Good Bye
The railway station offers the unique setting to bid goodbye. It has a very Indian feel to it — Indian because it’s filled with action and emotions, it allows a requisite sprinkling of drama and to add to the milieu there are just about the precise amount of sound effects.
If the train is running late there’s always a bench waiting or the floor to sit and chat be warmed or the ‘last’ coffee can be at the railway ‘Light Refreshment Stall’. The blood starts to rush in through the veins...
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into the heart causing an intangible pain as the train pulls in by the platform. After placing the luggage it is customary to return to the compartment door for the ‘final’ goodbye. By now there’s considerable tension in the air and words are few and far between. The awkward wall of silence that suddenly builds up between the two is broken by the huffing and puffing of the train. It’s almost as though the train is jostling the two into speaking.
Sometimes you might see people running alongside a galloping, speed gaining train to say goodbye to someone till the end of the platform
With the whistle of the train the ‘goodbye drama’ reaches its crescendo. The train chugs at such an incredibly slow as if the train is enjoying by separating. It’s a sadistic pleasure the train enjoys while saying ‘I’m giving you one more chance....forgot to say something?’ The last act before the lights blur is the ‘waving goodbye’. One gets to wave till the other reduces to a dot and merges with the horizon.
Perhaps it is for this that Indian cinema has countless number of farewell scenes at railway stations
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