Love's labour lost

It was a love affair everyone was talking about; It had all the ingredients perfect for a best-selling romantic novel. It was a story where the man and the woman left the world just to be with each other. Sounds like a fairy- tale, doesn’t it? Well it was, until the male protagonist decided to play the phantom and to break the well-known concept of ‘Happily ever after’.
When former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana, Mr Chandramohan Bishnoi, decided to get married to Attorney General of the same state Ms Anuradha Bali, it raised quite a few eyebrows. Not only was Chandramohan married, he also decided to convert to Islam along with his lady love, divorcee Anuradha, so that there were no legal hindrances to their marriage. Before a wink of the eye, Chandramohan was Chand Mohammad and Anuradha Bali was Fiza. The couple then got married only to be disowned by their families. The two were then dismissed from their high profile jobs but that only made their love go stronger. The very next day after their dismissal, Chand called the press and confessed his love for Fiza in full public view. It seemed that there was nothing in this world that could break them apart.
All was hunky-dory until, towards the end of January, Chand decided to hide behind the clouds. He had mysteriously disappeared. Fiza was inconsolable. She called the press and openly accused Chand’s brother Kuldeep Bishnoi of kidnapping her beloved. “He is a terrible man. That day he came with his son and took my husband away in a car” said Fiza clearly pointing her finger towards Kuldeep Bishnoi. Bishnoi denied all the allegations saying that they were baseless and that he had not spoken to his brother ever since he turned to Islam. To add to the chaos, Fiza attempted suicide and, yes, that too after she had called the press, after all it’s not every day that one attempts to suicide for their beloved. But, as the saying goes: strange are the ways of love, Chand soon resurfaced only to claim that he was still in love with his first wife. He also blatantly said that Fiza was creating an unwanted commotion even after knowing where he had gone. Soon all news channels flashed the breaking news: “Chand Mohammad says he still loves his first wife Seema.” It seemed Chand had clearly taken too much into spreading the ‘love’ around. He wanted the best of both the worlds.
Betrayal was not what Fiza had expected. She yet again showed her fondness towards publicity and called a press conference to slam Chand. She was not going to take this lying down. Fiza read all the text messages that Chand had sent to her practically begging for her hand in marriage. She went on record to say how he had exploited her mentally and physically and also hinted at the fact that he was under pressure to give statements of his love for Seema. “He has not only made fun of me but whole of the woman community and has played with religious sentiments. He is a wretched Python that engulfs innocent women. I will fight for justice and will take legal action against that man” threatened Fiza, the same woman who claimed that she would not hesitate to completely change herself for the man in her life, Chand. Through her actions Fiza explained how much she was in love with publicity; and even at the time of her loss she called the press for she wanted to give them an excuse to flaunt her on the news channels. Well all the publicity of the twisted love saga paid off. IPC, an Indo-Canadian production house wanted to turn this real life political drama into a film. Besides 25 Crore rupees, Fiza was also offered the lead part in the movie. Sources revealed Fiza was actively considering the offer.
From all the happenings one could easily make out that the iconic Chand Fiza love affair was now headed towards Splitsville. While on one hand Fiza was more interested in spending time calling the press instead of herself going on a hunt for Chand; Chand was definitely not in the mood to come out of his absconding mood. It will be interesting to see just how many more times Fiza will invite the press and for how long Chand would like to play the phantom. Like a Bollywood flick after stances of love, betrayal, drama, accusations, politics and revenge we would surely like to see, if not a happy, but an interesting end to it. May the best lover win!