Its 3 Years passed since my mother walked out on that puffy evening. Now, i can count on my own. They apparently publish books on time. However, i only got those books few days before exams. No wonder, i failed my 2nd grade that year. I got new sets of younger friends instead; some of them even call me 'Dai’. I seem to be caring less on, what they call me. But they are born with the same curiosity as to why i am only called 'kancha '. I get along with this guy though, Rishi. He is a son of a poor farmer. He is too filmy in his nature and seems to follow Bollywood pretty much. He catches up well with the movies news too. He once told me Hrithik Roshan Has 6 fingers and i in total disbelief was like what????? He told me the names of few Bollywood stars in our gate go chats. Shahrukh Khan, Salmaan Khan , Saif Ali Khan , Aamir Khan and all the khans in the industry. That’s why for few weeks i thought; to become a film star, you must have ‘khan’ hitched to your name. When i was all alone and a little free, i would call myself ' ‘Kancha Khan'. Until this day, i asked him out of my intense curiosity :'Then why dont Hrithik Roshan has a khan to his name??' to which he just smiled. Later when we had a lot of film conversations i got answer to that witless question. And i never called myslef 'Kancha Khan' again.
Few days back; Rishi came to me thrilled and said;" Salman Khan's new movie is a hit, Bodyguard". He seemed a lot happy for some reason which i couldn’t reckon why? I kept that curiosity to myself for i didn’t want to spoil my friend's excitement. However it’s only Rishi who could tell why. On my way back home that day, i was pushing myself real hard because it was already late for chores. When i saw couple of guys, well dressed who sometimes talked with this alien language. They would often say 'Oh My God' with pauses literally after each word. But we only said 'OMAGO' back at school, that too rishi taught all the class. He must have heard that from some movies he watches so often.
They started discussion something about 'Body guard' the movie Rishi was really excited about. That's when i got all my ears into their conversation. They said: Bodyguard movie is a total crap, how could Nepalese spend around 2.5 crores for that shit piece... (Alien language for a while and)...Nepalese would even buy Salman's poop had that been supplied to our country in packets but that only flows down the drain to Ganges in India,we should stop watching this bullshits they throw at us every now and then, we must realise the Indian's are looting us and blah blah..(Alien language)....blah blah. They were already getting on my nerves for they were talking nasty about the movie my friend was so much intoxicated to. I absolutely didn’t care the parts of the conversation involving how much money we had lost against this film. Rather i was thinking, if i had any i would lend it to Rishi so that he could watch this movie. However i didn’t.
I was done with the evening chores for that day and i was wondering to myself in all the tranquility of the universe. I was forming opinions over as to how i am going to present the story of the guys being biased over Rishi's favorite movie. I was pondering couple of thoughts to how my mother was dealing with her illness too, that was for a while though. However i was more focused over the fact how Rishi is going to respond to this allegation the boys were making. That's when i Pivoted my head around to see a 100rs note flattened over the gorgeous tea table, that they received in a dowry of their eldest son's marriage. There were a lot of furniture and electronics but they seem to have utmost fond to this one though. I had never craven anything comparable to that 100rs note before in my life. An evil part of my head said to filch that one and go on a movie show the following day with Rishi, bunking the classes. But couldn’t hear to my mettle inside and fairy part of my brain fairly won the tussle.
I was beckoned to the real world when i heard him, the head of my new family exclaiming over the news reporting about the noble deeds of our Newly elected Prime Minister. He enunciated something that included 'Mustang max', 'only 4 lakhs cash vaulted in all these years', 'He sure is our new hope' and ' He will take peace process to a conclusion'. I was there listening to him words per words with no such expressions that could give him any hint to i was listening. I knew this prime minister is from the rebel party who used to fight with the army. I have myself witnessed the agony of that war to some extent. I can vividly remember that frantic day of June 6, 2005 when a road side bomb detonated by the former rebels killed 38 people including lot of women and children in Madi, Chitwan. That’s is where i am from. And the very next day i was rendered to this new family.
Lights were out already and that night all i thought was about bodyguard, Rishi, offensive remarks from those guys, 100 rs lying on the table, our new prime minister and those mercilessly killed people and their bereaved family. i wished our new PM was a genie who could fulfill my tiny wishes and straight out things like providing relief to those deeply moved family of that inhuman act ensuring no more war. I wished he could live up to the expectations of my head of the family. And i wished if he would provide us any tickets to this new movie 'Bodyguard' the next day.
OMAGO......its fun reading......
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