Thursday, July 15, 2010

Love Cum Arrange Marriage


Sunita is getting married to her dream lover Anupam, after spending two years in love relation. She is working in an IT company since two years after passing her school.
The most celebrated day of her life is becoming a big disaster for both her and her family. “I am not able to believe if he is the same Anupam, he is just making demands over demands. After the expensive wedding venue and split AC, he is talking about Maruti Swift Dzire”- these are the words of same Sunita who used to ignore everything for her Anupam. She even ignored her friends and gave her time more to her Anupam.
Today, her Anupam has become a family boy, obeying all the demands of his family. Now family is priority for him and he doesn’t want to talk anything about the wedding expenses. Once, smiling face of Sunita is losing its shine now. When I joined the company I found her the happiest person on earth. And within four months she is in front of me lost and gloomy.
It is her love marriage, sorry! “Love cum arrange.” How happy she was when both families agreed to tie the couple in a knot. Now she is repenting. She is just 21 year old and without college she didn’t get that maturity and understanding of the world and practical love relations.
Her world revolves around her family and Anupam. She is ready to leave everything for him, claiming to love him more than anything else.
But, her romantic world appears as an illusion. Love is romantic - no doubt, it is blind too, but to keep love relation and sustain, one has to stand on concrete ground and not fly in dreams.
Now, Sunita is busy in her marriage preparations. She is a Punjabi kudi and Punjabi families are famous for their extravagant show off. They believe in expensive jewellery, saris and food. She is buying expensive suits and saris, her family wants to do better than the groom’s. They want to show that they are not less than groom’s family, even if they are sliding in debts.
Actually, it is “love cum arrange marriage”!!!