KOCHI: “Dear Meharu, your face turns the colour of the rising sun when you get angry... Hope you will invite me for your wedding. My address is given below... Note: I won’t be bringing any gifts,” read out actor Mammootty from a faded, torn piece of paper.This was no dialogue from a tearjerker movie, rather, it was the actor’s own words, which he had penned down in the autograph-book of Meharu Moideen, his senior in college, way back in 1972.“She must have been really beautiful then,” quipped Mammootty, as he strained to recollect the face of the senior he fancied, while speaking at ‘Maharajakeeyam-2012’, held at Maharaja’s College in Kochi on Saturday.The compere took this opportunity and announced, “If Meharu is here for the function, we request you to please come on stage.” To everyone’s surprise, Meharu stood up from amongst the audience and slowly walked to the dais. Much older, but still as vibrant, she spent the next few minutes talking to her famous ‘junior’ and sharing snippets from her life, with him.Mammootty’s old classmates also joined the gang and reintroduced themselves to him. “I would love to meet each and every one of my old classmates and spend some memorable moments with their families. But alas, I am scared of these guys,” the actor said, pointing towards the throng of fans that had formed a tight-knit circle around the stage.Nostalgia ruled the campus as many others, like Mammootty and Meharu, revisited the good old times with their peers, classmates and friends at their alma mater.For all those nameless but shining faces that refused to move out of the sprawling Maharaja’s grounds well into the evening, the reunion event added another chapter to the legacy of having been a student at an institution that is itself a part of history. The regal corridors, steepling staircases and hallowed corners of the famous college saw the alumni recapturing fragrant memories from their time spent in its iconic campus.
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