Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Lachchi is to be married to Kishan, Fact2: predetermined auspicious date happens to be day after wedding ceremony, Fact3: Kishan On turns to finish bookkeeping wedding night, Fact4: hours in sets off on business trip early morning, Fact5: ghost appears having taken Kishan 's shape and voice because of own attachment to Lachchi next day
Output (English): The movie is narrated by two puppets, voiced by Naseeruddin Shah and his reallife wife Ratna Pathak Shah. Enthusiastic young Lachchi Rani Mukerji is to be married to Kishan Shah Rukh Khan, the son of the rich merchant Bhanwarlal Anupam Kher. Kishan is a dutiful son who honors his fathers wish to start a new, faraway business on a predetermined auspicious date, which happens to be the day after the wedding ceremony. On the wedding night, Kishan turns away from his wife to finish his bookkeeping, and in the early morning hours sets off on a business trip that is to last five years. Lachchi is devastated; Gajrobai Juhi Chawla, her husbands sisterinlaw, consoles her, empathizing on the grounds that Gajrobais husband Sunderlal Sunil Shetty has also disappeared. The next day, a ghost appears, having taken Kishans shape and voice because of his own attachment to Lachchi. Lachchi is thus presented a riddle hence the title paheli between the representation of all of her desires in the form of the ghost and her real husband. She takes this new, fond, sexual, magical, social, selfconfident version of Kishan as hers. As Kishan, the ghost befriends all of the real Kishans family and keeps Bhanwarlal happy by providing him with magical, possibly illusory, gold coins. His only blunder is in his treatment of the messenger Bhoja, who is perplexed by the idea that Kishan has sent a letter from his business trip only to receive it himself in his own house and offended when the ghost who appears as Kishan does not offer him a drink of water. Lachchis bliss goes on until four years later, when she is pregnant and the real Kishan returns to see if the rumours about his wifes pregnancy are true. He returns to find the ghost in his Kishans own form. Kishans family is unable to determine which of the doppelgangers is the real Kishan the ghost refusing to confess. They decide to visit the king so that he can arbitrate. On the way to the king they meet an old shepherd Gadariya Amitabh Bachchan who helps them out. He asks the real son of Bhanwarlal to pick up hot coals, asks the real husband to gather the sheep, and asks Lachchis real paramour to enter a waterbottle. The real Kishan is found out and everyone returns home. Lachchi is devastated over the loss of the ghost. In the very end it is revealed that the ghost has escaped the bottle and taken control of Kishans body to live with her. By now Lachchi has given birth to a daughter, Looni Ma, by whom the ghost exposes his identity to Lachchi. The puppets close the story, remarking that the plot is an old story.