Monday, April 4, 2011

A LULLABY OF LIFE

DATE   : 13 March 2011
PLACE : SPICE JET AIRCRAFT
TIME    : 8:45 PM

May it be train or plane, Indian any form of transportation is famous for NOT being on time! But to my surprise on the above date i was on a flight from Chennai to Kolkata and we were landing 15 mins earlier than scheduled time! Really surprising na!! Okey now lets rewind 34 mins..
"..and what would you like for beverage mam?"
"what options do i have?"
"we have coke, 7up, nimboo pani and.."
"nimboo pani"
she gave me a tiny bottle of nimboo pani, and i was about to unwrap the bottle when a child started crying. With mine a couple of eyes frowned the kid and he started crying even louder, the calm atmosphere of the plane was getting disturbed and as the kids are! once they start crying even god can't stop them!
Her mom gave a sorry look to every one in the board. She wrapped the kid in her arms and started singing a lullaby. It was in bengali and don't know what it means actually, but her voice was so soothing! so soothing it brought tears in my eyes though i didn't understood a word said by her! Her husband was sitting besides and looked like a serious man (like strict dads).. And the lady was so simple, blessed with the best voice i ever heard in my life ! I thought like me, many have been heard her voice and complemented her, then why didn't she took singing! Why is she sitting there with a army officer looking husband and going back her home to look after the home and not to a studio to record her album!! Did she killed her wishes afraid of her husband?
Or she never mentioned her dream to her army general? Or did the family never wanted her to get into these and just learn how to be a good home maker! Don't tell me she don't want to sing and wants to be with family only! I mean i would give Shreya Ghosal a lower rating for this lady! She was the best thing i ever ever heard! yaar jitna bolo utna kam hai. Till the flight landed i was thinking about her and wanted to ask all these questions to her but thought what if the army general had a pistol and he didn't like my questions!
But my zodiac sign LEO gave me the strength to say
" Hey.. hi.. you have a BEAUTIFUL VOICE.."
"Thanks" were her only words and was enough to understand that she was actually sitting with a Dracula husband. I wish she could come out of that shell and fulfill her dream one day..

2 comments:

  1. omg...dats suberb blog...dids...i didnt ever thought u had such warrior like feeling...good keep up with your work...kya baat... kya baat... kya baat........

    ReplyDelete
  2. haha.. thanks archy! hanks for readin!

    ReplyDelete