Nikhil's day

At an engagement lunch in UB City, Meera Iyer recognises Aryan Khanna, the groom her family has begun treating as a verified match, as the same man Nikhil cleared two years earlier under the name Sameer Malhotra. Aryan publicly calls him “the investigator from Mumbai,” turning Nikhil’s old work into a status joke while Meera’s mother demands an immediate answer about his marriage status. In the same family WhatsApp thread, relatives remind Nikhil that another failed engagement could embarrass his parents, and his mother asks him to avoid another public scandal. He accepts Meera’s commission on the condition that she delays the accusation, then opens the old file and sees the photograph he once treated as proof.