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Fate or Coincidence?
By Nickiel Govender
How do you find a lost love? A) Money. B) Luck. C)
Brainpower. Or D) It is written. Struggling with the
answer? Fine let’s take 50/50 and use up one of your
life lines. It could either be B) Luck, or D) It is
written. Before you make your final choice lets
think about this for a moment.
Let’s go all the way back to where this
all started, the slums of Mumbai. Jamal
and his older brother Salim had lost
their mother and are left with only each
other to rely on. Later when they have
to seek refuge from the rain, Jamal
notices Latika has no place to sleep, and let’s her into the shelter, and
into their lives. Coincidence? We’ll have to wait and see. Now when Jamal
and Salim escape Maman, and leave Latika behind, Jamal is furious, and
never forgets about her. So he goes back to Mumbai after all those
years, just to find her when she is a teen, and out of all the thousands in
Mumbai he manages to get her back. Maybe it’s fate that they should be
together.
But Jamal loses Latika again, this time his trust
was betrayed by his brother. He found her and
told her that he will wait for her by the station