Predicament of a Girl
A romantic and sentimental thriller
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
All that time the conversation was going so, Sarath was trying to talk something with her but could not get a chance at all.
“Never you do forget about that? Even my wife also doesn’t ask me like this.” Her cousin’s face was with full of irritation.
“What’s the use? You stopped hearing her a long time back itself. I perfectly know how she is feeling because of your irresponsible behaviour. Just try to be a little responsible.”
After saying so she went away from that place.
“Excellent! Perfect! I don’t want to reshoot it at all.” Tarang came near to her and said. “It just proves that you are a natural actor! You have this acting talent from your birth itself but you did not know about it.”
“You know one thing! You are the only person he said it like that.” Madhukar said.
“I just thought that it was really happening in my life and stopped feeling any uneasiness.” With blushed cheeks and a smile on her lips Charitha said. “I think that is the reason for my performing like that.”
“If you do feel like that with every scene, you can do it in a wonderful way.” Tarang said.
“I sure do try to do it like that.” With the same smile on her lips Charitha said.
“Congratulations! You really did it better.” When all those went away from that place Prameela came near to her and said. “In fact I also have got the doubt which Tarang got. You are a born actor but you don’t know about it.”
“Oh, please! Don’t say like that for a simple and small scene like this.” Laughing loudly Charitha said.
“Of course, it is a simple and small scene. But we decide a whole thing by a small thing out of it. I am confident that you do your role in the best way possible. But I want to put you into some caution also.” She paused for a second before saying again. “Not everything is going to be simple and smooth for you with that role.”
“Of course, I know it.” Sighing heavily Charitha said and surprisingly she stopped feeling for that. “I am prepared to face it.”
They both engaged themselves in talking sitting in the chairs there until Charitha has been called to act in another scene. It also has been explained full to her and the dialogues of her also. It was the scene of her serving the food to the family members of her including Sarath and Sarath tried to talk to her then also and she has to give answers to him keeping a reluctant expression in her face. But unlike the first scene it has been shot for three times and she saw little irritation on the face of Tarang. Just like in the first scene four cameras covered the whole scene.
“The next scene shall be shot in the night time. You and that villain character sleeps in separate rooms. In the middle of the night that villain character, is it is better to say Sarath, tap on the doors of your room and ask you for water. You just ask him to go away but while he is going away you call him back to give him the water. In the kitchen you give him the water and there is also conversation between you both. I wish you to read and remember well your dialogues. It has been written on the paper along with the dialogues what type of expressions you have to give and how your body language should be. I want it to be shot with as little takes as possible. You understood.”
“Yes, I understood sir.” Charitha nodded her head taking the paper from him.
After that, till the night time, she read her dialogues again and again until memorised them. Under each dialogue it also has been written how should be her facial expression and body language. Her action part also so clearly has been written on that. She thought if everything was clear like that, acting never will be difficult.
“What do you want?” it has not become difficult to her to pull an irritating expression into her face, when she opened the doors and found Sarath there. She switched onto the light there and she was in lighting and Sarath was in semi darkness.
“I am feeling thirsty. Will you please give me some water?” there was a pleading expression on the face of Sarath.
“I don’t have water with me. You go away.” She said curtly and on hearing that he turned back.
“Just a moment!” she came out of that room and switched onto the light in the verandah which filled the whole place in lighting. “Come with me.” She started moving away from that place.
She went into the kitchen followed by Sarath and there she switched onto the light. She went to the water pot there, took a steel glass from the shelf beside it and took water from that water pot with that steel glass.
“Why you are so much angry with me all the time?” while taking the water glass from her right hand with his right hand, he asked her.
“I am not angry with anyone.” She sighed heavily and there came an amicable expression into her face. “Why you are thinking like that?”
“You are not showing any interest to talk with me.”
“Why should I show any interest to talk with you?” she smiled a little as per the script. “You are an absolute unknown person to me and my mom said unknown persons should not be believed without verification.”
“Then verify yourself with your cousin. He will tell you what a nice person I am.” He drank the water with two gulps and gave the glass back to her. “May I have some more water? Water is so much tasty to me by your hand.”
“Don’t think I shall be flattered by false praising like this.” She put the glass into the pot again and gave water with it to him once more. “We have a tradition to respect our guests. You may stay at any length of time here in a comfortable way but don’t try to hoodwink the girls in this house. We can very easily smell a con.”
“Are you thinking that I came here only to hoodwink you girls and cheat you? I don’t know here are beautiful girls until I come to this place. Your cousin tells you what type of a nice character I am.” Giving her back that glass he said with an angry expression in his face.
“Yes, it is that rogue and rascal who has to certify you? Your being his friend is the main reason why I cannot trust you.” She put the glass back in that shelf there and started moving away from that place.
“How.....how I can convince you that I am not a bad character?” he asked her on the back of her.
“What is the necessity that you do convince me like that? Do we both become man and wife?” after saying that she went into her room and closed the doors.
“I don’t think it needs a reshoot.” Tarang said coming near to Madhukar “How all the cameras covered the whole scene?”
“Just in a nice way! But I give my certification after verifying the same as I do with everything every-time.” Madhukar said.
“You may go and have your sleep. We are not going to shoot anything for this night.” Looking into the face of Charitha, Tarang said
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Charitha has satisfying sleep in the night and woke up with a light heart on the next day and the first thing she did was talking with her family as she was doing quite often after coming to act in the movie. They also felt very much happy hearing her that she was feeling quite comfortable with everything so far. She thought how nice it would be if every scene in that movie was just like that.
When she came out of her room she saw all the film members were talking sitting in the hall in kitchen and Prameela also was among them. With curiosity she went near to them.
“I have no objection to expend money for that. I want everything to be perfect and don’t want to be compromised. I am not thinking a river bank and sea bank are equal.” Tarang said.
“Just come and see the river. Then you can know how much big bank it has and it is with full of water also. There are big boulders and greenery also around it. If we can manage a little with photography it appears just wonderful! If you are not satisfied with it we do it on a sea bank also. But what’s wrong just in trying and see.”
Charitha dragged a chair near to Tarang and Madhukar and started hearing their conversation eagerly. An unknown apprehension started in her and her heart beat was increased.
“If it comes nice, we need not wait long for the promotion either.” Madhukar said again breaking the ensued silence there.
For the first time Madhukar appeared like a villain to Charitha. What conspiracy they were planning then she could not understand.
“I am also not seeing any loss in doing it so sir. Why should not we try it now?” it was Sarath.
“Do we have got everything ready for it including costumes?” as if he has come to an agreement, Tarang asked.
“We have got everything ready for it.” Madhukar laughed. “Your consent is the only thing we need for it.”
“So we are going to try it tomorrow itself.” Tarang said. “But I want it to be turned out as an excellent piece.” Then he looked into the face of Charitha there. “I think you understood what we have talked.”
“I did not understand even a little piece of what you have talked!” the heart beat of Charitha was increased to the maximum.
“Then I explain it to you, no problem!” Tarang sighed heavily and stooped forward in the chair. “You do take a bath in the river and walk on the bank with a bikini.”
“What? I do take a bath and walk with a bikini?” Charitha’s face was filled with a horrifying expression.
“There is no necessity to you to take a bath in the river in fact.” Madhukar said. “But you have to walk on the bank of it with a bikini.”
“My god! I just cannot do that!” it was quite automatic on her part that she said it like that and got off from the chair she sat. “I never can.”
“If you want to read the contract you signed once again, I have no objection. I have given a copy of that to you also.” Tarang angrily said. “You have agreed to act in the way I ask. This type of disobedience is not going to be tolerated at all.”
Charitha still remembered that Prameela’s giving her a copy of that contract.
“I make her understand the point. I prepare her to do that in all respects. You don’t worry.” Prameela came near to them and said. “Leave her to me and be in your preparation.”
“Alright then.” Tarang said and got off from the chair he sat. “If the climate also is alright, we are going to shoot it on tomorrow itself. In the meanwhile prepare her for the other scenes also we are going to shoot before that. How her facial expression and everything should be in the papers I am going to give. Prepare her especially for the bikini scene. I make her do that scene the whole day if she cannot do it better. It is so much important to this movie.”
“It is a family movie and I am playing a family girl role in it. What is the necessity of a family girl to walk on the bank of a river in a bikini?” Charitha angrily asked.
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