“No,” Rags replied. “I’m on time.”
Guru’s plan was elegant: He would force Rags to kill Bhonsle. Not out of revenge, but to save Kavya.
Present day. Mumbai.
Guru explained: He had faked his death, rebuilt himself in the shadows. He had watched Rags for a year—seen the suppressed rage, the jokes about death, the silent weeping in parked cars. Guru believed he was offering Rags a gift: permission to stop pretending.
Rags stood in the crowd, a knife hidden in his sleeve. Bhonsle was twenty feet away, laughing, drinking champagne. Rags saw his mother’s face. He saw Kavya’s.
Then his phone buzzed. A video message.
The rain hadn’t stopped for three days. It was as if the city itself was crying, trying to wash away the sins that clung to its streets like smoke. But some stains never fade. Some villains don’t just return—they resurrect.
He found Kavya—alive, trembling, but alive. The ropes were loose. Too easy.
Over the next 72 hours, Guru orchestrated a symphony of psychological terror. He didn’t hurt Rags physically. Instead, he showed him recordings of Rags’ own past—the comedian’s mother dying in a hospital corridor because a rich man’s son jumped the queue for the ICU. The rich man? A politician named Bhonsle. The same Bhonsle whose daughter, Zara, was now engaged to be married.