New Delhi:
In what may very effectively cross off because the real-life manifestation of Ramesh Sippy’s 1972 Bollywood blockbuster ‘Seeta Aur Geeta‘, a remarkably comparable story of separation and reunion has surfaced from the jap European nation of Georgia.
Amy Khvitia and Ano Sartania, an identical twins separated at beginning and unknowingly residing simply miles aside in Georgia, discovered one another via a viral TikTok video and a expertise present.
Their story, reported by the BBC, sheds mild on a a lot bigger concern plaguing Georgia – the alarming variety of infants stolen from hospitals and bought over the a long time, a scandal that is still largely unresolved.
The journey to discovery for Amy and Ano started once they had been simply 12 years previous. Amy, engrossed in her favourite TV present, ‘Georgia’s Received Expertise’, stumbled upon a woman dancing who bore an uncanny resemblance to her. Little did she know that the lady dancing was her long-lost sister.
Then again, Ano acquired a TikTok video that includes a lady with blue hair who appeared remarkably like her. The lady within the video turned out to be her twin Amy.
Aza Shoni, the twins’ beginning mom, had fallen right into a coma as a consequence of undisclosed beginning problems in 2002. Gocha Gakharia, her husband made a devastating choice – to promote Ano and Amy to separate households.
Ano was raised in Tbilisi, whereas Amy grew up in Zugdidi, each fully unaware of one another’s existence. Regardless of collaborating in the identical dance contest on the age of 11, the place onlookers seen the putting resemblance, the reality remained elusive.
Their lives continued on parallel paths till the fateful TikTok video and subsequent reunion. Nonetheless, because the twins sought solutions to their very own separation, they uncovered a stunning actuality – they had been simply two amongst hundreds of infants stolen from Georgian hospitals and bought, with circumstances reported as just lately as 2005.
In response to the BBC report, the incident passed off two years in the past on the Rustaveli Bridge in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, the place Amy and Ano met for the primary time since their separation 19 years earlier.