The storm

A few years ago,when I was in school,I used to watch a tv show called "Gaaner Opaare".It was extremely popular at that time because it was based on Rabindranath Tagore and how his songs have depicted the various phases of our life.

The story begins with a girl named Pupe,who is brought up under the strict governance of her grandfather.She is trained in Rabindra Sangeet and she grows up to become a reknown singer.Pupe's life is bound by the rules of her conservative household and there is no life beyond those four walls of her family.Her marriage is also fixed by her grandfather with a well-known guy named Pradipta who is the owner of a music company.Pradipta finds his soulmate in Pupe and Pupe finds him perfect for her too.

But then a storm named Gora steps in her life..

Gora is not one of those civilised men who are extremely courteous to the women around him,he lives life on his own terms,he makes parodies out of Rabindranath' s songs,he isn't polished or well-mannered,much to everyone's dismay.But he creates a huge turmoil in Pupe's heart.He conquers her soul with his luminous presence and makes her laugh,he gifts her the amazing gift of life,the way it should be lived and that is without any bounds.

Gora is not a gentleman and Pupe's family has no regard for someone like him in her life,but Pupe,falls in love with him for the first time in her colourless life.I still remember when she sang that song "Aaji ei boshonte,koto ful fothe,koto pakhi gay" (today in this spring,so many flowers bloom,so many birds sing)

Yes,it was spring in her life.Gora held her arms and taught her to spread the wings of fire,he served as the beacon who showed her the way beyond the locked doors,he took her by his side and asked her to run with him across the lush green fields like two mad lovers away from the crowd.

But it's hard to run away,when your life is being watched so closely by people who only want you to live by the rules and not with happiness.

Pupe gets engaged and Gora decides to abandon her forever.He realizes how small he is compared to Pradipta,he cannot give Pupe the pleasures she deserves and love alone won't suffice.

But Pupe decides to find him and get him back in her life.She forgets the responsibilities of a fiancee and she searches for Gora at every place possible till she finds him one day.She holds his hands and places them across her heart,and gives him the sign that he was always looking for.He belonged with Pupe and he was the one she always deserved.

When they got united again,the only words that I could recount were those said by Rose

"He saved me in every way a person could be saved"

Gora saved Pupe from the cruelty inflicted on her,from that point of view,he was her family;he was someone who saw the girl crying inside her,dying to break out every now and then.

Pradipta did lose her,he could have made a perfect husband,but he would have remained a loser forever in her eyes.

I believe if you love someone,you should never let them go,it doesn't matter where he came from,it doesn't matter where he belongs,because whatever happened,was meant to happen;that one road he chose to took for you made the difference.The rest should be forgotten.

And in that way,Pupe saved Gora too from being lost in the oblivion forever.She gave him a new identity and a new life.

She was a storm too,though a very gentle one.

Sometimes the storm is necessary to replenish our life with the advent of a new spring...