Storyline….
A Maneet story where Maan and Geet are not the typical angry young man or the innocent timid girl… how their past affects their present is the plot….
Starting this new FF for the tamil new year…. .
Prologue
A new story with our Maneet as the lead….
This is not about the typical angry young man and the damsel in distress types story….. Both Maan and Geet have a past baggage which makes them the suitable match for each other… but both of them don’t know the whole story of each other’s past..
Let’s just meet the Khuranas of Delhi…
Savithri ji, Dadi, a parkinson’s patient….. wheel chair wali Dadi….
And our Maan lives with Dadi as his parents left him when young….
Sheetal, MSK’s mother died of illness when Maan was 2 years old….
Madan, Maan’s father followed his wife a couple of years later….
And we have Anvesha Khurana Rathod, Maan’s elder sister…..
Yes, Annie is 6 years elder to Maan and is married to Arjun Rathod…. She lives in Australia with her family….
Maan takes care of his father’s business….
Dadi is desperate to get Maan married as her body is not co-operating with her as much as she likes and she can’t even take care of herself without help….
She hates that for she has taken care of Maan and Anvesha single handedly all these years and now she wants to be there for them when they need her the most but she is helpless…..
Dadi has been searching for a suitable girl for Maan on her own with the help of munshiji….
Munshiji has told Dadi about the Handas who are keen to have a relationship with the Khuranas…..
Khurana Pariwaar is the most respected family in Hoshiarpur and even after they left for Delhi decades ago the reputation that Mr.Amarnath Khurana, Maan’s dadaji earned is still there among the villagers….
Mr.Khurana started his business selling most of his land at Hoashiarpur, except for a small strip that the Khuranas still hold as a part of their native place, which he left in the care of the Handas and moved to Delhi with a vision to give employment to the youth of his village where farming didn’t help them support their families…..
Even now there are a lot of workers from Hoshiarpur in KC….
That’s why the whole of Hoshiarpur is still very grateful to the Khurana family….
The Handas take care of the Khurana farm too……. Mr.Khurana senior did come to visit Hoshiarpur on a regular basis when he would look for new workers…. He would then visit the Handas, specially Darji as the two are very dear friends….
Darji refused to join Mr.Khurana’s business as he loved his farming very much…
Though he didn’t earn much from the fields he is happy to be a middle-class farmer than a rich business man….
Darji insisted that his friend gave the land to him for fear of those fertile land to be turned into another factory….
While most of the villagers readily sold their land to factory owners as they didn’t want their children to suffer like them…. They sent them to Delhi to study and settle there with a job….
Khurana’s land is on the highway and could have fetched a lot more had Amarnath sold to any outsider, but he chose to give it to his friend who couldn’t afford to pay him that much for Amarnath too wanted his farm to remain under cultivation…..
Madan was born and brought up in Delhi and he was never interested in going to their farm at Hoshiarpur…..
He didn’t even care to inquire about the crops or the earnings from that 2 acres…
Neither did they depend on that money nor did they wished to hold Darji accountable for that, Madan respected Darji like family, he is like Amarnath’s brother….
The Khurana’s might have made it big in their business and become one of the successful business house in Delhi but they live in isolation away from their own people….
Amarnath was a single child as was Madan… Savithri didn’t have time to keep in touch with his cousins for they were far from the others and most of them didn’t like their growth…. So, she preffered not to entertain such relationship….
Their only link at Hoshiarpur is the Handas and that too Dadi has a couple of telephonic conversations with Darji in a whole year….
Now that the Handas are themselves interested in this relationship dadi is very keen in to go with it…..
The Handas are not money minded and they are doing this only for Mr.Amarnath Khuranas friendship with darji…..
A number of proposals from the business circle came for Maan but they are more like business deals…. Maan’s market value is down now as he is a widower….
Dadi wants someone who can take care of Maan and the family, who can accept the Khuarana pariwaar as her very own family, who’ll be a support for Maan and stand by him at all times. Good and bad……
Basically dadi is looking for a substitute for her place in Maan’s life…..
Sheetal aaj zinda hothi toh Dadi Maan ko lekhe itna pareshaan nahi hothi….
Moreover this illness has limited her activities a lot and she is mostly confined to her room…. That itself is killing Dadi, the fact that she can’t fulfill her duties properly….
Dadi wants someone to take over the responsibilities of the family, specially Maan after her….
Dadi is all set to welcone Ms. Geet Handa as the Khurana bahu soon….
Dadi has to do something to convince Maan, that’s it….
But the one and only problem is that only, it’s not easy to persuade MSK into the marriage….
It’s just been over a year after the tragic loss of his wife, Sameera….
Dadi gave Maan more than enough time to grieve her loss, that’s it, Maan has to move on in his life, it’s not the end of his life, after all he is only 25….
Dadi got Maan married a little earlier for she wanted Maan to have a family as he was all alone after Annie’s marriage…
KM looked like a bhoot bungalow with Maan busy with the business and dadi being the only old soul haunting the house all day…
Maan’s wedding was the first grand celebration at KM after a long time…
Annie’s wedding was held at Arjun’s place, Haridwar…
Dadi was happy that she fulfilled her duties before her illness made her more inactive..
But her happiness didn’t last long, and here she is back looking for a bahu again…
Dadi knows that it’s not easy for Maan to leave his past behind and think of a future with someone else…. But Maan went into depression after Sam left, it took him more than six months to realize the situation and pick up from there….
Annie and Arjun had to come back from Australia… Arjun was really nice to take a long leave from his work and come here for Maan…
Dadi was hopeless, Maan initially went berserk and went hiding in the woods, camping in remote forests, running away from everything…
Then he came back and stayed at home without showing any interest in business, irritated by any outside contact, he was literally a prisoner of his own thoughts…
Arjun tried his best to put KC back on the heels, which was totally under performing without Maan….
Annie, with her two sons, one 5 years old and the other just a toddler, spent as much time possible with her brother, but it was a tough ask even for Annie, she too was frustrated as she couldn’t manage as Maan was not at all cooperating….
That’s when Dadi decided that she has to step in and find another solution…
Dadi asked Annie to go back and take care of her life, and otherwise Maan wouldn’t learn to take care of his …
Dadi asked a few loyal staff like Adi, Sasha, Pinky and others to come and work at the OH, turned into a makeshift office…
Dadi initially started to take charge working on the wheelchair itself…
Maan realized his mistake and asked dadi to stop punishing herself at this age…
Dadi says that she can’t keep watching from the side, when the business empire her husband built through his hard work was going down the gutters… she is not MSK, without any feelings, she is just an old woman still not able to free herself from human feelings like Maan, the Mahaan…
Maan was forced to work again… Adi told Maan about the problems that crept in as soon as there was no head, the unions started making their own rules and the rivals supported them indirectly…
Maan then slowly started to go to KC… yet he was still the same within, the loneliness was killing him from the inside slowly….
Maan will ruin his life if left alone, dadi knows he desperately needs someone to pull him out of this stagnation…. Dadi can’t see him struggling within himself, he is an introvert, keeps his feelings secret, he is living like a lifeless zombie…
Maan has been like that from his childhood, after his parents’ loss too he never showed his pain like Annie, Annie always spoke about her parents and how she missed her father a lot…
Maan was more closer to his mother Sheetal, but he never complained about his fate, but showed a lot of courage and maturity beyond his age….
Maan is not a loner, he pretends to be one, he was attached to his dadaji after Sheetal left, after dadaji, it was Annie, Annie being 6 years elder to Maan, cared for him the most, he respects her a lot, she is more than a sister to him, he was very close to her until her marriage, after which she moved to Australia…
And after the two kids, she rarely has the time for anything else… Maan got attached to Sam likewise, Annie didn’t have to worry about him then….
Even though you have your siblings, it’s not the same like having a partner… Maan is missing that special care and company, but he won’t accept that… it’s upto our drama queen, Dadima to pull him out of this grave that he is digging for himself before it’s too late…
Shiv Shakti
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