Scene 5 - Baba At Tuscan Verve????

Sai dials Ramesh’s number. No response. Tries again. No response. Picks Sais phone and dials and Ramesh picks on the first ring.

Ramesh: Hello Sai, how are you da?

Sai: Abbe socialist!! This is Sai, why didnt you pick my call?

Ramesh: Sorry sorry, I thought that was a wrong number!!

Sai: Huh? You know it is a wrong number without answering????

Sai: [grabs the phone] Hey Ramesh, what are you doing?

Ramesh: Hey Sai, how are you da???

Sai: DA? YOU ARE CALLING ME A DA? DA?

Ramesh: Opps, sorry sorry, sorry dude

Sai: ABBE!! YEH DA DUDE DOOODH SAB BANDH KARO!!!!

Ramesh: Sorry sorry sorry boss

Sai: DADA bolo, DADA!!!!

Ramesh: [standing up] Ok Dada

Sai: LISTEN!! I am coming there this week, and you better have the number of that pillava cut-paste ..

Ramesh: Ok Sai Dada, when are you coming???

Sai: Weekend, am waiting for the bartender to send my ticket

Ramesh: Bartender???????????

Sai: Shut up, and get the number. I will see you this weekend .

Ramesh: Ok boss!!

Ramesh rushes out of Ayah Park, and runs across to Tuscan Verve (TV). Picks up two stones and brandishing them in his hands, starts yelling. The Manager of TV looks outside his office window, and sends his security guard to engage Ramesh in a dialogue, as he calls the local cops.

Security Guard [SG]: Yenappa samachara? [What is the matter?]

Ramesh: [very agitated] Since the last one week I have been asking for a deal to have a BB mixer and you fellows are not co-operating. Now Sai Dada is also coming from Mumbai. Naan yaar gotha? [do you know who I am?]

Raises his hands with the stones threateningly. SG hears Sai Dada as Sai Baba and is astounded!

SG: WHAT? Sai Baba coming to rock and roll here?

Ramesh: Howdo!! If you guys don’t get into a deal you will be rolling among rocks!!! DAAAEEEEEEY!!!!! [again threatens, gesticulating wildly with the stones in his hand]

SG: Hey hey, easy man!!! Mathadona guru!!! [Let us talk boss]

Ramesh: Ley!!!! What will you talk? Send your manager to talk!! Or else.

SG is confused now, since having Sai Baba here could mean great things He could even appear in newspapers and TV as head of security when Sai comes to TV. He keeps looking at Ramesh and the TV building.

SG: Wait wait!! I will ask the Manager to come and talk guru!!! Be patient!

Ramesh: Bega bandhu mathadoke helu nim managerge, illa andre nim yelrigu patient madbidtheeni!!!! [Ask your manager to come and speak immediately, or else I will turn all of you into patients]

Rotates his arms, drawing imaginary circles across his chest, trying his best to look like Rajanikanth playing a villain character in a Tamil film.

Ramesh: Daaeeyyyy!!!!!! Bega baro!!! [Heyyy, come soon!!]

SG runs inside TV office

SG: Boss!! Boss!!

Manager: Idiot!! I told you to keep talking to him!! Why did you leave him alone and come here?

SG: Boss!! He wants a deal, and is bringing Sai Baba here!! Please make a deal with him

Manager: Sai Baba??? You idiot, is this a lounge or an ashram? I will first lose my job you fool!!

SG: No Boss!! He said Baba is very much interested in rock and roll now?

Manager: What? What are you telling?

SG: Yes boss!!! Times are changing and who knows!! Maybe Baba himself is bored!! Wants some entertainment!! We all can be on TOI Page 3 boss!!!

Manager: [confused and muttering] What the hell is going on? Baba coming here?
By this time two lathi wielding cops have come in response to the Managers call, and on seeing Ramesh they recognize him.

Cop 1: Hey!!! That stone thrower who chased us near Kanteerava Stadium two weeks ago is here!!

Cop 2: Yes, yes, lets get the rascal.

Both the cops yell and charge at Ramesh. Suddenly Ramesh realizes that he is under threat and drops the stones. Grabbing his lungi, and hoisting it half-way up over his knees he runs for dear life.

As Ramesh runs past Ayah Park, lungi perched at his knee level and langota visible, Vince who has been sharpening his knife looks in amusement wondering which dog is chasing Ramesh. The amusement turns to terror as he sees two lathi wielding cops running behind Ramesh. Behind the cops are the Manager and SC of TV. Vince dives to take cover in the bush where Lucifer was hiding a while ago. As he falls into the bush, his head bangs on the webcam that Lucifer had planted there.

Vince: Aiiiyyyyooooo!!!!!!!!

The cops stop running when they hear the anguished cry. They look at each other. Cop 1 runs after Ramesh who by now tumbles over oh his lungi, and falls to the ground. The other cop comes to inspect the two legs protruding out of the bush, and takes aim to smash them with his lathi.