And as Mini said, we are probably in the best phase of Kesar Gulaal ...the pull and the push...the stares and the glares, the attractions and distractions, The words that belied their silences and their silences which belied their words...their inclusion in each other and exclusion of everyone else, the love, the hatred, the jealousy...the adulation, the adoration and the ecstasy...both of happiness and pain that you felt in the throes of love...the falling and then ultimately rising in love...
And somehow when I write this, I feel that the word 'love' itself is so inadequate to define the feeling between them
It has so much more than that...something indefinable...
You know few years back I read the meaning of the buddha mantra...'Buddham Sharnam Gacchami, Dhamam sharnam Gacchami'...And the word Dhammam was defined somewhere by Osho as a special element which was common in everything... in every being in the universe, kind of cosmic connection'...
There was that ..not the universal common...but the Kesar Gulaal common...something which acted like a unique microchip inserted inside them and got them connected...something which was SO them...
I guess..I am running out of words...but then see...it is there...On that side Gulaal is busy trying to make him settle and be happy;...
and there he is lost in her thoughts...and happy because she was happy...
(bechara did not know that he was being made the proverbial judas goat, khilao pilao and phir halaal kar do😛)
And the white kurta is back...I remember Shalu said that she would have liked to do lots of 'chir phaad' of that Kurta😳...Dont tell me...I toh am acchi bachi😆...
It is amazing na...these letters..as it is time and again proved that they have been his friends, his 'humdards'...the only ones who shared his happiness, pain, anger, frustrations, loneliness ...everything...
And whatever he shared..right now they are giving it back to him...This letter must have been written in a kind of meclancholic happiness...or in utter innocence of his youth...and right now he was smiling remembering how he was bereft of her..and how like a lonely loft rifting in the ocean he felt...and he smiled at the same...
And I tell you...nobody bothers to give him privacy;..everybody just walks in and he is left scrambling and hiding those letters..
It was actually funny...Gulaal inspite of having laid her hands on the same could not detect the depth of them...where as JK...one fine morning ,...makes a gala entry and tells his WAKE UP you moron! before the 'letterwali' walks away and all you are left with is letters and more letters😆...at that moment also he was doing the same...hiding the letters...😆
And then the way he folds the sleeves...It is so ...errr,,I had rather not say...☺️
And the way he calls her back...who thought that he had no iota of inkling what he was gonna say to her...he had just called her for the heck of it...just for keeping her there for few more minutes...take a fill in after a long day (tiresome too ...terrorist jo saath thi😛)
Just look at his innocent gaze...(Ok..so I harp upon innocence and blah blah...but can you say anything else about this one?'
He is so obviously so completely under her aura...completely surrounded and engulfed inside it...you can see it...even as he is trying to show her the room..that it is completely in disarray...you could see his eyes as if making a full point ... after completion of every sentence...They stopped on her...
And the way he stands with his nose stuck in the air while she gave explanations as to why she needed to give the terrorist' name
And as soon as she reminds him of his own sentence...he could see him leap to the defence..how could she even acknowledge the words he said during that period...he so obviously is affronted by that very thought...
You know it is so similar between them...both to a certain believed in burying somethings and forget about them...
How could you believe my words when I myself dont?
How can you detach yourself from a life which is unconditionally and irrevocably yours???
And even she is taken aback with this open declaration na
But what I loved where his expressions change when she leaves...as if suddenly he found himself out of a hypnotizing phase..as if he suddenly found himself like a fish out of water...in a new world..not knowing how what when...her effect on him..is almost astonishing..and yet so endearing...