We rush to the hospital. In a move that I found odd, all of the critical
staff and whatnot are all mobilized, but the patient is Sapna. Not the woman who
fell several stories, but the one who dropped to the ground from a normal
standing position. Oh well. Sapna gets all squared away in her hospital room
while we cut outside.
We
see a police van unloading Dr. Gosai. He approaches a funeral pyre where his
wife is being prepared. He performs the rites and weeps quietly as the wood
rapidly catches and burns. Tony and the gang that originally intimidated Gosai
watch from a respectful distance and actually manage to look remorseful. Back at
the hospital, Sapna comes to and begins walking the corridors. She finds herself
out on the roof, and for all intents and purposes seems to be following in her
mother's footsteps. She leans out and gets dizzy, but before anything can happen
she is caught by her arm. She looks down to see Tony has miraculously (or
conveniently, your mileage may vary) appeared out of nowhere to stop her.
She
tells him to let her go, but he silences her with the news that he knows her
father is innocent. She asks Tony if he will come with her to the authorities
and tell them that, and he agrees. They take a cab to the jail to speak with the
warden. The warden is a bit of a stickler for the rules though, and he won't let
them in to see her father until Monday. Sapna is frustrated and angrily pleads
with him to make an exception, but he won't budge.
Tony takes her outside and
calms her down. She reflects on how her life has had a few interesting twists as
of late. She focuses more on how Ajay dumped her when she needed him the most,
and marvels at how supportive Tony is being. She asks him for the locket he
tried to give her way back when, and he happily puts it on her. Then we slam
into an abrupt musical number. I'm used to these things by now, but even I was
caught off guard by this one. At any rate, here we have "Dil Teri Deewangi
Mein."
The readers respond! I had been confused as to why we'd often see a
random group of people show up in the middle of a scene and do one of the
musical numbers instead of the main cast members. I received a very
informative reply from one of my readers to explain this phenomenon:
"This phenomenon is called
'realism--Bollywood ish-tyle'. Since 'real' people don't *actually*
burst into song-and-dance, they just wander close to a bunch that's
already singing. There are several advantages to this approach:
a) The director needn't resort to artistic devices such as 'nightclub
scene' or 'video shoot' to justify the swarms dancing along with the
lead actors.
b) Since the sing-a-long troupe is usually of Rajasthani origin, they
can justifiably be dressed up in even more lurid colours than the lead
actors. This is important because the colours, the beat and the
movements provide cinegoers with the ultimate eco-friendly hallucinatory
experience (remember, a lot of people are watching this in the theatre).
c) The actors save on energy by not lip-synching and expend it on
achieving the perfect 'constipated' look. This is, of course, an
allusion to the emotional constipation of the characters: The friendly
neighbourhood dancers are merely expressing what the would-be-lovers can
only articulate with heaving bosoms and furtive glances.
I hope this clarifies matters somewhat ;)"
It certainly did! Thanks for the help, Sanaa!
When
the music is over, we cut to what I thought was a subtle and brilliant bit of
acting. Back at Tony and Goli's place, we see the boys getting a little drunk.
Goli takes a seat next to Tony and sits quietly for a moment. He then starts to
chuckle, then laugh quietly, then finally belt out the biggest laughs I've heard
in a while. Eventually, these laughs turn into sobs as he holds his head and
tries to catch his breath. After a moment of calm, he gets the giggles again.
During all of this, Tony says nothing. He sits there quietly smoking a
cigarette, and occasionally looks over at Goli with a somewhat annoyed
expression.
I can't exactly say why, but I thought this was very well done. It's a simple
scene, but I think you really get the sense that Goli is really torn about
what's happening. He's been a thug all his life, and has been with one of the
toughest guys in the scene for years. Now here he is caught up in this
situation, and nothing is the way it used to be. He doesn't know what else to do
but laugh at it, then weep for them all, then laugh at what he just did. I
thought it was brilliant.
