Mukund's house
All their relatives & acquaintances star calling them and question them on the freshly spilled headlines ' RK's new love interest Madhubala . Mukku's sister attend a call , she gets baffled hearing the other end but eventually sees the headlines as well .
Ayi [ST] : Madhubala your reputation went down the drains but still its reflected effects are tainting my family's pride and mostly Mukund's life ' you'll never be happy after this
Scene shifts to RK's house
Bittuji with pleasure reading variant headlines glorifying the fact that indeed sparks are flying between Madhu and RK ; all newspapers inclusive of local dialects' ones have this one as Headlines .
RK simply smirks & tosses all the newspapers one by one post reading the readlines ; gives a satisfactory smirk & sings " Chalka Chalka re Kalsi ka paani" ๐
Madhu & Mukund in cab
Madhu's phone dies so Mukku offers to buy her a new one with his 1st salary ; Madhu declines that n says he should save it now for their dream house . Mukku gets a call from Ayi where she asks about his whereabouts & instructs him to come home ' unable to say no Mukund complies
They bid bye to each other & Madhu leaves for her beauty parlor
In Chawl
Everyone has read the newspapers ! Malik has high bp reading this ' Paddy tries to calm him , she asks Trish to call Madhu when the latter says Madhu's phone is coming unavailable ; she tries Mukund too but his phone comes busy . Malik says if they're together I'm sure they'll realize & understand its gossip after all . Roma enters with a bunch of tabloids all singing there's no smoke without fire between Madhu & RK with all the snaps as a cherry on top ! Malik asks Roma to stop re-iterating the same headlines over n over again '.
Scene shifts to Madhu
On way to her salon some jerks make lecherous passes at her ! Madhu shrugs it off & enters the salon only to be surrounded by her colleagues who look grim ! one by one they start questioning about Madhu's engagement with Mukund & that why all of a sudden super star RK graced her engagement ! Madhu initially gets on with it as a casual convo but slowly their talks imply there's more to the weird behaviors & looks she's facing since morning ' finally Madhu reads the newspapers & feels giddy ; her ground slipping beneath ! everything since morning starts to make sense to her from pple gaping at her to the sudden call from Ayi summoning Mukku home '
The salon people tell her that these snaps don't lie which is conspicuously promoting something's cooking between them ' ... the headlines , the news everything pointing finger at her as also the fact that all these happened in front of her in-laws , fiance and parents !
Meanwhile they get a call from a client who cancels her appointment ; the owner informs Madhu that this is the 5th appointment getting cancelled since morning ! she suggests Madhu should take 4-5 days leave till everything settles down & truth surfaces ; also stating she can't put her work at stake for Madhu !
Madhu is shaken up with these turn of events ! she hails an auto and starts reminiscing all that happened all of sudden this morning ! she sees everything getting connected to RK and breaks down pretty bad !
In Chawl
Mukku and Ayi visit the Maliks . Ayi tells that since morning every single person of family , relatives etc have demanded an explanation to these headlines ! her would be DIL is "RK's Item" ' Mukku tries to intervene but Ayi says this time I'm not saying but everyone in your family is questioning !
Paddy & Trish tries to save the situation saying all these happened in front of us & that its not true but just rumor to which Ayi sarcastically puts even if I don't believe in these snaps but whatever is written does go hand in hand with Madhu's sudden disappearance on her engagement , her going to film sets of RK , RK coming to her engagement ''''. Between the lines written their relationship is glaringly surfacing !
Madhu all tear stricken listens to the entire convo '.
Precap
Bittuji asking chief for his next set of actions to which RK replies next Madhu herself will come to him .