സ്റ്റോറി.....

A king was determined to find a beautiful wife. Finally, he sent a trustworthy servant to search for him. One day, he passed a tiny cottage, which held two sisters, one eighty and the other ninety. He saw their small, delicate hands, which had kept white and soft through spinning. He thought they must belong to a beautiful woman, and told the king. The king sent him to try to see her.
One of them lied, claiming to be fifteen and her sister twenty, and the king decided to marry her. She said that she had never seen a ray of sun since she was born, and being touched would turn her black; the king had to send a carriage. He did, she went, heavily veiled, and they married. Their wedding night, he saw the old woman he had married and threw her out the window, where she caught on a hook. Four fairies saw her there and mischievously gave her youth, beauty, wisdom, and a tender heart. The king saw her the next morning, thought he must have been blind, and had her rescued.
Her sister came to her and plagued her for how she had become young again, until the queen said that she had had her head cut off, or, in other variants, that she had had herself skinned, and a new one had grown in its place. The sister went to get the same treatment from a barber, and died.

Life has no ‘rehearsals’

Before a few years I and my good friend Nitin (Ohh…..we call him Ayyappan and Raghu for different reasons!) for a Russian film. The film is about a middle aged man who continues his love for departed sweetheart although she left him a decade before!!! What was the most interesting thing for me in the film was a dialogue (I don’t remember the exact wordings) “Always we think that the incidents in our lives are something like rehearsal and the good part is yet to come, but you know in life there is no rehearsal and the good part that we expect for seldom comes”