AMINAH- Based on A True Story (2019)

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On the further note, Sadek uncle instructed me to teach the street children such as the alphabets as well as how to be open with cultures. Since then, I go to the street school every day to see the beautiful pigeons. He noticed me when I was feeding them. He gave me his old DSLR camera. Since then, I took pictures and feed them.

Until, I got blackouts every time. I used to see myself in a bar or men who were sleeping with me. I got scared, each and every time. Some were calling me by the name 'Antara'. It was painful.

By now, Dr. Jehangir said "then what happened, when Amelia comes?"

Aminah further explained:

"During the fights between Amelia and Mom, I was the only one absent. This was the confusing situation, or else, we call it, ambiguous situation. I am tired of what's happening to me? Am I the reason for Shezan's alcoholism? Am I the reason for my family's death? Where is the other side of the story that should be told?"

What Aminah was saying as she was under the hypnosis of Dr. Jehangir. As he got emotional, he drank a glass of water. He snapped his fingers, her eyes went open. Since then, she made a highest breathe and felt that she got up from her nightmares.

"How are you feeling?" asked Dr. Jehangir.

"I am kind of okay, what just happened?" said Aminah.

"Nothing, you just need a good night's sleep" lied Dr. Jehangir.

As Aminah left, Shezan arrived when Dr. Jehangir was about to grab a file from the shelf.

"Shezan, I know what you have been through during your college days. But I would suggest you that, may be having a girlfriend is the simplest thing, but having a quality wife is a different one. I wish, you could have matured up more on this extent" said Jehangir.

"I was once a dude back then. Some used to call me a popular guy and I was so blindly arrogant back then. Maybe, I just neglected the value of our friendship in search of a quality girlfriend. I always used to look into perfection. By the time, I went to Aminah again, I realized the adjustments of the world" said Shezan who was upset with the matter.

Jehangir understood that he wished that he could have given a little more time. During that period, he was mentally upset with his license being cancelled by the health authorities. It was a devastating year for Dr. Jehangir. At least, his successful treatment overshadows his fraudulent past.

By then, he went to Sadek's street school. He was sitting under the tree by packing up the chalkboards. It was almost at the cloudy sunset. At the moment, Jehangir came into the scene. Sadek looked surprised.

"What's new with you, Sadek?" asked Jehangir.

"Nothing's new, just an old school things" said Sadek.

"Well, then. Would you like to tell me something about Aminah?" inquired Jehangir.

"Oh, you psychiatrist, always studying people, is it? So then, as I could say that, as far as I saw, there are some noticeable switch on the memories that even she didn't have any idea about. I understand something that might shatter me a lot" said Sadek.

"I need to reveal you something" said Jehangir.

"What do you want to reveal?" asked Sadek.

"Aminah is the daughter of Rohit and Catherina. They had one more but died with the mother. The Rohit we knew, was a nerd back then. But what I realized that Rohit was quite obsessive about Catherina that led to their troubled marriage. From the beginning, I suspected Rohit's obsessive behavior towards Catherina. Oh God! The 90s films were terrible that influenced him to stalk!" said Jehangir.

"I too suspected Rohit's behavior from the very beginning. I saw Catherine's pictures on his diary. Though it was of a black and white stature, he crossed marked the male members of her circle to get her" said Sadek.

Sadek was though the prankster in the past, he became a responsible teacher on the run. He was back then somebody who used to solve mysteries around people beyond their understanding. But now, he had given up to spend the entire life on social work. Not only that, he was more than a friend of Jehangir's. He also clearly used to understand the feelings of Catherine and Rohit. But his utmost weakness was, on his youths, he used to be a crybaby but his righteous attitude made him from a fat angry person to a suave, responsible teacher.

"So, on which means, he was suffering for obsessive compulsive disorder" added Jehangir. "But on the further stage, I found out that in the past, her father, Rohit had a chemical damage on the brain due to a trauma on childhood. His father was killed during the 1971 Liberation War and the negligence made by his mother kept him into extreme anger and obsessive within the ones he wants to love"

"Great observation, Dr. Jehangir. But for the further note, her mother was a Christian and had an ex-boyfriend who was the bully of her father. He bullied him so much to the extreme that he even did not make peace or else, he even forbid Catherine to come close as a friend. Until, Rohit was coming to the park to surprise Catherine, he saw the bully was having peace with her. After all...."

Then Dr. Jehangir explained the rest of the story that Aminah narrated from her perspective. But how did he managed to get to know the whole story? Therefore, he went to the village and Kantu revealed the real problems where the rest of the story that were narrated by Aminah and Jehangir but the story of Shezan was slightly different but also a major cause of the split personality disorder.

After all, Aminah came to Jehangir's chamber the next day.

"Well, Aminah, I want to introduce some people who are really there for you. Would you like to know them?" said Jehangir.

"Well, I will" said Aminah.

Jehangir switched on the recorder from the laptop. Aminah heard a childish voice. She was shocked that it was a familiar one. It was such that it was close to her heart.

"AMELIA" said Aminah in a loud voice.

"Well, there is another person, I would like you to meet" said Jehangir.

The record further had a voice of a sultry, bold, confident and deep voiced woman. It was so perverted that she smiled in a bittersweet manner. Jehangir switched off the recorder.

"This is Antara. After Shezan left you in the past, she came here to help you" said Jehangir.

"I never met her but it is like today, I am really meeting her" said Aminah.