The Fangirl Tales

Chapter 1: The Promo!

The girl puts the title in her diary as Chapter 1: The Promo!
She slowly closes her doe eyes, a wide smile flashing across her face, she softly giggles thinking about her very own reaction to the very first promo of that show which then became her forever favourite for lifetime. ❤️😊 She continues to write...

Dear Diary,
To start with, I always had a fascination for fantasy than reality because it gives us the liberty to do those things that we usually can't do in reality. To me serials gave me that privilege to feel the myriad emotions which became the constant companion to my loneliness and loveless life. Starting from grade 8 till the completion of my UG degree, I've watched countless soap operas in multiple languages but when someone asks me to choose among them, I would rather be honest in choosing some G.O.A.T serials like Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon, Ishqbaaz and Barrister Babu [Btw, these are my three most favourite serials of all time] which are usually hindi serials. 🙈💕
Sometimes I even think that in spite of being a tamilian myself, why don't I mention any tamil serials when choosing my favs. Because those were the times when I was obsessed or even compelled to learn the language of Hindi as it was my second language in school. So watching hindi serials helped me in learning the language successfully and also made me an obsessed hindi serial watcher (Like buy one, get one free 😂😂).
But how much ever we go away from our roots but me being in a pakka tamil family always reminded me that I can't let go of my mother tongue for anything. We all have that paatti, amma or sister in our family who cries during a serial's family reunion, becomes angry at a pivotal character, laughs to funny scenes or scolds the villian for sure. It's always a pleasure and source of fun to watch their reactions to the scenes of the serial.😂 My house was no different, from childhood I've grown among people who were those funny and cute ladies reacting to such melodrama but who knew I would become one myself and so do all of you, my dear friends 😁😂

DD Mv: Ayyioo! Ingayum aarambichiteeya nee...Idhu onnum @mostly_jevriya illa...Please ippdi mokka podaama direct ah kadhai kulla po! 🤦🏻‍♀️😅

My Mv: Helloo! Idhu onnum kadhai illa. This is our life story. So intro tharaama eppudi? Seri okay! Dho poren...poren...😅😂
Okay guys lets come to the main part. The girl resumes writing...💝

When I think about it now, it all feels as if everything happened only yesterday but its been four good years now. It was one fine afternoon during the start of monsoon in Chennai. 🌧️ Then the date 09 July 2018 was just another day to me but every year after that its always a significant one to cherish forever. ❤️ I was studying class 11th then and I'm also the newly elected "Assistant School Pupil Leader" of my School (For personal reasons lets call my school as KV). Since I was feeling so bored that day, I lazily got off my bed and did the very difficult act of going to my mom's room (Uff! so much physical exercise for a lazy girl like me 😂😂).
There my mom was happily lying down in the bed with her phone, getting the glimpses of the latest news of the town as it was her leisure time. As she ignored my presence which our moms are best doing at, I climbed on to the bed and snuggled near her. I impatiently peeped into her phone to see what she was seeing. 🤭 She was looking into all the serial updates of Raja Rani, Nenjam Marapadhillai, Chinnathambi etc. I was laughing at her because I find myself to be the cool one then to have been watching shows which were at least not that dramatic like the shows she watched (No offense to any serials here). I was making fun of her and she being so defensive was ignoring my sarcasm and scrolled through the videos of Vijay Television's youtube channel. She stumbled upon a new promo and clicked it open. I too was now looking at the same with enthusiasm as she exclaimed, 'Hey! Vijay Tv la edho new serial varudhu pola'. 😄
The Promo started off...
I was hell shocked to see something like that because I being a massive serial watcher expected some emotional family sequence or any hyped scene between a hero and heroine which is what the pilot promo will usually be about in any common serial. But as the promo moved further I just watched it with disbelief because I haven't seen such a weird promo ever. I vividly remember a girl...Ohh sorry sorry!! A young and beautiful bride coming out of an old fashioned house but all crying and wailing in pain of loosing her soon to be husband who is supposed to be her lover as per the promo. A man saying with agony and tears that, 'Mapplaiya iruka vendiyavana ponama kondu vandhurukiyye da paavi'. A good-looking man with light blue shirt and another man is seen carrying a dead groom to that house. The girl wails with agony and screams "MAARAA" and so does the others !! 💔 My mom and myself looked at it with shock and an evidently sad expression. Suddenly my sadness turned into shock and disbelief as she is suddenly shown married to that blue shirt man, both walking towards the screen as a married couple...Wait! What did I just see?? was my overall reaction while my mom was glued to the screen. 🥺😲
To add to all the shock, I was able to see that as the newly married couple is about to keep their feet in the house both her mother & sister in-laws was seen spilling harsh words against her which I couldn't tolerate anymore. Also through the lady's tantrums it is revealed that the now groom is the bride's lover's second brother. What more should I see now?! As her father in law silences both of them up and takes the newly wed inside the house they are seen standing in front of the photo frame of the deceased man, Maaran. It is also revealed that the bride's name is Malarvizhi. As the girl is shown alone with tears in front of the photo frame now, the promo says, 'Uravu maarum, ullam maaruma'?...Eeramana Rojaave...indru mudhal 02:30pm ku. 💔
That's all !! It was over and I was left with disbelief and shock as I said before. What I understood from the promo was that the girl malarvizhi married the brother of her very own deceased lover, maaran. How tragic is that? And also those harsh words of her mother in law, the villanious smile of her sister in law and a sad & helpless husband and father in law. I couldn't accept this promo or take it lightly either. Back then whatever little I understood about feminism and calling myself a feminist, I couldn't tolerate this promo no more. I started to curse the promo and the channel for taking such a story because I can't imagine a girl marrying her lover's brother that too soon after his death. Like its so much of trauma and pain for everybody. 🤯😤

The conversation between me and my mom goes something like this now...

Me: Maa!! Enna ma idhellam...Romba mosmana concept like oru ponnaala eppudi odane ippdi lover oda thambiya kalyanam pannika mudiyum?! 😠🤯

My mom: Heyy! En ivolo over ah react pannura, this is just a serial. Unnaku pudikalana paakadha... 😌🙂

Me: Kandippa na indha maari oru serial ah paakave maaten. I'm very happy with my hindi serials. Neenga idha paakaporeengala ? 😤😤

My mom: Aaan!! Interesting and different ah irukkum pola...Naa paaka poren. 😌😌

Me: Whatever! Naalaam indha maari serials laam paakave maaten. Neengale paathukonga...Bye...😠😤

My Mv: I just can't believe that these type of concepts can be interesting to people. Moreover I feel this will create a lot of negativity and sadness in them. People watch tv serials for entertainment and leisure but not to increase stress. Let them watch, I'm not going to watch this ever. 😤😎

So this was my initial reaction to the pilot promo of Eeramana Rojaave Season 1, I mean back then it was Just "Eeramana Rojaave" (Who knew we would get a season 2 in 2022). But as destiny had its own plan for malarvizhi, it had for me too...Still couldn't believe that the girl who once strongly opposed the concept of the story and refuted watching it would become an ardent fan for the same in no time. Life has its own plan for all of us, always. 😌🤍
Yours
DD ❤️

As the girl completes the very first diary entry, she fondly recalls her statements that she made to her mom and softly laughs at herself. Its indeed destiny that took her back to the thing that she never thought she would go to. 😤😎 Otherwise she wouldn't have been writing this for you'll today either. Life is filled with wonders. As she turns the next page she puts the title card as Chapter 2...

(To be continued...)