Debina was a freelance script writer with a terrific talent for words but little motivation to market herself thanks to zero financial pressure in her in personal life....
She stayed with her mom, a housewife who was an enthusiastic woman in networking socialising and helping around people in general as a way of life....
Her father had passed away a couple of years back leaving them with a fortune from his killer smart investment portfolio and lots of property to bank upon...
Debina had an inferiority complex since her growing years...
She was what they call skeletal thin, and nothing, no matter what would plump her up ever....
There were treatments taken, nutritionist visited, however nothing could put even an ounce of mass on her stick thin frame...
Due to this she could never cough up the courage to go up to any boys and make friends with them...
She only knew boys as her class mates or batchmates....
None of whom were her close friends rather not even acquaintances....
All she knew of, was guys in school and then college reading her brutally due to her frail body structure...
It was almost like she was used to be ignored by opposite gender and pitied by her female friends....
Being a laughing stock was an unsaid and an accepted part of her life....
She discovered writing as a means of expressing herself creatively...
So as to let out her feelings and emotions through stories in the form of scripts...
She started off by writing scripts for short films made by her juniors in college...
One of the films received an award....
She continued writing award winning scripts on a college level and then on an experimental theatre circuit....
She then did a short term course in scriptwriting....
Worked in an production house as their backup script writer...
Debina was so good that they made her a lead script writer for a daily soap....
That daily soap for a regional Bengali channel was her first official break in the professional world....
Once that started, she got comfortable...
Scripting meant spending a few hours writing and then she used to watch films...
One daily soap serial continued for at least 5 years which meant that she was set for the next couple of years if she bagged a serial....
She took a sabbatical after her first Bengali serial got over....
Money was never a problem with or without job...
She felt bad for herself when she realised that she could beautifully paint on screen romances in her script however there wasn't a glimpse of romance in her personal life....
Her mom suggested she enroll herself on a matrimonial site...
She agreed with almost no choice left to fend for herself in matters of love and marriage
She wanted to settle down and start a family of her own...
She hated the loneliness in her current life...
She could see her mom have her own world of friends relatives events and a lot more...
She had to go and get a life for herself...
A very decent looking well built Asit displayed interest in her....
He worked as an insurance advisor....
They chatted for a few days after which they met at a coffee shop...
It was Debina's first date ever....
She was conscious of everything, her looks, posture, her tone of the talking...
Gauging her nervousness Asit warmed her down....
He complimented her on her eyes and hair....
No one till then had ever told her that her eyes looked like that of a swan's and her curls looked super cute....
In disbelief she tried to hide her excitement....
Asit was polite, polished and sophisticated....
Being the thorough gentleman that he was, he made sure they talked about varied topics of interests likes dislikes and about their lives in general....
On coming back home Debina felt happy about herself....
For the first time ever she smiled when she looked at herself in the mirror....
From then onwards many dates followed....
Asit encouraged her to try weight training since he was fond of working out....
It indeed did work for Debina...her weight started increasing positively....
He visited home and got quite close to her mom as well...
Her mom almost considered Asit her son in law and treated him like her own son...
With the trust slowly building on within 3 months Asit made Debina and her mom take up 3 big insurance policies from him...
Asit never really spoke about his family...
He said that his mom and dad had passed away when he was young and that he just had an elder sister who was married and settled down in Calcutta....
He was as social as Debina's mother and attended almost all of their family functions....
He used this opportunity as a networking circle to which Debina also agreed....
For her, it was her own future husband trying to make profits for their probable life together...
He also used Debina and her mother's social contacts to complete his policy targets....
With the kind of rapport built, he managed to gain complete trust of his future Mother in law who not only gifted him the latest I - phone on his birthday but had also given him her late husband's car keys saying that it was almost lying down with no use and Asit should start using it....
In the mean while Debina got an offer to do the scripting of an travel show....
Which meant that she had to travel with the team and spontaneously write for them on locations...
The new confident and exercise pumped up Debina who looked no less than a tall slim model with a great figure took up this opportunity....
Asit was happy for her....
As Debina would be away for close to three weeks every month, he started keeping aloof from her...
Meetings became phone calls...
Phone calls stopped and became messages....
Messages slowly stopped and then there was a sudden disconnect....
When Debina came back from her tours she found out that Asit had been regularly coming to her house to meet her mom...
He would stop coming down to their house when Debina was in town...
Debina was baffled with this behaviour....
She wanted to know what was wrong....
He never picked up her calls... She went to meet him at the places he frequented, there he clearly avoided her and they had a fight....
When she came back to confront with her mother, she strangely took Asit's side and told her that she needed to work on her connection skills....
This was getting puzzling and uncomfortable for Debina...
She by then had taken up the show as a chief host/ anchor since she looked ravishing on screen and words came naturally to her while she faced the camera....
Things had changed for better professionally and yes personally too...
She has friends , real friends , many men friends too...
And she had people who were crazy for her who wanted to pursue her and date her and suddenly the attention was too much to handle....
She wanted to desperately seek Asit's company to get used to the changes life....
But it seemed that he was always unavailable....
She tracked him down the net...
The matrimonial site still had his name listed....
While Debina had removed her name from the list long back....
Asit never spoke of an engagement...
He just spoke about marriage in the next few years as soon as he settles better in profession....
His friends were never introduced to Debina....
In fact Asit did not have any social networking account....
Debina searched through for his sister's profile and sent her a friend request.
She did not accept it....
There was no way she could find anything....
She then dropped to his house one day unannounced....
There was a maid who told her that saab and madam were out...
Saab got married a few months back and madam was a hawai sundari....
Debina was shaken...
Asit had gotten married to an Air hostess while he was still dating her and managed to dupe her and her mother into believing that it was not working out since Debina had no time for the relationship....
He had also managed to create a rift between Debina and her mom...
In addition to this he was driving her Dad's car and using a phone gifted by her mom and was feasting off the bonus made by drawing all insurance policies through Debina's mother's contacts....
Frustrated angry and hurt she returned back home....
Told everything to her mom who was also heartbroken since she had treated Asit like her own son....
Now Debina and her mother had two options...
Either track Asit down, let his wife know everything, take back the car, the money and give him a mouthful of sarcastic whacking...
However they decided upon something....
Debina took her mom off with her for her next shooting schedule locations....
They deleted the Asit chapter off from their lives as if nothing happened....
Both Debina and her mom accepted that sometimes it's difficult to recognise people....
However that doesn't make any relationship or the time spent together while in the relationship any less worthwhile....
Any relationship whether real of pretence teaches us what it has too and gives us what it does....
Even if it ends on a bitter note we cannot deny the good times that we spend together while everything was alright....
Now they wouldn't register in a matrimonial site again, not because their first and only experience with it was a failure but only because they now believe that partner would be found By The Way...
They understood that nothing can be forced upon.... Not even batchlorhood...
They enjoyed their mother daughter trip thoroughly
Debina still feels gratitude for the seed of self confidence and value of exercise and fitness that Asit set in her...
There is nothing good or bad...
Its just that different people behave and react differently to different situations at different times....
And it's okay if it doesn't turn out to be alright...
Is it okay to dupe anyone?
Is it okay to two time people?
Is it okay to shrewdly maintain contacts and keep them strictly for Networking?
Is it okay to use somebody for monetary gains and then flee off?
Is it okay to.... ????
Well, we'd never ever know....
Because We never know Asit's side of story....
We don't know how he was raised, why he did what he did and how could he take these ladies for a ride?
Debina's journey looks commendable...
Inspiring too...
Asit starts out to be a hero and ends up being a Villain...
But these are our labels...
Is hero always good?
Villain always bad?
Had it not been for Asit, maybe Debina wouldn't be what she could be...!!!
Guess every person in our life has a role to play....
No role is good or bad...
Every role is certainly significant
We just have perspectives and hence judging anything seems absurd...
Some stories turn from being real to philosophical and end on a spiritual note....
Because we are Spirits taking a human experience and not the other way round....
She stayed with her mom, a housewife who was an enthusiastic woman in networking socialising and helping around people in general as a way of life....
Her father had passed away a couple of years back leaving them with a fortune from his killer smart investment portfolio and lots of property to bank upon...
Debina had an inferiority complex since her growing years...
She was what they call skeletal thin, and nothing, no matter what would plump her up ever....
There were treatments taken, nutritionist visited, however nothing could put even an ounce of mass on her stick thin frame...
Due to this she could never cough up the courage to go up to any boys and make friends with them...
She only knew boys as her class mates or batchmates....
None of whom were her close friends rather not even acquaintances....
All she knew of, was guys in school and then college reading her brutally due to her frail body structure...
It was almost like she was used to be ignored by opposite gender and pitied by her female friends....
Being a laughing stock was an unsaid and an accepted part of her life....
She discovered writing as a means of expressing herself creatively...
So as to let out her feelings and emotions through stories in the form of scripts...
She started off by writing scripts for short films made by her juniors in college...
One of the films received an award....
She continued writing award winning scripts on a college level and then on an experimental theatre circuit....
She then did a short term course in scriptwriting....
Worked in an production house as their backup script writer...
Debina was so good that they made her a lead script writer for a daily soap....
That daily soap for a regional Bengali channel was her first official break in the professional world....
Once that started, she got comfortable...
Scripting meant spending a few hours writing and then she used to watch films...
One daily soap serial continued for at least 5 years which meant that she was set for the next couple of years if she bagged a serial....
She took a sabbatical after her first Bengali serial got over....
Money was never a problem with or without job...
She felt bad for herself when she realised that she could beautifully paint on screen romances in her script however there wasn't a glimpse of romance in her personal life....
Her mom suggested she enroll herself on a matrimonial site...
She agreed with almost no choice left to fend for herself in matters of love and marriage
She wanted to settle down and start a family of her own...
She hated the loneliness in her current life...
She could see her mom have her own world of friends relatives events and a lot more...
She had to go and get a life for herself...
A very decent looking well built Asit displayed interest in her....
He worked as an insurance advisor....
They chatted for a few days after which they met at a coffee shop...
It was Debina's first date ever....
She was conscious of everything, her looks, posture, her tone of the talking...
Gauging her nervousness Asit warmed her down....
He complimented her on her eyes and hair....
No one till then had ever told her that her eyes looked like that of a swan's and her curls looked super cute....
In disbelief she tried to hide her excitement....
Asit was polite, polished and sophisticated....
Being the thorough gentleman that he was, he made sure they talked about varied topics of interests likes dislikes and about their lives in general....
On coming back home Debina felt happy about herself....
For the first time ever she smiled when she looked at herself in the mirror....
From then onwards many dates followed....
Asit encouraged her to try weight training since he was fond of working out....
It indeed did work for Debina...her weight started increasing positively....
He visited home and got quite close to her mom as well...
Her mom almost considered Asit her son in law and treated him like her own son...
With the trust slowly building on within 3 months Asit made Debina and her mom take up 3 big insurance policies from him...
Asit never really spoke about his family...
He said that his mom and dad had passed away when he was young and that he just had an elder sister who was married and settled down in Calcutta....
He was as social as Debina's mother and attended almost all of their family functions....
He used this opportunity as a networking circle to which Debina also agreed....
For her, it was her own future husband trying to make profits for their probable life together...
He also used Debina and her mother's social contacts to complete his policy targets....
With the kind of rapport built, he managed to gain complete trust of his future Mother in law who not only gifted him the latest I - phone on his birthday but had also given him her late husband's car keys saying that it was almost lying down with no use and Asit should start using it....
In the mean while Debina got an offer to do the scripting of an travel show....
Which meant that she had to travel with the team and spontaneously write for them on locations...
The new confident and exercise pumped up Debina who looked no less than a tall slim model with a great figure took up this opportunity....
Asit was happy for her....
As Debina would be away for close to three weeks every month, he started keeping aloof from her...
Meetings became phone calls...
Phone calls stopped and became messages....
Messages slowly stopped and then there was a sudden disconnect....
When Debina came back from her tours she found out that Asit had been regularly coming to her house to meet her mom...
He would stop coming down to their house when Debina was in town...
Debina was baffled with this behaviour....
She wanted to know what was wrong....
He never picked up her calls... She went to meet him at the places he frequented, there he clearly avoided her and they had a fight....
When she came back to confront with her mother, she strangely took Asit's side and told her that she needed to work on her connection skills....
This was getting puzzling and uncomfortable for Debina...
She by then had taken up the show as a chief host/ anchor since she looked ravishing on screen and words came naturally to her while she faced the camera....
Things had changed for better professionally and yes personally too...
She has friends , real friends , many men friends too...
And she had people who were crazy for her who wanted to pursue her and date her and suddenly the attention was too much to handle....
She wanted to desperately seek Asit's company to get used to the changes life....
But it seemed that he was always unavailable....
She tracked him down the net...
The matrimonial site still had his name listed....
While Debina had removed her name from the list long back....
Asit never spoke of an engagement...
He just spoke about marriage in the next few years as soon as he settles better in profession....
His friends were never introduced to Debina....
In fact Asit did not have any social networking account....
Debina searched through for his sister's profile and sent her a friend request.
She did not accept it....
There was no way she could find anything....
She then dropped to his house one day unannounced....
There was a maid who told her that saab and madam were out...
Saab got married a few months back and madam was a hawai sundari....
Debina was shaken...
Asit had gotten married to an Air hostess while he was still dating her and managed to dupe her and her mother into believing that it was not working out since Debina had no time for the relationship....
He had also managed to create a rift between Debina and her mom...
In addition to this he was driving her Dad's car and using a phone gifted by her mom and was feasting off the bonus made by drawing all insurance policies through Debina's mother's contacts....
Frustrated angry and hurt she returned back home....
Told everything to her mom who was also heartbroken since she had treated Asit like her own son....
Now Debina and her mother had two options...
Either track Asit down, let his wife know everything, take back the car, the money and give him a mouthful of sarcastic whacking...
However they decided upon something....
Debina took her mom off with her for her next shooting schedule locations....
They deleted the Asit chapter off from their lives as if nothing happened....
Both Debina and her mom accepted that sometimes it's difficult to recognise people....
However that doesn't make any relationship or the time spent together while in the relationship any less worthwhile....
Any relationship whether real of pretence teaches us what it has too and gives us what it does....
Even if it ends on a bitter note we cannot deny the good times that we spend together while everything was alright....
Now they wouldn't register in a matrimonial site again, not because their first and only experience with it was a failure but only because they now believe that partner would be found By The Way...
They understood that nothing can be forced upon.... Not even batchlorhood...
They enjoyed their mother daughter trip thoroughly
Debina still feels gratitude for the seed of self confidence and value of exercise and fitness that Asit set in her...
There is nothing good or bad...
Its just that different people behave and react differently to different situations at different times....
And it's okay if it doesn't turn out to be alright...
Is it okay to dupe anyone?
Is it okay to two time people?
Is it okay to shrewdly maintain contacts and keep them strictly for Networking?
Is it okay to use somebody for monetary gains and then flee off?
Is it okay to.... ????
Well, we'd never ever know....
Because We never know Asit's side of story....
We don't know how he was raised, why he did what he did and how could he take these ladies for a ride?
Debina's journey looks commendable...
Inspiring too...
Asit starts out to be a hero and ends up being a Villain...
But these are our labels...
Is hero always good?
Villain always bad?
Had it not been for Asit, maybe Debina wouldn't be what she could be...!!!
Guess every person in our life has a role to play....
No role is good or bad...
Every role is certainly significant
We just have perspectives and hence judging anything seems absurd...
Some stories turn from being real to philosophical and end on a spiritual note....
Because we are Spirits taking a human experience and not the other way round....
- Prajakta Sathe
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