Mystery of the Haunted House Part-II

Farhan comes downstairs and Ishaan asks him where Rohit is. Farhan:"Wo gadha yahan pe masti karne ke liye aaya hai." Suchi:"Where is he?" Farhan:"Upar." Just then they hear Rohit's muffled cries from upstairs. Ishaan:"Rohit!" Farhan:"ROHIT!" Nikki:"Bhaiya!" They all go upstairs immediately, realizing Rohit might really be in trouble. Farhan shows them the walk-in closet and tells the others that Rohit entered the closet and then the door closed suddenly and then he doesn't know what happened. Ishaan opens the door and they enter. They all call Rohit, but there is no answer. Downstairs ZLK arrives. He goes into the grounds of Rosewood Manor and then uses the mike to say, in a trembly voice,"Bhagne ki...ww..uh...wo...bhagne ki....bhagne ki koshish mat karna..." Upstairs, the four are calling Rohit, but there is no answer. Ishaan absent-mindedly, moves a coat. We see the glowing head of the 'witch' behind it. Ishaan, however, turns around at that moment, and doesn't notice the head. They all turn back at the sound of police sirens and go out of the closet. Downstairs, ZLK yells,"P..p..p..po..police ne tu..tu...tumhe ch...chaaron taraf se gher l...liya h...hai. A...a...apne dono haath aur d...d...dono pair upar karke bahar aa j..j..jao. N...n..nahi to goli m...m..maar doonga." A constable doubts if ghosts are scared of bullets. ZLK:"Pata nahi. Ch...chance lene mein kya problem hai. M..m..main to soch raha hoonke bh..bh..bhoot ko haa...hatkari kaun pehnayega?" Just then the CIA (minus Rohit) come rushing out of the house and ZLK screams. Nikki:"Rohi....Rohit bhaiya andar hain. Please unhe dhoondiye!" Ishaan:"Ek minute. Ye police ko yahan bulaya kisne?" "Maine bulaya hai," says a voice and they all turn to see it is Rajan. ZLK laughs and says,"To yeh hai tumhara bhoot?" Next morning, at the HQ, Neha says,"Actually Rajan ko pata nahi tha ke tum log cottage ke andar ho. Bahar se guzar raha tha, aur usne awazein suni. Aur dar ke maare police ko phone kar diya. Par...Rohit? Rohit ka kuchh pata chala?" Farhan:"Nahi. Rohit ka abhi koi pata nahi chala." Rajan:"Par police ne to kal raat poora Rosewood Manor chhan maara. Kahin tumhara dost phirse koi mazaak to nahi kar raha hai?" Ishaan:"Nahi. Wo ab tak ghar bhi nahi aaya." Suchi:"Aur Rosewood Manor mein bhi nahi hai. To phir kahan gaya Rohit?" Farhan:"Ishaan, hume wahan jaana hoga. Rohit ko dhoondne." Then we see the watchman sweeping leaves in the yard. A black car comes and the watchman is scared on seeing it and quickly gets back to his work, saying,"Marenge! Sab ke sab marenge!" The black car comes to the gates and Ishaan, Farhan, Suchi, Nikki, Rajan and Neha get down from it and come to the gate. They go into the house, to the room upstairs on the other side of the wealk-in closet, and search but in vain. Suchi:"How can he just vanish like that? He must be SOMEwhere! Koi darwaza, window, SOMETHING!" Ishaan suddenly spots a piece of brown paper on the ground, with a label on it. The label says:

GOODLUCK CHEMICALS AND DYES

AQUA BLUE

Batch - Dec, 2007

Ishaan:"Neha, tumhare dadaji last Rosewood Manor mein kab aaye the?" Neha:"Do saal pehle. In fact, do saalon se to yeh jagah totally bandh hai. I was the first to come here again." Ishaan shows her the packet and says,"To phir yeh paper yahan kaise aaya?" Neha:"Kya hai yeh?" Ishaan:"Kisi 'Goodluck Chemicals and Dyes' ka packing paper. Jo December 2007 mein bani thi." Farhan:"Arre yaar yeh sab chhoro, pehle Rohit ko dhoondte hain...(calls loudly)...ROHIT!" Nikki:"Rohit bhaiya!" Ishaan:"I think ye paper hi hume Rohit tak pahunchayega. Neha, aapki family mein kisi ka chemicals ya dye ka business hai?" Neha:"Nahi.....haan, par, Rajan ka family business printing ka hai." Rajan:"Uh...par main kisi Goodluck Dye ya Chemical company ko nahi jaanta." Just then he gets a call and sees it is from Nathudas. He cuts it. The others, who don't know who it was, look suspicious. Downstairs, the watchman is sweeping up leaves and suddenly a hand comes out from a nearby pile of leaves. The watchman screams and runs away....running right into the CIA, Neha and Rajan. Ishaan asks him what happened. He doesn't answer...just screams and runs away. They all immediately rush to the place from where the watchman came and find Rohit, who sits up, causing the leaves to fall off him. He looks preety weak and a little unsteady. All of them rush to him. He clutches the back of his neck (where the 'witch' was holding him....the other hand was over his mouth). He asks in a faint voice,"Main...main yahan kaise?" Nikki:"Bhaiya, aap....aap yahan kaise pahunche?" Rohit:"Wahi to main poochhne wala tha, ke main...(recalls)...main....main uss kamre ke closet mein ghusa aur...aur wahan churail! (the others are shocked) Churail ka haath mere gardan par...(yelps with sudden pain. Poor Rohit!)...aur, dar ke mare main behosh ho gaya. Uh...actually, (regaining his usual condition) dar ke mare nahi, haan (Suchi and Farhan shake their heads and look at each other, with a same-old-Rohit expression on their faces)...darta kaun hai?...uh...ghutan, ghutan se. Haan! (Ishaan shakes HIS head, now) Aur...aankh khulte...main yahaan....(starts to move the leaves all around him)." Nikki:(scared)"Bhaiya! Sach...sachmuch ki churail?" Neha:(pointing to Rohit's neck)"Yeh...yeh mark?" Rohit touches it lightly and then moves more of the leaves, to reveal some engraved writings on a smooth stone! Rohit moves the leaves with double force and the others help. Then Rohit gets up, stunned. They all see, with shock, that Rohit had been lying on an engraved stone covering a grave!

Next part in short (for now, I'll not be doing the rest in detail for some time coz of examz):

In CIA HQ, Farhan tells others that Rohit is at home, with a temperature of 103 degrees, out of fear. Suchi finds info on Goodluck Chemicals and then Farhan and Nikki go there while Suchi and Ishaan go to meet the watchman at Rosewood Manor. The watchman says hardly anything except,"Paisa! Paisa!" Ishaan gives him a hundred rupee note and asks him again but the watchman drops it in horror and tells them to go. The two leave. Then Suchi and Ishaan's bikes get punctured. They accept the offer of a lift from a Chinese looking guy and another man in a black car. Little later, they notice they are not going the right way. The Chinese guy (his name is Gurung) points a gun and his pal, a knife, at them. They're taken to a cliff. Ishaan puts his tracker on Gurung's shoes under pretence of holding his feet and begging for mercy. The men tie Ishaan and Suchi's hands and make them go to the end of the cliff. They are told to jump off the cliff, else Gurung will shoot. Suchi secretly takes out her cell and manages to dial Farhan number. Then she tells the men they can't jump from there coz it's Lover's Leap and they are not lovers. Farhan hears this and also notices the tracker is on (the screen was on Farhan's bike) and is showing the same place. They start for that place using a shortcut while Ishaan and Suchi waste time, Suchi saying they're just friends and Ishaan saying they are lovers...Suchi said that (all pretence, of course). Finally Gurung gets tired of the talk and says he is gonna shoot them. Camera pauses on Ishaan and Suchi's scared faces.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Mystery of the Haunted House Part-I

Before music, we see a young couple (bf-gf, not married) at a spooky-looking house, Rosewood Manor. The girl owns the manor and the boy says she'll be a millionaire coz the place is so big. Inside, however, they first see the shadow of a 'churail' and then a skull rolls to the boy's feet. The two bolt from there. After the music, we see the girl at CIA HQ, seeking the CIA's help. Farhan:"Woh Cambala ke bahar jo Ghanaura Jungle ka road hai, uske aage agar aap jao to ek ... fatak aata hai. Wahan se second left lene ke baad ek satturam ka khet aata hai. Wahan se jab aap U-turn karte ho, to left hand mein ek khandar sa bungalow aata hai. Kya woh bungalow aapka hai?" The girl nods and says her grandfather left it to her. Farhan says there used to be a cemetery there years ago. The girl says she knows nothing about all that. She has arrived from USA three days ago, planning to build a children's home in the bungalow...that had been her grandfather's wish, too. Rohit:"(sarcastically)Aur ab to wahaan bhoot hai, na? (laughs) Come on, ma'am, iss day or age mein? No way!" The girl (her name is Neha Thakraal) says if they had seen what she saw the other night, they would have felt the same. She begs the CIA to do something about it....she is new in Cambala and everyone she talks to, tells her to get CIA's help. Nikki is scaredat the thought of chasing ghosts, but Rohit scoffs at that and says it must be someone's plan to get the property and they should certainly investigate. Ishaan says Rohit has a point and Suchi says then they have a case. Next, the CIA arrive at Rosewood Manor and Nikki is scared just at the site of the house. They enter to find the watchman there, sweeping up leaves. The watchman tells them to run away and says something about 'paisa' 'time' and something else, which the CIA can't understand (nor could I!!). Then Neha and her bf, Rajan, come and the watchman quickly returns to his work. Neha apologises for being late while Rajan says the CIA is only kids and he can handle it himself. Farhan says,"Boss, aap hi handle kar lena. Pehle andar chale?" and they enter the Manor.

Rohit makes spooky sounds, mockingly. The door suddenly closes and everyone gets scared...Neha screams. Only Rohit laughs and says it is just the wind (Ishaan and Farhan weren't really scared, I think, but they were startled anyway, which Rohit was probably not). Then Rohit asks Rajan (mockingly, like Rajan is a kid, probably coz he was angry at Rajan for calling the CIA kids),"To aapki khopri kidhar....oh, I mean, I'm sorry (fake apology). I mean, woh khopri aapne kidhar dekhi? Batao batao, jaldi batao, I'll search for it!" Rajan isn't pleased and Neha shows the place. Rohit searches, but the skull is not there. Suchi asks where Neha saw the witch and Neha shows a room on the first floor. Rohit, still kidding around, asks the witch to open the door (sarcasm, again). The door is locked and Farhan asks Ishaan to open it with his skeleton key, which Ishaan does. Rohit tells Suchi a ghosts room will open with 'skeleton' key only. Just before entering, Nikki sees someone behind another door on the ground floor and gets scared. Suchi says when a door is opened in a locked house, other doors may move due to air pressure...thet is the scientific explanation. Inside, Rohit continues kidding, laughing witchily, this time. Suchi tries to scare Nikki and Farhan by flashing her torch in their faces and calling out their names in a hollow sort of voice. Nikki moves near a table and Rohit suddenly pops up, his torch lighting his face eerily, laughing in a ghostly way. Nikki shrieks and Farhan is kind enough to enquire if Rohit is mad! Ishaan spots some blank sheets of paper on a table and inspects them. Then they all see footprints leading to a small walk-in closet door nearby. They go to it and open it. Farhan, sounding scared aks if Rohit wants to enter first. Rohit says,"Farhan, tu to bahuit darpok hai, yaar. I bet yeh sab kisiki chaal hai," and enters the closet. Suddenly Rohit seems to be pushed inside by an invisible person and the door closes!

The others hammer on the door but it doesn't budge. Then the door suddenly opens by itself and Rohit is nowhere to be seen inside. Meanwhile, we also see someone's rotten hand moving on a statue behind them all. Ishaan, Farhan, Nikki, Suchi, Rajan and Neha go to the other end of he closet to find another door there. They open it and enter. The six of them search the room, half-scared and Farhan comes near a candle stand. Suddenly Rohit pops up, covered in a white sheet, his face a weird blue (it was actually light). He growls like a ghost and Farhan screams and backs away. Then Rohit looks sideways at Farhan, who realizes Rohit was merely playing a trick! Farhan is not at all pleased and says,"Rohit, tu pagal hai kya!" again, but really angrily this time. Rohit laughs and repeats,"Farhan, tu to bahut darpok hai, yaar!" Suchi tells Rohit to stop behaving like a ten-year-old and Rohit makes a face. Suchi says to Neha and Rajan,"Sorry, he is a little...." she makes a sign denoting madness. Rohit is displeased. Then they suddenly hear the sound of 'payal' and Rohit spots a shadow behind a window. The others rush to him and Neha says, on seeing the shadow, it's the same witch. Suchi takes a picture on a camera (the witch ran back and forth three or four times in all). Rohit Ishaan and Farhan rush out of the house. Ishaan goes one way and Rohit & Farhan, another. Ishaan suddenly spots the same footprints on the ground and cutting a thin branch from a creeper, follows the prints. Suddenly a rake is brandished towards him and he spins around, ready to attack. However, it's only the watchman to whom Ishaan apologises, saying there's a woman behind the house, whom he was following. The watchman says there is no one there, except dead people of the cemetery, and money, which makes people blind; at this point, he shows Ishaan his right eye, which is pretty weird-looking. Ishaan notices fresh earth on his shoes. Back in CIA HQ, Farhan tells Neha that he found out from the nearby people that 70 years ago, there used to be a British cemetery in the place where the Manor stands now. The Manor was built after Independence. Ishaan says that's the reason why the watchman talks about dead people of the cemetery. Neha is feels the house might really be haunted, but Rohit, who had just come in, says that he is all the more sure now that there's no ghost there.....he said this while looking at the picture of the witch that Suchi clicked, which Nikki and Suchi were seeing on the computer.

He says that according to films and all, ghosts cannot be captured on camera. Ishaan asks Suchi what she is doing and Suchi says she is looking at the picture for clues. Farhan suddenly tells Suchi to zoom in on the hand, which Suchi does. Farhan shows the others that there seems to be an outline of thread on the wrist of the 'witch' (like the different holy threads which people wear). Suchi says why should ghosts wearthread on their wrists...for good luck? Nikki says or maybe something else. Rohit says he is 100% sure it is a man. Then we see Col. Nathudas Dhingra (from Mystery of the Stolen Formula), meeting Rajan, Neha's bf who has a thread on his wrist. Col. Dhingra asks Rajan if he has talked to Neha about selling the Manor to him. Rajan says not yet, but he'll talk to Neha that night. Meanwhile the CIA arrive at Rosewood Manor. Rohit says to Farhan,"Isse kehte hain adventure.....ek andheri raat, (in a ghostly voice) bhooton ke saath!" Farhan:"Dekh Rohit, tu ye sab bhoot-pret ke mamle ko lekar mazaak mat kar. Maine bachpan mein...churail ko dekha hai." Rohit:" (in a fake, scared voice) Achchha? (scornfully) Abey ja, hat!" Nikki:(scared)"Kya? Kahaan?" Farhan:"Faridabad mein. Meri naani ke ghar ke peechhe ek kabaristan tha. Usi kabaristan mein ek kabar ke bahar woh baithi thi." Rohit:"Achchha? Pata hai, woh churail nahi hogi. Koi murda hoga. Jisse kabar ke andar garmi lag rahi hogi aur hawa khane ke liye woh bahar aa gaya hoga. (laughs in ghostly a way)" Suchi (irritated):"Just shut up, you guys! Now listen. This is the plan. Hum do groups mein divide ho ke poori raat yahan spend karenge, alright?" Farhan:"Par kyun?" Ishaan:"Kyunki do floors hain. Aur dono ko cover karne parenge." Rohit:"Right! Agar dayan ek group ke peechhe par gayi, to doosra group hai na, usse bachane ke liye!" Suchi says Ishaan, Nikki and she will remain in the ground floor while the other two will go to the first floor. She asks Ishaan if he remembers the signal. Ishaan nods and says,"Aaj to iss churail aunty ke peechhe kaun hai, pata karke hi rahenge. Disperse, guys." Rohit tells Farhan,"Chal," and goes to the staircase, but Farhan doesn't follow. Rohit:"Abbey chal na darpok....chal!" He reaches out to pull Farhan, who backs away. Farhan (sounding scared):"Tu...tu ja na main aa raha hoon." Rohit begins climbing the stairs and Farhan follows, a little behind. Rohit suddenly "Boo!"s at Farhan and goes up the staircase, laughing. Farhan follows, still scared. Ishaan and Suchi separate ways, Nikki being with Suchi, to search the ground floor. Outside, someone (I couldn't see him because it was dark) arrives, on seeing whom the watchman is scared.

Meanwhile, Rohit and Farhan explore upstairs, but find nothing. Rohit tells Farhan they can sleep right there that night, Farhan is hesitant (it's the room where the witch was seen, remember?) but Rohit tells him to chill coz there's no such thing as a ghost. Little later, we see Rohit and Farhan asleep. There's a creaking sort of noise and Farhan wakes up. He awakes Rohit, who tells him,"Ullu(idiot) ! Ullu(owl) hai." And tells him to go back to sleep, clapping him on the shoulder. Farhan:"Maarta kyun hai, yaar?" and goes back to sleep. Downstairs, Suchi and Nikki are exploring when Nikki sees the shadow of a hand and screams. Ishaan comes there and tells her, showing a statue, it was only the hand of that statue, reflected due to the light of his torch and she shouldn't have come if she is so scared. Suchi tries to console Nikki telling her that they are all there with her but Nikki is scared that the witch might be real. Ishaan says there is no such thing as ghosts when suddenly spooky sounds fill the entire place....Ishaan records the sound immediately. Upstairs, Farhan is sitting on his sleeping bag, scared, while Rohit is hunting about. Farhan asks what he is looking for and Rohit answers he is looking for speakers...the sounds are definitely taped. He yells out, saying,"Dekho, hum iss se darne nahi wale hain, Samjhe? Just stop it!" Farhan suddenly sees a candle stand launching itself towards Rohit. He warns Rohit, who ducks in the nick of time. Downstairs, a vase falls down next to Ishaan and Nikki and Suchi come there. They are relieved to hear it was only a vase that fell down. Suddenly the witch's shadow appears again and Nikki is very scared. Suchi tells Ishaan to take Nikki out of the house immediately and they rush to the door.....but the door is locked from outside. While they're hammering on the door, Nikki feels something next to her foot. She looks down to find a skull and screams. Upstairs, Rohi spots the 'witch' rushing by and follows 'her' into the closet door (where he pretended to 'disappear' earlier) but the witch captures him and overpowers him....putting 'her rotten hand' over Rohit's mouth, so Rohit can't speak.....this leads Farhan, who is outside, to think Rohit is playing trick again, so he doesn't go in. He tells Rohit if he (Rohit) doesn't come out fast, he (Farhan) is gonna go downstairs. Rohit can't come out, of course, so Farhan goes down. The episode ends with the 'witch' taking Rohit away...from the screen, anyway.

END OF EPISODE