Koya Dora: I’ll see his hand. (PAUSE) She left you, ten years ago, right.
PRATAP: True.
SEKHAR: What about his future?
Koya Dora: He won’t go back. (PAUSE) Gets a beautiful wife, (PAUSE) she bears him a son, (PAUSE) long and happy married life. Give some money to please Poleramma.
(PAUSE)
KOYA DORA: Poleramma says I should take the money from beti’shand.
PRATAP: Vimala, would you mind obliging him.
KOYA DORA: Beti, Poleramma says you’ll get what you want.
SEKHAR: What about my future Koya Dora?
KOYA DORA: Give me your hand. (PAUSE) You’re happy with your family. You’ll be a very rich man. Your son goes abroad.
SEKHAR: Will he come back or not?
KOYA DORA: I have to see his hand. (PAUSE) Poleramma blesses all of you.
(PAUSE)
PRATAP: Wonder how he’s on dot about my past!
VIMALA: They’ve a knack of telling the past and gain confidence.
SEKHAR: What about their ability to foresee into the future.
VIMALA: That time only would tell.
SEKHAR: If this Koya Dora has his way, Pratap can blissfully wait and you can choose for sure, but what about me? God forbid, if his prediction comes true, I will be lost without my Suresh by my side.
PRATAP: Why don’t you take advantage of his prediction?
SEKHAR: What advantage in a disadvantaged situation?
VIMALA: Wait Pratap. Sekhar, thank the Koya Dora for not taking advantage of his disadvantageous prediction.
SEKHAR: It’s fine if you are thankful to him but not me. He gave you a blank cheque and me a bleak future, didn’t he?
VIMALA: Why are you cut up with him? You should be thankful to him.
PRATAP: Vimala, what this rubbing salt into his poor wounds.
VIMALA: You may not know but Sekhar knows the way the soothsayers operate. But this Koya dora neither offered to do some puja nor wanted Sekhar to wear a tayattu. What’s more it was a free consultation.
PRATAP: Any doubt he would’ve fallen for the bait, hook, line and sinker.
VIMALA: Well, I’ve nothing against astrology if it’s not handled by charlatans. If things are destined to go wrong, they will go wrong, never mind their fake supplements. I believe it pays to know the realities of life. I don’t think there was ever a way of making life a smooth sailing affair, all the way. Better, we learn to weather out the storm till it subsides. After all, it can’t last forever.
SEKHAR: I don’t see the clue to my rider lies in your theorem.