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Bettada Hoovu : The Mountain Flower – an Epilogue of the journey of a Child to Man .

Journey of a Virtuous child and his journey to righteousness .

Summary

Ramu is a virtuous child , who comes across the daily struggles of life and has a passion to acquire knowledge and understanding about the world . Ramu desires to buy himself a ‘ Ramayana ‘ , saves money to buy it , and even though coming across various financial crises stays determined on fulfilling his dream . Conquering his fears and helping others on his way . At the end of collecting the money he needs to acquire the book he wants , he decides to buy a Blanket the family needs . By doing this he gains all knowledge he could acquire from the book ‘ Ramayana ‘ , although he weeps in the sorrow of him not being able to buy the Book he wished for not knowing that the knowledge of the book he wished for has always been in him.

Conclusion

Story of every child and man who wishes to achieve his or her dream. The mountain flour teaches us to be useful to the ones around us and to be righteous on our way to our dreams and what we wish to have is already in us . That what we choose to acquire should be the knowledge about righteousness in the book rather than the book itself.

Special Mentions

The child actor Late Puneeth Kumar , shows the maturity of a young man flawlessly for the time . The laidback well poised camera movement and composition by B.C Gowrishankar , and the story telling of N.Lakshminarayan . Adapting the story ” What then , Raman ? ” By Shirley L. Arora .

" What do you think , 
did Ramu get the Ramayana ? "

Assigned by Dr Janardhanan

Jovinjith Kennedy , BSc DFM

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