Pragya-Chashmish-My Fuggy
I always believed in creating my own destiny, never accepted what destiny threw on me.
Well, almost always.
So one random day, a girl falls off of a bridge into the ocean
where I am shooting for an ad. I think she is the model I was supposed to
save for my ad shoot. I go save her, hold her in my arms and recite a long
paragraph of romantic lines I had just read through. I feel something different
about the whole thing because the girl seems lost beyond act. I only realize
later she is a random girl and not the model I was supposed to act with.
For a change, the girl isn't jumping with joy to have been
held in my arms, Abhi the rockstar's arms. I find her interesting.
She seems to have an agenda against me after that, as I keep meeting her in
what seems like more than a coincidence. She interrupts my concert, she bumps
into me here and there and everywhere. I could just ignore her thinking she is
another crazy soul out there. But no, I am so agitated everytime I see her.
And she takes on my family trying to prove my cousin brother
impregnating some girl. Well, sadly on my part, my cousin turns out to be
wrong. But I don't understand if the girl is against me or my cousin.
And things get more clear when my sister tells me she
snatched her boyfriend, also my best friend, Purab, for money. And I can't believe my
Daadi wants me married to THAT girl. The girl seems to have trapped my grandma
too!!
So, I come to believe the girl wanted Purab's money but now
my money, and I am sure of that when I see her wearing my Daadi's expensive
necklace.
I am not new to people lusting over my money, but this
girl is so cunning. Innocent face with dangerous intentions.
I decide to teach her a lesson by marrying her and denying
her what she hopes for. She would neither get my money, and my best friend will
walk away from the greedy self of hers. And when I ditch her she will know what
it is to feel betrayed, just like my sister did.
And my story with that girl, named Pragya, starts from there.
I am yet to decide if marrying her was the worst mistake I
committed in my life or it was the best thing to ever happen to me.
Because things change for real after the marriage.
Like I had planned, I begin with not treating her a wife and
taunt her and hurt her at every step. She soon figures out I have a girlfriend
and would never want to be her husband. And I decide to ditch her once my
sister marries my best friend. And she gets neither me nor him.
When it seems like everything is solved, my problems start
right there.
While I go on hurting her, she comes across nice and caring.
She makes my coffee the way I like, takes care of me, especially my Daadi,
doesn't seem like the gold digger I thought she was at all. But I brush it all
off as her trick that I don't understand.
But I find myself enjoying fighting with her spectacled self, I have named as Chashmish. Most of the
times we have these useless silly fights, but she starts to occupy my thoughts. I don't want to
admit but somewhere she makes me smile and I find her cute.
And she saves me from a drunk/drive case, taking the blame
on herself, and even giving away her jewels to convince a man I hurt to not go
against me.
I feel humbled and somewhere I start to trust her.
Yet, I don't want to get carried away and I want to get her
out of my life once my sister marries.
But she breaks my trust when my best friend ditches my
sister again, and runs away from the wedding mantap. To my shock, I find that it's
her sister who had trapped my best friend and she was facilitating that. So,
she wasn't the girl who I thought she was, but still the one who was betraying
me along with her sister.
Even though I had expected nothing better from her, I am so
hurt that she betrayed me. I want to get her out of my life for good. Just when
I want to do it, it turns out that her mother has a heart attack. When I go to
the hospital, I can't help consoling her when she hugs me, as if she believes I
am her well wisher.
But I can't really stop myself from helping her mother,
lying to her that all is well between us, and I fail to throw her out of my
life. Nor I can stop myself from saving her mother's marriage hall although I don't want to help her.
Soon, I find myself enjoying her company again, when we get
stuck in a haunted house, when she keeps fast for me for Karwa Chauth, when she
so dearly cares for me and my family. I tried to dictate myself that I have a
girlfriend and that I can't feel tender about her as much as I can.
But I lose my temper when I see a MMS of hers with her
supposed boyfriend. I can't believe I want to kill that guy. I feel cheated. I
hate her for doing this to me. I know she is not meant to be my wife but I
can't stand her with another man. I just can't stand she betrayed me. But
still, it hurts me to throw her out of my life. I give her chances to prove
herself innocent. I somehow want to believe her eyes that want to tell me they
are innocent. And I come to believe she could be innocent when she decides to
divorce me but asks nothing as alimony, when she agrees to marry Suresh just to
save my career. I set up a trap to catch whoever framed her, and it turns out
it was my own sister who had an agenda against her.
It's during that time I learn a lot of truths about her. I
hear she married me because her mother wanted her to and it had nothing to do
with me being a rockstar or my money. I come to understand how selfless she is,
how kind she is and how she only wished good despite my bad deeds.
And somewhere, Chashmish Pragya becomes my Fuggy, a name that I gave her and that I am possessive about.
On the other hand, my girlfriend Tannu is growing insecure and
wants me to marry her. I don't know how to take Pragya out of my life, nor do I
want to. But my girlfriend whom I believe I love is bent on wanting to marry
me, although marriage was never really a deal between us. But I decide since I have been with Tannu for a
while and I never meant to marry Pragya, I think of explaining the situation to
Fuggy but fail to find my opportunities to do so.
And then, Fuggy gets kidnapped. To not have her around me,
in my house, in my room, in my life, feels like I have lost a part of me. I
badly miss her. I try my everything to trace her and it turns out her sister's psycho
lover, kidnapped her instead of her sister. I do end up reaching out for her
where she is kidnapped. And then begins our unbelievable journey of life and
death, fear and hopes.
Fuggy and I spend almost a week together in jungle, fighting
for our lives, without proper food and shelter. My only aim is to take her back
safely to my house, for my Daadi. And when the kidnapper points his gun to her
at one point, I just move her away taking the bullet to my chest. All I
remember as I fall off a cliff is Fuggy and just Fuggy.
And when I wake up I do not know if I am alive or dead. I
realize I have a poisonous bullet in my chest that's slowly killing me. And I am in the middle of nowhere with only
Fuggy besides me. I don't even know how that girl dragged me into the safety of
a hut. I have an eerie feeling somewhere between life and death where I think
of the people I care about and of course I apologize to Fuggy for the regrets I
have to have hurt her in this marriage.
And just when I think my life is gone, she doesn't let me
die. She tells me she took the bullet off of my chest proudly. I can't believe
she brought me back to life, nor can I believe I am alive. But soon I do
believe I am. Fuggy gives me my life back!
But one of the most shocking yet humbling moments of my life
comes when Fuggy tells me that she loves me as I recover from my bullet wound.
I am spellbound. I literally do not know what to do. I knew
Fuggy and I shared a deep bond but I never interpreted it as love from my side or her side. I didn't even dare to go there because I had
a girlfriend and my marriage to Fuggy was a mistake. But now that she has told
me she loves me, the girl who stood by me through so much, the girl who gave me
my life back, I don't know what to do about it.
I am lost. I am nervous. I don't know what to do as we reach
home after escaping the kidnappers. I try to avoid her as I think of a
solution. I can't say Yes, I can't say No.
My friend Purab creates situations for me to make me realize
my love for Fuggy. I think, think and think about it, day and night, every
minute. It's finally when I talk to my Daadi, I realize why I never want to let
Fuggy go, and why I feel emotions for Fuggy that I never felt for Tannu or any
other girl.
And I want to finally tell her that I love her. That fatal
night, I wait for her. And just when I want to express my emotions for her, she
does something I would have never expected her to. She denies ever loving me.
She calls it all a joke.
I can't believe she made a fool out of me, and the bond we
shared at that moment. I feel enraged, betrayed and fooled. I don't know how to
deal with it, what to make of it. But on a second thought I realize this can't
be true. I sense she has a hidden agenda. And when I follow her moves, I come
to this big revelation that my girlfriend has claimed pregnancy and she has told
that to Fuggy. And Fuggy is trying to get me and my family to hate her so that
she can leave and make way for Tannu and me.
I don't trust Tannu to be even pregnant but she proves to me
that she is, but it doesn't feel right to me. I can't accept Fuggy to leave me like this. But she is doing all
she can to leave me, my house and my life.
So, is this what destiny meant for me? To bring Fuggy into
my life and snatch her? No, I will not let that happen. I will not let her go.
I will not let destiny destroy it for us. And here I am today, preparing myself
to fight my destiny all over again.
Before the shock of Tannu's pregnancy seeps in my head,
Fuggy brings her home. Fuggy wants me to marry Tannu and she tells me she will
leave me taking a bad name in front of Daadi. I declare Fuggy is pregnant in a
desperate attempt to stop her from doing that to herself. I realize the depth
of the problem when Daadi is celebrating Fuggy's pregnancy. Fuggy and I try finding
a solution for which we really do not have a solution that is good for her, me
or our families. Tannu is forcing me to marry her day by day.
Purab and Bulbul are getting married. So we decide to keep
up with the pregnancy drama until their wedding is done. But the day of their
wedding, Aaliyah proves to us she hasn't changed a bit, she hasn't moved on
from Purab a bit. I really had hoped she would change but to my shock, I find
her disguising herself as Purab's bride, having almost killed Bulbul. I stop
her from marrying Purab and want her to throw out of the house for her deed.
But Daadi and Fuggy stop me.
But Fuggy and I fail in hiding the truth from Daadi when
Fuggy accidentally gives Tannu's pregnancy report to Daadi. Daadi is very
disappointed in me and she throws me out of the house. That's perhaps the most
shameful day of my life to stand as guilty in front of my whole family. But I come
back to my house soon not being able to live away from my Daadi.
The more Tannu forces me to marry her, the more I feel this
is not right. I don't want to marry Tannu. I want to be with Fuggy. I want to
tell Fuggy how much I love her; I want to ask her to stay with me.
I realize I have to do it when I fear Fuggy being in an
accident while I am doing a concert. To my relief Fuggy comes right in front of
my eyes and saves me from the fans throwing stones at me for I froze on stage
without singing.
That evening I take Fuggy with me and tell her what she
means to me. I tell her Tannu, myself, Daadi or her won't be happy with me
marrying Tannu. But she does not want to destroy Tannu's or the baby's
happiness. I know I don't have anything to argue against that. But then, Fuggy
makes me promise on our love that I will marry Tannu. I agree, with no heart.
Fuggy makes Daadi agree to it too and she leaves.
Sarla Maa realizes Tannu is pregnant with my child and
lashes out on me. I know I deserve it. I stand guilty of all charges; I have
nothing to say than apologize.
Tannu and my marriage preparations go on. And the day I go
to distribute cards is the day I hear Fuggy is missing. My heart skips beats
when I hear she might have been in an accident. I frantically search for her,
everywhere possible. I even pray in a dargah hoping nothing bad happens to
her. But I don't find her.
A few days later Fuggy writes a letter to me that she is
fine. And on the day of my mehendi with Tannu, she comes back. But not as my
Fuggy but as a woman looks like Fuggy but doesn't dress up or talk like her.
Fuggy claims she has snatched my wealth when she got me sign
a consent paper to marry Tannu. The lawyers confirm the same. She says she did
it because I hate married her and gives a 100 other reasons.
I can't come to believe it, but I see that she does not care
about her own family, let alone mine. That is not the Fuggy I knew. I shout on
her, I am angry, I cry, I try to seduce her, but in every move she proves to me
that she has really changed into a person I do not recognize.
On the other hand, Tannu wants me to get our property back
so that we can marry. I want my freedom back, I want this new Pragya I call as Mogambo to turn into Fuggy again too.
And perhaps that is why whenever she gets into real trouble,
I end up helping her out although she betrayed me my love and stole my
property. But then, I play a game of love with her to get my property back.
But before I get my property back, tragedies happen one
after another. Purab marries Bulbul but Bulbul has an accident on her wedding
reception, leading to her eventual suicide. I see Mogambo crying for her
sister, I can't help but feel for her.
But it turns out that Aaliyah is trying to snatch my
property too and she proves to me that she hates me more than anyone else. I am
surprised when Mogambo exposes Aaliyah's fraud but heartbroken that my sister
did that to me. I send Aaliyah to jail. And it's not just Aaliyah who is after
my money, my cousin brother Raj too is betraying me behind his back. I am so
much more shattered to learn this.
I don't understand anymore, who is doing what. I am just fed
up of Pragya, Aaliyah and everyone. It comes to a point in my life where I
don't want to chase abstract things anymore but just want to save what I have,
or do what I should do. I decide to marry Tannu seriously, for the sake of the
baby.
But then even that doesn't happen as I plan. Mogambo's mom
gets kidnapped. All I want to do is to find her and help her out. But by the
time we find her, she meets with an accident and is in a state of
unconsciousness. I just want her to get better not just because I place her as
my mother but I want her to tell me why she put Mogambo's hand in mine before
she went unconscious. She knows I have to marry Tannu, she gave me blessings to
marry Tannu but now why is she wanting me to have Pragya back in my life?
To add to my turmoil, Aaliyah is back in my life, she has
decided to stay in the outhouse, and she says she wants to build an empire.
I don't know what has happened in the last year or so. I am
just so done with this kind of life. I seriously need break. I need clarity. I
need peace. I just hope I find my tune again.
-Abhi Mehra
Edited by -Tia- - 8 years ago
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