[FF] #YKAGH... pyaar ki iss rah par CH 74 PG-98 - Page 55

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Chapter 40

After their breakfast, rahul maanvi left for chatergee residence. Maanvi had her head still wondering about why would raj try to avoid going to the pooja. She was on auto pilot mode as they left the house, get in the car and put the seat belt on, and drove away.

"A person who had lost someone they love..." thought maanvi to herself. "Anyone to have lost someone they love would have behaved like this. But to avoid the pooja... it feels like either raj papa don't want to accept that gayatri is dead or he do not want to visit the memories he has with her. I understand that it is painful for him but there are other family members too who went through the same thing. They lost someone too... dada ji dadi ji lost their daughter-in-law, rahul lost his mother, mommy ji lost her best friend... Why did raj papa get so upset when he was asked to attend the pooja?"

Rahul~ "Maanvi...!"

Maanvi~ "Huh? Kya hua rahul?" she snaped out of her train thoughts.

Rahul~ "Main kab se tumhe awaaz laga raha hoon par tumhara dhyan pata nahi kahan hai?"

Maanvi~ "Kuch nahi hai rahul, bas aise hi."

Rahul~ "Acha... to ab tum mujhse baat bhi chupaogi aur jhoot bhi bologi."

Maanvi~ "Nahi rahul aisa kuch nahi hai."

Rahul~ "Jab main itni der se bula raha tha tab tumne ek bar bhi nahi suna. Tum pure waqt apne khayal mein khoyi hui thi. Akhir koi baat to hai jo tum itni gehri soch mein doobi hui thi. Jitna main tumhe jaanta hoon tum un logon mein se nahi ho jo bina wajah sochte rehte hain. Main tumhara pati hoon maanvi. Tum bina jijhak mujhe koi bhi baat keh sakti ho. Par agar tumhe abhi bhi mujhe nahi batana ki tum kis baat ko lekar pareshan ho to, theek hai, jaisi tumhari marzee. Main tumhe apni baat kehne ke liye force nahi karunga."

Maanvi~ "Rahul... " she hesitated for a moment but then continued "papa pooja ko lekar itne upset kyun ho gaye rahul?"

Rahul felt what maanvi was wondering. Her question was something only raj could answer the best but since she asked him and not raj, he tried to answer it best he could. "Maanvi, jab se mom ki death hui hai, dad aise hi hain. Jab bhi mom ko lekar kisi ne baat karne ki koshih ki, tab dad kuch na kuch bahana bana kar wahan se chale jaate the. Even ghar par bhi kam hi rehte the dad. Bas main hi ghar par akela reh jata tha. Ek mahine baad hi dad ne humara wo ghar baich kar naya ghar kharid liya. Aur uss ek mahine maine dad ko shayad hi maine ghar par 7-8 ghate se jyada rehte dekha hoga. Mujhe nahi maloom ki dad humare uss ghar ko avoid kar rahe the ya mom se judi har uss cheez ko jo unhe mom ki yaad dila rahi thi... including me." Yes, it reminded him that he indeed had lot of things about him that resembled his mother's traits.

Maanvi gently put her hand on his shoulder. "Main tumhari mom se kabhi nahi mili, par tumko jaan kar mujhe aisa lagta hai ki tumhari mom bhi tumhare jaisi hi rahi hongi."

Their rest of the conversation had to be put off for some other time as they both have now arrived at the chatergee residence. They got off the car and went inside to meet maanvi's parents who were eagerly waiting for them.

Today the house looked completely different. It was dusted and cleaned well since yesterday, which upamanyu was making so much fuss over. Also, one of the side of the room was set up as if there was going to be a music class today.

Maanvi~ "Baba, yeh sab kya hai?"

Upu~ "Arre maanobi, tum itni jaldi bhool gaya ki tumhara baba classical music teacher hai?"

Maanvi~ "Nahi baba main nahi bhooli ki aap ek classical music teacher hai. Na hi main yeh bhooli hoon ki doctor ne abhi aapko rest karne ko kaha hai. Par lagta hai ki aap bhool gaye hain."

Upu~ "Hum ekdum theek hai, humko kuch nahi hua hai. Uss doctor ko kuch nahi pata hai. Aur hum jaanta hai ki humari absence mein humara sab students log ek bar bhi riyaaz nahi kiya hoga. Abhi tum aur rahul yahan aaya hai na to hum sabko dikhayega ki kaise rooz riyaaz karna chahiye. Music is like a prayer. Aur prayer ki tarah riyaaz bhi rooz karna chahiye."

Maanvi~ "Theek hai baba par riyaaz apni jagah par hai aur aapki sehat apni jagah par hai. Aap abhi abhi hospital se discharge hue hai, aapko rest karna chahiye."

Shilpa~ "Main bhi inse yahi keh rahi hoon par tere baba kisi ki nahi sunte hain."

Upu~ "Tum sab kuch nahi samajhta hai. Main jab hospital mein tha tab mere students ka kitna loss hua hai. Ab hum wapas aa gaya hai to hum apne students ka aur loss nahi hone dega, never!"

Rahul knew what he could say to get upamanyu to take it easy for few more days until he recovers fully, but it would mean to take advantage of his new found place in upamanyu's good books. It would still be worth it if it meant that upamanyu will not risk his health over his love for music.

Rahul~ "Baba... music apni jagah par hai aur aapki sehat apni jagah par. Aur agar aapne abhi apni zid nahi chodi to..."

Upu~ "To... to kya?" he stared at rahul with his wide eyes.

Rahul~ "...to main aur maanvi bhi rooz subah riyaaz nahi karenge." He spoke it so fast that everyone in the room was stunned by it until it made sense.

Maanvi and shilpa understood well what rahul was trying to do and decided to support him as it was the best chance they have to convince upu to take it easy for few more days until his full recovery. "Haan baba, rahul bilkul sahi keh rahe hain. Agar aap ne apni yeh zid nahi chodi to main aur rahul bhi rooz subah riyaaz nahi karenge."

Upu~ "Tum apne baba ko dhamki deta hai?" he felt like he just got a heavy jolt by his two most favourite people.

Shilpa also joined in with rahul and maanvi. "Sahi keh rahe hain dono. Aap apni bacho jaisi zid nahi chod sakte to isme inn dono ki kya galti hai?"

Upu~ "Shilpa ab tum bhi..."

Shilpa~ "Kya tum bhi? Hum teeno jo keh rahe hain aapke bhale ke liye keh rahe hain. To jyada aakhein badi karke humko dekhne ki zaroorat nahi hai. Chup-chap humari baat man lijiye, samjhe!"

Upapanyu surrenders to the arguments from the three of them and sits down on his chair like a child who has just been grounded for doing something that is not a crime in his point of view.

That was on the plus that upu agreed to take rest while he recovers and after that he will resume his music classes. On the down side, now he was annoyed by his favourite daughter and son-in-law. Shilpa brought some fresh-off-the-pot fried Bengali style snacks which were upu's favourite and would have been special treat to rahul. Since upu was annoyed, he had to fake not being hungry and resist the temptation to join everyone at the table.

Shilpa noticed it and pointed it out by the help of eye signals to maanvi. When maanvi understood, both shilpa and maanvi shared a small smirk but then controlled it to not provoke upu more than what he already felt.

Rahul bent over a little towards maanvi and asked her in whispers "Baba ko kya hua?"

Maanvi~ "Baba ko humari riyaaz wali baat achi nahi lagi isliye apne mann-pasand pakode bhi nahi khane aye. Lagta hai baba aaj hum sab se baat bhi nahi karenge."

Rahul~ "Chalo yeh bhi acha hua, ab kam-se-kam baba ki daat to nahi khani padegi." He mumbled.

Maanvi~ "Yeh bacho ki tarah kya gungun kar rahe ho? Thoda jor se bolo rahul."

Rahul~ "Main to bas yahi keh raha tha ki tumhare baba ko gussa bahaut jaldi kyun aa jata hai. Ab samjh mein aaya ki tumhara gussa karne ki aadat yahan se aayi hai."

Maanvi~ "Kya kaha?! Main gussa karti hoon?!" she picked up a sofa pillow from behind her.

Rahul~ "Nahi aata to tum yeh pillow utha kar abhi kya kar rahi ho?"

Maanvi looked at her hand and the pillow she held. She placed it back on the sofa and replied "Mujhe gussa karne ka koi shauk nahi hai. Tumko hi mujhe uksane mein maza aata hai."

Shilpa~ "Ab bas bhi karo tum dono. Abhi to yeh batao ki tumhare baba ki narazgi kaise dur karenge? Kyunki yeh sab tum dono ne kiya hai to theek bhi tum dono hi karke jaoge."

Rahul~ Mujhe pata hai ki baba ki narazgi kaise dur kar sakte hai."

Originally posted by: Sagi.

Hey...nice song. And Upu maan gaye?

Such main, iss serial ka comic character is Upu. And so about your story!

Please continue...

Chapter 41

Raj sets out for his office. He had asked his team to get him some lists and blueprints for designing a proper promotion theme for shaleen's album. He has also asked Shaleen to come to office for getting some things set in place first. Raj and Shaleen were going to have their hands full today. The meeting with team for setting up album promotion... Shaleen and raj will take interviews for some important staff and team... then getting introduced to the new team that will be solely dedicated to work with his performances and stuff... and ofcourse, an assistant.

In rahul's case, Raj used to take interviews but final selections were done by rahul himself. Today raj wondered how Shaleen would prefer to get his people organized. Thus he invited Shaleen to be a part of all of these and find out his preferences.

Raj reached studio and went straight to his office. He enters in and there were some papers, letters and an envelope resting on his table. He starts sorting through them. There were the lists he had asked his team to compile for possible candidates for various positions, list of applicants for chorus team... Then there were blueprints for planning promotion campaign, list of possible venues that were suitable to conduct an event that can match the name "sabarwal". Next in the pile were letters from companies who wanted to get some distribution rights for albums, letters from promotion firms and advertisers... Lastly was the envelope.

Raj calls out his assistant and asks about this envelope. To his discomfort, no one knew about it nor did they knew how it got there. Raj examines the envelope for any clues to what it is about but it was plain, only with his name written in a near handwriting.

Raj carefully opens the envelope to reveal the contents. These contents almost stole his breath for few moments. He felt like ground has left from under his feet. The content had some photos of raj meeting a guy with gayatri's photo, along with a copy of divorce papers and copy of some pages in gayatri's writing that had mentioned raj betraying his best friend and her decision of wanting to leave raj.

Raj~ "Yeh nahi ho sakta! Yeh sab saboot to maine mita diye the to phir yeh sab photo kisi ko kaise mil sakte hai? Zaroor mere saath koi ghatiya mazaak kar raha hai.

Raj looks through these papers and finds another paper neatly folded. It was a letter addressed to him.

"Raj,
You may think that this is some type of sick joke but guess again, because it is not. You may wonder who I m. Let me tell you that I m a your past that knows everything that you did. You have done great deal of wrong to me which I never cared about. But what you did 25 years back is something you will pay your due debt for... with your blood.
You will suffer just as I did... just as she did... and everyone will learn this truth.
-Your Past."

"My past..." Raj thought "who in my past did I do wrong too?" His mind kept going back to the day he betrayed upu for winning that stupid singing competition. "Upamanyu mera past hai... aur uske saath maine galat bhi kiya tha. Wo kitni bar mujhse kehta bhi tha ki maine uske saath jo kiya wo usko bhoola kar aage bad gaya hai. Par yeh sab usko kaise maloom hua ki gayatri ke saath jo hua wo maine kar waya hai?"

Raj was weighing out the chances that this person from his past was upu or not. Lot of ways and styles match the styles with upamanyu that he knew. Only thing that didn't make sense is how upamanyu came to know of this secret.

"Kya upamanyu ko sab sach pata hai isliye usne apni beti ko mere bete ko phasane ke liye bheja tha? Jis-se wo mere ghar mein ghus kar yeh sab karne mein apne baap ki madat kar sake?" Raj's thoughts and his judgement were clouded by his hatred and differences with upu.

"Agar yeh sab tumhari aur tumhari uss beti ki chal hai to main yeh kabhi nahi hone dunga!" Raj said to himself. "Par mujhe pehle yeh pata lagana hoga ki upamanyu aur uski beti iss sab ke baare mein kitna jaante hai."

A knock on the door caught raj's attention. It was Shaleen. Raj quickly put the papers back in that envelope and locked them in his drawer.

Raj~ "Haan Shaleen, aao. Maine apni team se kuch lists aur blueprints ready karwaye the. Tum rahul ki promotion drill se used-to ho isliye mujhe laga ki tum apni promotion ki planning bhi dekhna chahoge."

Shaleen~ "Rahul ki album promotion to usually aap final karte the. Main to sirf preparations handle karta tha dad."

Raj~ "Isliye main keh raha hoon ki tumhe kuch to idea hai ki kaise plan karna hai. Main hi final karoonga tumhare album promotion ko, par main chahta hoon ki tum bhi decisions mein participate karo. Aur abhi hume tumhari planning team, performers team aur assistant ke liye interviews bhi lene hain. This is important to tumhe iss sab mein saath hona chahiye."

Shaleen~ "Jaisa aap kahe dad."

Raj~ "That's like my boy." He said patting Shaleen on his shoulder.

Sonali, dada ji - dadi ji and payal reached the temple where temple priests were waiting for them with everything ready for pooja. Sonali calls maanvi to know where she and rahul are and how long will it take them to get here. To that maanvi said that they are on their way and will reach in about 5 minutes.

Sonali and dadi ji moves on to set up rest of the things for pooja. Payal helped them while dada ji sat in his place and watched everyone.

Rahul maanvi arrived soon. Sonali told the pandit ji that this time rahul and maanvi will head the pooja instead of herself and rahul. Pandit ji noded in an understanding. Rahul and maanvi sat at the spot told to them by the pandit ji.

Pandit ji lights up the sacred diya, puts garland over gayatri's photo and chants some mantras. Thus starting the pooja. After a couple of hours, the pooja is done and everyone thanks pandit ji. Then they leave to get back home.

Driver takes dada ji, dadi ji and Sonali back to sabarwal mansion while rahul maanvi and payal come together to the studio as they had to attend a meeting with raj's team to plan rahul-maanvi's official first album's promotion and launch. The meeting will be over by evening which payal thought would be nice time to set up her meeting with vikas.

On their way, payal texted to vikas to meet her at coffee house at 5pm. Few minutes later, she received a confirmation from him that he will reach there on time.

Luckily they faced less traffic on their route, hence took less time to get to studio. As our trio was making their way through the reception area, rahul noticed one of the producers.

Rahul~ "Hello Mr. Khurana, what a pleasant surprise." He greets the producer and maanvi payal greets him with as well.

Mr. K~ "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Sabarwal, and Ms. payal. Yeah I was in the area to socha aapse aur aapke dad se mil kar jaun. Reception se abhi pata chala ki aapke dad aaj thoda busy hain."

Rahul~ "Haan wo shayad aaj Shaleen ke saath uski album ke promotion ke liye plan kar rahe hain."

Mr. K~ "Waise aap teeno kahan se aa rahe hain, if you don't mind me asking? Lagta hai kisi pooja se ho kar aa rahe hain." He made a note looking at the sacred thread and vermilion on their forehead.

Rahul~ "Haan wo aaj meri mom ki barsi ki pooja thi. Ghar ke sab log wahi par the."

Mr. K~ "Par aapke dad to yahan par hain." He pointed out.

Rahul~ "Haan wo dad aaj thoda busy the isliye nahi aa sake. Agar unko urgent kaam nahi hota to wo aate." He knew that it would look bad on raj if people hear that raj doesn't attend these poojas so rahul covered up for raj.

Mr. K~ "Apni wife ki barsi ki pooja se zyada important?... Anyway I guess it is his personal opinion. I will come and meet him some other time then."

Rahul~ "As you like Mr. khurana."

Rahul and Mr. Khurana bid farewell and took each other's leave. Our trio, rahul maanvi and payal came to the conference room and asked payal to send in the team for discussing the promotion plans.

Maanvi~ "Rahul... mujhe to yeh sab kuch samjh mein nahi aata. Main kya karoongi yahan par?"

Payal~ "Arre maanvi bhabhi, agar aap iss tarah ki meetings attend karogi, discussions attend karogi to aapko apne aap dheere dheere sab samjh mein aa jayega."

Rahul~ "Payal bilkul theek keh rahi hai. Ab tum bhi ek singer ho, meri partner ho, meri wife ho... to tumko yeh sab aana chahiye. Hum dono iss tarah har cheez share karenge to kaam aasan ho jayega."

Payal~ "Haan aur aapko bhabhi ke saath flirt karne ko bhi milega." She teased.

Rahul~ "Payal... tum koi bhi mauka nahi chodti ho na mujhe chedne ka?" he eyed her.

Payal~ "Main to sirf sach keh rahi hoon. Aap kaunsa bhabhi ke saath flirt karne ka mauka chodte ho?"

Rahul~ "Haan to wife hai wo meri. Haq banta hai mera." He took a defensive tone.

Maanvi was smiling hearing these two. By then, the team arrives and they all start the discussion over the plans on how to promote the current album that had just been made changes to.

On producers and sponsorers advice, maanvi's songs were moved to rahul's album and the duet songs needs to be re-recorded with rahul and maanvi. The duet song was written originally for rahul-maanvi but due to the tiger curse and those events, it was changed to be recorded by Shaleen and maanvi. But after rahul's concert, this change was cancelled and returned back to the original plan.

The whole marketing and everything related to it was handed to payal since she had some really fresh ideas. During discussion, some major points were finalized by payal with the help of the marketing team. First step would need rahul and maanvi to get the recording of those duet songs completed by the end of this week. Since the couple had done some rehearsals before the whole mess, finishing up the recording should not be much of an ordeal.

The meeting took a little longer when the team started to discuss the second step, which would be the songs video shoot. That part would require dress designers, choreographer, location and set for video shoot... and other stuff.

Twinkle was the life saver as she had some connections and her contacts would make this a lot easier for them to get this part done easily.

By the time this meeting was over, it was already 5:45pm. Payal felt bad as she had arranged to meet vikas at 5 but now she was terribly late. As soon as she could leave, payal left for the coffee house that was few minutes away from the studio.

Payal reaches coffee house and looks around for anhy sign of vikas. She couldn't spot him anywhere so she thought that he might have left after waiting for her. Just then there was a tap on her shoulder. She turned around to find that vikas was still here.

Payal~ "I m so sorry, there was this meeting and I got caught up..."

Vikas~ "Its all good. You can relax. I understand that you were busy. I know you needed to work on the planning for rahul's album promotion."

Payal looked at him in little surprised expression. "Are you stalking me?"

Vikas smiled "No I m not stalking you. I m in same field as your cousin rahul so I know what are the duties of everyone connected to the album. So when you were late I understood that you must have been stuck in some work. I can tell that you are not the type who would make people wait."

Payal~ "But I still owe you an apology for not informing you that I will be late due to some work."

Vikas~ "Its all good. Because of you, today I had a chance to get in touch with some of my fans here. It has been long time since I get to come out for some personal time with my fans. Being a singer and working continuously for the fans is just not enough, they are the most precious people to anyone who exists only because of them."

Payal~ "That makes me feel less guilty for making you wait. But I do find it curious... are you always this sweet talker or is something special today?"

Vikas~ "I guess I m always this sweet talker. But it doesn't mean that it is not special occation today."

Payal seemed little confused so vikas continued "A pretty girl agrees to meet you is always a special occation."

They lighened up and enjoyed a light evening, sharing some of their life's experiences. Somewhere, this new feeling has started to blossom between these two whether they knew or not.

Originally posted by: SelahJoy

hello cathy where r u ?

Originally posted by: SelahJoy

agr ap chali gai to update ka kia ho ga 😲

Originally posted by: sweetcathy29

I will try to get updates in from my mobile

that would be when I reach to the room... hard to get them in on the way

if I update... that will be around this time mostly

Originally posted by: SelahJoy

will miss u
have a nice trip