Aa Aawkaare Aaa : Back to basics
Back to basics
Film: Aa Aawkaare Aaa / A B C
Language: Oriya
Cast: Adyasha Mohapatra, Debu Bose, Diptimayee Panda
Director: Subhas Das
If a man eats two sweets in two minutes, then as per mathematical rules he is supposed to eat one sweet in one minute. But what if he can gobble up more than one sweet in that one minute? All calculations failed? The idea might sound strange but needs to be thought over. Our educational system has made us machines. We are ready to accept things on the basis of formula and theorems. There seems to be no place for practical approach when it comes to the world of bookish knowledge.
Aa Aawkaare Aaa tries to explore into this existing predicament and offers a solution to the present educational paradox. Mini (Adyasha) is a young motherless child and has many questions to ask. When sent to her grandfather in the village, Mini discovers the joys and mysteries of nature. As contrast to the monotonous world of learning lessons, homework and appearing for exams, Mini learns the simple ways of understanding the world better.
For Mini it is more important that she excels in flying kites, she could manage to catch fish for her grandpa and the fact that she could now climb trees. When the world around her fails to understand her ideas, she has her shadow to speak to.
Incidentally, the little girl has an imaginary teacher—Miss Mini who comes to rescue her and her friends from the clutches of yelling teachers and the burden of classes. The teacher takes the younglings to the fields, makes them aware of the world around them with songs and dances, games replace homework and learning becomes fun.
As the little Mini grows up, she still finds herself struggling with the education system and the entire academic framework, the only difference being she is now herself a teacher. Desperate to free the little prisoners from the shackles of the mechanical education and forced competition, Mini works all alone.
Director Subhas Das has made a sincere effort to address a subject as grim as the faulty education system and has taken a pragmatic stance to it. Just as the title goes, Aa Aaw… asks us to get back to basics and too in a practical fashion.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
- Looks like an engaging sweet story… Netflix doesn’t have it… any idea on where I can find it?
i watched it in a film fest. will certainly find out and let u know
Ohh wow Illuzion this sounds so good, Especially since i am just a sucker for ” Practical education” as opposed to exam-oriented education.yes, please do let us know, if you can find it somewhere…
Wow … Illuzion .. thanks for this one …
Looking forward to more Oriya (regional) films …
illuzon, why dont you post “bagha jatin” ( I hope I get the spelling correct) review? This I believe was a big Oriya hit from back in 86-87 when I was going to school in Dhenkanal in my nickers.
om…i too feel the same
kk…definitely. will write about some more
jwalant…which school in dhenkanal?
Illuzon – Montfort school
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