Sunday, December 12, 2010

complex subject--- simple treatment

My son who is  studying 8th  class raised three serious questions:


Q1:What is wiki leaks ?
Q2:Why Noble Prize was  placed on a empty  chair?


I explained him in  many ways. 
He felt confused and put up a serious face as if he was trying to understand the repressive measures by democratic and communist govt.
Not able to see his failure to understand i took up rather amusing way to solve his problem.


I)Ans for Q1:


I took him to my relatives house. There I left him for a while. Then I visited another relative X's home. There we talked about the previous relative. On our return I asked my son what he saw  and felt. He asked me "Nana(dad) , why they are complaining against each other?" I asked him to wait for a while. After  a hour my both my relatives  came to our house.They talked in great spirits. 


I thus spoke to my son: sampath( his name) now i am  US govt . I know about both my relatives but play the card of innocence. They also play the same card when both are  present. now there's a secret which i alone know. Now you also know  that. If you want you can leak it. You will be despised  by both of them. This  is what wiki leaks doing. Leaking secrets.

My son seemed satisfied with my explanation.

II) The second answer was rather delivered by a teacher  in his class.

Shyam his friend is  not in the great looks of the teacher. He was always given  punishment by that particular teacher. Yesterday he received a medal for his skill in sports. I( oh, i am sorry. i  am the correspondent of the school) sent the medal to the class and as to give it to him. At that time Shyam was given a punishment to stand outside the class. The teacher could have  called him in and should have made him happy. She simply put the medal near his bag. And proceeded with the class. My son was horrified and asked me why was it so? I simply   connected it to the noble prize episode.

III) Then my son asked me the climax question: Why you answered same questions in different manner in the morning? All these happen in and around


That's it Ravi Babu garu. Complex issues . Simple solutions.

Loved  your comic sense in Manasaara. 
Loved the music.
Loved the plot.
Your heroine will go places. That's for sure.

But Sir, Love Stories should be simply  told. You wanted to  tell 
---- how love happens all of a sudden
---- how  people forget everything  when they are in the aura of love
---- how hard to digest when the girl knows that the boy is coward and runs away
---- how a coward can overcome his cowardice to  win his love.


Alas. You brought in
---- Kalari or Kalarippayattu ( martial art of kerala) 
------ A  village ( or town) called rajapalayam in kerala
------ you declare the village is still 200 years back in civilization
------ but a bank with computers operate where the village elders don't even allow cell phones
------ a school for blind
------a national championship of kalari( this is great cinematic liberty)
----- and two love stories of mother & daughter
----- training modules aka karate kid


And i am unable to follow all these in  one movie. 
I am even unable to understand whether   a simple story  was presented in a complex way or too many  complexities made  simple


Thank  god. I  left my son at home.Other wise my life would have been simply  complex.

1 comment:

  1. Two good questions...
    And the two great and best answers..

    ReplyDelete