Aks (अक्स)

The inevitable always happens

"Sorry sir, you were saying something"

No doubts about your alacrity. But the inevitable always happens

You were saying something about my alacrity

"All these security officers I've seen, make me wonder..."

whether you are men or machines

"He doesn't understand Hindi, does he?"

No sir

"Ever wondered? In the Indian subcontinent, our part of Asia..."

"how many presidents, how many prime ministers..."

have been killed in the last 50 years?

"In our own country, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi"

"ln Bangladesh, Mujibur Rahman. In Sri Lanka, Premdasa"

"ln Pakistan, Zia-ur-Rehman"

The next name on this hit list is our Prime Minister

"l am here gathering evidence, names, of those behind the entire conspiracy"

Diplomacy was just a ruse. The evidence is in a little floppy

I'll hand it over to you when we reach the hotel

"If something happens to me, you will hand it over to the Prime Minister"

This 2-inch y 2-inch floppy is more precious than your life or mine

No one dies

No one kills

Not I...

I'm not the one who's saying that

"It's there, written in the Gita"

lam merely a tool

"Tool, merely"

In this game of puppetry...

lam the hunter...

you are my prey

What's in a face?

'What is in a face? Mere happenstance, that you are a Manu Verma..."

"and I, a Raghavan"

Therefore...

"please, not to mind"

Good is bad bad is good...

"in the false light, it's all true"

"True-False, who knows what? One's a lesser evil than the other"

"But they all look-walk the same, it all seems to measure the same"

"Set fire to Truth, find a Lie burnt out"

Good is bad bad is good...

"in the false light, it's all true"

"Black is black, black as Death"

"But life's a kaleidoscope of colours, to be diced, piece by piece"

'What's unborn of sin, in sin is bred"

"Dregs spat out, breed hunger"

'What was, is no more believed, what the eye beholcls, is unbelievable"

What was all pervading... no longer dwells on this earth

"Trust your instincts, it's ugly"

Once what bred in every festering wound...

"is no more, nowhere, you're told"

Good is bad bad is good...

"in the false light, it's all true"

I stopped your transfer orders on grounds of lapses in the...

"Defence Minister's security detail. Home Ministry says, you want to see me"

In private

This file contains whatever the late Defence Minister had to tell me

But the floppy containing the details which he wanted to give me...

isn't yet in my possession

Your name is the next on the hit list

'Who is behind it, we can know only from the Defence Minister's assassin"

"According to this note, this information..."

ought to remain only between you and me?

"Because your staff is not beyond the pale of suspicion, sir"

Anytime. Anywhere

"Mahadev, wash your hands"

I won't

"Mahadev, wash your hands"

No...

I won't

Don't wash

Don't

"No, lwill"

You won't? - I will

You won't. - I won't

Iwill

Where's Raghavan?

One minute

Please hold

l...

don't hold

Yakub goes on hold for no one

I'll wash

One minute

You killed the defence minister. You got a big price

Won't you give a piece of the pie to Yakub?

Threatening me? - Not threat

Tax

Brother sends

Brother sends

A joker?

No one gets killed

No one kills

I'm not the one who's saying that

"It's there, written in the Gita"

lam merely a tool

In this game of puppetry...

lam the killer...

YOU GFE a COFPSE

Not to mind

Not to mind

Tax

Make sure no one's left out

"You've sent the jeep to the airport? - Yes, if the flight isn't late..."

he should be arriving anytime

Don't touch anything until Manu arrives

What's for breakfast?

I don't see the purpose in transferring you...

from VIP security to Crime Branch. - Just missing you

"Me? Or thieves, robbers and murderers? - Pradhan, I don't assume..."

you woke me out of my sleep and hauled me overnight from Delhi for no reason?

What's this? - Piece of rubber

Found at the place of crime

Often used for making masks for films

"Rameez was Yecla Yakub's chauffeur, an underworld collector"

Your underworld types have interesting names

Same with Yeda Yakub's throat. Same modus operandi

Corpse is in the health club. Upstairs

"Looks like gang war, Praclhan. You called me from Delhi for this?"

"The assassin himself sent me a message, to have you called in. Urgently"

Message?

With a signature

"Killing isn't only his calling. Pastime too, looks like"

One who leaves his signature on his work is no simple killer

"He's challenging us, catch me if you dare"

I'm getting Supriya and Gita over here. - Strange! For all my invitations...

you never found the opportunity. And now for the sake of an assassin...

you're ready to move en famille?

"Friends can be refused, Pradhan. Not foes"

How much longer? - Here he comes

I can't see the connection between the two murders

But the modus operandi is the same. - Who might be his quarry now?

Still at work? If you will bring the office to the dining table...

"l might send dinner to office, right? - Only the cheeses. Not the kebabs"

They're great

"Manu, don't you sometimes get the feeling that we married cooks?"

And such pretty cooks

'Why only cooks? Nurse, governess..."

Gardener... - Washerwoman

Secretary... - Housekeeper...

"Accountant, all rolled-into-one. - All-in-one, let's eat"

Where are the kids?

These cartoons and video games are for little kids. I hate it

"But Mummy thinks I'm mad about these, like other kids"

"You know Dipu, scientists have found a new solar system"

"Just imagine, a whole new Sun! It's planets"

Maybe even people will be there. - Yes! Also Shah Rukh Khan

Why didn't Manu marry all these years? - That's what my father asked him...

when he went to ask for my hand. You know what he said?

What...? - Guess

Maybe he never found the right girl? - No

"Then...? - He said, he forgot"

He forgot to marry? - He forgot

That line you've never heard

My father is so serious. Even he broke out laughing

How did you win him over? - He was in love too

But he never dared. Because my father was his senior. And I was in college

But I had decided. That gave him the confidence to woo my father

"Pradhan, our kids are either growing up too fast..."

or maybe we just notice things too late

"Yes, they are growing up. But in what conditions?"

The situation is going from bad to worse. I feel scared telling him...

about honesty and integrity. Am I making him too weak to face...

the world that is to come about? In the coming times of hypocrisy...

"lies, dishonesty, cold-bloodedness, will he be able to survive?"

"Sometimes, lfeel like retiring and going back to the village"

"You can retire from a job, not from life. It's the coming times..."

"that we're fighting for. - Still, of late I miss my village"

"Particularly, the rains. - Let's make it someday, together"

To watch the rains in the village

I've put the word out to my informers. In the underworld...

things like this don't stay hidden

So what stays hidden? Tell us some too

What's in the tiffin box? Dipu hasn't eaten?

Everyone has eaten. This is for me and this one

"The two of them are locked in battle. - Oh yes, they aren't getting married"

"Good night, Mister Forgot"

Forgot...?

Got it?

Come over. - Sure

Are boys really such fools?

"Had I been a fool, would your Mummy have married me?"

Who knows? I wasn't even born then

This night

ls mine

"Like the lizard, it crawls"

Like rolling Death's dice...

"lt swallows, it devours... this black, venomos night"""

"Blink... you will miss the link this complicated night"""

"From silence it draws its might... this night that moves"""

Isolation... it's isolation

"Your heart will forever be lonely... it-S Crazy"...-

Every person is a ruin...

"every heart isolates another"""

"lt stuns, it strikes... this night of Death's rolling dice"""

The night turns darker suddenly...

my veil will slip out of his hands

"They're ashore; and yet they drown'""'

"It's the night that brings the storm"""

"On bare bodies that speak... this is night that simmers"""