First things first. Last night, while travelling in a train, a lady got into the second class ladies' compartment. She came and said, "Please book the seat for me, I am coming." A normal thing which ladies do. As promised, she came back within a few seconds. This time with a young girl and a lady along with her. One glance at the girl and I realised that I had seen her somewhere. just asked her mother, "Is she the same girl?" And the reply was, "Yes. She is Ichha from Utaran."
What followed was something really amusing. There were people who were dying to have a look at her. Some clicked her snaps. Some recited her dialogues from the serial. Some blessed her. And some tried to ward off the evil eye from setting on her. The crowd which would normally get distributed across three doors was gathered at one. Women would wave at her while leaving. After getting off too, the husbands would come close to the window asking 'Where is Ichha?'. All that was hilarious. The girl in the middle of all this wasn't perhaps trained how she should be reacting to her 'fans'. So, she would either shy away or prefer to ignore the flurry of activity just to get engrossed in her cellphone game.
There were two other girls who sat next to me and were as disturbed with the whole thing as I was. Disturbed in the literal sense. For the simple reason that I was trying really hard to finish reading a book which ultimately I couldn't. So, the two girls and yours truly spent time imagining the reactions of the same very people in hypothetical situations.
What if, the girl were to be replaced by a bigger star say Abhishek Bachchan. We realised that in that case the only way of getting off would be by pulling the chain. Lots of imaginary things we discussed.
And finally I left with a strange satisfaction. Not of having seen a celebrity, but of having ended a day on a positive and most important hilarious note.
Manjiri
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