Dream 1 : Ramu is an MLA of the Bongress party
Ramu is an honourable MLA of the Bongress Party who is being wooed by the Progressive Janata Party (PJP). As he wafts through his dream, the figure of 40 keeps ringing in his mind. It’s a very happy ring. 40 crores, 40 crores, he sings, But Ramu is also a planner. Some of that will go towards a big house for his large family, a farmhouse for his weekends (psst psst ), and a few nice big cars. After all, he needs to show “Progress”. Then the daughter needs to immediately acquire some foreign degrees, so colleges must be found. Of course, there’s a small issue of admissions, but then the dotting dad has the dosh for all of that.
After waking up, he is all smiles, so Mrs. Ramu, who has laid out a hearty breakfast asked her MLA and soon-to-be ‘progressive’ MLA why he looked so happy. Ramu feels he was not dreaming at all and it is all true and he shares his dream with his lady, making sure to add what he would get for the lady of the progressive household after his move to the PJP. With each sentence, her smile grows bigger, and she said, “There is also no tendering there”, and laughs happily. She finally gives Ramu the tightest hug she ever did. Marriage with benefits you see. The benevolent Ramu chips in “I’ll give about two hundred rupees to help the poor with what I get”
Dream 2: Ramu is a reader of history, especially Mughal history with Shah Jahan in it
The dream stars. Ramu is walking on the tree-lined boulevard of Campal, near Kala Academy, in deep thought about a chapter on Shah Jahan he read in one Mughal history book. Going past Shah Jahan, being the father of Aurangzeb and all of that, he comes to the part about the building of the Taj Mahal.
While he marvelled at the painstaking labour of love, he came to the part in that book where Shah Jahan ordered that the hands of the architect and workers who built the Taj Mahal be chopped off so that they would never build such a masterpiece again. As he remembered his reading, while still dreaming about his Campal work, he trembles with fear. Thus, a dream had become a nightmare. Ramu is really relieved to wake up, but the shiver down his spine still hasn’t gone away.
