Chaitra offers to give Shree her old camera
phone.
“Let us meet on Sunday. Then I will take your
snap. And give you my old phone.”
Shree has always wished for a phone with a
camera. She types, “Where shall we meet?”
Chaitra types, “Come to the railway station.”
Shree asks, “What time?”
Chaitra decides, “When the Bengaluru train
reaches there.”

Akka comes into the room just then to clean it.
“What are you doing, Shree?”
“I have a new friend, Akka!”
Akka looks over Shree’s shoulder at Chaitra’s profile picture.
“But that’s the film actress Ilike so much, Madhoo. She’s your friend?”
“Yes, but her name is Chaitra.”

Akka laughs and shakes her head. “That’s Madhoo, I’ve seen all her films. She must be so old now.”
“She’s the same age as me!” insists Shree.
“No, no, she’s as old as I am,” says Akka.
“That snap was taken when she was still in school. It is from her first movie.”

Shree is angry with Akka, then stops to think.
Is Chaitra using someone else’s picture—
a film star’s?