Antara
still feels as if she is being dishonest, and that's no way to have a
friendship. Shaukat pauses for a bit, then asks her what it is about this
friendship she likes so much. After a reluctant pause, she replies that she's
been doing things she had stopped doing previously, like hanging out with
friends and playing silly little games like staring contests. She has a happy
look on her face while she describes these things, then she gets serious again
when she notices Shaukat staring intently at her. She reassures him that she is
not falling for this guy.
The phone rings, and Shaukat picks it up. A male voice asks for Antara.
Shaukat turns to her and tells her the call is for her, but she mimes that she
is sleeping and doesn't want to talk. Shaukat insists though, and gives her the
phone. Yash is calling to invite her to a play that a few people from work are
going to see. She tries to decline, but Shaukat urges her to go. Yash asks who
that was that answered the phone, but Antara manages to avoid answering him.
Yash assumes that it was her father, and he gives her the details for the play.
Shaukat
goes to the study and taps out a few pages while Antara gets ready for her night
out. Before she goes, Shaukat stops her in the corridor. He tells her that she
looks so nice that he's fallen in love with her all over again. He presents her
with an elaborate necklace, and places it on her before she sets out. After
giving Shaukat one of the most perfect expressions of anxiety, longing, and
anticipation, Antara heads out to meet Yash.
In his mind, Shaukat begins speaking to BV Yash. He tells him that he's got
an idea - he should not take Tamanna to the play. Instead they should have a
quiet night for just the two of them and see what happens. As fate would have
it, that's just what happens.
Yash takes Antara out to a scenic bluff overlooking the ocean. Antara looks
quite irritated that they're not sticking to the plan, so Yash tries to cheer
her up. He tells her that he will walk towards the edge of the drop, and if he
can't make her laugh by the time he reaches the edge, he'll fall off. He begins
walking backwards and telling a joke that actually made me laugh. I'll go ahead
and include it here, since I think it's pretty clever.
"Okay,
Lalaji and Laliji once arrived at a mountain. Lalaji said to Laliji, 'What
will you give me if I reach the peak of that mountain?' Laliji was a bit
shy. Lalaji again asked her, 'What will you give me if I make it to that
peak?' Guess what Laliji said? 'A push!'"
As he reaches the punch line of the joke, he also reaches the edge of the
cliff. Antara reaches him just in time to catch his arm and keep him from going
over the drop. They stand nose to nose for a while as the realization of what
could have happened sinks in. Yash also has a rather amorous look on his face
that Antara can't help but notice. However, they are spared by a sudden downpour
and they hurry back to the Jeep.
Another rain machine gripe here. There's no way this fake rain is fooling
anyone. I swear it looks like people are just spraying garden hoses into the
shot. What is it with Aishwarya Rai movies and
horribly done fake
rain?
We cut back to the house, and it is now dark outside. Shaukat is standing on
the back porch under an overhang staring into the night. Rajni comes out to ask
if she should prepare dinner for Antara, but Shaukat doesn't even acknowledge
that she has said anything. Rajni gives him a weird and confused look, then
slowly goes back inside. She encounters Ramakant in the hall and asks why Antara
has taken off like this and left Shaukat alone. Ramakant doesn't answer her,
making it a slow night for responses.
Shaukat
sadly steps forward into the downpour, upsetting Rajni who says that she'll have
to clean up the water he'll drip all over the house. Shaukat continues to stand
in the rain with a rather disturbing look on his face as the water drips off of
him. In a rather interesting looking shot, we see the pouring rain falling in
reverse, and little rivulets of water pouring up Shaukat's face and into
the sky.
We cut back to the happy date of Yash and Antara. Yash leads a blindfolded
Antara into a brightly curtained room. He tells her to sit down, and that the
person she is about to meet has all the answers she is seeking. He removes the
blindfold, and Antara finds she is sitting across from a fortune teller with a
deck of tarot cards.
