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Hey guys...I'm back after a long time - to publish my 100th post in this forum. This one, like my previous post, is a suspense-thriller. Like my previous posts, this one is a bit too long. Please have enough patience to read the whole post & give feedback.
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I'm having the time of my life, thought Udi-baba, as he hung up the phone after telling Deepak Mishra that the Bajpayee family had overturned their initial decision & were happy to accept Anant & Navya's relationship. What all dreams that silly girl & her parents must be weaving up right now!!...that she would live in the babagiri zoo like a princess...that she would lead a joyful life with my grandson enjoying all the modern luxuries... He was sure that, soon after the marriage, the girl would realize the magnitude of her mistake - that of desiring to become a member of the most prestigious zoo in the world. I'll show them why Centre Shock Baba is admired by the world...and what price one would have to pay for defying the great creepy baba. He found it extremely ironic that he wanted Navya to set foot on his zoo, perhaps, more than Navya or Anant. As he fantasized about how he would add the modern-mumbai-kaniya to the list of dukhi aathmas in the zoo, Gorilla entered the room.
"Bauji, aapke liye ek chitti aayi hain", said Gorilla in 25000 decibel volume - much lower than the 1 million dB volume with which he talked to the other inhabitants of the zoo. He handed over a letter enclosed in an envelope to udi-baba.
Must be from the Amazon forest. No doubt those people loved the pravachan I gave them on Halloween day. I never thought they'd send me a thanks-giving letter, thought udi-baba as he opened the letter expecting a eulogy; but the salutation alone was sufficient to suggest that the sender was not a well-wisher.
Besharam buddhe,
Patha hain tum ab kya sapna dekh rahe haim. Shaadi ke baad apne pothe ki dulhan ko sabak sikhaana chahthe ho na? Main tumhare saajish ke baare mem sabkuch jaan gaya hoon. Main chahe toh ab Navya ke parivaar ko yeh sabkuch keh saktha hoon. Lekin nahin, usmem koi maza nahin hain. Ek baath yaad rekhna, jo bhi tum chahthe ho voh kuch bhi nahin hoga. Tumhara saara khel khatham hone waala hain.
J.D.
For a moment udi-baba thought he was in some sort of bizarre dream. But the foul smell emanating from his kurtha was a proof that this wasn't a dream. Who is this person?? How dare he, or she, send me an intimidating letter??!!! J.D???...Who is that???. His fury was dominated by his fear of a terrifying fact - This person, whoever it is, knows all about my plan!!!...And he is black-mailing me!!!...No, this isn't a blackmail; because the sender has no demands...he is simply threatening to thwart my plans!!!...How on earth did he find out ???...Only three people on the planet know about this...How could this information have escaped the circle of three???...Did Om or Saraswathi tell anybody??...No, they won't do that...They won't betray me & our parampara.
The sender had made it clear that he had no intention of letting the Mishras know about this. Then how on earth is he going to sabotage my plans?? Nothing can hurt me now, thought udi-baba, as he hid the letter under his bed made of eucalyptus leaves.
Two hundred meters away, outside the zoo, J.D. felt proud of himself for having put his arch-enemy in a precarious position. He is never going to escape from this, thought J.D. He is planning to wipe out the happiness of his own grandson. Can humans be so callous? I need to stop him - for my personal pleasure and the well-being of his grandson. I won't let him haunt more innocent lives. The great Centre Shock Baba's downfall is imminent. I will foil his plans on the engagement day of his grandson.
That morning, J.D. had sneaked into the zoo without udi-baba's knowledge and had initiated a conversation with udi-baba's right hand - Gorilla. Gorilla had revealed creepy baba's whole plan to J.D.. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the engagement day. J.D. wished he had a Time-Turner so that he could push the time forward to the engagement day.
The sun seemed to dazzle more than ever that day morning. Dignitaries from all around the city had gathered at babagiri zoo. The zoo was decorated with materials from stone-age. The zoo resembled Flintstones house now. Boo-Aah Daadi was standing at the entrance, greeting and welcoming the guests by chanting curses. The expression on her face made the guests wonder whether they were attending an engagement or a funeral. Gorilla's face was inarticulate and blank as always. Udi-baba wore a black kurtha which made him look like a true zombie. At dusk, the two persons, who were the centre of attention on that day, were standing face-to-face, admiring each other.
"Tum aaj bohat khoobsoorat lag rahe ho Navya", said Anant. "Tum bhi bohat handsome lag rahe ho Anant", remarked Navya.
Their eyes resumed the conversation. The language which they spoke through their eyes had no alphabetical form; yet, it was the most wonderful one on earth. Anybody would have commented, "Inn donom ko kisiki nazar na lag jaaye"; Unfortunately, kisika nazar lag gaya - Udi-baba ka, who was watching them through his frog-like eyes.
A girl and a boy talking to each other before marriage??!!!...that too, in babagiri zoo??!!!...PAAP!!! PAAP!!! MAHAAA PAAAP!!!! Looks like my grandson hasn't learnt the rules of anushaasan yet. I will teach him; not only him, everybody who is present here.
"Om", Udi-baba called out. Gorilla stormed towards Udi-baba, "Ji Bauji".
"Saare darwaase bandh karo, taaki koi bhi yahaan se baahar na jaa sake", snarled Udi-baba. Gorilla and Boo-Aah Daadi sped to the doors and slammed them shut.
All faces were awash with bewilderment now.
"Om, Ab woh aadhunik yantr ke zariye mere ek pravachan sabko sunao".
These words fell into the hearts of everybody like a death sentence. Unlike always, none of them had trouble deciphering udi-baba's ancient language this time. 'Aadhunik yantr' meant MP3 player. A stampede broke out among the guests; all of them started to run frantically for dear life. As Gorilla inserted a CD and took the MP3 player's remote control, the guests felt as though an atom bomb was going to be detonated. Moments from various stages of their lives began to flash in front of their eyes.
Gorilla pressed the 'play' button.
The audio commenced. As soon as it started playing, udi-baba sensed that there was something wrong with it. It wasn't his mind-staggering pravachan, it was something else. Although Udi-baba couldn't figure out what it was, others did. It was a parody of an unforgettable speech from the movie '3 Idiots'. And in the ensuing moments, Udi-baba wished he had gone deaf.
"Agar babagiri zoo aaj duniya ke sabse khatharnaak zoo hain, toh uska shreya sirf ek insaan ko zyaada hain - Sri. Centre Shock Baba. Pichle 100 saal se inone niranthar apna kurtha wash nahin kiya hain. Ummeed hain, ki aage bhi wash nahin karenge. Hamem toh aashcharya hotha hain, ki ek insaan apne jeevankaal mem ithna badboo kaise emit kar saktha hain. Inone kati tapasya se apne head ko football jaise banaya hain. Bamboo leaves ka sahi upyog, jingalala-bulubulu ka poorna isthamaal koi inse seekhe. Aaj bahut saara tooth pastes hain, waada hain humse, jis planet mem honge, kabhi brush nahin karenge - SAB LOGON KO BEHOSH KARENGE!!...Dikhadenge sabko, inke head par hair grow karnewaale medicine hain, WOH UNIVERSE KI KISI PLANET MEM NAHIN HAIN!!!"
All the horrified guests instantly burst out laughing. Gorilla pressed the 'next' button. This time, a parody of a song from the movie 'Billu' erupted - "Shankar Bhayankar, Shankar Bhayankar...". All eyes turned to udi-baba, to catch the magical expression on his face. It was more purple than ever; his plan to torture others by playing his pravachan had backfired on him. A crimson jet erupted from udi-baba's eyes and the front door shattered with a resounding crash.Udi-baba began to run towards the exit. Humiliation beyond humiliation... I can't stand here any longer. It's time for me to meet J.D...whoever he is ...
As he stepped into the garden, a piece of paper flew at him from nowhere. It landed on the collar of his kurtha. Udi-baba took it and read it,
Yakeen kartha hoon ki mera treat tumhe bohat pasand aaya aur main jaantha hoon ki ithna sabkuch hone ke baad mujhse milne ka tumhara bohat mann karr raha hain. Mere dil bhi tumse milne ke liye tadap rahi hain. Tumhare zoo ke saamne jo ground hain, wahaan par aana...abhi...akele...tab tumhe saare sawaalon ka jawaab mil jaayega - ki main kaun hoon, yeh sab kyoon kar raha hoon...wagera wagera...jaldi aana...
J.D.
I'm gonna kill you now, thought udi-baba, as he stormed towards the gates and unlocked it. He sped to the nearby ground. The dazzling twilight cast his ghostly shadow on the grass. Somebody was already there...he was also wearing a kurtha...His back was facing udi-baba...
"Chup chupkar aakraman karna bade hoshiyaari samajthe ho??...Aamne saamne baath karo... ", snarled udi-baba.
J.D. turned, in dramatic fashion, towards his arch-enemy. The bright moonlight accentuated his face. Udi-baba's face turned to horror. For the first time in his life, the great centre shock baba screamed out of panic. The face staring at him was his own - the same frog-like eyes, the same bald head, the same shaggy beard. If anybody showed up at the ground right then, they would've been horror-struck to see two udi-babas standing face-to-face.
"Darr gaye??...creepy baba ke mann ko sirf ithna dum hain??...Zara socho...agar tum khud apne chehre dekhkar chillathe ho, toh baaki sab bechare logon ka kya haal hain", said J.D. flamboyantly.
"Ka...Ka..un ho tum?", stammered udi-baba.
"Wahi jisne tumhare waje se apna parivaar khoya...Mere maa, papa...sab tumhare waje se marr gaye...", said J.D. furiously.
Udi-baba was at a loss.
"Bhool gaye??...Jab tum pichli baar Jupiter mem aaya tha, tab tumne kuch budhe logon ko apna pravachan sunaaya tha...sunthe hi woh sab heart-attack se mar gaye...unn logom mem mere maa-baap bhi dhe...aur aaj main badla lene ke liye aaya hoon", J.D. roared, the intensity of his voice rising with each word.
J.D. closed his eyes and mumbled something. In the next instant, he transformed himself. His whole body became blue in color, a torch-like elongated bulb appeared on his forehead, and a yellow clothing, which included a hood, wrapped itself around his body from head to foot.
There was no mistaking who this was. The person whom udi-baba had met in Jupiter, the person who had even made an appearance in a bollywood movie - Jadoo the alien!!!
"Kuch din pehle main apne kuch scientist dosthon ke saath yahaan pahuncha, aur tumhara roop liya. Tumhare zoo ke saamne underground mem ek ghar banakar wahaan rehna shuru kiya. Ek din subah maine tumhare woh gorilla bete se mila...mujhe tum samajkar unhone tumhara saara plan mujhe bataaya.", said Jadoo triumphantly.
The truth and deception crashed down on udi-baba with excruciating severity. I'll kill this bloody alien!!!!!!. Before udi-baba could prepare himself to kill Jadoo with his stare, the whole area trembled. Wind began to blow heavily like a hurricane. From a distance, a flying vehicle was approaching - Jadoo's UFO!!. Before udi-baba could react, a black clothing was shot out of the UFO and it wrapped itself around udi-baba's eyes. The next moment, he was hoisted off his feet into the air, towards the UFO.
"Mere extra-terrestrial scientist dosthon ko dharthi ka extra-terrorist creatures par research karna hain. Toh maine socha ki main unke madath karoonga...Enjoy your time in Jupiter!!!", Jadoo called out.
The UFO rose higher into the air & vanished in no time. Jadoo closed his eyes again & mumbled. Instantly, he became udi-baba again. I lost my whole family. I need a family now, whom I can love and who can love me. Udi-baba's family is my family now. I'm gonna love his grandson and his wife like my own children. But...people will be suspicious...they'll never expect such a behaviour from udi-baba. Not to worry, I'll tell them I recently read a bamboo-leaf scribbling from Mohenjodaro civilization that spoke about the greatness of love. Gorilla and Boo-Aah Daadi are udi-baba's slaves. They'll have to abide by any order given to them by udi-baba, even if it is to jump into a well.
As he walked towards the zoo's open (shattered) door, he realized that it was not only a door leading to the zoo hall, but also a door that led to a joyful new life.
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I'm having the time of my life, thought Udi-baba, as he hung up the phone after telling Deepak Mishra that the Bajpayee family had overturned their initial decision & were happy to accept Anant & Navya's relationship. What all dreams that silly girl & her parents must be weaving up right now!!...that she would live in the babagiri zoo like a princess...that she would lead a joyful life with my grandson enjoying all the modern luxuries... He was sure that, soon after the marriage, the girl would realize the magnitude of her mistake - that of desiring to become a member of the most prestigious zoo in the world. I'll show them why Centre Shock Baba is admired by the world...and what price one would have to pay for defying the great creepy baba. He found it extremely ironic that he wanted Navya to set foot on his zoo, perhaps, more than Navya or Anant. As he fantasized about how he would add the modern-mumbai-kaniya to the list of dukhi aathmas in the zoo, Gorilla entered the room.
"Bauji, aapke liye ek chitti aayi hain", said Gorilla in 25000 decibel volume - much lower than the 1 million dB volume with which he talked to the other inhabitants of the zoo. He handed over a letter enclosed in an envelope to udi-baba.
Must be from the Amazon forest. No doubt those people loved the pravachan I gave them on Halloween day. I never thought they'd send me a thanks-giving letter, thought udi-baba as he opened the letter expecting a eulogy; but the salutation alone was sufficient to suggest that the sender was not a well-wisher.
Besharam buddhe,
Patha hain tum ab kya sapna dekh rahe haim. Shaadi ke baad apne pothe ki dulhan ko sabak sikhaana chahthe ho na? Main tumhare saajish ke baare mem sabkuch jaan gaya hoon. Main chahe toh ab Navya ke parivaar ko yeh sabkuch keh saktha hoon. Lekin nahin, usmem koi maza nahin hain. Ek baath yaad rekhna, jo bhi tum chahthe ho voh kuch bhi nahin hoga. Tumhara saara khel khatham hone waala hain.
J.D.
For a moment udi-baba thought he was in some sort of bizarre dream. But the foul smell emanating from his kurtha was a proof that this wasn't a dream. Who is this person?? How dare he, or she, send me an intimidating letter??!!! J.D???...Who is that???. His fury was dominated by his fear of a terrifying fact - This person, whoever it is, knows all about my plan!!!...And he is black-mailing me!!!...No, this isn't a blackmail; because the sender has no demands...he is simply threatening to thwart my plans!!!...How on earth did he find out ???...Only three people on the planet know about this...How could this information have escaped the circle of three???...Did Om or Saraswathi tell anybody??...No, they won't do that...They won't betray me & our parampara.
The sender had made it clear that he had no intention of letting the Mishras know about this. Then how on earth is he going to sabotage my plans?? Nothing can hurt me now, thought udi-baba, as he hid the letter under his bed made of eucalyptus leaves.
Two hundred meters away, outside the zoo, J.D. felt proud of himself for having put his arch-enemy in a precarious position. He is never going to escape from this, thought J.D. He is planning to wipe out the happiness of his own grandson. Can humans be so callous? I need to stop him - for my personal pleasure and the well-being of his grandson. I won't let him haunt more innocent lives. The great Centre Shock Baba's downfall is imminent. I will foil his plans on the engagement day of his grandson.
That morning, J.D. had sneaked into the zoo without udi-baba's knowledge and had initiated a conversation with udi-baba's right hand - Gorilla. Gorilla had revealed creepy baba's whole plan to J.D.. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the engagement day. J.D. wished he had a Time-Turner so that he could push the time forward to the engagement day.
The sun seemed to dazzle more than ever that day morning. Dignitaries from all around the city had gathered at babagiri zoo. The zoo was decorated with materials from stone-age. The zoo resembled Flintstones house now. Boo-Aah Daadi was standing at the entrance, greeting and welcoming the guests by chanting curses. The expression on her face made the guests wonder whether they were attending an engagement or a funeral. Gorilla's face was inarticulate and blank as always. Udi-baba wore a black kurtha which made him look like a true zombie. At dusk, the two persons, who were the centre of attention on that day, were standing face-to-face, admiring each other.
"Tum aaj bohat khoobsoorat lag rahe ho Navya", said Anant. "Tum bhi bohat handsome lag rahe ho Anant", remarked Navya.
Their eyes resumed the conversation. The language which they spoke through their eyes had no alphabetical form; yet, it was the most wonderful one on earth. Anybody would have commented, "Inn donom ko kisiki nazar na lag jaaye"; Unfortunately, kisika nazar lag gaya - Udi-baba ka, who was watching them through his frog-like eyes.
A girl and a boy talking to each other before marriage??!!!...that too, in babagiri zoo??!!!...PAAP!!! PAAP!!! MAHAAA PAAAP!!!! Looks like my grandson hasn't learnt the rules of anushaasan yet. I will teach him; not only him, everybody who is present here.
"Om", Udi-baba called out. Gorilla stormed towards Udi-baba, "Ji Bauji".
"Saare darwaase bandh karo, taaki koi bhi yahaan se baahar na jaa sake", snarled Udi-baba. Gorilla and Boo-Aah Daadi sped to the doors and slammed them shut.
All faces were awash with bewilderment now.
"Om, Ab woh aadhunik yantr ke zariye mere ek pravachan sabko sunao".
These words fell into the hearts of everybody like a death sentence. Unlike always, none of them had trouble deciphering udi-baba's ancient language this time. 'Aadhunik yantr' meant MP3 player. A stampede broke out among the guests; all of them started to run frantically for dear life. As Gorilla inserted a CD and took the MP3 player's remote control, the guests felt as though an atom bomb was going to be detonated. Moments from various stages of their lives began to flash in front of their eyes.
Gorilla pressed the 'play' button.
The audio commenced. As soon as it started playing, udi-baba sensed that there was something wrong with it. It wasn't his mind-staggering pravachan, it was something else. Although Udi-baba couldn't figure out what it was, others did. It was a parody of an unforgettable speech from the movie '3 Idiots'. And in the ensuing moments, Udi-baba wished he had gone deaf.
"Agar babagiri zoo aaj duniya ke sabse khatharnaak zoo hain, toh uska shreya sirf ek insaan ko zyaada hain - Sri. Centre Shock Baba. Pichle 100 saal se inone niranthar apna kurtha wash nahin kiya hain. Ummeed hain, ki aage bhi wash nahin karenge. Hamem toh aashcharya hotha hain, ki ek insaan apne jeevankaal mem ithna badboo kaise emit kar saktha hain. Inone kati tapasya se apne head ko football jaise banaya hain. Bamboo leaves ka sahi upyog, jingalala-bulubulu ka poorna isthamaal koi inse seekhe. Aaj bahut saara tooth pastes hain, waada hain humse, jis planet mem honge, kabhi brush nahin karenge - SAB LOGON KO BEHOSH KARENGE!!...Dikhadenge sabko, inke head par hair grow karnewaale medicine hain, WOH UNIVERSE KI KISI PLANET MEM NAHIN HAIN!!!"
All the horrified guests instantly burst out laughing. Gorilla pressed the 'next' button. This time, a parody of a song from the movie 'Billu' erupted - "Shankar Bhayankar, Shankar Bhayankar...". All eyes turned to udi-baba, to catch the magical expression on his face. It was more purple than ever; his plan to torture others by playing his pravachan had backfired on him. A crimson jet erupted from udi-baba's eyes and the front door shattered with a resounding crash.Udi-baba began to run towards the exit. Humiliation beyond humiliation... I can't stand here any longer. It's time for me to meet J.D...whoever he is ...
As he stepped into the garden, a piece of paper flew at him from nowhere. It landed on the collar of his kurtha. Udi-baba took it and read it,
Yakeen kartha hoon ki mera treat tumhe bohat pasand aaya aur main jaantha hoon ki ithna sabkuch hone ke baad mujhse milne ka tumhara bohat mann karr raha hain. Mere dil bhi tumse milne ke liye tadap rahi hain. Tumhare zoo ke saamne jo ground hain, wahaan par aana...abhi...akele...tab tumhe saare sawaalon ka jawaab mil jaayega - ki main kaun hoon, yeh sab kyoon kar raha hoon...wagera wagera...jaldi aana...
J.D.
I'm gonna kill you now, thought udi-baba, as he stormed towards the gates and unlocked it. He sped to the nearby ground. The dazzling twilight cast his ghostly shadow on the grass. Somebody was already there...he was also wearing a kurtha...His back was facing udi-baba...
"Chup chupkar aakraman karna bade hoshiyaari samajthe ho??...Aamne saamne baath karo... ", snarled udi-baba.
J.D. turned, in dramatic fashion, towards his arch-enemy. The bright moonlight accentuated his face. Udi-baba's face turned to horror. For the first time in his life, the great centre shock baba screamed out of panic. The face staring at him was his own - the same frog-like eyes, the same bald head, the same shaggy beard. If anybody showed up at the ground right then, they would've been horror-struck to see two udi-babas standing face-to-face.
"Darr gaye??...creepy baba ke mann ko sirf ithna dum hain??...Zara socho...agar tum khud apne chehre dekhkar chillathe ho, toh baaki sab bechare logon ka kya haal hain", said J.D. flamboyantly.
"Ka...Ka..un ho tum?", stammered udi-baba.
"Wahi jisne tumhare waje se apna parivaar khoya...Mere maa, papa...sab tumhare waje se marr gaye...", said J.D. furiously.
Udi-baba was at a loss.
"Bhool gaye??...Jab tum pichli baar Jupiter mem aaya tha, tab tumne kuch budhe logon ko apna pravachan sunaaya tha...sunthe hi woh sab heart-attack se mar gaye...unn logom mem mere maa-baap bhi dhe...aur aaj main badla lene ke liye aaya hoon", J.D. roared, the intensity of his voice rising with each word.
J.D. closed his eyes and mumbled something. In the next instant, he transformed himself. His whole body became blue in color, a torch-like elongated bulb appeared on his forehead, and a yellow clothing, which included a hood, wrapped itself around his body from head to foot.
There was no mistaking who this was. The person whom udi-baba had met in Jupiter, the person who had even made an appearance in a bollywood movie - Jadoo the alien!!!
"Kuch din pehle main apne kuch scientist dosthon ke saath yahaan pahuncha, aur tumhara roop liya. Tumhare zoo ke saamne underground mem ek ghar banakar wahaan rehna shuru kiya. Ek din subah maine tumhare woh gorilla bete se mila...mujhe tum samajkar unhone tumhara saara plan mujhe bataaya.", said Jadoo triumphantly.
The truth and deception crashed down on udi-baba with excruciating severity. I'll kill this bloody alien!!!!!!. Before udi-baba could prepare himself to kill Jadoo with his stare, the whole area trembled. Wind began to blow heavily like a hurricane. From a distance, a flying vehicle was approaching - Jadoo's UFO!!. Before udi-baba could react, a black clothing was shot out of the UFO and it wrapped itself around udi-baba's eyes. The next moment, he was hoisted off his feet into the air, towards the UFO.
"Mere extra-terrestrial scientist dosthon ko dharthi ka extra-terrorist creatures par research karna hain. Toh maine socha ki main unke madath karoonga...Enjoy your time in Jupiter!!!", Jadoo called out.
The UFO rose higher into the air & vanished in no time. Jadoo closed his eyes again & mumbled. Instantly, he became udi-baba again. I lost my whole family. I need a family now, whom I can love and who can love me. Udi-baba's family is my family now. I'm gonna love his grandson and his wife like my own children. But...people will be suspicious...they'll never expect such a behaviour from udi-baba. Not to worry, I'll tell them I recently read a bamboo-leaf scribbling from Mohenjodaro civilization that spoke about the greatness of love. Gorilla and Boo-Aah Daadi are udi-baba's slaves. They'll have to abide by any order given to them by udi-baba, even if it is to jump into a well.
As he walked towards the zoo's open (shattered) door, he realized that it was not only a door leading to the zoo hall, but also a door that led to a joyful new life.
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Yours loving,
Dan😊😊😊😊😊😊
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