Tit for Tat, Indu

Indravadan plays a trick on Maya, who is fed up with his pranks. Dinesh, while playing a card game [sic.] with Indravadan, drinks something and dies. Indravadan is shaken by this. Will anyone help him out?

## Plot

When Vithal comes across a photograph, Maya begins to narrate the story behind it. In the flashback, Maya's short story won the 'Short Story of the Year' award in the India Times newspaper; Maya and Indravadan were going out to celebrate. Indravadan gifts her an explosive gag gift that covers her face in black dirt. Later, Maya invites Sarita and her husband Dinesh over for "Shatranj and cocktails". After Maya plays what is made out be a good move of chess, Dinesh holds his throat, stands up, and then collapses. Sahil enters, checks his pulse, and determines that Dinesh is dead and that "this [was] a case of cardiac arrest". The family points to the orange drink Indravadan prepared as the likely cause of Dinesh's death. They blame Indravadan, who in turn claims innocence. Sahil announces that this is a police case, making Maya and Indravadan worry about Indravadan's fate. Sahil comes up with a plan to protect Indravadan: they'll hide Dinesh's body before Sarita arrives and explain that Dinesh received a phone call which prompted him to leave urgently. No one must mention that Dinesh sipped the orange drink. Sahil decides to wear Dinesh's clothes and drive his car to have alibis for Dinesh's departure from the building. Maya instructs Radha bai to distract the building's watchman and to loudly wish "Dinesh" goodbye as Sahil drives away. When Sarita suddenly arrives, Maya and Monisha get busy with distracting her outside as Sahil, Indravadan, and Rosesh deal with Dinesh's body. The manage to prop up Dinesh's body in a sitting position between Rosesh and Indravadan on a couch. When Madhusudhan and Ila arrive, they struggle to prevent the two from noticing the deception. As Madhusudhan reaches for one of the glasses of the orange drink, Rosesh rises to prevent him from taking a sip and Dinesh's body ends up lying on the couch. Right then Sarita enters with Maya and Monisha, frustrated by Maya's distraction tactics. Sarita then sees Dinesh lying on the couch and is shocked to learn that he's dead. Indravadan struggles to defend himself when Dinesh starts giggling and rises. Sahil, Dinesh, and Maya then reveal that they planned this out to scare Indravadan and exact revenge for his gag gift. We then return to present day. Maya then notices a box labelled "To Indoo. Private and Confidential. From E". Intrigued, Maya opens the box only to find that it was a gag gift just as Indravadan enters.

## Trivia

* In the first flashback, a book titled *God Alone* is visible next to Monisha's stack of clothes.
* Dinesh's father Janardhan Jagirdar—who was four years old at the time—went to watch the Bharat Chhodo Andolan with Madhusudhan in 1942. The two also burned clothes in protest against the British government in the Swadeshi market.

### Chess match

In the chess match between Maya and Dinesh, Maya has the white pieces. She is seen moving her knight from c5 to e6, exclaiming "check" and resulting in the position `1rbk3r/pp2n3/4Npp1/4b2p/2B3P1/4RQ2/P1PP1P1P/1PB1K2R b Kkq - 0 1`. It is unclear why or how there's a pawn on b1.