Veer is furious. He asks why Khan shot him when he had surrendered and was in
custody. Khan looks nonplussed by this and gets one of the other cops to agree
with him that the bad guy was "trying to escape."
Cut
to the chief's office where Veer and Khan are being debriefed. Chief doesn't
seem too surprised that all of the perps in the case were shot, including one in
the back as he was "running away." He makes it clear that Khan isn't fooling
anyone, but strangely Khan doesn't seem to be in a great deal of trouble. Veer
wants to know what Khan was even doing there in the first place since it was
Veer's case. Chief says that he sent Khan to the scene, but doesn't explain why.
He tells them that there will be a statement made to the press about the
incident. Khan doesn't see why, since this was all a routine operation. Khan
says that he will write up the case, but Veer says that he won't sign off on it
if it is full of lies. Khan insults Veer and they start snapping at each other.
Chief finally shuts them up and gets a phone call. We're not sure who it is,
but from the sounds of things on our end, it must be someone important. When he
hangs up, he tells Khan that he has no choice but to suspend him. Khan doesn't
look all that upset about this, and just puts his badge and gun on the desk and
walks out.
Veer
says that the Chief is going too light on Khan for his misbehavior. Chief tells
him that he knows Khan is a "loose cannon who doesn't play by the rules" but
sometimes that's just what he needs to get some of the nastier cases dealt with.
He claims that Veer and Khan are like his two arms, and he needs them both to do
his work. Veer isn't impressed with the analogy, and tells him that if Khan
screws up another one of his cases, he's going to kill him. (Is it a good idea
to tell your superior that you're going to kill a co-worker?) Chief tells him to
go home and relax, and compliments him on his work with this case.
We next see a lovely lady in a slinky black dress walking into a hotel lobby.
She approaches the desk, and begins asking for someone when she is interrupted
by a sleazy looking guy in a jeans jacket. He attempts to arouse her interest,
but instead all he does is annoy her to the point of getting slapped. Next Veer
walks over and tries his luck He begins smooth talking her, and it seems to
work. She agrees to go off with him, and a helpful bystander explains to the guy
who got smacked that she is really Veer's wife.
We've gone a ways here without any tunes, so we'll take a few minutes here to
enjoy "Mere Bina Tum." I'll be up front with you here, most of the songs in this
movie really didn't grab my attention. I like the title song and one we'll be
getting to later on, but the rest just didn't seem as catchy as some of the
others I've seen. Ah well! This particular song is about how Veer and Naina
would die without each other. They are a little more eloquent than that, but
that's the gist of it.
Also noteworthy here is how some of the moments are kind of awkward. Kissing
is somewhat of a rarity in Bollywood. There are lots of scenes in this song
where it looks like they're going in for one, then just end up doing this weird
nuzzling thing instead.
After
a bawdy afternoon of almost kissing, the happy couple returns home. Naina starts
calling for their son, Sahil. He springs up from behind a couch and immediately
begins mouthing off to his mother. This is all done in the "I'm so cute you
couldn't possibly punish me!" style that we've seen a million times before. Veer
begins to roughhouse with him and Naina gets grouchy. She tells him that he's
going to hurt Sahil, but he says lots of soon-to-be-ironic things like "My son
is a lion cub! Nothing can hurt him!"
