My namesake ruined my name!!

'So what is her name?', I asked him again. 'Oh, whats in a name, it's just a name afterall, you technically have no control over it, do you?', he replied. Ok, this was weird, Abu was my friend for about 8 years, we had very few secrets from each other and I was pretty sure that I was the first person after him and his newly found girl fried, with whom he was sharing the secret of her existence.

'Abu, I understand all that, what I don't understand is why you would not tell me her name?, is there a trouble?'

'Leave it Vids, she has a name and its just a name', Abu was desperate to get away from me now.

'Damn it Abu, tell me or go away', my final warning!

'Shakeela', Abu whispered. I could not hear him, Abu hadn't whispered this softly even on our exams and a failed encounter at copying!

It was Abu's turn to be angry now, 'Damn it, damn it, damn it Vids, her name is Shakeela Azeez, you happy now? huh'.

There it goes, I could hardly stifle a smile! Shakeela was a lovely Arabic name, it meant 'pretty', I knew many females who proudly carried that name. That was until she appeared on the screen. She as in, 'The Shakeela'. Shakeela was a softporn star of the South Indian movie industry. At one point of time, when even the super stars of the industry failed to produce an output at the theaters, Shakeela's movies ran house full! There wasn't a person in Kerala who didn't know her. And that made it all the more difficult for the numerous other Shakeelas around. They started to shy away from occasions that would render their saying their names. Some started using their pet names, and a few others even changed their names!

I looked at Abu. There he was, having found his true love, but with a horny name! I went near him, put my hands around him and consoled him, 'Abu, dear, whats there in a name?, afterall its just a name', I went on as I prayed to God to never produce a porn star who has my name!!!