Sabitri is seeking love. Immense love. True love. Selfless love. She is young. She is pretty and modern. But she is confused. She tries to find ideal love in her life but fails. As a result, she feels low. She asks the same question to herself all the time, Kaha chha Prem? (Where is love?) But she never gets the answer she desires.
She seeks ideal love in her boyfriend who has much wealth but fails to be the person she wants. She ends the relationship in disappointment. After some time in isolation, she again tries to get the perfect love through a photographer friend. Sadly, she again fails. Despite many attempts, she falls short to fulfill her quest for ideal love through different men in her life. She says, “Those who are wealthy, their love smells only of work. And those who don’t have money, their love can never rise due to insufficiency.”
Tired of failing to get true love, she concludes, “Love is nowhere”.
The story has other side to it. Kumar, a member of the audience, crazily falls in love with the character of ‘Sabitri’. He compares Sabitri with his dream-girl, his dream lover. He roams around with red sweater and tries to relate his fantasy of love with Sabitri’s love-dilemma. However, as the time passes, he realizes that he has been living in a world of illusion that lacks ideal love.
She seeks ideal love in her boyfriend who has much wealth but fails to be the person she wants. She ends the relationship in disappointment. After some time in isolation, she again tries to get the perfect love through a photographer friend. Sadly, she again fails. Despite many attempts, she falls short to fulfill her quest for ideal love through different men in her life. She says, “Those who are wealthy, their love smells only of work. And those who don’t have money, their love can never rise due to insufficiency.”
Tired of failing to get true love, she concludes, “Love is nowhere”.
The story has other side to it. Kumar, a member of the audience, crazily falls in love with the character of ‘Sabitri’. He compares Sabitri with his dream-girl, his dream lover. He roams around with red sweater and tries to relate his fantasy of love with Sabitri’s love-dilemma. However, as the time passes, he realizes that he has been living in a world of illusion that lacks ideal love.
This is the summary of the play Rato Sweater, which was recently staged at Sarwanam Theater. Though the play comprises raw characters and the presentation is boring, failing to meet the high expectations of audiences, it reflects a realistic picture of modern-day relationships.
Modern relationships are complex and quite difficult to maintain. Young people are confused about their love affairs or relationships. Some give ‘more than necessary’ attention to amorous relationships while some ignore it. Whatever the case, youths are caught between career and relationships, attraction and love, flirting and commitment. Some wish for better whereas some are always ready with options. Most relationships involve disputes, misunderstandings, communication-gap, lack of trust and honesty and end up in bitterness.
Babita Sharma, 23, has been in a relationship for last two years. She is an engineering student and her boyfriend is a visual animator. They fell in love in a short span of time. The initial attraction turned to gradual attachment and then to commitment of life-long bonding. But for last one year, Babita has been finding her love unmanageable. She no longer feels special to be with her boyfriend. The charm of their relationship has lessened.
She feels her boyfriend does not understand her properly, leading to differences and misunderstandings. Those small caring and sharing stuffs seem irritating now. Regular meeting and daily conversation has been limited to Facebook chats or SMSes. She neither tries to protect her relationship, nor gives it up. She is more centered on her engineering career, job and family responsibilities and this leads to daily quarrels with her boyfriend. Babita shares, “I am a modern girl and I don’t want to compromise on anything. I want to live my life to the fullest, in my own terms.” This is just a small example that reflects the complex relationship of youths in modern world. We find such stories every next door.
Modern relationships are complex and quite difficult to maintain. Young people are confused about their love affairs or relationships. Some give ‘more than necessary’ attention to amorous relationships while some ignore it. Whatever the case, youths are caught between career and relationships, attraction and love, flirting and commitment. Some wish for better whereas some are always ready with options. Most relationships involve disputes, misunderstandings, communication-gap, lack of trust and honesty and end up in bitterness.
Babita Sharma, 23, has been in a relationship for last two years. She is an engineering student and her boyfriend is a visual animator. They fell in love in a short span of time. The initial attraction turned to gradual attachment and then to commitment of life-long bonding. But for last one year, Babita has been finding her love unmanageable. She no longer feels special to be with her boyfriend. The charm of their relationship has lessened.
She feels her boyfriend does not understand her properly, leading to differences and misunderstandings. Those small caring and sharing stuffs seem irritating now. Regular meeting and daily conversation has been limited to Facebook chats or SMSes. She neither tries to protect her relationship, nor gives it up. She is more centered on her engineering career, job and family responsibilities and this leads to daily quarrels with her boyfriend. Babita shares, “I am a modern girl and I don’t want to compromise on anything. I want to live my life to the fullest, in my own terms.” This is just a small example that reflects the complex relationship of youths in modern world. We find such stories every next door.
Youths have the energy to make every impossible possible and a passion to win over the world. But at the same time they don’t utilize their potential and energy in the right place. They want everything right here, right now. Youths are in a hurry. They don’t have patience. They prefer short-cuts. They prefer speed. As a result, all they get are failures in relationships, and end up in frustration, spoiling their lives.
Relationships, beside love, give strength and support. It makes life’s hardships easier. It provides mental relief, lessening stress. It is a beautiful feeling when somebody is standing with you all the time. It’s a biggest compliment of life when you actually know that somebody is always there with you in your ups and downs. So don’t run unnecessarily after the world, value your relationship.
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Published on Republica, 2014-04-05
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