The Sindhi Love Tale. [THEN & NOW]

Momal and Rano

In 16^th Century:

The reputation of palace and of Momal’s dazzling beauty soon became legend. Hamir Soomro the ruler of Umer Kot in Sindh, and his three ministers, were attracted to the magical Kak.

One of the ministers, Rano Mahendro was the young. Hamir attempted to reach the palace but failed. The other ministers, too, failed. Rano then try his luck. He was an extremely intelligent and courageous man which led him to succeed in reaching the palace, unharmed. Mumal was so impressed that she accepted her as her consort.

One day, Rano reached Kak Mahal unusually late due to some business that he had to attend to. Momal got so frustrated that she planned to play a trick on him. She dressed her sister Sumal in a man’s attire and made her sit by her side. When Rano arrived, he mistook Somal as a Momal’s lover. Out of disgust he left his riding cane besides Momal’s bed and returned to Umer Kot. Momal pleaded Rano to forgive her but Rano ignored her requests.

Out of desperation, she set a fire and jumped in it. When Rano came to know of this, he rushed to the place where he saw that Momal was already in flames, he joined her to be consumed by the fire along with Momal.

In 21^st Century:

Momal was a rich girl lived with her sister and mother. She was blessed with spotless beauty. Any one sees her got stund by her ethereal heavenly looks. Her father was famous industrialist of the city. Before his death he named his whole business empire to both her daughters.

Momal and her youner sister Somal both were studying. Momal was doing software engineering and somal was in medicine. Their mother looked after the business as their caretaker.Both sisters had an attitude problem as both were of marriageable age but they refused every man. Their mother talked about out of their arrogance.

They played a trick, as both the sisters had their facebook accounts so they made a page there and momal designed special software having a palace in its way in maze form. The maze, that kept on changing every five seconds.

They displayed this “palace maze puzzle” on their facebook page and wrote “who ever will find the way to palace within five seconds momal will marry that man”. After writing all terms and conditions, out of which one condition was “no suitor will ever ask for the picture of momal”, because she did not display her picture there. Many young and old guys attempted the puzzle but no one could make it.

Momal classmate Rana Jahangir, whose nick name was rano was very attracted to momal. But he was not that well off so he could not ever gain courage to even talk to her. One day he was checking his facebook status. He by chance came across the page made by momal. Her name was not mentioned there as she put strict privacy settings there. Rano found it very interesting. At first he thought that it would be a fake thing but than he thought let’s give it a try. As he too was studying software engineering so at first he took some time to study the puzzle than with luck he made his way to palace in just 3 seconds and than he messaged on page, “that who ever it is now bound to marry him according to condition”.

When momal got message. She felt terrible. Because she never had expected anyone to decode the puzzle and it was just a fun thing to her. But there was this desires too, that she wanted to see that genius guy who solved her puzzzle. So, she messaged back and gives name and time to a renowned hotel to meet that guy.Rano also wanted to see that other person, as his trust was ill because of facebook’s fake identities. He often used to call fakebook instead of facebook.But he was bit excited about the thought what if it was all true?

Finally he reached the hotel at the told time. He was wearing white shirt with blue jeans and was looking very handsome. He told momal about her dressing so that she could identify him.

When momal entered the hotel it was an hour late from the time she called rano. But when they saw each other, they got surprised and happy at the same time. For rano it was hard to believe that the girl he admired in his whole life was now standing right before him. They hesitantly greeted each other and started to chat nervously.With time they feel in deep love with each other. They started to meet and call. They were head over heels in love.

One day rano had to go out of city for a job interview. The day he had to come back momal thought of a plan to make him jealous because he spent more days there than he told. So momal thought to take revenge. She made her sister somal dressed like a man and sat beside her. When rano came to her house and saw her embracing another man in her room. He felt heart broken and left the bouquet with his name slit on it, down at her door to make her know that he saw her with other man.

He stopped contacting her, replying to her messages and was in distress. Momal on the other hand was feeling guilty out of what she did. She tried a lot to contact him but there was no way, as rano had changed his all contact number. Her condition was getting worse day by day. The thought of loosing rano made her a lunatic.

Somal was very upset about her sister. She tried to convence her but it was no of use. Finally she decided to meet rano and told her everything. She with a great difficulty found rano’s address, grab her man’s attire and off to meet him. She reached there, change her looks as man’s as before and ring the door bell. Rano opened the door and got angry to see the same man at his door, only when he was about to punch his face she removed her fake mustashes and told him everything. He felt very sorry for what he did to momal then they both went to meet momal.

When they reached her home they came to know that momal swallowed 20 sleeping pills and now she is in hospital. Rano was feeling very ashamed and guilty. He was responsiable for all this. He prayed a lot and God listened to him and when doctor came, he told that momal was out of danger now.Momal and rano embraced each other and wept bitterly. Momal’s mother was crying too and she anounced their wedding.

In heaven two souls were very happy and they thanked God that He did not let happened again what had been once past, the souls were of Momal Rathore and Rano Mahindra Singh.