recap: Its July 2005 and Abhay Meets with an Accident. Angad and Kripa Meet face to face.
Part 2:
kkusum had stopped crying and the tears from her eyes had dried up.. it had been over five hours since abhay was taken into the operation theatre.She just kept muttering to herself..aisa mere saath hi kyun hua... why does this always have to happen to me.. jisse bhi chahoon woh mere se kyun alag ho jata hai. With a questioning look, she looked up at brother karthik who just hugged her tight.
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kkusum was seven years old and was closest to her grand father laxman khanna. It was winter holidays and at a time when she was beginning to understand the ABC's of relationship, tragedy struck the khannas. It was laxman Khanna bday that day and kkusum had wanted to bake a cake from him. She ha pestered her nannny all day long as naina her mom was busy calling up all the socialites in the town. Laxman Khanna had gone for a walk in themorning and kkusum had thought the time was perfect to surprise him and show to him how much she loved him. she had thought that she will tell him in the evening that she did really love her dadaji. All morning dadaji had longed to hear fromkkusum the words - i love you dadaji but kkusum had made up her mind to surprise him by baking a cake...
Afternoon turned to evening and laxman khanna went for a walk..all hale and hearty but when he did return, it wasnt his six footer figure but him in a coffin. The doorbeel had rung and kkusum had switched off the lights. she wanted to be the first to wish her dada. She went to open the door and screamed surprised as she switched on the lights. Her father, mother and brother all behind her, but when the door did open, it was a group of police men who wre bringing a dead body in a coffin. kkusum saw the dead body and refused to accept it was her dada. Howling and Sobbing, she came near his coffin saying happy bday dada .. i love you...
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i love you .. i love yu.. kkusum kept mutering in her half dazed state. Suddenly she got up with a jerk and ran towards the ICU. Di Karthik began to say but later shook his head as kkusum had reached te ICU Door. A nurse came out and said sshh andar jaana mana hai.
Kkusum - mera andar jaana mana kyun hai. my husband in there there. Karthik got up from his seat and went towards kkusum. Putting his hand on her shoulder and pulling him in his arms he tells his ister that abhay needs all the rest and prayer in the world. Pointing to a Ganesh Idil nearby, he tells her that woh hai na , woh sab kuch theek kar lega. Kkusum in between sobs asks her brother - ma kahan hai karthik. Unhe nahin malum kya mujhe unki kitni zaroorat hai. She continues to ask her brother - bhai, jo dada ke saath woh abhay ke saath to nahin hoga? Karthik consoled his sister by saying nahin, hum aisa nahin hone denge. Abhay ko kuch nahin hoga kyunki tum uske saath hoga.
kkusum - lekin karthik dada ke saath to dadi thi na. jab unke beech ka pyar aur vishwas ek hi pal me jhatke se alag ho gaya, to kya abhay aur mere saath aisa hoga?
karthik - not knowing what to say and hiding his tears - kkusum, jab tak tumhare paas yeh bhai hain, tumhare abhay ko kuch nahin hoga.
kkusum - i know you love manya, i wish i could like her too but karthik..
karthik - hey di..no thinking of manya right now..abhi aap bas abhay jiju..stopping midway and saying i mean abhay ke barein mein socho...
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Setember 2004:
Karthik Cell Phone Rngs and he rushes to Manya Home. There he sees Manya unconscious with some sleeping pills tablet next to her.Karthik just picks her up and rushes her to the hospital. Upon regaining consciousness, Manya tells him that Abhay has told her in no certain words that he doesnt want to work with him in this mutli crore project that he is currently working on.
Karthik -why is working with abhay such a prime criteria with you?
Manya - Why shouldnt it be. My dad worked with Abhays Dad and was his partner in business. Why cant i be Abhays Partner in Business.
Karthik - Because Kkusum is in his partner in life and in business. Cant you get that.
Manya - no i cant. Why are you being so blind to the fact that i love abhay.
Karthk - hes married to kkusum for heavens sake.
Manya - so what ! divorce bhi to ho sakta hai.
Karthik - raising his hand - manya...divorce ka naam bhi mat lena. yeh mat bhoolo ki abhay ki jisse shaadi hue hai woh meri behen hai.
manya - haan aue yeh shaadi nahin hoti agar maine kkusum ko nahin manvaya tha.
karthik - ehsaan kiya tha
manya - haan kiya! i want my abhay back.
karthik - you cant get him back. hes comitted to my sister for life. you cant get him in business as along with kkusum its piyush who is his partner.
manya - it would have been me had kripa not pushed piyushs case. kripa kripa kripa - shes the darling of your house isnt she.
karthik - shes my brothers girl friend after all.
manya - i hate her. she out to destroy my life.
karthik - no she isnt.
manya - she pressed for piyushs case. shes took my abhay away from e. i want my abhay back. i love him so much.
karthik - i think you need rest. you have gone mad. If you love abhay.then what am i to you. Dont you love me?
manya - pyar ek baar hi hota hai karthik. ek baAR HI...
kARTHIK - i think i got my answer.
Manya - karthik, dont leave me please, crying - i;m sorry. mujhe mat shoro pls. is duniya main ek tum hi to ho jo mujhe samajhta hai.
karthik - mujhe bhi aisa lagta tha manya ki shayad hum ek doosrom ko samajhte the. par aaj mere samne jo manya hai woh pata nahin kaun hai. woh meri manya nahin hai. please manya ...i got to go now.
When karthik came out that night from the hospital room leaving a sobbing manya, he left with a heavy heart. he couldnt bear to see manya in that state and yet he loved his sister dearly. Manya ka saath deta to kkusum ke saath na insaafi aur agar kkusum aur abhay ka saath deta to manya ke satth kuch hadh tak na insaafi after all she was his girl friend.
Karthik came out and just put his back against the wall. About 15 minutes later angad and kripa came along with kkusum and abhay. kripa asked karthik - what happenned to manya . Silence from Karthik for a while and a little later he walked off giving a glare to abhay telling him that manya ki is halat ke zimmedar sirf tum ho abhay. sirf tum. He glares at Kripa saying, you stay away from me and manya, you get that.
Angad - karthik tum yeh bhool rahe ho, ki kripa mewri hone wali patni hai.
karthik - to aaj eh phaisla kar lo - ya to kripa ghar main rahee ge , ya mein.
Kripa goes away from there with a harassed angad following her. He asks her for some time which she gives him not knowing that things will never be the same again.
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Kkusum looks up to her brother and tells him, you know how i much i appreciate you being here. I dont know why you suddenly stopped liking abhay. you too were great friends. kya tum phir se abhay ke saath dosti nahin kar sakte. Karthik, tumhara yahan hoina is baat ka gawah hai ki aaj bhi tum abhay ki izzat karte ho,m aaj bhi tumhe abhay ki prvah hai aur kyun na ho, tum dono the acche dost.
Karthik - di, Abhay ko kuch nahin hoga aur abhay aur main kabhi phir se acche dost nahin ban sakte.
Kkusum (her tears have dried up) - looks at her brother says jante ho karthik, jab mujge pata chala tha ki manya abhay se pyar karti thi, main kush nahin thi, bura bhi laga tha. aisa laga tha ki jaise main do doston ke beech aa gayee. karthik manya agar abhay se aaj bhi pyar karti hai, isme abhay ka kya kasoor hai. manya abhay ka ab paana chahtee hai kyunki abhay uska kabhi ho nahin sakta. par yeh kaisa pyar hai karthik. aaj abhay zindagi aur maut ke beech lad raha hai lekin manya yahan nahin hai. yeh yahan to tum, main, angad, kripa- yeh yahan to uske chahne walein.
Karthik wonders aloud Angad aur kripa kahan hai.
Kkusum- karthik
___________________________________________________________C ut Cut to Summers of 2003 and Karthik thinks of the time when the whole family had gone to Seychelles for the Summer Vacation. Para Gliding, the water mo bike rides, scuba diving, Angad, Abhay, Prithvi, sujal ad He had done it all. Whether it was scaring the girls with plastic jelly fishes or whether it was swimming in the sea, they had all the fun in the world. It was in the middle of a water volleyball game that karthik first bumped into Manya, one look at her and he couldnt take his eyes off her. He had never seen such beauty and an intellect look in a girl eyes before. Manya had just given him a glare and had walked off.
two days later he saw manya again and this time he saw her at a shopping complex. she seemed to having a cofrontation with some one and by the time he had walked to that spot, the guy was no longer there but manya was in tears. a cup of cofee later, a sobbing manya had told karthik her love story where she told him about this guy who was her best pal - Abhay. Hes married now and the girl whom he has got married to was a girl he had seen at a traffic light. One look by Abhay at the girl and he had fallen heads and heals over her. Seeing her friend like that she befriended the girl kkusum and got him talking with the girl. That was two years earlier. Smiling maya told him that Abhay and kkusum got married in Jan 2003. Hearing the names abhay and kkusum and hearing the story which sounded too familiar to karthiks ears, he took out kkusums photo from his wallet and asked manya if kkusum was the girl she saw in the picture. Manya nodded ad wondered how karthik knew kkusum.
Kathik - kunki kkusum meri behen
manya - tumhari behen - oh my god what a small wprld
karthik - yeh indeed . par kaisee dost ho tum jo apni dost ki shaadi pe nahin aayee.
manyA - i was abroad setting up a clhing franchise
karthik - so you ran away from the situation
manya - ran away what do you mean
karthik - the guy who was just here wasnt he abhay?
manya - looking down, yeah. dekho na kaisa dost maine paya hai. shaadfi ke baat bilkul badal gaya. aj mujhe baat hi nahin karna chahta tha.
karthik - abhay is not like that. oh by the way, hi i am karthik
manya - manya, manya mittal.
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the doctors come out from the operation theatre and want ab negative blood as abhay was running out of blood. he tells them that its urgently needed and thry dont have this blood group in their hospital. Also that the next 48 hours are very critical.
Karthik turns to look for angad. He would surely know who has ab negative blood. Karthik sees angad and kripa looking at each other, their eyes had met and the two if them couldnt tale their eyes off each other. Shaking his head, he calls up sujal. He walks up to angad,patted him on the bed, angad immediately turns to look at karthik after taking the coffe, and musters a thank you to kripa. Kripa lowers her eyes and goes off from there to talk to the doctors.
Angad calls up sujal who is a universal donor as also prithvi and mishty. sujal reaches the hospital within 10 minutes and donotes about two bottles of blood. Prithvi and Mishty go to red cross to get some blood. An hour later Prithvi and Mishty come with 3 bottles of ab negative blood. After denoting his blood, sujal walks upto kripa and looks into her eyes- kripa tumne kuch khaya. Kripa shakes her head. Angad notices it abd disaapears off for some time. he returns after some time with some sandwiches, gives it to his sister, brother and friends. hes left with one sandwich and h wlks to kripa with it. Sujal sees angad coming and gets up. Kripa hoilds sujals hand and says sujal,please mat jayo.
Sujal - Kripa main bas abhi aaya. tum akele nahin ho.angad baith jayega tumhare sath kuch waqt ke liye.
Kripa - sujal.
Sujal - kkusum ko bhi meri zaroorat hai na kripa. main bas abhi aaya.
Angad gives her a sandwich.
Kripa - tum nahin loge.
Angad - nahin bhuk nahin hai.
kripa - angad tumhe aaj bhi mujhse jhoot balna nahin aata. jab jhoot nahin bol sakte to bole kyun ho.
Angad - aaj bhi tum meri jhoot ko pakad sakte ho.
Kripa - haan. kyunki main tumhare har cheez se waqif hoon.
Angad - chalo is jhoot bol kar hi sahi hum aaj ek doosre se baat to kar sakte hain.
kripa - angad please. i still have no interest in talking to you. Kripa gets up and leaves.
Angad holding her hand
Kripa - please mera haath chodo. tune yeh haq kho diya hai. thank you for the sandwich. how much do i owe for it?
Angad - nothing.
Kripa - please dont oblige me. I dont want you to say later that i didnt pay you back.
Angad - aaj bhi us baat ko leke tum naraz ho kripa.
Kripa - angad, i thought you of all the people would underayand me. would side by me.no you had a choice to make - either to believe manya or believe me and you chose to believe manya.
Angad - manya was my brothers would be wife to me.
Kripa - aur main angad - kya main tumharee kuch nahin lagtee thi kya. saath kadam ek saath chalne ka vada kiya tha humne angad. ek doosre ke hum dum hum bhi banne jaa rahe the par ek hi khatke main sab kuch khatam. sab kuch. Us din jab naina aunty aur manya mere upar uglee utha rahe the, yeh keh kar ki maiun tumse nahin, tumhare daulat se pyar kartee hoon. Us din tum chup rahe angad. tum chuip rahe. tum bhool gaye ki mujhe tumhare daulat se koi pyar nahin hai. par tum chup rahe.
Angad - i know i was wrong. I know i was wrong. but kripa i'm sorry cant we be friends
Kripa - kya tum dosti ka matlab jante ho angad. and please dont say sorry. Tum sorry kehna bhool gaye ho!
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July 2004
Its monsoon time and angad had promised kripa to take her on a bike ride in the rain.Kripa was waiting at her home for angad only angad was busy playing football in the rain with sujal, prithvi and mishti in his spacious lawns of his bunglow. two hours later angad realized that he had a date. knowing that kripa would be wild, - she was not picking up his calls , he went and picked up some chocolates.Angad tried giving those chocolates to kripa but she wouldnt be talking. not knowing how to manao his lady love, he went to a nearby arches gallery and picked up a teddy bear with a sorry engraved around its neck.
at her home, kripa was paving and down till she finally dozed off to sleep, only to wke up when the door bell rang. She saw angad at the door and was so wild that she banged the door on him. the door bell rang again and she came ut opening the door saying i dont want to talk ....she stoped midway on learning it was the dhobhan in front of her. the dhobhan had come to collect the clothes. after giving the clothes to the dhobhan and shutting the door, the doorbell rang. This time kripa was saying kya hai .. nola na.... but this time it was some kids who had come to collect some oney for the upcoming charity show in the building. she gives them the money and promises them she will sing in the show. The door bell rings agan and this kripa is fed up. She opens the door again and this time there is a bouqet of flowers at the doorstep. Thinking it was for kashish, she goes to leave it at the table. she is shocked to see her name addressed on it and gives a sly smile when she learns it is from angad. the door bell rings again and kripa opens it again. This time she sees a teddy bear on the ground. as she goes in, she forgets to close the door behind her. she keeps looking at the teddy and says to herself to jainab romantic ho rahe hain. Accha hai. Kripa takes out a sorry message attached to the teddy: it reads:
"maana ki galati ho gayi hai , hai tumhara gussa mahashallah. kahin is gusse pe bhi na jayoon ghayal, ab to kar lo maaph. " I am sorry & Love you...
kripa - hmn to janab ji singer hote hue shayar bhi hain. i love you too angad.
Angad coming from behind and hugging her - kypa bola - kuch sunne main nahin aaya.
Kripa -Angad - hitting him with the teddy golden words are not to be repeated.
they hug and proceed to go for their bike ride in the pelting rain .
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angad and kripa are both awoken from their thoughts. kripa shakes her head and walks to proceed towards the doctor. the doctor tells her the next 48 hours are very critical. they want some medicines which prithvi goes to get. Kkusum is waiting at the door of the ICU looking through the window and seeing all those machines and injections implanted on abhay. kripa and mishty are around her. Kkusum tells them - ajeeb zindagi hai ye. abhay ko kitna dard ho raha hai. jiske suyeein se itna dard hota tha, aaj usse ktna dard ho raha hoga. abhayka har dard mujhe kyun nahin mil sakta.
Angad is sitting on the bench outside the ICU, his eyes down and tears falling from his eyes. hes sad and broken as he knows hes hurt kripa. hes helpless as there is nothing he can do for his sister except for giving her himmat and hes angry with his for not turning up at all till now.
Karthik is near kkusum but at a distance. He looks at kripa and her self independence and self respect amazes him. Both he and angad have a new found respect for kripa. Karthik is thankful to kripa for being there for his sister and for them in this turmulous time in their life. He wants to apologise to kripa but his ego isnt letting him.
Sujal is sitting next to angad. Hes hoping that kashish has got his message. He knows that kashish has landed and should be reaching the hospital anytime with dilip uncle.
Prithvi, Mishty and kripa are around kkusum. Kripa keepa giving these side glances to Angad. She still loves Angad. She wants to take that first step towards angad but she knows that their life cant be the same any more. She wished she could put the past behind her and take that hand of friendship that angad had again extended to her.she wished she could trust angad again but now she didnt want to do anything in a hurry.
kkusum rests her back on the wall , her eyes this time looking at the door as if searching and waiting for some one to come...
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