We next see Kittu talking with the guys from the U-Turn. Usmaan tells him
that Mallika is basically a prisoner in her own home due to the strict rules
that her uncle has placed upon her. She obeys because she feels she owes them
for taking care of her after her parents died.
A
little later, Kittu is on his own, looking up at one of the windows in Mallika's
house. He can see silhouettes of people inside, and it's clear they are arguing.
He sees Toluram apparently hitting Mallika, so he jumps over the outer wall and
climbs up to her window. He can now hear what's going on. Toluram is yelling at
Mallika for, as he puts it "refusing to sign" some contracts or whatever. Of
course, Mallika didn't refuse, she just hasn't signed them and is trying to
explain when he starts whipping her with his belt again. Kittu runs in and
cracks Toluram on the head with a flowerpot. Toluram takes a short power nap
during the following conversation.
Mallika looks more than a little surprised to see Kittu. She asks what he is
doing there, and he explains that he couldn't stand to see him hitting her. I
think a better explanation would also include why he was looking in her window,
but no time for that! She tells him he's got to go, or else Toluram will kill him
when he wakes up. He asks what's going to happen to her. She says she's likely
to catch Hell too. He talks her into fleeing with him, and getting far away from
the people that are mistreating her. She decides that's better than being beaten
up, so she climbs out the window with Kittu.
The
next morning, there is a huge crowd of people outside Mallika's house.
Reporters, police, EMTs, and so on. The police are talking to Toluram about the
apparent kidnapping. Toluram puts on a huge show of misery about what's happened
to him, and lies about Mallika crying out to him to save her. He swears that if
the police haven't returned her in 24 hours, he will publicly immolate himself.
I guess that's motivation, but not the first thing I would have thought of.
We cut to the inside of the U-Turn, where they're all acting sneaky. They've
closed up the shop due to the missing person hiding in the back room with Kittu.
Usmaan gives them some clothes and money to get out of town. The police come to
the door to conduct a search, and we have a few minutes of comedy while Usmaan
and the gang try to keep the detective distracted from the back room. When he
finally does go into the back our heroes have escaped and he finds nothing.
They
flag down a rickshaw to get to the train station. You would be correct if you
assumed that our friend the Self-Proclaimed Handsome Rickshaw Driver was the
pilot of the craft. They have a chat about him going home, and he introduces
Mallika as Merunisa to not give her away.
They board the train, and Mallika gets the giggles. We basically have one of
those, "This is so unreal, just like a movie!" kind of speeches from her as they
reflect on the events of the past few hours. Well, the first stop on the train
ride is a song! We see them dancing around on the tops of various vehicles as
they belt out "Ruki Ruki." We have subtitles on this one, so we can see it's
about getting your life rolling again after being stuck in a rut.
Once all the frivolity is done, we see that we've arrived back at the home of
Kittu's parents. Kittu is a little hesitant to let on that he's got a movie star
staying with him, so we begin a complicated ruse of hiding Mallika in Kittu's
bedroom. Of course this plan will be well thought-out and rational, just like
all of Kittu's other plans!
