"Bro! What kind of girl would you be interested in? The home makers or the ones who work?" asked my sister. "Depends Sis! Date karna hai fir toh open to all wala case hai mera!" I tried to shrug the question off by laughing at my own joke marveling at the awesomeness of my own joke. In came the response "Don't you think you need to revamp your jokes and polish your sense of humor... even Sidhdhu won't laugh at the jokes you are making these days. बड़ा आया अगला कपिल शर्मा India का!". My self inflicted sense of awe was soon brought back to Earth within a few seconds whereas IMO it had sky rocketed post the tongue in cheek response I had managed to carve out.
What followed next was a series of name calling. ऐसे ऐसे nicknames पुकारे गए की लगा आज युद्ध छिढ़ गया है Israel और Philistine में. That is a routine thing for us. We start our conversations by this. And this was an interesting topic that had came up.
"On a serious note, this whole idea of people getting married seems a scam to me". I said. "Not that I am misogamist or something but actually I do not believe in this whole idea wherein people get tied. People should date and not get married" I continued. I tried to be very serious in my tone because even though I was bursting out laughing from the inside, I have known from whatever little experience I have gathered that whenever you start giving "gyan" or something "फंडात्मक" you have to have a serious tone and a poker face to add to the special effects.
"तुमने फिर से art movies देखनी शुरू कर दी है ना? " she replied back laughing. "या आजकल फिर से Facebook छोड़ छाड़कर Quora के नशे में डूब गए हो ...तुम्हारी facebook activity भी काफी minimal है वैसे इन दिनों ... I am sure these are the things that have been doing the damage मेरे Albert Einstein! Haha!"
"It doesn't work like that, Abhinav! Perhaps you are still not able to comprehend this yet. May be you will take some time to come to grips with the fact that responsibilities and permanency are also equally important and they go hand in hand. Some people take time to understand this and it is perfectly okay to have doubts. Having doubts imply that people spend time thinking over something. And you can think only when you have the brains to think about things." She spoke ever so calmly.
"And you should remember... behind every successful man is a woman and behind every unsuccessful man are many women on whom he wasted time running after" She tried to dispel the seriousness that had crept in with all this serious grown up talk that we were having.
She made sense. And her "funde" appeared logical. But it is a sibling thing to better the effect of the "funde" thrown at you with an even better execution of serious dialogue delivery. आखिर कैसे स्वीकार कर लें की ज्ञान कोई और भी बेहतर दे सकता है हमसे.
"Heard of the story of Zeus?? The Greek God much like Brahmajji who when created man, blessed him with four hands and four legs and two heads. So powerful he became that he considered himself even better than the creator and tried to belittle him. The Created was feared by the Creator. Big time. As a consequence he was split into two people. One each with a head and two hands and legs. It is said that Zeus had condemned them to search for the other. कहते हैं तबसे soulmates का concept introduce सा हुआ था... उस इंसान की तलाश जो आपको पूरा कर दे " I said. Taking pauses while I spoke to add the effect of something that was very meaningful and stuff.
" तुमको पता है ... "आप जैसा कोई मेरी ज़िन्दगी में आये तो बात बन जाये" वाला गाना इसी concept पे बनाया गया था originally जिसको बाद में item number में convert कर दिया गया था " I added in a way to make it sound like a fun fact told after a documentary. "Whoa! I didn't know about the song वाला thing" she said. "Yes! because I made it up just now" I replied.
And we burst out laughing. इतनी serious बातों के बाद हसना ज़रूरी हो जाता है.
"चलो फिर ... इसको अगले call में continue करेंगे... थोडा ब्लॉग पे भी work करना है , आजकल फिर से लिखना शुरू किया है "
"हाँ! पर time से खा लेना ... और चमगादड़ type रात भर मत जगे रहने ये सोचके की कल सन्डे है ...और ..."
I had disconnected the phone. Incomplete conversations give me the thrills. Bollywood kinds! That's why! And why not? Haha!
It was time for Coldplay to take over and take me to someplace else!
Chapter 1 ends here. For more in the series stay tuned! :)
What followed next was a series of name calling. ऐसे ऐसे nicknames पुकारे गए की लगा आज युद्ध छिढ़ गया है Israel और Philistine में. That is a routine thing for us. We start our conversations by this. And this was an interesting topic that had came up.
"On a serious note, this whole idea of people getting married seems a scam to me". I said. "Not that I am misogamist or something but actually I do not believe in this whole idea wherein people get tied. People should date and not get married" I continued. I tried to be very serious in my tone because even though I was bursting out laughing from the inside, I have known from whatever little experience I have gathered that whenever you start giving "gyan" or something "फंडात्मक" you have to have a serious tone and a poker face to add to the special effects.
"तुमने फिर से art movies देखनी शुरू कर दी है ना? " she replied back laughing. "या आजकल फिर से Facebook छोड़ छाड़कर Quora के नशे में डूब गए हो ...तुम्हारी facebook activity भी काफी minimal है वैसे इन दिनों ... I am sure these are the things that have been doing the damage मेरे Albert Einstein! Haha!"
"It doesn't work like that, Abhinav! Perhaps you are still not able to comprehend this yet. May be you will take some time to come to grips with the fact that responsibilities and permanency are also equally important and they go hand in hand. Some people take time to understand this and it is perfectly okay to have doubts. Having doubts imply that people spend time thinking over something. And you can think only when you have the brains to think about things." She spoke ever so calmly.
"And you should remember... behind every successful man is a woman and behind every unsuccessful man are many women on whom he wasted time running after" She tried to dispel the seriousness that had crept in with all this serious grown up talk that we were having.
She made sense. And her "funde" appeared logical. But it is a sibling thing to better the effect of the "funde" thrown at you with an even better execution of serious dialogue delivery. आखिर कैसे स्वीकार कर लें की ज्ञान कोई और भी बेहतर दे सकता है हमसे.
"Heard of the story of Zeus?? The Greek God much like Brahmajji who when created man, blessed him with four hands and four legs and two heads. So powerful he became that he considered himself even better than the creator and tried to belittle him. The Created was feared by the Creator. Big time. As a consequence he was split into two people. One each with a head and two hands and legs. It is said that Zeus had condemned them to search for the other. कहते हैं तबसे soulmates का concept introduce सा हुआ था... उस इंसान की तलाश जो आपको पूरा कर दे " I said. Taking pauses while I spoke to add the effect of something that was very meaningful and stuff.
" तुमको पता है ... "आप जैसा कोई मेरी ज़िन्दगी में आये तो बात बन जाये" वाला गाना इसी concept पे बनाया गया था originally जिसको बाद में item number में convert कर दिया गया था " I added in a way to make it sound like a fun fact told after a documentary. "Whoa! I didn't know about the song वाला thing" she said. "Yes! because I made it up just now" I replied.
And we burst out laughing. इतनी serious बातों के बाद हसना ज़रूरी हो जाता है.
"चलो फिर ... इसको अगले call में continue करेंगे... थोडा ब्लॉग पे भी work करना है , आजकल फिर से लिखना शुरू किया है "
"हाँ! पर time से खा लेना ... और चमगादड़ type रात भर मत जगे रहने ये सोचके की कल सन्डे है ...और ..."
I had disconnected the phone. Incomplete conversations give me the thrills. Bollywood kinds! That's why! And why not? Haha!
It was time for Coldplay to take over and take me to someplace else!
Chapter 1 ends here. For more in the series stay tuned! :)
