Akriti The Shape Of Love

Year 2010-11( tribute to all those innocents who passed away in bihar horrific bus accident)

•Somewhere inside a house: North India.

A woman is flipping over and staring at images from an old photo-album when her daughter, a girl named Aakriti in her 20s comes to sit with her and asks about the photos.

The woman points to a family photo and tells that they were our neighbors from southern India when your father MR AJAY GAUD had just been appointed as a junior doctor and you were a six-year-old child.

The next picture of her and her husband MR AJAY, she naturally speaks that Destiny makes the couple, the girl declines saying that it is just by chance and promise to prove it if she gets chance in future.

She is here to demand a cell phone for her as she is now in her last year of nursing.

•Somewhere at a holy site: South India

After submerging some old childhood memorial things in the river, the guy in his 20s named Satyamoorti Krishnan 'SATYA' picks up the ringing cell phone.

The caller is his father Mr. Krishnan tells him to return to take the seat of CEO of the company and don't take on heart the mutual decision of divorce of his parents.

Satya replies to him that he has sent the IIT degree and his only wish in written to him and now there is no father of his. He has already submerged all his memories in Ganga.

•Somewhere inside a house: North India

The lady is discussing about her girl's carrier and marriage to her husband MR AJAY and eventually discloses her demand of cell phone, but the father denies as per now, so she leaves the room.

The next day Aakriti is leaving for the hostel with her father Dr Ajay, he steps inside a shop asking her to stay inside the car.

•Somewhere inside an office: south India

Mr. Krishnan picks up the phone and notes down a number with hope of unknown.

•Shop - north India

Mr. Ajay coming out of store after ensuring the Sim card is activated. He presents the cell phone to Aakriti, and they leave happily.

•Somewhere else:

Satya is riding the bike in mountainy roads tunnel and landscape, sometimes lone sometimes with other riders. He is getting calls of his father again and again.

•Medical college - North India:

While she is attending the classes, lab and library and wandering with friends around in the market, she and her friends group used to tease people over calling them by new numbers in a comical way to enjoy.

•Somewhere else:

Finally, Satya accepts the call, his father gives him a proposal to apologize and reengage to her mother as he wants but he has to prove his point that love is Destiny not a thing by chance by convincing someone just by calling her, he tells her number to him verbally, but he rejects the call-in anger.

He thinks, puts out his wallet, sees a folded photograph of her mother, make it out and unfold it to see the same photo that was in Aakriti's mother's album, remember the voice of photographer to come into the frame. After trying so hard to remember, he dials a number…

•Southern India:

Mr. Krishnan informs someone that his son will not wish to talk to their girl.

•Medical college north India:

Aakriti picks up the call and scolds the caller but after knowing the stranger Satya, she calls up her mother to tell and bet with her that it is time to prove her point of view wrong.

•Medical college north India / some biker spots of somewhere else:

They eventually start spending a lot of time to make their point proven correct regarding love, Satya emphasises the Destiny and destination & spirituality side of love whether Aakriti calls it just luck and part of human desires.

•Aakriti's house North India:

Over time, they get so used to each other that they cannot live without talking even for a day. Finally, after reaching the internship, the time comes to decide on Aakriti's marriage, her father gives her time till the internship, either she chooses someone herself or she marries the person he would choose.

Even in the hour of judgment, Aakriti considers her inner struggle to be a bad addiction does not love and promises to meet Satya but for some reason she reaches there but Satya could not reach that day and his phone is also getting switched off.

After several days, she accepts her father's request to meet some of the boys, realizing she was right and, like the others after spending time, Satya left, she thinks.

She was sorry but not sad because she too has played the game of 'use and forget' with the others too.

Only then, about weeks later, she gets a call from Satya, she loses her cool and starts abusing him, eventually Satya talks about giving him one more chance, explaining the reason.

Father asks Aakriti to take a concrete decision, she asks him for a week's time and asks him to allow her to move from her home in Uttar Pradesh to a place in Bihar where she has to attend a medical seminar and Satya will also meet her there.

She walks out with a new confident smile with her group of friends, she is convinced that she is wrong and there is another aspect of love that she understands only now.

She looks amazingly happy, not angry for the first time when she is proven wrong.

•North India - Bihar:

A few days of busyness, where in a seminar, Dr. Jain, a well-known surgeon tells how he performed a miracle by putting a man's hand on a woman who had lost her hand. Till then, Satya also reaches after crossing many difficult paths.

They decide to meet by deciding over phone call at a landmark where the bus will leave shortly.

Sitting on the bike, looking at his wristwatch, Satya waits for Aakriti to get off from every passing bus,

Then a bus from the front road, which is coming towards the main road where Satya stands, inside which Aakriti is sitting and peeping out of the window with the help of both hands, to recognize the unknown face of Satya from the crowd.

Just then Satya's eyes fall on a handicapped hawker passing by the road and a big truck comes at a high speed from the front, Aakriti's bus also goes out of control and collides with that truck and a painful accident occurs… the hawker sees and shouts. People and ambulances take the injured people to the medical college.

The relatives of the injured start arriving, an atmosphere of noisy cry is visible, many have died, and many are seen badly injured.

Aakriti's parents come to know that their daughter has lost both her arms in this accident, they are crying badly, since Aakriti has been a disciple of Dr. Jain, he tries to console her parents, the doctors advise them to adopt a new hand of an appropriate doner.

Sitting on the waiting chair outside the treatment room, Mr. Krishnan, Satya's father, with his head bowed completely, Mrs. Krishnan, panicked, enters the treatment room and begins to step backwards Being completely distraught. Group of doctors' rush to carry Satya's unconscious blood-soaked body on stretcher saying, 'don't panic, we have to shift patient to ICO'.

Both are sitting on the same waiting bench. Mr. Krishnan asks her to read a last wish sent by their son with an IIT degree that says he has to see his parents together, not for the just appearance, but with their hearts. If anything happens to him in his madness for traveling the world, every part of his body, of whatever use, must be used in any condition, before setting his body on fire,

So that even after death, he Will remain alive in a new smile.

They inform the hospital authority about the wish of their son.

At the end Satya becomes no more.

The surgery is performed to attach Satya's hand to Akriti. After successful surgery…She meets to thanks the parents of the doner late SATYAMOORTI KRISHNAN being unaware that he was the same Satya too.

She is filling inner guilt when she finds Satya's phone switch off. She has determined that her point of view is right but ------whenever she try to touch herself to those little, huge and tanned skin hands. She feels that Satya was right somehow…She tries to hide her emotions and these unusual hands to others for some months but with the passage of time her hands getting natural like her own and results her old confidence back…Satya's parents start to live together with the memory of their late son.

Akriti breaks the simcard and moves on in her life as same as she was a thoughtful realistic girl---------

"We realize the moral that both the ideologies are possibly exist, somehow what face come to us seems true other false."

 ----writer's Note.