Balli
manages to get out onto the roof of the building and has a shootout with Khan.
Both men fire about 500 rounds (without reloading) until finally Balli manages
to land one on Khan's shoulder. Veer shows up when it's all over and does
nothing but shout Balli's name. Good thing he was there!
Balli runs off the roof and escapes. Lachhu runs into a room with giant blocks of ice where Tara is hiding. He tells her it was all a setup and that Balli wouldn't listen to him. Balli comes in and says that he's not going anywhere until he gets what belongs to him. Lachhu says they can take his money from his fish business and just get out of the country but Balli is insistent on getting his money from Moosa. He tells Lachhu to get out of town and to take Tara with him while he settles business.
Tara gets mad that he could suggest such a thing, and makes a big speech about how she is the one to decide her own fate. She says that if she wants to die at Balli's side, then that's what she's going to do. (??) Balli tells her that's why he loves her so much, and decides to have someone else sing a song to a different girl to demonstrate how ardent his love is. No, you read that right. We have a song here where we see Balli and Tara doing a little dance thing, but most of the song focuses on an entirely different couple of complete strangers who are doing the singing. I don't know, just go with it. The good part is that Tara's in the same outfit she wore in "Ya Ila Re," which is a Good Thing. This song is a strange Indian take on the old Ella Fitzgerald song "Fever."
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Now that the song's over, we go bowling! Ishaq is at the lanes minding his own business until he notices a sultry lass strolling about the place in a slinky blue dress. She makes a big production of wriggling up some stairs to the pool tables, and lovingly chalks a cue stick. Anyone that's been watching the first 2 hours of this knows that this is Tara, despite the fact we've not seen her face yet. Ishaq follows her upstairs and peers at her from the end of the pool table. She goes over to him and tells him that she is his birthday present, and asks where he wants to unwrap his gift.
She
takes him out to the car and handcuffs him. He thinks it is all part of the
festivities and happily cooperates. In what surprisingly amounts to a funny
scene, Ishaq soon learns that Balli is also waiting for him in the car. They get
Ishaq to admit that Moosa set Balli up to be killed, and take him hostage.
Next stop is the morgue. Balli sends Lachhu inside to cut the fingers off one of the bodies being kept there. Interestingly, this is pretty easy to do since the security guard is either asleep or apathetic, allowing Lachhu to walk right past him into the place, and then back out again carrying a little bag of phalanges.
Balli then tells Lachhu he is to deliver the bundle to Moosa and claim they are Ishaq's fingers. If he doesn't pay Balli what he owes him, then the rest of Ishaq will be sent in pieces.
I can't even explain this next part. We go from the rooftop meeting between Lachhu and Moosa to a movie theater. Balli appears to be the only one there, and is getting a private screening of one musical number from a movie where the performers have the same names as the people in the movie we've been watching. I have no frikkin' idea what this has to do with anything other than padding the film. Anyway, please enjoy "Balli Di Galli." This song features an extremely skinny lady in a pink sequined tube top dancing with lots of other people all wearing what I'd consider much more traditional garb.
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