There was this guy, who was mostly lonely and tried to keep a cheerful face when interacting with all kinds of people. As years went by with two failed marriages and umpteenth number of mistakes along the way, there seems no hope. Yes, his mother and father were very worried, advertising on the newspaper for a suitable match. Even there were some responses, and the guy went to see them too... Somehow it didn't gel, something or the other was wrong... the mind and the heart just didn't match... or there were something that didn’t seem right. The elderly parents were worried all the time and his mother would always rue the fact that because of their mistakes their son is in such a precarious situation. He should have been happily married a family of his own and yet... there was nothing that the guy or his parents could do.

One day, his mom calls him up... tell him that there is a girl who have answered an ad, and she would want to speak to him on a Sunday. With his usual nonchalant attitude... he said ok as he would do for the umpteenth time. The same day at night when he went home another girl called him up and said that his mom had responded to an ad and would the guy and this girl meet at some place. A venue was decided and the guy invited this girl out for lunch. Anyway, the week went by uneventful ... the guy busy with work and keeping a cheerful face with all that he met.

Saturday things started to happen. The girl that he invited to lunch said that she couldn't make it to lunch because of some work that has come up…so she would have lunch some other day. The guy also didn’t give it much thought, and said sure… and even added that since it was raining all day the past week, it would be better to postpone the meeting. Later he was thinking to himself ... what a pitiful response.

Sunday comes, and the guy is his usual Sunday self. Gets up late, listen to Jethro Tull, watches a movie, chats with the maid who came early. Breakfast, discussion about the monthly groceries, and other chit chat….the phone rings. On the other side a girl/woman introduces her and we get chatting. She is a major in the army and is a practicing nurse. They talk in English and exchange ideas about marriage and what is expected of each other should they decide to get married. So he calls her later and chats some more. All the time she tells him that she has met my parents and seen the picture and all that stuff and she likes what she sees. But the guy is kind of distant…very afraid and ..... there are so many things that he wants to tell her about himself but is reluctant simply because she might end the conversation which he desperately didn’t want. In her broken English, Hindi and Bengali she tells him that she comes from a village deep within Middnapore district, and have a large house with ponds and stuff. He didn’t know when he really started to like her, but he was still afraid to open up and kept insisting that he will make plans to go to Kolkata and after he has met her, a decision will be reached. He was afraid of his past and wanted to tell her that he was married not once but twice. While both ended in a divorce, he wasn’t very sure whether revealing this would end the conversation and that would be it. Well… he was quite worried. All things he was expecting a wife to have were there but there was still loads of doubts on his mind.

What if she comes to know about the double divorce? What if she isnt what she says she is? Why is she not married ? What was there in her past that she is trying to hide? He was very confused.

So one day he picks up the courage and tells her all about his past with much trepidation. His marriage with the girl in US, about other things that he hasn’t told anyone else, except maybe his younger sister or his very close friends. Well… there was a stunned silence….. and he thought, that it. Love toh kya jo tha khatam. But she told him that she is quite stunned by this marriage thing, and she is herself not being married once. The best thing would be to not tell anyone in her family… and about the other stuff… it didn’t matter, it was passed. Ah, man a sigh of relief and it was she who started cheering up the guy, cracking jokes, masquerading as Shah Rukh Khan, who happens to be her favorite actor. After that the frequency of phone calls increased, and both started making plans… At this point in time, they are still making plans with both hoping that it works out.