What Happens to That Man That You Left at the Altar?

The most banal love stories involve a girl being double minded about two men who love her equally, one of whom is too chicken to admit it to her but somehow gets the nerve to do it in front of her whole family while she is walking down the aisle in a wedding dress! In hollywood, happy endings in a chic flick are as inevitable as death and taxes in real life. I wonder if we ever got to thinking about the man who got stood up at the altar. What does he go through? Can his life be scarred by the permanent memory of a woman walking out on him on his wedding day? What could have possibly been the most special day of his life turns into that “incident” that probably gives him a commitment phobia for the rest of his life. The million dollar tiffany diamond is returned and the woman rides away with her knight in shining armor while this poor guy is left contemplating what just happened!

I would so love to see the same love story from a different point of view. Instead of making a victim out of a girl who cannot decide between two men and kills time with one before the other realizes his true feelings, it’s time that some directors give the baton of narration to the man who stood at the altar while his bride walked down the aisle in the opposite direction. As if the embarrassment in front of the whole family, the obvious loss of the loved one and a public break up in the most expensive tux owned by him hitherto was not enough, this poor man faces the ultimate humiliation when another man takes his thunder away amidst a romantic setting that he paid for!

What demands even more attention is the fact that the girl just flees the territory with no affection for the man whom she so severely wronged! A pleading look and a hasty sorry is enough to make the man understand that she has got to complete the scene before the director says cut! I cannot help but wonder how no one ever felt intrigued enough to make a movie about it, Along Came Polly came closest to it but in no way did it deal with subject in question. Are chic flicks too hard on the other guy? Is everything really fair in love and war? Watch this space for more.