Forced marriage
Mumbai,
Vashishth Mansion,
This was a very beautiful mansion built in a posh area. Today this mansion was decorated in a very beautiful way, from the decoration itself it was clear that today there was someone’s wedding here. In the mansion’s garden, children were playing, elders were busy talking, many people were quickly doing household work.
Inside the mansion, a girl was in her room. A makeup artist was doing her makeup, this girl was Inaya Sharma and today it was her wedding. But on Inaya’s face there was no bridal glow, no happiness. What there was — was restlessness, her eyes were moist.
Then the makeup artist who was getting her ready said,
“Ma’am please don’t cry, I know that this moment is emotional for every girl but this will spoil your makeup. The makeup is waterproof but still try to stay happy because this moment will not come back again.”
Hearing the makeup artist’s words, Inaya said in her mind,
“What do you know why I am crying.”
Then another woman came inside the room. And she said to the makeup artist,
“How much more time will it take to get her ready? The groom is waiting in the mandap.”
Hearing this, the makeup artist said,
“Just ma’am, a little more time, then she will be ready.”
Hearing this, that woman smirked crookedly. Then Inaya looked at her through the mirror and said,
“Bua, please don’t do this, I cannot marry Nirbhay. I love Adhyay and he will surely come. Please wait for some time.”
Hearing this, Ketki angrily said,
“I don’t care whom you love or not. I didn’t raise you so that you become a burden on my head, at least let me get the worth of raising you. Nirbhay is giving me money so at least there will be some benefit of raising you this big.”
Saying this, that woman went away. Hearing her words, Inaya looked at her with hopeful eyes. Actually, Inaya’s marriage was being forced with Nirbhay, Nirbhay was giving money to her bua and forcibly marrying her, while Inaya loved Adhyay. She was in love with Adhyay for 3 years and Adhyay was not here at this time.
Then Inaya, crying, said to herself,
“Where are you Adhyay? Today someone is forcibly marrying your Inaya, you had promised that you will return back, but till now you haven’t come.”
She was still saying this when Ketki came back into the room again, this time with several girls. Ketki came and held her hand and made her stand up at once. Inaya looked into her eyes with her moist eyes, but it didn’t matter to Ketki at all. Then those girls held her lehenga and slowly started taking her outside.
On the other side, in the garden, a mandap was set and in that mandap Nirbhay was sitting. He was wearing a golden colored sherwani, on which diamond stones were worked, and silver colored shoes were on his feet. With this groom’s attire too, he was looking very handsome.
Just then his eyes fell on Inaya who was coming from the front. She was wearing a heavy golden colored bridal lehenga. That lehenga was worked on very finely and on the side of the lehenga diamond stone embroidery was done. Her hair was tied into a bun, in the middle of her forehead there was a maang tikka, in her neck there was very heavy jewelry, in her hands a heavy golden colored chooda set, in her feet heavy anklets. In this, how amazing Inaya was looking.
But the moment Nirbhay saw Inaya, he turned his eyes away from her, as if he had no interest at all in looking at her. Seeing him turn his eyes away from her like this, Inaya’s eyes once again filled with tears, she said to herself,
“The one I loved, the one I took oaths to sacrifice for, I couldn’t be his, and the one I don’t want to belong to, I am becoming his, and even he doesn’t value me.”
Saying this, she wiped her tears.
Just then, in the mandap she was made to sit beside Nirbhay.
Nirbhay’s entire family was present there. Nirbhay’s grandfather Abhiman Vashishth was sitting on the chair in front, and beside him was Nirbhay’s father Viraj Vashishth, and beside him his wife Damini Vashishth was sitting. And just behind Nirbhay his dearest sister Misty was standing. She had especially told Nirbhay that she wanted to stay around him for the entire wedding, and on this sweet wish of his sister, Nirbhay didn’t say anything. Misty was his dearest.
Just then the priest said,
“Jajmaan, take the wedding rounds with the bride.”
Hearing this, Inaya’s heartbeat increased. Just the thought of belonging to someone else made her shiver. With moist eyes she looked at the mansion’s entrance. But there was no one, seeing this she cried at her fate. Just then her eyes went to the front where Ketki was glaring at her angrily.
Nirbhay stood up but Inaya did not stand. Seeing this, Nirbhay angrily held her hand tightly and made her stand at once, suddenly standing up made her steps stumble, but just in time she managed to balance herself. Nirbhay held her hand and forcefully started taking the wedding rounds with her. He was taking the rounds but Inaya’s eyes were fixed on the front gate, maybe she was waiting for someone.
Slowly, all the rounds were completed. As the rituals were happening, Inaya’s inner courage was breaking and now she was seeing her life being ruined. Just then both of them sat down and the priest said,
“Make the bride wear the mangalsutra.”
Hearing this, Nirbhay looked at Inaya with a crooked smile. Seeing his eyes made Inaya cry even more. Just then Nirbhay picked up the mangalsutra from the tray and tied it around Inaya’s neck. The moment she felt the mangalsutra around her neck, Inaya closed her eyes and a tear rolled down from her eye.
The very next moment she felt her maang tikka being moved from her forehead and then she realized that Nirbhay had filled her maang with sindoor and now she had become Nirbhay’s forever.
Feeling the sindoor in her forehead, Inaya said in her heart while crying,
“Even if this wedding has happened forcibly but from today I have become someone else’s, forgive me Adhyay… your Inaya is not yours anymore, I will try to forget you soon and you also try that you never come in front of my eyes again, because now I will start a new life with Nirbhay. No matter how this relationship is tied, but the responsibility of carrying this relationship will be mine.”
She was just saying this when suddenly a voice full of anger echoed there,
“What is happening here?”
Hearing this voice, Inaya immediately opened her eyes and looked in front, and there stood Adhyay trembling with anger, his eyes were red as if blood had come down into them. On the other side, there was a crooked smile on Nirbhay’s face, he was sitting calmly looking at Adhyay.
Just then he stood up and put his hand around Inaya’s waist, jerked her up and pulled her close to himself, and started walking towards Adhyay. At the same time, Inaya could not understand what was happening with her, she was just going along with Nirbhay as if there was no life left in her anymore.
Then Nirbhay, going in front of Adhyay, said,
“Wow, you made an entry at such a perfect time. You must have come here to meet your beloved after 3 years, sorry sorry… she was your beloved, but from now she is Inaya Nirbhay Vashishth.”
But as if Adhyay wasn’t even listening to his words, his eyes were fixed on the sindoor filled in Inaya’s forehead and the mangalsutra with Nirbhay’s name hanging on her neck.
But till now not even once had Inaya raised her eyes to look at Adhyay, she didn’t even have the courage to look at him.
Then suddenly Adhyay pushed Nirbhay away from Inaya and holding Inaya’s hands he said,
“Inaya this is a lie right? This is a prank right? You can’t do this, right? Say that this hasn’t happened.”
Even after he said this, Inaya didn’t say anything, but then Adhyay, like a madman, held her shoulders and said,
“Please yaar say it, don’t joke with me. This joke will cost me too much. Please, please… accept it.”
From his repeated shaking, tears came into Inaya’s eyes. Then suddenly she pushed him away from herself and shouted,
“This is not a prank Adhyay, this is the truth… now I am not yours anymore… now I have become Nirbhay’s and all this is your fault. I told you so many times to marry me, to take me with you, but nothing happened. And now I am no one’s.”
Then placing her hand on her forehead she said,
“See… in my forehead sindoor of Nirbhay’s name, in my neck mangalsutra of Nirbhay’s name… this right now is the proof that I am no longer yours.”
Hearing her words Adhyay felt as if he was struck. For a few moments he just stood silently watching her, but then suddenly he came close to her and grabbing her hair from behind, he said angrily,
“Oh, I understood… you did all this to take revenge from me right? When you told me to marry you and I didn’t marry you, so you shook hands with my enemy, you wanted money… from the beginning you were with him, that’s why you didn’t marry me, right?”
Hearing his words, Inaya looked at him with shocked eyes, she couldn’t believe this was her Adhyay saying this to her, but before she could say anything suddenly Nirbhay placed his hand on her shoulder and pulled her towards himself.
Then Nirbhay, coming very close to her ear, said,
“If you say anything, you will lose your life. But not just you, your so-called lover too. You also know how big of an enemy he is to me, I won’t even think once before killing him.”
Hearing his threat, Inaya trembled. Even if she wanted, she couldn’t say anything to Adhyay. And seeing both of them so close, Adhyay’s blood started boiling.
Then Adhyay stepped forward, grabbed Nirbhay’s collar and said angrily,
“You did all this intentionally, didn’t you? You knew I loved her, that’s why you married her, right?”
At this, Nirbhay pushed him away and fixing the collar of his kurta said,
“First thing, talk to me from a distance. Second thing, I am not so low that I would marry your so-called love. Me and Inaya have been in love from the beginning and Inaya was only pretending to love you, which I made her do. I knew you will never love anyone, so I made you madly fall in love with her, and today finally I knew that you are coming to India, so I married her. Now you burn and I and my Inaya will live together. I am right, aren’t I Inaya?” Saying this he pressed Inaya’s shoulder and glared at her. Hearing this, Inaya fearfully nodded her head in yes.
Seeing this, Adhyay lost his control, he was feeling broken from inside at this moment, but till today even after breaking he had never learned to lose.
Adhyay looked at him and said,
“You played a game with me, that too using your so-called girlfriend behind my back, but I don’t play from behind the back, right in front of your eyes today I will play a game with you. You wanted to give me pain, now I will give you pain. You love your dearest sister the most in this world, right? Think what will happen when I forcibly marry her?”
Hearing this, Nirbhay said angrily,
“Stop your nonsense. I will never let this happen, you think you can marry Mishti in front of me while I am alive?”
Seeing Nirbhay so angry, Adhyay smirked crookedly and his eyes went to Nirbhay’s sister Mishti standing behind him. Mishti, who was an 18-year-old beautiful girl. And was Nirbhay’s dearest, if Nirbhay loved anyone the most in this world it was Mishti.
There, the innocent Mishti, unaware of everything, was quietly watching it all. She understood some things, some she didn’t. Actually, Nirbhay had always raised her like a doll, never let her feel a single sorrow, so she didn’t know how the outside world was.
Suddenly, a lot of guards came there, the whole garden was filled with guards. Then they pointed guns at all the people present there. Four guards were standing pointing guns at Nirbhay and Adhyay was standing in front of him, looking at him with a crooked smile.
Seeing all this, Nirbhay shouted angrily, “Where are my guards?”
Hearing this, Adhyay smirked and said, “All your men are dead, and I am the one who got them killed. So now not a single man of yours is left here. Now you can’t do anything. You tried to take revenge on me with such a big drama, that too by taking the support of a woman and from behind my back? But I will marry your own sister right in front of your eyes, and you will be the one responsible for your sister’s life being ruined.”
“You will not do any such thing.” Nirbhay shouted in anger. The guards had held him tightly from all sides.
Seeing him struggle like that, an evil smile appeared on Adhyay’s face. Then Adhyay walked towards Mishti and forcefully grabbed her hand. Seeing him hold her hand by force, Mishti shouted, “Leave my hand, I will tell brother.” Then she said to Nirbhay, “Brother, he is forcing me, please free my hand.”
“Mishti child, you don’t need to worry, he won’t be able to do anything to you, I am here.” Nirbhay said, trying to console her.
Mishti was truly very innocent, and the reason behind her innocence was Nirbhay.
On the other side, while Nirbhay was still speaking, Adhyay caught Mishti’s hand and forcefully made her sit with him in the wedding pavilion (mandap), and said to the priest, “Start chanting the mantras.”
Hearing this, the priest nervously looked behind where a guard had placed a gun to his head. Scared, the priest nodded his head and began to chant the mantras. Meanwhile, Mishti was crying continuously, trying to free her hand from him, and seeing all this, Nirbhay’s blood was boiling. Mishti was his life and today seeing this happen to her, he felt pain in his own heart.
“Look Adhyay, your fight is with me, leave my sister. She is truly very innocent.” Nirbhay shouted in anger.
Even his screaming didn’t affect Adhyay, he kept taking the wedding rounds with Mishti, but then Mishti bit his hand in anger, which loosened his grip on her, and she began to run away from him. Seeing this, Adhyay glared in anger, suddenly grabbed her by the waist, lifted her into his arms.
Seeing Adhyay forcing her like this, Mishti cried and screamed, “Please leave me, I don’t want to marry you.”
“I also don’t have any desire to marry you, but this is punishment for your brother, which now you will get. And your fault is that you are the sister of that Nirbhay Vashisht.”
Adhyay said glaring at her, and lifting her into his arms, began to take the wedding rounds forcefully. The wedding scene was very romantic, but it could not be called romantic, because Mishti was repeatedly hitting his chest and screaming, but it didn’t make any difference to Adhyay. After a while, the wedding rounds were completed, and Adhyay picked up the vermilion placed there and filled Mishti’s hair parting with it. There was no mangalsutra, seeing this Adhyay glared at the priest, then the priest took out a thread from his side and said, “This thread is also equal to a mangalsutra, you may tie it around the bride’s neck.”
Hearing this, Adhyay took the thread from him and directly tied it around Mishti’s neck. As soon as this happened, Mishti, who had been crying and screaming loudly until now, suddenly became silent.
There, Nirbhay, watching his sister’s life being ruined before his eyes because of his mistake, felt himself breaking down. At this moment, he wanted to kill Adhyay. Then Adhyay stood up from the wedding pavilion, but Mishti was still sitting lifeless. Seeing this, Adhyay bent down once and forcefully lifted Mishti into his arms.
He walked to Nirbhay and with a crooked smile said, “Mr. Nirbhay Vashisht had come to play a game with me, that is with Adhyay Suryavanshi, but he forgot that in this game I am your father. You played a game with me, and as punishment for that game I gave you your sister. Do you think I married her to love her? Then you are wrong. The punishment for your mistake will now be borne by your innocent sister.”
Saying this, Adhyay picked Mishti in his arms and started leaving. Seeing this, Nirbhay struggled desperately to free himself.
Then suddenly Adhyay stopped and without turning back said, “Now I am leaving anyway, but let my dear brother-in-law go, he seems to be struggling too much, and after all, tonight is also his wedding night, so he too has to celebrate, and I too have to celebrate with my little wife.”
Saying this, Adhyay left. Hearing his words, Nirbhay’s blood boiled, and he shouted angrily, “Adhyay Suryavanshi, I will not let you live.”
But by then Adhyay had already gone, as soon as he left, his guards freed Nirbhay, and left from there. As soon as they let go, Nirbhay fell to the ground. At this moment, he was feeling extremely angry at himself, because whatever happened with Mishti, he was the one responsible for it.