Buaji and Mami are left standing outside the temple laughing at NK being clueless….
NK goes and sits in Arnav's car, as Arnav takes the wheel NK's phone rings,he picks up the phone the voice on the other side says: You better not leave me alone here, otherwise I will make you wait beyond 2014….my family has arranged for a south Indian style lunch and you better not miss it.
NK; But….I….listen…
Naina: There is no buts or I or anymore listening…..you better come back in right now….and that is not a request..
NK: Do you have to boss me around always?? I am your fianc and you are treating me like a criminal….fine I am coming…..but I just want you to know….I am not coming back because I am afraid of you,but because, I love and respect my inlaws a lot.
Arnav had been listening to the conversation animatedly, he could stop smiling at poor NK's misery...
NK looks at a smiling Arnav: Yes, Yes…GO ahead and smile…no wait why just smile…Laugh and dance at my expense…..My family too is making light of my situation….I had one person I could depend on but today even she,my best friend Khushi too has go a mahurat for 2014….and looks like I am the only one that is in a hurry….Naina is calling me back inside to have a south Indian lunch….He figits with the car door, gets out and slams the door,and begins walking away…
Arnav gets out of the car laughing out loud…..
NK turns around and sternly looks at Arnav and says; Brilliant, you never listen to anything I have to say ever since we were kids, and I tell you to laugh and you obliged at my expense.
Arnav: NK Aren't you feeling a little drafty???
NK; Nanav, I am in no mood of joking….and why are these people looking at me like I am a freak???
Arnav pointing to the passenger side of the car and laughing…….
NK, Looks down and sees that his dhoti is missing and he sees that it is stuck half way out of the car door: (defiantly) Well, the kurta is long enough….I am not embarrassed and rushes to the car to grab his dhoti….
Arnav: NK, Why are you stressing yourself so much….You are one person in the family who I know takes things in stride….see, stress doesn't suit you, you end up goofing up..
NK; Nanav, if you had to wait for 2 yrs to get married…you would know, so don't sermonise me..right now I am not in the mood of any pep talk….I don't want to go there,but Naina does not feel the same way I do…I am the one that is worried in this relationship…maybe I should move back to Australia for the next 2 years…
Arnav: What if she gets married by then!!!
Just then Akash and Naina's cousin come there and sees NK struggling to wear the dhoti properly..Naina's cousin helps him put it on properly and tells him that it is hard the first few times but once he get used to it,he will find it better than wearing trousers…
Arnav was walking away as khushi had called him, NK was not done talking to him, he calls out Nanav, we are not finished yet….I will not let her marry anyone else besides me…Arnav just signals that he is on the phone..
Naina's cousin: You are marrying again?
NK: When I have never been married, where will I marry again?
Cousin: Then what was all that about?
NK: Exactly, what was all that about? They have a grand puja and invite so many people but tell me I have to wait…
Cousin: but Brother-in –law…..
NK: see, How sweet it sounds….I wish I was your brother in law ( as he puts his arm around his shoulder) but unfortunately you will have to wait..
Akash winking at the cousin: no problem NK bhai…..he knows he has to wait,but there is no harm in him calling you Jiju….
NK; There is Akash…there is!!!!everytime they call me damadji or jijaji…it pierces my heart like a dagger…..it reminds me of how long I have to wait…
Naina's cousin excuses himself with a very disturbed look on his face…
NK: see even the poor guy feels for me…
The cousin rushes to Naina and says: What kind of a person have you married!!! Do you know he wants to get married to someone else…
Khushi and Anjali who were closeby hear him and come there and start laughing….SO he has no clue even now?
Cousin: what do you mean?
Anjali: you know he grew up in Australia and has not seen many weddings, though he was present in Payal and Khushi's wedding he was doing most of the preparations and was busy video taping so I guess he did not pay attention to the rituals and the south Indian customs are different then what we do….and this morning Khushi here told him there is no Mahurat for the next 2 years and the poor guy believed it… we have had so many puja's since he has come that he thought this was another one..
Cousin: Oh my poor brother in law….how cruel you women are???do you even know how distraught he is?
Naina: Listen my cousin, I have been in on it too….so please don't spoil this for us…we want to see how far he can be fooled..smiling…
Cousin: I really pity the poor guy…first his sisters, now his wife too is pulling his leg….god only save him….strange love you guys have for him…I am telling you, he has the right to be happy on the most important day of his life….
Naina: He will be you don't worry…
NK comes to where Naina and the other ladies were….
Naina's mom: Come and sit here damadji…..as she holds his hand and takes him to the area where banana leaves were laid out in a row and people were waiting for him and naina to take a seat..
NK: wow you are making me the guest of honor!!!I am touched….
Naina: Enjoy it while it lasts…..its only once in a life time you get this opportunity..
NK: why only once??
Naina: because you get married only once!! You silly man..
NK: Ohhh….then after a few seconds……….but why are we doing it now..
Mami: HHBB, can you just sit down first please…..
As NK holds Naina's hand to sit her down he looks at the yellow thread and the pendant around her neck….
NK; what is that you have around your neck?
Naina: it called Thaali…
NK:Its cool, who gave it to you….
Mami: HHBB, you tied it around her neck and now you are asking who gave it?
NK; oh….sorry maasiji…I was so upset earlier….i didn't realise I had tied it…Naina then you should put one around my neck too…
Naina: this is only for a woman…men don't wear thaali's….
NK:but what is it anyway???
Naina: It means I am yours forever…..
Mami interrupting again: Enough of talking, my tummy is waiting to eat some yummy food…
Nk distracted: but why are we eating in banana leaves??
Naina's Mom: this is the tradition…Banana leaves are versatile and every part of the plant is useful….and eating in the leaves does not cause environmental damage, after we are done eating the cows will eat the banana leaves, so you see there is no wastage.
NK: wow, such a wonderful idea, only if people in the west would use natural things instead of the Styrofoam and plastic stuff and protect the environment, the world would be such a beautiful place..
Nani: NK beta, there are reasons behind certain traditions, you will grow old listening to them, right now, you finish eating and get ready for the evening…..
NK; but they are keeping salt and pickle first??
Naina: Don't worry, they will put other food too. We start with the sweets first…ladoos and jalebis are served in the leaf.
Khushi:Wowo jalebis!!! I love this wedding!!!( she lets it slip)
NK: Khushiji!!!!what wedding???
Payal: Oh ho devarji, Naina's wedding!!!
NK: bending towards Naina asks: Did these 2 here eat anything else earlier??
Naina: why do you ask?
NK; They say your wedding? and earlier they were the ones that said it is 2 yrs away…
Naina: Well, they said you couldn't get married? I don't remember anyone saying I couldn't…smiling at him..
NK; Looking at her parents; why did you do this? What about me…?upset..
Naina's Mom: what to do alludu (son in law in telugu…right??? my south indian friends, sorry if I got that wrong it's the language converter online…if it's wrong.), the boy was so good we couldn't wait for 2 years..
Her father: No he is not alludu, but our koduku(son)…
NK: Hold on please hold on……what is this Allu, kodu you just said???
Naina: It means that you are not their son in law but son…..
Nk: both his hands folded…please appa….now don't tell me I am her brother, looking towards Naina..
Naina's Mom: No Koduku, she is your Bharya( wife) and you are her Bhartha( husband) quite amused at NK's delimma…
NK: Amma, you called me your son, I am fine with it…but why are you making me her bhartha…I am no Baigan..(egg plant)
All of Naina's family that had gathered to tease NK burst out laughing…
Naina's Mom whispers to Nani the meanings of the words they just used, Nani bursts out laughing and whipsers its to Mami..
Mami: HHBB, NK if your mom was alive I would have asked her if she had dropped you after you were born…
NK; dropped me??
Mami: Yes, I have to investigate if you were droppened on your head and had a head injury..becoz it seems you still don't get it that you are married…
NK: what? When? How? Why was I not in my own marriage becoming hyper…
Naina: What do you mean when and how? You were the one that tied this mangalsutra in my neck you fool….
Mami: hey new bahu watch it…you are calling your husband a fool!
Naina: Sorry Mamiji…
NK: but you said it was a thaali and now you say it is mangalsutra, I am confused..
Naina: its simple, just as NK and Nandkishore mean the same , so does Thaali and Mangalsutra..do you understand my Bhartha…
NK meaning:, We were married earlier and all of you looking at his family who are about to burst into laughter, were making me miserable and enjoying my delimma.
Khushi: Nanheji, you were so hyper that you did not even let any of us finish what we were trying to say, so it was decided that we wouldn't let you in on the secret that you were getting married as today was the best mahurat..
Arnav, Khushi, Akash, Payal, the gupta's Anjali and Mohan all finished their lunch and got up…NK was feeling on top of the world, he hugged Naina…much to the displeasure of the seniors from her family..
Akash: NK what are you doing???Instead of the hiding the shoes rasam, they will do the joote se maro rasam…please be patient…till you get home…
NK: that's what I am saying Akash bhai….we should get going, we alos have Di's wedding in the evening….
Nani: and your reception…
The newly married seek blessings from both side of the family and head down the stairs towards their car…but our NK steps on his dhoti again and everyone shares a good laugh at his expense…
Nani: enough, everyone, don't spoil his mood….
Khushi trips and accidently pulls on Arnav's dhoti and that is undone and Anjali says: here NK bhai, Chotey is showing solidarity, see even he has no dhoti…everyone bursts into laughter, Nani pulls Aksh's dhoti and says, why should you be left out…all the 3 cousins burst into laughter and shake their bums….embarassing a few elders in Naina's family..
As they come to the car, Naina's dad hugs NK and tells him that they are lucky to have him he is their son..NK too gets emotional and says: I lost my parents long time back, but today I have found them in you…
Arnav: sorry, but we should get going….we will see you all tonight….they bid good bye and leave…
NK is in the car with Arnav and Khushi; Takes Naina's hand and kisses it..
Naina just smiles shyly at him…
NK: are you alright?
Naina: why do you ask?
NK: because you are being so girly….
Naina: what do you mean by that??
NK: no its just that I have never seen you become so shy??
Naina: that's bcoz you haven't kissed me like that before..
Arnav and Khushi smile at each other…
Nk;shhh……you don't have to be so loud…nanav and khushiji are listening…
Khushi: Nanheji, we didn't hear anything and bursts laughing…
NK: fine khushiji…I am not talking until we get home….you all have had enough fun at my expense…
Khushiji: I am sorry naheji, did not mean to hurt you..
They had arrived at the RM..
Arnav: NK, Nani has said you have to wait in the car until she calls you to come in..
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