LTL Written Update
Episode ~198
25th October 2010
Damoder & Dutta
Dutta flanked by the two people closest to him, Baji and Naku arrive at Damoder's residence. Dutta has a scowl on his face, and Naku walks slightly ahead of him. Aye Sahib prays looking upset, she notices from the corner of her eye.. Baji , Dutta and Naku arrive.. she is overjoyed and much relieved to see Dutta , who clearly is in a mood.. Aye Sahib runs to him and says Dutta you've come! come quickly.. his looks say it all, he's here only for her sake.
All of them proceed to Damoder's room.. Kala sits at the end of his bed side, gloating as she waits for her enemy to die torturously..
Dutta walks accompanied by his and damoders BGs he looks at the place his father lives in..
Kala says to Damoder, get ready to die! your time has come now.. he struggles to breath.. Kala's joy is marred by her mother's voice.. come Dutta quickly.. she let's go of his hand and says uncle! save your last few breaths, Dutta will be here any minute! Dutta, arrives..
He stands in the door way.. Naku on one side and his mother on the other. Dutta looks blank faced.. Kala gets up from Damoder bedside and exclaims, Bhau!
Damoder struggles but nevertheless raises his sided head toward's the door.. his eyes fixed on Dutta's expressionless face... Damoder looks at the fiendish Kala who stands near like a snake ready to strike.. he moves his eyes from Kala and turns them to Dutta , raises his arm..and almost begs him to come, to him. Dutta stands like a statue, heartless, feeling less. Aye Sahib, requests him , please go and see him.
Damoder puts his head back on the pillow and struggles to breath. Dutta mute, moves to wards his father's bedside slowly.. Kala stops him.. with feigned regret. Bhau you , left it too late to come. he ignores her and bypasses her and goes to him.. Kala slyly watches ,too late.. Damoder's nearly a goner!.
Dutta stands over him and looks at his sick old pitiful man, his father.. who holds onto his arm.. Kala, muses will he have enough life in him to tell Dutta about her murderous act.
Damoder looks up at this young man Dutta and has a FB, of when he put the three year old Dutta at the stakes during a gambling bout.. he reaches out for Dutta's hand..and begs him to come closer to him.. Kala looks on much worried.
Dutta inclines over him and Damoder says, forgive me .. forgive me..and he nearly chokes as his head falls back on the pillow. and he makes last dying rasping noises.. but still manages to grip Dutta's arm.. gasping as all watch him struggle to breathe..
Naku raises the alarm, will someone call the doctor! Naku and Damoder's BG run, and Dutta turns his head, coldly.. to see. then looks down at his dying father.
The doctor arrives, orders people to step aside and then much to Kala's disappointment ,starts to see what can be done to Damoder to stabilize him..and then checks the E.C.G monitor and goes off to get an injection.. but Damoder finally gets Dutta sitting by his bedside..
Dutta stretches his right hand across and props up his father's head..and father and son look into each other's eyes.. tears of relief come to Naku and Aye Sahib.
Damoder struggles to sit up and says, Dutta hug me once, my son.. just once, son ..and the father and son embrace. Damodar clings to Dutta's shoulders and rests his head in the curve of his son's neck. Kala is horrified as Damoder is happy to die blissly in his sons arms.. Dutta's face is totally dead pan..
Damoder shifts his head on the curve of Dutta's neck and turns to look at Kala..and his lips move as he hugs Dutta again and Kala wonders what he's whispering to Dutta? Damoder's lips move and he shakes his head as he hoarsely says, I have seen that woman's real face..son never trust that woman! and then he moves back from an alarmed Dutta's neck and glares at Kala.. Dutta with furrowed brow looks the way his fathers head is turned.. he sees, Kala in the forefront! and Naku standing behind her in the door way..and Dutta looks intensely at both women.. much confused.. which woman.. Tai? or Naku?[this disclosure of his father will come back to him, coupled with what Anna said as he was dying..]
Both father and son glare in the same direction.. Kala delights, as Damoder gasps and breathes his last.. throwing back his head while a puzzled Dutta looks at Kala and Naku..
Then all realize that Damoder is dead. Dutta moves his eyes too him and looks his dead father in the face.. Kala breathes a sigh of relief! Dutta holds his dead father on his arm ,then lays him down gently to rest his head on the pillow.. just gazes upon his still face ..
Doctor arrives to give Damoder the injection..checks him and turns to Dutta and pronounces his father Damoder dead.. brilliant acting by Tinnu Anand.. colors chosen a befitting actor to play Dutta's father..
All weep.. Dutta is to stunned to speak. Kala goes to Damoder's bedside..and feels his brow in fiendish affection and respect.. she wears green nail paint to show her venomous streak.. she then turns to Dutta .. to check if Damoder had told him about her killing him.. do you know, he was just waiting for your arrival ..the moment you embraced him, he happily said good bye to the world. Dutta stands emotionless.. and Kala carries on , may his soul rest in peace.
Dutta gives his father a final look and then as if in a trance he walks away.. his mother, Baji, look on silently, as he walks past Naku at the door..
Patil Nivas
Dutta stands on his balcony dressed in white. He looks down on his father's garlanded picture with a tiny diva lit before it in the lounge . He moves away from it and paces on his balcony study .. he's much confused. Then he pauses and sees the plastic grip binder with papers in it on his desk, plus an envelope next to it.. he picks up the letter.. and hears the words, "you have lost everything Damoder! have you got anything left to put up for the wager" then his father's voice, "yes here he is my son Dutta !who will be my fortune today! FB.. Damoder ShriRam scuffle! and Shriram's death at the hands of his father.. Damoder's hands putting on the amulet around Dutta's neck; his father hugging him during the dance; meeting him at the Ganpati immersion; Dutta dragging him by his collar into the house; throwing him at Aye's feet; Naku yelling " this can't happen! otherwise a son will kill his own father; he is your real father! "please stop hating your father, forget and forgive him'; his father giving him a dying hug.. Dutta looks at the letter in his hand and his face begins to flush.. Damoder dying in Dutta's arms before his very eyes.. and his brow furrow in grief and a tear drips from his eye on to the envelope..and then he opens his eyes wide.. he is occupied at what his father had said.. in his dying moment, and Dutta had followed his father's gaze .. he was looking at two women, Naku and Kala..
Dutta & Naku
Naku comes up the wooden stairs , also dressed in white. She stands beside him and sees he's worried. Dutta shriram Patil.. in dying, he has removed his name from my life, damodar has.. says Dutta. Then with the letter still in his hand , he pensively sits down in the chair at his desk...may be he got the picture that he just gave birth to me.. he was not worthy to be called a father.. he puts the letter on the table and Naku can see the ink has run where his tear fell. Exhausted he pinches the bridge of his nose. Naku calls , Saab? and he replies, speak.. then turns to her.. Naku did you understand anything? the man who gave birth to me ? then lost me in a wager! disappears from my life, for years he concealed his existence from me, so why did he suddenly decide to show up out of nowhere? what did he want ??may be he wanted to turn my life up side down! create a ruction between me and my family. Naku replies, Saab ,maybe that's his penance to tell you the truth about your existence. He didn't come to separate you from your family...he only came to ask for forgiveness. He always wanted that you continue to stay as Aye Sahib's son..he didn't come here to chnge your identity.. Dutta muses on her words but then goes wary as he recalls his father's word, forgive me; him saying to Aye ,if you forgive me, chances are Dutta will forgive me too.. remove your self from me and Ay e Sahib's presence .. otherwise.. you will die a miserable death..but none will be able to perform your last rites; I have seen that woman's real face,during your life never ever trust this woman..
He gets up confused, I can't get it? before he died he told me don't trust that woman.. I have seen her real face..which woman was he talking about?what can this mean Naku, now I am so afraid of the word trust.. or to trust any body!who is it that cannot be trusted? did he want to steal my peace of mind? by planting this seed of doubt in me? questions! one more mystery .. he came into my life like a riddle.. and left my life in a riddle now ..how many answers do I need to look for? now where do I look for answers to this questions? Naku says, time is a great healer Saab this is not the time to worry about such things.. and he rolls his eyes as he looks down at his letter and then says, I don't want to read his letter, god alone know's what he has written in it. I really don't want to know anything more about him.. then he says.. it's time now Naku to do my duty.. as his blood relation.. to perform the last rites... lets go.. he says to Naku. and together he goes down the stairs ..to the hall where Damoder's body lies on the ground before a gathering for his funeral rites.
Dutta and N aku arrive. Kala gives him a look.. Dutta stands and looks at his father's body..then slowly with Naku by him he moves closer to the body. Kala looks most delighted! as Dutta's state, sober, quiet.
Dutta stands and Aye Sahib comes and stands by him. and the priest says ,Bhau it's time now to take your father's body to the crematorium. please put some holy water in his mouth, complete this last rite. Dutta looks at his mother who chivvies him on and he crouches and pours water in his father's mouth.. episode ends Hamlet53. 2.6.14
Overall a sad episode.. that ends my favourite track ,the father/ son track.. Kala has a field day nearly, but then damodar too is Dutta's baap! and so he whispers a riddle in Dutta's ear.. both Kala/ Dutta now wonder.. in a way I was amused ,as it's left Kala wondering has he told his son the truth about her wicked deed?
The father son scene was very heart rendering.. much to Kala's disgust.. how ever she still succeeded in her revenge.
Dutta, managed to shed a tear, for his father, but nevertheless still he wiped it away by recalling his father's past history.. it's as if he finds it hard to admit that he is hurt by his demise..but then he is more occupied by this questionable woman his dying father mention .
N.B~many thanks for reading the wu, fassben, nakusha, bart, twinky, tammy
Edited by Hamlet53 - 10 years ago
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