RAINBOW

RAINBOW
By Sambidhan Acharya

(Each plot has chapter name to make it easy to understand. The entire story is not in a chronological order)

For the last two decades Mr. Ray had made huge blockbuster and memorable movies but this time he is trying to forget about commercial stuff and is planning to make a movie which would be a tribute to 70s family melodrama. He contacts his writer Aslam in mid night in his home. Aslam is the script writer with whom Ray has worked for long and is his best friend too. There Mr. Ray pours his desire. Aslam who has been writing all the screenplays for Mr. Ray thinks that this time too he would end up making commercial movie to earn money but Ray emphasizes on making a tribute to 70 this time so he suggests few movie's name and when Aslam speaks of Yaadon Ki Baraat. Mr. Ray asks him to halt and desires to see the movie and plan to remake it. Seeing his enthusiasm Aslam calls a shopkeeper at 1 in the night asks him to bring the DVD, shopkeeper at first gets irritated but when said that his name too would be mentioned in the cast and thanks giving list immediately gets ready and handles them DVD personally. They start to see the movie 'Yaadon Ki Baraat' the casting of 'Yaadon Ki Baraat.'

THE TRUTH BEHIND HER MURDER

A boy in his mid twenties is seen weeping in an apartment room holding a revolver which has silencer in it the only one to accompany him in the room is a corpse of a woman who is in her thirties and is wearing a transparent sleeping gown. The boy is murmuring that he hasn’t killed the woman but the cold body of that woman which has one eye missing and a portion of head missing too is staring with her one eye in the ceiling which has fresco featuring god killing a Satan. With the situation the boy is, it is hard to believe that he hasn’t killed the woman.
After a while the boy glances himself in the mirror and sees blood all over his shirt and face. He become more terrified and thinks what he has to do trembling and shivering. He thinks to first clean his body. He goes to the bathroom to clean and in the same time he thinks he should do now. One of his side says to call police tell everything that he hadn’t killed the girl but some unknown bullet had struck her from nowhere. But his revolver in hand without license will undoubtedly be questioned then he thinks of the woman’s husband who is a hardcore mafia and a huge business man and is sure that if police would believe him and court would give him a white cheat too but mafia’s hit men will run after him and escaping them is not a possible thing. After finding no chance of surviving if he tells police he decides to get rid of the mess by himself. First he calls his office and faking his mother is ill takes a week off. And secondly he drags the body puts in the refrigerator so that he can clean the room and the blood in the woman’s body gets frozen.
He starts to clean the floor with surf water and at the same time remembers his and the woman’s history.
They had met in his boss’s party she was wife of the chairman of his boss. He was charming and she was hungry for sex so their meeting resulted in him being a fuck buddy. He knew that the woman is his boss’s wife but he needed money desperately and she was paying him for satisfying her. He also knew the risk of getting caught is very aware that he might get killed because his boss is also a Mafia don. And now after sharing sexual pleasure for a year both had started loving each other. That day he knelt down and instead of a ring took out his revolver gifted then asked her hand. On that very time an orphan bullet with no fix aim came from the open window and shot her in her head blowing her head away.
He comes back to reality. He has cleaned the room and he searches for a huge suitcase squeezes the body in and making it a baggage comes out of his room to find a suitable place to throw the suitcase.
After driving for a while he realizes that he cannot throw anything inside movie because every single place here is occupied so he drives near a bridge driving to the highway and driving three hours away from the city he sees a bridge waits there till night so that no one is walking thus after seeing no one walking and added to that seeing no more vehicles moving to and fro so he throws the suitcase from the bridge. He fears a lot and trembles. He tries to calm himself but cannot so he drives to take some whiskey so he drops in front of a pub. He enters in sees the pub full but in one of the table he sees a man sitting alone. He goes there asks, “Can I sit here sir?” The man who was sitting there gives him permission then he sits down and orders two large pegs of vodka.

THE CALL TO KIDNAP

The pleasant personality bearing CEO Mr. Saurav Shahi is chatting with his rough faced friend Mr. Sushant Sinha about his personal matter. He says to his friend that he needs sometime with his beautiful wife who he thinks is screwing with some young boy as he is too busy and isn’t being able satisfy her sexual need. He wants to redeem his married life and would consider giving his wife a second chance and want to settle things up taking a fortnight holiday to spent time with her. His friend Sushant finds no scope in dealing with a broken relation but with no other choice agrees on his friend’s words and lets him a fortnight holiday during which he would be taking responsibility of the entire business. Mr. Shahi is quiet relieved and takes leave from his friend and heads to his house dialing to his wife in a hope to restart and compromise his marriage. He dials for a few times to his wife but she has switched her phone off. He gets annoyed knowing that even that day his wife was going with some young guy thus asks his driver to park in a nearby restaurant where he could calm himself. He sees Martin one of his man in the restaurant chats casually with him for sometime but he sits alone in the restaurant nearly for five hours and then finding her phone still switched off after trying multiple times gets frustrated and goes home and wait for her there. At home he makes few pegs of whisky and tries to calm himself from getting frustrated or to loose his patience. The dark embraces the city and not finding his wife returning even at that time he really gets furious. He goes to their room and searches in her cupboard where he thinks he can find address of the place where she goes but failing to get that he lies in his bed remembering the quarrel that they had done yesterday regarding leaving each other.
She had said that woman desires more than just money she also wants sex from husband after marriage so when she doesn’t get these things she has to screw someone to satisfy her need where Mr. Shahi had bashed her and threatened to divorce her which his wife too had accepted.
While remembering these things he becomes asleep and wakes up sees the watch its 1 at night but his wife isn’t there so with heavy head and goes to the bar and makes a peg and reaches to a decision. He wants to find out with whom his wife is screwing and then finding these two and taking them into custody he wants to solve things so he calls his trusted man Mahesh and asks his man to find his wife. Few hours later he gets a call from his man saying that they had found out where she was and they would take him there. Fully drunk Mr. Shahi goes outside his palace to the car where Mahesh and company were waiting but Mahesh tricks him he kidnaps Mr. Shahi.

A DIFFICULTY CALLED MEMORY

Dev is a normal looking man who is returning home from jogging. He is called again and again called by his name by a man who after sometime appears in front of him. He says Dev that they are very best friends in their college and his name is Amit. Dev clarifies that he has lost his memory in a car accident so he cannot recognizes anyone from his past. His friend Amit feels sorry for his condition they do not interact more and taking each others addresses and telephone number they depart. After this short meeting when he starts to move but he feels terrible head ache. He asks in a shop whether he can sit there for a while which the shopkeeper easily agrees. After resting for a while he goes to his apartment opens his room and starts preparing his breakfast. While making his breakfast he calls Doctor Shalini Wadhwa. Shalini is his doctor and also his love interest. He doesn’t tell her that he has some headache in the road but asks her to come generally for lunch but she says she is busy with an urgent case and promises to come after two hours. After sometime he forgets about his headache and starts cooking for lunch but is disturbed by his telephone in the intercom. He picks up the intercom set and there the receptionist speaks sweetly, “Sir your friend police officer has come and he has given me an envelope and says he can not come up.” Dev talks to the police officer and then tells the receptionist to take it and when Shalini comes give it to her. Two hours later Shalini comes to his room collecting the envelope. Inside envelope is a photograph and address of an unknown man and some money. Dev sees the photograph and then readies himself to paint the photograph.
He is a specialist in making 3D picture and he doesn’t make ordinary picture he paints scenery and when seen with 3D glass the portrait that is drawn can be seen. He works for the inspector who gives him a portrait and asks him to make a 3D picture of the portrait. While he paints Shalini cleans the room and asks him to take lunch at that time he says that he had a severe head ache in the morning. Shalini gets angry and says why he didn’t tell her in phone she could have come quickly. He tries to convince her but after observing him and finding it steady she starts weeping. Dev promises that from next time he won’t commit this mistake again then after lunch he asks to go for a movie. After the movie they go for a long drive and get lost in their dream world of romance. On the way returning home they decide to eat something in a restaurant. After the food and staying some hours in the restaurants speaking about future and talking romance they see the watch when Shalini sees the watch she sees that it is already four in the morning so they decide to return to their room immediately. As soon as they pay the bill and try to return they see three cars colliding in some distance and run towards the car for help.


THE DEVOURER

Bibek is seeing to a room with his magnum sniper’s lens in the adjoining buildings building’s room and finding no one calling dials to his boss to reconfirm the target he gets information from his boss that they would be arriving anytime soon. The target arrives with four other friends while Bibek is calling to his boss so he cuts the phone and eyes the target. He locks the targets and fires a bullet but the man just bows at than time so it gets misfired. Then aiming again Bibek shoots his target he finally hits the target. He stands up he has plastic worn in his hand and legs. He comes out with wearing plastic gloves and plastic leg boots and leaving the gun a waiter is waiting for him took another key of room which was in another storey. The waiter goes inside the room folds the gun and keeps in a briefcase and taking it goes away. The other three men who were with the target eye the room adjoining their hotel room and then call police for investigation. Bibek goes to his allotted room where his girl friend stays. On the way to the room in the elevator he rings to his boss to tell that he has finished the job. The boss asks him to go to his room and ask his girlfriend about the portrait that has been left for him as his next job. In a room of the same hotel is his girlfriend waiting. She is cute innocent girl who works as a receptionist in a real state office. She loves him very much and with her kindness and very clean behavior we can make out that she doesn’t care what his love interest does. She just loves him as a human being. They cuddle with each other for a while and romances with each other. She gives him a picture but there is no portrait thus he takes out a 3D glass and then sees the portrait made inside the scenery he memorizes the photo and address. He also sees the rate of the contract painted. His expression shows that he is very happy with the amount he is getting after the work. After the rate he tells his girlfriend that they wouldn’t have to work from now on. The innocent girl who doesn’t know what he sees from the 3D glass or what he does and never asks about his work plainly for a query asks him how would this happen. He says that he was going to sell all his shares which will yield a lot of money. She laughs and trusts him and says how truly she loves him and asks for further plan. He stays with her for an hour telling her that he wants to live a free life in another place which would be quiet with no noise and tension then wearing fresh cloth asks her to pack all their stuff and meet him in airport. He then goes to meet the contract man in a restaurant where he is given 1 crore rupees in advance and gun to assassinate the next target. He picks the gun and money then calls to a travel agent for his and his girlfriend’s visa and ticket to Singapore. He sees his watch and then stops near a pub for some packs of whisky to warm his body. He is alone in the pub where he is asked by a twenty something man to sit next to him. After two hours he lets the other man sitting to his car and then seeing his watch goes for the hunt. But he sees something fishy. His target is being taken away by few hooligans. He follows them quietly but something rash happens the speeding car is crashed with other two cars in a crossroad.

THE SAVIOR

Police officer Mani is taking breakfast when he receives his call from his client he talks to him casually first then he talks to him in a serious tone then we find that he is his superior to Mani and he is talking about something which no one understand. Mani says that he will meet his client’s agent outside his office at 11. So waits for his client’s agent as fixed. A Mercedes parks near a restaurant and a foreigner waves his hand coming out of his car. Mani understands the wave and follows him in the restaurant. In the restaurant they talk casual and order some delicacies. But after sometime they become professional and Martin (the foreigner) gives him an envelope which has a portrait and address and some money. He also gets a packet of himself. They depart and Mani goes to his office signs on some forms and takes the day off whereas Martin stays there for a while but when is ready to leave he is called by Mr. Shahi.
Getting a leave in the office he goes to Dev’s apartment with the envelope and handles the envelope to the receptionist reciting that he is busy and cannot go to his room. The receptionist calls Dev and Dev asks receptionist to give the receiver to Mani. They talks for a while and then saying Dev that he is very busy goes to his home. At home his wife is ready with his small children to go for a movie. He takes them to the movie where he bullies the ticket counter manager and gets tickets free of cost. He then takes them for a nice dinner in a restaurant during that time he gets calls several time. He talks going away and then comes back again and again. His wife is frustrated with his usual nature of going away whenever anyone calls. Thus she asks him to switch off his mobile which he smilingly declines. She doesn’t quarrel as she understands that smile is the fear of switching off the mobile and aftermath. They spend the day happily but without full attention from Mani as he is taking his job in his mobile but due to his habit everyone understands it so they are habitual of it.

At 2 a.m. in Mani’s watch and he gets an urgent call from one of his client. Mani gets an urgent call from one of his clients.

He enters in sees the pub full but in one of the table he sees a man sitting alone. He goes there asks, “Can I sit here sir?” The man who was sitting there gives him permission then he sits down and orders two large pegs of vodka. Brij gulps the vodka without stopping. The other man who is drinking suspects something fishy with the boy thus he tries to talk to him. First he shows no desire to talk but as soon as whisky takes affect in him and he goes tipsy he vomits all that had happened that day to the man but takes name of his friend’s name in his deeds.
In added while being drunk he opens his wallet and shows the photo and tells him how due to poverty their parents died and his two brothers were departed in the search for life of their own. Tears flow like lather from Bibek’s eyes who was the man listening to Brij. He tells that there was emotional touch in the story so his tears came out. Brij then explains he had come to the city to search for his brothers but says that he didn’t find them. They take few more pegs of vodka Bibek consoles him and asks him to go home and don’t take tension. He goes away and Bibek remembers the scene of the morning where one of his bullets had missed and was sure that his missed bullet had hit the woman whose story today Brij had said. Bibek then opens his wallet and then taking a peg sees his wallet’s photo and there is the same old photo which was in the Bibek’s wallet. He too remembers how they had departed and how their father died but had to control himself as he had known that he was the man who had made him in this trouble. Drunken Brij drives without knowing where he is driving. He cannot control his steering and then the car becomes out of control he now stops to see and when he presses brake the car slides and is crashed.

He hurries to the area where he was called and sees horrific scene. There are five corpses lying in the road and one is severely injured. A doctor and a boy are helping the injured man and Brij who is unconscious and is the driver of one of the car crashed. Dev (helping boy) splashes some water in Brij and slowly he gets consciousness. While Dev takes out his handkerchief his wallet falls and opens wide. There is a photograph of Brij’s family. He inquires Dev and Dev says that it was of his family which was lost due to poverty. Brij doesn’t say that he is one of the pictures in his family photo because he knows that he has just been involved in a crime of throwing corpse and sooner or later he would be behind bars. Brij realizes that his feet is aching but doesn’t complain but asks leave from Dev. He sees police approaching to one of the guy in the place and gets nervous.

The car which has taken Saurav Shahi is not in control as strong Saurav is trying to escape even after being so drunk. He tries to get control over steering and tries to confuse them where they are driving. The car wasn’t in control of the driver and being hit several times too the strong Saurav wasn’t fainted. His force in steering showed and his car crashed with two other cars one was driven recklessly like Saurav’s car.

Just after the crash Bibek parks his car where he was following Mr. Shahi. And sees Brij too involved in the crash and sees two old fellas crashed and there are five people in Mr. Shahi’s car including Mr. Shahi he sees in the road there is couple coming for help he knows he doesn’t have time. Takes out his silencer pistol shoots four of the people who kidnapped Shahi and calls inspector Mani.
It was Bibek who had called Mani at 2 in the evening. As soon as Mani gets Bibek’s call he reaches the site before any other police officers. He sees site where the three cars are crashed. Bibek explains that he had to kill the injured four to save Mr. Saurav Shahi as they were kidnapping him for some reasons. Mani who ahs been working for Bibek for long time mourns. Then he asks for money and promises that he would make report that after crash these four died in a cross fire. Bibek says that he hadn’t called Mani for only this but there is another reason. Mani is amazed at his tone because Bibek never thinks of other and now he was telling something pointing at the unconscious Brij. He says that he wants his name and Brij to be placed in the dead list. When he asks for the reason for showing favor to the unknown man Bibek says that he wants to leave the country and to erase his stain he must have to die in paper first but doesn’t say why he wants to save Brij. Dev and his girlfriend who had seen the crash and had run to help are cleaning the wounded two old people. One man who is half conscious is asking where Aslam is. Dev says that he is not conscious but alive. He and Shalini are giving first aid to the patients. Mani interrupts them and asks them to go further at that time Dev sees Brij’ purse falling and then goes to pick it up he sees an old photo of three brothers. He keeps it back and goes out of the scene thinking that he had seen that photo somewhere.
Mani calls ambulance and lets Bibek to take Brij’s unconscious body before ambulance arrive. Bibek gives him a cheque of 20 lakhs for that job done. Ambulance arrive other police force too gather to click the photo of those dead.
Bibek takes Brij in his car and admits him in a hospital too. Bibek calls his girlfriend and asks her if everything is ready she replies positive and he asks her to move to the airport she asks if the work was done he gives positive answer.
There Dev while walking with Shalini still thinking about the photo that he had seen. They stop for tea and when he takes his wallet out it is there he sees the same photo and is sure that he is one of the three faces and the other faces among the three were patient he had seen. He beats his head.
Next day Brij opens his eyes and sees someone has kept a photo in his pillow and gone he sees the photo it’s the old photo that he has in the wallet he checks his wallet the photo was still there thus in excitement he asks his doctor who left the photo. Doctor says that the person who had brought him here had left the photo and when he asks what was he like doctor shows him CCTV video he instantly recognizes Bibek. He asks where the savior is they tell that he had flight in early morning so is gone abroad.
There in hospital where Mr. Shahi was brought doctors are trying hard to save him but they confirm that he has gone into a coma.
Aslam and Ray have finished their discussion in his room and then asks their drivers to take them to a nice hotel which will open 24 hours. The driver nods and takes their car safely but two cars which weren’t driven well just come and the three car crashes leaving Ray and Aslam injured.


© Copyright, Sambidhan Acharya, 2009.