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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Bollywood Tuesday - Humraaz: A story of love and hate (6)


Okay, today is another beautiful day for a Bollywood movie; at least I think so. Let me get right to it to avoid boring you… Again, if you are just reading this, you may wanna read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 to get the hang of the entire thing.

When the cassette is slotted in, Priya’s voice fills the car. Raj is surprised and listens intently to his wife’s confession. He immediately realizes he has made a grave mistake. This woman loved him and had against all odds told him the truth.

He steps on the accelerator hoping against hope that somehow, his wife survives; but his hopes are dashed when he gets to his compound. Police vehicles and ambulance are parked outside with a swam of officers going in and out of his house. Raj’s legs cease to move as tears well up in his eyes. He had killed the only woman he loved before realizing the truth.


 As he staggers into his home, he is faced with a covered-up corpse with blood pooled on the stomach area. He feels empty and alone and turns to find a seat but the sight that meets his eyes causes him to do a double-take. He is facing Priya who is being consoled by neighbours and the police. Raj cannot believe it but when Priya runs into his arms, he knows he has gotten a second chance to make things right. Or so he thought!

The police come to him asking him to come and see if he can identify the intruder. He knows in his heart that the intruder is Karan, so he steps forward. When the cloth is lifted off the intruders face, Raj almost convulsed. He is staring at a complete stranger.

The thoughts didn’t have time to run through his head when the police presented him with the hero of the day. The man who had killed the intruder and saved his lovely wife was none other than Karan. As Karan strolls in with a wide smile plastered across his face, Raj’s hate for him triples. He knows right there and then that Karan is playing a game he didn’t know if he could play.

Priya on the other hand is extremely grateful to her former lover for saving her life and as the police investigations continue, they get to know that the intruder was a low-life who was paid by someone to kill Priya.

The entire occurrence is still fresh on the couple’s minds when Raj’s mother calls him demanding to know why she wasn’t told of the incident. Raj is surprised and asks how she found out. She tells him Karan came to tell her and she is hosting him at her house as a guest.

Raj immediately packs up and along with his wife, heads to his family house.

He is surprised to discover that Karan was given a room in the mansion as a friend of the family. When dusk approaches, Raj goes to Karan’s room and threatens to kill him if he didn’t leave his family alone. Karan laughs in his face and tells him he is in no place to threaten anyone. Then Karan tells him he has a video to show him. When Karan presses the remote control, Raj goes momentarily dumb with what he sees. Karan had video-taped every second of their discussion about Priya’s murder showing only Raj’s face; the security details and payment for the act all inclusive. He had hidden the camera in the big suitcase he showed up with. He has all he needs to put Raj away for life.

Raj is dumbfounded and when Karan asks for a meeting away from the family, he immediately accepts.

The next day, he goes to meet with Karan armed with a pistol. He is determined to shut him up for good but when he gets there, he sees that Karan has about a dozen armed bodyguards with him.

Karan then makes his proposition, a very unthinkable one at that. He tells Raj to choose between spending 14 years in jail after he has made the video public and dying. He tells Raj that since Priya still sees him as a good man who also saved her life, his death will definitely bring her back to him.

When Karan notices that Raj is not interested in his offer, he unleashes his men on him. They beat Raj so mercilessly that he is helpless. When Karan steps on his face, pointing the gun and about to pull the trigger, Priya who had eaves-dropped on their conversation from home and trailed them to the location shows herself. 

She angrily tells Karan not to shoot her husband and goes ahead to tell him that if he were the last man on earth, she would never have anything else to do with him. This sparks the maniac in Karan and he aims the gun at her and squeezes the trigger. 

The moment Priya goes down, Raj is enraged and the rage gives him strength. He goes after each one of the attackers, breaking bones and smashing heads. Finally, he is face to face with Karan. The thought of his wife lying dead and the plot Karan played out with him makes his eyes red and he transfers the color to Karan by spilling his blood. When he hangs Karan on a tree with a big chain, he walks away sure Karan is dead and goes hurrying to his wife.

But Karan is not dead.

As Raj walks away, Karan picks up a gun and aims. A shot is fired. Raj turns to see a hole blown in Karan’s skull and looks around to see his savior. There stands Priya clutching her arm with one hand as the gun dangles from it.

He hurries to her and as they meet each other in a hug, they know that they have been through hell and back together nursing each other’s secret and nothing would ever come between them.


I hope you enjoyed reading this story as much as I enjoyed writing it... Drop me a comment if you did!


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