An old Indian love Story preceding 1942

She was an amazing dancer now gone away at the age of 97 years, I am talking about Mrinalini , can you guess her surname? Here’s a sweet love story about her I read on paper and she got married to the man she fell in love with so she has a surname which is that of a very popular man, infact he is known as father of Indian space science or something like that. Now have you guessed who is this grand madumji’s husband who was once her lover?

And now a song meanwhile… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oTWAU6ee4U

Well that song is from movie ‘A 1942 Love story'(: and that year holds relevance to the dancer and scientist couple who now no more exist in the world. That is because they got married that year and here is their story, the love story of Vikram Sarabai that took place before 1942.

I am talking about a period before my parents were born, before India got independence…

Here the source I read about their story… http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Here-Mrinalini-divided-time-between-Vikram-dance/articleshow/50691731.cms

It must be in the late 1930’s Mrinalini met Vikram before which she was a free 22 year old dancing bird happy in Chennai.

The exciting chance came for her to dance with a really famous dancer Ram Gopal in Ram Gopal’s school where her dance teacher Muthukumaran Thatha from  Kalakshetra was there too. This was in a City which really must have been the Garden City those days – Bengaluru formerly Bangalore. So from Chennai formerly Madras Miss Mrinalini came to Bangalore completely dedicated to dance.

She had no desire to get married for dance was everything for her until she went to IISC to perform. IISC is Indian Institute of Science, even now it is quite a green campus beautiful with flying cranes enjoying themselves there besides others who are engineering and research students, professors, scientists and people like that. Well, what happened after Grand madumji Mrinalini(as she is older than my oldest granny who died 3 years ago at the age of 87)  went there? Well she meet scientist Vikram Sarabai and then?

Vikram sirji was doing research with CV Raman there probably all into science having no intention like many people have of seeking a female company, you know boys going crazy on girls at least at the college going stage. I guess they talked over breakfast while Vikram was in the company of his other scientist friends.

Here the dancer expressed herself that dance was an art form she was so passionate about that she submitted her soul completely to dance and was not wanting to marry. Wow, claps for this Indian woman who at that era had such bold and clear visions!! Anyway… Vikram Sarabhai was struck, he had a similar passion for science and perhaps he too did not want to marry as he was dedicated to science… ha ha…(maybe he wanted to pinch her and say same pinch)

So equations changed, who would have thought IISC would be a place where such a divine dancer would magnetize an equally divine scientist and vice-versa… Well, think don’t you think she would have fallen for Ram Gopal her dancing partner but no… let’s go on with the story further…

Well, the scientist asked the dancer out and they spend lots of time together… long drives,  endless talks and such things etc.

I wonder where they went for long drives, I think IISC was a great place for long walks and most intriguing question for me is on what did they go on long drives?… Ambassor car was it even there that time? and what is that ‘Vikram’s Banter’? (check the details from the story on the link)

Anyway the dancer’s interest of dancing with Ram Gopal dimed as she became closer to Vikram and she quit dancing with him, married Vikram became Mrs Mrinalini Sarabai and settled in Chennai dancing with her own compositions or possibly took guidance of another dance teacher recommended to her by Muthukumaran Thatha her teacher who I am sure bid her goodbye with Guruji’s blessings.

Well… a beautiful love story. Now in case even in this age  parents or elders talk disapprovingly about you going out to be or spend time with someone tell them Vikram Sarabhai’s story.

It is incredible that in India during the 1940’s seeing each other like this happened, I am very sure India was even more conservative than it is today. Those days people married really young completely arranged with no interaction with would be…anyway that is why this story is incredible.

I imagine Mrinalini grand madumji would have told this story to her kids and maybe even grand kids, it would be so lovely for her to tell it as it would have been for the kids to listen.

Lessons learnt –

Life can be a fast adventure and you may gain something in the end. You may call it luck, special things may happen but keep no hopes, I am sure not everyone is lucky enough to find their partners who turn out to be good soul mates.

Love is a drug so please be careful, fall in love wisely and marry too wisely(: … life is no fairy tale it is real tale so no prince and princesses, it’s more companionship through various hues, keep it real and simple, maybe it may not be all sweet but still bitter-sweet would be exciting and fun.

Glad, could write a love tale so I can dedicate this to everybody for this Valentine’s Month and day(: … unintended cupid movements and spells ahead for a lot of general population, enjoy the movement, may it be meaningful such that it grows you and makes your life better and exciting…

And here’s a chance to quote my once Chennai Rj’s quote, his name was Josua and thanks to his show I got exposed to some awesome old English numbers and here I will put one of my Favourites… but first his quote…

“Life is to live and to live it in a beautiful way for that believe in yourself, believe in somebody up above and above all never, ever, ever give up…On that note good night and God Bless(:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDPMmaHWj1I