Predicament of a Girl
A romantic and sentimental thriller
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
“Dad.....dad.......I never have expected that you do say like this.” Charitha did not know when she started weeping and tears were flowing down on her cheeks. She just did not know why she was weeping. “Without any delay I want to say something now itself. I have decided to act in that movie.”
“Then I cannot remain without saying one thing.” Her father paused for a second and said. “I am just proud of you.”
Charitha could not talk anymore, cut off the call and burst into weeping.
“What your dad has said making you burst into weeping like this? You said to those people so clearly you never act in the movie if they don’t like.” Prameela angrily said looking into the face of her friend.
Charitha controlled her weeping, took the cell phone into her hands, went to the call recorder and selected the recording between her and her father and pressed it and in that silence the conversation between her and her father was so much clear to hear.
“My god! I just cannot believe it at all!” Prameela’s face was filled with shock. “I never have expected such transformation in him!”
“It is just a proof............” Charitha made herself straight on the sofa. “.........how the circumstances do change the rigorous mindsets also. I also did not expect this at all.”
“Anyhow line is absolutely clear for your acting in the movie.” With sudden happiness in her face Prameela said. “So we can convey the news to my friend that you are ready to act in that movie.”
“Do that fast without any delay.” Charitha said with excitement. “And tell them those forty lakhs rupees have to be transferred into my mom’s account before I start acting in that movie.”
“I certainly tell them so and you need no doubt in it.” Prameela laughed and said. “But why haste? Let them make phone to us and then we tell. It should not be so that you are too much enthusiastic to act in that movie. It makes you lower in their eyes.”
“I am not thinking like that.” Suddenly there was anxiousness in her face. “If I am not hurried, they may give this role to some other girl.”
“It is not going to happen like that and you just be relaxed! If we don’t receive a phone call from them by tomorrow also, I do contact them and tell about your decision.”
“But.........” with the same excitement Charitha tried to say something but she did not know what to say.
“Listen to me and leave everything to me if you think I am your well wisher.” Putting her right hand around the shoulders of Charitha, Prameela said with assurance in her face.
“Alright then.” Charitha has to be compromised but she could not stop feeling excitement and anxiousness. What if that Tarang changed his mind and that role has been given to someone else or Prameela will be decided for that role? She did not at all like to think losing of those forty lakhs rupees once her father also agreed to it. Just those forty lakhs rupees would solve all their problems and put her family in quite comfortable condition. It was quite surprising how she stopped thinking completely about her family reputation and the way she has to act in that movie. Even quite before itself she completely came to know what type of role that heroine in that film was.
As if to put an end to her anxiousness and excitement, the phone call came from Madhukar to Prameela on the evening of that day itself. At that time both Prameela and Charitha were in the kitchen preparing something. Just like everyone it was the habit of Prameela also to keep the cell phone nearby and she immediately attended that call and put into speaker enabling Charitha also to listen to that conversation.
“She already told her decision then and there. Why do you phone to us about it?” after knowing about the purpose of that call, Prameela said pretending irritation which made Charitha more anxious and first time to get angry on her friend.
“We are optimists dear. We always hope good things to happen.” There was laughter from his side. “Did not you try to persuade her? If she wants we can increase the remuneration even more.”
“Her family is a very much orthodox family. They don’t agree to these types of matters that easily. I already told you about it.”
“You just don’t know six hundred candidates so eagerly attended that interview to be selected as a heroine in that movie. Tarang did not agree with any of them. If she acts in the movie and it becomes a hit, should I say to you how much lucky she would be?”
“I know about it Madhu, I know.” Looking into the face of Charitha while observing the increased anxiousness in it Prameela said. “I am trying to make her agree to this and somehow got success in that. But she is feeling too much fear about her family. She is a girl never disobeyed her parents in any matter till now. I don’t think that her family would agree to this to enable her to give a green signal to your proposal.”
There was some silence before it was broken by Madhukar. “So we have to forsake all our hope on her on this issue.” He sighed heavily. “However much difficult it is to me, I intimate this to Tarang. If she does not like, we cannot coerce her.”
The anxiousness in Charitha’s face has become maximum and she was about to say something but before that Prameela said. “Optimists should not lose hope that fast. We have time till morning to say about her decision. I talk to her family in the night and try to persuade them. Who knows, wonders may happen. They may agree to it”
“Then I shall be the happiest person on the earth.” There was relaxed laugher from Madhukar. “I don’t sleep the whole night waiting eagerly to hear about it on tomorrow morning.”
“Alright then.” Prameea said. “Before I conclude this call, may I know what really made that Tarang fixed on Charitha? I agree she is beautiful and attractive but there were so many beautiful and attractive girls who have been tested for that role.”
“You may ask this question to Tarang straight. For the present bye. There are urgent works I need to look after now.” Then he cut off the call.
***
“It is not just you who is wondering about it but I also.” On the night of that day while they both were sleeping on the king size bed together, Charitha asked that question to Prameela. For better time-pass whenever they both at home in the night, they both would sleep together like that. “Why that Tarang decided that much to select me as heroine in his movie?”
“I must agree you are most beautiful and attractive! I would have suggested to you to try your luck in the movie field if your family is not such an orthodox family and quite against such things till now. Even not as much as you are, most of the girls who have got tested for that role also were beautiful. If it is just for beauty that Tarang need not wait this long.” Prameela paused for a second before saying again. “I just cannot think of why that Tarang is that much fixed only on you for that role in his movie.”
“What type of character that Tarang is?” Chartia turned and looked at Prameela with knitted brows. “I have heard about him one or two times through you as he is such a great friend to your friend. But I never saw his movies.”
“How you can see his movies as none of them were dubbed into our language?” Prameela laughed and said. “But he is a successful director cum producer, most of his films became hits and he earned a lot also. My friend and he got introduced to each other at their early stages itself and except one or two of his movies, my friend is his camara man. In fact he is not only his camara man but helps him in many other ways also.”
“If his films are that much successful, why not they were dubbed into our language?” her knitted brows were just like that in Charitha’s face.
“I cannot say about that but I want to say one thing here.” Prameela also turned and looked into the face of Charitha. “He has a name that he shows almost everything of his heroine in his movies. He just tries to expose as much as possible of his heroines sometimes even crossing the borderline also and none of his movies have been released without censor cuts. The one or two movies I acted in that language were his and you just don’t how awkward I felt.”
“My god! Moreover the role I am going to play in his movie is like that!” Charitha’s face was filled with a horrifying expression.
“The story of the whole movie is like that. There is no doubt that he rips you apart in his movie. My intention is not to make you feel fear but you may better be prepared for that.”
“I just don’t know what to say.” The horrifying expression in Charitha’s face was just like that. “Even after my dad also said so, how can I take a back step now? You might understand by now how much my family is looking for those forty lakhs.”
“Then you may better be prepared to that. I think it may become commercial success in that state in that language but would not be dubbed into our language. Don’t feel too much fear.”
“I do try. But I cannot say I can.” She turned face upwards and put her right arm on her forehead and closed her eyes.
“If you don’t want to do it, you need not force yourself.” Prameela said looking at the side of Charitha. “You can say a simply no tomorrow. Your dad also is not insisting on you to act in that movie.”
“Considering the condition in which my family is now; I cannot.” Without opening her eyes and without looking at the side of Prameela, Charitha said. “I took the decision Pramee. I act in that movie.” There was a sort of firmness in the voice of Charitha.
“Alright dear. Now I am feeling sleepy.” Prameela yawned and said and just in few seconds Charitha could hear her snoring.
But for a long time Charitha could not sleep at all and even then also her sleep was with full of nightmares.
***
“I just don’t know how much happy I am feeling now. It is just like really I am doing something for my friend for what he did to me. It is indeed a miracle! How can you make her and her family agree to it?” Madhukar exclaimed with utmost happiness in his face.
“I said it is a best movie in which Charitha plays a very nice role epitomising the character of a decent girl in a middle class family and after seeing this movie all the parents want their daughters to be just like her.” Prameela said. “Even then also her family did not agree to it and I have to put lot of effort.”
“But you know the movie is not like that.” This time looking into the face of Charitha, Madhuar said. “I want to be frank with you that there will be more than enough exposing in that movie.”
“Are you thinking that her family ever would agree to that if I say so?” Prameela knitted her brows together.
“My friend and I both never do like concealing facts. If her family is going to be shocked after seeing the movie better she would drop. However much difficult it is to agree, I convince my friend it is not possible to take her as heroine.” He said still looking into the face of Charitha and there was a pathetic note in the voice of Madhukar and similar expression in his face.
(I hope that you enjoyed this novel till here. I update the next chapter as early as possible. Please don’t forget to rate it and write a review)
