CHOCOLATE

'Chocolate' by Manju Kapur is a story of revenge, an unusual revenge. In this story, a wife satisfies her urge for revenge upon her husband who used to mock her rolls of flesh. He himself was chiefly to blame for her plump hands and flabby cheeks. The protagonist of this story was carrying on an affair with some other woman. As a cover up of his guilt and to shut her mouth, he brought to his wife Swiss chocolates. When she got a smell of his unfaithfulness, she fed him on greasy food to make him overweight, to break off his affair and to humiliate him. In this dual drama, the key role is of food. Both put on fat because of heavy food. Tara gets even with Abhay by secretly romancing with Abhay's friend. Finally, she becomes a happy mother who pains to provide self-supporting professional education to her daughter.