Love, ever a reality?

LOVE! I know I'm too old to even think of this topic but everytime I read or watch a movie where love is portrayed in the fashion I always dream of, I just cannot help but think of LOVE as if I just turned sweet sixteen yesterday.

With nothing better to do, I flipped through the movies available online and happened to come across a movie called DHOBIGHAT. checking the casts, I saw Aamir Khan's name and was surprised, how come I had not heard the name of a movie which had such a big star in it. Anyway, knowing that Aamir Khan's movies are almost like a gem, since he does only one movie in a year(I hope this information is true).

The movie did have Aamir Khan but it didn't have anything interesting to cling on.Other than the hero himself I didn't recognize any of the other actors in that movie.I would have clicked out the movie if only I had any other stuff to do, so I continued staring at the plot which had me sneering at one of the most highly rated actor in Bollywood. The movie ended before I could feel "that was some movie!".

I looked out of my window and the sun rays were still dancing in all its glory. The day seems to stretch like the most elastic rubber ever produced when you are bored to death. Trying to tramp on the bad taste left in my heart by that dhobighat, I clicked on another movie. (This better be good!The cast looked promising, there was Hrithik Roshan and Ashwarya Rai Bachhan).

This movie wrung my heart with its scenic beauty and I loved the entire feel of the movie. Ethan(played by Hrithik) is a quadriplegic who pleads for his death after battling with his vegetable life for twelve years. Euthanasia! (I wished I could show this movie to my students who have to deal with this topic while studying their novel GIVER). The movie touched the deepest pockets of my soul when at the end the court denies him his death but Sophiya(played by Ash), his nurse for twelve years accepts to grant him this wish.

What left a big lump in my throat was the proposal of marriage made by Ethan to Sophiya just after her acceptance of granting him his only wish-death! Watch this movie Guzarish and tell me if this beautiful scene doesn't squeeze out some tears(well, this could happen only if you understand love!).

The movie ended and this time when I looked out of my window, the sun was an orange ball mildly bouncing in the far end of the ocean. As the waves lashed its ripples I felt it was the sun crying my tears. It broke my heart to know that maybe!maybe there is such kind of love some where in the niche of this huge wide world.

Tears still peeping through the window of my soul, I then thought of the previous movie and was almost about to say that was a 'howry' movie, I jolted with complete different understanding of the movie that I had failed to see before. Dhobighat too deals with the theme of love but I didn't feel that 'cause unlike Guzaarish, the love in Dhobighat is more found in real life. There is a boy who is a dhobi who falls in love with an elite NRI who in her westernized attitude forgets that for somebody like Munna the only possible relationship between man and woman is LOVE.Then there is Mr Aamir Khan himself who plays a secluded in oneself kind of painter. His solitary life is not just the fact that he is an artists but owing to the fact that his wife has left him. Although the beautiful NRI girl is charmed by their casual 'mistake' after meeting in a party, he doesn't reciprocate in the same manner. However, this painter derives his share of love when he moves to an apartment where he finds some assortment of video tapes and other items left behind by the previous tenants. The lady in that tape records each moment of her life so that she can send it to her brother. Unknown to himself, these tapes inspires him to produce more paintings and the glow of love radiates on his face. But the movie ends with none of the character getting the love of their life. The Dhobi guy gives the new address of the painter guy to the NRI girl sacrificing his love for her. While the girl knows the painter will never love her back, the painter himself gets submerged in the agony of the the truth that the lady in the tape has committed suicide.

Such is the twists of love,it strikes at the most unlikely being at the most unlikely hour. So is love ever a reality?Or just mere plot woven to capture the heart of the audience by the writers?