The Day That Was Not To Be

THE REVELATIONS

Once again, Gayathri does as required. She comes back with frightening facts – facts that peels off Ravi from his senses. Ravi is frightened on hearing Gayathri"s explicit narrations on Deepa, Shrikar and Dr. Vipul.

Gayathri: All of them are repeated offenders. They very well know the law and they really know how to play with it.

Ravi (anxious): How does this work? Please enlighten me with the details.

Gayathri (explains): See, this is how they work: Either Shrikar or Deepa finds out a potential target. The targets that they zero upon are with very less relatives or none at all. Then with the God-given charm that they have, they somehow make their victims fall in love with them and subsequently marry them.

After marriage they make their respective spouses their nominees and vice versa.

Then, there is a mystery. I don"t know how they achieve it: shortly after each marriage, all their spouses end up in some mental asylum, just as now Anjana is trapped in one. And every time the psychiatrist happens to be Dr. Vipul.

Ravi (stunned): Shocking...!

Gayathri (with a hand gesture): Wait... There is more. Again, I am ignorant how they make it. But all their victims become psychotic and extremely violent that Shrikar and company manage to get a court order to make their targets completely inactive for the rest of their lives. Once each victim becomes inactive, his or her properties are transferred to the respective spouse, who happens to be either Shrikar or Deepa.

Ravi (nervous): Incredible! So, now Anjana is at the risk of becoming inactive for the rest of her life. Oh my god, how can we save her and how much time do we have.

Gayathri: You need to really hurry up on this. They will be getting the order in a day or two. And you should also prepare as to how to get her out.

Ravi (hurriedly): OK. I am going to the hospital, right away. Will meet you afterwards.

Gayathri: Rather than taking the car, take the motorbike. There is heavy traffic on the way to the hospital.

Ravi (hurriedly): Why? What happened?

Gayathri: Some big politician is visiting our city, tomorrow. So the security is being tightened.

Ravi: Oh, is it so? ok.

Gayathri (in a commanding tone): Hey wait, need to give you something.

Ravi (tired): Now... what is it?

Gayathri goes to the adjacent room and comes back after a few minutes with a packet and hands it over to Ravi.

Gayathri (authoritatively): Somehow give this to Anjana, without anyone noticing; and warn her to open this only when she is completely alone.

Then she whispers something secretly into Ravi"s ears.

Ravi snatches the packet and begins his race to the Mental Hospital. On the way, he sees many posters and hoardings of the politician"s visit. He is frustrated because of the traffic jam.

On reaching the Hospital, he meets Vipul and requests him for permission to meet Anjana. The meeting is arranged. But Anjana, dejected by Ravi"s earlier behaviour, declines to meet him. Vipul finds this to be another opportunity to make Anjana paranoid in order to fasten her with the court order. Hence he forces her in to meeting Ravi. Like a meek spectator, Ravi watches Anjana being dragged in to the room in a very inhuman way.

Once inside the room Ravi requests the staff that he and Anjana be left alone in the room, to which Vipul readily and eagerly nods permission.

Ravi (whisperingly): Now I very well know you are innocent, Anju. So please don"t scream. Just listen to me. I will come near you as if to console you and during this process I will hand over a packet to you. Once you conceal the packet, just hit me and let out a violent scream. Please open the packet in solitude. And you will know what to do.

This drama is enacted. Dr. Vipul and some hospital staff rush in to the cell responding to the scream. Ravi apologizes to Vipul for triggering another bout of violence and bids him bye for the time being.