[Lights are off as Rajiv cuddles with Ramya.]
[Lights are on as Ramya rearranges her dress.]
Ramya: If only we can turn the clock back?
Rajiv: What a thought when it’s time to leap frog in life.
Ramya: Beware of a fall dear.
Rajiv: Why not start a course in the art of pessimistic living. Just as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has his following, you’re sure to have your share of fame. Never mind my predicament as a celebrity’s husband.
Ramya: Be serious, your obsession to advance has become a drag on my life.
Rajiv: Relax Ramya; I’ve got a grip on the lifeline to success, almost that is.
Ramya: Looks like you are riding a bigger horse than ever.
Rajiv: It could as well be a carriage of four for the empress of my heart.
Ramya: And our Ravi the heir apparent to your industrial empire in the making. Why not summon him back from the States leaving his course in M.S. mid-course. Oh, my dream merchant, you give me nightmares really.
Rajiv: Let Nayak come to set your mind at rest.
Ramya: Why talk in circles?
[Rajiv leads her into the drawing room, opens the briefcase and pulls out a document and gives it to her.]
Ramya: What’s this?
Rajiv: Game changer.
[Ramya goes through the document.]
Ramya: Who is this Mr. Sampath by the way?
Rajiv: He’s a technocrat, a good one I may say, but with very little business sense.
Ramya: So he has put his unit up for sale, is it?
Rajiv: Well, not yet. It’s my idea to make him do that.
Ramya: But how!
Rajiv [pointing to the document]: By signing on the dotted line.
Ramya: Why should he sell his hatta katta unit to you? What wishful thinking!
Rajiv: It was nothing short of a miracle that he came thus far, in spite of the banker’s lending hand that is. He’s hard up for funds to run the unit and the financial stress is bound to make him wind up the show any time now. Won’t I grab that and proceed.
Ramya: Enough of this wild goose chase, I long to go back to our laid back times. You know I’m getting sick of you and your devious ways for quick bucks. Haven’t you inherited enough to last our lifetime and more? You’re not doing any badly either at your business. What could be a better setting for leading a contented life? Why this urge for more and more of the moolah?
Rajiv: Don’t you see this could be the document of our destiny?