Comments on: Black http://www.pranavsharma.com/blog/2005/04/08/black/ A student's perspective on the world of technology Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:20:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Prateek http://www.pranavsharma.com/blog/2005/04/08/black/#comment-662 Prateek Sat, 09 Apr 2005 07:32:31 +0000 http://server204.webhostingpad.com/~epranav/blog/?p=204#comment-662 one thing i really hate about bollywood films is that have no originality. almost all of their movies are based on some HOLLYWOOD movie. but then i saw Black, and i have to say, it was a wonderful movie. the idea was original and the acting was awesome. but a recent discovery was extremely dissapointing... i found out that even this bollywood movie was "plagiarised". now, i dont know if they mention "based on a true story" or not in the movie, but this idea of a blind and deaf girl learning language, definitely ain't original. please read the narrative and an excerpt from the ORIGINAL BOOK (written in 1954) and decide for yourself... Helen Keller became blind and deaf at the age of eighteen months. When Helen was seven years old, her teacher, Anne Sullivan, tried to show her language by writing letters in the child's hand. At first the task seemed hopeless. One day, however, Helen experienced a sudden insight into the connection between the finger-spellings and the objects they represented: ...we walked down the path to the well-house, attracted by the fragrance of the honeysuckle with which it was covered. Someone was drawing water, and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motion of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten--a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew that "W-A-T-E-R" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! (Keller, 1954) one thing i really hate about bollywood films is that have no originality. almost all of their movies are based on some HOLLYWOOD movie. but then i saw Black, and i have to say, it was a wonderful movie. the idea was original and the acting was awesome. but a recent discovery was extremely dissapointing… i found out that even this bollywood movie was “plagiarised”. now, i dont know if they mention “based on a true story” or not in the movie, but this idea of a blind and deaf girl learning language, definitely ain’t original. please read the narrative and an excerpt from the ORIGINAL BOOK (written in 1954) and decide for yourself…

Helen Keller became blind and deaf at the age of eighteen months. When Helen was seven years old, her teacher, Anne Sullivan, tried to show her language by writing letters in the child’s hand. At first the task seemed hopeless. One day, however, Helen experienced a sudden insight into the connection between the finger-spellings and the objects they represented:

…we walked down the path to the well-house, attracted by the fragrance of the honeysuckle with which it was covered. Someone was drawing water, and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motion of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten–a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew that “W-A-T-E-R” meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! (Keller, 1954)

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