And they lived happily ever after

How I loved those raja-rani bed time stories that my mother told us when we were young - they always ended with "and they lived happily ever after". I always waited and ploughed through the stories just to hear these magic words. Somehow, I felt extremely joyous to hear how the prince and the princess got together and lived happily. Such feel-good stories are real winners!

It has been ages since I saw a feel good movie until I had the chance to get a peek into Dance Client (an extraordinarily stunning movie network in a University here) and watch Stardust. It had everything - adventure, fantacy and romance. This Robert de Niro, Charlie Cox, Claire Danes (I hate her - she is absolutely gorgeous), Michelle Pfeiffer starrer is the story of a fallen star (who transforms into a beautiful maiden) and a lost prince. In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. The star falls in love with him and he doesn't realise that (Men!) until he gives the stardust (which he obtains by deceiving the star into love) to the girl whom he thought he loved. He goes back into the magical world, saves her from witches and what not, is helped by the evergreen de Niro (Captain Shakespeare - I loved de Niro more than I loved Charlie Cox, though I did drawl on him as well - and man, can de Niro dance!), he gets the kingdom, they get married and they lived happily ever after.

I know I sound absolutely girly-girly (I do not do/say such things very often) when I say this, but isn't this beautiful? Especially for someone who is mortified by the thought of surviving a long distance relationship for a fairly long time, there couldn't be anything better than an "and they lived happily ever after" story. It is so full of positive energy that it makes you throw all your worries into the receptacle and believe that after all, the same is going to happen to you - only a little later.

On my way back home yesterday, I was listening to one of my favourite songs - Thenmadurai vaigainadi (Dharmathin Thalaivan). The last stanza caught me off guard! I have listened to the song so many times and I loved it for the music, its simple and nice picturisation. This was the first time I realised that the lyrics were so apt in a situation of this kind. I am not even going to attempt translating the lines here (and disgrace them). The gist of the last stanza could me summed up - The man tells his woman that they are made for each other and will get together soon and live happily ever after. There we go - and they lived happily ever after!

As a very good friend keeps telling me (and to herself as well) - decades! And we will live happily ever after.