Lohera

Watching 18 short love stories in 2 hours was mind blowing awesome!!!!

Hahahahhahahahaha!

I can't remember the exact order of the stories. But I made a list of what I remembered out of each one of them, hahahahahaha!!!! This is going to be a very very very long post, and definite spoiler for those who want to catch this show! Read only if you have the time.

1.Fallen woman + guy with car
This first story was a little bit weird.....it starts of with this guy trying to get a parking space when he finally does he had to squash his car into a tiny space. And then he sits there, watching ladies walking by (one with a baby, one pregnant), and he wonders why all of them are taken. And he's sort of talking to himself saying he's not bad bla bla bla. To add to his misery another couple walks by and he watches them even with his side view mirror when they have passed him by. Then this woman walks by, but when he looks in the side view mirror, she did not appear. He gets down from the car and find that she has fainted. Other passerbys are concern as well and one of them a doctor wrongly assumed that this lady is his wife. And then, she end up lying in his car backseat. When she wakes up, she compliments him for not panicking. And she grabs his hand and just hold on to it, and then she tells him she's late to her tobacconist and he offers to drive her there. -The end- And it hang there......I find it ironic that he just got the parking space and now he's willing to drive away just for the girl.

2.Muslim girl + French guy
It starts of with 3 guys sitting by the sidewalk and 2 of them cat calls at any attractive girls that's passing by. Then the 3rd guy notice a girl sitting near them with her hair covered shaking her head at how they talk about girls (duh!). And then she walks away, and trips a little distance away from them and he runs to help her up while the other 2 guys are still being jerks. So later they sit down, and her hand is scratch and her scarf has come down, and the guy helps her to wrap her head again and it was sweet and funny at the same time. And then they talk, and he ask her why she covers her hair. And she says she chose to, because she believe that beauty is within. And it's like what she tells him leave an impact on him. So when she leaves to the mosque, after a while he followed and waited for her outside. Haha! He got terrified when he sees her come out of the mosque with an older man, but he still very bravely stand there and greet her. And the older man (he's her grandfather) stares at him quite sternly while introductions were made, before inviting him to walk along with them. Kakakakaka!!

3.French guy + American guy
This guy is working in a printer shop. In comes a French guy and an American lady. And the French guy is like an interpreter for the American lady. So they are both talking to the boss, and then the French guy start to take of his jacket and you already know.......got meaning to it. Hahahahahaha!!!!So when the lady and the boss went to the back of the shop to choose some red paint, he approaches this other guy. And then he starts telling him he feels a connection to him, like they were soul mates.....and so on. But the other guy doesn't react and only ask for lighter to smoke up his cigarette. Then the French guy wrote down his phone number for him, just as the lady and the boss comes back. So they left. Once they left, the guy spoke to the boss in English saying he had no idea what the French guy was talking to him about, a lot of the stuff he said was not in his phrase book! Sooooo funny! Especially because the French guy was interpreting English to French for the lady! The boss then encourage him to call the French guy to find out what's up. And they cut to outside the shop and we see the guy, running after the French guy.

4.Very unfortunate tourist at a subway station
The title of this story was Tuileries. It's a name of a place in Paris, but when I saw the title I thought the story was going to be involving toilet. Haha! We really kesian this tourist, waiting for the train in a subway station and then he's reading this tourist guide that describes Paris. There's a couple on the other side of the rails and they are very uh.. passionate there. He unfortunately make eye contact with the girl on the opposite side of the rails and then the boyfriend was furious and kept screaming at him from the other side. Then the couple got into a fight, and a train comes, block this tourist's view. When the train passes, he sees that only the boyfriend is still standing there. To his horror, the girl has come over this side and was sitting next to him! Hahahahahaha! And then to infuriate the boyfriend further, the girl KISSED this innocent tourist and perli her boyfriend. So of course the boyfriend came over and beat him up! He even threw out all of the tourist's souvenirs all over him! Because he didn't know French, the tourist couldn't say a word throughout the whole thing!!! And after that the girl asked the boyfriend if he was done being mad, and he said yes, so they walk away a happy (crazy!) couple again. Poor tourist!!

5.Babysitter (Own baby vs baby she sat for)
Alarm clock rings, and the sky is still up. This girl she gets up, and she carries her baby to a daycare place. She's like a Mexican/Spanish, living in a poor area. Even the day care place looked like an orphanage. At first I thought she was dumping the baby. Then as she walks away from the baby, he cries. Then she goes back to him and sings him a lullaby to sleep. Then we see that she has to sit the train or the bus for quite a long while before she finally reaches her destination. And it's middle of the morning already. She goes into this beautiful expensive looking home, and puts her things down in the closet in the kitchen and we don't see her employer but she tells her that she will be late coming home in the evening. After her employer leaves, a baby cries. She then goes into the beautiful nursery room, and sings the baby the same lullaby. We see in stark contrast, when she sang for her own child, she sang with love and plays with the baby a little teasing with her hand. But with this other baby, she just sings in a monotonous voice while looking out of the window, just waiting for the baby to go back to sleep and doesn't even near her hand to the baby. A very sweet yet sad story.

6.Man about to divorce wife with leukemia
This man is waiting in a restaurant. And there's a storyteller telling the story. He's waiting for his wife, and he plans to tell her that he wants a divorce. Then the wife comes, and she's in a red trenchcoat, and the storyteller tells us that a few things he hates and can't stand about his wife.....how she won't order appetizer or dessert but will eat most of his, yet he always order the appetizer and dessert that she likes. And then before he can tell her about divorce, she starts to cry and he wonders if she already know about his relationship with an air stewardess for 18 months. And then she hands him a sheet of paper, and all thoughts of divorce flies out of his head as he reads it and she has leukemia. And he comforts her there and then. Then he orders 3 sets of her favorite dessert to take away. He sms the air stewardess asking her to forget about him and she faints when she reads it. Haha! And after that he is just taking care of her. Spending time with her. And as he force himself to care for her, he ends up falling in love with her again. So when she died in his arms, he was actually sad and from then on whenever he sees a lady in a red trenchcoat, he will feel something.

7.Mime meet mime in prison
I think this is my personal favourite. The story starts with this nerd looking little boy carrying a huge schoolbag, and someone ask him how did your parents meet. And he says they met in prison..... Then we see the story. A mime wakes up in the morning, and he feed an imaginary cat, drive an imaginary car around looking for love. Then he's at this park and he annoys couples by mimicking them and end up in prison. Hahahahaha! Then in prison a guy is screaming wanting to get out because......... there's 2 mimes in the prison!!!!! And we see that the other mime is female. And when the mimes notice each other they fell in love. Then we come back to the little boy and that's the end of the love story. And 2 other kids running by, push him down. When he gets up he looks at his parents and they mime to him to smile with a wipe of their hand over their face. It's hard to explainnnnnn!!! Mimes need to be seen, but it was just brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!

8.Car park jaga + young paramedic
I can't remember much about this one. A man is lying on the ground and a paramedic arrive to help him. The paramedic tries to reassure him. At some part the man starts to sing. And in a flashback we see that the man is a car park jaga who fell in love with her from the time he first saw her in the underground car park in her car. He wanted to invite her for coffee but never got the chance. So while the paramedic was helping him, he mumbled about the coffee and she got someone to bring them the coffee. Because he was so obsessed with her, he got thrown out of the car park and had to live on the streets, earning money by singing and playing a guitar. One day, he mistaken a lady for her, and a bunch of guys came and took his guitar. Trying to get his guitar back, they twisted his wrist and stab him. That was how he ended up on the ground. So when the paramedic realize where she seen him before, he's already on the ambulance and the coffee came too late, her hands shook holding them. I'm not sure who was remembering the scenes, maybe the man but he was delirious from the stab so he wasn't exactly telling a story. And the paramedic's hands might be shaking because it was her first time encountering a stab victim. This story wasn't clear to me although it was good they include an African American couple in the whole show.

9.Hair product man + Chinese hairdresser
A man travels by train to a Chinese neighborhood, looking for a specific hairdresser. This story is really cheesy. He arrives at the shop and when he knocks, the hairdresser punches the window instead and grabs him inside kick-boxing style. He then tries to explain where he's from, promoting hair products for Asian hair. She then locks him up in the basement with a monk to look after him. His handphone is taken away from him, like a hostage. Haha! Funny enough, there's a small bowling alley there also. When he's finally called back to the shop, the hairdresser has gone thru his portfolio, and then he proceeds to make hair makeover for some of her customers and they are all very cheesy happy. It's a very lame story, not making much sense.

10.Drug trafficker + junkie
A man goes up to a house and there's a party going on. So he tells someone he's looking for a girl.
The girl shows up and tells him she doesn't have the money, so they head to the nearest atm machine. While at the atm machine, the man......moves his hand over her back and neck like caressing her but he's not touching her at all. When she gets the money, he tells her to split into smaller change by getting a drink in a nearby bar. They have small talk where the girl tells him she's acting tonight and the guy ask her if he could go and watch. So she agreed to that. Once they have the change, she gives him the money and gets some.........drug in rock form instead. So now we know their real relationship. The girl then goes back to the party and lights the rock and get high. After that she goes on location and dresses up for her part. While she is waiting in her trailer she calls him and he ask if he could go watch and she says yes, to visit her and bring more stash for her. She is surprised when it turns out not to be him who brings her the stash but another guy instead. But she isn't really caring because all she wanted was her stash.

11.Father + daughter + baby
This was darn good!!!!! It starts of with a girl getting of a bus and a man greets her from the other side of the road. They start walking together and the girl is scolding the man for not trying to speak in French his one time in Paris. They talk along the way and the girl worries if Gasprav finds out. At this point we think she's talking about her husband and she is out having an affair with that man. The man tries to reassure her and at a point stops to hug her. He takes out a cigarette and the girl scolds him for smoking so he throws away his cigarette. Towards the end of their walk, he advise her to look at Gasprav like a balloon, not a ball and chain. She then ask him if she was a ball and chain to him. He tells her she never was. He called her 'Mon petite' which was sooooooo sweet meaning 'My little one' (something like that) and then she tells him that she loves him, and call him.............Papa!!!!! Hahahaha!! So the truth unfolds and when they reach their destination, a girl with a pram is waiting for them. The man goes up to the baby and starts to disturb it. The girl gently scolds him not to wake up Gasprav! Hehehehe! So the girls walk off and leave the baby with the grandfather. As they walk away, he takes out a cigarette and starts to smoke. He forgets what the girl said and disturb the baby again. He wakes up and he swears to himself! Hahahahhahahaha!

12.Vampire + Lost tourist (Elijah Wood)

This was the scariest story of all. Thank God I was sitting next to a couple. Else..........EEEEK. No one talks in this story. It's all sorta gothic black and white. We see Elijah Wood as a tourist and he goes up this stairs. And its' really dark and eerie. And then he steps on blood. And the blood is really constrasting with the black and white.....like in Sin City. Then he creeps further down following the trail of blood. He stops in horror when he sees a vampire gorging blood out from an old man. He tries to hide behind a motorbike but the vampire already smell him! Then instead of biting into him, she smell him. And they stare at each other for quite a while......and that was really really really scaryyyyyyyyyy because Elijah Wood got big black/brown round eyes...but this vampire..........her pupils are all white with just one dot of black in the middle!!!!!!! I tried to find a picture of the vampire but I can't find any on the Internet. Anyway, after they stare at each other, the vampire floats away. Then, this Elijah Wood he watch a while......after that he breaks a glass bottle lying around and stabs his own wrist! Offering his blood to the vampire, she looks back but floats away again. Unfortunately the blood from his wrist is like really flowing, so he stumbles from the lack of blood and fell down the stairs and knocks his head.

Then we think he die for no reason. But the vampire came back, bite her own wrist and made him drink her blood. When a human drinks vampire blood, he'll become a vampire too. At least that is what this version of vampire story is saying. I've read other stories where the vampire sucks in a certain way or slower in order to turn others into vampires. Anyway........after he drank her blood, he's not dead anymore. And he licks his teeth realizing he has grown fangs. So they both float up, and hug each other. He suddenly bites into her neck, and she is surprised but bites into his neck too. So they kinda suck each others blood ravenously - The end- That was really really really gory with all the blood and darn scary watching so late at night! I thought if the whole show had ended with that story, I would be running to my car, not walking!!!!! And I was thinking 'Please don't anyone call me or touch me from behind right now or I'm going to scream.........' while the vampire was on the screen! The amount of blood is almost as bad as Sweeney Todd but it's the dramatic biting into people's neck that's darn scary too!!!

13.Mother + dead son
A bittersweet story. A mother is sitting on her son's bed and she mimics in the son's way telling his mother that she was wrong, cowboys exist in books. She does this for a few times, and her daughter joins her, comforting her. Her husband comes and orders the daughter to go to the kitchen. He quietly tells her it's been a week and she shouldn't be grieving like that anymore. She continues to look into space but spoke with grief and sorrow that she can't stop it because God put her in this pain. The scene cuts to one where she's sleeping with her daughter and she wakes up, hallucinating that she hears the son's voice telling her that he's going out to play. And she follows the hallucinated voice to an empty square. And she kneels there. Soon a cowboy comes and rides his horse around her and then ask her if she wants to see her son. And she nods, and suddenly she is surrounded by kids playing and her son comes up to her and hugs her. And she kisses him and hug him as tightly as she can. And then she hears her daughter's voice calling for her, followed by her husband's voice. And the son tells her that they are calling for her and he needs to go with the cowboy. The mother refuse to let him go for awhile and when she finally did, she watches as the boy walks and fades away with the cowboy. And then she is alone again, her husband has found her. She gets up and gives him a really strong hug for he asked her where she suddenly got the strength from (at least that is what the subtitle is saying!), and she tells him its from God.

14.Soon-to-be weds
I liked this one. Especially when the ghost of Oscar Wilde shows up. Kakakakakaka!!! He's one of my favorite writer. This couple is in Paris for their honeymoon 1-month before they even get married. Why? Because the husband has a busy schedule for the next six-month. So the husband is complaining why they have to be visiting a famous graveyard when they were suppose to be having lunch in a five-star restaurant at that point. The wife just ignores him while finding the grave she wants. She tells him that their marriage will be fine as long as he made her laugh once in a while. The husband whines that he is never funny and so on. LoL! Finally she found Oscar Wilde's grave and there's flowers and candles that fans left there. The husband is so serious in everything couldn't understand why people would admire a grave. She tells him about the works of Oscar Wilde, bringing humor in people's live. She impulsively kissed the grave and the husband asked her in jest what the lips must have touched and she suddenly realize that she can't live with a man with no sense of humor. Hahahahaha!! I find the whole thing very funny actually. Because he is so serious and she's light-hearted. So she walks away from him and he tries to go after her but instead he slips and knocks his head against Oscar Wilde's grave! LoL! When he comes to, he sees a man sitting there!!! The man tells him that if he didn't go after her, he will regret his whole life. So he chase after her, and force her to stop by kissing her passionately. When she finally relaxes, the first things that came out of his mouth was 2 of her favorite lines from Oscar Wilde!!! LoL! He is in shock while the wife thought he was being romantic! He looks behind her and sees the man waving at him before fading away!!! Hahaha, visited by the ghost of Oscar Wilde. So they made up, and walk away happily.

15.Leading lady + man in bar
I didn't quite understand this story. I'm not sure whether they are husband and wife or just a couple that's in acting/drama. But they are quite elder. The man visits a brothel (they showed like a whole street with all that kind of shops and people!!! Eeek!!!), and he orders a bourbon from the bar. His wife/leading lady is there, but at this point they just barely acknowledge each other. She ask the bartender to play her favorite song. Once he finishes the bourbon, he goes into a room to get a..............'nightcap' (aiyah all the innocent readers out there don't have to know), and a girl comes in and expose her body. Thank God they flip the camera to behind her instead. And then they are talking and suddenly the wife/leading lady comes in and tells him she can give him more, and they start to argue while the girl looks on. He's saying stuff like he needs more because she isn't the way they used to be anymore and she slaps him. After that they both walked out, still arguing, and then the lady reach home first and dropped her keys. As she pick her keys up, her favorite song is being played in the background and there's a trio or quartet serenading her. She turns in surprise at her husband/leading man and they start to argue a bit but in a more loving manner and she slaps him and kissed him but instead of getting annoyed he's surprised instead. Then they both walked into their place hand in hand. At the fence of the place they walk in is a picture of them with French words on it, like they are actors or something.

Okay, the story doesn't make sense so ignore it. Hahahaha!

16.Blind man + budding actress (Natalie Portman)
A blind man is typing on the computer with his headphones on when the phone rings. He picks it up and hears a girl's voice telling him their season has finish. He hangs up the phone. And flashback to how they met. He was walking down a street when he hears a voice screaming for help, to get out of a room. Because he's blind he didn't know the girl was practicing her script for audition to a part in a show. So he walks towards the voice, and ask how he can help. The girl not realizing that he is blind, retort to him saying can't he see that she's practicing her script before she realize he's really blind. Haha! Then a tower clock suddenly rang 10 o'clock and she swears that she was late to where the audition. The blind man tells her he knows a shortcut to the audition place. And here was where it was very very very corny. Why? Because the blind man lead the girl running wit his stick in the air. Hahahahaha!! So from then on was how they started their relationship, and we are shown how they progressed with each other through a series of them in still-form while the world goes on around them and other stuff I don't quite know how to explain. His remembering comes to a stop when the phone rings again. The girl is on the phone asking him how was it and why he hang up. Actually she was practicing her lines for another part for a show. The blind man is too shock to answer for awhile.
Really cool show. The emotions he had to go through, and imagine the relief after that.

17.Middle age lady visiting Paris alone
This is actually the last story but they flipped back to the old couple story before her after they end so I'll list this as 2nd last story in order to wrap it all up nicely. She's telling the story in her French class, a class she took for 2 years before she visits Paris for the first time. She enjoys walking around Paris because she is a mail woman. And she loves being able to test out her French, although it's poorly and people try to reply her in English instead, and in the midst of all that....the idea of Paris known as a place of love is in her. And she's a little wishful that she has someone to share the experience there with her. She wonders what it would be like to have been born there and bringing mails to the people there instead. One day she found a nice park, and she looked all around her and felt like a stranger in a foreign land. And there's alot of emotions there, most of all she felt alive and she loved Paris and hoped Paris love her too. It kinda clicked in me when she describe her emotions sitting alone on a bench in a foreign land. Because I've sat in a bench in Geelong and felt something that way too. I think all lone tourists do. Haha!

18.Old couple meeting on the night before they sign their divorce papers
An old man greets an old lady coming out of a taxi. They both goes into a restaurant. And starts to talk and you realize that they are a couple about to sign their divorce papers tomorrow. They talk with small jabs of sarcasm, because both of them have found new partners. The old man's going to remarry once the divorce is settle and his new wife is already 3-months pregnant! The lady is shocked and ask if she realize that they have 2 grandchildren. He tells her that his new wife can't wait for them all to be playing together. Haha! They then go on to jest about adopting each other's new partners. Him to hers and hers to his and make one big confusing but happy family. After awhile the conversation died and they said their goodbyes. The lady gets into a taxi and goes back to her apartment.

This is where the last story (middle aged lady story) came in before it continues on to wrap things up really nicely. As the elder lady looks down from her balcony thinking about her marriage, she catches the eyes of the mother with the dead son in a restaurant below about to have a toast with her husband. And they smiled at each other. Elsewhere the old man meets up with the leading man at another pub. Then they showed fragments of what-happened-after for the other stories. The different couples that have happy ending together. The lone ones happy in their own way.

-THE END-

That took me one whole day to write!!!!! Hahahahaha!

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