He feels he should win. He wants to hug her, kiss her, never let her go. He wants to fight for her, marry her. He wants to win against all odds.He feels she is precious. Everytime he touches her he wants the time to freeze. There are lots of obstacles but he is ready to battle. He wants to marry her at all costs.He meets her secretly. Behind the trees, in the farm. He makes sure no one sees them. When he is sure no one is watching he steals a kiss from her, brushes her hair lovingly. As he is about to love her some more, he sees a villager coming. He stops suddenly. The villager sees them. “How come you are here, at this hour?.” He says “Shh, don’t tell anyone.” The villager nods strangely and walks away. “It’s time to go”, the girl says. The parents of the kids will arrive any time now. Actually she runs a nursery where kids aged 3-9, whose parents are busy working, play and occassionally study.
She goes to the nursery. He follows her. Some parents have already arrived. “Hope, my little one didn’t trouble you.”, one parent tells the girl. No, aryan was very disciplined today, she tells the parent. One by one all children leave. “What about those two?” he asks her. “Oh, these twins atharva and aparna (pointing to a five yr old boy and girl)”, their parents, Mr and Mrs Mathur are getting divorced and none of them wants to take the responsibility of the children so mean and selfish. They are fighting a bitter custody battle where they are more worried who will get the 7 room bunglow, the three cars and the office profit. They wanted to give the children to the orphange. For the past two years these children are coming to my nursey. They seem to love me. I asked the Mathurs whether I can keep them. They were happy, anyway for them it is one problem reduced. I have actually signed official adoption certificates. At this moment the little boy started crying. Hey handsome, don’t cry see see bird in the sky. You want to fly, fly like the bird he waved the child up and down. The boy stopped crying “Hey, it seems he likes you.” “Ya I guess.” At this moment, he saw the girl’s father coming from a distance, O Gosh! Its your dad I better leave. All right, tomorrow, same place, he holds her hand and kisses it and slips away.
Next day he sees her with her dad and family in a temple. He signals her to meet him behind the shed. He has brought flowers for her. She quickly slips away when her folks are offering prayers. He is waiting for her. He puts the flowers on her long beautiful hair as the sun sets in front of them. He sings a loving romantic song praising her beauty and grace. O! its time the girl exclaims. I should go. Why you always talk about going, he asks exasparatedly. One of these days I am going to tell your father that we both are extremely in love and no power on earth can stop our union. We are going to get married No one is going to stop that. “All right all right calm down I am going to meet you again soon “. She leaves. Next day, while she is buying vegetables in the market, he goes towards her and secretly signals her. The market is heavily crowded. He does not want the girl’s father to catch her. She gets his sign and tells her father, Dad I will be back in a minute. Alright beta the dad says, but come back soon, Dr Vitthalrao is going to come in the evening for check up. “Oh, sure dad, I will come soon”. Ramu, the regular vegetable vendor, says,” Mr Karamchand, I have seen you face tribulations for the last many years. May lord shiva cure all your troubles. Thanks Ramu, I hope today after the doctor’s checkup I will feel better. I hope today’s reports are more positive than the previous months’s.
Meanwhile He is upset that she is late.” Why are you so late?” I sent you a signal twenty minutes ago. You know I can’t wait.” “I am sorry, actually dad was telling me about a doctor’s appointment. I couldn’t come soon. I wanted to sympathize with him.” “What doctor appointment, no amount of treatment will cure your oldie stubborn dad.” Anyway I have had it enough. Today I am going to tell about our love to your father. “But, But today, Dr Vitthalrao is coming for checkup.”, she says. “So what, he says. I am not afraid of anyone. Let the doctor or even the entire village come. I am afraid of no one. Our love is more powerful than the mighty rivers and mountains . “ Nothing can break me”. “O.K, if you are confidant come and speak to my father. Even I am tired of meeting you secretly and having to be embarrased when people see us being intimate. “Alright then, Here I come to conquer once for all my love, my life, my Arti. He kisses her, holds her hand and walks to her home with her.
Her father is at the door-step of the house. Sitting next to him is an elderly gentleman. The boy has now come at the door step, still holding the girl’s hands. “ Mr Karamchand, he says boldly, I love Arti. I want to marry her. I will shower all the love and warmth in the world to your daughter. She will be taken care of and respected. She will be treated like a Queen. Every-breath of my life I dedicate to Arti, he says looking her in the eye.There are tears in her eyes. “Wel err…,”, Mr Karamchand is half shocked, half surprised. “Young man, can I talk to you for a moment.”, says the elderly gentleman sitting next to Mr karamchand. Allright he says. He looks at Mr Karamchand who is still speechless. Inside the house the elderly gentleman says, “ Hi, I am Dr Vitthalrao. Can I talk to you for a moment.” Ya sure the young man says. Is everything alright with Arti’s father’s health. Yes he is doing well says the doctor. The doctor and the young man go inside.
“Knock Knock”, arti just see who is at the door says Mr Karamchand. Arti, wiping her tears opens the door. Namaste Madam I am from the Census Department a young lady says flashing her eye card. Yes Yes come in Madam. By now Arti and her father have regained their composure. How many people are there in this family. Arti says, Myself Arti Mahendran, My father Mr karamchand, My husband Suhas mahendran. Do you have children? The census lady asks. Yes, says arti They are twins atharva mahendran and aparna mahendran. Meanwhile inside the house Dr Vitthalrao speaks to the young man. “O.K Suhas, come let’s begin our monthly checkup.”
Notes: The above paragraph was the suspense of the story. Actually the lover couple is actually a husband-wife couple suhas and arti and the twins initially mentioned(atharva and aparna) are their own twins.
Actually the flashback is: suhas is a huge romance movie buff. He likes romance the way it is shown in films with all grandeur,light, songs, cheesiness etc. Also he loves confrontation in the form of resistance from parents of couples in relationships. All this he has loved in movies. Suhas felt even he should get married the filmy way. But suhas’s marriage to arti is a normal arranged marriage with no grandeur and drama the way he loved it in films.
Suhas was frustated after marriage since there was no larger than life incident which he so craved. This made him feel sick, resulting in bouts of depression. He used to unnecessarily shout at arti and sometimes even beat her. After the birth of their twins arti could no more take this injustice. She informed her father dr karamchand. His friend dr. vitthalrao checked suhas and during one such checkup session he realized suhas’s vain obsession with romance films and drama and his great desire to love someone. The doctor then with arti’s concent gave him an injection which makes him lose the memory of the past few years so he does not remember marrying arti and having twins.
Arti, though sad, is relieved that suhas atleast loves her, if not as a wife atleast now that he thinks of her as his lover. The doctor checks up suhas every month for recurrence of his memory. Dr karamchand and the entire village know about this but they play along the drama that suhas and arti are lover couples.
Great effort is made that suhas should never retain his memory. As we can note arti says that the twins are mathur’s and not theirs. Thousands of lies are not illegal when one love has to triumph.
Monologue: He loves love stories. Where the guy crosses thousands of hurdles and marries the girl he loves. He loves the confrontation. Confronting the girl’s family, her father, brother, confronting the town. He is ready for a fight if necessary. He loves being a hero, fighting for his lady love with dramatic love songs being played in the background. He wants to triumph in love with all bruiises and wounds.(The adoption certificate is actually the birth certificate of atharva and aditi, their children).
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