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Yes?

Who?

The newspaper tycoon. Preeti Saxena of Indian Times.

Stop

Damn her

These rich brats won't Iet you take a night's sIeep or a morning waIk

Chaos begins! Ministers, newspapers, teIevision, cacophony, et aI

Sit

Where? - Up there

Upstairs. Come with me, sir

The maidservant. He didn't spare her

The gIass on the rear door is broken. He couId've come in that way

Shekhar Saxena says that when he was coming in...

someone hit him on the head from behind. He fainted

Any cIues on the murderer? - Do you suspect anyone?

WiII you be abIe to get him?

One thing is decided. This is no rape

The head-wound and parts bearing other wounds indicates insanity

He enjoys doing this

One more thing

The murder was committed using a sharp six-inch weapon

A knife, or something. But it's bIade is serrated

The probIem is, a six-inch knife and six feet of rope can be bought easiIy

The fingerprint report says that no fingerprints have been found...

apart from Shekhar Saxena's, his wife's and the maid's

So how do we trace the kiIIer?

What about the wound on the head? - Not a deep wound

Just a IittIe bIeeding. Nothing dangerous

Was the bIow deIivered so as not to make it dangerous?

CouId be

I've got a scoop! I found out aII detaiIs from Shekhar Saxena's office

After marrying Preeti, Shekhar became her husband

But Preeti Saxena remained the owner of the newspaper

LegaIIy, Shekhar can't get a cent out of Preeti's inheritance

But according to Preeti's wiII, after her death...

Shekhar Saxena stands to be the soIe heir of her entire estate

But that man Iooks too decent to kiII his wife so horribIy

That's just why

That's why he kiIIed her so horribIy. So that fooIs Iike you might say...

''How can a man kiII his wife so horribIy?''

SimpIe. If I got fed up of sIaving for the wife, if I wanted...

to kiII her, this is how I wouId've pIanned it. In which hospitaI is he?

Had I my way, I wouId've obIiterated yesterday from the caIendar

Yesterday morning, when I Ieft home, I had everything. When I returned...

I stiII can't beIieve it's aII true. - Where were you between 7 and 8 pm?

At the press cIub, interviewing new journaIists

Afterwards?

I dropped KuIkarni at the raiIway terminus. Then I went to the office

So Iate at night? Why did you go to the office?

Mr Lokhande, I'm the editor. Like every Saturday...

I was supposed to write today's editoriaI too

Reporting the growing crime rate in your city takes hard work

So Iast Saturday's hard-hitting articIe about the poIice...

I wrote it

Every time, I am the one who writes about your misadventures

And Iook at what you're doing today. Asking me questions to fiII pages

You don't care even if the murderer gives you the sIip in the meantime

And why are you staring at me? Am I to remind you that you're my Iawyer?

Yes, I was about to object

Yadav... Iet's go. Let the sahib rest a whiIe

You're watching Preeti Saxena's funeraI. 3 days ago...

she was kiIIed horribIy in her apartment

For two years she was saying, ''I want to see my brother''

You're here...

now

WiII you change that rote, or won't you?

Every day for the Iast week you've been coming here and teIIing me...

I Ioved my wife very much! We were very happy with each other

And nothing happened between us to prompt me to kiII her

Ask me that once or a hundred times, my answer won't change

Because that's the truth. - That isn't the truth

The truth is, you didn't have a good reIationship with your wife

You were constantIy quarreIing with your wife. I've even heard...

What's going on? You're harassing my cIient for no reason

Hey Pawar...

You're taIking to an important man. Don't you know? 50 men stand up to...

greet him when he enters his office. And you take him for a criminaI?

Whatever you have to ask him, ask properIy

Mr Shekhar, Iet me assure you that I don't consider you a criminaI

Now, may I ask you with aII due respect, was there ever...

between the two of you, any aItercation or quarreI?

When did I say that there was no aItercation between us?

We might even have screamed at each other. But in answer...

won't it be enough to say that we were married? Every coupIe...

has misunderstandings. - I saw you on teIevision

On Rendezvous with Simi GarewaI. Your wife didn't Iook too happy

Mr Rustom Sohrab SodawaterwaIIah. An attendant at NationaI Gymkhana?

You might say so. - What do you mean?

NominaIIy, I am the attendant. But I'm reaIIy the whoIe-and-soIe

Which girI goes out with which man, who's eying whose boss...

I know aII about the affairs. Why onIy outsiders?

Sharma, the junior manager... - Just teII me...

do you have the dupIicate keys to the Iockers aIIotted to members?

Not with me. The manager keeps it. I take the keys onIy once a year

On 31st December. You know why? To cIean everyone's Iockers

Last year, what did you notice when you were cIeaning Iocker number 502?

Number 502 is Shekhar Saxena's. When I opened his Iocker...

I saw something shining inside. I took a cIose Iook. It was a knife

Dangerous! About 6 inches Iong. Designed just Iike hiIIs on a map

Like this

I toId you. She used to handIe the financiaI matters

I onIy did the creative work

Do you fancy hunting?

Have you ever been on a hunt?

No

Did you ever buy a hunting knife?

No

Think before you repIy. There's no hurry

Have you ever bought one? Or did you ever borrow one from a friend?

I toId you! No! - Don't shout

I'm giving you one more chance. TeII me the truth

TaIk properIy. - To heII with propriety

UntiI now, I've been behaving myseIf. I know how to reach...

right into a man's throat to dig out the truth

You think I kiIIed my wife?

In court, I wiII

As of now, I have evidence enough to arrest you

Hey Pawar, handcuff the sahib. Give him her braceIets

Are you prosecuting Shekhar Saxena? - You think Saxena has kiIIed?

Are you remanding him to custody?

If you care to take my word, you'II throw away this remand appIication

What are you saying, Mehta? Without a drubbing, he won't say a word

You take him for a smaII time crook who spiIIs the beans after two sIaps?

Want to try third degree? You want to hang him upside down?

Look, he has high connections

Every day, he'II take medicaI examinations. In court, he wiII...

turn the tabIes on you. He wrote castigating you. The worId knows

What wiII everyone think?

That you're taking... what's it caIIed?

Revenge. - You're taking revenge

So what to do now? - What to do?

He doesn't have a criminaI record. The judge rejects our appIication

He's granted baiI, and from day one, we're censured. Better...

don't oppose the baiI pIea. - Mehta, he's going to vanish

He's going nowhere. He's a big man. The bigger the man, the Iesser...

the pIaces he can hide in. Wherever he is, he'II remain in pubIic eye

Let him off. For now. We'II see Iater

Mr Shekhar Saxena, you aren't aIone! - What did the poIice ask you?

Are you being framed?

You know very weII. My paper has been exposing his misdeeds

And here I am. As for the rest, you are inteIIigent enough

Mr Saxena, I caIIed DeIhi. I'm thinking about...

roping in Mr Arjun MaIkani

No Mr Singh. My case is aIready Iooking Iike a circus

I don't want to fIy in Iawyers for grandstanding

I have fuII faith in your firm. I want you to represent me

Mr Saxena, we're corporate Iawyers. We contest civiI cases. We never...

contested a criminaI case. - You haven't a singIe Iawyer...

who can contest a criminaI case? - Not that we haven't

There is one. AbIe. But not a singIe contested criminaI case in 4 years

If he's abIe, why has he not contested for 4 years?

Strange coincidence, Mr Saxena. This one gave up practice...

at Lokhande's instance. The man who arrested you

Then he is my man. - Not man. She's a woman

Justice Bhargav's daughter. Her parents died in an accident

She works day and night to get over her IoneIiness

Past seven, Simran. Leave earIy on Saturdays, at Ieast

Home is where I end up, Prabhakar. Even there, I'II be aII aIone

So why not work a bit more?

Even the coffee is over

Who's there?

Who did this?

''Life is so IoneIy''

''I need a mate''

''Life is aII about a search...''

''for a mate''

''Someone wiII Iove me...''

''I stiII beIieve''

''Someone wiII wait for me''

''I'm teIIing you something, my friend''

''I teII my heart not to go crazy''

''Life is so drab''

''I need a mate''

''Life is aII about a search...''

''for a mate''

''Day and night someone torments me''

''This journey I can't make aIone''

''How restIess she has Ieft me...''

''she knows not''

''I can't hoId myseIf back''

''I Iong to embrace her''

''In Iife, I thirst...''

''for a mate''

''Life is aII about a search...''

''for a mate''

I don' think you understand what I'm saying, Simran

Ms Bhargav, if you want, I'II caII Mr Shekhar Saxena here. TaIk to him

No use

I'm onIy a corporate Iawyer now. Just Iike you...

I'm happy representing companies seIIing soap and oiI

I'm tired of murder, rape, robbery. Besides, this week I'm busy

I know you're busy with a case. But those cases can wait

You're very stubborn. No matter how Iarge an offer I make...

I know you won't take up this case. So I'II make you a request

PIease save Shekhar Saxena

If the Iaw hangs him, it'II be a grave injustice to someone who's...

not onIy a promising journaIist, but aIso a nice man

PIease be seated, madam. I'II inform the sahib

So the coIour bIack is stiII your favourite?

Yes. Five years ago, you wore bIack. At the Bar Association's function

I was a smaII-time journaIist. You made a fine speech about...

the rising incidence of crime in the city. Do you stiII get worked up...

whiIe making speeches? - Nowadays I don't make speeches

But you have a good memory. - For things worth remembering

Ms Simran, if I am not mistaken, you said during the speech...

that you Iike fIowers. You said, the sight of bIossoming fIowers...

makes one bIossom Iike a fIower. Despite triaIs and tribuIations...

the zest for achieve one's goaIs, is increased manifoId

You said that, didn't you? - Yes, I said so

But then, I spoke of bookish things. Life hadn't taught me anything

Now I know, no matter how pretty the fIower is, it wiII wiIt

But before it wiIts, the fIower spreads it's fragrance

ContempIate this Ms Bhargav. For fear of wiIting...

had fIowers not bIossomed, the worId wouIdn't have been so beautifuI

What do you mean to say? - That a singIe incident couIdn't...

have compeIIed someone as capabIe and as inteIIigent as you are...

to discard your education and your expertise

Besides, this decision of yours not onIy affects you...

but it aIso affects the Iives of many others, Iike me...

who want to Iive Iife

I didn't kiII my wife. - Did I ask you?

If you took up my case, you wouId. - Maybe not. Because...

before taking up a case, I find out what's true and what's not

Then find out. Satisfy yourseIf. If you contest for me...

I'II sureIy win the case. I want to win. Because I want to Iive

We can't contest this case without proof

The one I've been Iooking for everywhere is right next to me?

May I sit down? - Do whatever you wish

Once upon a time, Ms Simran and I used to punish criminaIs together

I hear now she's getting into the business of saving criminaIs

Do I hear you're taking up Shekhar Saxena's case?

Wrong

Take my advice, turn wrong into right!

The contest is more fun when the competition is a seasoned pIayer

And the spirit of the game is not to find out untiI the Iast...

who the winner wiII be

Have you heard of Ajit?

The one you and I framed?

I hear he hanged himseIf Iast night

Just as weII! A quick tug is better than dying the sIow convict's death

Four years ago, I was the prosecutor in Ajit's case. I put my trust in...

Inspector Lokhande's chargesheet. I took my case honestIy

Ajit's mother screamed her son's innocence

Instead, I trusted the witnesses Lokhande paraded

Ajit was sentenced for Iife. Later I got to know that...

Lokhande had framed Ajit for some petty personaI gain

He had proof of Ajit's innocence. But he didn't even mention it

You're getting worked up for no reason, Simran

I don't think you're at fauIt in Ajit's case

Even if you are at fauIt, wiII it assuage your guiIt...

if you take up Shekhar Saxena's case? - An innocent died because of me

If another innocent man is saved from the gaIIows because of me...

I might be abIe to face myseIf once again

You're making a mistake for undoing another

Amit, I need your heIp on this case. - I'm aIways with you, Simran

If Shekhar Saxena is reaIIy guiIty...

During the course of the case, if I find that you are guiIty...

or if you ever try to Iie to me, I'II drop the case midway

Mr Saxena wants you to take up his case

I accept. I'II never Iie to you, nor wiII I ever hide anything from you

I need your appointment diaries, bank statements, detaiIs of meetings

You wiII have them. - One more thing

TiII this case is over, I'd Iike you not to attend any pubIic meetings...

nor to write any newspaper articIes. Neither wiII your photos be pubIished

Neither the judge nor the pubIic shouId think that...

we're trying to infIuence them. SecondIy, you must carry yourseIf...

in a manner as to project yourseIf as having compIeteIy broken down...

after your wife's murder. - I am a broken man, Ms Bhargav

One thing I'd Iike to teII you too, Mr SinghaI. I don't want...

you, or any of the Iawyers from your firm to heIp me. This case...

I am fighting on my own. Amit wiII heIp me, if I need any

I want to project this case as just another case

It wiII be as you wish

I have taken up your chaIIenge

I have taken up Shekhar Saxena's case

Nice

Makes the case interesting

WeII madam, how may I be of service? - You can't even service anyone

I just came to teII you that whatever you did to Ajit...

That Ajit was scum! Just as weII that he kiIIed himseIf

EIse, he wouId've crawIed as Iong as he Iived

But this new cIient of yours, is a bit more educated, smart

TeII him not to mess with me, and admit his guiIt straightaway

The Iaw might be a bit Ienient towards him

I know more about the Iaw than you do, Lokhande

Get this cIear. If you try to conceaI any evidence that might prove...

Shekhar Saxena's innocence, I wiII prosecute you under Section...

Enough!

Don't you give me Sections. Two things I remember by heart

One, my daiIy prayer. The other, the Iaw

When to use what section, I know very weII

You fancy pIaying with the Ietter of the Iaw, don't you? PIay

Draw up the biggest chargesheet you can, against him

But if Shekhar Saxena is innocent, I'II have him exonerated in court

WhiIe you Iook on

I opened the door and I came inside

What was the first thing you noticed?

BIood

Her bIood was aII over. Upto here

I stepped towards the bed, sIowIy

Her hands, her feet were tied

Her dress was in tatters

Her Iegs were tied to this

Her breasts had been ripped out

She had been knifed between the Iegs

Joy comes cIothed in sorrow's garb

Such was my first meeting with Preeti

I was a smaII-time journaIist. I was at the Press CIub to interview her

Preeti's gIamour, her weaIth, her styIe, her diction...

I Iiked everything about her. We began seeing each other...

and before I knew it, we were married

After a whiIe into the marriage, I got to know what standing...

a middIe-cIass boy has in the eyes of a high-cIass girI Iike Preeti

Maybe she thought it was fashionabIe to marry an ordinary man Iike me

And I... fooI that I was, I kept imagining that...

I too wouId cIimb the sociaI Iadder, and someday...

I'd stand as taII as she stood. But the Iadder, I couId never cIimb

And she never cIimbed down to come near me

A strange separation marred our reIationship

Like twin raiI tracks, we journeyed in each other's company

Sounds strange, doesn't it? We Iived together, but together, we never were

CIose, but cIose, we never were

Passionate for each other, yet IoneIy

So IoneIy

I want aII the fingerprint detaiIs

AIso about the case...

What happened?

What are you doing Simran? I've made coffee for you

Here you are, asIeep. Use the coffee. We're working aII night

If that was the kind of reIationship between you and Preeti...

you must have abhorred her sometimes? You never feIt Iike betraying her?

Never. As Iong as she was, she was the onIy one in my Iife

I didn't even Iook at another woman

Did she think as you did? I mean, did she ever, with someone eIse...?

As far as I know, no. - Meaning?

As far as I know, no. - Which means...

you didn't have fuII faith in her? - You're the one...

who doesn't have faith in me. Isn't that why you're asking me aII this?

You stiII think I'm making up the story. You think I kiIIed my wife

You are trying to find out why. - Nothing Iike that. I'm onIy asking

Don't ask. Look...

into my eyes. You'II get to know what's true, what's not

I'm parched

''What has come over me ever since I saw you?''

''What's this ecstasy I feeI?''

''What has come over me ever since I saw you?''

''What's this ecstasy I feeI?''

''I hope I don't faII in Iove; I hope I don't get Iost''

''How do I hoId myseIf back, teII me''

''I hope I don't faII in Iove; I hope I don't get Iost''

''How do I hoId myseIf back, teII me''

''Why do you invade my dreams with those stares through your tresses?''

''Downcast eyes, words softIy spoken draw me to you. Oh why?''

''A fragrance cIouds my vision, and suffuses my being''

''What storm rages under my breath, I do not know''

''I hope I don't make the mistake; I hope I don't faII in Iove''

''How do I hoId myseIf back, teII me''

''I can't hoId myseIf back anymore''

''How do I teII you, it's no fauIt of mine?''

''Even if I wanted to, I cannot stop change''

''How do I conceaI my emotions, for it burns without a fire?''

''I hope I don't give in to desire; I hope I don't faII in Iove''

''How do I hoId myseIf back, teII me''

''I hope I don't faII in Iove; I hope I don't get Iost''

''How do I hoId myseIf back, teII me''

Are you certain you saw the knife in this Iocker?

I have answered this question times without number. But one thing...

is for sure. I'm not Shekhar Saxena's enemy. I'm his friend

ShaII I teII you something? I Iike him very much

Even if you present me with fooIproof evidence...

of Shekhar Saxena having murdered his wife, I won't accept it

But even more true is the fact that I saw the knife in this very Iocker

I say you better eat. Because what I'm about to teII afterwards...

wiII ruin your appetite. Yes madam. Lokhande has drawn up...

a huge chargesheet against your miIIionaire

On the basis of a knife that an attendant saw in Shekhar's Iocker?

Lokhande Ioves wasting government stationery

Let him. I know how to tackIe him. - It isn't as triviaI as you think

Even Lokhande knows his case is weak. Is that why he's pIaying his cards?

What has he done? - He has mentioned a girI. ShaIini

He might present her in court

GirI? - Yes. Now that the matter is out...

it wiII run it's course. Your cIient...

is young, handsome and rich. A scandaI is possibIe

If you want to do whatever you want, why did you appoint me your Iawyer?

What happened? What's the matter? - Didn't I teII you that...

I'II drop the case if you're guiIty or if you ever Iie to me?

But I have never Iied to you. - But you have hidden the truth

Who is this ShaIini?

Have your Iaugh. But when Lokhande presents her in court against you...

Iet me see you Iaugh then. - Even if he presents her in court...

he can't hurt me. - But I want to know aII about her

I'II teII you. On one condition

You must bring back the smiIe on your face

You have to go over to the teIephone company

I want detaiIs of aII caIIs received on this number during the past year

Whose number is this? - Shekhar Saxena's

Get a handwriting expert on your way back. I want to verify a Ietter

What's aII this going on? Have you asked about ShaIini?

I'm saying aII this after taking ShaIini into consideration

She is no threat to us

I think you're trying to save the wrong man

No. I'm saving an innocent man from being pronounced guiIty

As you wish. You wiII have aII the detaiIs by tomorrow

ShaII we Ieave now? - Where to?

Must I remind you it's Sapna's birthday?

Amit, I think I must remind you that we're working on an important case

When did I teII you not to work? Ever since you took up this case...

we've been working round the cIock. What more do you want?

UntiI Shekhar Saxena is exonerated, are we to stop Iiving our Iives?

PIease yourseIf. Go partying wherever you want. But as of now...

I have to save someone's Iife

What if I can't be saved? - Why can't you be saved?

Have you kiIIed her? -Murder isn't necessary to hang a man

It's just wordpIay. What words a Iawyer uses in court...

how he presents his witnesses, the truths he turns into Iies...

and the evidence... - Those who wish to perjure, Iet them

Truth wiII stand witness for us. The truth wiII set us free

That maybe so. But I feeI scared. What if the court beIieves Lokhande?

And then what happens? At most, you wiII hang

The judge wiII pound his gaveI...

he wiII adjust his thick spectacIes...

then he wiII sign the sentence to hang, and he wiII break the pen

Then?

What eIse?

Two burIy executioners wiII Iead you in chains to the gaIIows

They wiII shroud your face in bIack cape

And for the Iast time, you wiII be asked...

''Mr Shekhar Saxena, what is your Iast wish?''

''You can touch your heart and ask for anything''

''We shaII try to give you your wish''

''Speak, what do you wish?''

You

''I was restIess when I met you''

''LittIe do you know how IoneIy I am''

''I was restIess when I met you''

''LittIe do you know how IoneIy I am''

''How dearIy I Iove you...''

''just come cIose to me and see''

''The fires that rages within...''

''just embrace me and feeI''

''I can't express what I feeI''

''In body and souI, I seek you''

''The moment's weakness...''

''Iet not pass''

''This distance teII us...''

''to end this distance''

''I have no wish, no desire...''

''aII I need is you''

Look at this Amit. Another Ietter

Who might have written this Ietter? Who knows about this case?

EvidentIy someone who wants to prove him innocent. Like you

OnIy that this Ietter was aIso typed on the same Remington typewriter

The t in innocent is raised

Who's doing aII this? Find out Amit. - That's so easy. AII I have to do...

is knock on every door and say, ''Excuse me, Ms Simran has sent me''

''Do you perchance have a Remington typewriter? Let me take a Iook''

''Is that t raised?''

I didn't mean that Amit

You weren't home Iast night. - I was at home

Why didn't you take my caIIs?

Maybe it's out of order

You're Iying!

Are you caIIing that murderer?

What did you say? - Shekhar Saxena is a murderer

Not you. That's jeaIousy speaking. You're jeaIous of Shekhar

Am I? JeaIous of that murderer?

Your face, your eyes, every part of you is screaming out...

you're jeaIous of him! You are on fire

And because you are burning, you want to see an innocent man hanged

You're mixing your personaI feeIings with the case

Not I! You are mixing your personaI feeIings with the case

Just Iook at you! You're obsessed with his innocence

You don't even understand that he is using you

He wants to seduce you into giving your best effort to save him!

I aIways put in my best effort to save someone

But what kind of a Iawyer are you?

You have pronounced a verdict even before the triaI has begun

With the same zeaI that you're trying to prove my jeaIousy, Iook within

Why don't you admit that you're having an affair with him?

And you want to save your Iover!

Have you had your say?

Now Iisten to me

If you want to stay on in this case with me, you must remember one thing

In this triaI, we are defending Shekhar Saxena, not prosecuting him

With or without your heIp, I must do justice to him

I'II wait inside

You know what my biggest probIem is? At no point in Iife can I desert you

You may consider that a weakness

ShaII we?

You may make your opening statement

The chargesheet foIIowing the investigations by the poIice...

aIIeges that at 2 am on JuIy 12...

Mr Shekhar Saxena murdered his wife Preeti Saxena...

in the most horribIe manner

The motive for murder was greed and avarice

Greed for Preeti Saxena's weaIth

And for the chair that Shekhar Saxena mereIy occupied, but that which...

wouId be his forever, after Preeti Saxena. Avarice

Avarice, that addiction by far more dangerous than any drug

And addicted once, even the thought of deniaI torments the addict

I intend to prove that Preeti Saxena's death...

Before Preeti Saxena's murder, her reIationship with Shekhar...

had deteriorated to the point of divorce. Had the divorce happened...

it wouId not onIy ruin Shekhar's prestigious career...

but aIso aII his comforts and Iuxuries wouId cease to be

So in one cIean sweep, he gets rid of the DamocIes sword...

dangIing over his head. In my capacity...

as the pubIic prosecutor, I Nitin Mehta wiII prove...

the aIIegations against Mr Shekhar Saxena...

so as to enabIe the court to pronounce him guiIty...

and in terms of the Indian PenaI Code, sentence him...

at Ieast with death

Shekhar Saxena is innocent. I Simran Bhargav, shaII prove it

My next witness is Ms ShaIini Sachdev

Ms ShaIini Sachdev, what was your reIationship with...

the deceased Preeti Saxena? - She was my friend

You may say that she took me for a sister

WiII you teII the court what your friend...

who was more Iike your sister, had to say about her husband?

She wasn't happy with her husband. - One minute

She knew that he doesn't Iove her. She even toId me that...

''Shekhar is after another girI of Iate''

Did Preeti teII you anything more? - Yes

Very soon she wouId be seeking a divorce from Shekhar Saxena

First of aII, I must compIiment you for your beauty

When did Preeti Saxena teII you about the divorce?

I don't remember the date. - StiII...?

Some two or three months ago

She's shooting in the dark

Is it not true that six months before she died...

Preeti Saxena severed aII reIationships with you?

No. We used to taIk over the phone. And we used to meet at the cIub

Do you remember when you met for her the Iast time?

I toId you. Remembering dates is difficuIt for me

Is it true that you Iiked Shekhar Saxena?

Weren't you impressed by his personaIity, and his weaIth?

It was nothing Iike that. - But it is something Iike that

Is it not true that Preeti Saxena severed aII reIationships with you...

because she knew that you were trying to attract her husband?

The witness is being pressurised unnecessariIy

I can prove it

On December 7, 1999, did you not caII Shekhar Saxena's office...

repeatedIy, trying to speak to him? - I do not remember

I am hoIding the records of the teIephone company

At 9:50 am on December 8. At 1 1 :40 am. 1 pm. 3pm. 5pm...

I toId you, I can't remember dates! - 10... 1 1 ... 12... 13 times

I toId you, I don't remember a thing! - Over a month, there wasn't even...

a day when you didn't try at Ieast 10 times to contact Shekhar Saxena

What's going on Jadhav? You didn't find out about this?

Don't you even remember writing a Ietter on December 31 ...?

To Shekhar Saxena. A Iove Ietter. - This is a Iie!

Is this your handwriting, Ms ShaIini?

Yes

Are you the one who wrote this Ietter to Shekhar Saxena?

Yes

Read it

Read the Ietter, Ms ShaIini

Louder, pIease

You know, because I want to be cIose to you...

I made friends with someone as vain and rude as Preeti

That's why I toIerated her. And now, when I have begun...

visiting your house, you're avoiding me. May I ask why?

Shekhar, I want to spend this New Year's eve with you

Preeti wiII never come to know of this

What Ms ShaIini couIdn't do with the Ietter...

she is trying to do in court

CIearIy, any beautifuI woman wiII seek revenge after she is spurned

Shekhar Saxena didn't visit her on New Year's Eve. Instead...

he showed this Ietter to his wife Preeti. That was when...

Preeti severed aII reIationships with ShaIini

How wouId I know? Why don't you ask Preeti about this?

This car...? - Amit's

At this hour?

Something urgent, maybe

Then I shouId Ieave?

Anything important?

This is Jimmy, the swimming coach in the cIub where Shekhar has a Iocker

The attendant says that Lokhande saw Jimmy Iast week

So...?

Jimmy hasn't been seen ever since. - Meaning?

Lokhande and Jimmy wiII sureIy drop a bomb on us at the next hearing

What can he be up to? - This I do not know

Anything on the knife? - I have inquired with...

each and every member of the cIub. On December 31 ...

no one had kept a knife in his Iocker. There's no question...

of the attendant being wrong. He saw the knife...

in Shekhar's Iocker

Have you inquired with ex-members?

There might be some who ceased to be members after December 31

Ask them. - Simran, you want me...

to go back to the cIub again, Iook up the register again...

Iist the ex-members, and go around teIIing everyone that...

Shekhar is innocent

Shekhar I wanted to discuss something important about the case

Go on

Never mind. You'II remember it again

Yes, I'II caII you as soon as I remember

Listen...

Where are you now? - Nowhere. I'm stiII on my way

That I didn't want to Ieave shouIdn't surprise you. I shouId be surprised

Today in court I watched you put up that fight in earnest, for my sake

And my heart sweIIed in pride

For the first time, I have feIt, here's someone who trusts me...

someone who sees my innocence. Oh, how I wish I were Iost

How can I go away from you? I'm so cIose to you...

I can even reach out and touch you. To teII you the truth, the sight...

of you sitting on the stairs, cradIing the phone...

waiting for me, makes me feeI nice. I wish I couId pick you up...

in my arms, and take you somepIace far away

''You have become the joy of my souI, the Iove of my heart''

''You have become my Iife''

''You have become the joy of my souI, the Iove of my heart''

''You have become my Iife''

''Shekhar wiII be hanged''

''From my being, you have seeped into my souI''

''Through my eyes, you have entered my heart''

''The desire of my dreams...''

''you have become''

''You have become my Iife''

''AII that which I hid...''

''my intimate moments when I hummed...''

''in my IoneIiness, the Iines I wrote...''

''my poetry you have become''

''You have become my Iife''

My next witness is...

Ms Rita Desai

No such witness is Iisted on the agenda of court proceedings

She is not Iisted because she wasn't wiIIing to appear in court

She has been issued speciaI summons because I feeI that...

her deposition wiII prove vitaI for the progress of this case

You wiII be given ampIe opportunity to cross-examine the witness

Who is this girI? - Friend

Meaning?

Just a friend

I shouIdn't be asking this, but I am compeIIed to

TeII me, what is your age?

24 years

What is your reIationship with Shekhar Saxena?

Friendship. - As of now, friendship. I know

But I'm asking about Iast year

We were in Iove

Was this Iove mutuaI?

Yes!

Are you confident, Ms Rita

I mean, what you think was Iove...

might have been mere friendship from Mr Shekhar's point of view

It was Shekhar who proposed first. He toId me...

that ever since he saw me, he has been mad about me

Once he had faIIen in Iove with you, did he...

during certain deIicate moments ever mention of divorcing his wife?

I know this is difficuIt for you. But it's imperative...

that the court is toId. PIease Ms Rita

He had said, that... - That...?

He wants to separate from Preeti, and become mine forever. But...

What, Ms Rita? - But he couIdn't do it, because...

once separated from Preeti, he wouId aIso be divorced from her weaIth

Mr Jimmy, did you know Preeti Saxena? - Yes

How? - She used to come to the cIub...

to Iearn swimming. I was her personaI coach

And the personaI coaching turned into a friendship after a whiIe?

She had begun to take a Iiking for me. Maybe I Iiked her too

Yes, you might say that we became friends quite fast

And very soon, the friendship Ied you to her bed?

This is a personaI matter. - ConceaIing anything...

from the court couId be dangerous for you

I didn't strike up a reIationship with her of my own voIition

She wanted it. - You gave her what she wanted?

How Iong did this go on? - As Iong as she Iived

Despite knowing that she was a married woman?

Yes

Preeti said if her husband couId have affairs despite being married...

then why not she?

WiII you pIease eIucidate?

Preeti toId me that every night, Shekhar brings home a new girI

First, he impresses her with his taIks. Next, on the pretext...

of showing her around his house, he shows off his weaIth.

Then he takes her on a tour of his coIIection of fIowers

He uses poetry, sometimes a taIe, he taIks of nature...

and he impresses her even more. Then, at the first opportunity...

he takes her to bed. - DirectIy?

DirectIy

Despite knowing aII this about Shekhar Saxena...

Preeti Saxena never spoke of divorcing him? Strange...

Once she did teII me that she wants to do it

But then she aIso said that Shekhar was managing her business very weII

I remember, being toId once that she knows that her husband is using her

Then she Iaughed, ''So what? I'm using him too. Maybe this is Iife''

Simran, stop!

Simran, Iisten to me

My mistake. I trusted a man Iike you

You have used Simran. You made me a pawn

It's not Iike that! I wanted to teII you aII this. But...

But...?

One, I thought the poIice wouId never get to know of aII this

I'm not taIking about the poIice. I'm taIking about ourseIves

Maybe you don't remember me teIIing you that...

if you ever Iie to me, I'II drop this case midway

I remember, Simran. But I didn't teII you aII this because...

I didn't want to Iose you. - You have Iost me, anyway

Me, and your Iawyer

''If he has broken my heart, why shouId I hate him?''

''He has the right to Iove me, or not to Iove me''

Hi, this is Simran. PIease Ieave your name and your message after the beep

Simran, I know you're there

Simran, pIease try to understand me

''In a moment, he dispeIIed aII my misgivings about promises''

''At this painfuI juncture, he has Ieft me aIone''

''At this crossroad, I shaII become a stranger to him for Iife''

''Let him hurt me as he pIeases''

''He has the right to Iove me, or not to Iove me''

''If he has broken my heart, why shouId I hate him?''

One more Ietter

''What I didn't know, I have understood now''

''Love is a trade in hearts''

''But how can anyone dictate how the heart beats?''

''The heart is free to heave in sighs, where it wishes''

''Why stand in the way of the heart?''

''He has the right to Iove me, or not to Iove me''

''If he has broken my heart, why shouId I hate him?''

I've done my job. I've found out everything about Jimmy Pereira

I'm dropping this case

Because Shekhar Iied to you?

What if it was another cIient who Iied to you? WouId you stiII quit?

You were obsessed about winning this case. Now you don't want to contest?

You aren't quitting because you suspect Shekhar Saxena's innocence

You just can't toIerate the fact that there were other women in his Iife

Amit, this is my personaI matter

ShaII I teII you something honestIy? Deep down inside...

I'm gIad that you are dropping this case

Ever since Shekhar Saxena transpired, he has caused me much anguish

But I wiII never advise you to quit. For my seIfish ends...

for my sake, I won't stand in the way of your victory

If you dump Shekhar Saxena at this juncture...

the pubIic and the judge wiII both think that he's a criminaI

I'm not going to Iet Simran stand in the way of the Iawyer...

whose prime duty is to save the cIient

I'd Iike to summon Mr Jimmy Pereira once again before this court

Where were you working before the job at NationaI Gymkhana?

At Country CIub. - What reason for quitting...

a job at such a prominent cIub? - What do you mean?

You know what I mean. Is it not true that you were fired?

What nonsense are you saying? I quit on my own voIition

Your memory is a bit weak. You are forgetting that...

upon the compIaint of a married woman...

the management had acted on suspicion about your character...

and you were served notice to Ieave the cIub

What nonsense are you taIking? What proof do you have?

In this court, you have admitted...

that you had a physicaI reIationship with Preeti Saxena

WiII you teII this court where you took her for sexuaI intercourse?

EvidentIy, I didn't do it in pubIic. Sometimes a hoteI...

sometimes in my pIace, sometimes at her pIace

In the same house where she was murdered?

Yes, but I didn't know that she was about to be murdered, did I?

Did Preeti remunerate you for your services?

Are you out of your mind? What do you take me for?

I do not mean to hurt you

WiII you teII the court whether before having sex with Preeti...

you used to tie her hands and her feet, using a rope, or...?

You bitch!

What did you say?

What did you say, Mr Jimmy?

TeII the court what you said

I said ''bitch''

Bitch... bitch... bitch

Mr SodawaterwaIIah, pIease teII the court about that knife

It was a 6-inch knife, it was designed Iike this...

In which Iocker did you see it? - Don't you foIks understand...

anything at one go? I've said it a thousand times. Locker number 502

And for the thousand-and-one-th time the Iocker beIonged to Shekhar Saxena

And I'II aIso teIIing you, that knife was a soIid one

My next witness is Mr LaIit Advani. Like Mr Shekhar Saxena...

he too is a member of NationaI Gymkhana

Who's Advani?

Mr Advani, on December 31 , did you keep a knife in your Iocker

No, I put the knife in it a week before that

On December 31 , the knife was stiII there

PIease take a good Iook. Is this knife yours?

Yes

What's the number of your Iocker?

The Iocker just beneath Mr Shekhar Saxena's Iocker

I wouId Iike to recaII Mr Rustom

Are you certain that you saw the knife in Iocker number 502...

and not in Iocker number 402? - I toId you! Ask me once...

ask me a miIIion times, the knife was in number 502

Look carefuIIy. Is this the knife you saw on December 31?

This knife isn't the same as that one

How was it different? - This is rusty, scratches

That knife was brand new

It may have been brand new then. But between December 31 and now...

it couId have become a bit scratched, it couId've become a bit rusty

Think before you answer, Mr Rustom

This is a matter of someone's Iife and death

CouId this have been the knife?

CouId this have been the knife, Mr Rustom?

CouId it have been this knife? - CouId be! I'm not God!

If you insist, this might aIso be. Anything might be, yes anything!

PIease Iet me go! My brain is cooked!

Now what more do you want to ask? I toId you, it couId be

Anything might be! That day, I was out of my mind, out of my brains!

To heII with your knife, to heII with your Iocker!

I don't want any of this! I onIy want to be Ieft in peace

I wanted...

Simran, I want to taIk to you. - I don't want to

Weren't you prancing about in the courtroom?

And saying your diaIogues with a sway of those hips!

AII fired-up, aren't you?

Say, how about taking you to bed and dousing your fires?

TeII me

I have been waiting for you. Another Ietter, addressed to you

The same Remington typewriter with the raised t

Our aIIy wants us to meet this girI

Yes? - Ms PayaI MaIhotra?

Yes. - I'm Simran Bhargav

I know. Come in

Ms PayaI, pIease teII the court about the incident...

on the night of January 9, 1998

I was asIeep in my bed. I heard something and came awake

Before I couId scream, someone cIamped down on my mouth

I was very scared. I saw a man astride my bed...

bending down over me. He was dressed in bIack. He was wearing a bIack mask

He had a knife in his right hand

This deposition is not reIated to Preeti Saxena's murder

Ms PayaI, can you recaII how the knife Iooked?

Yes. It was Iarge. As hunting knives are, serrated aIong the edge

What happened afterwards? - His Ieft hand...

was cIamped over my mouth. With the right...

he pIaced the point of the knife on my throat

And sIowIy, he began pressing. I was bIeeding

But I was so scared, that I couIdn't even scream

Then, he sIowIy began drawing the knife downwards

He incised downwards, towards my heart

And then, he sIashed me wherever he fancied!

He kept on cutting, sIashing!

After that, he tied my hands and my feet

Then he dipped the point of the knife in my bIood

And on the waII in front of me, he wrote, ''bitch''

Then suddenIy, he took pity on me, I don't know why

At the end of it, instead of doing anything, he Iicked the knife

And before I couId understand anything, he vanished into the dark

Ms PayaI, you must have read about Preeti Saxena's murder in the papers

Yes

Do you reaIise that both of you were attacked in the same manner?

Yes

That's why I went to the poIice station to depose

I aIso Iodged a written compIaint. - Is the concerned poIice officer...

whom you spoke to, present in this court?

He's sitting over there

He has been to my house twice

Once, three weeks after Preeti's murder, and the day before yesterday

What did he have to teII you? - He toId me that the incident...

which happened to me is not reIated in any way to Preeti's murder

This is not the truth!

They are trying to misIead the court!

I shaII speak to you Iater in this matter

When this incident happened to you, were you a member of Country CIub?

Yes. - Who was the swimming coach?

Jimmy Pereira

If I am not mistaken, you had an intimate reIationship...

with Jimmy Pereira?

The court is adjourned for two hours pending verdict

PayaI MaIhotra's report isn't in the poIice records

After perusing the evidence, and the depositions of witnesses...

this court has arrived at the concIusion...

that the accused Shekhar Saxena is innocent...

and the aIIegations against him are baseIess

This court acquits Mr Saxena...

and urges the poIice to trace the reaI cuIprit

How come you know of it? - Not everyone in this worId...

is Iike you, Mr Lokhande. Someone wrote a Ietter to me

Someone I don't even know, heIped me throughout. Anything eIse?

It was no stranger who heIped you. It was Shekhar Saxena himseIf

According to a weII-worked-out pIan. Shekhar Saxena kiIIed Preeti Saxena

I can bet on it. And he had begun pIanning it a year and a haIf ago

Shekhar Saxena knew he'd be prime suspect in Preeti Saxena's murder

That's why he used Jimmy Pereira. Jimmy and PayaI were cIose...

to each other. The modus operandi he used on PayaI a year and a haIf ago...

was the same one which he pIanned to use on Preeti. Next, he conspired...

to have Jimmy fired from Country CIub, and then...

he appointed him in NationaI Gymkhana. So that Jimmy Pereira and Preeti...

wouId come cIose to each other, and as soon as that happened...

he kiIIed Preeti. The man who wrote the Ietters to you is Shekhar Saxena

And Preeti Saxena's murderer is Shekhar Saxena, and no one eIse

You have Iost the case, Mr Lokhande. Get used to Iiving with defeat

You can do no harm to Shekhar

Today, if I stand before you...

it is aII Ms Simran Bhargav's doing

That I'm aIive today, is because of her

During the triaI, I have hurt someone cIose to me. For the first time...

I am feeIing the Ioss. Despite aII my efforts, I couIdn't erase...

the shadows of my past. And today, I stand in pubIic and I apoIogise

Forgive me if you can

Say good afternoon

It's past three

Get up and get fresh. Your sIave is cooking for you today

What happened, Simran?

Where are you going?

I had forgotten. I have an important meeting

What about our Iunch?

I'II caII

Work over?

It isn't quite two hours since you Ieft...

and I'm feeIing as if I've been IoneIy for years

There's someone at the door. I'II caII you Iater

Simran, I'II pick you up at eight. We're going out for dinner

Not tonight, Shekhar. Maybe some other time

Whatever you said was true, Mr Lokhande

I won, yet I have Iost. I was mistaken about Shekhar

I have committed a grave crime by saving a murderer

But now, I have evidence against him. - What?

I have found the typewriter he used to write those messages

I want to bring it over to you. - Get over to the poIice station

I'II be there

Hi, this is Simran. PIease Ieave your name and your message after the beep

I'II contact you. Thank you

It's ten thirty at night, and you stiII haven't caIIed me

You have saved my Iife. I hoped you wouId Iet me take you out...

to dinner and give me a chance to express my gratitude

Anyway, I don't know whether you have heard the news

Jimmy Pereira is stiII evading the poIice. He's a rogue

He can do anything

I didn't kiII Preeti on purpose

The fooI that she was, she wanted to deprive me of my money

What couId I have done? Between Preeti and the money...

I had to choose money. TeII me, did I have an option?

And today, you Ieave me with no choices

In my house, in my cIoset...

you have discovered your death

I thought we wouId have a Iifetime together

But if you'd rather that onIy one of us Iives...

then it has to be me, no?

What I expected, and what has come to be...

Outside, they're queueing up for interviews

They want to see the girI who was so brave

Simran, anyone can make a mistake

But you couId teach them how to make a success out of a mistake

And you couId teach them how to be a steadfast friend

Get up Simran, and Iook through my eyes

This morning awaits you