Rahul sounds mad! He tells Kiran that she's done the one thing he was afraid would happen - she lied to him! He asks her if she really thought she could get away with having Sunil show up at their meeting. Kiran plays innocent and says that she was not aware the Sunil was at the meeting point, but Rahul isn't buying it. He goes on to describe what is happening in the room where Kiran and her pals are listening to the call. Of course, a lot of these things are fairly safe to assume, so this might be a bluff. Despite that possibility, everyone acts shocked when he says he knows there's a cop with them, and that the call is being traced. He tells her that he'll see her tomorrow at the Holi celebration (get the feeling filmmakers in India like Holi?). He kisses the phone, and tells her goodnight.

The cop calls his buddies at HQ to see if they got the number. They were successful, and report what the number was. When the cop relays this information to the rest of the group, the women flip out. Poonam tells them that the extension was the number for the phone in their own bedroom! Sunil leaps out of his seat, but stops himself (and the cop) when he realizes that Rahul would have been long gone by then. Poonam frets about what to do with all of the guests she's invited for Holi, but Vijay tells her to carry on as planned. Rahul wouldn't do something dangerous with that many people around.

With that said, we cut to the festivities the next day. Everyone is gathered around in their pristine white clothes as Vijay leads them into our next musical number, "Ang Se Ang." This is the first time I've seen Rhythmic Hugging on such a large scale. It's a fun song though, and everyone looks like they're having a good time.

As one can see in the picture, Rahul did show up at the party. He's infiltrated the band that's playing along with the singers, and uses this opportunity to get close to Kiran and her family. He continually glares meanly at them, snarling furiously as he pounds on his drum. As the song wraps, one of Vijay's friends tells him that they had nothing to worry about - their mysterious stranger did not come to the party. Everyone starts heading off for the respective homes, and Vijay tries to get Poonam to bathe with him! Out front, the band is still lingering at the door. Rahul (more or less "in disguise" with his colored paint on) pounds on his drum to get Kiran's attention. She assumes that he's indicating the band hasn't been paid yet, so she gets some money from Sunil and starts handing it out to the members.

When she gets to Rahul, he doesn't take the cash that is being proffered. Instead he grabs her roughly by the wrist, and wishes her a happy Holi, complete with his now trademarked stuttering delivery of her name. As he does this, he smears a large handful of colored powder on her face. Kiran shrieks in horror when she realizes who she's now facing, and calls out for Sunil. Rahul goes tearing off down the driveway in his escape with Sunil following hot on his tail. Unfortunately for Sunil, the rest of town is still having quite the celebration as hundreds of brightly colored people are clogging the streets, impeding his chase. He sticks as close as he can, and doesn't let his prey out of his sight.

Sunil is able to tag Rahul in the back of the head with a bottle, but this doesn't cause Rahul to stop. He keeps going, and loses Sunil in a huge group of partygoers. Sunil wanders around in a daze for a moment, until Rahul approaches him from behind. He taps Sunil on the shoulder and asks him who he is looking for. (Remember, Sunil doesn't know Rahul is the stalker!) Sunil is too distressed to even speak to Rahul at this point, and just wanders off.

That night we find Rahul at home. He holds a cloth to the wound on his head from the flying bottle, then looks at the blood stains on it. He says that Sunil didn't do the right thing, and should not have hit him. Now, he's going to have to pay for every drop of blood he has spilled!

The next morning we see Kiran in her room. Her doorbell rings (she has a doorbell on her bedroom door?!) and a servant comes in with a small package for her that was waiting outside. She thanks him and he leaves her alone to open it. When she does, she realizes that the contents are rather nasty. She finds the handkerchief that Rahul had been using to mop up his blood. He's written a message to her with it on the clean areas of the cloth. He explains that this is his own blood, spilled by Sunil. He promises that he has many projectiles lying in wait for her beloved Sunil the next time he sees him.

Kiran drops the cloth and dives for the phone to call Sunil. She is unable to reach him though, as he's gone over to a friend's house to deliver a wedding invitation. Somehow Kiran is able to track him down and she takes him to the beach to talk about what's been happening. Kiran thinks it might be best if they postpone the wedding!

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