- What happens when your mother tongue dies!
- This story revolves in the future where the country is on the verge of losing its mother tongue and the second language is ready to take its place. On a sublime morning a student is late for his school. As soon he steps out of his house; he embarks on a journey which is compelling and shocking for him and his soul. Emotionally he enters on a terrain when he watches different agendas propagating on the roadside and everything is becoming quieter and disdain as he enters his school premises. On entering the premises he finds each silent step of his echoing in his own ears. Not a pin to a poster is moving! Shocked; he thinks something has happened and enters the classroom where everyone is waiting for him. Again a surprise when he watches his 'Hindi' teacher standing upfront and is in no mood to scold him for coming late. The class starts and the teacher announces that today will be the last day of your 'Hindi' subject and from tomorrow onwards no Hindi language will be taught as the government or the higher authorities now no longer affirm to it; as for the past decades English has taken its place and now it's only a formality to get it erased from the papers. To our student; this is a shocker as he has left every learning on tomorrow! He does not know how to write or even read Hindi. He goes into a subconscious fight with himself as how he could not write or even speak his 'mother tongue'! The teacher is bidding a goodbye lesson and everyone in the class is listening to him with quite an attention. Finally he asks the student to join words to form a new word or even a sentence and his inability to do so, digs him deeper inside his emotional intellect and he finds himself helpless and hopeless at the same time! This is not only the final day of 'Hindi' subject but also the 'last lesson' of his teacher! Finally the period gets over and the teacher and the language in the life span of that child bid farewell. The film opens in a magazine editor's room where he is writing the editorial column and the film ends on the same note where this editor who was once a child writes all the above story in Hindi he knows; on the primitive 'Hindi Divas' i.e. 14th of September in that calendar year. Finally the magazine gets published and goes in a modern home where a small girl is bamboozled to see 'Hindi' language and confuses it with a piece of calligraphic art form.
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