YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL (Completed)

part-8

# YOU_ARE_BEAUTIFUL
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PART – 8
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  When Nandini races out of the studio in tears,Dhrov chases immediately.

Manik remains behind and asks Abhi if something happened prior to the recording session. Abhi says that he’d advised Nandini to let her emotions burst, and this is the result: “They’ve burst onto Dhrov!” 

   (Oh, Ilove this. It’s too bad for Manik, but dramatically ,it’s great.)

After sobbing all over him, Nandini apologizes to Dhrov, then glances up and sees Manik. She leaves right away, prompting Manik to follow, but Dhrov holds him back.

DHROV: “Don’t go. You should leave her alone.” They exchange intense stares, but Manik stays put.Abhi is relieved that Dhrov’s explanation

(that Nandu is stressed) shows that he hasn’t caught on to Nandini’s supposed feelings for him. But when he asks Manik what they should do now, the latter gets snippy. This isn’t his business. Manik walks away feeling peeved that Nandu’s feelings have “burst” for Dhrov, and gripes that it’s absurd .

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Nandini sits alone and prays, as her image slowly turns transparent:

“Mother Superior, my feelings keep trickling out. I wish I could become invisible, so that my feelings won’t be discovered. If I gradually disappear, nobody will see me, right?”

But as she is about to fade completely (figuratively, in Nandini’s imagination), a voice calls her back to solid form. It’s Cabir, sitting on a bench in front of her .She asks, “Cabir, can you see me?”

Smiling, he answers, “Of course. I’ve been watching you for a while.”

She sighs, “So I didn’t disappear because you were watching.”

He takes her hand and says, “You can’t disappear. You have to come with me to a party to celebrate your first recording.”

She notes how much he likes to throw congratulatory parties, and he replies that congratulations are good things.

He can tell she’s feeling down, so he promises, “I’ll let you cry to your heart’s content.”What does he mean by that?

At Stall , Spicy food! Eating spicy Indian food gives Nandini (and Cabir) an excuse to cry.

Afterward, they eat ice cream to cool their tongues, and he announces that since that she’s had her cry, now it’s time for some laughs. Off to the arcade they go,
Next, he takes her to his special bus; he’s letting her in on a secret. This bus is pretty empty and completes its circuit in one hour. When he’s depressed, he rides this bus, which allows time for his feelings to “return to normal.”

She wonders if that’ll happen to her feelings, and he assures her, “Of course! My bus is a magic bus.”He says, “Let’s meet in an hour,”

then sits back to give her space .As he watches her silently, Cabir wonders to himself, “In an hour, will they return to normal? For an hour, I’ll like you, Nandu.”

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Nandini apologizes to Abhi for running out. He is glad that she’s let out her emotions for the sake of the song, but she needs to learn how to manage them so they don’t get out of control. As a tip, he tells her about various pressure points that a person can press to “control” different reactions. You can touch your ears, hand, or temples to help endure things like temperature or sleepiness.