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Well this article was coming for some time now.. though I had envisaged it the day Fahd rang me up just to inform his family doc[..thats me!!] that he was minutes away from ending his life…[ read on for the whole story!!] , and I had my first brush with disaster& its management therein….
So lets start…
Let me just tell you at the outset itself that all these stories aren’t works of fiction… they re all true and u ll find all the guys in it, tagged on facebook![ that’s my reference!!].. just the fact as the readers of my blog already know.. I ll change the names to protect their identities!!!!!![ he he he…wicked grin!!!!]
Scene 1-
Actors- Fahd n Ayisha [2006]
Location of shoot- cbd belapur @ 9pm!
Lights, camera,action-
I was lazing around one afternoon, lying cosily in my bed with the blanket over me ..when suddenly… trring trrrrriiiinnng… my phone rang! I picked up the receiver … there was this grim voice at the other end ….
Hello! Aur doctor kya kar raha hai tu?
Me-Hey, main toh theek hu, tum batao fahdmiyaan kya haalchaal hai!
Aaj ka din jaraa free rakhna mere liye, mujhe teri zaroorat hogi!
Me-Haan mein toh hameshaa hi free hun, bol na re kya hua???
Pata nahi par aaj meine decide kiya hai ki mein apni jaan dene wala hun.. bas nas kaatne wala hun thodi der mein…. Mujhe haspatal nahi leke jaana..plz mujhe iss duniyaa se jaane do!! [waah! To saale, tune doc ko kyun phn kiya??? Love makes you stupid most of the times! See…!]
Me- oye, kya hua… aisa plz kuch mat kar. Rukh jaa.. mein aur prashant tujhe milne aa rahe hai!
Then I bang down the phone and call Prashant[ both these guys re my best buddies from Ruparel German Div days!!!] We decide to leave immediately, rush to Dadar catch a v v crowded local to Kurla, change trains…. get into a harbour local somehow, dangling at the door! We re lucky to get down at belapur in one piece…. We rush to his office and find him nowhere… beads of perspiration flow down our cheeks.. did he do it then! Were we too late??? Omg!!!!! So Prashant[ hands trembling!] took out his phone and dialled Fahd s no…”mera jeevan kora kagaaz, kora hi reh gaya!!”[waah, kya caller tune set kiya tha humaare dost ne!!!!!!]…. Suddenly, we were jolted back to reality by his familiar voice-
haan bol!
Prash- oye, kahaan hai tu? Kaisa hai? Office mein tujhe sab jagaah dhunda par tu toh mila nahinn!
Haan, tum log aa gaye kya? Toh office ke neeche jo restaurant hai wahaan aa jaao na!
We rush there and find him…
…..saala, aaram se sofa pe baith ke tomato soup pee raha tha! [ and we risked our lives, got killed , almost on 2 occassions @ dadar n kurla! Not to mention that our sympathetic system was firing faster than a single round of bullets from AK-47!] My first response was to hold him by the scruff of his neck and just kill him!!!!!! But there was sadness in his eyes and I refrained! Then he began his story!
….. he was posted at Jalandhar in his software company and it was here that his eyes met this lovely lady called-Ayisha! Poor Faddu, was all over the place! Intro hua nahin ki 3 din mein hi… he went behind her….accompanied her , en route ,to her hostel and then told her- “aap mujhe bahut acche lagte ho! Wil u come out for dinner with me???”[ omg.. we were wonderin .. wat a messy job!pata nahi gahe ne raat ko kaunsi movie ekhi thi! I mean, yaar ladki tujhe jaanti nahi, pehchaanti nahi… and directly propose kar diya!.. aur to aur.. dinner pe aayoge kya?atleast, pehle lunch pe toh bula sakta than na!! directly dinner!!!!! Obv she ll think that ur a cheapo , another flirtatious guy!!!!]
..and the same thing happened… she was so damn pissed off that she stopped communicating with him at all levels! Even the “saviour” group of common friends couldn’t help!! Could they…??? It was then that luckily both were transferred to Mumbai! But all efforts were in vain.. she would just not respond! And so depressed our boy was, that he had decided to end his life….!!!!![…and was sipping tomato soup, instead!!!!!] Me and Prash were confused…though fuming with anger we stayed calm! We tried to convince him that things don’t always work the way you want[ and he kept askin us-WHY??? Why?]! We told him to just shut up and listen.. told him that its plain and simple, maybe she s just not made for you! [waise bhi, yeh story itna filmy tha ki anything was possible! Right na!!!!!] Finally after hrs of coercing, he said that he would try n forget her! I breathed a sigh of relief!!! [ yeah, aur kya.. couldn’t imagine ‘us’ again dangling at the door, latkofying on one toe aka the great toe! And rushing in where angels fear to tread!]
We left him at his rented apartment and left for home! After this, his saga of depression continued for the next 3 months…
All this while we spoke to his mom n dad, on regular basis! Uncle was in fact v v concerned! He asked us if anything could be one bout it! Nope, we said!! He just asked us one thing..where was the gal from! Lucknow..we said! Luckily that was where even Faddu came from! After that, all that happened was simply inexplicable! Uncle had realised that his son really loved this gal! And she, otherwise seemed to be a nice gal too! Except that she visualised him as a cheapo![ but luv makes u do cheap things at times… na???] I really dunno how he managed it.. but he did trace her address and without telling anybody went to her house to meet her parents!
‘Ding dong’… the bell sounded…there was no response… he reached for the bell again, when suddenly someone opened the door….a pretty lookin gal with kind eyes stood before him!
Kya hum Siddiqui saab se mil sakte hai? He asked!
Haan, aap andhar toh aaiye.. tasreef rakhe! She said thinking that he was her dad s friend or an acquaintance probably!
It was then that he introduced himself to her parents and tried to make something out of nothing…. Well, how the rest happened was beyond my thinking capacity but after another 3 months and multiple Nooo’s…. finally, uncle managed to get a yes!!!!!!!! It was then that Fahd went crazy[though ‘berserk’ is a better term to describe this labile state!]..again!!!! he was all over the place!!!!!! So finally things were back in place…. And Faddu had his dream match!!!!!
This story is a classical example of a new terminology that we coined after this episode- arranged luv marriage!!!!!!!! [ waah beta, fall in luv n let others do the needful!!! He he!]
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Scene 2-
Actors- Joy n Tanmayi [1997]
Location of the shoot- Pune @10.30am
Lights, camera, action-
Trrrinng! The school bell sounded… a 'long' bell like this one implied –recess! And as Joy sat eating his tiffin, a group of boys surrounded him and again the banter started- Tanmayi! Tanmayi! Joy tried his best to get away! But couldn’t! This happened everyday!
Opposite the boys high school that he studied in, was a girls convent school! And a similar situation happened there too during the recess! Joy! Joy! Tanmayi was bugged by this teasing! Who was this guy! ??? Well it so happened that both never knew each other, never saw or met ever! It was just that the guys randomly picked up their names[ prob one of his friends had a gal in the other school and she had suggested her name to tease Joy!] and then, they were a couple[jab we ‘never’ met types!!]
Soon the days passed , tenth was over…college was on! They both were in separate colleges and had never met! It was then that the coaching classes began…[for 12th std re baba!]…and fate had played its part! As the attendance sheet was being circulated, Joy noticed a name- Tanmayi dhamankar! Same was the case with her and she read a name- Joy ghose! Wouldn’t it be sad if you never knew the identity of the guy you were teased with since the good ole’ school days! So that’s how they first met!!! Annoying glances day after day…. But theoretically they were always an established couple, so what if they had never met! Ab toh mil gayee na!!! So that was how the stones were set into motion… and things happened for them!! After a lot of persuasion[ esp, when her dad had caught them blowing flying kisses to each other..he on his bike parked beneath her house and she from her balcony! god!]... but as we know god is so very kind and inspite of all their differences, they managed to pull it off!!!!!
In my terminology, I would probably call it – a destined luv marriage![ if the almighty has decided, so be it!! ]
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Scene 3-
Actors- Supreet n Shilpa[2012]
Location of shoot- Mumbai@ 5pm
Lights, camera,action -
Well, this guy s been a junior and great friend for long! So as they say …a rolling stone gathers no moss! But at times just to get that thing rollin, kitna mehnat karna padhta hai baba….!!!!! Ever since the most eligible bachelor announced that he was now ready to get hooked…proposals started pouring in!non stop! It was during one such instance that this happened!
Supreet s dad and mom had one proposal from a gal who had been our intern at one point of time [during our surgery residency days! Now toh we were in cvts na!] But lazybones that he is, our boy would just not budge!
“Are ek baar mil ke to aa! Woh bhi Mumbai mein hi residency kar rahi hai na”!... but he would just not do it!
“Ok, theek hai toh phone pe toh baat kar”… woh bhi nahi![ ab kya kare is ladke ka yaar!!]
Then finally our Superman spoke to her one fine day! On being asked-“ ki bhai kaise lagi"… he was like “pata nahi! Itni enthusiastic nahi sound kar rahi thi! Shayad mein use pasand nahi hoga!”
[ At the outset let me state that we had done a lot of research on this gal and she seemed to be a really sweet gal and a v nice person too! just a lil introvert! But that’s ok na!]
We told him- “Arre, pehli baar baat kar rahi thi toh obviously u cant expect her to talk as if she knew u since last 20 yrs.. time lagta hai, jaa ek baar milke toh aa!” In reply to this, again our boy started throwing his tantrums- “Arre nahi! Pata nahi! Aur kuch hoga toh! Nahiii!” Finally after some convincing by his parents n friends..boy wonder met her! And you should ve seen the glow on his face after the meet! Obviously he liked her sooo much that uske baad toh we lost all trace of him on the ‘off call’ days’!! …and as me and Joy attended their engagement the other day at nashik… we both said the same thing- sometimes it takes ‘time’ for the right things to happen to the right people! But its worth the wait!!!! And then we wished the lovely couple all the luck in this world!!!
In my connotation, I would call this- extremely lazy luv personified by the one an only….!!!!!!!!
Well I end this article at this juncture, there re a lot more stories to write bout!!!!!! So keep a watch on this place for more of this!!!!!!!
Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year guys!!! May all ur wishes come true and may destiny get u all that u deserve n desire!!!!!!!
