“Are u sure
you don’t want anything else Mr.Rajiv?” asks a disinterested Sheena. “No, thanks
that will be all! BTW are u free this evening?” replies Rajiv. “How abt u
complete ur painting Rajiv? And next time please pls don’t ask me any such
thing!” replies Sheena. “Come on Sheena, we are neighbours as well. Why so
cold?” asks Rajiv. “Thank u for providing me with some business Rajiv! U may leave!”
says Sheena and leaves Rajiv at the counter of her paint and stationery shop to
settle other things in her store. Rajiv is perplexed and leaves.
Back at her
one bedroom apartment, we are introduced to Sheena and her daily life. She
reaches her house, unwinds herself, contemplates, speaks to her mother who
keeps requesting her to meet boys for her marriage and she replies to it by
saying “I’m 40 ma, I am not getting married after that.” and as soon as she
says this, there is a knock on her door and it is Rajiv. “So what are your
plans for today evening since you are back early Sheena Ji??” asks Rajiv
grinning. “Rajiv what do you want?” asks Sheena with exhaustion on her face.
“Nothing! Just came to ask your well-being.” Replies Rajiv and he leaves.
A few days
later, Sheena is cleaning her store and “Sheena” comes a voice and continuing
her work she says, “Ms.Sheena” and then turns and asks, “How can I help u?” to
Mr.Shorey, a businessman, who says, “Can you please provide me with a huge
canvas, the best box of paints and brushes and a picture of yours which I want
to paint.” Dumbstruck at this request, Sheena reprimands to him saying how
dare he could do such a thing and ridicules him
which makes him leave her shop.
That
evening, she shares her disgust with her mother who tells her to enjoy the
moment of attention from a single rich man. Sheena is pissed at this and
shouts at her mother which makes Rajiv come into his apartment. “Can I offer
you a cup of coffee, Sheena? U look stressed.” Asks Rajiv, a bit scared.
Sheena
smiles. Rajiv goes back to being his usual self. “So aunty again asked you to
get married?” asks Rajiv. “Well yes! Actually Rajiv it’s just that an arrogant
stubborn man came into my store and he asked me for painting types of equipment and a
picture of mine.” Replies Sheena. “Woah! So many guts! Impressive. I want to
meet this man.” Says Rajiv. “Sure. Why not! He is Shorey, that flirt builder.”
Replies Sheena. “And u said no to him!” exclaims Rajiv. “Well yes, I hate such
type of men.” Says Sheena. “U know what, u r crazy Sheena!” says Rajiv
commandingly. “That’s why u r the only person I can trust beyond doubt. U have
the same craziness as me.” She replies. And they share the coffee.
A few days
later, Sheena returns home and finds a gift outside her door. She picks it up
and walks in. It has a specific style of greeting on it that makes it very hard
for her to believe. She calls up a phone number but to no avail. She opens it
to find that it is just a simple plain painted canvas. She gets worried. She
immediately leaves her house and sees that Rajiv is entering the building.
Rajiv greets her but she doesn’t respond and hurriedly calls an auto and leaves
somewhere. She goes to a house in a low-grade vicinity but does not find
anyone there. Instead, she picks up a photo frame and keeps it close to heart.
She returns home and sees another similar canvas painted with the same style of
greeting. She is dismayed and weeps as she looks at the picture. Rajiv enters
and sees her in tears and like a good friend, sits down with her and they start
a conversation.
“Rajiv there
is one thing I have never told anyone about, not even my mother. And I am
sharing this with you. You see there that I have got another canvas with the
same style of salutation as the previous one and the style of salutation could
only be done Sahil, someone I had imagined to spend my life with.” Says Sheena.
“Where is
he? What happened then? Asks Rajiv innocently. “Sahil is no more in this world.
My brothers killed him.” Replies Sheena. She continues, “That is the reason I
left the house. Came here. Took a loan and started my own shop.” “But why did
they kill him?” asks Rajiv. Sheena hands over the photo frame she is holding to
Rajiv and says “Sahil was an enunch.” And Rajiv is dumbstruck.
“But Sheena
how could you love Sahil? I mean generally, people meet in colleges, restaurants
and then fall in love. Where did you meet Sahil?” asks Rajiv. “I met Sahil at a
friend’s daughter’s ceremony some 5 years ago. Initially, he was a very snob
behaving as if he was Mr.Shorey but later on I spotted him at another friend’s
ceremony and naturally this time I started the conversation. Talking to him, I
found him to be a very positive person who just intends to make an impact of
his own. Time passed and we became friends, better friends and it barely took
me time to realize that I really had fallen for him. And then, he started
sending me letters, whose font style was very different from others. And since
yesterday I have been receiving these painted canvases, God knows why. Surprisingly,
the style of salutation happens to be Sahil’s. And I don’t know why Rajiv but I
think it’s Shorey who is behind all this.” Sheena says. “Sheena, why do you
think that the style is Sahil specific? Let me have a look” asks Rajiv. “Sheena
hands the greeting over to him. “Sheena, it’s not a difficult task to interpret
this greeting. Anyone can!” replies Rajiv. “So, it means Shorey can, as well.”
Replies Sheena.
Sheena
observes sadness behind Rajiv’s happy face and asks him. “Rajiv what’s
happened. I can easily see the sadness behind your happy face, tell me what’s
it?” “I am officially divorced now,
Sheena.” Replies Rajiv. “U were married Rajiv?” asks Sheena. “Yes, but was
separated for the past 8 months. Since we never spoke of love before today, we
never brought up the topic.” Replies Rajiv. “Why did you end up getting
divorced Rajiv?” asks Sheena. “I was married to Cynthia, a friend and the daughter
of a wealthy businessman. I was in love with someone else, but then under her
father’s pressure and her obsession for me, I had to marry her. Someone has
rightly said, that when you bring a girl to your house, you should always love,
respect her because she left her family just to be with you. I know that this
is important but then we had no story to start with. I was married under
pressure to someone who was obsessed for me. I actually wanted to get rid of Cynthia
so that is the reason I treated her in an alienated fashion. Soon enough, she
got upset and sent me a divorce notice which I gladly signed. But losing a friend
always hurts Sheena.”
“So who do u
love now Rajiv?” asks Sheena. “Sheena, u will soon know. That is the biggest
hint I will give you.” Replies Rajiv and Sheena also doesn’t press him further.
The next day
Sheena storms into Shorey’s office and shouts, yells at him for sending those
paintings and that salutation. Shorey says he has no idea about those greetings nor the painting. Sheena alleges him of treachery with people and also accuses
him of holding back Sahil. Since Sahil was quite a popular social activist type
of a person, he was popular in the city. Shorey laughs it off and says “ Such
a**h**** were rightly beaten to death They deserve that dog-type of a death.
They are nothing more than a shame to society.” And saying this he asks
Sheena to leave his office. Back home, Sheena finds a stack of canvases outside
her door and one final salutation.
She knocks
Rajiv’s door but to no reply. She takes the stack inside and reads the final
salutation, “ Dear Sheena, I tried a lot
but could not restrain myself. I have always loved sending you the salutations
u could have never imagined. It was me who taught Sahil calligraphy and knew
you even before you shifted. I tracked you down after Sahil’s death and here I
was to look after you. It was me who all this while sent you these canvases and
once you join all of these canvases together, you will realize who I loved.
What initially started off as the role to keep my brother’s word could turn into
my own love for you. I would be doing treachery with my brother if I asked you
out so that is why I am writing it down. Sheena, I love you, hope that you
acknowledge the love I have for u. Your friend, Rajiv.” Sheena then recalls all the incidences and
realizes that all this while, the person who she shared things with was Sahil’s
brother. And then she opens the paintings and joins them together to find that
they form her face. She simply smiles and next we see, Sheena rising for the
enunch community just like Sahil and somewhere from within the crowd we see
Rajiv dressed up as an enunch cheering the one he loves- Sheena.
Anticipated Cast:
Sheena: Vidya Balan
Rajiv: Ranveer Singh
Sahil: Rajkummar Rao
Mr Shorey: Ranvir Shorey
