A Wednesday Page #6

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No need to go into the details.

Just a hint will do.

Ibrahim Khan. Mumbai 93. I am proud.

Lqlak Ahmed.

Gujarat 2002. I am proud.

Mohammad Zaheer.

Mumbai 2006. I am proud.

Khursheed Lala. 92

to 2006. I am proud.

Your initials are indeed wonderful.

Arif, put the phone on

handset mode and give it to Khan.

Hello. - Mr. Khan, did

they give you any injection...

...or did they make you eat anything?

No. Just that we are handcuffed.

They will be unlocked soon.

Give the phone back to the officer.

Speak up. - Arif, there

are two benches ahead of you.

You will leave my

four men over there.

You will free their hands

and without looking back...

...you and your friend

will walk away from there.

You will get in your van and

go back to the police station.

You have only ten minutes,

starting now.

I don't have to remind you

that if you do something foolish...

...then thousands of

lives will be lost.

Mr. Rathod, I will call

you after Arif leaves and...

...give you the exact

locations of the bombs.

Do as he says.

Yes sir.

FBI, Interpol or our Intelligence.

Neither of them have any

information about this man.

We have no choice. We can kill

these guys some other time.

Prakash, how can we

justify their disappearance?

There was a snag in the

security so they escaped.

You can suspend me over this.

Prakash, you are...

- Excuse me sir. It was a local call.

If he calls the next time I can

point out his exact location.

Are you sure? - Definitely.

He is good. But not the best.

Okay.

Arif, remove his handcuffs.

This is not right.

If they escape and...

...they don't tell us

about the bombs then...

Arif, it's Mr. Rathod's orders.

No Jai. Free the other three.

Let's take him with us.

We will leave him

only when we know...

...the exact locations of the bombs.

I will call up Mr. Rathod.

I will not release him

even if sir asks me to.

Arif, are you crazy?

Someone might be watching us.

Then he will call us

when he sees us leave.

Arif!

- Don't argue! Let's go!

Arif!

- You are making a mistake.

What did you say?

- You are making a big mistake.

I like to make mistakes.

Come on!

- Let me go.

What will they do to Ibrahim bhai?

Nothing. We will

get him freed later.

Khursheed bhai, what

should we do next?

We will wait. Someone

will come to take us away.

Arif!

- What is it now?

I can hear a phone ringing.

Take a look.

Pick it up.

Let me go! Let me go!

Let me go! Wait!

Take him.

Now give me the

locations of the bombs.

First call up Arif

and give me his status.

I want to listen to his response.

Hold him. Hello.

Arif, what is the progress?

Sir, I am confused.

Something else is going on here.

Means? - The plan was not to

free them but to kill them.

A bomb was planted in that area.

As soon as we left,

the bomb exploded.

Both the benches were rigged.

It means, all four of them...

No. I had left only Zaheer,

Iqlak and Lala over there.

To secure the

information about the bombs...

...I had kept Ibrahim with me.

Yes he is with us. He is alive.

What is happening?

Arif is right, Mr. Rathod!

Arif, put the phone

off loudspeaker mode.

I want Ibrahim to listen

to what I am going to say.

I did not want to save

Ibrahim Khan, Iqlak Ahmed...

...Mohammad Zaheer and

Khursheed Lala but...

...I wanted to kill them.

And in fact you will complete

my job, today and right now.

Sorry, I did not understand you.

Mr. Rathod, what do you do if

a cockroach enters you house?

You do not make it your pet,

you just kill it.

These pests were spoiling my

house and now I want to clean it.

Who are you?

I am someone who is afraid to get

into a bus or a train these days.

I am someone whose wife

thinks is going to war...

...while I am

actually going to my work.

She is afraid that I may not return.

She calls up every two hours.

To find if I had my tea.

To find if I have lunched.

Actually she wants to find

out whether I am still alive.

I am someone who sometimes gets

stuck in the rain or in the blasts.

I am someone who suspects

the person carrying a rosary.

I am also the one who is afraid

to grow his beard and wear a cap.

If I buy a shop I am

afraid to choose a name as...

...someone might see the name

and burn it during the riots.

No matter which two

parties are fighting...

...I am the first one to get killed.

You must have seen a crowd.

Choose a person from it.

I am that person.

I am just the stupid common

man wanting to clean his house.

How did this common

man suddenly wake up?

And that too with six kgs of RDX?

Has that got you worried now?

Do you want me to live my

life and die every moment of it?

Mr. Rathod, this did not

happen all of a sudden!

I just did not get

the time to do it.

In the process of earning my

daily bread this work got neglected.

But it's better late than never.

That remaining

cockroach will also die today.

Why just these four?

There are others as well.

I drew a lottery and

I got their names.

Are you trying to say that

if we don't kill Ibrahim...

...then you will kill

thousands of innocent people?

Sooner or later they

are going to die and...

...people like

Ibrahim will kill them.

The last time they

were killed in a train...

...this time it will

be somewhere else.

They will keep on killing until

we learn to give a solid reply.

Who are you?

- What do you mean?

I mean are you a Hindu or a Muslim?

This has nothing to

do with my religion.

There is.

I told you, I am just

a stupid common man.

Stupid common man!

- Right.

Are you afraid of getting

caught and getting killed?

Maybe. - Be definite.

You are or you aren't? - I am.

Just remember this fear.

And don't think you will...

...escape punishment by putting

this garb of a stupid common man.

The thing you are trying to prove...

- I am not trying to prove anything.

I just want to remind you

that people are very angry.

Please stop testing their patience.

We are resilient by

force not by choice.

It took me just four

weeks to render you helpless.

Do you suppose the people who kill

us are more intelligent than us?

Type 'bomb' in any

internet search and you will get...

...hundreds of websites

showing you how to make them.

All the information is

accessible and that too for free.

Do you know a washing soap

is also a potential bomb?

I feel there is no better

product made for the common man.

The problem with us is

that we get used to all this.

If one such incidence occurs we

watch it on all the channels...

...we send smses, we call up people.

We get happy that we

are safe and then...

...instead of fighting against the

situation we start to adjust with it.

But we have our compulsions.

We have to maintain a family.

That's why we appoint a

government to run the nation.

All of you. The government,

the police force, intelligence...

...is capable of carrying

out this pest control.

But you are not doing it. Instead

you are just supporting their...

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