Rahini stuns and get shocked on seeing the video clips of Rohit Kumar's films and the narrations of his filmography.
"Oh My God! Is he the Super Star who is making his re-entry in the industry?" she asks to herself.
Rahini gets a flash of her past and a voice is heard.
"Don't even think of trying your cheap tricks to trap me."
"And I don't want my doorstep to be messed up by a third grade cheap reporter like you. I do not want to see your face again in my life. Got it?"
"Just stay away from my family and don't dare to come in front of me in your lifetime."
Rahini's face turns shocked and puzzled and she cannot withstand the shock. She immediately turns away from the Television.
She holds a nearby tomb and starts to sweat. She breathes very heavily and shivers.
The TV broadcast of the video clips interrupts and press meet with Rohit starts as Rahini moves away from the place fast.
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Rohit and Anirudh stands near the entrance hall of the press meet hall.
"Bhaiyya! It is since 7 years you have attended a press meet. I hope you still remember how to answer media people, right?" asks Arun in a low voice.
Rohit looks at him and gives a slight smile "Don't worry. I will manage."
"Not like that, bhaiyya. You don't like press stuff and all. But we are relying on them. Do you remember, you once shouted at a press meet at a reporter some years back that too a lady reporter.It has become a great issue then. Please Bhaiyya, Calm down and if you get annoyed by any of the questions,just leave it to me. Act like you love them and you owe them a lot just like you are acting for a film.A real life acting.OK?"
"I know. Just shut up. I told you isn't it that I will manage. Now you go and start." says Rohit in an irritating tone.
Anirudh does not says anything. He looks at him for few seconds and then leaves the place. He comes to the press meet hall and sits on a chair.He turns to the reporters who are gathered in the press meet hall.
"Hello Everybody, May I have your kind attention please" says Anirudh to reporters. The hall turns to silence slowly as soon as his speech is heard and everyone pay attention to him.
"First of all, Thank you very much for accepting our invitation and coming here. It is being a pleasure to meet you all."
The gathering gives a slow applaud.
"Please allow me to welcome my beloved brother and your beloved Super Star Rohit Kumar after seven years."
Rohit appears in front of the media people in a new avatar in a clean shaved head, a long time beard with a sun glasses in his eyes.
The press media people stand dumbstruck and unbelievable on looking at his new appearance. As soon as he appeared,the flashes of camera start to light from every corner of the press meet hall. Rohit Kumar sits on the chairs placed in the center. The reporters start to shoot out their questions to him which created a noise in the hall.Rohit turns annoyed by the behaviour. Anirudh understands the situation and opens his mouth before Rohit says something.
"Please, all please be seated. I know thousands of questions flood in your minds.He is here to answer to all of them. So first of all, please allow us to address the gathering. He is meeting you all after seven long years. After, please ask questions one by one." Arun turns to Rohit and says "Bhaiyya! Please start."
Rohit looks at and gathering and starts to speak and crowd becomes silent.On other side cameramen click hundreds of photograph of him.
"Hello, Greeting to all. It is a great pleasure to meet you all once again after a short break. And thanks to all of you for being present here.Your presence makes me realise how much I am valuable still. I am very much grateful and happy for that. It is because of you all I am here. You are connecting me to the fans for which I owe you a lot."
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Rahini sits on the chair away from the reception hall. She does not feel well and leans against the wall closing her eyes. She does not see the television but hears the press meet conversation. Her face turns angry on hearing the speech of Rohit Kumar.
A voice comes through her mind
"You press reporters are cheap indecent craps. Shameless enough to peep through the bathroom of a celebrity and capture them peeing. Disgusting creatures!"
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Rohit Kumar continues to speak
"Once again I thank you for coming here. This press meet is not only to inform my re-entry to my fans and to the world but also to inform how blasting entry I am going to make. Myself and my team have worked very hard so that I don't disappoint my fans in my come back.I hope my fans like it for sure. I am very happy to present you the first look of my film"
Rohit looks at Arun who understands and presses a button. A screen start to move upward in four corners of the press meet hall and a banner is displayed with a man with a hat in his head, long knife in his hand standing in his backwards with his head alone half turned to front side.
Below the banner the name of the film shines in golden color as 'My Name is Romeo'
The crowd start to cheer up and applaud on seeing the first look of the poster. Rohit and Anirudh look at the gathering in a tensed and worried way yet they did not show it.
The applause goes on for a while and Rohit and Anirudh wait for it to stop.
Anirudh turns to the crowd and says "Now you may all please come up with your questions, but one by one"
The crowd start to shoot out their questions at a time which makes noise over there. Rohit's face start to turn angry but Anirudh holds his hand singing him to control himself.
"Please, Please, one at a time" Anirudh calms down the crowd. He points out a person on the crowd to ask a question. A lady reporter asks a question to Rohit.
"Sir, Congratulations on your re-entry. You were in a peak of stardom when you decided to leave the industry seven years before. It was rumored that you were much upset by the demise of your wife Mrs.Sakshi Arte and depressed and that is why you wanted to stay away. Is it true?"
Rohit gets angry on the question. Anirudh gets scared on seeing him. He once again presses his hands tightly. Rohit smiles at the reporter.
"Well, those are old stories and they have been answered during my last press meet itself. I request you all to ask something relevant about this press meeting. They are all past and I want you all to be present."
Again the crowd rushes up and Anirudh picks another person to question.
"Why you suddenly decided to make a come back after seven years? Your production house 'ARTE FILMS' has faced a heavy loss by your last production venture. Is it true that you have decided to come back to compensate the incurred losses of PH?"
Rohit answers with a controlled anger in his eyes and smile in his lips "Ups and downs, failures and success are part of one's life. Yes, there was a loss for 'ARTE FILMS' but that is nothing like which it could not be borne. Still AF is in stable position and has nothing to do with my re-entry. My decision was taken a long time before. I was looking for a perfect script and timing to make it which took me this many years."
"Please say something about your come back venture.Are you playing a negative role in this film? " asks another reporter.
"Well, myself and the team are doing a very hard work. Unlike my earlier films I have done something different. It is an action thriller. The character shall be very different one from which I had played earlier. It will also contain all the stuffs which fans are expecting from a Rohit's film. That is it. Nothing else I can reveal right now"
"When it is planned to release?"
"It is planned for summer release. Just wait not more than couple of months. I will be coming to entertain you all." says Rohit in a smile.
"After this film, what is your next plan?"
"I have not planned anything in my life and am letting it as it is to happen. But sure I am not retiring from industry anymore and I shall be there till my last breathe to make you people happy."
"Your wife's death made you to keep away from films. Have you recovered from that loss?"
Rohit's face turn sad on this question. He does not answer the reporter and remains calm.
"Excuse me, Sir. Are you OK?" asks the reporter again. Anirudh once again presses his hands. Rohit looks at the reporter and smiles.
"A kind of. Always keep going whether it is success or failure, good or bad. This is my policy"
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Rahini feels irritated and angry on seeing the people cheering the super star.
"Oh God, What is this? Why this is happening to me? My life was very peaceful all these days. Why the hell he came here again? I don't want to hear his name nor anything about him. But fate tests me like this"
Rahini looks at the gathering who were watching the press meet. She feels like shouting at them for wasting the time watching the craps but she is not able to. She looks at a place where few girls gathered and giving flying kisses to the actor on the television. She further gets irritated on their acts and turns away from there.
"Shameless creatures" she scolds them in her mind.
The press meet continues for another few minutes.
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Another reporter asks a question to Rohit.
"Sir, it is said that you are not sharing good terms with your daughter and have not met her in last seven years. And also you are not together too. Is it true?"
Rohit's patience runs out and turns fully angry on the question and person who asked it. He is about to open his mouth and shout at the person as Anirudh quickly reacts to the situation as he was already prepared for it. He immediately holds his hands and intervenes before Rohit react in an unwanted manner.
"Excuse me. This press meet is all about the re-entry and the new film launch of actor Rohit Kumar. Please ask questions related to it alone Let us not be personal.By the way, the answer to your question is, whatever you have heard about this is an perfect rumor. Dad and daughter share a very intimate bond with each other having both of them lost their important part of their life. Yes they were not together and the decision is taken for the girl's sake and she is under the care of our mother. But now dad and daughter have united and both of them are fine.That is it. It is an absolute rubbish news."
Rohit tries to control his fury and Anirudh is looking at him in worry. Rohit signs Arun to finish off the meet soon. Arun understands it and he turns to the reporters.
"Guys, I hope all of your questions are answered. We will soon meet you all again in the Audio Launch of the film which shall happen shortly. Once again Thank you very much for coming." says Arun and both of them rise from their seats and leave the place while the reporters still try to ask questions and cameras flash from nook and corner of the room.
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Rahini turns shocked on hearing the question asked by the reporter about Rohit and his daughter. She rises from her place and rushes to watch the television as her mobile phone rings. She looks at her mobile. It flashes 'VP Calling'. She turns disappointed and attends the call.
Few minutes later she returns to the place only to see the press meet has ended and the gathered crowd dispersing. She hears the conversation of the fellow colleagues talking to each other.
"What do you think? Is he going to succeed in his come back. I feel the charisma, the look and handsomeness is not as it was before seven years"
Another guy replies to him "Of course. A long gap of seven years,isn't it?. He has become aged too. Moreover he was in depression. Everything made his charisma to vanish. Even I doubt about his film's success. Not sure"
"Did you hear one guy asked about his relationship with his daughter. He did not answer to the question rather his brother only answered. It was not satisfactory.Hope something is wrong between the father and daughter's relationship.Nothing is good between them.No smoke without fire isn't it?"
As both of them talk and leave, Rahini stands like a status, stunned to hear the conversation.
"What is this? What they are saying? Is there any chances of their statement being true? Does not Rohit treat his daughter properly? What is going on?"
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"What is going on here? What the hell these people think about themselves? Why these people have not all changed? Idiot, crap"
Rohit shouts at his bedroom throwing away his clothes in anger. Anirudh feels really odd on his behavior and stands like not knowing how to control him.
"Bhaiyya, calm down, Why are you reacting like this?" asks Arun in frustration.
"These people have crossed all the limits. What is up with them about how I treat my daughter and how I am living with her? Bull shit"
"Bhaiyya! You are a celebrity. A Super Star. It is obvious people interfere in every aspect of your life." says Arun
"But this is too much. I cannot tolerate this any more. Does not a Super Star have his own privacy and personal life? How they are supposed to interfere in it? And by the way how they are gathering information like this? I don't understand" shouts Rohit in anger.
"Bhaiyya, all celebrities are paying their privacy as a price for their celebrity status.And all the reporters are paid for these jobs by their respective channels. You cannot blame them anymore."
"Nonsense. You are supporting them and justifying their craps?"
"I am not supporting them but saying the truth. We rely on them and we cannot oppose them, at any cost"
Rohit looks at Arun in anger "What do you want to say now?"
"What I want to say is, you have to be very careful from now on.Your every single moment shall be noted very minutely. You have to make sure no one points finger at you in a negative way. Otherwise your image might get spoiled and it will affect our film's promotion too. Better try to do something on your relationship with your daughter." says Arun in a blank voice.
Rohit looks at Arun in fury. He does not answer to him and leaves the room in anger. Arun feels very bad seeing his acts.
"I know Bhaiyya, Where you will go now. What can I do on this? God, Please do some magic and unite the father and daughter. I cannot see the girl and Bhaiyya suffering the pain anymore"
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