Aatma

Graveyard

In a Hall , one middle aged man was giving a lecture about the ancient practice of Black Magic . He was Professor Aroon ,he was explaining about the different ways a person tries to do balck magic, Some by Mantras and Tantras (chantings and some tequineq ) and some by eating the burning flesh from the pyre . The graveyard was a laboratory in the darkness of the night .They evoked the satan and made them their slaves, they also trppen the soul which has just left the body ,and when the soul is still around the body for three days and is about to follow the divine light guiding it to another realm but the greedy Tantriks traps these vulnerable souls and make them do their work, they trap them and use them to harm others ,they take advantage of the unfullifilled desires of the souls .The professor had done lot of research on this practses and was telling the audience about the existence of the ghost , the vampires and differen types of souls .One Man was constantly asking questions to prof.Aroon , he said Prof. Was misleading the audience and increasing faith in unnatural things making them superstitious ,he argued a lot and said there is no such thing as ghost , and people make money by scaring innocent people ,and fooling them about existence of ghost and dark energies in their life and house and then take money from the unsuspecting people .The man belongs to a organisation which teaches people not to believe in superstitious things and existence of ghost ..He accuses the Profs. Of fooling  the people and threatens  him of dragging him to the court , for spreading wrong information.among general public .he also shows doubt about him being educated He tells Profs. He may not be educated and fooling ,and tells he has been attending all his session from many months and he and his team have recorded his programs ,as a proof to nail him..While  leaving Ram the one who was accusing tells him they will meet in the court.Aroon calls him backstage and tries to explain to him and tells him he is a qualified man and he does not do all this studies for his personal gains but he was interested in this subject , and so observed the people doing this practise ,and making the common people aware about the things which happen around them ,and they are not aware he is trying to tell them to be alert of such things as it does happen and he knows it.Prof Aroon tells Ram he can go ahead and lodge a complaint against him ,but before that he should give him a chance to show him what he tells the people ,he wants Ram to take up the challenge so he can prove it to him .Ram agrees to take up the challenge Aroon says he can take his full team and come to with camera and do the recording when he shows him the existence of ghost , but it will be exactly 15 days from today ,he should come to the place cemetery on the on the 16th day in the morning with his team .Both agrees and leave to go .Ram tells his team that after 15 days Aroon will offer money and ask us not to drag him to the court ,but we should not fall prey to the greed and take him to the court and punish him for misleading innocent people and encouraging superstition .Next day Ram is in his office which is a small room with 8 people working and few chairs and tables and all having their laptops , in the room there are two cupboards .a water purifier and a cctv camera two outside and one in the room.They need the cctv cameras as they always fight for the cause for the interest of the people,so they end up getting threatening calls and goons throw stones at their office .As they are fighting for social cause their organisation is funded by few company and independent people .Ram is busy with other work and so his team ,lots of activity going on in the office .Aroon wakes up in the morning and remembers the challenge he has given to Ram ,so after freshening up he goes in his car to many cemeteries and graveyard and speak to the caretaker there as he frequently visits those place they know him as a decent  man who is interested in research wok ,so they were on friendly terms with him,He tells all the caretaker when a body comes to give him a call as it is urgent he tells them the details of his requirement .By night he reaches home tired and is about to go for a bath, when he gets a call from one of the caretakers in the town .He immediately gets in his car and reaches that place.Next day business is as usual in Rams office lot of talking phone calls editing work in progress, all this makes Ram little tired attending to meeting with his team travelling to places where superstition is spread and taking them to court ,his organisation was famous and he was a well known person.Ram gets a call in the afternoon while he is having lunch he picks up his mobile and sees The Afternoon news flash on his cell ,he picks up the phone and from the other end a beautiful female voice asks him if he can spare few minutes talking to her as she is the reporter from the same newspaper and her name is sheena .He asks her was it urgent as he is very busy ,She pleads with him to spare few minutes as this was important to her as it will help her grow in her profession .He agrees and goes out of his office for fresh air and to be away from the noise in the office as by now he was liking the girls voice and wanted to know what she wanted from him. .Sheena thanks him for sparing his precious time for her ,and tells him she has always followed his work and stance taken  against the wrong people.she admired his guts and she was present at the function the other day when he argued with Professor Aroon . And she has come to know about the challenge he has given to Ram .So she wants to be in contact and meet him in this regard so she can do a cover story for her paper.He agrees and invites her in the evening .He is excited as the girls way of talking and her sweet voice made him long to see her .he waited excitedly for her at the given place,It’s 9 pm and she had not yet reached she calls him on his cell apologising as she is late and to wait for her , as  she is on her way .He anxiously waits for her he sees a auto arrive and she pays the driver and comes towards Ram ,he is very impressed by her looks and does not realise she has put her hand forward for a handshake , he is simple mesmerised by her good looks and the way she was speaking , she snaps her fingers in front of his eyes and he ,laughs at her in awkward way .She suggest as it is getting very dark they should go to his office and sit and talk , Ram is surprised she is ok to be in his office though there is no one at that time , she says that is the reason she want’ to sit in his office so they can talk without being disturbed.He shows her his bike and he wears his helmet nd she sits behind him touching his shoulder,he feels very romantic when she touches him and through out  the ride  he could smell her perfume .They reach his office and he opens it and switches on the light and makes her sit on a plastic chair and smiles shyly at the bear furniture , as they dont get enough funds from public , he tells her she should ask the people in her column to donate to their organisation ,they talk a lot and then he tells her it is late and now he will drop her home .She sits on his bike and he drives and asks her the way he stops at the place  she asks him to stop but he can not see any houses there ,he asks her why she got down there in a isolated place away from her home ,she tells him ,she likes to walk for some distance so it becomes a part of her exercise .And when he turns his bike and looks behind she has already gone from his sight.Now every day Sheena calls him up and they talk for hours .Ram looks forward to this talks and long chat with her he is slowly falling for her ,he calls her to meet him as he is not happy with only chatting ,she refuses as it becomes too late for her to reach home .One day he tells her to come as it was only once they had met.She agrees to come and meet him in the office ,He is happy and tells her after that they can go for dinner , she tells him instead she will bring food parcel for both so they can sit and be in the office for long .In the night she reaches his office and he removes the plate and she serves the food ,she serves Japanese chicken rice and she starts eating it he takes a piece of chicken and it is raw and he puts it out she asks him whether he does not like chicken ,he tells her he likes cooked chicken and not raw, she smiles and says this dish has raw chicken and she loves to eat it he watches her eleishing the chicken and then as he is hungry he goes for other parcel chinese fried rice she sees him , taking that and tells him not to take  the chicken pieces as they are raw .He tells her he will eat out . She happily finishes all the food and the food which was on his plate she tells him she was starving the whole day as she did not get time to eat..Ram wonders how she could eat raw chicken then he feels he should ignore some bad habits of a person if one loves them .They come out of the office and Ram locks his office and he is about to sit on the bike when he remember he has forgotten the helmet in the office he tells her he will get it ,but she jumps from the bike before him and tell him she will get it and before he could give her the keys she had disappeared ,she comes back and jhe tells her she had not taken the keys,she hands him the helmet and he is shocked .She asks him why is he looking at her like that , he tells her how did she get into the office to get the helmet which was kept on the cupboard ,she tells him it was kept out of the office probably while locking he had kept it down ;He still can’t believe that he had taken the helmet and tells her he had not touched the helmet so how can it be out .She sits on the bike and hugs him lovingly and tells him she is a ghost and went through the wall and both laugh.and he rides his bike and again she makes him stop at the same place and before he coulsturns she ha gone from his sight .His mind is occupied with the thought how did she get the helmet as he was sure he did not bring the helmet out .The  few days pass and this time Sheena calls up and tell him his day of challenge has neared .She reminds him next day Aroon will challenge him ,so is he ready ,Ram says yes he remembers it ,Sheena says then she after the challenge she will not be able to meet him so often ,so she would like to meet him tonight and spend some quality time with him.Ram agrees immediately as after 14days of knowing her she has asked to meet .When she arrives at his office ,Ram tells her he wants to take her for dinner out ,she hesitates ,he tells her it is a place where both her favourite and his favourite food is served .She agrees and sits on his bike Ram is riding his bike knowing now it will not be very often he will be meting her as she will get busy with other projectsHe tells her it is no moon day ,when after every fifteen days the moon disappears ,he also tells her his moon will also disappear she laughs and he wants to see her in his rear mirror of the bike he adjust it and is shocked when he cannot see her sitting behind him, he applies break abruptly to his bike and Sheena falls on him.She asks him what happened why did he apply break,he keeps quiet.And then again starts the bike and they reach the restaurant ,the waiter ask him he wants table for how many people , he tells only two of them ,they give him a corner table .There he asks her what she would like to at she says he knows what she likes he touches her hand and lovingly and then calls the waiter and gives him the order he tells him madam would like to have raw japanese chicken with rice and he would have schezwan fried rice .Thewaiter tells him should he bring the order latter. He tells him no he should bring immediately as they are starving .The waiter brings and keeps the dishes  and Ram sees that all the waiter are looking at them he feels proud that they are envious of him as he is with a pretty lady after the food is over he gestures the waiter to bring the finger bowl ,the waiter brings only one ,he scolded him for bringing one and tells Sheena to get up and both go and wash hands in the wash basin .and Ram goes to the counter to pay the bill,while paying the bill he complains to the owner that his staff has no manners they were not giving two finger bowls .to them.The owner calls the waiter and asks him what is the matter he tells the owner he is a mad man don’t entertain him.Ram walks off angrily with Sheena and they go on the bike towards her area.Ram tells her not to go home  so early he wants  to spend some time with her .She agrees she tells him there is a garden near her house it will be nice if they sit there where no one can see them , he tells her it is very dark and he can’t sees the garden ,she holds his hand ad he follows her , he see a gate opening and inside the garden it is pitch dark but Sheena is not complaining she is holding his hands and walking very swiftly he can feel the wet grass under his feet so he knows they are in the garden .She makes him sit on a stone bench ,and she sits next to him.He feels very cold as very cool breeze blows she slowly keeps her head on his shoulder ,he is floored and was waiting to hold her in his arms he quickly hugs her tight ,and starts kissing her passionately,she reciprocates to him and with in no time she lies down on the bench and he is all over her making love to her very passionately the whole night they keep kissing and hugging and making love and when he falls asleep in her embrace he does not know.In the morning Ram’s team comes to the office and is waiting for Ram to come so they can go to the given place to meet Aroon and take his challenge the media people have also come ,as a precaution  Ram had told to bring the police also ,so all had arrived .The team call up Ram but his phone is coming switched off .they are worried .one guy tells the rest Ram had told him in the night to keep all the information and video ready and also check the cctv footage, he tells them he sent it to him in the night ,but after that his mobile was coming switched off.Aroon calls them tells them to come to the meeting place they all go thinking Ram will come directly there as he new about the place .When they reach the graveyard Ram has not come all the people are waiting out .Just then Aroon arrives  and asks then where is Ram .And then calls the caretaker to come and open the graveyard gate open ,he comes and opens the big gate he first unlocks the gate and throws the gate open .Aron tells everybody they will go inside and wait for Ram and till then they can take position for shooting it live , when they go inside Rams team see a man sleeping on a tomb and he looks like Ram in the fog they are not sure so they slowly go near him and find him sleeping on the tombstone naked with his clothes lying down they hurriedly wake him up and try to cover him with his clothes Ram gets up and is shocked to see all of them .He says how did he come to a graveyard ,he was in  a garden with Sheena ,who brought him here ,he looks at, Aroon and says he has played some dirty trick and made him sleep on the stone .Aroon tells him where was he in the night ,he tells him he was in a  garden with Sheena .Aroon asks him who was Sheena he tells them she is from the .The Afternoon news paper a reporter who was making a cover story on him .Aroon asks him when did he meet her ,did he know her for long ,he tells him no he knew her from last 14 days just after he took the challenge from him ,she wanted to do the story on that he tells them she should have come by now for the reporting and calls out to her. Aroon removes a paper cutting and shows him the photo of a lady  in the paper and says is this the lady you are talking about he sees the photo and says yes she is his Sheena .Aroon tells him to read what is written under it, he reads it in it is written The Afternoon new reporter Ms Sheena died in a car accident on duty on 26th march .the same day when she spoke o Ram.he can not believe it he shouts at Aroon of playing dirty game with him.Aroon asks him has anyone seen him with her .He says she used to come very often to his office and tells his assistant to show the cctv footage ,in that all se Ram is talking to himself and laughing and talking all the videos when ever he had met her only he was seen and not her ,Aroon asks him if they had gone some where out there someone might have seen them he remembers the restaurant but keeps quiet as he remembered them calling him mad , he ask somebattery and charges his cell to show all of them the daily chat which he used to have with Sheena , but when he checks it there is only his and no replies from any body,he tries calling her number ,it comes as switched off . Aroon tells Ram to see the tombstone he was sleeping in ,,what is inscribed on that , it is Sheena’s tombstone he was sleeping in and  fulfilled all her desire by making love to her.  Ram tells Aroon that he should not think he has won the challenge and in anger he lifts a iron rod and pierces it in the heart of Aroon when Aroon falls down he can sees Sheena looking at him angrily he knows he had done the mistake of tapping her soul and stopping her soul from going to the next realm ,so this was a punishment for playing with a soul just to prove a point  . Aroon sees Ram running towards Sheena and hugging her before he closes his eyes forever.The police arrest Ram for killing Aroon .And it was rumored Ram had lost his mental balance and was later shifted to a mental asylum.