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Shot 07
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"Om come out and eat!" Shivaay uttered, knocking on the door and he opened it.

"What's wrong?" Shivaay asked, noticing Om's reaction and Om shook his head negatively.

"I heard about your friend Mukund, are you okay?"

Om exhaled with moist eyes and shook his head negatively. "He was killed Shivaay, brutally murdered for speaking up against the injustices happening with his family and his community."

Shivaay looked on and Om closed his eyes, "I can't believe someone could be killed for speaking up."

"We will get justice. . ."

Om shook his head, "I will not spare Ridoy."

"Don't do anything in anger Om. Let's plan it out. I'll help you. . ."

Om nodded his head and Shivaay hugged  and consoled him.

XX

The next day, Om was stood outside Mukund's house, waiting for the door to be opened.

"Om. . . What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to help all of you."

"What?" Mukund's father was confused, "I'm here to help you take revenge."

"You're still not over that?"

"Uncle. . ."

"Stop it!"

Om looked on and Mukund's father stared at him with seriousness, "I already lost my son, now I can't loose you or my other children. So please, just stop. Don't be stupid!"

"How can I just stop uncle? My friend was killed and you expect me to be quiet?"

Mukund's father exhaled and closed the door on Om's face. Om inched forward and started to knock on the door.

"Uncle listen to me, please. Let me help you!"

"What is going on?" An uncle passing by stopped and stared at Om, Om turned around and saw him.

"Uncle, I want to take revenge for Mukund's death. . ."

"Are you gone crazy? Do you know who you'll be messing with?"

"Yes, I'm gone crazy. I won't rest until I've done something about it."

He stared at him in disbelief and started walking away.

Om felt demotivated, however decided not to give up and continued knocking on the door.

A jeep stopped inside the community houses, and few men stepped out.

"Where is he?"

The people that were walking around timidly moved to the side, clearing the path for the men.

Ridoy was outside the gates, staring inside with Kaali Thakur sat besides him.

"Are you sure you won't need help from my men?"

"No, I'm sure we will end his chapter here today." Ridoy uttered and took his sunglasses off as the two stared at the scene.

Om was dragged out by the men, and hearing sounds Mukund's family stepped outside, horrified to see Ridoy's goons.

Om was thrown on the ground, in front of the leader of the group and he scoffed.

"You think you could get away with yesterday?" He asked and punched Om across the face.

Om glared at him and touched his lip, "you can't terrorise these people anymore. . . Your chapter would end soon!"

"Aye! Do you even know who the king of this place is? Do you know who you're standing in front of? This attitude of yours would die in few seconds once I kill you right here and burry you in this place!"

The residents gasp and Mukund's father felt bad seeing Om in front of the goons.

Om stood up, pushing the men away as he faced the leader courageously.

"They will awaken their inner voice! They're not going to stay weak anymore. They will pay you back with every tear you gave them!"

He laughed, "them? These scaredy cats? They can't even look at us in the eye and you're saying they'll stand up in front of us?"

"They're not scaredy cats! They know how to fight back. . ."

Mukund's father rushed there and held onto Om.

"Mind him. . . He's. . . He's new here, he doesn't know anything. . ."

"Uncle. . ." Om jerked Mukund's father off, "why are you talking to them like that? They killed your son!"

Mukund's father slapped Om across the face and the goons laughed.

Om felt upset and insulted and he stared at the father.

"Shut up! Why do you want to get yourself killed too? Was my sons death not enough for me to endure that now you want your murder over our heads too?"

"Fear won't get you anywhere! I came here with the intention to help all of you fight off these monsters! No evil will take birth if there is no fear. How do you expect to die like this? Do you guys not have any self conscious? Why can't all of you take a stand? They're human beings like all of you, the only difference is that they have weapons, but what will happen if we hold weapons too? That would make us the same. . . Destroy the fear in your lives and learn to fight it!"

Everyone think about Om's words and the leader of the group scoffed. Om moved to the side and pulled a child towards him.

"What would you want to do to them?"

The child glanced at them, remembering his father's brutal death and their laughs.

"I would throw rocks on them!" The child spoke fearlessly and the goons laughed at him.

"Really? But would your parents let you?"

"They killed my father! They made me fatherless. . . I hate them!"

"And? What shall we do about it?" The leader asked, scoffing as he looked down on the child.

"Go get rocks and hit them." Om encouraged and everyone looked on shocked.

The child wasn't hesitant, with Om next to him, he felt confident and picked up the rock from the floor, throwing it at the leaders head as hard as he could.

"Aye, you son of a. . ." Before he could complete, Om punched him across the face.

Feeling a tinge of braveness, the people stepped forward and started attacking the goons, beating them up as hard as they could.

Om smiled while Ridoy shockingly looked on, Kaali laughed. "Now these people are also standing up to you. . ."

Ridoy clenched his fist, and put his sunglasses back on. "Let's go driver." He uttered, noticing news reporters turning up at the scene.

XX

Few hours later, Ridoy was watching the news with Kaali sat on the couch next to him.

Kaali laughed and stared at Ridoy. "He exposed you to the media. Look at all those people testifying against you. I'm impressed, this man has some guts. . ."

"Shut up!" Ridoy yelled and glared at Kaali who smirked. "Let me know if you need my help. I'm leaving today. . ."

"Leave. I will end him myself!"

Kaali stood up, "I'll be looking forward for that."

Kaali left the hall and exited, with his men following him and Ridoy angrily threw everything on the table in front of him on the floor.

"I will kill him!" He screamed and stared at the TV, continuing to hear negative things about him, which increased his anger.

XX

After a while, Om was praised by his family for the recent incident.

"You took our rival down. . ." Shakti complimented and Om smiled.

"It wasn't me, it was Shivaay's idea to send the reporters there."

"Wow, you two made a whole plan leaving me out?"

"It's not like that. . ." Shivaay trailed off but Rudra interrupted. "I see how it is."

"You should be careful Om. Stop wasting time and getting into unnecessary trouble." Tej scolded and Om sighed.

"When will you ever be happy for me?"

"I'm saying the truth, why did you try to involve yourself in an issue that wasn't even yours?"

"Tej, leave him today. He did something good. He helped so many people. . ."

"Stop encouraging these stupid acts Jhanvi. What if he got himself killed too?"

Tej felt a hard smack on his back and winced in pain.

"Don't you ever dare to say such auspicious words in front of me ever again!" Kalyani shouted as loud as he could, "May God give Om my life too."

"Daadi! I don't want your life, you keep yours. I'll keep mine."

"Okay guys, please stop. Om did good end of discussion. Now let's eat, I'm hungry." Rudra eased down the mood slightly and everyone agreed with him.

Tej stared at Om and Om made a face, walking away. He received a call and walked to the side, answering it.

"Yes Ishana?"

"I'm so sorry for what my brother did. . ."

"Your brother?"

"Ridoy."

Om was shocked, "you're Ridoy's sister?"

"Yes. I feel ashamed and disgusted. I never knew how much pain he had caused people. I saw the news today, and I seriously hate him."

"Don't worry about it. I'm hoping he just admits to his crime and takes the punishment. I'll speak to you later Ishana. . . I've gotta go."

"Yeah, bye. . ."

Om disconnected the call and sighed, he then glanced down at the text message from Raj.

"Are you still coming to Bareilly with me?" Om remembered and looked on.

He instantly replied back to Raj's text, 'yes. . .'

It was Mukund's last wish to have half of his ashes thrown in Bareilly's water, and Raj and Om offered the family to do it on his behalf.

XX

Ridoy hadn't been at peace ever since the incident took place. He was called by many news reporters and had to cooperate with many investigations. His life was rough because of one name that ruined everything for him.

He was on the verge to go bankrupt, every investor backed out from the upcoming projects, leaving him with lower currency but all that he had in mind was getting rid of Omkara.

He received a phone call, which told him that Om is gone to Bareilly and the only name he could think of was Kaali Thakur's, however his pride was much important, he would rather die than taking Kaali's help. After all he wanted to prove to Kaali that he still had power in his hand, thus decided to carry it out Om's murder with his own very hands in order to satisfy his burning heart.

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2 days later, Raj and Om were sat in a bus. Deciding to take the bus to the train station and then take the train to Mumbai afterwards.

In the same bus, Gauri and Om entered and walked right past Om and Raj, sitting in the back. The bus starts moving and Raj and Om are talking.

The bus was stopped with a jerk and few goons step inside. Om sighed as he recognised them and walked towards them, beating them up while stepping out from the bus.

Om was about to go to help Omkara Oberoi but Gauri stopped him and shook her head negatively.

Kaali's men enter the bus with Ajay, staring at Om and Gauri.

Outside the bus, Omkara was fighting the men off really well and Ridoy was also attacking him.

"Ridoy, why are you here?" Bholu asked, noticing and Ridoy stared at him. "Mind your own business!"

"Inspector. . ." Bholu stepped inside the bus after all the people emptied it, and Omkara clenched his fist, fighting Ridoy and his men off.

Soon, he felt something sharp pierce into his skin from behind two times, and turned after it was taken out, shockingly blinking at Raj who held the bloody knife.

"R. . . Raj?"

"Sorry." Raj apologised and Om fell on his knees, Ridoy smirked and made his way towards Raj, placing his arm around his shoulder.

"You stole Ishana away from me. I will never forgive you!"

Om scoffed, feeling betrayed and heartbroken. "I was never interested in her that way. . ."

"Lies! I saw you two always meeting and talking. I hated you for that. . ."

"So you're willing to kill me?"

"I had no choice. It was either you who would survive or me and I chose myself!"

"It's time you leave the earth!" Ridoy snatched the knife from Raj's hands and slashed Omkara's neck. Raj gasped and swallowed his spit in guilt.

"And about my sister Ishana. . ." Ridoy faced Raj, "don't you ever dare lay your eyes on her!" He slashed Raj's neck with the same knife as hard as he could, cutting his throat.

Ajay stepped down the bus with an unconscious Gauri, his men and Bholu.

"I'll take care of this. . . You can go." Bholu uttered and Ajay nodded at him.

"Take care of this too!" Ridoy exclaimed, grabbing their attention.

He wiped his bloody hands on Raj's clothes and dropped the knife.

"Okay." Bholu uninterestedly replied and Ridoy looked at Ajay. "I wouldn't mind a cup of tea. . . Call Kaali and tell him I'm here too."

Ajay unwillingly nodded at Ridoy and Ridoy walked towards his car.

Bholu threw Raj and Omkara's body inside and lit the bus on fire.

"I'm so unfortunate that I didn't even see my son's body. . . It was Ishana who called us and told me about Om's murder, my mother had a heart attack after hearing the news and I came to Bareilly as soon as I could. Only to find his body perished in that fire and you being the only survivor."

Tears seep down Gauri's eyes and Om stared at Tej, who started crying.

"Your face was completely destroyed in that fire, so I gave you my son Omkara's face. But I need you. . . I want you to impersonate Om until my mother feels better. I told my family to lie that you're still alive, she's a bit better than before but she hasn't been eating properly, she keeps insisting to meet you. Please meet her for once, and then I'll lie that you're going abroad for your studies. You can do whatever you want after that, but please help me save my mother. . . I already lost my son, I can't loose my mother now."

Om walked towards Tej and placed his hand on his shoulder.

"I will help you." He replied and Tej stared at him with his teary eyes. "Thank you."

"But, I will also bring justice to your son Omkara."

"If you do that then they'll know he passed away. . ."

"I have a plan."

"Don't be stupid."

"It's not fair. I feel guilty that I wasn't able to save your son despite being there. On that bus! I was right there and I let him die."

Gauri felt guilty, remembering when she stopped Om from helping out and Tej looked at him.

"You'll die again."

"Let me help your son, for once. Otherwise his soul wouldn't rest in peace."

Tej let the tears seep down his eyes and Om looked at him with a plea.

T o  B e  C o n t i n u e d

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