Patch-up Paradise!

Star couples are increasingly in favour of getting back together, rather than going their separate ways Crazy work schedules, glamorous lifestyles and the pressure of maintaining relationships while staying under the limelight, is something that has made easy prey of film and TV stars. Many couples do not survive the test by fire that the media with its vapid speculations and the public with its insatiable curiosity put it through. The sailing gets rougher when both partners in a relationship are on the roller coaster ride of fame and success. But if Bollywood has had its share of turbulent marriages in recent days, an interesting phenomenon seems to be taking place in our television industry. Better sense has begun to prevail in an increasing number of couples. Deepshikha (Kittie Party, Karishma- The Miracles Of Destiny) and Jeet Upen (the guy who shook his torso to the famous Hawa Hawa number in Don 2), Anuradha Patel and Kanwaljeet (better known as Neena Gupta's on-screen spouse), Resham Tipnis Sheth and Sanjeev Sheth (both play husband-wife in Kaarthika) have buried their ill-will and are back together. These couples sat back and resolved their differences- for their own and children's sake, though not necessarily in that order. Says Resham, "We had major differences, which I wouldn't like to speak in public about, but we are back. That's all that matters. We decided we had no right to spoil the lives of our kids. Show me one marriage where both partners don't feel at a stage that they married the wrong person." Deepshikha, mother of a daughter and a newly born son who was conceived after she got back with Jeet, says that "marriage is not a bed of roses but a bed of sacrifices and compromises. We should all learn to adjust to each other, or we could not be termed mature. In haste and anger, I did decide to say goodbye to Jeet but when I started living alone, I realised that my daughter and even I missed Jeet tremendously. If I look back, I think we had parted ways on frivolous issues, rather, matters which cannot be labelled as issues." Just a while back, Anuradha, mother of two sons, had told us, "Today, Kanwaljeet and I are back to the good, old days. There is no estrangement between us. But I have learnt one lesson. Financial independence is a must for every Indian woman. Both men and women should work and earn. If I had a daughter, I would have encouraged her to work. During the days Kanwaljeet and I stayed separately, my mother would keep telling me that our marriage should not break up. She herself had a bad marriage and she knows." More power to this brigade!