Twist in the tale

Picture this:

Story 1

A small town beautiful girl flirts with 4 guys, who always try to impress her by cajoling her in their own peculiar manner, only to disappear one fine night .Police catches all the 4 guys as the prime suspect of her disappearance. But the girl comes back next morning, after getting married to the 5th guy whose existence was not known to any of her 4 lovers. Her 4 ex- lovers end up making all arrangements for her wedding and laughing at each other.

Story 2

A live- in convenience relationship, which is on the verge of dismantling, as the guy becomes possessive over the girl's alleged involvement with one of her colleagues. The guy gets abusive day after day and the girl comes closer to her colleague, more so because of her voilent partner. One fine day her partner feels guilty of being volient and abusive to her and begs for her pardon only to be denied in lieu of her newly found romance. Girl's newly found romance ends when her colleague discloses that he can't marry her and he is a gay. This prompts the girl to return to her convenience partner, who accepts her with all dignity.

Story 3
A newly wed couple decides to rent a house and finally zeroes in on a place. But the only problem is that the owner of the place is another couple who are weird in its own peculiar way. While the landlord is a handicapped person, who is always suspicious of his new tenants, the landlady is a divorcee, who chews "pan" all day. The tenant owns a shop and his wife spends time with the landlady which her husband disapproves. Meanwhile, the tenant is always advised to bolt the backdoor at night which he easily ignores. The tenant thinks that the landlady secretly likes him and makes advances towards him when she tries to help him proactively. This makes him bolder and he decides to take advantage of her. One day, he returns early from his shop and discovers his wife is out for shopping. This is the perfect time to execute his plans and the landlady makes it easy by coming to his place to discuss important matter. This encourages him to make a move but as he is about to make the first move, she tells him that her wife has a secret lover, who comes every night from the backdoor which is kept open every night, even after many reminders by her.

Story 4

The marriage registrar’s office, a girl and a guy waiting (not a couple mind you) in the queue. The workplace is about to break for lunch. The people waiting in the queue have dispersed
except for the two, who are apparently waiting for their respective fiancés. They get started when the people they have been waiting for land up. And who are they? Who hate the look of each other? Start fighting at the sight of other? Well … they were living-together before…and so they meet again…and what could possibly happen? They keep coming up with things like “you burnt my magazines right? You didn’t call back after I left a message…. etc. etc. etc. so the other two who watch them fight, get bored and decide to marry each other. So that leaves us with the two of them again. And you can guess what happens.

Story 5
Sober looking guy sitting behind bars gazing at the flies on the ceiling. Beautiful reporter walks in. A smile of this guy’s face, not because she’s beautiful because she’s there to prove him innocent. Swears that he did not kill any of those who died after a dose of a drug brewed by him. They all had other reasons behind their death…the female who died last was insane, the man before her was drunk and driving. He had not drugged them without their knowledge. No we have this reporter babe who says gimme a dose and lets prove that you have nothing to do with those supposedly murders. Our man has a satisfied, almost insanely sneer on his face and he plunges the syringe needle. Signs of her feeling week…he says softly, “don’t worry, it wont hurt, I am not going to let anyone die painfully after what I saw happening to my parents…everyone will rest in peace…I didn’t kill them”.

Story 6

Lady sipping coffee listening to the Radio. The radio jockey’s narrating a story, reminds her of what happened 10 years back. He will be back today after 10 years. Turn back the time, she was young, living alone in the same bungalow near the sea. Her best friend was visiting her to spend the whole of the day. He was her only friend…they have had wonderful times together… but this night, something was wrong. He was drunk, so was she but the difference being she was sober. There came an end to their platonic relationship, once he told her what was on his mind. She sends him away, the bell rings …thinks her friend’s back apologizing…but no. There is this complete stranger walking in as if it were his own house. Says the cops are after him for a murder he isn’t involved. She doesn’t want to believe him but cant help falling for him. They sit around together chatting and now believes him. Bell ringing again, not the cops but her friend…who gets knocked out cold and apparently killed in a tiff. The bell rings again, it’s the cops this time…the stranger’s caught for a murder this murder and not the one he was suspected for. 10 years later he’s back today…and they decide to spend the rest of their lives with each other.

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All these are not fictitious stories created by me but a 1 hour long serial called Star Bestsellers, which used to air sometime in early 2000s. The unique thing about Star Bestsellers is that every episode was directed by the most promising young directors (Tigmanshu Dhulia of Haasil fame, Anurag Kashyap etc), and was enacted by the most brilliant TV actors (Irfan Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Kay Kay and Harsh Chayya etc) at that time.

Nowadays, the repeat of this serial is ON on Saturdays at 4:30 AM, Sundays at 2:30 AM and Mondays at 00:30 AM. Do watch it and u wont regret !!