2007 !!- Phantom of the Opera !
This has been a defining year in my life for many many reasons.
What can I call it, I really don’t know. Let me try.. Rewarding, fulfilling, tumultuous, soap operatic!! Maybe the last one fits better.
And you thought only Miss Ekkttaa KKapoorr makes super hit soap operas!
2007 for me was a real life soap opera…. After living through this year, one can never say, life is too predictable.
My past year had all the ingredients of a super hit soap opera.
Ok let me put it one at a time.
#1. 2007 the year of Celebration.
It has a Barjatiya connection (wedding, with a real meaning title – Hum aapke hai kaun!)
After six months (starting August 2006) of preparations and wishing and dreaming and whatnot the wedding was ‘celebrated’ on 25 Feb. The bride was full of hopes and dreams for future, shy and willing at the same time. The groom (yes, me) was also excited, happy and apprehensive (??!!) thinking of the dreams or about the extraordinary celebrations. It was extraordinary in many ways, the Barjatiya effect was always visible, an over excited mom, planning for the grandest celebration in the family, three over excited and event managing sisters, a brother sitting in another continent and planning the grand celebration, I don’t remember many people having their wedding being planned and celebrated across continents, and not to forget the many angels (the little kids) running around and creating the divine atmosphere in their own way, the ever helpful relatives. But here Barjatiya has borrowed Ms Kamoulika from Ms KKapoorrr (later on this). A wedding successfully accomplished (sounds like a mission accomplished… Ok, but Tom Cruise is a big star!! , welcome Holmes, Katey/Cutee girl), a short and sweet honey moon in Munnar and Kumarakom and back to Frankfurt
#2. European Honeymoon
After ‘Thoda sa Roomani ho jaaye’ ((read my other posting Thoda sa Roomani ho jaaye!!!)
Mr and Mrs Kulkarni had a European Honey moon … Iam adding this event in these 2007 events because many of my friends have always boasted that they will have their honeymoon only in Switzerland and nowhere else. But I always thought that I will never travel out of India, but you never know what destiny has in store for you.
#3. Every soap opera has many commercial breaks.
Be it education or passport issue or visa approval whatever the reason, the separation between man and wife in a marriage is always bad.
My advice to future grooms and brides….
Sandeep Uvaacha… long distance marriage proves costly (literally).
Samajhaney waale samajh gaye hai! Na samajhe, who anaadi hai!!!
Okay for the anaadi janta, I will write it down, long distance marriage proves expensive on your finances and only people to benefit will be the telephone companies!!!! ( And what else) and one more… I missed my first Diwali after wedding….
Ek Shama thi Daleel-e-sahar, woh bhi khamoosh thi!!!
#4. New friends made and old friendships renewed.
Friends, of course, feel happy when you are happy. And when more than one friend is getting married, it calls for a string of celebrations….. But this year I learnt, friends can be more than a family when it comes to ‘could-have-been-better ‘moments in life…Thanks buddy/ies.
#5. Maharaj Pururava!
Q: Who does not know Pururava!!! ….
A: I know, many of us! I got introduced to him only this year.
OK let me introduce him to you… He was the King who ruled over India…
He was the Hastinapur Naresh. A very able king, a valiant warrior.
His fame has transcended all the worlds.
All greatness, but a weakness unbecoming of a king…. But basic for a man.
He was hopelessly in love with Urvashi. Urvashi the most beautiful nymph. But when the time came to leave the earth she did not bother to care about the suffering she would cause to Pururva. Having lost his lady-love, the valiant king lost his senses and roamed like a mad man throughout the cities and jungles and hugging the flower bearing creepers thinking them to be Urvashi. He did not even realise that he has some responsibilities as a king, which are more important at that point of time.
But the heartless Urvashi gave him a parting advice that, ‘never trust a beautiful woman’.
The mighty and wise Pururva, Betrayed, Humiliated, destroyed, insulted, that too by the same Urvashi whom he loved more than anything else in life….
#6. La Kamolika - the innocent-looking one.
ranj kii jab guftaguu hone lagii
aap se tum, tum se tuu hone lagii *
jab ghar ko mere aag lagii, to kuchh maal bachaa thaa jalane se
aur vo bhii un ke haath lagaa jo aag bujhaane aaye the **
#7. The year of strength and forgiving
The big families are always forgiving.
Their favourite mantra is, ‘Oh god , please forgive them, for they know not, what they do’. Yes forgiveness is a virtue …..
Lets remember Shaun’s prayer (read the other posting ‘Shaun and Satan’ and the sole comment to it)!!!
#8. The Hope we hold on to.
The page turns and Jan 2008 started with me ending my forced bachelorhood.
And also the mother bird returning to her cosy but troubled nest with her little ones.
As the mother bird gets ready to make good of what ever is left, lets pray to the lord god, that the nest remains cosy and warm for all.
- Sandeep Kulkarni
************************************************
* - ~Daag Dehlvi ~
** - Unknown
What can I call it, I really don’t know. Let me try.. Rewarding, fulfilling, tumultuous, soap operatic!! Maybe the last one fits better.
And you thought only Miss Ekkttaa KKapoorr makes super hit soap operas!
2007 for me was a real life soap opera…. After living through this year, one can never say, life is too predictable.
My past year had all the ingredients of a super hit soap opera.
Ok let me put it one at a time.
#1. 2007 the year of Celebration.
It has a Barjatiya connection (wedding, with a real meaning title – Hum aapke hai kaun!)
After six months (starting August 2006) of preparations and wishing and dreaming and whatnot the wedding was ‘celebrated’ on 25 Feb. The bride was full of hopes and dreams for future, shy and willing at the same time. The groom (yes, me) was also excited, happy and apprehensive (??!!) thinking of the dreams or about the extraordinary celebrations. It was extraordinary in many ways, the Barjatiya effect was always visible, an over excited mom, planning for the grandest celebration in the family, three over excited and event managing sisters, a brother sitting in another continent and planning the grand celebration, I don’t remember many people having their wedding being planned and celebrated across continents, and not to forget the many angels (the little kids) running around and creating the divine atmosphere in their own way, the ever helpful relatives. But here Barjatiya has borrowed Ms Kamoulika from Ms KKapoorrr (later on this). A wedding successfully accomplished (sounds like a mission accomplished… Ok, but Tom Cruise is a big star!! , welcome Holmes, Katey/Cutee girl), a short and sweet honey moon in Munnar and Kumarakom and back to Frankfurt
#2. European Honeymoon
After ‘Thoda sa Roomani ho jaaye’ ((read my other posting Thoda sa Roomani ho jaaye!!!)
Mr and Mrs Kulkarni had a European Honey moon … Iam adding this event in these 2007 events because many of my friends have always boasted that they will have their honeymoon only in Switzerland and nowhere else. But I always thought that I will never travel out of India, but you never know what destiny has in store for you.
#3. Every soap opera has many commercial breaks.
Be it education or passport issue or visa approval whatever the reason, the separation between man and wife in a marriage is always bad.
My advice to future grooms and brides….
Sandeep Uvaacha… long distance marriage proves costly (literally).
Samajhaney waale samajh gaye hai! Na samajhe, who anaadi hai!!!
Okay for the anaadi janta, I will write it down, long distance marriage proves expensive on your finances and only people to benefit will be the telephone companies!!!! ( And what else) and one more… I missed my first Diwali after wedding….
Ek Shama thi Daleel-e-sahar, woh bhi khamoosh thi!!!
#4. New friends made and old friendships renewed.
Friends, of course, feel happy when you are happy. And when more than one friend is getting married, it calls for a string of celebrations….. But this year I learnt, friends can be more than a family when it comes to ‘could-have-been-better ‘moments in life…Thanks buddy/ies.
#5. Maharaj Pururava!
Q: Who does not know Pururava!!! ….
A: I know, many of us! I got introduced to him only this year.
OK let me introduce him to you… He was the King who ruled over India…
He was the Hastinapur Naresh. A very able king, a valiant warrior.
His fame has transcended all the worlds.
All greatness, but a weakness unbecoming of a king…. But basic for a man.
He was hopelessly in love with Urvashi. Urvashi the most beautiful nymph. But when the time came to leave the earth she did not bother to care about the suffering she would cause to Pururva. Having lost his lady-love, the valiant king lost his senses and roamed like a mad man throughout the cities and jungles and hugging the flower bearing creepers thinking them to be Urvashi. He did not even realise that he has some responsibilities as a king, which are more important at that point of time.
But the heartless Urvashi gave him a parting advice that, ‘never trust a beautiful woman’.
The mighty and wise Pururva, Betrayed, Humiliated, destroyed, insulted, that too by the same Urvashi whom he loved more than anything else in life….
#6. La Kamolika - the innocent-looking one.
ranj kii jab guftaguu hone lagii
aap se tum, tum se tuu hone lagii *
jab ghar ko mere aag lagii, to kuchh maal bachaa thaa jalane se
aur vo bhii un ke haath lagaa jo aag bujhaane aaye the **
#7. The year of strength and forgiving
The big families are always forgiving.
Their favourite mantra is, ‘Oh god , please forgive them, for they know not, what they do’. Yes forgiveness is a virtue …..
Lets remember Shaun’s prayer (read the other posting ‘Shaun and Satan’ and the sole comment to it)!!!
#8. The Hope we hold on to.
The page turns and Jan 2008 started with me ending my forced bachelorhood.
And also the mother bird returning to her cosy but troubled nest with her little ones.
As the mother bird gets ready to make good of what ever is left, lets pray to the lord god, that the nest remains cosy and warm for all.
- Sandeep Kulkarni
************************************************
* - ~Daag Dehlvi ~
** - Unknown
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