When Love Is Interrupted

I love the song, "Ram Chahe Leela" from the film Ram-Leela. The song basically asks that if two people love each other, how is it anybody else's business. Good question!
The sad part is that whenever a Ram loves Leela or a Leela loves Ram, the world around them does seem to think that they have at least some business in whatever is going on between them. Take for example any love story from history, ‘Romeo-Juliett’, ‘Heer-Ranjha’, ‘Laila-Majnu’. In all these cases, you would find the world acting against the lovers. Causing one roadblock after another. Almost as if they want them to part from each other. As if their happiness makes them drown in unhappiness. Now, I don’t know why that happens. Perhaps, it is because most people in the world haven’t been lucky enough to find their best half, and so they cannot stand the sight of someone having found theirs. Or perhaps, the world is too imperfect to let a perfect love story prevail. Perhaps, that’s why Devdas couldn’t have Paaro, Romeo and Juliett could not come together and Ram and Leela committed suicide because they knew that the world would never allow them to live in peace.
I saw a movie titled ‘Kora Kaagaz’ recently. It is about a couple who manage to get married but still remain disturbed. Why? Because the man in the marriage is not a rich man. And the girl comes from money. The girl's mother leaves no opportunity to remind her husband of the same. Soon, the husband is pissed off. Considers his wife to be a part of this conspiracy that he thinks is designed to make him feel inferior. And the two part. The film ends on a happy note though (something you expect from a 70s Bollywood classic). But the story in the film is the same as we see in most places. If the couple is happy, there are people around who would do anything to destroy that happiness.
And it’s not so just in reel life, in real life too, wherever you see a couple who have married in love, you will find someone or the other inside their family who doesn’t side with one of the partners. Some think that their daughter deserved better. Others who think that their son deserved better. My question is, does it really matter what they think? And why can’t those people get it?
No offence to them but all they are is a pain in the backside. Yes, and they should know it before the love birds are forced to tell them. My message to those people is:  lay off, back off and stand aside. It’s their life. And perhaps they have realized that they can only live once. So, let those who are making the most of life have their time under the sun. And do yourself a favor by finding someone you can love too. And if you can’t, then for God’s sake, don’t be a spoilsport for others.

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