This Bloody Country

Shyam & Radha meet in college, fall in love and get into clandestine marriage when things get very intimate. But Shyam's family coerce him to marry Meera. Radha has an evil aunt who misinforms Shyam about her character being loose. Shyam ends up marrying Meera. Time passes, Radha gives birth to a boy. Meera gets to know of this. She brings the baby home lying to Shyam that the kid is hers. Shyam does not know that its actually his kid and begins to hate both Meera and the kid. Eventually Shyam and Radha meet again and old sparks are re-ignited... —<prempujari@criclive.com> Widower Barrister Shukla lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with his daughter, Rekha. His sister, Subadra, and her husband passed away in an automobile accident, and he undertook to look after their son, Shyam, who runs the family business along with his paternal cousin, Rajan. Shyam meets with Radha, both fall in love with each other and get intimate. His uncle wants him to visit Shivcharan Sharma and meet his daughter. Shyam does so, and the door is opened by none other than Radha herself, so Shyam thinks it's destiny that's uniting the two lovers, and informs his uncle that he approves of Sharma's daughter. He then travels abroad, returns home after several months, goes to meet with Radha and that's when he finds out that Radha was really a prostitute, having multiple affairs, worked as a servant with the Sharmas, and the girl he was supposed to marry is Meera. He changes his mind about Radha, and gets married to Meera. On the very first night Meera informs him that she is a mother of a baby, Shyam gets repulsed and decides to stay away from his bride. Matters get even more muddier after Radha re-enters his life, and Rajan informs the family that he was Meera's lover and the biological father of the baby. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)