For A friend...

      Some relations can never be named. Just like my relation with A. I met A today after many years & once we met all the memories of us together, started flashing in my mind. Those were such good days when we used to make fun, tease & care for each other. We were so childish those days. & A came in my life.. a caring, possessive, friendly & carefree A whom I liked very much. I still remember those days when I, A, A2, A3, N, U, R,.. we all were together. we were so good. But best of all was definitely A. I don't know, if all others think the same way, but I really admire A for all the things A did for me knowingly or unknowingly.... We were so happy together. Perhaps I started feeling differently.. & then suddenly entered M in our life & all things changed. I don't know I hate M or I don't hate M.. but I am definitely angry with M for what M did to A. A is a gem of friends, has always been...& I thought M didn't deserve A at all. I prayed for A that A got the best of this world. & perhaps it happened.
               I tried to talk to A, but A didn't listen to me. May be A thought that I didn't want A to trust M. But what A never understood was that, I just wanted A to be happy. But Sometimes too much care is not good for friendship, & same happened with us. both A & I parted our ways. & I still remember the day it all happened, I was so sad that day because I had lost a friend of lifetime.... after that day we seldom talked.... I still remember the day I left that place where I had first met A..., A didn't even come to say bye .... a couple of weeks before A2 had asked me if I had something to say to A & I had said no.. How could I tell that all to A2, when I had understood-somewhere deep in my mind, that A would never befriend me again. I don't know what was that feeling, But I really missed my friend A a lot & I never thought we would talk again.
            But I actually l had not understood A. Once when I was in need, A got to know that from one of our common friends & after that A talked to me, helped me all he could .. without my asking A to do so... I think that is what friendship is. Friends know & understand each others' needs & problems & extend their helping hand so naturally. May be this doesn't mean anything to you A, but it means me a lot. I can never forget your thoughtful gesture.
            And today I met you again. I felt so good. You were so spontaneous & friendly. I can't tell you how happy I am meeting with you my dear friend. I don't know if you felt the same way, but I sure was too happy to meet you. It doesn't matter if you'll be with me or not friend, but you & your friendship will always be precious for me. Thanks for being so good & being my friend.
       
   
 

Mandakini- gorgeous Ganga, who disappeared...

'Celebrity status' often demands price which sometimes is very heavy...  India TV has started a series 'Talash'- the search of yesteryear's Bollywood celebrities, who once had been the heartthrob of million fans & are now living the life of complete dark, of stark anonymity....., or I should say that people have forgotten them...There are many of such stars. But here I want to talk about Mandakini. ..

       Manakini:...Ram Teri Ganga Maili's Ganga.. who skyrocketed to fame within a night, after playing a bold & beautiful avatar in great showman Rajkapoor's dream project & who overnight became dream girl of every Indian man. She did around 41 movies in her short Bollywood life span of 4 years.. some hits, many flops but every film with bold character... & then suddenly, one day she disappeared.

 There were rumors that she had secretly married with underworld don Dawod Ibrahim & since then had been living with him in Dubai. Her snaps with don were distributed  & showed everywhere in media. Nobody bothered to look for her... as in Bollowood the only rule that never breaks is.."the show must go on".   .. no matter if showman or show-woman have changed...:-). ...So, the show went on & people forgot Mandakini. 

 Even I & my other media friends also thought that Mandakini was somewhere in Dubai with 'bhai'ji. 

It was only yesterday, when I saw that series Talash on India TV, I got to know that she never got married with Dawod Ibrahim & that she is very much in Mumbai, in India. 

 As reporters tracked her down, they found that she was living a very ordinary housewife's life in her rented home in Mumbai, with her Tibetan doctor husband & two children. They showed her recent snap which clearly exposed  folds of time on her face... a plump figure & a very ordinary 'housewife next door' appearance sum up to  make Mandakini now a days.  She was not interested in facing camera. She in fact refused to come in front of camera & giving interview. Instead, she sent the camera team to her husband's clinic who talked with reporters on her behalf.  His husband is a nice man who had a chitchat with media persons & told many things about Mandakini and her years of anonymity. But of course there were many questions he couldn't answer like-

- how did they end up living such austere life while Mandakini was a star actor & must have earned quiet a fortune for herself?

- why did she not come forth to rubbish all the rumors about her links with Dawood Ibrahim if she was in Mumbai & had no such connections?

-Why did she suddenly disappear from the screen.., what made her to decide to leave her career midway, as a successful actor in the bollywood?

- why she chose to live the life of anonymity?

- Why does she not want to face camera..?

& there are many others.....

Her husband said that they were planning to produce a film with Hollywood actors & Mandakini was planning her comeback with that film . But I doubt it.  I think it's a fake piece of information because with their rented home & a very ordinary clinic of Mr Mandakini,  It didn't seem that they would be having enough funds to produce a film and that too with hollywood cast. 

God knows what is the truth... but I am very intrigued by her story. I really wanna know what actually happened to her. Did she pay the price of fame...or was that her sudden awakening from that fame game, that made her leave the bollywood & take a way back to anonymity...?