“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other” — Audrey Hepburn
Radhe, the heir to a family whose lineage and pride is closely tied to music. Radhe’s musical heritage provides discipline and a sense of purpose. But it also places expectations on him before he has fully discovered what he wants for himself. One fine evening, he gets to meet Tamanna, a pop-music artist who is willing to experiment with music and create her own authority in the arena of music. His routine gets drawn to her creative freedom and his family inheritance clashes with her freedom. Couple goals is the alchemy that this union brings.
Do similar attract or opposites has been an eternal question. While birds of same feather might flock together, the search for the yin to my yang is another journey in itself. Radhe is lit by the idea of change and Tamanna is drawn to his depth and originality. Both come with their own family baggage- One with a desire to prove her own worth and the other with a desire to uphold his family’s honour. Their priorities differ, so do their professional timelines. Somewhere in between, love falls short in filling the void and the wounds that each carries. Chemistry fails to build long-lasting compatibility. Can we be on different timelines, different paths and still wait for the paths to converge while holding the love is a question that remains.
Musafir Cafe follows the trail of three individuals Chander Mohan Sharma, Sudha and Preeti through mountains and valleys. Sudha takes it on herself to fulfil her own dreams and give her mother the happiness that she lost in joint family dynamics and after the death of her husband. Marriage is the last thing on cards for her. Yet life has its ways and love finds her when Chander Mohan Sharma knocks her door. On the surface the difference seems as simple as a tea lover falling in love with a man who loves to brew his own coffee even at cafes. The reality is deeper. An ambitious woman falls in love with a man who has simpler dreams of family, a hillside cafe and deep authentic connections. He tries to live up to her, empathize with her without realizing that he is repeating the same mistake of abandoning his authenticity in the name of love. While Sudha leaves the connection when she realizes what he is compromising, she has her own lessons to follow. The ending to their differences here isn’t as sweet as Bandish Bandits and yet offers lessons to learn. Is meeting the right person at the wrong time just a cliché thing to say or the reality is different? There is no such thing as a wrong time for we always arrive where we are meant to arrive. There is no such as a right person for what might be right to you might be completely wrong to someone else. What entered your life as a wound might be someone else’s biggest blessing. In the journey of life, we don’t really meet to complete us or make us happy. We meet souls who are life lessons in disguise- lessons which are supposed to make us conscious and lead us back to our soul. We cross paths with people depending on what we are supposed to experience and learn as a soul at that moment. Every person is right provided we see them as teachers. Every moment is right provided we see it as ‘present’- a gift to experience.
As much our egos want us to, we must not hate the messengers. At times, these very messengers are the ones we have entered into soul contracts with to elevate our own consciousness. Therefore it becomes quite important to see things from a spiritual lens rather than an ego trip. Love does not always arrives as sweet lifelong journeys. At times love will come as a wound to lead you to your dharma, at times it will come as a lesson your soul so desperately needed and at yet another time, it will come to transform you. Neither of it is good or bad, it just is. If you hold a preconceived notion of what love is, you might end up feeling resentful. On the other hand, if you are open to the ebb and flow of life, you will sail through.
Joining the musafir enroute, Preeti drops the biggest wisdom nugget in the series- “We can’t unlove someone we have loved deeply”. This girl is but walking wisdom. She has the capacity to hold space, to allow for the wounds to heal in due time and a sense of empathy that is a reserve of the few. What must not be forgotten is that such nuggets of wisdom at times get misinterpreted by people to tolerate abuse and not getting their due share of love in the name of empathy. This series is a welcome sigh of relief at times when we are so rushed. Mountains and a cozy cafe sounds like a dream we all nurture, right?
At times when we get lost in mad hustle of life, such series don’t come up merely as entertainment. At times they change our own perspectives of what we crave from life, at times they come as a permission slip to slow down and at yet another times, they come as a sharp pang in our hearts – Never to hurt us, but to remind us to live again, live beautiful and love deeper yet again.
For a traveller never ever gets lost for he knows that all roads lead to home.
Love and light
Yasmin
