We need to talk about why we’re obsessed with tragic love stories.
It took me all this time to realize that every poet praises incomplete love. I am pretty sure that people always find beauty in incompleteness. Take the movie Titanic —its massive popularity exists only because of the incomplete love of Jack and Rose . If they had united in the end, it would have been just another romance movie; it would never hold the depth of the bitterest tragedy, the impact of which covered the rest of Rose's life. Consider Husnul Jamal and Badarul Muneer , the celebrated masterpiece of the poet Moyinkutty Vaidyar . Even though they unite later, people find the true beauty of the song in the painful poetry of their separation. What about Majnun ? We know it literally means 'madman.' Even though he had a name, people refused to call him Qais . That is what the world loves to see: the beauty of a love so consuming that it pushes a man to the brink of death. The world never remembered the poet ' Qais ibn al-Mulawwah ' as an ordinary man; instead ...