Its a tamil short film named "5 rooba"(5 rupees), the link as below. For those who don't have the time to watch the video or don't understand the language, the gist of the movie is as below.
There is this little boy who sees a balloon vendor in his village and wants to buy a particular balloon, but doesn't have the money. The vendor asks him to get the money and buy the balloon when he comes again, the following week. This boy comes back home and tells his mom that he wants the balloon that costs Rs.5. His mom asks him to save the 50 paise that she gives him everyday to get something for himself to eat, so he could get the balloon with the money he saved.
He starts saving the money. While coming back from school one day, he sees his friends eating at a road-side shop. I can totally imagine how hungry he would be after a tiring day at school and seeing other kids eat, surely would tempt him to get something for himself too and skip his saving-for-the-balloon. Still, he walks back home straight, keeping the goal in mind. This shows how firm and undistracted he was towards attaining what he wanted to.
He finally saves Rs.5 and very happily leaves to school one morning. When he comes back home, to his dismay he doesn't find the money that he had taken to school in the morning. Not losing hope, he runs back to school in search of it, but fails. He tells his mom that he is ready to give-up his desire and can be contented with what he already has, because of a mistake he committed. Seeing him disappointed on not being able to achieve what he wanted to, his mom feels bad and so she takes a new 5-rupee-note and gives it to him, but lies to him that she saw him dropping it on the ground. She does so, so her son doesn't feel guilty for having lost the money.
This is exactly what our parents do for us. Each of them have their own way of bringing us up, but their ultimate aim is to make sure we are happy always, and grow up as good individuals. The toughest task is to balance both of these. The conflict arises when they don't exactly know what we are passionate about, which makes us think they wouldn't want to support us. They do a lot of things(sacrifices) for us, and don't even let us know if its something that might make us feel sad, like the mom in the movie did. The boy didn't know till the end that he had actually lost the money.
He takes the money and goes to the place where he can find the balloon-vendor, and waits. The vendor finally appears, but tells him that the same balloon is now Rs.6, but agrees to sell it for Rs.5 and asks the boy to give him Re.1 later. His happiness knew no bounds. He holds the balloon and starts screaming and running. Unfortunately, he trips and falls and the balloon breaks.
I'm sure we have seen similar situations in our lives as well. We work towards attaining/achieving something and after all the hard work and time spent for it, we either end up not getting it, or having got it, it is very short-lived. Sometimes we blame others for what happened to us, not knowing what the complete picture is. If the boy hadn't got the balloon in the first place, there are many choices for him - blaming his mom for not having encouraged him to get it or blaming the person who stole his money or the balloon-vendor for increasing the price and so on.
I think the ideal thing to do is to analyze if our work towards attaining the goal was sufficient/good enough. If not, we have to start working towards to it, rather than wasting time thinking who we can blame for our failure. We are not here to prove a point to anybody else. We are here for our own purpose.
Despite all the hard-work, if we still end up not getting what we wanted, it is still fair to continue doing what we have to do, with the same spirit, which is what the boy did. Knowing that he lost the balloon, for which he worked so hard, he started saving money again, hoping he can buy it again the following week.
Everything is short-lived, so we might as well not attach ourselves much.
Its a simple story, but the messages it conveys are of a very high value(destiny, non-attachment to the fruits of action, parents' love, hard-work, taking responsibility for one's own actions). The lessons that I have learnt from various books so far, are so clearly and easily conveyed in this single short film. Hats-off to the creators and I hope they come up with many more of such creations.
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