.........year 1999..........financial services office in fort Mumbai .......... market was bad ..... cash flows were tight ................ banerjee .......... dandapani ....... others were struggling to close deals ............ bhandya our office man ........ went to some tantric baba in mumbra ....... he gave him some stone rings ............. some mantars................... some pothis to read.................morning nine o clock bhandya would decorate the gods in our office with kunku ...... chandan ............. diyas........huge ghanta (temple bell).................. ignite two packets of agarbathis some hundreds of them ................... in a air conditioned ............ small office with no windows ...........he would start his day with pooja and mantars .............aik satyanarayanachi katha cd............ loud and strong ............... clinging of bells ........... lighting of lamps ........... the smoke from the 100 agarbathis .............would enclose the entire room in a fog .............. and banerjee in tie and blazer would be sitting............with coffee and economic times .................... amidst the fog .......... mantras ............... bells ........ shlokas ............. with red eyes ........... not knowing whether......
.................he was sitting in a corporate finance office or a mythological movie set or lalbaug..............he would say benkat bhat is all this....???? ... bill i go to office in tiger skin instead of brazer.......carry trishul instead of laptop..........tie a snake around my neck instead of tie......like shibha ...... bhandya will correct him.......arrey go nahin come......brazier nahin blazer........shibha nahin re shiva ......... adhi english tar barobar bol lotha mangeshkar...... nantar mera chugli kar......... mya shaaph dilla tar.............. Melya ek bhi deal honaar nahin ............... banerjee would go weak on his legs .................... he would beg bhandya not to give shaaph ................. this used to be the routine.......................... Meanwhile, bhandya also got into a major bhaandan with bhaiyaas family staying near our office .............. they used to distribute news papers and magazines around fort and kala ghoda area .......... and one of them Achey Lal used to sleep with a chaadar wrapped all over his body just outside our office .... like a dead body till late noon ............... bhandya never liked this and often got into panga with the Achey Lal .............
and one day as I entered the office in the morning I saw achey lals body totally wrapped in
chaadar with kum kum ...... garland ....... few flowers on his body ........ agarbathis lit on a banana ..... i presumed that achey lal was dead............ i informed bhandya about the body.............. bhandya rushed out .............by now there was a mob collected around the body..................Achey lals wife brothers and friends had gathered...........the ladies started crying ...... bhandya offered his pooja flowers and garlands to his relatives to put it on the body............... i was surprised as all our office members participated in the mourning........... somebody was missing ...... banerjee stood at a distance ..... watching all this .......suddenly as one of the relatives tried to put the garland ................the body moved..............Achey lal removed the bedsheet from his face ........... got up in a sitting posture ............. was shocked to see .............. so many people gathered around him and crying ................then he saw the garland.... flowers..... kum kum...... agarbattis.............
he screamed ......ee.. kaa ho raha hein ........ kono mar- mara gaya kaa....... ee kiski mati mari gayi ........... his mehraru(wife) screamed and fell unconscious.............his brother chhuttan shouted........ee kaa nautinki laga rakkha hai ............. eeh toh bhandya ki karamat hein ....... every bhaiyaa stared at bhandya..............before we could realise ...... they started hitting bhandya ......... with hands, fists and poles ...... some of them even kicked him ....... bhandya was overpowered that day ..... he didn't realise ....... how this happened to him .....Some how banerjee rescued bhandya....... from the bhaiyya's ...... infact told them ......... you don't waste your energey ....... i will take care of him ....... Yeh aisa hi C##$ya hain.... laton ke bhoot baton se nahin mantey ........
he also tightly hugged bhandya and muttered something in his ears .......... don't worry I will take care ...... bhandya
had no pariyay ........ meanwhile banerjee .............. took over bhandya from the crowd......... caught him by collar ...... abused b@$## ..... M*$#### ....... Ch%$# ......... slapped him loudly ....... kana khali ........ punched him on his nose ........ banged him against the wall ........ at the same time tightly hugged him and muttered in bhandya 's ears ....... don't worry i am rescueing you ..... Some how bhandya was confused whether banerjee was rescueing him or hitting him..................
he also tightly hugged bhandya and muttered something in his ears .......... don't worry I will take care ...... bhandya
had no pariyay ........ meanwhile banerjee .............. took over bhandya from the crowd......... caught him by collar ...... abused b@$## ..... M*$#### ....... Ch%$# ......... slapped him loudly ....... kana khali ........ punched him on his nose ........ banged him against the wall ........ at the same time tightly hugged him and muttered in bhandya 's ears ....... don't worry i am rescueing you ..... Some how bhandya was confused whether banerjee was rescueing him or hitting him..................
After all the hitting and abuses ....... banerjee brought bhandya into the office ........ aur ek kana kali bhajaya ....... and then offered him some ice ..bandage and pain killers ........ and said ..... bhandya kaise bachaya ......... bhandya ' s face had by now turned black and blue ........ he muttered ........ B$$$%% ..bachaya ..... ya bajaya .... iskey badley ....... toh tyaanach maarney deta .......and then bhandya screamed arrey kaun melya ne mera haar aur agarbattiii acchey lal var pheka ta .......... Everybody looked at banerjee ........ and banerjee smiled cunningly ........
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