Ever watched Channel V Dare to Date! I wonder what kind of psychos ever want to feature in this show! But you have to hand it to these guys, the show is hilarious. What i really like is the sarci comments (about what they might be thinking) that is displayed in the screen. I was wondering what if in real life there is a dialogue box which displays what you are actually thinking! Now that would be funnnny...
The first guy i met in the whole AM (Arranged marriage) business was a Golti boy (telugu speaking people) and why because my dad has golti roots (dear lord)! A lil background about Golti boys, they basically have one of the below three ambitions in life:
- One is to be a software engineer and work in the US!
- Two is to star in a golti movie (with the all works, by which i mean dancing around the trees, fighting 10 men at a time with loud POW WOWs.. get the drift).
- Three is both One & Two above.
Golti boy 1 found his beckoning with ambition no. 1! but i guess he had to choose really hard between ambition 1 & 2!!
Coming back with the idea of having a dialogue box in real life! Let me paint you a lil picture here!
Scenario A
Golti boy 1 (with yankee twang): I have a lot of girlfriends! I mean girls who are friends..
Me: Nice!
Dialogue Box: Right! So if you have a lot of girlfriends? how is that you are going in for an arranged marriage? or are you a reject for all these girls? Loser!
Scenario B
Golti boy 1 (with yankee twang): I love Italian (with more pronounced yankee twang) food!!
Me: Hmmm..
Dialogue Box: Reallly.. now now, which part of AP are you from? I am sure you grew eating curd rice and pickle, maybe a papad on those special days! Italian food my a***
Scenario C
Golti boy 1 (with yankee twang): I expect honesty! (statement dude)
Me: Me too!
Dialogue Box: Why cant you just ask me if i had a boyfriend? I can acknowledge my past relationship!
Scenario D
The phone line gets cut after 30 minutes of the conversation, Golti boy 1 calls back..
Golti boy 1 (with mushy yankee twang): I was standing near the window and thinking about our conversation..
Me: Huh.. duh...
Dialogue Box: Ha Ha.. dude you got to be kidding me! Is this your hidden ambition no. 2 beckoning?? lights, camera and ACTION, you are the star in the movie.. Look through the window like you are gazing far into the future...with the breeze, you hair flying... (guffaww).. ok! i get the picture!
Scenario E
Golti boy 1 (with yankee twang): Yawwwnnn... I have to go now! Ill speak to you later!
Me: Bye
Dialogue Box: Its a pity you cannot see which of fingers is up! Lets take a guess here buddy boy!! (you don't yawn like i bore you, jacka***)
Now this is really a preview! Its a good thing that we do not have the dialogue box option in real life:)
Me: Until then! Ciao!
Dialogue Box: There is show that i want to watch on tv now!
Bangalore is truely cosmopolitan!! You will find a variety of people from all around the country here, making Bengalooru their home. With that, you will also see people falling in love across religion, caste, creed, language... Will the next gen be confused about their roots?? Hmmm.. we will have to wait this out!!
I was raised in a typical kannadiga family... All my life i have lived here and this city is my home. I knew this anglo indian boy whose surname was PEACOCK! Now what in the world would it be like if i married this guy! I love traditional sanskrit names and if i named my daughter Padmalakshmi! Then the poor kid would be called "Padmalakshmi Peacock", or worse name would be shortened to "PP". The kid would have to be taken to a shrink even before she would join preschool! There might have been several ocassions where i would be confused about the cultural differences and touched grandma peacock's feet (holy lord!) and times when i would have air kissed grandma nayak (halleluah). Times when i would have circled around the church and kneeled down in a temple! Now thats called cross wires.
Are you in a cross wire relationship?
I have always loved Carrie Bradshaw and her friends in Sex and City! I would think the characters are so close to me and my girls friends. Little did i realise, that we are indeed the single independent girls from Bangalore or can i say the Manhattan of India!
25 something can be a horror phase in every single gals life in Blore, especially if you dont have a Man in your life. The prospect of going through an arranged marriage can be scary! The no of losers that you have to meet before you end up with "THE ONE" is simply horrifying. How are supposed to decide who is Mr. Right? Should you or should you not be judgemental?
Sometimes i think that we should have a support system for people who go through the torture of meeting a guy/gal in an arranged marriage set up like a AA or something.
