This is the story of Wana Kana – a man of innumerable qualities and countless shades of life like a chameleon. We don’t know if he can aspire anyone, but yes what he does very conveniently is raise our curiosity bar. And that should not come as a surprise to us, because this is the very “nice and sweet” curious case of Wana Kana.Our story goes back many years ago when Wana Kana was a tender boy of eighteen - all excited and enjoying his youth and adolescence. He lived his life to the max at every phase. He was the sweetest brother mankind had ever seen. He smiled with them and posed as the lovely boy with heavy smiles. He was a gem amongst his peers. Leader of the Peers. Deadly as a devil. Dirty as any boy turning out to be a man but with a very high intensity. Heat was always on around him – we too felt it and wondered why? What? Was that a loud gas? Hmmm.
Time flew by and Wana Kana became a grown man. Responsible, aged, established and married too. Marriage was important for him …the all important phenomenon making him complete. But as a result of his excessive happiness, his eyes popped out permanently.
Wana Kana was henpecked. He was the poo of his wife. He was the Complete Wana Kana. Perfect husband as you may say. In his early days of marriage, he used to sing for his wife:
Akeli naa bazaar jaya karo
Nazar lag jayegi
Sab ki nazar main naa aya karo
Nazar lag jayegi
He grew up quickly, but he got fatter and bigger even more rapidly. He bloated with happiness after his marriage and a few devilish kiddos. He got everything at the right time. He had every reason to grow bigger by the day!
Rich Wana Kana loved traveling too. He auctioned an album of his travels. But sadly every picture in the album had lesser of the wonders of the world and more of the Fatso Wana Kana. That was but natural. He couldn’t help it.
So he put on his terribly small shades on his humorously huge face and walked through the streets of the world. He swam all the way across the world. He mingled with all the creatures of the world. He posed and gave the fake smile, but captured every joy and every memory.
Wana Kana had everything and was pretentiously sweet and nice and fake his entire life - fulfilling life to the core! Lovely job, big flashy home, pretty weird wife, devilish kids, adventurous travels and barbaric animalistic friends. All seasons clicked. Every story saved with pride.
And this was the Curiously Fake but True Case of Wana Kana.
He sings and dances madly to the beat now…killing us all the more with his moves…
Yeh lamhe
Yeh pal hum
Barso yaad karay ge
Yeh mausam chalay gaye tou
Hum faryad karay ge
Barso yaad karay ge
Zaira Rahman
