The Bet

What happens when you don’t believe in superstition, and are both agonizingly in love and short of money? Will you bet? Faith, like the one in a bet, can be a tumultuous attribute to cling on, particularly when it is ambiguous enough under a screen of hope — hope against hope. What happens to the smokescreen when you realize that whom you had trusted and betted with, was all the while, instead, pursuing a sinister plan, a hurtful betrayal? In the case of Amir, a young and smart call centre executive, newly married and trying to settle in this big, bad world, it spelled a compromise — a compromise between his own life and that of his beautiful wife Anjali, a choice he could neither accept nor attempt to ignore. Not until he tracked his faith back; to pursue, to fight. Would the unjust evil give in tamely, to a novice?