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V. Oberoi:

I think the hate metre is rising betweenus again.

V. Talwar:

Only because you're being a pain in the ass boss-hole.

There was no need to go off on the script team this morning.

You made one of them cry.

V. Oberoi:

The voiceover notes were ridiculous. I saw you roll your eyes, too.

What next? We pan seven hundred times onto the same face on screen with bad music to emphasise the drama?

V. Talwar:

That sounds like a very specific complaint.

V. Oberoi:

You haven't known true torture until you've watched Indian saas-bahu telenovelas with my mother.

V. Talwar:

. . .you watch telenovelas with yourmother?

V. Oberoi:

. . .it was under duress.

It's not like I wanted to! I had a broken leg. I couldn't escape!

I saw that laugh.

Just for that, you and your team are assigned to watch and analyse a telenovela of my choosing. Call it a marketing exercise.

I know one that's been running for twelve years.

V. Talwar:

The hell I. . . wait. TWELVE years?

V. Oberoi:

Wish I was kidding. The main female character has gotten married, divorced, fell off a cliff, got amnesia, plastic surgery, went to jail for killing her ex-husband, got married again, and still looks younger than her granddaughter.

Oh, and the new husband is having an affair with hersister. It's sick.

V. Talwar:

And you know all this because you "watched it under duress"? Aww :(

V. Oberoi:

I want the report in a week. Aww :)