A SIMPLE LOVE STORY... BRILLIANTLY TOLD
On
this Monday (9th May), my wife and I wanted to watch the late night
show of Marathi movie, ‘Sairat’. But, we didn’t get tickets and ended up watching
‘Captain America’. Both movies got over around 12. Out, we bumped into my
brother Vivek and his wife, Sonu, who had watched ‘Sairat’. Sonu, being a Maharashtrian,
is very fond of Marathi films, plays and music….
“How did you like ‘Sairat’?” I asked Vivek and Sonu.
The response left me and my wife a lot puzzled… In fact,
the response was almost not there!
Anyway, they went their way and we came ours… It was past
midnight.
My wife and I were desperate to watch ‘Sairat’. So, we
tried our luck, once again, on Wed (11th May) for the 7.10 show. It
was fully sold out! Finally, we got tickets for 9.05 show. By the time we went
in, it was packed to the brim!
Old, young, kids… all. Couples, families and group of
young boys… yes, predominantly Maharashtrians…
By the time the movie started, I realized the glory of
watching a great Marathi film… I had not witnessed this kind of involvement as
I had not watched too many Marathi films… Here were young men screaming, whistling,
jumping, dancing… It was gung-ho blazing on all cylinders…
We loved it...
‘Sairat’ is a great film. A film with a soul… told
brilliantly well. A simple romantic story told on screen through simple actors –
no star power, no excess… no going over-the-top… Music and songs are mesmerizing,
the cinematography and editing, top class… and that picturization of songs – particularly
‘Yad Laglag’… and the way the movie ends…. My God, something I have never seen
before… It makes me want to watch it again and again…
While coming back home, my wife and I realized why the
response of my brother and sister-in-law, two nights earlier, had left us
puzzled… Like them, we both were left numb after watching the end... Like them,
the spell had left us speechless, too!
And, that’s why, I consider, this movie to be one of the
greatest movies in the history of any cinema…
A simple love story, told brilliantly well… with a heart,
with a soul…
Incidentally, 11 th May was the day of our 25th
wedding anniversary… Like all other couples, who feel blessed to have survived
twenty-five years of married life, we too, had been feeling blessed, grateful,
humbled, ecstatic, top-of-the world for some time, now… and, like everyone
else, we, too, had felt, often, the urge to go on the mountain-top to announce
it…
But, then, as the day began to come closer, my wife and I
chose to make no big deal about it… After all, she and I alone knew how it was all like… and, we alone know how it all will be like. So, instead of going on the
mountain-top, we both decided to spend some quiet time together in the valleys of
our hearts… and, tell it all there – how fortunate
we are… how blessed… how grateful… how
happy and ecstatic… yes, tell all this in whispers into each other’s hearts…
rather than…
And, yes, we watched a very romantic movie, that night
and loved it… And, even though we were numbed to the core in the end, our
hearts kept singing…
Yad laglag, yad laglag re
Rangla tujhyat yad laglag re
I have gone crazy about you dear… I have gone crazy about
you dear
I am colored with you, have gone crazy about you dear…
It
has been a simple love story, you see… After twenty-five years, the need is even
stronger, today, to make that promise… “In my good times and in my bad times….”
We alone know what it takes to complete that promise… and
remain true to it.
Thank you Lord.
GERALD D’CUNHA
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