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🎭 ROMI N AAVI — CHAT ROOM
🛍️ PUJO SHOPPING: EMOTION ❤️ OR EXTRA EXPENSE 💸?
[Opening: ROMI is happily shopping. AAVI is walking behind her, overloaded with shopping bags.]
ROMI: Aavi! Stop! STOP! Look at that saree!
AAVI: Romi, I have been following you for two hours. At this point, I’m not your shopping partner. I’m your personal logistics department.
ROMI: Awwww… look at you carrying all my bags! So cute!
AAVI: Cute? My shoulders are filing a police complaint.
ROMI: Don’t be dramatic. Pujo shopping is an emotion!
AAVI: Emotion? Romi, this is not emotion. This is retail therapy with a criminal intent against my bank balance.
ROMI: Pujo comes only once a year!
AAVI: So does my annual bonus. And somehow your shopping manages to arrive before it.
ROMI: Because Pujo means new clothes!
AAVI: One new outfit? Absolutely. Two? Fine. But you’ve bought enough clothes to dress the entire para.
ROMI: Excuse me! Different days need different looks.
AAVI: Ah yes. Saptami: cute. Ashtami: elegant. Nabami: glamorous. Dashami: emotionally unavailable because the credit-card bill arrived.
ROMI: Shut up! You don’t understand the feeling.
AAVI: I understand the feeling. I just don’t understand why the feeling requires six shopping bags.
ROMI: Because every outfit has a story.
AAVI: Your wardrobe doesn’t have stories anymore. It has seasons.
ROMI: You’re jealous.
AAVI: Of your clothes?
ROMI: Of me.
AAVI: …Let’s not make this shopping trip unnecessarily expensive.
ROMI: Aha! That pause said EVERYTHING.
AAVI: Fine. Maybe you do look ridiculously good today.
ROMI: “Maybe”?
AAVI: I’m trying to maintain my dignity.
ROMI: Too late. You’re carrying my handbags.
AAVI: That’s called commitment.
ROMI: That’s called boyfriend material.
AAVI: I knew there was a hidden agenda behind all these bags.
ROMI: But seriously, Pujo shopping isn’t just about buying things. Remember when we were kids? Parents would take us shopping, we’d fight over what to buy, eat phuchka, have ice cream…
AAVI: And somehow our parents had unlimited patience.
ROMI: Exactly! That’s the emotion.
AAVI: Okay, I’ll give you that. The excitement of getting something new before Pujo is different.
ROMI: See! Finally, some intelligence.
AAVI: Don’t push it.
ROMI: Even the smell of new clothes, crowded markets, Pujo songs playing everywhere… it feels like the festival has officially started.
AAVI: True. The shopping itself becomes part of the celebration.
ROMI: THANK YOU!
AAVI: But…
ROMI: Oh no. Here comes the “but.”
AAVI: We’ve also turned Pujo into a five-day fashion Olympics.
ROMI: And?
AAVI: Everyone wants a new outfit every day, new shoes, new accessories, new makeup…
ROMI: Because why repeat a look?
AAVI: Because your closet doesn’t need a daily software update!
ROMI: Fashion has no expiry date.
AAVI: Your credit limit does.
ROMI: You are such a buzzkill.
AAVI: I’m a financial awareness campaign with cheekbones.
ROMI: And yet you’re still carrying my bags.
AAVI: Because apparently my financial awareness has no backbone.
ROMI: There’s another problem though. Pujo gifting!
AAVI: OH GOD. Don’t remind me.
ROMI: Every year: “What should I give them?”
AAVI: Then begins the annual Bengali Olympics: sweets, clothes, cosmetics, dry fruits, gift hampers…
ROMI: And if you don’t give something?
AAVI: Someone will remember it until Pujo 2032.
ROMI: Exactly!
AAVI: We’ve somehow converted affection into gift economics.
ROMI: That’s actually true.
AAVI: “You gave me a ₹1,500 gift, I gave you a ₹1,800 gift. So technically, our relationship has generated ₹3,300 in GDP.”
ROMI: Stop! 😂
AAVI: And then someone posts: “Feeling blessed with my Pujo family.”
ROMI: While secretly checking the price tag.
AAVI: EXACTLY!
ROMI: But gifting is also emotional.
AAVI: Yes. When it’s from the heart.
ROMI: Not because society expects it.
AAVI: Now you’re making sense.
ROMI: Don’t sound so shocked.
AAVI: I’m proud of you.
ROMI: Aww.
AAVI: Don’t get emotional. I’m still not buying that handbag.
ROMI: I wasn’t asking you to buy it.
AAVI: Good.
ROMI: I already bought it.
AAVI: …WITH MY CARD?!
ROMI: Relax, Mr. Budget Control. Your card is only carrying the emotional burden.
AAVI: ROMI!
ROMI: Come on! One more shop.
AAVI: ONE MORE?
ROMI: Promise.
AAVI: You said that three shops ago.
ROMI: This one is different.
AAVI: How?
ROMI: It has a SALE.
AAVI: That’s exactly how every financial disaster begins.
ROMI: Aavi… carry these two?
AAVI: Fine.
ROMI: You’re the sweetest.
AAVI: I know.
ROMI: And handsome.
AAVI: Keep talking.
ROMI: And—
AAVI: Suddenly I have energy for another five shops.
ROMI: See? Pujo shopping creates happiness!
AAVI: For you.
ROMI: And for you.
AAVI: Unfortunately… yes.
[ROMI walks ahead happily. AAVI follows, carrying the bags and smiling.]
AAVI: But after Pujo, we’re discussing your credit-card statement.
ROMI: After Pujo, darling. Don’t destroy the festive mood.
AAVI: Fine. Happy Pujo, shopping queen.
ROMI: Happy Pujo, my favourite shopping assistant. ❤️
AAVI: Assistant?
ROMI: Okay… favourite human trolley. 😘
AAVI: I knew romance was involved somewhere.
[Both laugh.]
🎙️ BOTH:
“PUJO TE SHOPPING HOBE, EMOTION-O HOBE… BUT WALLET-TAKEO BANCHATE HOBE!” 😂❤️
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