“Yes, congratulations to you. I came to know that your sister has become ready to pay that caution deposit for Ratan also. Even there is no such necessity now, it just proves how good you people are.” Sarojini said. “You just continue your talking like that. I have work in the kitchen. You are going to take your lunch here on this day.” Then she went away from that place.
“To say that exactly I came here now. With god’s grace we people are in comfortable position now. Until you have been settled in something very much comfortable, I do help your family. I am feeling your family as my family so you need not pay back what I pay to you.” Ratan said. “You may try to get something very much good and need not compromise yourself.”
“I have expected that you do say something like that, we both are that much good friends.” Ratan laughed and said.
“If our roles are reversed and I am in your position, you would have said the same thing.” Chandan started sipping the coffee, keeping the snacks plate on the floor there.
“You are absolutely right!” Ratan nodded his head. “But for the present, I need your suggestion on something rather than your help. At present we people are in very much dilemma and does not know what to do.”
“It is not unusual between us to give suggestions to each other. But it is surprising to me that much problem has come which put all you people in dilemma, first let me know what it is?”
It was indeed quite usual between those two friends to share ideas and give suggestions to the problems.
“You know that my sister Vasanthi is taking nurse training and it takes one year more to her to complete it.” Ratan said.
“Yes, of course. She is a good friend to my sister Sailaja. One common thing between those both friends is they both are beautiful and attractive!” Chandan laughed. Somehow he understood that the problem was related to Vasanthi.
“I just don’t know whether it is a solution to our problems or another problem.” Ratan leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes.
“First let me know about it fully and then I decide what it is.” With little bit irritation Chandan said. “But don’t worry yourself without saying anything to me.”
Ratan opened his eyes and adjusted in his chair for more comfort. “My sister and her friend have been sharing a room together. My sister is undergoing nurse training and her friend is doing a job and at the same time she is trying for roles in movies also. Recently she went to the audition for a heroine role in another language movie.”
“It is surprising that she went for audition for another language movie, how it is?” frowns gathered on the forehead of Chandan.
“The story of the film needed a non-local girl so far I came to know.”
“Alright. What next?”
“She invited my sister also to come with her and she went along with her. Do you know what happened there? They liked my sister and wanted to take her as the heroine instead of her friend who tried for it.”
“It is even more surprising! Your sister never has any intention to act and she has no acting training or experience. How they have preferred to take her?”
“That doesn’t matter to them at all. Her structure and face perfectly suited to the role and they are thinking that she absolutely suit to it. So they asked her to become the heroine of their film ...........”
“.............and your sister has outright denied that offer I think.” Chandan laughed. “If that was what your sister did, I do say that she did the perfect thing. We know very well about the picture field and what is happening to the women there.”
“That’s what exactly she did but she has been really put in dilemma just like us when they offered twenty lakhs rupees outright payment. Virtually they are very much ready to make the account’s transfer once my sister agreed to the role and sign on the contract!”
“I just cannot believe even a little bit of what you have said!” with shocking expression Chandan said. “I know girls who do try, try and try even for supporting roles in the movies but never get one. But whereas your sister not only get a heroine role but twenty lakhs rupees outright payment also for that!”
“That is what I too cannot believe and cannot decide what to do. You know we are already in five lakhs rupees debt and we mortgaged our only house for it. My dad has resigned to the job and I have not got one yet. I am sure that you help us until I get job............”
“I sure do help you people but it is not enough to twenty lakhs rupees and cannot get you people out from your troubles at once. First thing tell me, are those people that much serious to take only your sister as heroine? Would they make the payment immediately after signing of the contract? I know people who hoodwink easily without making payments breaking their promises.”
“My sister can start acting only after she has seen the amount in her bank account, they said, there is no problem with that amount. The problem is with whether we can allow her to act in that movie or not.” Still there were deep frowns on the forehead of Ratan.
“Did they tell the story of that movie to your sister?”
“They did and it is horrifying! This is the movie of a prostitute. She has been transported from this state into that state so they wanted a girl from this state for this role. It has been made clear to her there would be sufficient sex content in the movie.”
“Then it is something that we need to think seriously.” Chandan said with a meaningful expression in his face. “I know how the now a day movies are even without sex oriented. This is a movie of a prostitute particularly sex oriented. There is no necessity to tell how it is going to be.”
“But so far by the further information those producers and directors are very reputed and big ones. It can be understood by their offering of twenty lakhs rupees like that.”
“Then there is another danger also. If this movie has become a big hit, it would be translated into our language and be released in our theatres also. How you people do feel if the people here see the movie and comment on Vasanthi? Twenty lakhs rupees is indeed a very good amount and take you people at once out from all your problems but what about the disgrace and bad reputation? Your sister is going to act as a prostitute!”
“But it is just a role, action but not real.” Ratan’s face was with a troubling expression then. “It is a movie in other language and I don’t think it becomes a big hit and be released in our state also. Many girls competed for that role and I just don’t know how it has taken place but my sister got it even without trying for it. Her friend has been coercing her to agree to it from the moment it has been offered to her. They both are very good friends.”
“What your parents are saying Ratan? What is their feeling about it?”
“Just like me they are also in dilemma. We just cannot decide what to do. It is just like a good opportunity has been given to us by god and we are trying to throw it way. Other than what it is my sister has been selected for it who just accompanied her friend there? But what you have said also is true. Without sex oriented we know how the movies are. We need not say anything about particularly sex oriented movies.”
“I think your sister also has been in the same condition as you people are now.” Long before Chandan has forgotten to sip his coffee and it became lukewarm and he put it in the plate of snacks. Chandan did not even taste anything in his plate and it was lying on the floor beside him just like that after he put it there. The topic they were discussing then was indeed very much trying.
“You are absolutely right!” Ratan nodded his head. “Once they offered money like that, she just did not know what to do and is in a complete dilemma! She knows very well in how much financial crisis our family is now and twenty lakhs rupees is just a boon! But she is thinking about the role, about our family disgrace and the bad reputation it may get if it has been seen by the people around. There is no necessity that movie needs to be released in the theatres around. There are several apps which are providing newly released other language movies also to watch. If the people here come to know that my sister is the heroine in it, even it is not in our language they do watch it. The situation afterwards is appalling even to think.”
“But acting in a movie is not wrong. Playing a role whatever it is in a move is not an offence and your sister is not going to be punished for it. We everyday seeing how the actresses are considered high even they played very sexy and obscene roles. Before we think about anything else, we have to think about the twenty lakhs rupees and how your family can be freed of all your problems by it. No one who ridicules you or comments you seeing the movie of your sister, does not help you in solving your problem.”
“So you support my sister’s acting in that movie?” suddenly Ratan’s face was filled with happy expression.
“Of course, yes. I support that.” Chandan nodded his head and said. “But one thing I want to say to you here. You three tell your sister that you do support her acting in the movie but she need not do it if she does not like it. She can act in it only if it is hundred percent appealing to her.”
“I tell her so. You indeed give me a very good suggestion!” Ratan laughed. “I am now free out of my dilemma.”
“I am thinking one thing to do also. I tell about this to my sister and see what she says. I think she also says the same thing I said to you and I make her talk with your sister. That will give her even more courage to do what she does want to do.” Chandan said.
“You are absolutely right. They are good friends and Vasanthi certainly feels happy and more confident if your sister talks with her about it.” Ratan said but suddenly his face become serious. “You indeed have given me a very good suggestion and arrive at a decision. It may not be the correct time to talk about it. But I cannot remain without talking about it with you.”
“Just feel free to talk whatever you want to talk with me.” Whatever Ratan said made the heart beat quickened in Chandan. Unless it was not something serious, Ratan would not have said it like that.
“Did you inquire with your sister where from she has got that much money?”
“No, I did not” Chandan’s heart beat increased to the maximum and filled with a sort of uneasiness. In fact that was troubling him for a long time but could not ask about it to his sister.
(……….to be continued)
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