Will Indrani face the Pori she was?
Pori Bora of Guwahati is now a murder accused, Indrani Mukerjea. A life transformed beyond recognition. A life that stirs nightmares. How far can you actually go in the quest for a vivid life? Will the quest overpower you? Strangulate your wisdom into making you a murderer?
Pori, she was fondly called in Guwahati. Pori wanted a fairy tale life and was convinced Guwahati could never give it her. She ran way from home when she was in Class 10 but unfortunately for her, she was caught at the Guwahati Railway Station. She wanted to break free. Mundane was not her thing. Something was amiss! There had to be a prince who would sweep her off her feet!
Her initial years were tumultuous. Senior journalist Vir Sanghvi told TV Today that she had confided to him in later years that she was molested as a child by her stepfather. She had her children early - 16 or 20 - at what age did she give birth to Sheena? In her affidavit, Indrani declares her year of birth as 1969 and Sheena's birth certificate says she was born in 1989, so Indrani had her first child roughly at the age of 20 when most youngsters are heading towards their careers.
This was a turning point. Pori was slowly giving way to Indrani Mukerjea. Her first child in a way became her first contamination with life values. No, I don't intend to be judgemental. From here she realised she could lie to the world and severe all responsibilities she had towards those she gave birth to. She named the grandparents as the father and mother in their birth certificates, left the children with them and moved on. Two failed marriages happened on the way.
Her quest ended and also began in a way with Peter Mukerjea, the media tycoon. A 15-year gap with the Prince didn't matter to Indrani. Money, fame and power paved the way for a glamorous life she always dreamed of. She had built this life on numerous lies. The most dangerous one was making Sheena her sister. This Indrani scares you. This Indrani stirs hatred in a way for the life she thrust on her daughter. Sheena was forced to live in her mother Indrani’s fake world on a fake existence. She was forced to pretend that her mother was her sister.
Twenty-two years of Sheena's existence were the most heartbreaking ones that you and I can imagine for any child. Sheena rebelled. Entered a live-in relationship with her step brother, Rahul Mukerjea. And from here began the mother daughter bitterness. Whether it was the marriage plans of step siblings that led to honour killing or money dispute as many theories claim, the fake world built on a pack of lies threatened to destroy Indrani's world and she became a murder accused!
Bill Gates said once "Success is a lousy teacher, it seduces people into thinking they can't lose."
Success has misled many. Complicated Page 3 lives flirting with glamour, crime and money power have led to bizarre results. Many aspire for such lives but up close, very often, they are the rich and famous, yet...ugly as hell are their lives. Murky and dingy. Devoid of sunlight! Ventilation is scanty. Outlets clogged. Incoming zone inaccessible. Current mood (read mood swing) is the ultimate deciding authority on what is to be done next. Money and fame push them to live in a world of ultimate make belief which soon becomes fake by all human standards. Where children become a forgettable deed of the past, not welcome into the real world. Their rise in money and power is meteoric but equally steep is their fall in valuing human relationships! Relationships!
Husband's son and wife’s daughter, step son and daughter out of wedlock! Stepson and sister/daughter! The simplified version doing rounds on social media is - the second wife of her third husband is charged alongwith her second husband for killing her daughter from her first husband who was having an affair with her third husband's son from his first wife...Relationships that sound like they emerge from some other planet.
Indrani, once HR manager, once founder CEO of INX Media, once featured in Wall Street Journal’s list of "50 women to watch out for" is now accused of murder. The murder of her own daughter in cold blood. Motive will always be subject to various theories that emerge but the circumstances remain the ultimate and constant motive. The buzzing world of power and money, the fake world of the glitterati that leaves no scope for small things that bring real happiness. The ugly inside life of the powerful is the circumstantial motive.
Will Indrani face the Pori she once was? This crime will never die.
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past," said Oscar Wilde, quite rightly!