We had three dramatic announcements today
1. Thakursa takes Laila to a dungeon - loud music plays, suspense builds up, lot of odd lights swing because monkeys played on them before camera started rolling. Despite electricity thakursa burns kerosene torchlight because, what the heck, its more dramatic. Then the big announcement happens. - He tells Laila that Thakurain is Rudra's mom - DhanTudaan!
2. Rudra cries, oh he cries a river. Paro does two changes of panties and ghaghras and he still cries more - loud music plays, suspense builds up, lot of odd dialogs are said about mother and motherhood because Rudra is the bonafide author on motherhood, and then the big announcement happens - He tells Paro that they share a mother
3. SJ wails in agony and goes for a hot stone massage. She tries the orange peel facial, the french mani and pedi, followed by a nicely extravagant haircut. Still not satisfied she buys two fake Jimmy Choos, one fake Louboutin and a few dresses from Nordstrom - loud music plays, suspense builds up, lot of odd doors open and Mr. SJ appears, and then She announces the tally of total expenditure to Mr. SJ. He turns around and leaves without a word .
SJ immediately runs to her Pooja room. She lights a bunch of newspapers into a gargantuan Maha Arthi, after making sure the fire extinguisher is handy. then she sways the Maha Arthi with an intense expression and beseeches Bholenath with habad dabad mantras, to bring Mr. SJ back. She plays the pre recorded loud suspenseful music on her ipod for added effect. Finally she promises bholenath that she will NEVER go out shopping, if and only if Mr. SJ would return.
Bholenath hears her prayers. Mr. SJ gets hungry and returns home. She takes good care of him and after the family is fed and bed, she sneakily opens Amazon.com for online shopping. She never promised not to shop online, now did she?
If life's dramatic moments were enacted as a serial drama, this is what would happen. No one really makes stupid promises of abandoning one's family and one almost always find loopholes.
If there were no loopholes in curses, promises and "vachans" a whole industry of mythology experts and Pooja-Pundits would go bankrupt.
Edited by serialjunkie - 11 years ago