Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Many clever people mostly men have their own ways to lure women. 
Well age is no bar. 
Depends solely on the intentions. 
One encounters different situations and handles them in their own way. 
Many times the whole thing becomes a cat and mouse chase:) 

1989 :

A fine day.. 
Usual morning routine of patient check ups and rounds. 
As House Surgeons (Residents) in the Department of Medicine in the hospital, we had heavy responsibility. We were to take care of treatment of patients from 2nd to 6 th floor. The wards were divided, beds were also divided amongst different residents. 

That particular day there was some excitement about the patient in last room in private ward...  mother of a song writer in Bollywood. The old lady was in coma. So the son in his 50s had come to see her. I had heard his songs. Beautiful lyrics. 
I did my usual round before coming again with the senior colleague. After I came out of the room, the "bollywood man " followed me and started asking about his mother. 

I was respectful towards him because of his age and because I often got  to hear his songs on radio. 
After the medical queries, the talk became informal and turned to his profession. 
When I told him I also love singing, he said he would like to hear me sing few lines to him. 
Okay ! Wow ! I had a bollywood man as my audience ! :)) 
In my free time I invited him to our Duty Room. 
He sat in opposite chair and kept on looking at me. 
He liked my song. 
"Get a commercial shoot done", he said, "I would like to cast you as my heroine in a movie that I am planning to make. It is based on the struggle of a doctor." 

I knew it was not possible... 
Then he got up from the chair to go out. But instead he shook my hand and hugged me. But when you hug someone your lips don't try to brush the person's hair !
 (unless of course they are "directed" there) :) 

I moved away and told him I would think about the offer of movie. 
After that day I started avoiding him. Meanwhile his mother passed away. 
Now I wouldn't have to see him I thought. 
But he was like stubborn mule.... 

Once I was sitting with my female colleague in the duty room when he appeared in the door way. 
I was disturbed at his guts. 
But what I found amusing was the expression on my colleague's face. 
She was so annoyed and whispered me to tell "that man" that she is not interested. 
Not interested? In what? I was curious and had intuition what it was all about and felt like laughing. 
I went to the door and told him that my colleague was not interested in his offer of a movie. 
He had the gall ! He said, "No.  I came for you !" 
Now this time I told him he was wasting his time and more than that he was wasting our precious time. We know what he was after...... and so on.... 
He looked at the floor for some time, weighing his options and left quietly. 

We had a great laugh at the fantasies of a crazy old man. (Although 50s is not an old age group but at that time we thought so).  :) 


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