LTL Written Update
Episode ~ 218
19th November 2010
The song plays on, beloved cannot live without you..Dutta stands with his shoulder pressed against the wooden dividing door. He stares at Bappa, and scoffs with a twist to his hand.. seems today, you're alone too, no one has come to worship you.. now you'll understand the sorts of people in this world...deceptive beyond words, my love seeks you, where are you my beloved?my tears turn into song, and my sighs turns to music.. he struggles up the shadowy staircase. Near the door he stops and has hallucinations of Naku's fair face and he waves his palm brushing away her face from his imagination. Beloved cannot live without you.. and he pulls a confused face , as he mumbles, were you are dream? for heaven's sake I don't want to look at your face...I am sick and tired of this fair, this dark, face.. one moment you're here , next minute you're gone.. he begins to wobble near the door and then tries to balance; he peers into his room.. rolls his eyes around his room ..and mutters, you left no traces.. and he stumbles into the room ,through the darkness and finds his settee in part light and collapses on it holding on to his bottle; throws back his head completely and wishes he wasn't there.. alive? he just lies there propped up and in his door way.. a silhouette appears.. in the shadows..
Dutta stirs and his swimming eyes try to focus. He notices this figure, tries to focus; growls whose there? who is it?.. then struggles and gets up; puts his bottle down on the table and swaggers towards the figure, standing in the dark of his door way. He looks at the shadowy figure...peers at the shadowy outline of her face ..pulls out a lighter from his sherwani pocket , lights it near the face.. and his eyes lights up to behold the dusky Naku before him..he says. Naku ? and she replies, Saab! he holds the light up till he scalds his finger tips and he lets go off the lighter! He tries to move and stumbles.. Naku supports him! from falling! With her arm around his back , they walk through the shadows of the room. Naku leads him to his bed where he flops across it.. his legs sticking out. Naku pulls off the mojari's from his feet.
Naku stands , and looks down upon this crumbled heap of Dutta.. moves his shoulder and straightens him on his back.. he looks up her .. and she turns to leave..
He reaches out for her arm and tugs her and drawls, won't you sit by me? she looks down pitifully at him and sinks on her bottom..
Dutta shuffles his back and puts his head on her lap...and cries, you can't even imagine, the hell I went through... you know how I am.. it was as if everything went dark before my eyes.. my life became devoid of light. I am only living for you Naku.. I love you dearly. Promise me that you'll never leave me Naku.. I haven't slept.. so let me sleep on your lap.. she looks down at him tenderly and he reaches out for her hand...right now promise me that you won't... and dozes off in a drunken stupor.. Naku looks down at the sleeping Dutta and has FBs, from today you are dead for me, from today the name of Nakusha only means deception for me..beloved I cannot live with you.. cannot live without you..
Naku sits on his bed.. and muses, you have accepted defeat so easily. Saab is drunk.. at his moment this lying image of mine is true for him.. but when he becomes sober, his eyes will have hatred instead of love for you. So don't repeat this mistake again, from now on you will have to live with your true face.. for if you don't live with your true face ,then how will Saab get used to the change.. yes Naku ,this in itself is our true trial, but this black complexion you will not apply on your face again, Saab will have to accept this truth. she eases him and then leaves him sleeping on the bed..
Following day
Dutta is asleep , tormented by images of a fair Naku ,and the night before.. he recalls how he roared , remove this girl from before mine eyes! I want my Nakusha right now! he sees the dusky Naku again ,under the glow of his lighter.. want to sleep on your lap..images of dusky Naku go through his mind.. in his sleep.. just answer one question..do you love me or not? will you marry me? take a look I bought a pair of anklets for you.. Naku chanting a prayer.. looking at her palms.. it's auspicious, if you see your hands first thing in the morning. Dutta stirs and moves his palms, and raises them by his sides, and then feels his head with one hand, suffering from a hangover. He sits up and groans in pain.. and then finally struggles out of bed.. and mutters, never thought such a day will arrive in my life, when I will loathe reality itself...and this is all because of you Nakushaaa! He roars.
Saab! he hears, and turns his head angrily.. and coldly sees her standing before him.. he walks over to her, looks down with a frown upon her face.. and says, have to laud your brazenness , get lost from here! he yells and rough hurls her away to the wall. she turns around and carries on ,Saab! and Dutta yells with hands up in the air, your game is up Nakusha! I don't want to hear anything from you, or say anything to you! but she walks up to him and asks, are you asking me to leave you? your Nakusha.. you claimed that I am your life. Look at me Saab, you'll see the same sincerity and innocence in them.. I am the same Nakusha who loves you dearly, and will never deceive you. Dutta yells, at her don't try to weave your lie in fancy words! why the hell don't you leave? he turns his body away from her, and she faces him again and says ,Saab! you first tell me what can you see in my eyes? tell me? she pulls him ,tell me then? he grinds his teeth in her face and roars go from here before I do something I'll regret!and he hyperventilates angrily. naku retorts, your anger has influenced your thinking.. but I am still the same , as I was before..and I am not leaving! let me at least say my bit..after that I shall leave!
Dutta , grabs her throat! and says, before when you were stubborn, I used to like it.. but not any more. now I am not prepared to listen to any thing, got that you cheat! and by the throat he takes her to the door and pushes her hard out to his study that she goes flying across and hits her forehead against the corner edge of his desk.. she looks up and feels the blood on her finger tips.. and with a smile she walks up to him, and says calmly, on the second day of marriage, if a wife has vermillion put in her parting by her husband, it's considered auspicious Saab!it means that our bond is eternal! Dutta roars back , yes all your life this scar I have given you will remain on your face forever! but then too, this wound is nothing compared to the wound you have given me Nakusha! he glares at her , recedes back, as he stands looking down at her and shuts the door to his den in her face.
He cranks his head once inside.. and then collapses in his arm chair.. and throws his head back.
Outside Naku smiles.. at receiving the wound.. Kala watches the scene from her balcony and is delighted. She holds court with her sisters, who enjoy their tea...she walks away from the balcony and comments, now my life is complete ,brilliant! on one hand an ill-fated girl wipes her tears, and on the other hand an unfortunate man becomes all alone once again! I am really starving now! and she helps herself to some snacks, by the way Roops! I've done my job! now you have to do your bit. you know don't you ,that till Dutta Bhau's right arm is severed! he cannot become maimed! Roops says, I know Tai! you point to Baji .. Kala smiles and say's, good you're sharp!..
Naku looks at the blood on her finger tips, and slowly comes down Dutta's wooden stairs and muses.. punishment or vermillion this wound speaks about your disappointment or your hurt Saab ..I was wrong, when I thought you would accept my reality the same way you accepted me.. Bappa is this my destiny? but I will not give up! I will once again win Saab's trust and love.. I will remove hate from Saab's heart.. because of me Saab is so sorrowful, I promise myself that I will return all of Saab's happiness and joy to him. episode ends Hamlet53~ 2.7.14
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The episode has the scene where Dutta heavily under the influence of alcohol, sees Naku the way he wants her to be. Naku too appears far from reality , so all in all it was a bogus scene..
Makes me think what would have happened if a sober Dutta would have seen the dusky Naku.. once again??
The episode is also a bit of a shocker for me personally to see how Dutta's acts of violent and intimidating behaviour are somewhat glorified.. to sum it up Nakusha seems to be proud of being assaulted ..
Despicable.. unacceptable ,at least by me. .I know it's only fiction but even so it can easily lull people into insensitivity towards the grave nature of domestic violence.
N.B~ Many thanks for reading the previous jedy,twinky, bart,tammy.
Edited by Hamlet53 - 10 years ago
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