"Elders are interested only once in their lives, when younger ones are getting married and everything is in their control!"- Chetan Bhagat, 2 States. I read this book a few years back and I have forgotten most of the story but this thought expressed by the protagonist Krishh stays in my mind till now.
The wonderful FD by our @desiprincess has reminded me of good old days when my parents were frantchandru021y hunting for a groom for me.
In those days, my photo adorned the walls of jeevanSreelaDasgupta.com, shadi.com and bharatmatrimony.com. Mom would filter prospective candidates on the basis of age, photo, tamilian, Brahmin, iyer, horoscope, gouthra, location, job, vegetarian in that order. Failing in any one criterion would result in rejection. Then she would pass on the shortlisted guys to my father, grandpa and grandma for further scrutiny. The third level of scrutiny would be done by our Pandit to minutely match horoscopes! Only then would the parents of the groom be contacted for further details.
I did not have complaints with this tedious process since I am their only daughter and they deserved all the joy while doing all this! Yes, they did enjoy it. But to be frank, I did get frustrated at times. I remember one fine day, I happened to login to my shadi.com account only to conclude that this is the most hilarious of all matrimonial sites. Since then, I derived huge pleasure by just reading their profiles. Mom was glad to see the sudden interest for checking messages but she was not aware that I had such devilish intentions. I was really impressed by a few of their ‘proposals’. I prepared a collection and added my own comments to them. Listing a few messages below for my MS friends to enjoy:
Contestant 1: I am a good guy. Looking for goodlooking girl. I want her to look butiful, as I am also very butiful.
Me: What a butiful thought!
Contestant 2: My family belives aroscope maching. Before you ask me to maary you, please send aroscope. If you are impress my profile, contat immedetly. I will not be single for long!
Me: How optimistic!
Contestant 3: I is soft natured god fearing rRajeev_Vermacting elders family attached lucky to get as better half.
Me: Could be a sequel to ‘Breathless’ by Shankar Mahadevan.
Contestant 4: Looking for fair slim and well groomed person who can care for my family-father mother and brother, sister in law. About my Family: 1 brother married with child.
Me: What!!! Your brother should be arrested for child marriage.
Contestant 5: very ni taking,any qulification good thinking,good nature,&fair ness ,talking sonly srvaishanava vad&tengalia
Me:Oh yeah,I can talk English, I can walk English!
Contestant 6: Dear friend I am free and I would like to free , who wll likeme in sense that adjust all situtation. she looking beautiful and slim, she must be graduge
Me: I completely understand, there’s some free offer going on.
Contestant 7: I am looking for a smart and good charactor with soft spoken.she will lokking very good and adjust our family. I have One yeilder Brother and younger sister. My mom is in house wife.
Me: I m more interested in the yielder brother :P
Contestant 8: My family: I have one younger brother he is also unmarried and he is doing business, my two sisters are married third is ungaged and fourth is unmarried.
Me: Everyone is ungaged and unmarried! Hehehe
Contestant 9: hai, I am gowtham I would like to share my life with a sweet a soft home looking life partner, my salary is Rs.3. 65 lakhs per annum. so there is no need for my life partner to go a job.
Me: OH really? Thanks!
Contestant 10: I'm looking for have a good communication skill, have a nice understanding with me and have a sprite in mother language, have good adjestment to me and my family and..... further deatils cont me....
Me: What about your communication skill dude? Wow, Sprite in Mother Language!!!!! I m Pepsi in Father language!!!!
Contestant 11: I am Pune, I am Look like Very Smart and Young. I am looking good partner for my life. Me: Hi Pune, I am also Pune!
Whew, what days those were! Anyway, all’s well that ends well. Our search came to an end with my husband Satish matching all the mentioned criteria to a T. Luckily, I also matched their family’s criteria. Additionally, our interests and traits also match and thus he fitted into MY criteria too as my Mr. Right. So people stuck in this process of groom/bride hunts, please do enjoy the whole journey as these days would be cherished a few years later and you would laugh aloud with your friends when you share such episodes! Do have firm belief in the saying- Marriages are made in heaven!
