Behind the Camera (Complete✅)

Chapter 11 - "Deep focus..."

However, Nandini gathers her defiance and jerks Manik's hand from her mane. She pushes his chest with her both hands. Manik was not fully ready for it. He stumbles back a bit. Nandini gets up from the bed and shouts at him with full hostility.

"What will you answer? Or you will again tell a plethora of lies. Mr Manik Malhotra, if my blames are baseless, so, can you tell me what Komolika was doing in your bedroom and in your bed that night? Didn't you both feel ashamed to do all this filth just one month after our marriage?"

Manik's eyes flicker with vehemence. He nears her with all malice.

"Marriage! Do you even know the meaning of marriage? It doesn't only mean wearing the sindoor (Vermilion) and the Mangalsutra (Nuptial chain). It means trust which you never had for me. Have you forgotten what happened that night? You left me alone when I was shivering with a high fever and writhing in pain. You left me because you saw me with that new heroine of my film in my vanity and assumed that I am cheating on you. Have you ever tried to ask me what was the circumstance? NO...because you believed what you wanted to believe. But today I will give my explanation whether you want to hear it or not. That day the girl came into my vanity to ask for help. She was crying and I was consoling her because the producer was trying to take advantage of hers. She had that faith in me that I can save her but being a wife and lover, you didn't have. And if you think that I am lying then you can confirm it from that girl. I have her address and sometimes I meet her as her well-wisher and as a big brother."

He scoffs. His words made Nandini perplexed for a moment. But her mind still counters and she retorts with the same sarcasm,

"Brother! Then what is Komolika to you? Sister? Give me a break."

Komolika's reference again ignites the fire in his mind and he claws Nandini with her forearms and pushes her to the nearby wall. He viciously presses her into the wall and meets her eyes. Both have fire in them.

"Yes, she is my sister. The result of My father's injustice to her mother. She is my half-sister. But I can never tell her that. I always crave for my family but still, I can't hold her as my only family."

Nandini startles to hear this revelation. Her body slackens and the fire in her eyes gets pacified. Still, she can't react and Manik continues with the same intensity,

That night when you left me almost fainted in high fever, she came. She came and she couldn't leave me in that condition. She took care of me for the whole night. She trusted me that's why she didn't hesitate to spend the night in my bedroom. Ms Murthy, it is not necessary if a girl and a boy sleep in the same room or even on the same bed, they only have one relationship and that is sexual. No...there can be other relations too. That is care, friendship, trust and empathy. But you can't understand it because you don't have that heart to feel that. You have a weak mind which can be easily empoisoned by others. What do you think, I don't know what your producer friend Mr Arnav Singh Raizada always puts in your pea-size brain against me? He has told so many negative things about me to you. My affairs, my casting couch habit, how low I can stoop to bag a roll....every bloody lie is told by him. And you trusted him over me. Why? What does he mean to you? Only friend? Or something more that he even dares to touch you in front of me?"

Manik digs his fingertips in her flesh and pins her more to the hard wall. Nandini flinches in pain. The bafflement and sympathy which she felt a little earlier vanishes. She desperately frees her hands from Manik's iron grip and forcefully smacks his cheek with her palm. Manik becomes scandalized for a moment and Nandini takes the opportunity. She continuously beats his chest with her tiny fists and rants,

"How dare you say so? Just because you want to shut my mouth you will say so dirty about me? He is my friend. Like my elder brother. How could you even think of that? Just to shut me up? You...dirty...filthy Man."

Till then, Manik has overcome his daze. He grabs her both hands and twists them behind her. Nandini gasps in pain.

"I am dirty. I am filthy. And what are you? Innocent little angel? You can speak foul for me but I can't. Oh yeah! And to shut your mouth I don't need anything else. My lips are enough and right now you desperately need this treatment."

Before Nandini can grok his words Manik fists her hair and slams his wild lips on hers. It is not any gentle or passionate kiss. Rather a violent, soul tearing kiss that obviously makes her lips bleed after a minute. As much Nandini is scuffling to free her as much Manik is biting and chewing her soft petals. Nandini is feeling throttled but she is helpless. When Manik also feels breathless, he loosens his grip on her. Nandini gasps and forcefully distances herself. Her lips are swollen and badly bleeding. She wipes them from the back of her palm and steps back.

"Who are you to decide, who will touch me and who won't? Don't forget that you only denied me as your wife. In that case, we don't have any relationship. I can do anything with anyone. I can kiss, I can roam around and I can even have sex. Who are you to stop me or to shut my mouth?"

Nandini hysterically hisses out. Manik balls his fingers in fuming rage. His jaws become stone hard. He closes his eyes to control his wrath but can't. His voice becomes hoarse and razor-sharp.

"Why shouldn't I deny you as my wife? You only said I faked that marriage just to have you under me. You honoured me with the name of philanderer...right? Who used you as a kept. So, why should I consider a kept as my wife? You didn't trust that marriage and I freed you from the title of my wife. But still, we have a relationship. Relationship of animosity. You hurt me, I hurt you. The score is settled? No...I don't think so. What did you just say? You can have sex with anybody. You don't care about this relationship. Fine, let me show you how it feels to be touched by unwanted people."

Nandini parts her lips in surprise. She is totally baffled by what is Manik talking about. But her perplexity doesn't last long as Manik pounces on her within a second and ties her legs and hands with the dupatta and scarfs which were lying on the bed. Nandini keeps on yelling during his wild and improbable act.

"Manik what are you doing? Have you gone mad? Leave me! MANIK..!"

In reply, Manik lumps his kerchief and inserts it inside her mouth. Nandini widens her eyes in fear and bewilderment. For a moment, Manik stares at her bondage condition and mouths,

"Let's go girl. Let me show you who I am and what I can do to you!"

Saying this he lifts her and throws her on his shoulder. His face grimaces a bit in pain. He touches the place of his stitch and heads to the exit door of the flat.

Author's note: What do you think? Where is Manik taking Nandini to? Is Nandini equally responsible for breaking this relationship? Is Manik's anger justified? We will see an unusual drama in the next part. So, keep reading and voting. 🙏❤