✨tum Ko....Paa Hi Liya!✨

chapter 17.

Next day to Aadi's birthday.

"action! " his voice coated with agony and frustation. He reached the sets early this morning, making everyone else go haywire over the fact that what could be his mood. The capriciousness was evident on his face. Him grinding his teeths, from time to time ,even if its the slightest of laxity or imprudence caused by any of the crew members peesent on the sets.

"cut!...cut! " he screamed, causing a pin drop silence around the set. Both the protagonist looked cluessly at each other. They were scared a bit too. Sidharth, he never took his jolly and fun side on the set. When ever is at work. He works with uber sincerity and precision. Not that, he acts rude or showed a tough demeanor when on the set. But just that he always maintained a certain solemnity at work.

Besides, he was actually kind of rude today! Reason!

"what the fu*k !! Is this how you guys are supposed to lift the scene? Dammit it requires intensity and rage. You people have made it a joke. Sab kuch plain jaara hai. Everygod damn thing! word ,whisper and even the expressions. This is not gonna happen this way! " he seethed bitterly. Both the actors were new and sort of inexperienced but carried potential. Thats why sidharth chose to caste them in his movie. He especially wanted to opt for young and new talent for the movie ,be it for any department.

Although, both of them were trying their level best to catch the pace and intensity of that particular scene but somewhere they were muffed. The reason for this could also be their inexperience and perhaps the way Siddharth was behaving. That was also a reason . They apologized and went to the green room for a dry run.

"you are freaking out too often today. Is everything ok? " vikrant asked .

"hmm... All good" he snuffed, holding a cigarette in between his teeths and lit it.

"lag to nahi raha! " he said, taking away the lighter from his grip and pulled out the fag packet from his pocket.

"new carton? New brand! Death is quite expensive i must say. " vikrant exclaimed, earning a cold glare from him.

"toh! If we can chose to live ur life the way you want then why not death? " he reparted, taking a long puff.

"tu kharab mood mein hai, now its clear! Bata kya hua ?" vikrant insisted, tugging on his arm.

"not in a mood right now. Recording studio mein kya chalra hai? " he asked.

"solo male recording hai aaj. They are working. Everything is going fine over there....you would go there right? " he said.

"hmm.. Pack up ke baad. Sana reached studio or not. " he questioned in anticipation, taking out the coffin nail from his mouth.

"usko 12 baje ke baad bulaya hai. It would be her second song. So rehearsals aaj se start hongi. " he answered. To which he nodded and indulged himself in work.

*****

Yes Dad! Aapne bulaya? " shalini stood beside her father in law in his study room. He turned around, his eyes were questioning and face looked a bit miserable.

"hmm... I... Wanna talk. Kuch puchna tha tumse. " he said walking leisurely in her direction. Lines appeared on his forehead. His was quite old ,so took a seat on the nearby rocking chair. The lines on his forehead intensified as he bend to sit on the chair.

"yes dad? " she said making herself comfortable on the couch.

"All good! " he asked, taking his specs off.

"yeeaah!... Perfect.. " she said , witha fake smile. For some reasons, she was well aware of what could be the next of questions and the route of this conversation.