Story of Shraddha and Pavan.
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In her very
own words......
Are Marriages really made in heaven? I used to make a mockery of
such statements and use wonder at a same time how can someone say
such a hypothetical statement. I use to laugh thinking that this dialog was a
very bad heritage left by Indian cinema for us.....well until.....yes you got
me right....
Until... I met Pavan.
Many time even I found myself wondering how on earth this could happen
to me. If I look back (which I do more
than often), even I get mesmerized many times about how on earth this
happened to me. I never thought that there could be something known as “our love
story” when I was a child or in fact in college as well.
Our story is the best example of (the
unwritten law of love i.e.) Opposite Attracts.
· I love singing -he is a scratched CD (yeah!!! trust me I tried but it didn’t work).
·
I am a born dancer - his dancing skills
are..... (well...?? have seen it and you
can’t even imagine what I saw)...him and dance.. No way.
·
I love cooking – he can....(eat what i make)...make....well not even a cup of tea.
·
I’m totally unromantic - he is full Hindi film hero
(totally, madly and highly romantic)
and overwhelms the above mentioned shortcoming convincingly.
·
I can’t go out @11 in night to get a cheese cake –
He can do anything!!! (Would easily take
me to stars if he can.)
That’s Pavan for you in a nutshell!!
Our story is more like the 19th century stories. Well it not
like we saw each other in a temple praying but because of ORKUT (rest in peace). ORKUT was (2 minutes silence.....)
booming that time. It was like everyone was having 2 kinds of friends.
Firstly friends who are were your classmates, batch mates and
colleagues. And then there were what we called just ORKUT friends.
I too had one such Orkut friend, a good hearted person (I never met that guy until me &
pavan married but I met Pavan because of that guy)…..Fortunately
he was Pavan’s best college buddy (later
turning into cupid).
One day we were talking randomly, suddenly someone shouted on his phone
“ kisse bat kar raha hain tu , mereko bhi baat karni hain”.
That guy handed his phone to Pavan requesting me to say ‘Hi’
to him. So I did (bas hogaya shree ganesh
waha se).
That’s how we started our journey. No wonders I got Orkut (2 minutes silence please) request from
Pavan the very next day and then we chatted on & on & on. After a couple
of months he gathered the courage (literally all of it) to ask me out for a
coffee, I said “why not I love coffee".
31st December 2008 ,
venue - Barista @ Raghuleela
He arrived early and was waiting for me outside Vashi station
campus, as if the huge courtyard wasn’t enough of a challenge in a hurry I
also forgot to carry my specs.(without
which i am blind as a bat even in day. Hence they search began) actually i
just stood at one place he came looking for me.
Well dressed up, fair, tall chashmish guy basically (OMG!!! Super handsome...shuuu don’t tell
anyone) typical the GUY
next door type. This was his first impression on me. He is
still the same (but only ONE THING
changed).It was actually very cool meeting, we neither felt awkward
nor uncomfortable during the met. He had to leave early because his
gang was waiting for him. You know how these friends behave when you
are going to meet a girl. But they constantly troubled him on phone as he was trying
to tangofy a friend’s birthday celebration to be with me. He had given all the
possible reasons to attend the celebration a bit late (it was cute and funny).
I said to him “it’s ok (which was
not), your friends are waiting and you should go & have fun with them,
surely we will meet again (I just hoped
he did).We both left for our places
At midnight 12.00 a.m he called to wish happy New Year. (Actually he wanted to know weather i was
free the following day or not.. woawww)
CCD -1st January 2009 -
I must say, we really lived the tag line of CCD (Sorry i forgot what it was???? Oh yes a lot
can happen over a coffee!!).Citicenter CCD was where we meet again and
since then it became our regular hangout place. 2 - 3 hrs we would meet to
talk. Actually I used to talk he used to listen everything quietly.
I thought he was a balanced guy, who never talks much… even if asked to do so.
Once i insisted why he doesn’t talks much to which always replied “I am
more of a listener (wowwwww amazing..And
I was actually starting to like him)
Do you Remember The Only thing that changed in him that I talked about
just a few moments ago was he talks too much, too much (yes you guessed it right.. IT WAS A TRAP!!) and he gracefully lured
me into it as well (did i forget my spec
again for not seeing it??).He irritates me, he makes a mockery of people. I
came to know about all his secrets and loopholes after meeting his gang.(bach gayi...hahaha).
He would give me indirect hint that he loves me & I
used to enjoy that (don’t ask how
much!!).
One fine day out of nowhere he said “let’s go out somewhere”
I asked “for what?”.
He replied “relax!! I know you are an abnormal girl, I just
want to go out with you & I am very much aware that you are
strong enough to take care of your own & I will not dare to even
think what you are thinking about it”.
I said “okies..NP”.
We went to kihim beach, breezy day it was. We both were walking on
the silver sandy beach. Suddenly he requested me to sit down. What
happened next was totally unexpected. Suddenly he went down on his knees (I was like OMG...OMG!!!), fetched
a box from his pocket ((faster
OMG...OMG!!!), opened it (I was like even
faster OMG...OMG!!!). he then picked the diamond ring (then the racing OMG....OMG!!!), held it in both of his hands and
asked....
“ SHRADS I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH ….I WANT TO GROW OLD WITH YOU ….WILL YOU
MARRY ME ….”.
And I was like (going crazy in my
minds).....I had never expected it to come too early. Certainly I had
the same feelings for him as well, but never thought this day will arrive so
suddenly (and so dramatically as well, that’s
typical pavan for you).
He again asked, “Will you marry me?”
It’s a dream of every girl that the guy she loves, should
propose her in this fairy tale style (guys take a note of this). No wonder
I cried saying “Of course I will marry you”.
We got married on 16th December 2011. Like all love
marriages in our society, our marriage was not easy at all. Many
obstacles stood in front of us, but I must say Pavan took some very
firm & hard stands for me, which I will never forget in my
entire life.
He never ever says NO to me. He is like…Your wish is my command (I want cheese cakes please... pavan). I
am his Bacchu (baby in Marathi).
Whenever we had fights (yes we do at
times), Pavan is the only one who come & say sorry no matter if he
was guilty or me (why I said madly and
deeply in love with me).
He takes my tantrums, he balances my mood swing, he enjoy teasing me on
Madhuri’s song , he enjoy irritating me by singing himesh reshmiya,
Altaf raja, Govinda songs (whereas i am
hardcore Hrithik Roshan fan!!!).
I think this journey is just the beginning, so many sunrises
to see, so many countries to explore, so many dishes to taste,
so many movies to watch and many more coffees we want to sip together.
Together and with each other’s love.
I trust we will grow old together
Pillu :*
Both are happly married and celebrated their 4th wedding
anniversary two months back.
I asked shraddha - what is your message to people who give up on love
because of “ghar wale nai manenge” dialog.
To which she replied “listen to your heart... If marriage is in your
destiny it will happen”. In other words (kisike
baap se nai darna... karna hai toh karna hai).
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Feelings and thoughts of
Shraddha. G. Khamitkar.
Compiled by
Ignatius Lewis.
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