Lukewarm (Completed) (Full Novel)

Lukewarm-4

 "You are right. I should not have mentioned this to you." Sulochana said with a regretful expression in her face. "But you need to understand that there is no fault on the part of our daughter. She went there just for time pass and being asked like that. She never would do anything against our will and wish."

"I know about it very well and you need not tell me." Vasantha Rao said and there was instant silence as none of them knew what to say.

"It is a Tamil movie, is it is not? It is not going to be run in the theatres in our state." Breaking that silence after few seconds, Vasantha Rao said.

"You are right dad! Its a Tamil movie and it will not be run in the theatres here." Ragini was happy sensing a positive flavour in whatever her father said.

"But dad if it becomes successful it shall be dubbed into other languages and there will be a pretty good chance that it would be dubbed into Telugu and runs in our theatres also." It was surprising to Pramod that his father was talking like that.

"A sex oriented movie like that never shall become a success. Even the people in that state also don't see it and it becomes an utter-flap. I already told it to you." Ragini angrily said.

"Irrespective of the point whether your sister acts in it or not, whoever producing it are pouring crores of rupees in that. Don't wish that it would become an utter-flap." Vasantha Rao said with somehow an amicable expression in his face.

So far it has become clear to the others there that Vasantha Rao was not completely against his daughter's acting in that movie.

"We don't think about whether it will be a success or not. We worry about whether our sister should act in it or not. There are mobile apps and you- tube providing all the languages movies for the audience and this movie also may be released into them. In other situations may not but once they know it is our sister acted in that movie all the people here also do see that movie. In what type of situation we shall be put in then? And............" Pramod paused for a second as if to reiterate whatever he was going to say. "........don't forget it is a sex oriented movie and our sister has to play a prostitute role in that." However much he was also being lured by forty lakhs remuneration, he just could not forget about that fact.

None of them talked anything then and the silence that was ensued was quite painful.

"One thing....one thing....I want to know." Sulochana said as if she could not bear that silence anymore. "Are you, are you in any way favourable to our daughter's acting in that movie?"

Vasantha Rao got off from the bed he sat and went into the middle of the room. "I am in a complete dilemma now. I just don't know what to say." He put his hands up and down as if to say that his statement was true. "It is I always against the movies and hate the way women expose themselves in them. That is why I never liked Prameela and our daughter's staying along with her. But when she is offered forty lakhs rupees for playing a role in a movie........."

"But dad.........." everyone there then shocked hearing him like that and it was Pramod who came out of it first and interrupted him. "..........shall we sell ourselves for money? How we do forget about the besmirch, bad reputation we get if Charitha acts in such a movie?"

"It is surprising! You are talking whatever I have to talk in this situation." Vasanth Rao looked into Pramod's face and smiled. "If we are evicted from our own house by force as we cannot pay the debt back, will it get us good reputation? If you both cannot complete your education just because I cannot pay the expenditure for the same is it is good? If we both die without proper medication as we cannot bear the expenditure, how you do take it?"