Random scene: The make up artist is dressing up a bride for her
reception party. She is getting intermittent calls. Half of the calls consist of requests from would-be brides for appointments…the other half consist of
cancellation of pre booked appointments.
Reason? The wedding has been called off.
These days it has become the trend to call off the wedding
at the last moment to run away with “the true love”. Why this epiphany has to
strike just before taking the vows I fail to understand.
In the olden days people did not have much say about their
own weddings. So running away was often the only way left for the rebellious
bravehearts. But nowadays even the “arranged marriages” are fixed solely at the
will of the girl and the boy. Now that should guarantee an incident-free
wedding. But in reality people are breaking off marriages…even love marriages
at the eleventh hour. It has become the latest style statement. They think they are really
cool if they display the guts to be the runaway bride/groom.
What gave our society such a heinously warped idea one might
wonder…
Rachel ran out at her own wedding in the popular TV show
“Friends”
Her defense: She was marrying a rich dentist guy to secure
her material comforts, once she realized that she didn’t love him she chose to
flee the wedding scene.
Kareena Kapoor’s character dumped her fiancé (twice) in the
movie “3 idiots”.
Her defense: She fell for another guy. When this guy
vanished into thin air she went back like a wimp to her ex-fiance only to dump
him again at the altar.
Abhay Deol’s character decides to call off his wedding at
the behest of his two best friends during his flashy bachelor party.
His defense: She was stifling him and he had not really proposed marriage. It did not occur to him that clarifying the confusion at the right moment could have saved a lot of heartburn.
And the winner: Deepika Padukone’s character leaves her
newly married groom to run after ex boyfriend in Love ajkal.
Defense: The love of her life had always been the ex
boyfriend. Since he refused to commit she had decided to marry a nicer guy. When she sees a chance of getting her ex boyfriend back she runs away putting the nice guy's life at stake.
And all the while we sitting at the audience took sides with
Rachel, Kareena, Abhay, Deepika…because the plot had placed them as the heroes
and heroines. We clapped, we cheered, we wiped away copious tears and left for
home satisfied. We never thought how unfair the portrayal was until the trend
went viral in reality. In real life when the same thing happens we all condemn
these people as villains.
I do not see any solution to this. May be someone needs to
take charge and glorify the value of promise.
Remember how in your childhood some kids asked you to
promise in the name of god to ensure the secrecy of the just imparted
information? We promised and did our best to keep our words. What went wrong
since then?? Why did we grow up to be such messed up people with little regard
to promises??
Why do we so often forget that records are made to be broken…promises
are made to be kept??
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