Red Light Area - Dangerous Zone

Let’s not have it today…

..Ah…

Don’t give that look dear, Try to understand, I am dead tired….

Even yesterday you had the same excuse… don’t take my natural feelings for granted, ok!

Natural feelings, huh, all my feelings are gone, after having to wake up whole night and work like this daily...

Don’t make it a big issue, if you need rest, take it, don’t try to get sympathy here…

To satisfy our daily needs, I had to go out in the market daily and search for mouthful human souls and you say I am trying to gain sympathy here…

I understand, but this is what we have already agreed upon, even if you wish, we can’t change it, can you?

I agree, I can’t change, but atleast am I not allowed repenting for that? Can’t I ask for forgiveness for my sin?

Come on dear, there is no sin here, you are doing for your own living, you are doing with your own consent, so where is the question of sin here?

You men will never understand us, do you know where all I have to touch them yesterday night, it’s very painful… (cries)

Now console yourself dear, take some rest, and don’t strain yourself, younger you are - more work you will get in the night…

How mean you are, always worried about my body, you men always want us to be young and attractive….

You always get me wrong darling, don’t you think you need to be fit & fine for this job?

You call it a job, huh...

Okay leave it, let’s not argue, tell me how the business was yesterday, did you get good ones?

You would be quite happy to hear it hah, yeah, it went well, initially there were no takers, but later on I got few older ladies…

What older ladies…?

Quite surprised ah! This is the only business where there is no sex, caste or age difference dear, go out in the market & see...

Oh no way, I am scared of that red light area, total mess; I am not going anywhere...

I always wonder, why should boys have all the fun?

Well more than me, it’s you who have to go through this life for your living….anyhow darling, I won’t take much of your time, lets finish it out fast this time…..

Now don’t touch me…. I said I’m dead tired, my body is paining, and I need some rest…

Okay, okay, go, it seems you enjoy more with those outside men’s than with me…

Oh god, give me a break…!

…The End…

Fact: Only female mosquito’s bite

Reference: Red Light Area = Mosquito Repellent

Touch & Go

(Scene 1)

What? Are you in sense Shashank?

Of course, I am in sense sir; just you need to get convinced.

But Shashank, how can I, I don’t think you have that competence

Sir, please don’t underestimate, let’s try it out once, see the response, then you would realize you have taken the right decision

Ah I just wonder if we are making a big plunder here, it’s going to be a big flop!

Stars are born out of such plunder sir, just wait & see

For your information, I am not making a movie here; we are planning for a play for our annual day college function.

Yeah, I am aware of it, I am also aware that this is going to be our 25th play in this college, that too on our Anniversary day

So you think it is worth taking this risk?

For a second please forget the rest, look at me, don’t I have that hero material, the charisma, the required magnetism to woo girls, tell me honestly, do I lack these?

Well I can’t say no, when I am aware of the fact that you have too many adherent feminine fans out here

Ah there you are, you are great sir, simply great, so far our college has seen me doing only a second hand fiddle in all our plays, this time it would different, it would be a dream come true role for me, I read the script sir, and the screenplay is simply mind blowing…

Okay , okay Shashank, stop it, It’s enough, I am already feeling the cold here, I would say a final yes only after I talk to Amreesh, he is been my hero so far and it’s not professionally wise for me to cast you as hero this time without consulting him.

(Screen 2)

“I love the way you love me
Strong and wild, slow and easy
Heart and soul so completely
I love the way you love me….

Hi Shashank, what happened? You are in great mood today?

Eh vikrant, I was just waiting for you, can’t wait to let you know the good news?

Why what happened? Cleared your earlier arrears?

Who is worried about my arrears, forget it, it’s good for nothing, listen, I am going to play the lead role this time in our annual day function, guess who is playing my lady love?

Don’t tell me, you are paired this time opposite to Shambhavi! Oh god, I can’t believe it.

Yeah, I don’t either, even Amreesh agreed to play a second fiddle this time in our play, so I finally got a chance to play opposite to Shambhavi buddy..

Wow, I am very happy for you Shashank, all these days you were waiting for this day isn’t it!

Yeah Vikrant, you know how bad I felt playing second rate characters, more than playing these characters, it’s the role that has been given to me that pained me the most, how can I act like a brother or father to my shambhavi, with whom I am doting all these years, every time she calls me brother on screen, my soul would have committed suicide dozen times…

Cool buddy, forget the past, now you have got the perfect chance, you also have a golden opportunity this time to reveal your love to her..

Yes vikrant, this time I am positive, fortunately our play is screened on the day after our Independence Day, it’s going to be a real independence day for me too, not only I’m going to play her lover on screen but also going to disclose my love for her, wish me luck Vikrant, please I’m badly in need of it

Master agreeing to cast you as a lead role, Amreesh agreeing to play the second fiddle, Shambavi playing your lady love, play being a romantic story, wow, the stage is perfectly set for you…

Yeah, I am sure the fortune tide has turned towards me this time, know what! shambhavi these days looks more beautiful than before, and every time I see her on rehearsals, I feel she is more attracted towards me. Know what?, every time she goes out, she just slip in back & glance me in a side view and drop out a most beautiful smile I can ever imagine on the world, I just, I just, simply feel I’m blown away…

Can’t wait to see you both on stage Shashank..

I bet, I am dying for it man, I’m dying for it, Shamu, I am coming….hehehe…

(Scene 3)

Amreesh, can I talk to you for a second?

Ah shambhavi!, what are you doing here, the play is going to start in next 1 hour, master is searching for you, don’t you know you are playing the perfect modern tomboy girl, you require all the makeup material to look beautiful, it’s a hard task, you see, hahaha….

Yeah, I know, and I am also aware that you are playing my brother in this play...

Oh yeah, brother who always die for his ever loving sister… so what’s new in it?

Amreesh, I always wanted to say this, but can’t find the right time, I am really not feeling good playing this sister character…

Shambhavi, look, why do you see yourself as playing a sister character? You are the leading lady in this play and it’s all about your love bondage with Shashank character, it just so happens that you also have to play a sister role when the scene shifts towards us, anyways we don’t have many scenes together, you see…

Try to understand Amreesh, I’m not worried about playing a sister character in the play, I am more worried about playing it against you….

What, what did you say? Worried playing against me, are you in sense Shambhavi?

Yes Amreesh, of course I am in sense, can’t control it any more, I didn’t feel this way before until the time I have been given the dialogues to talk against you… every time I had to refer you my brother, I started a strange feeling inside and I was feeling awkward mouthing them, it’s just matter of time for me to realize my true feeling towards you Amreesh….

I, I really don’t know how to react Shambhavi, we have been playing the lead roles for all these days, played a perfect husband & wife, doting lovers, what not? But you never had such feelings before?

I am really feeling shy to discuss this so long, but I was in a complete comfort zone playing lead role against you, I just didn’t realize how it is if I miss it, haven’t you heard it’s only when you miss things, you would really know it’s true value, I realized this time Amreesh… I, I … don’t know what to say, I feel silly standing before you and pleading this way, but I thought I need to shell this out, because… because I simply can’t see you as my brother, even if it’s for just a play…

So you thought this is the right moment to share it with me, an hour before the play?

Ah, well I didn’t really have the guts to say this, but I thought I would feel better if I share it with you now, atleast I would not create a scene while playing…

Eh stop crying shambhavi, look here, look at me, I said look at me, shambhavi, shambhavi… look here…

… (sobs)…

So you wont stop crying Ah, ok listen, If you have time later today, have a look at my bench where I sit in our class, right beneath the table, with all hard work & concentration, with the help of a compass, I have encrypted both our names, just inside a heart, with a arrow straight into it, you really don’t know how many days passed since I did it!

……

You dumb! Why do you look like this! Still don’t believe me ah, you stupid, I was just waiting myself to tell my love for you, thanks you did and saved all my embarrassments, the tensions, the….

Oh Amreesh, I love you, I love you very much….

…(hugs)…

Ouch… what is this, something piercing …?

You knotty rascal….

Eh, eh, stop it shambavi, I swear, I didn’t mean it, what have you got in this cover, I think something inside is pinching me…

Oh ho, sorry Amreesh, I am really sorry, don’t you know today is Raksha Bandhan, the day we celebrate the relationship between brothers and sisters….

Oh yeah, so you thought of tying the band in my hand, if I don’t accept you, you Idiot!

I will kill you Ah! Actually ever since I had to play against Shashank as lover, I thought him as my brother inside, so that I don’t have the inhibitions in saying the dialogues for our play…

What rubbish? I can’t take this argument; you could have done the same thing with me, thought me as lover inside and called me brother for the play…

So how do you think I managed all the rehearsals so far, it’s the same way darling… so I thought of tying this band on Shashank’s hand and request him to agree to be my lovable brother…

Well, anyways, we need to be thankful to him as he is the one who wanted to play the lead role this time, and subsequently enabled you to feel this way, my love…

I bet, I can never forget my brother Shashank, hehehe…

(Scene 4)

“I like the feel of your name on my lips
And I like the sound of your sweet gentle kiss
The way that your fingers run through my hair
And how your scent lingers even when you’re not there

And I like the way your eyes dance when you laugh
And how you enjoy your two-hour bath
And how you’ve convinced me to dance in the rain
With everyone watching like we were insane

But I love the way you love me…”

Shashank, will you just keep singing like this, or going to tell your love to Shambhavi? Look she is coming all the way to you… wow, she is looking stunning buddy!

Shut up Vikrant, she is my love….. Ah… Shambhavi... what’s the matter? What’s in your hand…?

Shashank…. Close your eyes & stretch your hands I want to give you a surprise…

(Shashank closes his hands & innocently raises his hands…)

Addicted!!

“Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my,
Be my girl…”

Sigh, these guys are sick, they start clinching their eyes as soon as they see any girls…

Yeah, more over each think themselves as American Idols and start singing as well...

They suck much, I tell you…

But still, the song is of perfect timing; they deserve a pat on the back for it…

Ah, forget it… if you are too fascinated you can go ahead..

Oh no…

Eh, what happened?

The guys, who were following us so long, aren’t visible, looks like they are gone!

Oh you are now concerned about them, go to hell! They are better than you, I guess.

Eh, look there, a dull bald headed big fella is out of his mind, and strolling towards us…

Looks like this addicted big fish is drunk as usual, sigh! Those guys are way better than these sick people; I wonder how in the world he drinks & stroll daily!

Too difficult to correct them I say, okay leave this nonsense, we need to quickly go back and bath so that we can rush to our college, can’t waste time here…

Oh okay Anmol, bye, tomorrow is Sunday, so no tuition classes, hip hip hurray!!! Cya on Monday...

Ok, Cya...

(Scene changes)

Eh Anmol, get up from the bed, it’s already past 8 am, still in the bed, there is hell lot of problems and commotion going on in the house and you still strolling in the bed, get up soon and help me in things…

Ah, mom, give me 5 more mins….

No way…. Now get up like a good child…

Oh mom…. Ahhh… where this terrible smell coming from?

Sigh, something is struck in our drainage it seems; already our septic tank is overflowing, so now don’t rush to toilet or bathroom, already the drainages are leaking inside our house…

Don’t tell me, Can’t you set these things alright before I reach home, vaaahhhh, I feel like vomiting, it’s stinking terribly as well...

Ah, everybody blames me if anything goes wrong, as a mother what all am I expected to do? Plug the leaking drainage holes? Don’t irritate me much, just have this Coffee, and brush your teeth soon!

Ah mom, I don’t want anything now, I will vomit if I have anything now, please ask Shashank to clean all this mess soon…

He has already called the man to fix it up; the plumber is still inside the sewage tank for past 1 hour to fix it up….

Mom, good news, the plumber has fixed it up..

Oh thank God, I can now watch my favorite Oprah Winfrey show with no tensions, so what was the problem?

A big rat died inside the pipe which leads to our septic tank from our toilet mom….

Shashank, why can’t call it as Ratzilla, just like Godzilla, call spielberg, he can probably make a film on it, hehehe

Shup up Anmol, Mom, give me some betel nut soon, I feel like vomiting though I was standing far away from the plumber…

Hello is someone inside!! Hello Madam! Please bring a bucket of water; I need to wash my hand & legs…

Eh Shashank, don’t allow the plumber to enter our house, ask him to come behind and wash himself in the backyard water pipe, I can’t clean the house now if he enters inside…

(A few moments later)

What, just to remove a small rat inside sewage tank, you ask Rs.100, terrible, you guys have a habit of looting us always, and I remember giving just Rs.25 last time…

Ah, please reconsider again Mam, you too saw it, I had to first dig out all the filth outside, and then the rat, which was stinking like anything, looks like it is dead for days inside and…

Oh stop it, don’t start portraying it as a fairy tale now, can’t digest… I had to go back and cook for my people…

What else Mam, see my real work, the amount of stinking smell it creates, sometimes I gasp for breath you know…

Mom, can you come inside for a minute…

Yeah coming Shashank....

…

Mom, please don’t argue him, just give the amount he is asking for, I don’t think it is wise to argue with people who work in cleaning our drainages or our roads… these works are the most difficult work one can possibly imagine and I pity those who had to do such works for their existence, let’s atleast help them with the best possible, mom please….

Okay Shashank I think you are right, Anmol, bring Rs.100 from my purse and give it to the plumber outside, I have some work in the kitchen

Hello, Mr., Excuse me, have it…

Thank you very much madam, thanks….

(the plumber leaves…)

Eh Shashank, looks like he is already drunken, I seem to have seen him before I guess

Then what? Only if these people intake some alcohol, these guys can really jump into such sewage tanks to clean all the filth that we deposit on daily basis… you know that?

Oh… I see

Yeah, these guys generally intake lot of alcohol before they start working in the morning, this helps them to be a bit unconscious which helps them to ignore the smell….

Is it that much hard work?

Most certainly, just because of the smell that’s come from outside you can’t even have a cup of coffee sitting in your bed room, think of that person who has to dig into the same shit to clean it up & ...

Oh ho stop it; I can’t hear it any more, stop describing it again please…

(Scene changes, next day)

“Every single part of me believes that
baby you belong
oh baby, baby, baby you belong
There really is no mystery
I think anyone can see
That baby you belong
with me …
Baby you belong with me …”


Eh Anmol, our romeo guys are back it seems, oh what a coincidence your dull headed drunken big fella is coming towards us, looks like it’s a perfect day for us again, hehehe...

Stop it shambavi, don’t talk nonsense, he is way senior to you and we should learn to respect him, for me, he is the most esteemed man..

Oh Really!!

Yeah, comparing to these unemployed useless romeo guys, he is far better & deserves to be saluted…

"People may not remember what you did for them, or even what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel." - Unknown

(Due to public demand, I have translated one of my earlier tamil story above)