The End. Or The Beginning. Whatever.

Seeing as the excitement of her budday is now over ... or at least calmed down a bit, here's the last part that you've been waiting for so eagerly.

Neelam, being the super naagin, manages to save Nero. Vitamin saves Baby. The girls have a catfight over "Nero mera hai!!" while Nero fiddles and wonders wtf is going on. Neelam is abt to win (considering she DOES have naagin powers)... but acquiecses. she, then confesses to not being interested in Nero, but in his royal coin pendant. She tells them the story of how Nero is the only royal heir and can free her lover. Her plan was to seduce Nero and steal the pendant to free her lover!

Nero promises to help.

The four of them fly off to the palace on the magic carpet. By the time they arrive, there's a "homecoming" party being thrown for Karan Singh's daughter. 3 of them enter as dancers with the band, while Neelam takes her naagin form and slithers down to the dungeons. Vitamin falls in love with the princess.

At the party, Baby does an item number with Vitamin to the tunes of "Mehbooba Mehbooba" and they manage to distract everybody while Nero enters the dungeons. The sultan gets wind of someone breaking in to the dungeon and expecting only the wizard, he tells his guards to "check it out".

However, when the guards realizes that it is Nero - because he's still wearing the coin pendant - they join forces with him and help him fight Karan Singh and his evil goons. After a fight involving magic swords and flying dragons, Nero is forced to retreat to the dilapidated maa kali temple where he is reunited with his mother.

Karan Singh challenges Nero to come out and fight by saying that he would easily kill Nero and get the coin to ultimate power.

Karan Singh: "Mere paas flying dragons hain, riyaasat hai, harem hai... tumhare paas kya hai?"

Nero: Mere paas maa hai.

Nero, Baby and maa exit the mandir to the Tashan background score...

Rejuvenated by his "maa ka aashirwad", Nero manages to defeat Karan Singh in the duel. Neelam is finally reunited with her naag. Vitamin continues to attempt to romance the ex-princess (who is allowed to retain her princess rights). Baby weds nero and they take over as king and queen and restore peace and prosperity.

Aage hua yeh

The beginning

Nero, meanwhile, is rescued by a passing dolphin who carries him to safety and leaves him at a sapera basti on an island far far away where he is adopted by Vitamin Singh's (Arshad Warsi) father who teaches him to make fiddles. In the meantime, Karan Singh takes over the throne, and begins ravaging the land and hoarding women for his harem. He, however, cannot use any of the charmed coins. He binds the wizard, breaks his wand and dumps him in the dungeon as well in an attempt to seize the coins. The wizard lends his magic carpet to his ichchadhaari naagin, Neelam (Bipasha Basu) and tells her to scour the earth and oceans and find "the one" coin as only it would now be able to free him and reunite her with her lover, who guarded the royal treasure.

Nero is happy with his footloose and fancyfree lifestyle and is a regular at the local bar, "bay-bee" with Vitamin. The bar-owner's daughter Baby (Kareena Kapoor) is in love with Nero. Nero, initially plays hard-to-get because he thinks she's way out of his league. Baby breaks out into a remixed version of "Pathhar ke sanam"... after some antics by Vitamin, Nero realizes that he does, afterall love Baby. Nero sings romantic song (main tera nero hoon), to now convince the "I-can-play-hard-to-get-too-and-I-do-it-better-than-you" Baby which ends up with Nero asking her to marry him. She goes home, tells her father to go and speak to Nero's adoptive dad and happily breaks into "Silsila yeh chahat ka". Nero, eavesdropping, then discovers that she has loved him since they were kids and has filled an empty beer bottle with kerosene and lit a diya, which she has kept lit all these years.

Both fathers agree to the wedding and the date's set. Vitamin throws Nero a bachelors party, which has Neelam dancing to "raat bhar jaam se, jaam takraayega" for the boys. Neelam tries to hit on Nero, who turns down her advances. Obviously, Neelam doesn't take this very well. She now starts stalking him and sings "aap jaisa koi meri zindagi mein aaye". A day before the wedding, she locks Baby in the bathroom, hangs a sign of "out of order" on the door, dons Baby's avatar and turns up at the wedding.

However, non-english reading audiences open the bathroom door and un-gag Baby. Baby turns up at the wedding scene and insists she's the real bride. Nero challenges her to prove it. She runs up and gets her beer bottle diya which is still lit. Neelam gets back into her own form... and confesses to being an ichchadhaari naagin. They both duel to a song (main teri sautan, sautan tu meri... main naagin tu hai baby...) which ends in Neelam smashing the diya. It sets the mandap on fire.

Nero: Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil

Blogger's block and Life continue to plague me so I have nothing to post. Catty has kindly come to my rescue though and provided me much fodder, while she's still on a roll at her own space. Gotta appreciate that! Now, I don't know how many of you followed the lengthy discussion that happened between Amey, Catty and I over an actual movie called Nero, but having now appointed ourselves director, writer/lyricist and producer, respectively, here's presenting Catty's very vivid script... in parts.

A beautiful land, very far away is ruled by a just and kind king who is obsessed with things Roman . All is well in the land except that the king can't have children. His evil half-brother karan singh (Arbaaz Khan) seeks to usurp the throne, and live happily ever after with his harem. Karan Singh has instructed the queen's maid to add 'the pill' to the queen's tea every morning. However, the maid's loyalty gets the better of her and eventually, Nero (Abhay Deol) is conceived.

On Nero's birth, the king speaks to the court wizard and they conjure up 200 new coins to symbolise the new era. The coins bear a picture of the king and queen with the royal heir on one side and the royal seal on the other. These coins are magical, as the royal wizard has charmed them. Every year, till Nero turns 20, 10 new coins would become visible in the chest. These coins would bestow upon the ruler (presumably Nero) one super power per year. The loophole is that if in the wrong hands, the superpowers could be used adversely - to plunder and destroy. And only the royal heir could stop the mayhem.

The wizard then puts the coins in a box and curses one of his ichchadhaari naags that he will guard the coins for Nero. Only the royal heir with the "one" coin would be allowed by the snake to touch the chest and take the coins. Once nero is over 20, and has taken all the coins out, he would be able to free the snake and return him to the state of his choice by gifting him the coin he wore around his neck. He then puts one coin, strung on a gold chain, around Nero's neck.

Karan Singh, however, overhears the first part of this "private" discussion and decides to get rid of Nero. He throws a party for nero's first birthday, aboard a ship. (cue Sunny paaji doing a "Lucky Kabootar")

While the guests are busy watching the item number, Karan Singh pays one of the maids to throw Nero aboard. He is unaware of the coin around baby nero's neck. The king suffers a stroke and dies. The queen, heartbroken, withdraws to a dilapidated kaali ma temple and swears that she will not speak unless reunited with her son. People eventually forget about her.

... Yeh jaanne ke liye ki aage kya hota hai, dekhte rahiye, Nero: Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil!