VIMALA: Sekhar will you find out if there is a toilet somewhere here.
SEKHAR: Wait, let me go and check up.
(PAUSE)
PRATAP: How can you think of a passable loo in this filthy place?
VIMALA: I understand your obsession for cleanliness. But if you focus on what is lacking, you lose sight of all that is different.
PRATAP: Now I realize, much of your appeal is the way you think.
VIMALA: Are you dismissing me as a bluestocking?
PRATAP: Won’t my body language answer that.
(PAUSE)
SEKHAR: Vimala, it’s in the backyard.
(PAUSE)
SEKHAR: You’ve set her heart on the right beat.
PRATAP: But I’ve lost my heart all again. Never mind your Liz Hurly hint, how to imagine she would be so fascinating. But if I can’t have her I’ll have a twice broken heart to mend. And that would be my undoing.
SEKHAR: I don’t think you’ve to worry about it. I’ve a hunch she would not like to miss out either. But she may not like to migrate to the U.S.
PRATAP: What I’ve got to do with the U.S any way. Know I am counting on you to tilt the scales.
SEKHAR: If need be, with the combined weight of my wife.
PRATAP: Quiet, she’s coming along with some bearer. (OFF) What a lovely frame in that graceful gait.
VIMALA: Hi Pratap, you seem to have lost yourself.
SEKHAR: Why are you after the poor fellow?
VIMALA: Sekhar, better get your eyes checked up.
PRATAP: Why, don’t I see that koya dora approaching us.
VIMALA: Wonder how these koya doras are such good face readers!
It’s an idea to let him predict Pratap’s future.
PRATAP: Why not let me enjoy in the suspension of belief.
VIMALA: Why, don’t you see he’s focusing on you?
(PAUSE)
KOYA DORA: I’ve got it from our goddess Poleramma. Beta, you are at the crossroad now. Is it not true?
PRATAP: When your goddess tells you, why do you ask me?
KOYA DORA: Oyoye. (PAUSE) You loved and lost. She agreed but not her father. You went west and married. Amassed wealth but not happy, no love, no children.
SEKHAR: Pratap is it all true; I mean to the last million. No yes and no please.
PRATAP: Yes, including a meager fortune.
SEKHAR: It’s a sort of yes and no again. But why didn’t you tell me about that?
PRATAP: You know I’m never boastful. I’ve a small chain of Indian eateries over there.
SEKHAR: Understatement again, Koya Dora, what about his wife?