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And I was surprised to see you there...

On top of a girl...

the girl in the nightie from your film.

You were so lost...

that you didn't even realize...

that a bloody idiot had travelled a thousand miles just to meet you.

Freaking sh*t, Lalitha!

Yes, freaking sh*t, Lalitha.

Lalitha, come on...

What you saw was just a moment...

You and your bloody moments! Your moments aren't yours alone...

they affect other people too!

Lalitha, please don't overreact.

Whatever you saw... it was nothing... it was just physical.

I feel for you. I love you.

What are you, Nikhil?

You lie as easily as you declare your love.

I'll come to New York to see you.

And then, oh ho!

Papa faked a heart attack!

Then by mistake I slept with a girl?

And then you hunt me down, and so, you love me now?

Lalitha, I swear to you.

I promise, I promise I love you.

I really do love you.

She meant nothing to me.

I love you a lot. Don't leave me.

I never wanted to get into the love trap.

It was a big deal for me, Nikhil.

I let you kiss me.

I kept counting the days to 15th December.

For what?

To see you with that girl?

So, is this payback?

Is this some kind of a revenge?

I wanted you to feel the same pain...

as I did in London that day.

I've succeeded.

How childish!

Congratulations!

I know very well that...

you can afford to buy this hotel with your dad's credit card.

But this is for the dry cleaning and taxi fare.

Can you feel the pain here...

it's called solar plexus...

Slowly the pain will move higher.

Your mind will go numb, you won't be able to see a thing.

Then you will throw up.

Witch!

You are just fake!

You can't be true to yourself...

nor anybody else.

That's why you've made such a shitty and fake film.

Try and be true to yourself, Nikhil.

Someone once told me that I should be true to myself.

And this is the biggest truth of my life.

Hello?

Hey... it's Nikhil...

- Nikhil Chopra. - Nikhil?

Sh*t... God! Where are you?

Just below your apartment.

- Are you crazy? - Yes.

You already know that. I am a little crazy.

God, it's really you!

Nikhil, you're mad!

I can't believe you're standing below my apartment.

Actually, I can believe it.

Only you are capable of this, out of the blue, no warning, craziness!

You look pretty on your balcony, just like Juliet...

but this Romeo is frozen stiff down here.

Let me in and we'll talk?

No... you can't come in. My parents are here.

Hide me in the bathroom.

Shut up.

Okay I'll come down.

We can go for a coffee.

Just coffee?

Nikhil Chopra, if you talk like that I'll...

Alright, come down first, then...

In a minute.

Hi Nikhil.

Hello...

it's freezing.

How are you?

I was right, you do look hot in thick glasses.

Shut up!

- There you go. - Thank you.

Thank you.

So, how is your love partner... Cecile?

It's been a while, I'm not in touch with her.

That's too bad.

It would have made an interesting film title, 'Lolita and Cecile'.

Your next film is a love story between girls?

No way, I don't make vulgar films.

To face your sexuality is vulgar...

but when little girls dance to 'Munni badnaam hui', that's not vulgar?

You only told me, be true to yourself.

I did just that. And it led to a very different story.

I thought with all that happened in Paris, you'd never want to see me again.

What to do... my self respect is zero.

To be honest, I did try to hate you, but I just couldn't!

You live in Mumbai?

Yes I live in Mumbai.

In my childhood home, with my parents.

I'm also moving to Mumbai, but I won't be living with my parents.

Actually, there's a village in the outskirts of Mumbai...

I'm setting up an NGO there.

Remember, I used to manage a youth cell?

I'm scaling it up.

Of course I remember.

Greater political participation...

28 states...

Abdul Kalam Azad...

I remember everything.

I will join your movement, what say?

Greater Political Participation... Hail GPP!

Nikhil, I'm setting up the NGO with Alan.

Alan is my fianc.

We're getting married.

Is it?

Is it? That's all you have to say?

Okay, let me try again.

Lalitha, please don't marry Alan!

I should leave, Nikhil.

How can you leave?

You have to show me your city. Just like London and Paris.

You want to go around the city at this hour? I mean...

Tomorrow morning is fine too. I have an evening flight.

Nikhil... I am getting married tomorrow.

Wow!

For the first time in life I've reached somewhere in time.

If I had come a day later, your life would have been ruined.

Come on... don't know if we'll ever meet again.

Come on, I'm a good guy.

One hour, that's it.

Fine, let me set the timer.

Two strawberry cones?

Yes.

Two strawberry cones please.

Listen, what's wrong with these Maha-Tam-Bram's?

Think about it,

you'll marry an American only to bring your parent's reputation down.

Alan respects our culture.

He doesn't smoke nor does he drink.

He speaks Hindi better than me.

He is a Sanskrit scholar.

He watches cricket with my father.

He makes my mother laugh. He teaches math to my brother...

Does Alan walk on water also?

What?

Is this Alan or Jesus?

You are so bad.

Your sense of humor is still amazing.

Thanks.

Thanks.

It's really good to see you, Nikhil.

It's really good to see you too, Lalitha.

"He looks innocent and nave."

"He says she doesn't understand anything."

"But he's so smart inside."

"Sometimes strange...sometimes he looks beautiful."

"Sometimes he looks like a scene right out of some book."

"I guess he's crazy about philosophy."

"He says it's a phase."

"He says it's a phase."

Not bad... not bad.

You know something...

I have realized that we aren't together because of you.

Of course, blame me for everything.

Japan's tsunami, Iceland's volcano, it's all my fault.

Exactly!

You liked giving those dumb math lectures.

90% long distance relationships don't work...

you build a relationship with the computer... blah, blah, blah.

If I were chatting with you online everyday...

you wouldn't have been with the girl in the nightie?

No way.

I'd be with you.

Not in some vague dream, but in reality.

And if I were with you, why would I look for someone else?

Actually, what you did was quite normal.

I overacted.

Miss Lalitha Krishnan, are you trying to say Sorry?

You know, we spent such a beautiful day in Paris but...

when I saw you with that girl in the film, it was like a slap on my face.

All the pain came rushing back.

And all I wanted was revenge.

I thought breaking your heart would reduce my pain.

But that didn't happen.

Sorry, Nikhil...

I can't hear you... what did you say?

Sorry!

I still can't hear you... what did you say?

Sorry!

Sorry... she finally said it!

Did you just hear that?

- Did you hear that? - Shut up.

She's just learnt a new word my friend... it's called sorry!

I wrote several emails to you after Paris.

But I didn't receive any.

I never sent them.

Why not?

I decided I'd see you only after I got my life under control.

We did manage to get our life under control, didn't we?

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