Tragedy-1

If after reading, this & others to follow in the series, people call me tragedy aggarwal it would be kind of obvious.

I had just come back from leave and joined office, it is then I checked my mail after a long time. There was one mail by a lady, PG, once a batchmate of mine. She was in my class in school for just two years 9^th & 10^th .We never met after that, neither had any contact. It means, this mail I got was after about 8 yrs I last saw her in school (thanks to the all famous www.orkut.com ).

The mail brought back memories from school, and along with came the tragic news. She wrote that “Dear, It was long back we met. I had a BiiiiiiiiiiiiiiG (a new way to emphasize) crush on you in 10^th. She kept track of my whereabouts many years after she left our school. And it was now she went public, as in spoke not the IPO wala. She quoted incidents which I definitely could not recap. But I had this gudy-gudy feeling that “ab to apna time aa gaya ,apni to nikal padi”.

After this entire flashback of childhood times, she said in big bold letters that “She was getting married, and she wanted me to come over on that day.” That day was… the day I read the mail, God is great he always knows how to take masti with his baccha log….Anyways after overcome this shock, my friends decided to go there..they too were invited through me.

Of course they wanted to go for free food and the live entertainment of girls and me and her amne samne. They were pretty excited, as if I will repeat the Aamir khan & Preity Zinta episode of Dil Chahta hai.

We met, formally, talked a while, I enjoyed the food…met the groom. And while on my way back I got the best complement of my life

“Abe usne tere ko bulaya present waale se comparison ke liye, yaadi use kuch doubt lagta toh shayad tera number aaj hi lag jaata…but probably she has a better choice in hand..why let go”

I hope this is the last of its kinds tragedy…coz its already time my batchmates are preparing to get married, and I definitely don’t wont people trying to contact me to attend their marriages for reasons like these.

Two marriages…..too apart.

1^st marriage:

Ankit jain weds Deepali jain, 21-4-2007

Relation : Ankit best friend..Deepali friend and to be bhabi ji for out bhaiya ji.

It all started on the 20^th night, with out bhaiyaji(ankit jain) sitting and mehndi rasm in its full flow.

It is then we dudes and one dudeni entered the scene, the DJ wala was happy to see some prospective dancers arriving. The music started blaring, and we put aside everything and off to dance like mad paid professional entertainers.

Then came the d-day for bhaiya ji.

Till 5pm. “arre yaar kuch kaam nahin hai, bas 6 baje tak pahunch jaana”.

At 5.30pm “abe yeh time hai aane ka,kahan mara rahe ho”

Finally the dulha tika and etc etc rasm was done, we without any hesitation and willingly took over the job of serving snacks to all. The snacks were delicious with lots of varieties and hence had to be in our command. We did the job well, filled our small tummy’s.

Bhaiya ji sat on the ghodi, his bhanja in front. Bhaiya ji is jara chota in height so in the picture frame it was only bhanja,,due to aesthetic reasons bhanja was shifted back and his photo cut from the frame so that it is imperitive that dulha bhaiya ji hi hain.

Then off to change clothes. It is the first time in my life I got dressed in less than 10 min for a wedding. Bhaiya ji gave us full respect and refused to again mount the ghodi till we arrived on the venue of the the procession. Flattered by this concern we hurriedly reached there and picked him, threw him on the back of the pretty female..horse, and started dancing.

Shakira,bhangra,Jackson, Jlo, bacchans, dharampaaji (with family), and all the weird forms of dance were presented to the crowd….even a few lines of evergreen hits were sung, as I say….”Bas let let(lying down) ke dance karna reh gaya “

After all this finally the couple were seated and jai mala was done. I always thought that child marriages were banned in india. But I was wrong. Main sakshat bal vivah ke aayojan main khada tha. They were looking cute as a couple, and really happy and made for each other. May God bless them.

2^nd marriage

Ekta Aggarwal weds Shantanu Aggarwal,26-4-2007

Relation: ekta my kid sister

Venue Ambala (Haryana). Being from the ladki waale camp, came the usual burden of added responsibility to think twice before any “uddandi” act. Where unlike the earlier wedding of bhaiya ji I was openly dancing I took a lot lot conservative approach. Spoke with the finesse of a padah likha aadmi, which even surprised my friends who had never thought I (a ganwaar) could….

Rather than shouting, passing comments etc most of the times it was an emotional affair. Nothing much to write on this as most of the time it was arranging things, paying respect to the ladke waale, consoling sister and family members. I pray for her too, May God bless the couple.

I have entrusted the almighty with two responsiblilites back to back, but we know it is his nature that we always rush to him begging everytime, always, and at the slightest prick and he welcomes us as always with open arms.

There was a great song “Oho hum dulhe waale, dulhan ki amma ko hum kya jaane, dulhe ke baba ko hum kya jaane…..” Rightly said, the occasions were the same, but probably the presence of different people in the lead made the difference. I don’t know why but, we usually fight with our sisters all the time, we are happy if she surrenders, feels irritated, shouts shrieks,cries, complains running here and there. Somehow, just the opposite, at this moment she does cry a lot, but this time it hurts rather is painful, so much so that tears trickle down our eyes too.