chennai david and vijaylakshmis love story may have been taken straight out of a movie with all the masala of different religious and economic backgrounds thrown in david who has studied up to class x is an adidravidar christian from nagercoil who works as a driver in chennai his wife vijaylakshmi a software professional is a bsc and mca graduate from stella marys college in chennai and hails from an upper middle class family we first met when i was working a driver for the company where she worked initially said david for two whole years we chatted as friends when i picked her up and dropped her home each night i had developed feelings for her but did not tell her because i was only a driver while she was a software professional with a highpaying job however vijaylakshmi too harboured similar feelings one night when he dropped her home she confessed to him that she loved him a year of courtship followed i would take her in my car and she would sit in the rear seat like a passenger we never even held hands says david in 2004 the couple decided to tell their parents but vijaylakshmis family objected strongly to their marriage in june 2005 the couple eloped fleeing to mumbai by train the night we eloped i tied a thali around her neck we registered our marriage in a court in mumbai on june 8 2005 says david meanwhile davids brother was arrested as vijaylakshmis family filed a complaint with the police saying she had been adbucted my wife had to write to the teynampet police station declaring that she had come with me of her own will says david my brother was released but her father and two policemen followed us to mumbai but vijaylakshmi refused to go back the local policemen there dissuaded them from forcing her and her father left today david vijaylakshmi and their fouryearold son live in chennai after vijaylakshmi obtained a transfer from the bank where she works david now owns three cars that he hires out