Bhai Jaan meets Sahib Jaan

Pakeezah becomes Park Kiye Jaa.

Sahib Jaan sings, ‘Chalte chalte…chalte chalte…yun hi koi marr gaya tha…yunhi koi marr gaya tha…sarre raah chalte chalte…sarre raah chalte chalte…wahin tham ke reh gayi hai…wahin tham ke…’

‘Wahin tham jaa,’ Bhai Jaan roars.

‘Kya hua Bhai Jaan, itni buri lagi aapko awaaz hamari?’ she sniffles.

‘Awaaz?’ his voice echoes, ‘awaaz hai ke public service announcement, yeh kaisa gaana hai jaan-e-mann?’

He gets up to leave.

‘Thade rahiyo oh Bhai Jaan re, thade rahiyo.’

‘Lagta hai traffic police ka bhoot ghus gaya hai,’ he sniggers.

‘Aisi baat nahi hai Bhai Jaan.’

‘Tan tana tan tan tan tara, chalti hai kya nau se baarah?’ he shakes his belt.

‘Mausam hai aashiqana…ae dil…’ she mulls but quickly switches to another fast tempo song, ‘Chalo bhai jaan chalo…chand ke paar chalo’

‘Moon-woon pe nahi jaana hai. Tujhe Aksa beach ghooma doon, bol fatafat, ae chalti kya?’

‘Paon beach par rakhungi toh mailey ho jayenge, Bhai Jaan!’

‘Chal chal, ghadi-ghadi natak karti hai.’

He runs down the spiral staircase. Strains of ‘Kaun gali gayo bhai jaan’ can be heard emanating.

He speeds off with his bhai log.

The accident occurs.

Sahib Jaan is summoned in court to depose as witness, being the last person Bhai Jaan met.

Sahib Jaan coughs, clears her throat and sings like a jailbird, ‘Inhi logon ne…inhi logon ne…inhi logon ne ,’ she stops.

The prosecution lawyer asks, ‘Inhi logon ne kya?’

‘Lilaah!’ she faints, slips into a coma for 13 years.

Bhai Jaan utilises this period to renovate her kotha into a jazzy clothing store, with free and safe parking facility.

When she wakes up, she is told he has become human.

She has no memory of her past.

All she keeps repeating is, ‘Jo kahi gayi na mujhse…jo kahi gayi na mujhse…woh zamana keh raha hai…woh zamana keh raha hai…’

‘Kya?’ the nurse asks.

Sahib Jaan cannot recollect. She hums, tapping her bare, unadorned ankle, ‘Chalte chalte…chalte chalte…’

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