My
wife got bored of cleaning the home and wanted to watch a movie. Itunes- pay
–buy- Life of Pi- But slow internet, life of pie trickled slowly into ipad all
night. Next day life of pie was there on Pad. I can’t say she liked that movie.
She did not give any review nor compelled me to watch and hence I assume that
it was not great. Meanwhile, Gauri too watched partially “tiger wala” movie.
But most important point is she did not watch the beginning of the movie. Now fast-forward
2 weeks. Her all pink-panther, curious George, snow white, Krishna and of course
Doremon were over. Sharp 10 pm my wife
takes remote to watch Grey’s anatomy. After a short fight, Gauri is pushed to
next room to watch her stuff on computer.
I am relegated to do the job of
computer operator or phone answering machine. Yesterday Gauri was suffering
from running nose and mild fever. Her Random access Memory (all parents know
how random child can be) accessed “tiger wala movie” aka Life of Pi. Opening
shots fine, zoo part enjoyed- dialogue part got bored. Fast-forward the movie-
or I have to explain the dialogues and the consequences. Questions pop up much
faster than subtitles in the movie!!. Now ship scene has started. Rain, storm,
ship sunk; boy and tiger survived. Meanwhile she forgot to clean her nosy and
got engrossed in rapidly happening sequences. Cast away is drifting in the sea,
then fish, then, meerkat, floating
island......... she watched with few questions.
Now, suddenly she popped up
most important question; where are parents of the boy ( appa amma elli?). I
said they are drowned (trying to give reality). She went to her mother and
asked where his parents are? She didn’t get
satisfying answer. Now it is already 12 pm and Gauri is sleepy. But she is
determined to find out fate of his parents. I said I don’t know. She said you
know. She sat on my lap. I said may be in the end those parents come and pick up
the boy from hospital. It gave great hope to Gauri. She sat patiently on my lap
and watched last boring 15 mins with lot of dialogues. She did not ask anything.
She was sitting quietly to see happy union of son and parents. Well, they never
came. Ending titles started to roll. I turned off the PC and looked at Gaui’s
face. She looked at me and said “I feel like crying” “( alakke bartha iddu) ”.
Then she held me very tightly and asked “rain and storm over?”
Epilogue: Since she did not ask about his
parents, I think she realized what happened and hence the question about rain
and that hug.( Photos are just represent Gauri's mood)
