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The Stone Boy is an Indo-Mauritius short film [1][2] broadcast as a children's television series that aired on the Indian Television channel DD National in 1991. It was directed by T.S. Nagabharana. The story was based on a fantasy story of a poor farmer/milkman boy who gets cursed by fairies.
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Ajith and his sister Archana have to shift to a new country as their father's job gets transferred. They get admitted to a new school. Initially they find it difficult to befriend their new classmates and end up fighting with many. The schoolmates are not ready to accept the new classmates Ajith and Archana. Eventually, they come to know about a mountain called Stone Boy. There is a legend about this mountain that long, long ago there was a poor farmer/milkman boy. He was having very bad days because of his poverty. He owned a cow and selling that cow's milk was his source of income. Every day he used to milk his cow and went selling milk. One day when he was returning home from his business, he saw an amazing scene. A group of very beautiful fairies had landed on earth and were enjoying dancing and singing. He saw their whole 'leela' or singing and dancing by hiding behind a large stone. Eventually a fairy happens to catch him watching. The fairies get very angry upon him and curse him. But the poor boy pleads for forgiveness. One of the fairy feels pity on him, and asks him to make a promise. The fairy says 'From now onward, you will get prosperous. All your problems will get solved. All hurdles in your life shall get removed. But only while you keep this secret that we fairies visit this place on earth. You shall have to keep this secret. If you ever tell this to anyone, all your prosperity will be lost and you will get transformed into a stone on that high mountain. You can only appear on being called as a normal human being once in fifty years, for just three days. Remember you can appear back as normal human being only when someone climbs to that mountain, and calls you from the depth of his heart. After three days of your coming back to humans you shall again be transformed into stone for another fifty years waiting for someone to call you. This would be your punishment for not keeping our secret.' Saying this the fairies disappear.
Eventually, what fairies said starts becoming true. The boy starts getting more profit from business. He starts getting richer. But jealous villagers can't stand his progress. One day they force him to tell the secret of prosperity. The boy cannot keep silent when whole village is forcing him to tell the secret. So, he starts telling them the secret. No sooner than he utters the secret his body is transformed into a stone of arbitrary shape and shifted to the peak of the mountain. That mountain is called as the Stone Boy since then.
When Ajit and Archana hear this legend, they think of giving a try to call back Stone Boy. They climb up that mountain and call him to come back, but Stone Boy does not appear.
Again they start living their normal life. With the problems of not having anymore new friends in the new country.
Ajit and Archana think of giving a one more try to call back Stone Boy. This time they keep in mind the fact that they need to call him from the depth of their hearts. So they sing a very touching song... ' Aaa gaya hoon paas tere, chod ke sab yaar mere, karle mujhse dosti, Stone Boy...' They succeed. The stone boy comes back to life. Stone Boy helps Ajit and Archana make new friends, and he also wishes to enjoy his long-awaited three days life. So the threesome enjoy for three days. After three days, Stone Boy has to go back to his stone form. And the story ends with a very emotional scene of Stone Boy getting transformed back into stone. However, later it is shown that after another 50 years, the grand daughter of Ajith, again calls the Stone Boy on the same mountain and he again gets back to life and reunites with Ajith, Archana and Ajith's grand daughter.
References[edit]
- ^'Stoneboy Doordarshan Old Tv Serial Stone Boy'. indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
- ^'Master Manjunath now in new teleserial 'Stone Boy''. India Today. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
External links[edit]
- The Stone Boy on IMDb
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The Stone Boy is an Indian television series, mainly for children. It was telecasted on DD National, an Indian television channel, in 1991. It is an Indo-Mauritius short film and its shooting was done in Mauritius.
Nagabharana has done the direction of the show. The whole story was wrapped up in 10 episodes.
The story revolves around the misfortune of a poor farmer who gets cursed by the fairy angels. Archana and his brother Ajit takes admission in a new school as they were shifted to a new place because their father’s job was transferred to a new country. It was difficult for both the children to make new friends in the beginning so they had fights with many of them.
After a due course of time, they heard about a mountain called Stone Boy which had its unique story. There was a poor farmer who was suffering from severe poverty. His only source of income was the goat’s milk. He used to sell it and earn some livelihood.One day he observed an unbelievable sight of fairies landing on earth. They were dancing and singing and were in full enjoyment. He hid behind a large stone and watched them dancing and enjoying. However, a fairy caught him hiding and got angry and began to curse him.
But he requested them to forgive him. One fairy felt sympathy towards him and asked him to keep this as a secret by promising them.
She says “From this instant, all your poverty will get converted into prosperity. There will be no hurdles in your life. But you have to keep this secret that we fairies visit earth. If it is revealed to anyone, then you will again become poor and will get converted into a stone on that high mountain. You will appear as a normal human being once in fifty years and for just three days.
This will only happen when someone will call you from the bottom of his heart by climbing that mountain.And after three days, you will again become a stone for another fifty years. This would be your punishment if you did not keep our secret”. And then the fairies disappeared. Ultimately, all those words became real for that poor farmer.
He was becoming rich due to the profit in his business. But the villagers were becoming jealous and forced him to tell the secret behind this. The boy tried hard not to tell them anything about the fairies, but he did not hide it for a long time. As soon as he reveals the truth, he was transformed into a stone and was shifted to the peak of the mountain. Since then, the mountain came to be called as the Stone Boy.
Ajit and Archana on hearing this story decided to call back the Stone Boy. They climbed the mountain and tried to call him, but the Stone Boy did not appear.
They got busy in their lives again. After some days, they both decided to call him again since they were deprived of good friends in the new place.
This time, they called him with the bottom of their hearts and so they succeeded in bringing the stone boy to life. He helped both in making new friends. And finally, the series ended with the emotional scene of the boy transforming back to a stone.
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