It was autumn of 1988 when "Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak :(QSQT) was released. This was Aamir Khans first movie. His heroin was Juhi Chawla. I believe this was the biggest block buster movie of my time. This movie can be voted amongst all time ten most romantic hindi movies. Its effect on us was like "Bobby" or "Kashmir ki Kali" might have had on that generation or " Dilwale Dulhaniya le jayenge " in todays time. Every young person in love would visualise himself as Raj the heroes character or Rashmi the heroin in the movie. All the engineering students were more closely associated with this movie because of the line in the first song of the movie - "papa kehte hain" which read as "Koi engineer ka kaam karega". This was a hugely popular song and was played at all functions, marriages etc. Those times there were no discos or pubs specially in a conservative middle class town of Nagpur. Even if there were any we simply could never afford with the amount of money in our possession. And also understand and visualize that it was a very conservative society at that point of time. Talking or moving with a girl was always seen as going steady with her. It was not like today when you could bring your female friends home to your parents. There were no mobile phones . There was no long distance direct dialing. The only communication I had with my family back home was through inland letters.My Dad gave couple of surprise visits to me and I would cover them in future blogs.
The Jaycees club of Orange City had organised a Diwali fete. These fetes were one of our major entertainments. Usually the entry would be free and there would be games, food stalls and music. I went to this fete with a gujarati girl - Amita. We had known each other when I was living at my uncles place during my high school days but had lost touch. Then I came again in touch with her during the Navratri Garba festival. We did go to these Garba dances together for couple of years. The song "papa kehte hain" was being played at the fete repeatedly. We danced a lot. Suddenly I felt some similar faces staring at us. I was shocked to see my Uncle, Aunt and their whole family keenly following us through the evening. In fact Uncle was the chief guest and had inaugurated the fete. It was one of the most embarrassing moments I had. I just stammered and introduced her to all my family. I felt like I had committed a big crime and was so shameful of myself that I just ran out of that place.
Sekhar was one of the most serious guys in our gang. A typical south Indian , he used to live with his parents in laxminagar area of the town. He was totally a teetotaller and non smoker. It was August when we had our first interaction with the new students in the first year. Rashmi had joined to do her graduation in Computer Science from Allahbad. Sekhar changed suddenly on seing and meeting her. He was badly and madly in love with Rashmi. All one sided. He would provide all help to this first year student with notes and books etc. All the best stuff from our batch mates. We always had a feeling at Naik Bunglow that Rashmi was using Sekhar for these notes. Sekhar used to dream all about her - 24 hrs. And then came Qayamat se Qayamat tak. Jushi Chwala's name in the movie was also Rashmi and Mr Sekhar went ballistic. He used to think that Juhi is his Rashmi and I might not be wrong but he must have seen the movie at least 50 times. He took me to the movie at least 4-5 times and would continuously narrate each action of the filmi Rashmi as how much similar they were to his Rashmi. Naik Bunglow was his place of solace everyday when he would describe his romance everyday over tea,samosa and Desai bidi.
The Jaycees club of Orange City had organised a Diwali fete. These fetes were one of our major entertainments. Usually the entry would be free and there would be games, food stalls and music. I went to this fete with a gujarati girl - Amita. We had known each other when I was living at my uncles place during my high school days but had lost touch. Then I came again in touch with her during the Navratri Garba festival. We did go to these Garba dances together for couple of years. The song "papa kehte hain" was being played at the fete repeatedly. We danced a lot. Suddenly I felt some similar faces staring at us. I was shocked to see my Uncle, Aunt and their whole family keenly following us through the evening. In fact Uncle was the chief guest and had inaugurated the fete. It was one of the most embarrassing moments I had. I just stammered and introduced her to all my family. I felt like I had committed a big crime and was so shameful of myself that I just ran out of that place.
Sekhar was one of the most serious guys in our gang. A typical south Indian , he used to live with his parents in laxminagar area of the town. He was totally a teetotaller and non smoker. It was August when we had our first interaction with the new students in the first year. Rashmi had joined to do her graduation in Computer Science from Allahbad. Sekhar changed suddenly on seing and meeting her. He was badly and madly in love with Rashmi. All one sided. He would provide all help to this first year student with notes and books etc. All the best stuff from our batch mates. We always had a feeling at Naik Bunglow that Rashmi was using Sekhar for these notes. Sekhar used to dream all about her - 24 hrs. And then came Qayamat se Qayamat tak. Jushi Chwala's name in the movie was also Rashmi and Mr Sekhar went ballistic. He used to think that Juhi is his Rashmi and I might not be wrong but he must have seen the movie at least 50 times. He took me to the movie at least 4-5 times and would continuously narrate each action of the filmi Rashmi as how much similar they were to his Rashmi. Naik Bunglow was his place of solace everyday when he would describe his romance everyday over tea,samosa and Desai bidi.
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Hmmm..abhi bahut kam likha hai sambhal sambhal ke :-)Aur khul ke likho..! Vishal
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