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Notification pings "Click and Win Cash Prize of Rs 100,000", someone takes up the Phone in Hand and Opens it up with fingerprint recognition and a smile is seen on her lip. She gets up and leaves the room, that moment in a hurry.
A conversation is heard from the Manager's cabin,
Manager: What do you all think of yourself? (Loud tone)
Employee: Heads bowed down
Manager: if Everyday I have to sanction a dozen of leaves, How will the work continue? Now I have to be answerable to my higher authority.
Employee: It's urgent sir, I promise, for the next one year I am not going to ask for a single leave.
Manager: Your need is urgent, Not this work? This is the last time I am leaving you but only for two days... Third day if you aren't here, you would be fired, keep in mind.
Employee : Thank you sir!!(Leaves the room)
In a Hospital ward, a nurse is trying to feed the patient but unable to, the patient is not taking a single spoon into his mouth, he continuously says, "I will not eat, you all leave me, my Sreeja Ma will come", but the doctor and nurses are worried as his condition is deteriorating time to time, Nobody can assure How long he lives.
Meanwhile, Sreeja visits her old Ballygunj house in Kolkata but finds nobody. She started worrying and whole lot of negative thoughts are rushing in her mind. She started roaming around the house asking people but nobody identified her at all. Sreeja, being down with tiredness, lost her patience and sat in a tea stall bench crying. The tea stall boy noticed her and asked,
Tea Stall Boy: What Happened Didi? Why are you crying?
Sreeja: (Not behaving well) It's none of your business..you do your work.
Tea Stall boy: You can tell me didi, I may be able to help you
Sreeja : (shouting rudely) Help me? Just a mere tea maker will help me? I don't need your help.
Some people gathered there in the tea stall looking at her and her behaviour towards a person. One of them from the crowd asked,
Person: what is going on here? Raja (tea stall boy) why is she talking to you like this, have you done anything wrong with her?
Raja: No sir! Don't you know me?
Person: What do you need girl? Tell us, we reside in this locality only.
Sreeja: (a little calm) I have come here directly from Bangalore but can't find my father Mr Adhiraj Banerjee at home.Our house no. Is 2/13.
Person: Oh! My God... You are that Sreeja, our Adhiraj Da's daughter. Right?
Sreeja: Yes! Do you know him?
Person: Of course I know but a few days ago he was returning from the bank and became unconscious near this tea stall, Raja and his father took him to the nearest hospital and admitted him. They only paid his bills till date and just some amount was paid by our committee where your father was a member. You come with us keep your luggage at our house for now and let's visit your father first.
Sreeja: Not a problem uncle! I have just a backpack and a little trolley, I'm taking with me. let's go...
The person and one more committee member take Sreeja to the city Hospital nearby. She meets his father there and takes a photo with him. Adhiraj was so happy to see his daughter after so many days, doctors and nurses were also happy that he would eat now.
Adhiraj: Sreeja Ma you have come!
Sreeja: yes father!! Today is Father's Day so, I am here...
Nurse: You are here miss..we are so glad he has not eaten a bit since yesterday, nobody of us could feed him. You please feed him
Sreeja: Dad! What is this? Why aren't you eating? Please take something.
Adhiraj: That's because, you will come and feed me!
Sreeja: No Father! They will only feed you, it's their job, not mine, they are paid for this, I have to leave now, my ticket is booked. If I don't go now I would be fired from office.
Sreeja immediately leaves from there. The doctor nurse and the committee members were looking blankly it the same. Adhiraj was silently crying at his daughter's act who was the closest to her.
Doctor: Don't worry Mr.Banerjee you please have this I will try to talk to her. Meanwhile, a voice was heard
Person: No need to talk to her, I am here
Doctor: Who are you Mr?
Person: Sister left, so what I am there ..I will be!! I am Rishiraj Banerjee I went to our locality and got to know everything.
Doctor: ok Mr.Rishiraj please do something.
Rishiraj goes ahead and feeds his father, and talks to the doctor about his condition. He paid half of the paid bills to the committee but Raja and his family didn't take it back, they considered Adhiraj to be their father-like member. Doctor understood some mismatch in their family but did not ask a bit. Adhiraj calls his son near him, holds him in her hand and starts crying.
Adhiraj: It's my fault, it's the result of my misdeeds of an early age.
Rishiraj: Forget everything, The day after tomorrow you'll be released and will be staying with me.
Adhiraj: No, No please don't do this
Rishiraj: Why?
Adhiraj: She will be uneasy, She won't be able to forgive me for my deeds.
Rishiraj: leave that upon me!! The nurse gives me the bowl.
Rishiraj feeds his father and leaves for the day. Two days later Rishiraj and Adrija, their mother visit the hospital. They take Adhiraj home as and when the Doctor discharges him. Adrija initially feels uneasy but day by day starts feeling for her husband and very slowly gets back to him through feeding him, spunging him and also watching movies together in the evening. Sreeja staying in Bangalore continues her work, she does not even know the current status of her family, and she neither bothers to as well. She won the second prize worth fifty thousand for the click and along with that she wrote a melodramatic story to catch the sympathy of the authorities. It was like "I am the younger sister of my brother, he bullied and tortured me during the childhood and my mother did not see his mistakes so she thought that I had done something wrong. This was continuing and I was getting depressed and mentally sick, seeing that my father got separated with me so I have only my father now staying at Kolkata, I went there even I got fired from my company for seeking leave but never stopped myself going there and spending the father's day together".
Actually, Adhiraj and Adrija were a couple with two children Rishiraj and Sreeja. Sreeja was older than Rishiraj by four-five years and she was a very good student she ranked first in every exam but Rishi was very shy at childhood, he did not interact with teachers, neither could he be in any rank. Sreeja continuously bullied her small brother for everything instead of staying beside and helping him, she even did not identify him as her brother in school. Adhiraj used to beat him for his results and complaints of his shyness. Rishiraj was becoming depressed out of being regularly bullied and being beaten badly. He started losing his mental stability. Adrija took him out of the house and started staying separately. She started a job and sidewise did a proper counselling of her son. She changed his school from where his sister studied to avoid the problems. Day by day Rishiraj changed himself, started studying and besides enjoyed his leisures with his mother. They went to movies, outings and restaurants. Sometimes he called his newly made friends to home and played together. His results started improving. When Rishiraj grew up and started doing his job, Sreeja was already in Bangalore in a respectable post but never took care of their father who brought her up with all the love and affection and every need being fulfilled. Rishiraj took care of her mother, asking her to retire as he got a good job to run the family alone. He even promised to rejoin and make the family complete. He kept track of his father's daily activities, bought his medicines and sent with the help of their maid and every other possible act without letting Adhiraj know. He was waiting for the right time to being him back to the family.
This is the story of the family and today Rishiraj successfully kept his promise but waits for his elder sister to return to them one day.
On the the whole, we can see how two children of the same parents celebrate the Father's Day. One is just planning for their own benefit that is the prize money for which she came back and did the showing off of love towards his father and the younger brother celebrates by doing all the duties he was supposed to even one day he was physically abused by the same person.