Love knows no boundaries. We have heard this and a part of us has seen and does believe this too. I am one of those who never believed in love and today, know quite a lot about the bitter sweet craziness of that thing called love.
But the word romance for me was always related to love between two opposite sex.
Being for so long in USA and exposed to various kinds of culture here; I have seen and lived among gays and lesbians. But I never had any specific view about them - nothing good, nothing bad; just neutral. They were just like any other person I see daily, I never paid any specific attention. But I also never related love or romance to them. Obviously they were in love and in relationship; but I could probably never understand. I never watched any gay/lesbian romantic movies; it never occurred to me. Whenever I selected romantic comedy movies for watching, those movies would never show up in the list, so it never existed for me.
I generally get into the mode of watching short stories/series once a year, and in past few years Indian entertainment has seen a major uptick in area of web-series/online media. So yeah, I was watching a bunch of online short movies, web-series on YouTube, keeping it on autoplay, letting YouTube suggest next video for me.
And that's how I ended up watching the first episode of ALT Balaji entertainment's webseries "Romil and Jugal". Trust me, I was amazed by the episode. And more surprised that an Indian media actually created this; with no gay cliche!
And at the end of the series, I sat recollecting my thoughts, and not for once did I feel that I was watching a gay love story.
Clearly, the emotion of love is so pure, that you cannot bound it by religion, looks, age, caste, language, culture; I knew about all this, but now I also know that it's bound by not even sex.
It just felt like I was watching any normal romantic series; so it's kind of a happy realization for me that love is universal :)
It truly is an emotion that can be felt but not explained.
https://youtu.be/ptq91I2LCpU
Dated - 6th January 2018
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