A Bride From The North

No, it's not a mistake. I am aware that Armenia is to the west from India. This is the title of my favorite movie from my childhood. I love each scene, every conversation here. It is filled with fun and joy, curious situations and drama. I used to watch it 1000 times and still I find it so much interesting and exciting.


Recently this  has been shown on TV quite frequently. I could see my mother watching it deeply dived in her musings about her elder daughter. Just like the Russian mother in this movie who doesn't want her daughter to be taken to Armenia and refuses meeting her would be relatives who came to ask for her daughter's hand for their son. Nevertheless story has a happy end showing the couple leaving for Armenia finally. This scene is accompanied with a soundtrack , a woman's voice is singing :  "In a strange country you will call "Mother" a strange woman ".

However this is a movie and where movies end the real life starts with its ups and downs.

Coincidentally my life has become so much consistent with the events in this story. I was making the biggest decision in my life - getting engaged with the one who came from thousands of miles afar and is going to take me there, away from my family, from my friends, from my everyday life, from my city which I love so much...

Only God knows how much strength it requires for my mother to bear all this. I understand her so well and I never wanted to hurt her or make her life complicated. The only thing I want is to make her happy by being happy even so far away from her....