Que Sera Sera

Misunderstandings are common in any relationship, no matter how hard you try you can't possibly avoid them, the best solution then is face it .. head on, don't hide, confront..

Alas neither Nirmala nor her husband nor her step son believed in this simplistic approach. Honesty and trust are the two most important values in life that can change things for the good and thats something that lacked in Munshi totaram. He wants his beautiful wife to be with him, and yet never says it to her! He wants his son to be away from his wife and says the wrong things, he scolds the kid for no reason, calls him a vagabond - a total no no! The poor kid is confused as to what to do about it. Feels guilty of having hurt his father and betrayed his dead mother, runs away from home to the hostel..But the worst comes when he realises why his father's persecuting him.. and thats the day things turn ugly..

Thoughts of his father even considering a possibility of adultry with his new mother made him ill mentally.. gave him suicidal thoughts, but he did not need to go that far, he fell ill physically too just thinking about the situation he was in. As his conditioned worsened day by day the onl good it did was that it made Totaram realize his folly but.. as the famous saying goes 'honi ko kaun tal sakta hai' . Nirmala tried her best to save the poor kid, she tried giving him food, tried talking (she figured it was easier talking to the kid than the father!) but the kid was so taken aback by his fathers misunderstandings that he even refused to look at his his step mom. He finally took one shot at clearing his name - so when Nirmala came to the hospital to see him despite all the growls from Totaram (- the nasty!) and donate blood, he fell on to her feet and told her and the rest of the world that he always looked upon her as his own mother.. and with that display of affection he breathed his last breath!

Tragic.. yet I get the feeling its all in vain.. only if Totaram had been a litte more sensitive to his son. Only if Nirmala chose to be vocal right in the begining of the misunderstanding, only if the son did not place his father so high up on the pedestal and give his life up...But as the song goes
Que Sera Sera... whatever will be will be....