A
long shot of an abandoned hallway shows us that the trip to the library might be
a little scary after all. We can hear Shanti babbling to herself about the time
she screamed at a scary movie, and the guys haven't let her forget it. As she
continues her rambling monologue, she notices a dark humanoid shape lurking in
one of the doorways. She calls out to it, and says that she's not afraid of
them. The figure jumps out of the shadows to reveal a tall person, cloaked in a
black robe, wearing a skull mask. They make a few threatening gestures while
Shanti screams! She then notices that there's a small green lizard on the
person's cloak, and points it out. This causes the mask guy to panic and yell
for Shanti to get it off of him. They manage to brush it off and it runs away.
Shanti then pulls the mask off of the person's face and we see it's actually
Talli trying to scare her.
Shanti moves on towards her final goal. She climbs some steps and sees a dim
light shining out from the storeroom. Thinking that there is another ambush
waiting for her, she tiptoes over to the door and shoves them open with a loud
"Boo!" Instead of sending someone tumbling, she finds herself alone in the
darkened room filled with junk.
We
cut over to Talli who is still wandering the halls. He hears some voices coming
from an office, and he sneaks over to listen in. We see that Siddarth Das, the
author of "A Few Untold Things," is speaking to the principal of the college.
They sound as if they are arguing about something. When we listen in, the
principal can be heard to say that he remembers the book, and that he locked it
away in the storeroom personally. Das asks him if that's the case, then how did
it end up on the shelves in the library? The principal can't explain it either,
and says he is shocked. He offers up the idea that one of the students or other
staff members had gone in there and retrieved it. Das says that he had a
definite reason that the book should remain out of the hands of anybody, and
that's why he wanted it securely locked away. Das says that the book "spells
DOOM! DEATH! DESTRUCTION!" (He really does shout that, and in English.)
Das goes on to tell the story of the book's legacy. 50,000 copies of the book
were printed and sent to five different cities. Not a single copy reached their
destinations. Some of the trucks fell into pits, boats with loads of the book
sank, and other such tragedies befell anything associated with it. The copy that
he had locked away is the very last copy of the book, and the last four pages
are such that... then he trails off. He then demands to have the book returned
to him for safe keeping.
Outside,
Talli has heard this whole exchange. He realizes that Nupur might be in trouble.
Speaking of people in trouble, let's see what Shanti's up to. It looks like
she's still in the storeroom, and is rather boldly looking around. She sees a
flashlight that is rolling back and forth on a low shelf, so she spits out her
gum with a smirk and heads over to see what it's doing. The movie decides to
remind her that she's all alone in a dark room, and does so with a bat flapping
right past her face while screeching loudly.
Shanti's resolve is broken, and she leaps back a few paces in fright. The
flashlight stops moving, making her even more nervous. She calls out the names
of her friends, in the hopes that they are still trying to scare her. As Shanti
moves past a pile of broken chairs, she reaches down and takes a piece of wood,
wielding it like a club. She says she knows that they're trying to scare her, to
which a reply comes in the form of a loud gasping sound and a rapid zoom on the
back of her head. Shanti freezes in her tracks, and drops the piece of wood. She
slowly turns around, only to see nothing there. She does notice that the wood
she was carrying is also where her gum happened to land, so she spends a moment
making a gross face while trying to pull the sticky mess from her hands.
Distracted
by the gum, Shanti fails to notice the human figure that is standing behind her.
It looks to be a woman, with long black hair hanging down over her face. This
form begins to walk slowly and unsteadily towards Shanti. Sensing something is
amiss, Shanti quickly turns around only to find there is no one there. A few
loose pieces of cloth flapping in the night breeze are the only things moving.
Shanti is now good and scared, and she decides that she's ready to go. She heads
for the door, but trips over one of the many odds and ends poking out of the
piles of junk, and falls to the floor.
As Shanti rises to her feet, we see the female figure in the fetal position
under a desk near her. As Shanti brushes the dust from her clothes, she feels a
hand grasp her left arm. She looks down to see what is going on, and meets with
the gaze from the dull, glassy eyes of Nupur. Shanti is so startled by all that
is going on, she begins to scream at the top of her lungs. She cries for help as
loud as she can while frantically tugging her arm away from Nupur. Shanti
manages to break free and runs out of the room to the hallway as fast as she
can, where she meets with Akshay and Kabir.
Incidentally,
the woman with the dark hair over her face is also another nod to Ringu/The
Ring. Look familiar?
