48. Winning her again!

Akshay was all set to win Richa again. He started going to the place in Lonavala secretly where Richa was doing her shooting. He applied a moustache and beard in such a way that no one could recognize him. Richa was playing the character of a lady who slaps her husband when she finds out about his extra marital affair. For a moment, Akshay felt that slap on his face.

He for most of the days came there without her knowledge and observed her. He had changed his get up so that no one could recognize him by chance. Sometimes he drank 20 cups of tea, sitting in a restaurant watching Richa like Sanjay Dutt did in Saajan movie for Madhuri Dixit.

Later, on one day when she returned in her make up room after the shooting schedule, he knocked the window and moved aside. She was surprised and looked outside the window but she noticed no one. Again, she came back, closed the window and door of her room and started removing her make up.

Then suddenly Akshay called out, “Richa!”

She startled, “Who is there?”

“Open the window, please”, he spoke in a different tone.

She opened the window and saw the unknown person but slightly familiar voice.

“Who… Who are you?”

“R.. R.. R.. R.. Richa. I love you!”, he said in Shahrukh Khan’s Ki.. Ki.. Ki.. Kiran style of Darr movie and moved the rose in his hand inside from the gap of the window bar.

“Get lost, whoever you are, otherwise I will call police!”

Then he quickly removed his moustache and beard and said, “Richa, Richa listen! This is me! Akshay!”

She looked at him and didn’t show the surprise on her face and said, “Who Akshay? I don’t know any Akshay! Get lost from here!”

“Oh, so this will not work! Okay!”, Akshay thought.

He went back home and started worrying! Rohini enquired, “What happened Papa? Didn’t Mom accept your proposal?”

“Rohini, she even didn’t recognize me!”

“Did you forget to remove your extra make up Papa?”

“No. Not at all. I faced her without my extra make up but still she didn’t recognize me!”

Rohini put her fingers on her chin and said, “Oh Oh! Winning a wife again after marriage is more difficult than winning her for before marriage it seems! But Papa she was disappointed a lot with your overall recent behavior with her. It is your mistake also Papa! I agree she also has some flaws but…”

Akshay said, “You are right. Now what to do to win her again?”

Rohini thought, “Hmm. Let me think!”

Arpit peeped in and said, “Pappa one suggestion from me!”

Both Rohini and Akshay turned to him and said, “Hey you, please concentrate on your studies! Do not participate when two elders are talking!”

“But Papa, I have a very good solution!”, Arpit said while doing homework but was also listening to their conversation.

“Please do your homework! We will decide what to do!”

“Okay, fine! But you will regret if you don’t listen to my idea!”

“Oh oh, is it? And what is that?”, Rohini teased him.

“Papa, kidnap her on horse! And bring her back home”, Arpit said with blinking eyes and with cutest face.

“Waav. From where your fertile mind got this idea?”

“Papa, recently on cartoon channel they are showing a series on Krishna. I saw he kidnapped Rukmini on chariot!”

Akshay became startled by the smartness of his kid.

Further Arpit said, “But Papa there is one problem”.

“And what is that?”, Akshay said.

“You have to bring strong horse which can bear Mamma’s weight on it!”

“Beta, beta! You should not make fun of fatness of someone. Whoever it may be! People have some unusual bodily features for various reasons. That doesn’t mean we have to make fun of them! Don’t ever tease any bald or handicapped person. Everyone has some flaws in their character. Be it physical or mental. We should not make fun of it!”

“Papa, you are right, “Rohit said, “I know what you are saying! I was not making fun of Mummy. I was telling you just the fact that you should get strong horse!”

Akshay smiled with a smart answer from Arpit.

Rohini also said, “Papa. Idea is good. Recently I watched Akshay Kumar’s Samrat Prithviraj movie. He does the same in that movie. But Papa, it will disrupt her shooting schedule and Mamma will become very angry!”

“You are right!”, Akshay said, “I will do this on last day of her shooting!”

All 3 hi-fived each other and said, “Done!”’

Akshay had learnt horse riding in childhood. He arranged a horse.

On last day of her shooting, Akshay did make up like a king and in the evening, he suddenly came outside the place where shooting was finished, and everyone were saying good bye to each other.

“Khamosh!”, Akshay unsheathed his sword, but it was too heavy. His hands were shaking.

Everyone present there was bewildered by the sudden appearance of Akshay.

Richa recognized him. She knew Akshay would do something like this. In her mind she became excited and her anger subsided a little as she knew that Akshay was following her since long. That made her excited.

“I have come to kidnap her!”, said Akshay and moved the horse near her, she started running but couldn’t run faster because of her weight and also the traditional lehenga she was wearing.

Others started laughing at this scene. Few of Richa’s work mates were aware that recently something was not right in between them and today they were witnessing that the time has come for them patch up.

The director of the serial Hansraj Gurhale said, “You may kidnap her! Anyway, shooting is done! She is all yours now!”

Akshay quickly reached towards her and grabbed her hands and tried to pull her up on horse but couldn’t, so he requested others, “Guys, help her to get on horse!”

Two of the ladies ran towards them and mischievously said, “Mister, what kind of kidnapping is this? Can’t you do it alone?”

Akshay laughed at their comment and after Richa got settled on horse, he announced, “Next week party from my side to all of you! I will send official invitee soon!”

And the horse slowly went away from the place of shooting, and everyone said good bye to both of them.

Slowly it became a news that the husband of the actress Richa Roy- Sutre kidnapped her from a shooting place in Lonawala.

TV anchors were shouting: “Is this a publicity stunt for Richa’s next movie?”

“There is traffic jam due to a bizarre act done for movie promotion!”

Ignoring all the TV cameras which were shooting their horse riding from Lonawala to Pune, Akshay and Richa were busy in forgiving each other for their mistakes did so far and not repeating the mistakes again.

It was sure that Richa was not aware of what happened with him in the UK.

So was Akshay unaware of the fact that, she also had slept twice with one of her co-actors willingly only to give befitting reply to Akshay who she was suspecting to be having an affair.

But she promised herself that she would never do that again!