Age of Couples

Mother: (With anxiety) Marjan…. What happened? …. Why you are weeping in this early morning? You should be very much happy… in these days you are going to get married..

Marjan: (Weeping) why should I be happy? Because I am going to marry an old man… do you know about his age? Look at his face… he is just like my father? …his daughter is the same age of me…

Mother: (Smiling) you are crazy daughter… he has a lot of money…he is trustworthy personality… he is the owner of a house… also car….

Marjan: (Weeping) what should I do with his money and car? … I want to go to university… then after that I will marry someone, who is young… who can understand me….

(Door opening sound)

Mother: (Seriously) shut up… what are you saying… what if your father engaged you with a young boy who has not wealth? … The young generation of this time has no money and not a proper job… they are not the owner of the house… don’t talk rubbish… clean your eyes… now if your father come, he will be angry at you…

(Room door opening sound)

Fatehr: (Jesting) what is the problem? Aren’t you weeping because of too much happiness?

Marjan: (Crying)  Yes, I am happy that I am getting married with a man of 50 Years old…

Father: (With Anger) you are also not a child… you are 20 years old girl… Amanullah is not that much old… he is younger than me… he will get gold for you… he will conduct the party in a big hotel… he will take care of you… what else would you like from him?

Mother: (Seriously) your father is right… stand up… go and wash your face and hands because now the groom side will come because of the beauty parlor…. Stand up dear… (sobbing sound of Marjan)

{Music}

Amanullah: (Coughing) Najla… my daughter, where is your mother Marjan?

Najla: (With irritation) she is not my mother daddy… my mother has passed away… I don’t know where she has gone! She polished her and went outside… may be he went for walking… all the time she is going… this is not the first time…

Amanaullah: (With anger) this is the point… she polishes herself and then go out…

Najla: (With Jest) my auntie is really angry… she is saying that Marjan is not taking care of house and life…

(Door opening sound)

Marjan: (With anger) hello Haji Amanullah;… hope you are not tired… welcome…

Amanullah: (With anger) when I am away then you are going to walk! You are not shaming…. You are a new bride… better you sit home…

Marjan: (With irritation) I went to university… because to get a delay for my studies… I told you in the morning that I am going to university… the roads were blocked…. Therefore I got late…

Amanullah: (With anger) look at her eyes… you are… you are polishing your eyes and then going outside… you are going to sightseeing… I think you are showing yourself to the people…. It is not your fault… you shy to go out with me…

Marjan: (With anger) don’t blame me honorable Haji….

Amanullah: (With anger) shut up… I have not spent this much money on you so that you walk like this… I need a real wife… you dishonored me in front of my relatives… shame women… Damn father…

Marjan: (With hatred) don’t say anything to my father… I know it is all the faults of Najla…

Amanullah: Enough… brash women… (beating Marjan, Marjan is shouting) ha… ah…

(Stirring sound of the pot)

Mother: (With kindness) I hope that my daughter would be happy… when she was home; she was doing all my things…

Father: (Laughing) she is a girl… for some days she is the guest of father… then she goes behind her luck…

(Sobbing of Marjan and door opening sound)

Mother: (With worry) ohh no… Marjan… my daughter… what happened to you… why you are all with blood?

Father: (With worry) what is the problem? You may have fight with Aman?

Marjan: (Weeping) this is all your fault… I told you that he is just like my father… I told you that I may not continue with him…

Father: (With anger) you may have not accepted his words…

Mother: (With hatred) God will show him… see… what he have done to my daughter….

Marjan: (Weeping) he is blaming me on each and everything… he wants me not to go out of the home at all.. not laugh… no walk… he is not letting me to go to study… he likes that I behave like old ladies… it is all your fault… I told you that don’t marry me to an old man… you didn’t listen… you have ruined my life with your own hands (sobbing)

Message of Drama: The reasonable age between wife and husband is from 4 to 10 years, if the gap is more then it causes a lot of problems in their lives. At the time of engagement focusing towards the ages of the couple is something must.