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Articles: Literature | Chalam’s Maidanam
- Dr. Rajeshwar Mittapalli
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Ameer is passionate and absolutely without hypocrisy but often enough he allows himself the luxury of jealousy. He plays many roles -- friend, brother, father, teacher, husband, lover -- to her. She reciprocates by playing an equal number of roles to please him in turn. Basically their relationship is characterised by friendship which does not differentiate between men and women. It is not sex alone that matters to them. Sex forms just a part of life and nothing more than that.
Rajeswari cannot totally put behind her the habits of her past, especially her aversion to flesh food. On days when Ameer catches fish, she obliges him to cook separately. However, her transformation in other respects is complete. She finds her ‘nirvana’ lying by his side, her hair playing gently on his face, and her heart bereft of desires and the longing for comforts. Ameer enjoys every inch of her body and its beauty for its own sake and often behaves instinctually, laughing and crying by turns.
The first intrusion into their idyllic world comes in the form of Rajeswari’s maternal uncle. He accuses her of being indifferent to the feelings of her mother and the ill-reputation their family would have to suffer as a result of her thoughtless act, of living like a beast in the forest with a Muslim man, and finally curses her that she would be deserted by Ameer very soon. She counters him by spiritedly defending herself and even levels counter accusations. She declares to him that she has come back to ‘life’ from ‘death’ only after moving in with Ameer to the plain. She questions him whether he and others like him are doing everything only after considering the pain their acts might be causing to others.
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