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She walked down the aisle on a Jet Airways’ afternoon flight from Bombay to Delhi with eyes so large that one could swim in them for a lifetime. Every step she took towards me, my heart skipped ten beats. I tried to look away to break her spell on me, but unknown to me a war was raging inside me between my brain and my heart, surprisingly the heart won, and alas I could not look away. At that moment I became acutely aware of the possibility that time might stand still in a moment or two. The woman walking towards me might take my breath away. Just when I had given up all hope of surviving, I witness a demonstration of Newton’s Law (Action and Reaction are equal and opposite). She dropped down on the aisle seat a row ahead of me with a look that said, “I surrender Oh handsome stranger, put me under house arrest and throw away the keys ”. Destiny had made us the companion of the aisle. We were locked diagonally across from each other and as luck would have it both were wearing Marc Jacobs’ fragrance.

She turned around and started talking to an associate from her industry coincidentally sitting in the aisle seat ahead of me (luck it seems was on my side today). Her gesture touched the cockles of my heart. I took that as a clue and started talking to Neeraj my rep in India who was sitting across the aisle in a seat behind her. The small talk served as a facade to check each other out. I liked her off white dress with black embroidery/shadow work. Her trousers looked like some kind of a pajama ? Maybe that is some new fashion in India, but at this point I did not care. I was happy that I was fortunate enough to look into her eyes and see her spirit. I saw that she was a very sincere and decent person. Right away I recognized that she was a person who deserved someone better than me. She deserved someone who would give her his soul. Unfortunately I have no soul to give, my soul lays with the person that I have given it to and she like Kahlil Gibran’s Salma rests far from our maddening world. Today I can provide my company, some humor, some charm, some conversation, but don’t ask for true love, because that just happens once or so in a lifetime.

I saw the disappointment in her eyes when the glow of the mutual feelings on my face started to fade away. She wondered what went wrong. I so wish I could explain that she deserved something more. I wish I could tell her that there are some things that don’t happen everyday. Take for example CDI. It is an amazing landmark movie, but you cannot expect all future SRK movies to be another CDI. Future SRK movies like OSO will be fun and entertaining, and all the things we expect from SRK, but don’t expect CDI all the time. CDI is once in a lifetime kind of a movie, SRK thankfully has given many profound ground-breaking movies such as CDI, Don, Kank, Swades, Devdas, & DDLJ, but all movies cannot be as weighty. Movies are meant to be an escape. They are meant to take our mind away from every day pressures. They are meant to make us feel good. Movies are meant to be enjoyed.

When the plane landed in Delhi. I helped her get her bags from the luggage bin. She saw me eying the filmfare tucked into one of the pockets of her bags. I asked her, “You like movies”, She said , “Yes”. I told her, “Then watch OSO, it will be totally paisa wasool ”. I told her to take care and walked away.

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