Hum Tum Page #3

Let him do that

He was very serious

- Even I'm very serious

The Times of India has made an offer.

They'll carry my Hum-Tum cartoons daily

And the money is nice.

So who cares for this nine-to-fiver?

Right Tuka Ram?

- No. Jhallo Ram

The bride's people have arrived

Susie, the bride's people have arrived

Suji... the stuff for making

sweets? (Suji:
Semolina)

Jhallo Ram. Unload the stuff

Where is the electricity generator?

Nothing's on time if I'm not around

Remove that basket

Nice venue for a wedding

A wedding villa is a fun place.

How far away is your bridegroom?

Hum-Tum! I always browse the strip

in the Sunday Times of India

My Hum-Tum is so popular among girls?

- Yours? Hum-Tum are very cute

Right. You and I are cute

Damn tent

Something awful always happens

whenever I see you

Whatever happened to your hair?

- It's my Tom Cruise look

You won't understand.

Not your level. This is fashion

What are you doing here?

- What are you doing here?

I'm in charge of wedding plans here

That's obvious. - Actually

it's my Ma. I'm helping her

That's so sweet. - Right? See, so sweet

What are you doing here?

- You're organising the wedding?

And you don't know

who the bride is? - Who?

You're marrying so late?

You could've mothered three

kids by now. Have you?

would've mended your mind

Some guys never change

My bags are inside the car.

Have them delivered to my room

You think I'm a porter? - Likewise

What's up? - How many kilos of candies?

Who wants candies?

I hate them. Who asked for it?

The bride's mother.

- Who chooses sweets for the wedding?

The bride's mother? Or I?

- You're the boss

Get ten kilos of pastries. - Done

Greetings. - Greetings

I'm the bride's mother. Sorry, you

should've said you hate candies

I'd never have asked for those

Aunty, I was only...

Aunty? How can you call me aunty?

Jhallo Ram where are you going?

- To buy your pastries

I was just joking. What did

the bride's mother ask for?

Candies. - Then candy it is

Buy 10 kilos. No, 15 kilos

Many thanks

You're Anju's son? - Yes Aunty

What's this cursed Aunty-Aunty?

In our times, we married early

we had our babies fast

If you insist...

you can add a Bobby with Aunty.

The name's Mrs. Parminder Prakash

But everyone calls me Bobby

Aunty. It is my pet name

If I may say so,

you're as beautiful as the

legendary danseuse Umrao Jaan

I've been noticing you all along.

Your poise, your grace...

today's girls have none of it.

Now take your daughter

Son... even I've been

noticing you all day,

striding like a tiger... showing off your

stripes to the girls. - Not I...

Come off it. Wish you good luck

Please... - Karan...

Yes Bobby Aunty? - Shut up

Shut up

Not Priya. Pooja

I think Priya suits you more.

Can I call you Priya?

Find a car for me

Your friends and family

just hijacked all the cars

And my designer wants me to try out

my wedding gown right now

Get me a cab

Here's a village.

You won't spot a cab

in a 12 mile radius

There's a way

Why aren't you attending the ritual?

You aren't supposed to meet your fiance

two days before the wedding

Is it an arranged match? Or love?

What do you mean? - Sameer and

I went to college together

He proposed

He's smart, sensitive,

successful, mature...

unlike you. Find-my-towel-type.

- What's find-my-towel-type?

Like someone who'd scream

from the bathroom...

Where's my towel, my shoes

...where's the newspaper?

Just peas and potatoes?

You expect your Sameer

won't ask you to find

his towel after the wedding?

In New York you lived with Sameer?

- Before my wedding? Are you mad?

Don't tell me you never?

- What?

Why should I tell you that?

- That means no. I knew it

Rhea, Pooja said your Sameer

is some computer engineer

Sounds quite serious and quite boring

Being a computer engineer dosen't

make him serious and boring

Unlike you, he isn't an immature fool

Had I been more mature,

you would've considered me?

Shut up Karan. I'm getting married

in two days. You're sick

Did I ask you to marry me?

She takes everything so seriously

I don't see your husband.

He's in the catering business?

You're in the weddings' business,

he's in the catering business?

Wonderful! Wish you good luck.

- No, he's a photographer

Even better! He's going

to shoot the wedding photos?

No, he's a fashion photographer.

Besides he doesn't live in India

In fact, we've separated. - So what?

I've separated from my husband too.

It was a matter of life and death

Bobby, you're a wonderful

example of perseverance

Somewhat true. But Anju,

you've got it going for you

You run a thriving wedding business.

And all you have is one son

You haven't a worry in life

Of course I worry. Mention marriage

and Karan runs scared

Why?

Marriage is the end of

love and romance

Taking a potshot at marriage?

Does he know what love and romance is?

What would she know?

She's getting hitched

You tell me, did Adam

and Eve marry? - No...

They didn't and they basked

in their un-marital bliss

Look at legends. Romeo and Juliet.

Did they marry?

No. - They didn't

Did Heer marry Ranjha? - No

Did Shirin and Farhad marry? - No

Ever wondered why? - Why?

I'll tell you why.

Marriage would've

spelled doom for their romance

They could never have

become legendary lovers

So I tell you, if you wish

to find true love, never marry

Fall in love, like me

What rubbish

Nonsense

Yet every romantic legend stopped

short of a wedding? How come?

You ever heard a story told about

the romance of any married couple?

Of course.

And everyone in the world knows

Emperor Shah Jahan

gave his wife Mumtaz

the finest tribute to love. Taj Mahal

Chocolate heroes

They're screaming for love...

these roadside romeos...

but they'll duck the wedding

Chocolate heroes

Deep down inside whatever he is...

he'll put up a heroic posture

All day he's ogling books...

full of girlie posters

He'll say life's a carnival...

but marriage is trouble

So show him the door

Chocolate hero

Talk of marrying...

and he throws a fit

Talk of living-in...

you'll find he swears by it

In every girl he finds romance

But commitment, not a chance

He'll never find Juliet

so Romeo loses his shirt

Chocolate heroes

He'll grow up to become

an ageing beast...

and the coughing will rack

his ancient chest...

he won't find a helping hand...

then he'll miss love's caring wand

When he is abandoned,

then he will repent

And then finally,

he will remember me

The bridegroom has come.

What's all this excitement over?

Fetching the bridegroom?

He's bound to turn up, isn't he?

If he fails to turn up...

then you've reason for excitement...

the bridegroom is missing...

What a naughty boy

Where ends our story?

Story? Ours?

A story is happening around every one.

When we meet others, our stories meet"

There's no story about us. There's only

The End

I wish Mamma was here

You know she's busy at home.

If she could've come, she would

Carrying prayer candles

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