"Just think about what your family situation before your sister's accepting that movie. What would be now your and your family condition if there was no contribution from that producer to you? It is something you need to feel happy not to feel worry like this." Ananth paused for a second before saying again. "You just try to be your usual self. Just don't care about the remarks that have been made against your sister."

"You indeed proved as my good friend!" Pramod hugged Ananth and kissed on his right cheek. "Whatever you have said indeed got some change in me. I am feeling peacefully now."

"Friends what for?" patting his right shoulder with his right hand Ananth said. "If you become peaceful with what I have said, that is enough for me."

Then Pramod relieved him from his hold and said looking into his face. "I am sorry. I said to you that it is not my sister on that day."

"I can understand why did you say so on that day. If I were in your place, I too would have said like that." Ananth said. "Next period is commerce. We should not miss it. Shall we both go into class now?" the previous period was economics and as the lecturer of that class was on leave, the students of that class enjoyed the teaser like that while putting Pramod at predicament.

"Sure. Why not?" Pramod said and they both started walking towards the classroom.

When Pramod was settled in his place, the three boys who talked like that came near to him and one among them said. "We are sorry. We did not see that you were here then until you were moving away from here. If we saw you......." he tried to say something more. There were guilty expressions in all their faces at that time.

"Its alright bros." With a smile on his lips Pramod said. "If beauty has been put into display like that, it is not your mistake at all enjoying it in such a way."

Then those three boys went away from that place

"That's the spirit indeed!" Ananth put his right hand around the shoulders of Pramod and said. "I just wanted a change like this in you."

With the same relaxed expression in his face, Pramod nodded his head and remained silent.

What Ananth did not say to Pramod then was he too saw that teaser many a time and after his knowing it was indeed the sister of his best friend, his interest on her became even more.

***

Things were going smoothly with Charitha and it has become quite easy to her to act. Tarang was instantly satisfying himself with her expressions and body language. All of them were of the opinion if things do go like that the movie could be finished far before than the expected time. But then Tarang has to receive an unexpected blow! The person he has selected for the hero character suddenly died in road accident. In two ways it has effected Tarang to the maximum. First, he was a very good friend to him and they both worked together in many movies. Next, in Tarang's opinion he was the person exactly suitable to the character in that movie.

"I never have thought it happens like this!" there was shock and dismay in his face. "I just don't know whom to think about to play this role."

"We can fill that character with someone. If we take an experienced actor, he can do it in the way you want." Madhukar suggested.

"Now I am considering all those characters one by one." Tarang irritatingly said. "But none of them are appearing suitable to that character. You know my weakness! Until I am satisfied that person is absolutely suitable to the character, I just cannot go ahead with the movie."

"May I give you a suggestion here?" Charitha interfered and said.

"Any suggestion that is useful now is welcome." With a smile on his lips Madhukar said. "Just tell us what it is?"

"Why Tarang himself play that character?"

There was immediate silence after Charitha's saying that and they looked into each other's faces. "I did not act at any time till the moment even in a simple and small character also. This is a very weighty character in this movie. I am not thinking I am suitable to this character."

"I also know about the story of this movie full and about this character even more. He is a thirty two years or so widower rough in appearance. Whatever you may say, in your appearance you are just aged like that and little rough. I am quite comfortably imagining you in that character and you just suitable to that character."

Madhukar and Tarang looked into each other's faces with meaningful expressions and smiles before Tarang's saying looking into the face of Charitha. "I did not act even in a small portion in any movie. When it comes to acting I am as much new as you are to this."

"But all the time you direct the actors and you very well know what acting is and how acting should be. There is first time to everything and I reiterate that you are the best person to that character. You can do justice to it."

Then Tarang looked into the face of Madhukar with a questioning expression.

"It seems that Charitha is right." Madhukar paused for a second. "Moreover this movie does get even more weight as you are acting in this also. Till the moment you have been only a director and producer. This suggestion is worth considerable Tarang."

"And the movie would be finished fast and the expenditure also would be reduced a lot as we need not pay remuneration to one actor in this movie." Prameela who was also there and listening to that conversation said. "Charitha indeed gave a very good advice!"

"I am not a person to worry about expending money." Sighing heavily Tarang said. "Anyhow let me think over it."

***

Without thinking much Tarang has taken the decision to play that role and his entry has been made in the movie. His character was a thirty two years aged rich man who was a widower but without children. Two or so months of the death of his wife, he came to that brothel house to have it.

"You can select one of these girls." Showing the girls who stood in rows in the hall of that house the lady said. "Only few girls are engaged in business now and you can choose anyone from the rows of these girls."

"I.....I....like that girl a lot." Showing Charitha with his index finger Tarang said. "She is indeed very much beautiful!"

"She costs more. I don't think you can expend that much for her." That lady said while looking at his shabby appearance.

"Don't judge me by my clothing!" Tarang angrily said taking wad of five hundred rupees notes from his wallet. "I can even buy that girl if I want."

"I am sorry." There was an instant sorrowful expression in the face of that lady. "Will you make the payment now itself? No receipt will be given." It was just like she still could not believe what Tarang has said.

"I am not a fool to expect receipt here." Tarang said.

"Do you know Telugu?" that woman surprisingly asked him.

"My mother tongue is Telugu. I born and brought up in that state. Later on I came here, started business here and settled here. I know both Telugu and Tamil well." Paying the money to that lady Tarang said in Tamil.

"Then it is for your advantage! She is Telugu and you both can talk also together." While Tarang was making payment of that heavy amount, that lady said and instantly there was happiness in the face of Tarang.

"Cut......cut......" Madhukar said. He has become the director of the movie as Tarang has become the actor in it then. "Just wonderful! Just in half an hour we shall move to the next scene."

It all has been started in the usual fashion and Madhukar shouted 'Action'

The scene started as if Tarang and Charitha had it together and while Charitha was adjusting her dressing, Tarang went near to the wall on the bed and leaned on it with a deep pathetic expression on his face.

"Why......why you are suddenly so?" Charitha went near to him, slumped on the side of him and put her hand around his shoulders. "Is something wrong?" in fact there was little conversation between them both while they were having it together.

"It is just one month back that my wife expired!" he opened his eyes and looked into the face of Charitha. There was full sorrow in his eyes also. "I just cannot manage myself without having it."

She also went near to the wall there and leaned on it on the side of him. "You loved your wife a lot it seems."

"Yes, ours is not a love marriage but we loved each other a lot. No one ever can love me like that and I loved her also just in the same way. The only worry for us both is we did not have children even after three years of marriage."

"You both used to have it together quite often?" Charitha knitted her brows together.

"Almost everyday!" he laughed. "She wanted children so much! So she made me to have as many times as possible with her and she also enjoyed it a lot."

"How she died?"

"She died in an accident! While she was crossing a road a car hit her and she died on the spot."

"My god! What a ghastly thing happened? I am really and absolutely sorry." With shock in her face Charitha said. "Losing a loved one like that is indeed terrible and intolerable."

Tarang did not say anything but closed his eyes with the same pathetic expression in his face. Charitha too did not know what to say and remained silent.

"Not even one month fully passed! I came here like that for it forgetting her. What type of husband I am? I really never loved her and I never deserved that much of love from her. It was only sex that I wanted from her all the time." Suddenly he broke that silence and said.

"If it were so........." she smiled and said. ".............why you do worry like this? You would have gone away from this place after having it with me planning yourself when to come here next time."

He knitted his brows together as if he did not understand what she said.

"You loved her a lot and still you are in love with her. Finding someone to satisfy your physical need does not mean you don't love her. You did not stop eating, you did not stop drinking water, it is just like that. You try to understand and be peaceful. Wherever it may be, your wife's happiness is in your happiness. If you do feel worry like this, she cannot be peaceful."

"I just don't know.........I just don't know what to say." Suddenly there was some happy expression in his face. "........but your words are giving me some peace."

"So far in my stay here............" she put her right hand across his heart and said. "..........I came to know how much important it is for men sometimes. You just cannot believe but sometimes I do feel happy and proud to satisfy that urge of men."

"It is indeed surprising to me!" there was sudden surprise expression in his face.

Charitha was about to say something but then they heard the tapping sound on the doors of that room.

"There may be another customer for me. You do go and come another time."

"I do come next time only to talk with you." Tarang got off from the bed.

"Cut......cut......." Madhukar shouted. "I think that this scene also does not need reshooting."

(..........to be continued)

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