had informed that in unfortunate circumstances they had lost both their VP and his wife & to the question why were they there at the time.. He had issued a statement that because Hooda Industries had been displaying their new line of tanks, their VP had been supervising the arrangement.
Kavya had kept crying & asking for her parents and none of them had answers for her innocent questions. for days she had cried and had been sick
His home was mismanged & nothing worked.. Though his dad had recovered but his parents had always a lost look, it had filled him with a unexpressable rage.. both his sisters had been with him helping him with work, rebuilding Hooda Industries and family but he didn't trust anyone anymore. There always was tight security around his family and everyone who approached them had to be scrutinized seriously after all it was Ishaan who had once taught him that some wounds act as lesson's of life and he had learnt his lesson well. He had hired a team of detective & security personnels to check and double check people around his loved one's..
He had been so bitter and shattered at one time that he had secretly done a DNA test on Kavya too. He was never worried about her or her intentions yet he just wanted to check how had Rizwan ruined her where had Rizwan bought her from.
After a intense background check and other information, It had been finally confirmed that Kavya was indeed Hooda.. his cousin the real Ishaan Hooda & his family had been killed in that accident but miraculously the baby had been saved... but even with all his contacts & efforts he hadn't been able to find how had she ended up Rizwan..
Couple of years had gone by in the same limbo state... the hurt that Rizwan had left in family had shattered the fabric of his family.. There were days he would imagine that all this was a bad dream n his bhai & bhabhi would just walk in... there used to be a constant struggle within him to believe what he had felt & what he saw...
Another persistent question had been what had happened there that day that preet had to die too.. had she been able to reach him, seek her & their concerns and been killed or had he been so stark dark that he had killed her himself for trying to stop him? The person they knew wouldn't even have touched Preet with force or hurt her.. He would look at her with so much love in his eyes that it felt that heaven laid in her feet, so everything just haunted & haunted the family.
Than after two years since Preet & Rizwan's death Mr Mehrotra had contacted him.. Initially he had refused to do anything with him
Infactly rudely cut him off and to listen what he had to say but in last two years he had met numerous people whom Ishaan Hooda helped,, specially whose life had changed for better because it had been touched by Ishaan Hooda, a group of people from orphanages across the city had confirmed that they regularly received huge donations from Ishaan Hooda.
Some elderly couples had approached Hooda Industries & sought help because Ishaan had helped, he had come across numerous instances where this man had been a giver...an absolute giver... He had already recieved all the properties and investments on his behalf because Ishaan had nominated him his beneficiary in all of them.. He had first hand experience of his generosity during Naina fiasco, Everything he had owned had been given to people he had called family.
So every time he and his family sat & hit their heads together yet couldn't fathom why someone would do that.. & the Mr Mehrotra had appeared around that time, he had been persistent with his follow ups with him- the unapproachalbe Sidarth Hooda...
In fact when he gave in to meet him Mr Mehrotra didn't have anything for anyone or any legalities just a request that Sidarth Hooda allowed him one meeting with Kavya Hooda every year on her b'day... He was Kavya's legal guardian ethically and legally also as both Ishaan & Preet had nominated him for it.
On her bday each year Mr Mehrotra presented a letter to Kavya from Ishaan her dad.. Initially that hurt too... the helplessness to help Kavya to understand the paradox Ishaan Rizwan was.. but after the letters Kavya had started healing and that's what the whole family had wanted...
As the years passed things became easier some new members got added in the family.. things calmed and yet the underlying fear and mistrust in their hearts never left them but they all hide it for Kavya.. no one wanted to burst her bubble.. her dreams of perfect parents..
Kavya had been the only one who had fond memories and whenever she remembered she would say " he is always with me in my heart meri dhadkan ban kar".
Though no one had wanted to remember Ishaan or Rizwan whatever he was but everyone never wanted to forget Preet so keeping that in mind and Kavya's delicate state of mind they had maintained their room as it had been.. only difference it had now was earlier all the family potraits which adorned the walls of Hooda house's wall which had their Ishaan & Preet had been removed and put in this room..
His parents had been way too hurt to see those pictures everyday. Kavya would spend hours in that room, some times ma too went there when she would miss Preet bhabhi terribly, Preet was her child she still said.
During one of his meetings with Defense Ministry for a contract he had accidentally come across Mr Shergill, after the initial meeting Shergill had requested a appointment with his family. One evening Shergill had come home, it had again reopened the already leaking unhealing wounds yet he had presented his side saying he owed it to Preet Ishaan Hooda.
He informed Hoodas that after the blast things had been a chaos and he had been too focused to nab baba yet in the debris they had found a lot of things which would have been useful for Indian intelligence among them, they had found Preets mobile phone and some camera recordings. The intelligence agencies like in most cases had confiscated all the items and a lot of cctv footages.
Intelligence had diligently worked on them to extract any kind of information but in Preet's phone they had found nothing except a recording or a voice note which explained Rizwans life story though it wasn't very clear but combined with some cctv footage he had come to a conclusion that Rizwan though from another country and been a victim of unfortunate circumstances and brainwashing selfish philosophy..
Rizwan had started changing when he had come in contact with Hoodas & moreover after a relationship with Preet.
Preet had been a catalyst in awakening his human side & to the feeling that his Preet & his family needed protection. To protect the family from the consequences of his deeds he had chosen death in form of a suicide bomber. Preet had reached at the correct moment to foil the evil plans of baba and some other high level terrorists but then to stop the sinisters they had embraced death .
He had also given them pages from a diary, a diary which belonged to one of Rizwan's assistant/colleague or a fellow conspirator who had penned her views on Rizwan's struggle & his fortune to have found Hoodas.
She also had made entries regarding his condition to baba that after his death Hoodas & Preet will always be protected. A sarcastic entry also had her mentioning did demons ever keep their promise's???
Shergill had explained how after analysing the whole scenario he had avoided mentioning name of Hooda industries in official documents to safeguard their integrity and have minimum damage to their reputation. Shergill had also unofficially made a copy of the cctv footage and voice recording and gave them..
It had bought a closure for his family they had all decided to forgive Rizwan for his hurt but only remember him as Ishaan because with them he had only lived as ishaan.
On Kavya's 16 birthday she had once again recieved a letter and it had a request to her that she should read it loudly with the whole family around and when she had began it had started with his blessings for her and then his truth and how had he found her that pull of not leaving her amongst strangers his life changing after her after Hoodas and most importantly with Preet..
He had described each member of the family and had a indirect conversation with them and finally had sought forgiveness from each of them
One more thing that had stood in his letters was he had mentioned Preet as alive indicating that he had never any intention of letting Peet die with him...
In the end there were some papers for a trust which had been established in the name of Hoodas to help the people who lost their families,, this trust helped those people in finding their families back..
Kavya had steadfastly grown in a beautiful person owing to the values imbibed in her by her parents and when just before her 18 bday Kavya had requested bade papa to allow her officially change and adopt Rizwan's in her name, no one from the family had been able to refuse.. and then during a family gathering bade papa had mentioned life might have disappointed him with Rizwan's reality but Sid had been perfect Ishaan for this family.. A man who was like a thread beading all the members of Hooda Clan.
In that moment he had realised if he truly loved and respected the person Rizwan/ Ishaan was and considered him like a father figure as once he had declared in front of the whole society than he should also official adopt Ishaans name because his god his idol had been near perfect just with clay feet..
He had shaped him as a man more as a family man..
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