It’s time again to vent out my feelings… Long time ago, when I was in 10th standard ‘Dil to Pagal Hai’, a Hindi movie, released…. Some of my classmates watched the movie and said that there was a special appearance by the great Akshay Kumar in the movie….. Die-hard Akshay fan that I am, I instantly decided to go to the movie over the weekend….. There I was in the good-old Maheshwari theatre , watching a movie wherein the main hero was my dushman (enemy in Hindi), just because my demi-god Akshay had a special appearance in that movie…. No prizes for guessing who my dushman is in Hindi film industry…. I was waiting with bated breath for my hero’s entry… The movie kept on dragging… only saving grace being some good music… Then suddenly Akki made a grand entry in the movie… had a whirlwind of a hit song. In fact, he was part of the title song of this movie, which happened to be one of the biggest hit songs of the year… I was satisfied and felt contented. After that, movie just kept on dragging… I was getting bored of watching the stupid histrionics of my dushman… Just as I was about to sink into a state of oblivion, I heard a great dialogue from Madhuri Dixit. I don’t remember the exact dialogue but still remember the gist of it. It went something like this –‘Sab ke liye kahin na kahin, koi na koi banaaya gaya hai. Bas uske milne ki deri hai. Jab waqt aayega tab hume wo (bhagwaan) bataayega.’ . This means that – ‘There is someone made for everyone somewhere. It’s only a matter of meeting that person. When time comes, God will help us recognize him/her.’. I was damn impressed with this dialogue and kept on appreciating it till the end of the movie. This dialogue left an indelible impression on a 14-year-old boy’s mind.
Four years later…..
Some engineering students were ragging a set of juniors in the bylanes of Nampally… But there was one guy who was not his usual self. He kept on looking at a hapless junior… Others were asking the girl her bio-data, some asking her to sing… the usual stuff that goes on during ragging… But this guy was thinking about something…He had still not forgotten about the dialogue he heard in Maheshwari theatre four years ago… After all, that was an indelible impression… how could it be removed so easily… I guess there have been enough pointers to identify who the guy was… Now this guy was thinking if the girl in front of him was the one Madhuri Dixit was talking about… Influenced by those dialogues, he kept on thinking that she was the one… A week later, he saw another girl who too seemed to be the one Madhuri Dixit was suggesting… He was mighty confused now… Who should he choose ??? … But God is really great… He solved his problem by bringing him face-to-face with a third girl…. Instantaneously, he forgot about the other two girls and thought that this time he has found the right girl !!!!!!
Seven years later…..
A matured and well-groomed engineer.. yeah that’s me…(I know this is a very controversial statement… Me matured… Me well-groomed… There would be critics to this statement… But for the time-being let us assume that I am a matured and well-groomed engineer….) Gone are the days of the fun in college… It is professional out here.. But the indelible impression is still with me… Yes.. Madhuri Dixit’s dialogue is still firmly etched in my mind…. I still keep thinking about this…. Whenever songs like ‘Zara si dil mein de jagah tu… ‘ or ‘Baakhuda tumhi ho, har jagah tumhi ho…’ cross my way, I keep thinking of that dialogue. But where the hell is she? Have been searching ever since I heard that dialogue… It’s exasperating to say the least… Eleven years of search has not got me anything… There have been lots of mirages in the desert but no water… Some girls seem to be the one that I am looking for but the problem would be that they would already have a boy friend.. Thoughts crop up in my mind if all the good girls are already taken but then I console myself by saying that new set would soon arrive… This rudderless search is going nowhere… I have now decided to put a lid on this… Enough is enough… Let her search for me… I will keep a low-profile… Let’s see if she can find me…
Although I have stopped searching for my Khwaabon ki shehzaadi, there is someone else that I am searching for… I am searching for Madhuri Dixit to give her a sound thrashing because she is the one who engraved this stupid thought in my mind…..
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