Before this whole thing gets out of hand, before people come to know, let us return home. You have had a fight with Baqar, and I promise you that after today Baqar will not step inside my home. Standing outside the closed door, Chandan called out to his wife, ‘Manju, there is no fight between you and me. And knocked again, but the door remained firmly shut. Mr Amrohi says he went up to the stairs to the room himself. My heroine informed her husband that she did not desire audience with him-at least not on that night. Ten minutes later she returned with an answer. ‘Please tell her I wish to speak to her,’ Kamal persisted. Madhu, who had also come out by now, added her voice to this request. Mehmood requested my heroine’s husband to please come back some other time. ‘I would like to speak to her,’ demanded the husband. Mr Mehmood truthfully said yes, but she was in a room upstairs, resting. Just as he was being told, Mehmood came out and was exceedingly civil. He walked towards the house and asked the policemen patrolling the nature of their duty. When the others in the car offered to join Amrohi in his patching-up expedition, he said categorically, ‘No. They drove through Gateway of India, they went to Hanging Gardens, they looked at Juhu beach-but my heroine was not in sight.Īs a last-ditch attempt they went looking to Mehmood’s house, in Andheri, and here the search came to an end-Amrohi sighted two or three policemen. It was like looking for Meena in a haystack. ‘She could be just driving around,’ reflected Mr Amrohi, and presently Baqar and son and Amrohi began a search of Bombay. Possibly he was underestimating the seriousness of the incident? But where could he go searching? Telephone calls were made to the studio and to the houses of mutual friends but they offered no clue. ‘We’ll sort the whole thing out when she comes home this evening,’ he said optimistically. On his side, Baqar went back to Rembrandt and gave his master a blow-by-blow account of the proceedings at Pinjre Ke Panchhi.
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