In Mumbai, Trishna gets to accompany Jay to events relating to the film industry, in which he is interested in investing as a producer. She begins dance classes, and is strikingly good, but Jay refuses to allow her to pursue dancing as a career. He tries to convince her (and seems to succeed) that she does not want to be a dancer and that she is to stay at his side. At their home, he is domineering and treats her subserviently, making it clear that she is to handle all domestic chores. Their relationship has settled into an arrangement when Jay suddenly has to leave for England, where his father is in hospital after having a stroke. Shocked by the brush with mortality, Jay feels closer to Trishna, and confesses having slept with two other women in their social circles before she moved in with him. Feeling a level of trust with her patron/boyfriend, Trishna confesses to him about her pregnancy and abortion. He reacts by asking her why she didn't think he had a right to know and gets progressively angry about all the times she could have told him about it. With difficulties at their highest, Jay abandons Trishna and stops paying the lease on their apartment. Trishna, having heard nothing from Jay, moves in with some of her friends from dance class in their apartment. To her surprise Jay returns to meet her, though he pretends it was all a misunderstanding and that she should have told him that the lease was not being paid. Meanwhile, a dance coordinator informs her that to begin a career as a dancer, she'd have to spend 30,000 rupees on a special card and money the dance coordinator offers to loan her. Stuck between going into debt with a stranger and the Jay, the "lesser of two evils," she chooses to return to Jay. His father's incapacitated state means Jay has to return to the idyllic hotel in Rajasthan. He offers her a job at his hotel where he promises to maintain their relationship in secret.
