SHADAW

That era of India… When neither every house had television nor Bollywood,

the only means of entertainment for the people was dancing and singing

and the amalgamation of all these was the theatrical form,

which you know by the name of theater play these days.

In those days the play in Kolkata was making a lot of headlines.

Whose name was "death to the unfaithful"...

People were talking about this play while eating

and drinking and blowing cigarette smoke.

That 'horror, romance along with suspense will also be seen on the same stage...'

Now as things were happening among the people… the same crowd also came to watch the play,

the hall was full of people. People were just waiting for the play to start…

then the light went off and the bell rang to start the play…

On the stage, the heroine of the play, Zareen entered,

"I am that street of love… where many lovers roam….

"I am that street of love… where many lovers roam….

If I am loyal to one…then others are angry with me….

Then if I do it all,

So people call me unfaithful.

Call me unfaithful…"(poetry style)

After this poetic style of heroine, Bijoy, the hero of the play standing on the

other side of the stage, also made a strong entry with a dagger in his hand.

Yes… yes… you are unfaithful.

I understood that heart is your home

But it turned out to be a rented house

Even if you are fond of many lovers,

but i want to go

You have a beautiful death.

Have a beautiful death…

Have a beautiful death…"

Along with this dialogue of Bijoy, the sound of tabla and ghungroo

started resonating in the back ground.

Now on the stage, Zareen and Bijoy stared at each other

and started their dance in Rudra form.

Sometimes love would spill on Zareen's face like a mandakini,

and sometimes the tears coming out of her eyes took such a terrible form

that even the unknown audience sitting in the audience's gallery

grabbed their hands in fear.

The spectators were lost in this play that had a strong opening.

The story in the play starts from there…

when not only Zareen and Bijoy,

but Bijoy's best friend and Zareen's lover Subodh were also alive.

Who was a well-known young actor in the world of theater…

who was always looking for a new thing and was crazy after it.

But he would showcase the same new thing to his audience

so everyone would become a fan of his.

The acting of Subodh and Zareen and the direction of Bijoy

were showing the height of success one after the other for his every play.

Subodh would prepare the script by finding new things

and Bijoy would put life in it…

and the friendship between them was so deep that Zareen would sometimes say

"I sometimes feel that Subodh is not mine but your boyfriend."

To which they both laughed.

Subodh's curiosity was increasing.

He always wanted something new.

He often used to ask himself the same question whether we can do astral projection….

Can we change our soul in someone else's body?

This curiosity did not allow Subodh to sleep peacefully, nor to sit peacefully…

he reached the ashram-crematorium and the hideout of the Aghoris,

started collecting information about these Vidyas…

due to which he stayed out of the house all night and night.

He left Zareen with Bijoy for rehearsals

and went out on his own in search of all these things,

Zareen and Bijoy also started worrying about Subodh.

One day when Subodh reached the theater, he heard someone whispering.

Zareen was saying "Who will explain to Subodh!

Look, now you have to do something, Bijoy."

Then Subodh himself appeared in front of him.

Seeing Subodh in front, Bijoy first got scared for a moment

and then slowly while explaining to Subodh said.

"Dude, how much Zareen cares about you,

but you do not listen to her,"

Subodh said on this matter of Bijoy.

"It is just a matter of a few days as my search is about to end.

OK Bijoy, leave all this!

Just explain to Zareen a little about that scene, how to do it…

Now a days she is so angry that I can't see her love for me,

till then I should do some meditation, the play is after 3 days…"

After saying this, Subodh went to the adjoining room

and Bijoy extended his hand and asked for Zareen's hand

and started explaining to her about the romantic scene of the play.

Here, inside the room, Subodh don't know which meditation he was preparing for.

He lit a lamp in front of him

and sat down in a rut.

Then a handful of kumkum was blown in the air all around,

and taking a handful of rice from the plate in front,

scattered it around the room, muttering some mantras.

In fact, Subodh was preparing to enter Parakaya,

that is, preparing his soul to enter someone else's body..

But there was no other body in front of him.

Perhaps Subodh was giving the practice of liberation to his soul

before performing the alien entrance or rejuvenation…

because if once entered someone else's body,

then it is impossible to get that body back.

After blowing the kumkum and rice in the air,

now Subodh's lips started muttering some mantra..

and after a while he started speaking Mukti… Mukti… Mukti.

A strange energy started circulating in the room due to the chanting of mantras.

Then the lamp was extinguished with a loud voice of liberation from Subodh.

As soon as the lamp was extinguished,

Subodh Nidal fell on the kumkum plate lying in front of it in such a way

that the whole room became smoke of red kumkum…

and the thud of the plate

pulled Zareen and Bijoy to this room.

On reaching the room, Zareen was terrified to see Subodh in a trance.

Zareen immediately woke up Subodh,

placing his head in her lap

and trying to bring him to his senses.

But how would Subodh wake up,

because his soul had been separated from his body…

so Subodh was now just a corpse.

And the soul of Subodh, separated from his body,

was watching all this happening.

That his love and his best friend were so sad when he was not there..

But then one thing of Zareen shook the soul of Subodh,

who had been separated from Subodh's body…

because as soon as Zareen came to know that Subodh was dead.

She has dropped Subodh's body from her lap in a jiffy

and clasped in Bijoy's arms, says

"Jaan why your head is sweating so much,

anyway we wanted to get this madman out of our way right."

"But suddenly it happened,

and after 3 days there is a play too, who will suddenly do the lead character."

"Who will do better than you

and like this now I should not be in anyone else's arms except you.

Anyway, whenever Subodh used to touch me,

I used to get disgusted with myself.

Seeing the infidelity of his sweetheart,

Subodh's soul also started dying from mole to mole…

Because even Subodh did not know that his search for rejuvenation

would lead him to this truth,

but it was not the end,

just the beginning was the new catastrophe to come.

Because Subodh was not dead yet…

he was away from his body for a few moments.

As Subodh entered his soul back into his body,

there was a strong movement in his body,

seeing which Zareen screamed very loudly

and Bijoy was stunned as to how Subodh was alive….

Subodh became mindless and spoke to Zareen.

"What happened, why did you scream so loudly,

I lost meditation and went to some other world."

After listening to Subodh, Bijoy was convinced

that Subodh had not heard anything.

"Don't do it, man should not die of such meditation,

you know it too! We were so scared..

That something happened to you…"

Bijoy was just speaking when Zareen said while cutting Bijoy's words.

I have to go home now.

Subodh said on this,"Ok you come home, I will stay here today…

Some changes have to be made in the script of the play,

will Bijoy drop you home?"

Subodh deliberately sends Zareen along with Bijoy

to keep an eye on them.

Leaving both of them till the door,

Subodh himself was looking at both of them from the window.

To which Zareen was screaming at Bijoy…

"If he must have heard something, what will happen Bijoy?

He will kill me,

it was good that he had died…

I don't know why God left him alive,

now again I will have to live with you every moment by hiding from him.

Hearing Zareen's words, Bijoy said, pulling Zareen towards him.

"You are taking the tension for no reason,

he has not come to know anything…

Hey, what have we been doing on the pretext of rehearsals for so many years,

if he did not know then what would he know now.

And it's just a matter of a few days,

then get it out of the way, we both will be together forever.

"Really ?"

Zareen also listens to Bijoy and drags Bijoy closer to her.

Then the very next moment, the lips of both of them

start whispering with each other.

Seeing the infidelity he is getting in exchange for love,

Subodh's rage burns.

Subodh was now broken inside.

After the departure of Zareen and Bijoy,

Subodh had left alone somewhere.

The next morning the news was received that Subodh had committed suicide,

when Zareen and Bijoy reached the hospital to see one last time,

Bijoy's face had no expressions…

But there was a happy look on Zareen's face.

At last she got rid of Subodh forever.

That's when the police came to them

and put forward a script and said,

"It has been found near the corpse...

There is also a letter with it, in which

it is written that this is his last wish.

You must do this play 'Bewafa ki Maut' written by him.

I will also come to see…"

The script was handed over by the policeman to Zareen.

Zareen was also telling herself with the script in her hand.

"Why would Subodh have written such a script!"

Bijoy said on this.

"Leave it now, why did he write? What did he write?

He is dead, its drama only, will do it.

Before Zareen said something else,

the ward boy appeared and showed the paper and asked him to sign

so that he could get Subodh's body

and Bijoy signed and gave the paper to the ward boy.

Where Bijoy didn't sign his but Subodh's sign…

because Bijoy was not inside Bijoy

but now Subodh's soul was there…

In fact, the night when Subodh came to know about the reality,

Subodh also secretly followed Zareen and Bijoye.

When Bijoye was returning alone leaving Zareen at his house,

Sabodh took advantage of the opportunity

and strangled Bijoy to death.

Then Subodh declared himself dead by putting his soul

in Bijoy's body through the Parakaya Pravesh.

Subodh was now living with Zareen in Bijoy's body.

But Zareen slowly started getting cut off from Bijoy.

After Subodh's death, Zareen never felt that she was with Bijoy…

because even though the appearance and voice were of Bijoy,

but the actions of Subodh…

one day Zareen even told him,

You too have become completely like Subodh, Bijoy.

Totally crazy.."

Hearing this, the blood of Subodh, who was hidden inside Bijoy, started burning.

He immediately picked up the knife and put it on Zareen's neck and said!

"Just once let the play be over, it all be end.

Actually the thing is that I am living the character of Subodh in this play,

so you feel like this."

Saying this he wanted to take Zareen in his embrace,

but Zareen walked away from him…

Subodh had now understood

that he could not gain Zareen's favor

even after getting Bijoy's body…

so he focused all attention on the play…

In which he wrote the whole story of his life.

All the people watching the play became very emotional after seeing the story of Subodh…

now their eyes were just waiting to see…

whether that unfaithful will get death or not?

And if yes how?

Zareen standing on the stage in front says to the hero

"I betrayed him for you, but you have also changed…

Now there is no difference between him and you."

With this dialogue of Zareen, Subodh, who is hiding inside Bijoy,

holding her hair says,

"The difference will be seen, Zareen

because I am not your Bijoy but Subodh…

I killed your Bijoy long back,

and took his body and ended myself in your eyes…

now you just have to pay for the infidelity."

After saying this, Subodh, who was hiding in Bijoy, grabbed Zareen more tightly

and kept on entering the knife

into Zareen's chest several times

one after the other and kept shouting,

'What will the unfaithful get… only and only death'

after Subodh spoke twice.

the audience also clapped… and started saying

that what should an unfaithful get, only and only death.

With this, smoke started spreading from all around on the stage.

Meanwhile, Subodh, who was hiding in Bijoy, disappeared somewhere

and the audience started clapping and waiting

for Zareen to wake up… but how would she get up?

She has left this world,

what was a drama for the audience,

it really happened on stage

and Zareen got the punishment for her infidelity.

But Bijoy was never caught in the hands of the police…

Because the Subodh hidden inside him changed his body again,

and started looking for another unfaithful

whom he could put to death.