The Goan Debacle- Part 3

VI

Sally invited Maanav for a coffee as she started liking him, his innocence and charm made a lasting impression in her. They started meeting freqeuntly. Maanav became closer to Sally and he started skipping time with Rajashree. Once, Rajashree happened to find out from his message, the proximity between her husband and Sally. She decided to act fast or risk losing her loved one.

Kiara was happy with the scene in the coffee house “Space Goa”. In fact, as a marketing strategy, they allowed a complete day shooting inside the shop and at the same time, they ensured that the customer access was not stalled. Kiara never wanted a set for this scene and she had decided to search a location that would best suite a romantic linkup between her lead characters Maanav and Sally.

Kiara had the habit of an early morning jog, and in the pretext of jogging she would overview the best shots to enrich the scene and adjust the screenplay so as to make it more elucidative. During her jog, she had come across the coffee house and found it perfect for her lead character’s newly found tryst.

 Buoyed by the improvement in Diya’s performance, Kiara was days ahead of her schedule. This made her elated and often she had wanted to include Rishaan for the morning jog but hearing his snore from his room, she didn’t feel like disturbing him. Besides, Rishaan was fully co-operating with her that there were never any picked up quarrels with her lead cinematographer like in many of her previous sets, where she had witnessed enormous ego clash between the director of the set, the so called captain of the ship and the one who donned the camera, considered to be a chief engineer of the same ship.

Kiara had begun to jog on the arlam beach, as she found it amusing to watch the water, which seemed to her like the hands of the sea goddess, patting the sand as if the sand was fixed up in a crisis and needs the consolation of the goddess. Probably, with the construction gaining ground in Goa, the beach was shrinking in size with various hotels already ensnaring their piece of land resulting in often internecine games between the hotel giants. But today the sea goddess seemed to be angrier as the waves came almost close to the huts, owned by various hotels adjacent to the shore. Suddenly, kiara stopped her morning jog. She looked at the sea for a moment and felt the morning breeze touch her in a debonair manner. She thought of using the beach scene to express the emotion of her main character Rajashree, who happened to be very angry to find her husband having an affair. Kiara immediately rushed back into the hotel for she wanted to modify the screenplay to make use of sea goddess’ fury that day.

Rishaan had actually recorded the snoring sound in his tape set and he plays it every morning before Kiara commences her jogging. He knew that Kiara would almost take an hour to jog, although he considered it a waste of time for she just moves her legs lazily. Meanwhile, RIshaan was always with Diya in her room, where both of them would have finished a busy night together, feeling the early morning rays on their naked body with his head placed on her bottom while he kept his manhood close to her mouth.

Rishaan got up from the bed, covered diya’s naked body with the blanket, pulled over his night gown, as he looked at his watch.

Enough time for her return thought Rishaan. He opened the door of the room and slowly walked in a limping manner to his room, to his luck was in same floor. He didn’t go straight into his room but waited outside for he knew that the room lady would be passing by to deliver the morning juice for Kiara; who was quite adamant after her self-proclaimed workout.   The room lady was a local from Goa and she was dressed in salacious attire, with her skirt almost exposing her thighs and her shirt revealing her cleavage. She was sentient of his presence for it has been a week, since she started noticing him as he stood waiting for her , often giving her wild stares with pouted lips, that did produce a Vertiginous impact on her. That day as she passed by pushing a mobile tray with the juice, Rishaan,  in an action without a louche feeling, pressed her back, almost making her turn around leaving her hands from the tray. RIshaan then slowly pulled her closer to him as she tried to comfort herself in his broad chest.

“Briganza, my room is 205. Why not make it tonight” with an insidious smile RIshaan inquired.

“Sure. I will be there” the room lady was happy that Rishaan had addressed her by her name. She giggled and freed herself from his hands and walked away, while Rishaan looked at her salaciously for some time and suddenly became aware of the hectic schedule that day closed the door behind him, and gave a smile over to his bed.

“You are one lucky bed” Rishaan said laughing.

As Briganza rushed over to the corner of the long corridor of the hotel room, where she could use the stairs to get to the bottom floor, rather than wait for the lift, her mind was completely filled in thoughts on Rishaan, his lips, and his wavy hair, the very thought that it will be after a short while on her face when he lies her gave her a tickle that she failed to notice the leg that came in between hers’ as she was about to climb down . She fell down along the stairs and such was  the impact of her fall, wherein she could not hold to the railing of the stairs, her head hit the wall resulting in heavy bleeding.

Kiara slowly walked by without the slightest hesitation of what had just occurred. She had returned from jogging when she noticed Rishaan come out from Diya’s room. Incensed on seeing it, she followed him to catch him flirting with the room lady, to the extent of inviting her that night to his room.  As she noticed the room lady, moving towards the stairs, immersed in her thoughts, she managed to act at once. Kiara did not turn back as she heard her moaning in pain.

V11

“Hi Kiara. What can I do for you” Raaghav was surpised to receive the call from Kiara that morning.

“Hi raaghav. Can we speak for a moment” Ever since that incident, she never wanted to greet him respectfully and wanted to cut short her talk.

“ You know about my new film”

“Of course, I read about the pooja of the film from the papers. You never invited me dear” Raaghav wanted to prolong the conversation with her. He really enjoyed that night with her.

“Sorry for that. I need a crane camera for the shooting a scene in this film. You have the renting business, so I thought make use of your equipment”

“What, a crane camera that too in a novice’s film. Good thought. It is quite costly. Does your film budget allow that”

“Yes, I will take care of that” Kiara was confident.

“ all right, I will send the operator along with. Arrange his accommodation and take care of him too “ Raaghav was laughing at the other end, his laughter irritated her to an extend that she wanted to go inside through her phone and murder him there.

“ No, I don’t need the operator”

“What nonsense. Only experienced people could operate that machine”

“I will take care of that” Kiara replied without the slightest hesitation. She looked over to Rishaan, who was standing by her side. Rishaan nodded as if ready to take up the challenge.

“Ok. As you wish. But beware any danger by not properly using the machine; my company will not be responsible. I will send you the contract and sign it over and send it to me”

“Fine, I will. My email id is kiara80@hotmail.com. You can send it through mail. Or you could use a messenger to drop in here with the original” Kiara replied swiftly

“No problems, mail is fine. But kiara, if you insist I could give it for free. You know like your boyfriend began his career with me”  Raaghav was minting his words with his experience that night.

“No thanks. I will pay you the amount. I want it as early as possible”

Abruptly, Kiara cut the phone and for a moment closed her eyes, feeling incensed at that wretched moment of her life, that has now come to haunt her.

“What’s the problem kiara” Rishaan inquired.

“Don’t worry about using that machine. During the shooting of “parineeti” I was the one who was moving the crane. “ Rishaan tried to console kiara. Kiara knew that he had just lied and the crane camera was replaced by Raaghav himself during the shooting.

Kiara looked up to him and smiled.

“where are we doing the shooting”

“In the fort Goa. We need to take a broader view of the locality”

Rishaan was enthusiatic to work on with the crane camera although he was just allowed to use it once in his previous set.

“By the way, our heroine Raajshree was supposed to confront Sally in the house at Arlam. Why did you change the scene to the fort then”

Kiara looked up into the eyes of Rishaan.

“Because, there is no confronting now. Rajsahsree is going to kill Sally”

With a smile she walked away leaving Rishaan confused.

VIII

It was midafternoon by the time the shooting was complete for the main crux of the story. The crane camera had arrived in time as requested by kiara, while Kiara kept it secured for two days. Considering the cost of using it in the film, Rishaan was pressurizing kiara to finish working with that overview shot and the crane can be released back.

“Don’t worry dear, I am least bothered about the money for this. I have convinced the producer. So, let’s work on it after we complete all our rest of the part of the story” Kiara put up the words in a soothing manner to Rishaan.

Rajashree, in attempt to get her loved one back, enters a heated debate with Sally that results in a cat fight between the two and in a fit of anger she pushes Sally over the fort. But to her luck, Sally holds on the edge of the fort.

Diya did her level best performance that day morning, even surprising Kiara while Rishaan clapped from behind the camera, which incensed Kiara further inspite she remained calm. Immediately after the scene , Kiara advised Rishaan to set up the crane for  getting the hanging position of Sally and the overview of the location of the fort.

The fort, was a prehistoric monument in India built by the Portugese, to avoid the pre-emptive attack from British to colonize Goa. The fort overlooks the sea on one side and on the other the village and due to a series of recent suicides, the fort is now heavily monitored and permissions are required for sightseeing on its top. The crane camera was moved on the top of the fort and it was adjusted along the side towards the sea as per Kiara’s instruction. After setting the camera, RIshaan , who was enthusiastic to use the machine, gave his assistant Jobin, instruction to co-ordinate from bottom, while he sat on the helm seat attached to the crane and pushed the button for the crane to go up. The machine was such that it could be controlled from the top at the helm seat as well from the bottom. The camera position could only be adjusted from the helm seat where the camera is fixed. It was normal for the main camera man to be at the round position and the assistant to be on the top and as per instruction, the camera could be adjusted as the image was transferred to a small screen at the bottom of the crane, adjacent to the control deck.

 Kiara inquired whether a 360 degree view of the fort can be obtained from that position, to which Rishaan denied and hence, he had to go move more to the top. As he sat on the seat now at a length of 50 meters above the ground, he got a better view of the beautiful Goa .

“Rishaan , cover the entire area. The shift focus on Rajashree and sally, who were discussing on top of the fort”

One of my dreams comes true. Cinematographer Rishaan Sharma, a legend in making thought RIshaan elatedly as he switched on his camera. He took a 360 degree turn and captured the beauty of the city from that position. After completing the shot, he decided not to transfer control to his assistant seated in the deck below, who along with many technicians in the set was watching him on action, more than the artist’s performance. Using the machine for the first time in full control, Rishaan decided to complete the crane camera functionalities all by himself.

“Do you feel anything uncomfortable at the top Rishaan” Kiara inquired from the bottom

Rishaan laughed. “Uncomfortable, sorry I am the King of the world”

“We need to move now closer to take the hanging location area. Do you wish to transfer the control to the bottom deck for better  movement of the crane” Kiara inquired, from her little experience giving instruction for the crane camera operation in one of her previous movies, when she had assisted high profile director Malhotra.

 “No , not at all. I will move it from here. Arrange the artist to hang on the fort. I will move the camera now”

Rishaan took out his mobile and quickly took a selfie. Diya was watching him from the bottom and she felt an urge to hug the man she loved. Kiara kept the mobile in her pocket and as she sat close to the assistant smiled at him and inquired

“Jobin, how’s the crane camera. Did you like it”

“yes madam, it’s amazing” Jobin , the assistant to Rishaan smiled enthusiastically.

Kiara kept her eyes on the screen on the deck below as Rishaan slowly pressed the button to move left closer to the fort. The screen image started changing and the view of the Arabian sea became more clear as RIshaan moved left until he reached the top of the portion, where the artist would hang to the fort. The artist was ready and a man dressed in skirt, similar to the one Sally was wearing, climbed to the edge of the fort wearing the safety harness tied to his waist.

Rishaan looked down and corrected the angle from the deck and pressed the down button. With a full force, the crane came down thrashing the wall of the fort and as an impact of the hit, the top deck got destroyed and RIshaan lost control from the seat, flew out ,splashing on the wall of the fort  and fell into the sea. There was a loud shriek from the set as people gathered near the broken wall of the fort and looked down. Diya had lost her conscious and she was aided to a chair nearby.  As the assistant ran jumping from his seat, Kiara walked over to the top of the fort and looked down to find Rishaan lying on the bottom, with his face down as the waves came and went. He was dead.

IX

Six months later…

The sea was calm . Kiara moaned in pleasure as she sat on Jobin for it was a long time since she had a good orgasm. Jobin  was heavily panting, as he gasped for air pushing the blanket over the piled up clothes that were covering their assets a few hours back now remained on the ground .  She looked at him and laughed.

“You need to go for a work out Jobin”

“ I am thrilled at the success of our movie Kiara. I never knew with that tragedy, we would ever complete this project. But thanks for the support and in believing in me to complete some pivotal scenes of the movie“ Jobin was enjoying the moment.

Kiara was listening patiently still reeling in the pleasure of absolute glorified moment , she had been through a few minutes back.

“You know the best part I liked in the movie. In spite of the anger Rajashree had over Sally, she rescues her after a lot of effort at the end.”

“I like you more” Kiara kissed him passionately.

Suddenly the mobile rang and Kiara connected it to her ear phone.  Jobin gave a short sigh of release when Kiara released him.

“What do you want? Why did you send this to me” it was Diya at the other end and kiara smiled.

“ Because, this is going to the press” Kiara laughed.

“No please Kiara, you cannot do this to me. We have worked together right” Diya was sobbing from the other end.

“You were paid for workign in the film, now you are paid for this too. Why do you want all the payment as per your interest,  dear.  Tomorrow, this will go to the press. Good Night” with that Kiara cut the phone.

Jobin was confused and Kiara slowly turned over to his side in such a manner that her breasts touched his face.

“Open Your watsapp dear. You will find what I send “

Jobin opened his watsapp account to find a video send by Kiara just a few minutes before they had begun their happenstance.  He opened the video file and it was a CCTV footage. The footage showed Rishaan walking over to a room and after some time, he and Diya had come out kissing each other. After a passionate kiss, he walked away.

“ Oh, I knew it , they were having an affair” Jobin opened up to  Kiara. “But I feel pity for his parents”

“They are going to get a lot of money” Kiara kept her eyes closed although she knew what she had just said will be nothing compared to the loss of their son.  

“How is that” jobin was surprised.

“ Raaghav will pay them because the machine, he had rented,  was faulty  due to which their son met with this fateful death. So he has to compensate. I arranged a lawyer for them to make a settlement out of the court “

“Oh that’s nice of you kiara. I heard Raaghav has been fined by the government for destroying a public property and a historic monument too”

“Poor Raaghav” Kiara was laughing out loud leaving Jobin surprised. She then moved closer to him and took his hand placing it on her breast. She then positioned her leg and caressed his manhood with her thighs.  She was about to go on top of him when the phone rang.

“It must be that bitch again, trying for reconciliation “ she took the phone and was about to bang it on the wall, when she noticed the name on the smart phone LCD. Immediately, she took the call.

“Hello raaghav , what can I do for you? Hope you did not dial me wrong thinking about a massage center?

“You bitch, I know it’s your game “ Raaghav was furious at the other end.

Kiara was laughing. “Oh you are so angry. How is that you blame me”

“Because you knew about this faulty equipment which was replaced during the shooting of that film Parineeti. You did that on purpose to screw me up”

Kiara was silent for his statement was absolutely correct. She did contact with one of the staff of Raaghav and bribed him to get that faulty piece, that was discarded during the shooting of their previous movie . She knew the enthusiasm of Rishaan that he would definitely take control of the device, the reason which she delayed the equipment to be used only on that particular day of the shooting. She had bribed the hotel to get the CCTV footage of Rishaan going inside the room of Diya and now she was going to the press with it.

Kiara, with a smile on her lips, replied” Raaghav , the next time you talk to a woman indecently, think about the cost that you have incurred for your erratic behavior. So behave well , you fucking old scrap of shit” with that she cut the phone and switched it off.

“Was it Raaghav manadey, the grand old genius” Jobin was curious and surprised.

“No dear, raaghav my house owner. Just that he is in a big shit for behaving improperly with me” With that she put her fingers on his lips

“Now it’s time only for dirty talks” and laughing she pulled the blanket over head and wildly down to his manhood, while Jobin cried

“Kiara, please, slowly…slowly….”

The End