It was the birthday of someone who has been so special to me, someone who will always remain special and someone for whom I’m made… its been 10 years since I started wishing her secretly but its only today that I decided to go to the post office, get a small inland letter and throw my heart out and post it! Call it a coincidence or something that I got her address just yesterday (a day before her birthday) from a magazine. Not that I tried to get her address or planned to write to her ever… now that I saw it, I thought let me give it a try!
I didn’t want to practice on any paper (nor did I get more than 1 inland letter) though it was my very first letter to the very first lady in my life! Wow, it’s such a great feeling to imagine I’m writing something to her after 10 years of muteness! I really didn’t want to get a big greeting card or a fancifully decorated cover, just a small inland letter and a small piece of writing! Here I start…
To the dearest Urmila,
I don’t know how many such letters you would have got before and how many of them were truthful! I’m one of those who’ve never seen you in real, never spoken to you but one of those who see you every night in dreams… one of those who decorate their rooms with hundreds of your posters… one of those who’ll watch all your movies on 1st day… love you for whatever you do, whichever way you look and whatever you wear!
It was on October 2nd, Gandhi Jayanti when we had holiday after the programme while in school. I was 15 then and was in high school. Having watched the promos on TV and listened to the music thousand times, I decided to go all alone and watch what would turn out to be the best and most favorite movie of mine… RANGEELA! I was truly smitten…
That was the day it probably started and never seemed to end… my unending love and affection for you were growing over the years. As I watch you sing and dance, as I follow your interviews or watch you on an ad I feel happy, my face glows and I’m delighted! The first face I see every new day, every last minute of the night and every New Year… I see you as my mobile and my laptop’s wallpaper. I’ve not seen my heart but I’m sure it has a colorful painting engraved and that painting is the best painting I ever created of yours!
For you I’m no-one but for me you are a special someone and for the special someone I send these special wishes on a special occasion… (I know my letter will reach you late)
WISH YOU BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Only yours,
Krish!
I felt so good after posting it and everyday I wondered did it reach her, did she read it, and did she reply! Few days passed and one day while I was writing my final semester’s last exam I heard screams from outside the classroom. A small boy (who was a neighbor of mine) was holding something in his hand and said, “Bhaiyya, you have a letter from Mumbai… Urmila’s letter!”
My pen stopped moving forward, I had to run out and could not control my emotion. It was the happiest moment of my life and with shaky sweaty hands I handed over my answer sheet, which was nearly empty and rushed out of the classroom. I was running behind him for the letter and he took me to the river stopping nowhere. As he ran into the river, waves were rushing and he was taken in… he was drowning! I ran on to save him and had to swim quite deep… I caught hold of him and got him out safely. I searched his hand, his pocket and everywhere near the shore. But, the letter had submerged into the water!
The whole day I sat on a stone on the shore crying! It was evening as sun was all set to drown when my eyes ran into something that was lying away from the river. It looked blue and wet. I ran hard and took it in my hand with a big grin on my face, which vanished in a jiffy! It was the same letter I had posted a few days back that had come back with an extra note…
NO SUCH ADDRESS FOUND, DELIVERED BACK TO THE SENDER
I didn’t want to practice on any paper (nor did I get more than 1 inland letter) though it was my very first letter to the very first lady in my life! Wow, it’s such a great feeling to imagine I’m writing something to her after 10 years of muteness! I really didn’t want to get a big greeting card or a fancifully decorated cover, just a small inland letter and a small piece of writing! Here I start…
To the dearest Urmila,
I don’t know how many such letters you would have got before and how many of them were truthful! I’m one of those who’ve never seen you in real, never spoken to you but one of those who see you every night in dreams… one of those who decorate their rooms with hundreds of your posters… one of those who’ll watch all your movies on 1st day… love you for whatever you do, whichever way you look and whatever you wear!
It was on October 2nd, Gandhi Jayanti when we had holiday after the programme while in school. I was 15 then and was in high school. Having watched the promos on TV and listened to the music thousand times, I decided to go all alone and watch what would turn out to be the best and most favorite movie of mine… RANGEELA! I was truly smitten…
That was the day it probably started and never seemed to end… my unending love and affection for you were growing over the years. As I watch you sing and dance, as I follow your interviews or watch you on an ad I feel happy, my face glows and I’m delighted! The first face I see every new day, every last minute of the night and every New Year… I see you as my mobile and my laptop’s wallpaper. I’ve not seen my heart but I’m sure it has a colorful painting engraved and that painting is the best painting I ever created of yours!
For you I’m no-one but for me you are a special someone and for the special someone I send these special wishes on a special occasion… (I know my letter will reach you late)
WISH YOU BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Only yours,
Krish!
I felt so good after posting it and everyday I wondered did it reach her, did she read it, and did she reply! Few days passed and one day while I was writing my final semester’s last exam I heard screams from outside the classroom. A small boy (who was a neighbor of mine) was holding something in his hand and said, “Bhaiyya, you have a letter from Mumbai… Urmila’s letter!”
My pen stopped moving forward, I had to run out and could not control my emotion. It was the happiest moment of my life and with shaky sweaty hands I handed over my answer sheet, which was nearly empty and rushed out of the classroom. I was running behind him for the letter and he took me to the river stopping nowhere. As he ran into the river, waves were rushing and he was taken in… he was drowning! I ran on to save him and had to swim quite deep… I caught hold of him and got him out safely. I searched his hand, his pocket and everywhere near the shore. But, the letter had submerged into the water!
The whole day I sat on a stone on the shore crying! It was evening as sun was all set to drown when my eyes ran into something that was lying away from the river. It looked blue and wet. I ran hard and took it in my hand with a big grin on my face, which vanished in a jiffy! It was the same letter I had posted a few days back that had come back with an extra note…
NO SUCH ADDRESS FOUND, DELIVERED BACK TO THE SENDER
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