On 6th September we have
celebrated Teacher’s day in our Department of English. Almost twenty students
have participated and our juniors have also taken lecture in our class. +Megha
Trivedi is studying in semester 1 and she has taken “Reading of a short film – ‘Aasai’
as her topic of teaching.
Here
are the photographs of Teacher’s day – Click Here
In this blog I have added some points of
her teaching and included my observation.
Director - Sam
Editor – Shivamathi
Cinematography – Manush.P.S.Nandan
Here is the film:
This
is an award winning short film. Selvam, a little boy who works in a grocery
shop is fond of Telephones. His aspiration was to speak in Telephone to his
mother who is at Tirunelveli (district in Tamilnadu) that too from his hard
earned money. Near b y STD booth lady helps him to find out how much money is
needed for Selvam to speak to his mother for five minutes. Selvam practices
what all he wishes to speak to his mother within that five minutes by speaking
with him. (Source – Youtube)
In the very first scene we could see
that there is a box of glossary items and the little boy Selvam is delivering
that to the customer, and in the very next scene the boy is driving his cycle near
the play ground, one can observe that the little boy should also be there in
playground but he was working. The concept of child labour is there. The boy is
alone in a city and mother is far away in another district, her mother has left
her little child for working; poverty is reflected here.
The boy is enough educated to read and write
and he is very fond of telephones. He wanted to talk with his mother and was
collecting the money for that by tip he gets from customer and his master. He has
collected enough money but unfortunately his money was wasted and he could not
talk with his mother and again he starts collecting money.
Symbolism:
1) Telephone is a major
symbol in this film, it reflects the effect upon the little child’s mind and it
is also helpful in communication. Another employ is misusing the telephone
which suggests that it is up to us that how we use technology.
2) Clock is another symbol
which shows the importance of time.
3) Box of glossary items
shows that Selvam has not those things which he is delivering to customers
daily, but he is fond of telephones.
4) Rajanikanth’s
photograph also symbolizes Tamilnadu, and use of photoshop.
In this film the director has used
Humour to show the tragic situation of child labourer Selvam. It reminds us the
technique of Charles Dickens in most of his novels, especially in “Oliver Twist”.
The happy ending is also there in the film that the boy is still in hope to talk
with his mother that he doesn’t lose his hope and starts collecting money
again.
