As the brotherly merriment dies down a bit, Suraj asks why he should go to
this wedding. Jai points out (like everyone does to the single guys) that he
might meet a girl there. Suraj ponders this idea for a moment, and says that the
same thing could happen to Jai. In what I'm assuming is a poorly judged cut, Jai
stares blankly at Suraj for a few seconds before we cut away to a new bedroom.
Rama
is seen coming in through the doorway as she calls for Sapna. She sighs as she
sees the state of the bedroom, as it is completely covered in random articles of
clothing and other folderol. She tells Sapna that she needs to come out to go to
the wedding, but Sapna is having a low self esteem kind of day. She isn't happy
with how she looks, and they go down an itemized list of her features that she
feels could stand some improvement. Rama finally gets her to come out of hiding
and puts a small mark on Sapna's forehead with her own mascara to ward off any
evil eyes. Sapna is touched by the gesture and gives her sister-in-law a hug.
They are interrupted by Oberoi as he strolls lazily into the room. He marvels
at how beautiful his younger sister has become. Rama says that everyone at the
wedding will be staring at her, but Oberoi says he'll kill anyone that so much
as looks at her. They lighten for a moment, and Sapna realizes that he's
kidding. Oberoi and Rama leave her alone to get ready for the big night. Sapna
seats herself at her gigantic mirror and asks herself how she thinks she should
gussy up tonight.
Her
reflection changes to a swanky gown with big fancy hair, and scoffs at her. She
tells herself not to get too carried away with her ideas tonight. Her reflection
says that she's not going to get a second look from anyone tonight, since she's
not that beautiful. The non-reflected Sapna makes a face and sticks her
tongue out at her snarky doppelganger in retort.
With that out of the way, we cut to the party. A car pulls up and the Singh
entourage disembarks. They look around, scoping the place out for a bit before
they are met by an envoy of Sardar's. He tells them that the others are waiting
for them upstairs.
We go there now, and see Oberoi has already arrived. Sardar is introducing
him to some affluent and important people from the city. Back downstairs, Jai
tells Suraj that he doesn't need to go upstairs with the others. Jai heads off,
leaving Suraj to fend for himself. We have several little scenes cut into each
other here, so just assume all of this is happening at the same time. We see
several of the younger women in the main area dancing around. They appear to be
centered on Sapna, so I'm not sure if there's a significance to this dance or
not. She makes several attempts to leave the dance area, only to be dragged back
out by the other women.
Upstairs, Jai makes his entrance to the meeting area. Oberoi immediately
stiffens up and can barely hold himself back from flying at Jai. Jai plays it
much cooler, and congratulates Sardar on the wedding. Sardar explains that the
other important guy in the room used to be one of his old rivals. At one time,
things were so bad between them Sardar had a contract out for the other man's
death. However the plot failed, and they eventually became good friends. In
fact, it is this man's son that is marrying Sardar's granddaughter.
Back
downstairs, one of the attempts to yank Sapna back onto the dance floor has
ended in the whole group of women falling down on top of each other. Suraj takes
this opportunity to announce his arrival by laughing like a loon at them as
every other person in the room looks at him like he's an idiot. After an awkward
moment as his laughter tapers off, everyone else decides that he was right, that
was funny. They all begin laughing, causing Suraj to go into another round of
the giggles. The music starts up again and the women all resume dancing in a
circle around Sapna, who is still sitting on the floor. Suraj notices her down
there, and is struck dumb by her beauty. Well he was sort of dumb to begin with,
but this is not helping any.
Upstairs,
Sardar brings the sermon home by saying that since he and his old enemies could
see fit to live and work together, then the least Oberoi and Jai could do was to
shake hands and put an end to this war. The two adversaries look grimly at each
other as they mull over this weird new idea. Just as it seems they are about to
give in and grudgingly shake hands, a loud boom is heard. Suddenly all of the
guards in the room are pointing guns at each other! We learn that they're only
setting off fireworks outside as part of the celebration.
Sardar is disappointed. He chides them for not thinking there might be
fireworks at a wedding (this is a fairly common practice in Indian celebrations)
and is dismayed that they would draw weapons over such a trivial matter. He asks
them both what they think might happen to everyone if this bitterness were
allowed to continue. As he does this, we cut back to Suraj as he stares
longingly at Sapna.
