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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

There is an interesting sequence in the movie 'Taare Zameen Par', when Aamir talks about bringing down trees by just screaming at it . Curiousity got the better of me, and i decided to google for it. Here's what i could find.

The following is a chapter from the book "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Fulghum. Thought that many of you out here may also find something in this:
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In the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific some villagers practice a unique form of logging. If a tree is too large to be felled with an ax, the natives cut it down by yelling at it. Woodsmen with special powers creep up on a tree just at dawn and suddenly scream at it at the top of their lungs. They continue this for thirty days. The tree dies and falls over. The theory is that the hollering kills the spirit of the tree. According to the villagers, it always works

The Solomon Islanders may have a point. Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. It's hard to believe, but i feel there is a lot of truth in it.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

9 comments:

Zoooni :) said...

hey :)
i was researching the same topic after watching taare zameen par so thats how i got here, thanks!
hope you enjoyed the movie as much as i did :)
-zahra (singapore)

Anonymous said...

heyyy...
i was lookin up dis topic after watchin taare zameen par
thnxx!!!
i love tht movie...
- lamya(dubai)

Anonymous said...

heyyy...
i was lookin up dis topic after watchin taare zameen par
thnxx!!!
i love tht movie...
- lamya(dubai)

Manish Chhetri said...

@zahra: I really enjoyed the movie..another one which i really liked was Jab We Met..hope you've watched that one too...

Anonymous said...

yeah i have actually :) everyone claims kareena's character's just like mine in that movie, haha :)
-zahra

Manish Chhetri said...

@lamya: Thanks for visiting my blog :)

Anonymous said...

hiya!!! That movie is great jus like aamir khan. thanx for the useful blog, i was researchin after watchin the movie 2, lol! cant wiat 2 watch kidnap. tc

Manish Chhetri said...

Did you watch kidnap.. :) Such a terrible movie..

Ahanu said...

I absolutely loved that movie, "Taare Zameen Par". I've copied it for people many times and am in the process of doing so now.I was curious about the same scene with the Solomon Islands and googled it. What I've found is extremely interesting, though not very surprising. I would recommend "Taare Zameen Par" to anyone who's looking for a great movie. (The movie has now been dubbed in English by Walt Disney Pictures.)