The 25th year celebration of Tharanginee school was held on 22nd Aug and to commemorate the occasion I produced "Paati Sonna Kathaigal" ... Grandma Stories.
The thought process had actually started a couple of years back. It all started one day as I was clearing some old photographs and I came across an old snap of my grandmom . It kindled a lot of memories and I went down my memory lane.
Vacation time was fun time for us. We used to spend our entire holidays with my grandmom and cousins.. Dinner time was story time.. It was always filled with stories from mythology, pancha thantra or stories of my granny's childhood days. We used to sit in awed silence as my granny used to narrate with lot of metaphors, smilies and funny ancedotes. There used to be excited laughter and giggles when something funny was narrated. It always used end on a happy note thereby giving immense satisfaction that good people will get rewarded and bad ones punished. What a bliss it was to believe in such simple justifications!!! We were in a stage were we believed that our lives will be a garden of flowers !! Alas the reality had not yet dawned on us ..
The child hood dreams and aspirations were always nutured and nourished by my grandmom who was ready with here new stock of stories every year. Year after year there were stories narrated with passion and we used to be transported to the world of animals, birds , kings , and faries. When I look back I feel that what I am today is the reflection of so many stories heard and stored in my memory and thanks to my grandmom.
Today's children glued to the TV and computer saddened me and I decided to recreate the story telling for the children, wanting to give them something of what I enjoyed . . It was a slow process of searching and seeking internally, wanting to reach out to the children. It was like a drawing coming to life .. first the outline and then slowly the details.... the final sketch took something like six months and the final product gave me immense pleasure and satisfaction.
This was the birth of PAATI SONNA KATHAIGAL...
The thought process had actually started a couple of years back. It all started one day as I was clearing some old photographs and I came across an old snap of my grandmom . It kindled a lot of memories and I went down my memory lane.
Vacation time was fun time for us. We used to spend our entire holidays with my grandmom and cousins.. Dinner time was story time.. It was always filled with stories from mythology, pancha thantra or stories of my granny's childhood days. We used to sit in awed silence as my granny used to narrate with lot of metaphors, smilies and funny ancedotes. There used to be excited laughter and giggles when something funny was narrated. It always used end on a happy note thereby giving immense satisfaction that good people will get rewarded and bad ones punished. What a bliss it was to believe in such simple justifications!!! We were in a stage were we believed that our lives will be a garden of flowers !! Alas the reality had not yet dawned on us ..
The child hood dreams and aspirations were always nutured and nourished by my grandmom who was ready with here new stock of stories every year. Year after year there were stories narrated with passion and we used to be transported to the world of animals, birds , kings , and faries. When I look back I feel that what I am today is the reflection of so many stories heard and stored in my memory and thanks to my grandmom.
Today's children glued to the TV and computer saddened me and I decided to recreate the story telling for the children, wanting to give them something of what I enjoyed . . It was a slow process of searching and seeking internally, wanting to reach out to the children. It was like a drawing coming to life .. first the outline and then slowly the details.... the final sketch took something like six months and the final product gave me immense pleasure and satisfaction.
