A story ?

After watching the film Bhuter Bhabishwatyat I suddenly remembered

a long forgotten story -heard from one of my friends. It was like this:-

A young man who belonged to a Zamindar family, took his friends to

visit his nearly abandoned ancestor's Palace near Murshidabad. It was,

of course, not in good shape as it used to be before the abolition of

Zamindari.

There was a big portrait at the center of the large corridor-it was the

portrait of his great grandfather -with a big mustache and a stern Royal

look. This young man ,actually, previously decided to play pranks with

his three friends , who accompanied him. His idea was to tell them a

cock and bull story and create an environment of suspense. He told a

thrilling story about the man in the portrait and finally ended up -giving

an impression that his ghost is sometime seen walking along the corridor

at midnight.

To make his plan successful he conspired with the caretaker-who was to

dress and act like his ancestor, of course , with that big mustache and roam

along the corridor at midnight.

At the right time he cooked up a story about his great grandfather and created

the required suspense. They grew nervous as midnight was already there !(It

must be remembered that there was no electricity & the single hurricane light

 was lowered)

When midnight really struck the entire suspense already reached its highest.

And when they finally saw the ghost walking along the corridor -it was too

much for them . They lost their consciousness !

Finding his plan very successful the young man ran up stair to congratulate

the caretaker for his wonderful acting. He found him lying unconscious before

the mirror. After sprinkling water he regained himself but looked flabbergasted.

The story he related was horrible as well as fearful !

Just before midnight when he was fixing the great mustache -he saw a face

through the mirror -standing near the open door, watching him sternly.

He was the man in the portrait !!