"Fifty Sixty years ago, convincing parents to educate their kids was a challenge.They didn't know what education was. Even now it is difficult to convince them, they still don't know what it is! But they put in all their money into it. What will a parent not do for his kid's future? This is why the coaching mills are surviving". dialogue by a characer-Dr Anjaneya Prasad.
Princes were educated by Vishnu Sharma, through Panchatantra.He tells them stories and talks about the economy at that time. Can we get someone like that, for this age? But how can we explain this complicated economy and that "career is something beyond a pay-cheque"? We explore these questions. Kids who can't do high school algebra, are made to clear the JEE. JEE is just a goal shaping a great journey.
It's a story of love, love between trust and confidence and love between idealism and benevolence. Its a war between leadership and dictatorship and its a war between positivism and negative attitude. A dictator is born out of negative thoughts and leadership emerges from positive thoughts.
Confidence: Kicku is the male protagonist, with infectious enthusiasm and passion. His attitude and ability can only be compared to that of Lord Hanuman who brought the whole mountain, as he didnt know where Sanjeevani was. He believes that success is more of a journey than a destination. He realized that his real kick is in finding his kick, which is never stable. He loves his heart and so he does what he loves and also learns to love what he does.
Trust: The female protagonist is a medico. She had a self-centered life until a compulsory medical camp had completely transformed her. She tries to understand equality and tries to get insights into economic equality. She resorts to Adam Smith for answers. Apart from this, she is known for her "namakkam theory".She tells people why trust is important and I think this dialogue sums that up.
"When miracles happen, we won't know. If we could, we wouldn't call that a miracle. We must have faith in architects of those miracles. Trust them and be a creator".
Benevolence: Devaki is a techie and has taken a year off to understand her goals. She is into social service. A person pure at heart can't be touched by anybody. She believes people waste money, on what they don't need. This could be used to feed the needy and that's what she does, it does make a funny watch. The way she gets people to donate money/food, is entertaining part of this character. Inspired by a character in Sekhar Kammula's Dollardreams.
Perfectionism: Shamil wants everything in life to work ideally. He is inspired by Sekhar Kammula's Leader and a big fan of Rana Daggubati. He is a good teacher and is interested in exploring teaching techniques. Its not possible for everything to be ideal, but this never ending never attainable quest leads to human excellence, if led by a guru's wisdom.
Dr Vishnu Sharma: PhD from Stanford and permanent faculty at IAS Princeton. He has left all of that, in search of spirituality. He takes immense interest in philosophy too. He goes around giving talks, to share this excitement of rediscovering himself. He guides Shamil through this questions of ethics and whats right and whats not.
Dr Anjaneya Prasad: Double PhD in Theoretical Physics and Telugu. He had quit a research career to take up journalism. He had fought against corruption and politics. A symbol of courage, wisdom and his careers makes you feel that money is just a piece of paper. He is the human form of "Simhatatvam" he has everything in him, including the timing. However he is no longer following politics and has been concentrating on a bigger evil, the education business. He is Suryabhai's guru.
Suryabhai: A dictator who feels that its a power which can bring prosperity to this world. He feels freedom comes at the cost of public welfare. He is into coaching business and believes in "student export, money import". He believes in change through revolutions alone and is not patient enough to even consider evolution. Every revolutionary had one man cautioning him and here we have Dr Prasad guiding him. He is pro-capitalism and strongly against socialist thoughts. He says if a Leader could really emerge in a democracy, we wouldn't even need that leader.
Media Murthy: An alumni of IIT and IIM and a marketing genius. He consults for business and mostly coaching centers. He is famous for the rare ads he designs,he is mostly into campaign designing.
Neti Panchatantra is journey involving these guys, united by a common goal-the struggle for existence.
PS:
Trust makes nations developed and it is not that there is confidence in developed countries. Irrespective of who came first, a hen comes out of an egg.
Benevolence and Idealism are "never ending never attainable" quests, but it is this search of our soul within, which leads to human excellence.
Princes were educated by Vishnu Sharma, through Panchatantra.He tells them stories and talks about the economy at that time. Can we get someone like that, for this age? But how can we explain this complicated economy and that "career is something beyond a pay-cheque"? We explore these questions. Kids who can't do high school algebra, are made to clear the JEE. JEE is just a goal shaping a great journey.
It's a story of love, love between trust and confidence and love between idealism and benevolence. Its a war between leadership and dictatorship and its a war between positivism and negative attitude. A dictator is born out of negative thoughts and leadership emerges from positive thoughts.
The Characters
Confidence: Kicku is the male protagonist, with infectious enthusiasm and passion. His attitude and ability can only be compared to that of Lord Hanuman who brought the whole mountain, as he didnt know where Sanjeevani was. He believes that success is more of a journey than a destination. He realized that his real kick is in finding his kick, which is never stable. He loves his heart and so he does what he loves and also learns to love what he does.
Trust: The female protagonist is a medico. She had a self-centered life until a compulsory medical camp had completely transformed her. She tries to understand equality and tries to get insights into economic equality. She resorts to Adam Smith for answers. Apart from this, she is known for her "namakkam theory".She tells people why trust is important and I think this dialogue sums that up.
"When miracles happen, we won't know. If we could, we wouldn't call that a miracle. We must have faith in architects of those miracles. Trust them and be a creator".
Benevolence: Devaki is a techie and has taken a year off to understand her goals. She is into social service. A person pure at heart can't be touched by anybody. She believes people waste money, on what they don't need. This could be used to feed the needy and that's what she does, it does make a funny watch. The way she gets people to donate money/food, is entertaining part of this character. Inspired by a character in Sekhar Kammula's Dollardreams.
Perfectionism: Shamil wants everything in life to work ideally. He is inspired by Sekhar Kammula's Leader and a big fan of Rana Daggubati. He is a good teacher and is interested in exploring teaching techniques. Its not possible for everything to be ideal, but this never ending never attainable quest leads to human excellence, if led by a guru's wisdom.
Dr Vishnu Sharma: PhD from Stanford and permanent faculty at IAS Princeton. He has left all of that, in search of spirituality. He takes immense interest in philosophy too. He goes around giving talks, to share this excitement of rediscovering himself. He guides Shamil through this questions of ethics and whats right and whats not.
Dr Anjaneya Prasad: Double PhD in Theoretical Physics and Telugu. He had quit a research career to take up journalism. He had fought against corruption and politics. A symbol of courage, wisdom and his careers makes you feel that money is just a piece of paper. He is the human form of "Simhatatvam" he has everything in him, including the timing. However he is no longer following politics and has been concentrating on a bigger evil, the education business. He is Suryabhai's guru.
Suryabhai: A dictator who feels that its a power which can bring prosperity to this world. He feels freedom comes at the cost of public welfare. He is into coaching business and believes in "student export, money import". He believes in change through revolutions alone and is not patient enough to even consider evolution. Every revolutionary had one man cautioning him and here we have Dr Prasad guiding him. He is pro-capitalism and strongly against socialist thoughts. He says if a Leader could really emerge in a democracy, we wouldn't even need that leader.
Media Murthy: An alumni of IIT and IIM and a marketing genius. He consults for business and mostly coaching centers. He is famous for the rare ads he designs,he is mostly into campaign designing.
Neti Panchatantra is journey involving these guys, united by a common goal-the struggle for existence.
PS:
Trust makes nations developed and it is not that there is confidence in developed countries. Irrespective of who came first, a hen comes out of an egg.
Benevolence and Idealism are "never ending never attainable" quests, but it is this search of our soul within, which leads to human excellence.
Considering just the linguistic niceties of the article, well-written!
ReplyDeleteWell, I would love to see these characters interact.
ReplyDeleteI cant help myself thinking how these characters are inspired by people around you. Shamil kind of resembles Dr Dey and Dr Sharma to Brihaspati.
An intro at the beginning will make it easy for the readers to get hold of what you are trying to do here!
Keep it going!
Dude you seem to have completely misunderstood the characterization...
ReplyDeleteDr Sharma and Brihaspati..RFOL..no offense to him..but he is the most learned character..
but you are right in sayin they were inspired by people around me..but not a single person..they were created wid a purpose of conveying some thoughts