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Gogol moves to his childhood house and takes care of his Ashima and Sonia. While Gogol’s mother tries her best to tolerate and accept the girlfriends he brings home, but Ashima is not satisfied until she successfully unites Gogol and Moushoumi, a Bengali woman, in a traditional Indian wedding. Even after Ashima persistently pushes the couple into meeting “as friends,” Gogol and Moushoumi willingly fall in love and after 1 year of their relationship they gets marry. Coming from the same culture makes them more ideal couple than his previous girlfriends. Gogol was finally happy to make his mother happy from his decision to marry her. Even tough he did not marry with her to make him mother happy, he felt in love with her life style, her French,
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