I Do, Do I?
What is it about marriages that are so difficult to understand??? In short, why don't they last? Rather, why can't they last. Take Meena Kumari's marriage for instance. When she married her husband, Kamal Amrohi ( the famous film writer who went ahead to make Paakezah) on 14th February, 1952, he was everything that she ever wanted. They were so in love then. It was his second marriage, but they didn't bother. They were young, or maybe not so young for Mr.Amrohi ( who was 34 then and Meena was 19) and in love :) Sigh! Young love :) So why the eventual fallout? ( Whatever you do, do not get married on February 14th, will explain in the end). She knew what she had wanted all along. Quite literally. Unlike me, she never wanted a tall, dark and handsome man, with a good sense of humour and who knew how to tell me that it'll all work out just fine. I just need to be patient. She was something different. In the words of Vinod Mehta, the author of her biography, ...