Am posting the whole story again so that you wont have to browse to remember.
Wat Linda did.
As Jyothi Sat down on the bench in her garden, her maid a young woman clad in a salwar kameez, the kind that some bargain shops pass of as ‘designer’, brought her tea, The bone china she was carrying, the garden, the house all seemed to say out aloud, ‘ iam rich’. Jyoti was Jyoti to just herself now, no one called her that any more, she was ‘aunty’ to the neighbours, Didi to an elderly neighbour, and ‘maa’ to everyone else. And now ‘maa’ was looking at the coverpage of ‘Filmfare’, I wonder why we buy these she thought to herelf, then she reminded herself that a household was a well off one only if they bought atleast five magazines a month and subscribed for atleast 3 newspapers a day, so what if I don’t read them, its nice own them she thought, On the coverpage and the centre pages of the magazine was Linda a beautiful actress whose figure every one around seemed to admire, oogle at and envy, but to jyoti she was just another pretty face.
Jyoti’s story was not a pleasant one, but now she was very well off, recieveing high sums of money from her son who had left home years ago, She had been married off to Ramesh when she was 19 and then the 20 years that followed was a difficult life with little money, some clothing and A roof over their 3 heads, the third one being the only reason jyothi and ramesh stayed together through those years, Amar, he was a happy boy, pleasant faced and all, jumping up and down with happiness when India won a wicket or got a few runs…. He wanted to be a cricketer and he was good at the game, but his parents dint appreciate it, nor did they encourage his plans of getting on the field bat in hand.
‘You should become a software enginner’ said ramesh,
‘No, Balls,….
‘WHAT?’
and a bat, that what I want!
You good for nothing oaf! You are never going to succeed in life!
And this dialogue went on and on…. Till Amar was 20
~~~~ Leap ~~~~
Amar is now the goodlooking, hunk type cool guys, the kind that girls would do anything to be seen with. And he loves to be seen with each of them too, after all the complaints and ‘future proposals’ jyoti received from parents of pretty neighbours, she sent him away to mumbai to study enginnering….
*point---- if your wondering why they sent him to mumbai and not tamil nadu… to study engineering, then remember, everything in this story is fiction, there are as many colleges in mumabi as in tamilnadu that give engineering seats even if you have low marks, provided you take the cash in suitcases. (dad says cheques in Suitcases, but that lame I know)
ok coming back to Amar, he was great at writing and cricket and also walked the ramp for his college fashion team.
Sensible as he was, Amar decided to decided to leave home the next day he finished engineering, he was flying away to a distant land he told his parents, a new job, loads of money and all the freedom he wanted, but jyoti had a different view to things
Amar, youve just finished Engineering, why dont you work here for a while, why do you want to go back before you have even spent a week with us,?'' It was an irresistable offer mom, i just had to accept it'But the truth was far from that, there had been no job offer, his marks hadnt met the placement cut-off. He was going back to bombay to try his luck in modelling.It had been difficult before, Engineering college is tough business and modelling part time, takes you no where. it was when he missed a ramp show because of an exam (He had to prepare for the exam) that he decided he would come back and become a full time model, he had the looks for it he thought to himself, and well certainly he did.It was at his first ever audition that he met her, she was the best looking of the lot, and was studying while her friends were perfecting their walk, she hit it off with Amar instantly and after few initial months of friendship, they were a couple and Alicia moved in with him. They were perfect couple, seen at parties together, holding hands, the picture perfect smiles and the like, I must also add that by then both of them were quite successful models and Alicia was even getting Television commercials. We will get married soon, Amar kept telling Alicia time and again, but ‘soon’ never came much to Alicias dismay,
Alicia kept gaining popularity after one of her commercials became a superhit, but Amar’s modeling career however was on a downhill, He had lost the Boyish’ looks that had made him look good, and as he had resorted to drinking as a full time hobby, people found him difficult to work with. His attitude towards life and lack of interest in anything else apart from modeling got him nowhere.
Maybe it was to Bring a little happiness into their now Totally busy vs totally jobless life that they had a Distraction, well they had a baby boy! Amar was confused and Alicia was happy , maybe the confusion turned into regret as Amar left Bombay for Delhi, he told Alicia he was going to try his luck in the ramp circuit there, ‘ I cant go wrong this time’ he said.
But as luck had it, Delhi had nothing better to offer Amar, he called home once in two days, then it was once in a week which eventually became once in 2 months till the calls stopped coming. Alicia was A top model then with frequent trips to paris and showstopper sequences in italy, She did her best to get Amar to come back home but he refused, Alicia later discovered that he was working as a designer’s personal assistant and spent most of his small income on alcohol
Two years later Alicia who was now acting in her first Hollywood film learnt that Amar had died of a drug overdose, Two year old Rahul dint understand why momma stayed dull all day.
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Fourteen years later Jyothy was sipping tea in her garden, in walked a beautiful woman with a boy who looked around 15, A sense of familiarity all over them, Jyothy had seen this woman somewhere, glancing at the cover of the magazine she had been browsing through at that moment, she realized it was Linda, the Hollywood star who was now acting in a hindi movie, Eyes wide open and a half open mouth she said ‘Hello, are you Linda?’
Yes iam, But my family calls me Alicia you can call me that, is this jyothy? Amar’s mother?,
Jyothy could not recover, here was Linda asking about Amar, the boy who sent her all the money she ever wanted but dint ever come home, or even call her. Was Linda Amar’s Girlfriend or something? Were they planning to get married, was that why she was here. A beavy of questions flooded her head, but she waited for Linda to talk.
This is Rahul, Linda said, pointing at the boy, your grandson.
Are you the mother?
Yes, and now I am going to leave him with you. Iam entrusting you with my son and I hope you will take good care of him. He Goes to school in Paris now, but he fly back to you once school is done, and for the holidays ofcourse.
What are you going to be doing?
Well nothing at all, ive been diagnosed with cancer so I thought you are the right person to hand over things to.
Where is Amar? Said a confused looking Jyothy
Am sorry but he died Fourteen years ago.
What??! I received money from him yesterday! And you say he died fourteen years ago, you swindler, you are after his money aren’t you.? Nasty piece of shit, go away.
After I found the address and telephone number in our Bombay apartment, I knew you would need some resources, so I sent you some cash whenever I could.
This ‘some’ had been huge sums and ‘whenever’ was every month
Am off now, please take care of my son, I will call if I can she said, leaving jyothy staring at the coverpage of Filmfare.
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Cheera Thoran (Spinach)
Colourful! 
:) This one doesnt really need an explanation right.. hehe ... Crazzyy me ! like always.
Vidya
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