After the duet..the duel !
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By Subroto Mukherjee
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They say a married woman knows everything. Yes, everything! Except one thing: why the heck did she marry the kind of hubby she did in the first place?
A marriage breaks up in Bollywood for more or less the same reason it breaks up anywhere else.
The wife discovers that she has the worst hubby in the world. Actually this is not a very original thought at all.
Ask any wife and she will tell you the same thing: how she has to put up with the worst hubby on this planet.
You see, this is what happens: once married, a wife will do everything in her power to change her man. Only to lament later on that her hubby is not the same man he used to be.
No wonder a couple spend their honeymoon holding hands. But they spend the rest of their lives (if they are still together) holding arguments.
These days a Bollywood singer has fallen out of tune with his wife. And far from crooning a lovey-dovey duet, the two are conducting quite a duel in public.
They are living apart and no longer on speaking terms. But on the singer's birthday, the estranged wife did call him up to wish him:
She : Many happy returns. But don't get the wrong idea. For you there will be no return to me.
He : Ha, who wants to return to you? I used to shower gifts on you all the time. Just return those to me. After all, they cost me a small fortune!
She : Ha. In that case it must have been a very very small fortune. Every time you brought me something, it was a very small present though nicely wrapped. And while I unwrapped it, you got busy unwrapping me!
He : Don't remind me! How much I used to love you! That I even gifted you the swanky flat where you are now living. Please return it to me.
She : Forget it. I can part with you. But how can I part with this flat? After all, I am a very sentimental person. And this flat holds a lot of memories for me!
He : Ha, whatever it may hold for you, don't forget that whatever it holds belongs to me. In fact, the cars, the properties, everything. if it was not for my money, nothing would be there!
She : Oh yeah? Well, frankly if it was not for your money, I would not be here either!
He : Ah yes, how clearly I can see that now. When you married me, you did not just take my surname. You took me for everything I had!
She : And you took me and my love for granted. You never really loved me. To you, your family members were everything. And had I not put my foot down, your whole clan would have moved in with us.
He : My foot ! Anyway, as they say, success is relative. The more successful you are, the more relatives there will be around you. So what if they had moved in with us to share my success? For your sake, I was ready to move to a bigger house.
She : Big deal. What was the use of moving? After all, no matter where we moved, your damn relatives would have found us anyway!
He : Hey, forget my relatives. You could not even find it in your heart to accommodate my own parents! And there I was trying to find ways to make you happy.
She : And how you succeeded. In fact, you made me the happiest woman in the world. The day you moved out! Look, this is how it stands between us today. I may still love your singing and music. But sorry, I can no longer put up with your partying, boozing and womanizing!
He : The truth is I never used to do all that in excess. But the day you decided to split with me, I just could not stop myself. I had to go all out and celebrate.
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