*NEEDS PICS* Adhura S1E4

Previously on Adhura

Now: Episode 4 "The Boy Who Lives Inside Vedant"

Language of Origin: हिन्दी (Hindi)

It is lights out for the little kiddos at Nilgiri. In the infirmery are 2 people who are overseeing Vedant who is asleep in the cot nearby. Both are of them are watching the latebreaking news about Suyash, since he was a famous TV actor and all. The woman then notes that she feels all this freaky events pretty much started with that one kid. Vedant. The other man, Kumaran, was actually the one to have found Verdant back in the first episode with the slain puppies. He admits that there may be more to the story as he notes that he caught a glimpse of a sinister side that perhaps liked seeing the suffering but on the other hand, he saw a glimpse of a scared boy. He believes that there is 2 Vedant's.

Timeline: The Night of the Puppy Killing

So for the night in question is when Vedant awoke in the middle of the night to the ghostly Ninad who eerily whispered his name then slowly walks away. Vedant actually follows him! Upon opening the gate they trek right by the late Vyas' living quarters.

Vedant is just as confused as we are watching it lol. Ninad vanishes. Vedant says out loud "What do you want from me?" The second he finished his question, the outdoor lights go haywire and Vedant is holding his head while the ghostly Ninad is whispering to him "If you let me, I'll help you. No one will ever bully you." He keeps repeating this over and over a few times until Vedant trips on the ground.

He crawls over and grabs a rod. Oh no! There's the 2 puppies in question to his right. However to his left is a grown ass dog that is snarling at him. He does nothing but then the dog starts to run at him but during the run, an unseen force rips the hell out of it. The blood splatter gets on Vedant's white PJs. In such a quick succession before he can comprehend what happened, he looks at the puppies but alas, they are unfortunately dead.

Ghost Ninad appears before him and grips Vedant's arm and says "The puppies had to die because the mother has to be taught a lesson. I won't let anybody hurt you." And he stares into Ninad's undead eyes. I guess this is symbolism of possession or something. The next scene is Vedant who is standing up straight looking menacing yet fierce.

Vedant jolts up from his dream. OR IS IT?

Adhiraj is in his room where he is recollecting the events that just happened. Ya know, where Vedant comes scarily walking up to him? How did he make it back to his room? We'll never know. He turns off the lamp right next to his 2 medication bottles chilling nearby as he looks through his bedding for the now missing Shadow Boy comic. The second he stands up with his back turned, he hears a FLICK. To his horror, he turns around and the lamp is turned back on and one of his medication bottles is missing!

What in tarnation is going on here.

Upon turning the lamp back off, his phone gets a pink. It's the news reporting on Suyash's suicide citing depression implying it was due to his recently cancelled show. The reporter also states that Niligiri Valley School has not commented about the incident.

the next day Dean KC Swamy and a police officer (captions labeled him under SSP) Anil Joshi are seen walking through the outside of the campus discussing the reporters and how out of all places he just HAD to keel himself at his reunion. Anil just says to leave it all to them to handle the investigation. Upon walking to SSP's vehicle, he proceeds to tell Swamy that him and Vyas had a special understanding. Not quite sure what that means yet but yeah. 

Mavika seeks out Supriya to share her concerns with Adhiraj's obsession with this closure with Ninad. She believes that because Adhiraj is too focused on this that it is causing him to spiral out of control. Due to Suyash, Malvika is doesn't want another incident like that to happen again. She doesn't want to miss any more red flags and she feels Supriya is unknowingly enabling Adhiraj's well being for fear of him going down Suyash's fate.

Supriya next visits Vedant where a nurse immediately goes to her to inform her that he caught a cold. In fact, just the night before Vedant went missing during supper time and had a case of the sleepwalk. 

After the nurse walks off, Supriya does to Vedant's bed side to tell him that if he wants her to help him, he has to be willing to be open with her. Then this little slugger blurts out he has super powers. This is totally a real I Like Turtles moment for ya. His superpower is that no one can scare the beejeezus out of him anymore. He then to tell Supriya with the same dead pan look on his face about the puppies. He admitted to killing the puppies despite not wanting to. "He" said it was the only way to teach the mother dog to not hurt him again. 

"We have to teach them ALL a lesson."

Super creeped, Supriya demands to know who told him this shit. But his fever is starting to spike as the nurse was doing vitals and he becomes conveniently unresponsive. So is forced to leave so he can rest in the mean time. Not like he is going anywhere anyway. She has no choice but to step out but to say she is disturbed is an understatement. 

KC Swamy has some damage to control. He is holding a meeting with all the Old Boys and they are not pleased. Why? Because they are essentially in lockdown until the investigation is completely. According to them, it doesn't make sense since all them were clearly outside and witnesses to Suyash's suicide so they should be cleared of suspects right? Well, it ain't that easy.

Next is a car that flies by, the trustee, Dev and Malvika. Swamy is not amused.

Of course, they are stopped at the locked gate as SSP says so. OMG Rajat is in the backseat too. Dev just sighs and whips out his phone to call daddy. And just like that, he is given permission to leave the premises. WTF is this shit, right?

Thinking they are free to finally fucking leave, some unknown thing hits their car. Pulled over to the side, Dev and Rajat step out to check the damage. They follow weird screeches. Oh deer! They hit a deer and it looks fuuuuuucked up. The car is too so they have no choice but to walk back to the school.

Adhiraj makes his way to Supriya's office but I think this cat gets lost along the way. As he is walking through a hallway he hears a struggle behind a certain door. He tries to open the door but dang, tis locked and before know you it, blood starts seeping from under the door. Chandra Prakask appears behind him to tappa tap on his shoulder to see what's up. When Adhiraj turns back around to face the door, suddenly there's no more blood so like what's up with that, man?

As the three makes their walk of shame back on campus, Rajat is too distraught thinking about that poor deer they left behind but Dev tells him to STFU so he can go talk to the police. This leave Rajat and Malvika to chat for a bit. 

Rajat noted just how much of a big dog Dev is. Back in the the school days, he admits and him and Suyash really pushed themselves to impress him enough to want to be friends with them. In the same breath, he wonders out loud how things would have been if Malvika and Adhiraj never broke up. How would their lives be like?

Of course, before she can even have a chance to reply anything back Dev rejoins the group as they are once again confined to the school and the trio walk back.

In an urgent manner, and I mean VERY urgent manner, Adhiraj is pleading with Supriya to let him speak with Vedant as he has reason to believe he has a connected to Ninad. Supriya tries to discourage him from doing. She acknowledges his anxiety and thinks that speaking with Vedant will worsen his mental health. 

Ooohhhhhhh Adhiraj did NOT like hearing that! He gives the biggest puppy eyes he could possibly make (too soon?) She still says no.

In hopes of getting the kids in better spirits, they are hosting a movie night and yes, Vedant is in attendance so yay! He is all smiles and everything. Supriya's phone starting to buzz so she excuses herself to answer it. It's from a woman named Apu. She tells her that she needs help herself and urges her to come home. Supriya ain't about that life so she hangs up on Apu.

While she continues to walk down the hallway she hears steps behind her that sound...moist as fuck. As she goes inside her office, she snaps her head to the left as she thought she heard a kid call out for her. Little does she know that the ghost of Ninad is sitting in her office and slowly picks up his lopsided head to turn towards her. As she heads back in the office he's gone. But the chair he was sitting in starts to swivel, just out of her eye sight. Uh oh. 

Malvika takes a stroll inside the building and stops at Adhiraj's door. Yeah, they have their own gold plate on their doors. How fancy! 

Timeline: 2007 Last Day of School After the Adihiraj's Fight with Ninad

Teenaged Adhiraj runs up to teenaged Malvika asking if she has seen Ninad. Both are completely unaware how each other are feeling. Malvika snaps at him in front of the everybody. Literally everybody. Adhiraj snaps as well and of course no one reacts to Malvika's contempt but the second Adhiraj raises his voice, Dev pops out from the shadows to come to her side. But yeah. This was the very moment that they officially broke up.

Timeline: Current

After Malvika replayed that argument in her head, she decides to knock on Adhiraj's door to check up on him. He opens the door and the first words out of his mouth was "Ninad has been missing since the last day of school. He never returned home."

Meanwhile Dev is outside chilling with his homies. After someone mentioned spotting Adhiraj heading to his room compounded with the fact that he knows his wifey wanted to head to bed too, he gets some drunken courage.

Adhiraj tells the same song and dance to Malvika and that was his reasoning why he wants to push to re-open the investigate for their lost friend. She is starting to feel guilt as she didn't know the whole scope of the situation and apologizes for judging a little too harshly that he was going a little cuckoo. This leads Malvika to confess a little something. What Rajat told her earlier was seriously replaying through her mind this whole time and she admits that the only reason she came to this silly reunion was for Adhiraj. The what if's...

Dev comes storming down the hallway and gets infuriated when he goes in his room to see wifey not there. Oooohhhhh he is fuming angry. Like one of those type of scary anger where they are just silent but the facial expressions just say it all? Yeah Dev has that look on him. Right across the hall is Adhiraj's room and he motions towards it when he opens the door. 

When they are face to face that is when Malvika emerges from Dev's room asking what's up? She was just taking a tinkle in the little girls room so what even??? How convenient right? Dev is totes not convinced. Gives Adhiraj the eye daggers and walks off. Even though he can't prove it, his gut don't lie. Poor fella. 

Needless to say all three join everyone outside whom are drinking and having a smoke. Adhiraj goes to Parth to ask if he can seem to remember seeing Ninad on the day he went missing. Not much to go on but he says that his last sighting of him was when Ninad told him he was heading to the assembly hall.

Not surprising at all but in the background Dev and Malvika are definitely have a heated discussion about his suspicions. 

Rajat comes up to Adhiraj to show him his hand that he swears got scorched when he touched that Shadow Boy comic just the day before. Looks like his hand is getting worse and worse. People around just downplay it mainly because Rajat was kind of a jerk to them in their school years so it is hard to feel sympathy for someone who was an asshole to ya prior, ya know?

After their heated conversation comes to a close, Malvika walks away with such a distressed look on her face and guess where Dev heads to next? Yup, he takes a seat right next to Adhiraj.

Actually he is not here to talk shit. It turned out to be a bittersweet conversation because he is now clued in to the real story behind Ninad. Well, the story so far that is. If anything Dev shows immense sympathy and compassion for Ninad. 

Adhiraj, on the other hand is feeling loads of guilt and the sadness on his face as Dev is saying it out loud. How tough it was for Ninad. Put yourself in his shoes: He was studyiing in an all boys school being bullied then realizing he is gay then having his world crash around him when he realizes sharing his confession to his best friend is not requited. It must hurt. It's awesome that Dev is not like Suyash or Rajat. He's definitely different from them. That's why I like Dev so far. I'm glad they didn't make Dev, husband to Malvika,a bad guy at all. But yeah with all that being acknowledged, he assures Adhiraj that Ninad is probably fine and simply just wanted to avoid embarrassment facing his classmates. Just simply ran away. Just let it go.

And this is what breaks my heart because as heartfelt and compassionate Dev was, Adhiraj doesn't have the capacity to react so he excuses himself back inside.

As the movie is playing for the little children and everyone is laughing except for Sarthak, Ms. Sneha, one of the teachers there, realizes that Vedant is no longer in his seat. Well, fuck. Luckily she was able to spot him just as he was trying to tip top out of there. That silly kid!

However. he stops dead ass and refuses to turn around. When Ms. Sneha walks up to him, before she can tap his shoulder, kids start screaming!

Upon running back in the room, the projector spontaneously combusted and it ablaze. Everyone runs out of the room Then Vedant just resumes go on his merry way.

Supriya was no where near the movie event going on as she was in her office. On her laptop she was actually looking up Ninad where she inevitably found the news article on his disappearance. What really strikes odd to her is that when she tried to look up his name in the Nilgiri Valley School database, it returned NO FILES FOUND. Yo, WTF?

Holy hell, she is starting to hear slow footsteps just down the hall way. She gets out of her chair and proceeds to cautiously walk to her door. When she peers around the corner it is actually Sarthak, Vedant's bully. He timidly tells her "He will kill us all." but who?? she asks.

"The boy who lives inside Vedant."

Things are going to hell in a hand basket now but before any further conversation is to be had, Ms. Sneha comes rushing into the hallway to tell her about the fire and the boy in question is missing. SHIT! So she urging goes to look for him.

Rajat is in his room now and still drinking but oh my gosh the redness is starting to travel down his arm but that's not the worst part. As he looks at his arm he can see something literally crawling in his skin *cue Linkin Park's "Crawling" theme*. He continues to stare in horror as it travels up his arm then to his wrist and right into his finger. Cup he was holding smashes into bits and his hand suddenly snaps to his neck, chocking himself. 

He falls to the ground, gasping for breath so as arm as a mind of its own he cannot even call for help.

And the same exact time this is happening, nurses successfully hunted down Vedant and restrain him as he is placed back in his bed. Poor Vedant is squirming and contorting as nurses are trying to hold him down and injext him with sedatives. When it takes full effect and is no longer struggling...

Rajat has also stoped struggling.

But he no die. Not yet anyway. Kidding! This is my first time watching this show so I don't know at all for his fate. But yeah Some short moments later he bangs on Dev's door to tell him the mindfuckery he just went through. Dev tells him to slow his roll and invites him in the room.

Meanwhile Sarthak is already in bed and he is completely uneasy. So what the heck happened on that night he got traumatized in question?

Timeline: Immediately after the "He better not snitch." conversation

Sathak has a bag in his hand and makes his way to Vedant who is brushing his teeth alone in the communal bathroom. As soon as he lifts the bag, intending to put it over Vedant''s head, it obviously never came to fruition. The bag stops dead ass mid air while Vedant is staring at him through the mirror.

As soon as Vedant snaps to give direct eye contact with him is when the bag is suddenly on Sarthak's head. He wriggles and convulses. Even the audacity to beg for help. He eventually falls to the ground and bag gets released from his head. 

Vedant says in an otherworldly voice, "Stay away from Vedant or like the others, you will die too."

In the mirror reflection is a decomposed Ninad.

Timeline: Current time.

Sarthak jolts up in bed in utter, utter fear. Little does he know he has a little visitor. 

Episode 5 is next.