Was it me he loved? Or the girl he made?

Dev is from Ujjain, the city of Mahakal. He is quiet, sincere, and wants only one thing: to be chosen, every day, even when no one is watching. Khwab is a voice on a phone in Muzaffarpur. A wrong follow request on Instagram brings them together, and Dev has never seen her face.

Whenever Dev talks to someone he loves, he closes his eyes. Behind them, he builds a house, a name, a whole life, and a girl who has been waiting only for him. Khwab has been hurt before, and to Dev that makes her precious. He believes he will be the first to love her properly.

But the girl he built was perfect. And she did not exist.

Band Aankhein is a short, raw and deeply human story about first love, devotion that quietly turns into possession, and the dark we build for the people we claim to love. Based on true events. Names have been changed.

Read it, and decide for yourself what happened to Dev. Whatever you decide is the ending.