EK ANEK AUR EKTA

!!!!! HUM SABHI EKH HAI BHAASSA ANEKH. ANEKH FULLO SEH SUGHANDI MAALA EKH .. !!!!!

Ek Anek aur Ekta is a triumph of how life's difficult lessons can be learned with a beautifully created but simple message.Ek Anek aur Ekta starts with a ...

Ek Anek Aur Ekta
Back in the 80s, this was the only Ekta on TV
Ek Anek aur Ekta is your basic Socialist fable. Perhaps we're reading too much political allegory into one shitty cartoon, but it helps to remember that back in the '80s, India and the USSR were great pals, and our government had definite Socialist leanings. Story starts with kid trying to pick mangoes off a tree:

Hum sabhi ek hain... ta ra ra ra ra.....
Now while he's running around in triangles, his sister is chilling under a tree. Pay close attention to her: Didi's got a great vocabulary and is intensely patriotic. She likes nothing better than to sit around and draw maps of India all day:
Kid quickly figures out that the mangoes are just not happening. He blinks a few times, then does this weird spaz walk to where his sister is chilling. And then he asks her - just like that - the question of the decade: Yeh "anek" kya hai, didi?
Anek yane bahut saare. Simple answer. Would be enough for most people, really. But not this kid. He still doesn't get it. Stupid kid with his crackly voice and shitty animation I hate him!!!!

Bahut saare? Kya bahut saare?

Accha... batati hoon.
Sooraj ek... chanda ek... taare anek.
Taare ko anek bhi kehte hai? God damn this kid is stupid. Maybe he'd be able to learn faster if he wasn't so high all the time. I'm not kidding... see how stoned he looks in this next shot:
So Didi explains it again, this time in a song that will burrow deep into your brain and replay itself over and over, at the strangest times, over the next twenty years. You already know the words.
Sooraj-a ek... (music)

Chanda ek... (music)

Ek, ek, ek, karke taare bhalle anek!
Theek se samjhao na, didi! He still doesn't get it. Just then, a squirrel climbs down the tree, sits on their shoulders, and then dashes off... Cue lesson two:
Dekho, dekho, ek gilahari....
Now some other squirrels also climb down the tree and run behind the first one. Song continues: Peeche peeche anek gilahariyan....
Tell me anek gilahariyan don't trip you out.
Lesson 3 is ek titali, followed by ek aur titali. To save time and space, I'm going to fast-forward straight on to anek titaliyan:
This is what anek titaliyan look like.
The awesome thing about anek titaliyan is that the kid finally gets it. He then holds up one finger, although it's a different one than I personally would have held up:

Ek ungli...

Anek ungliyan!
Now that he's got it, he doesn't stop. Didi, didi! Woh dekho! Anek chidiyan.
(cheesy string music)
Anek chidiyon ki kahani sunoge? ......

oh..... ITS MORE....

Okay, so here's the story that's within that other story. I vaguely remember reading something similar in a Panchatantra or Aesop's Fables type book. Only it wasn't quite like this.

(Intro) Aaa-aa-aaa....

aaa-aaa-aaaa...
Ek chidiya. Ek, ek karke, anek chidiya... Actually I think it was the same chidiya. Lazy-ass government animators.
Daana chugane ayi chidiya. Now a whole bunch of other kids suddenly show up from stage right. No one likes to miss a good story.
Didi, hame bhi sunao na!!

To suno phir se... ek chidiya, anek chidiya... daana chugane baith gayi thi.
Nice and peaceful, eh? But not for long. Shit's really about to go down now. Guess who's coming into the jungle? A gyad!
At this point you might ask: what's a gyad? Hah! Your Hindi sucks. A gyad is a chidiya pakadne wala.

Kid freaks out when he hears this. Phir kya hua, didi? Gyad ne unhe pakad liya? Maar dala? Didi shakes her head like the wise lady she is, and explains that you can do anything if you have himmat and stay united. And while she explains all this the camera pans over all the kids like they're an ad for Jackson's tissues.

They should just airdrop thousands of these wherever there's riots and fighting.
United we stand. Or in this case, fly. This is the great escape. The chidiyas move as one and fly away with the net. Chatur chidiya. Sajal Chidiya. Jal lekar bhaagi chidiya!
Ek... do... teen!!!

Door, ek gao ke paas, chidiyon ke dost choohe rehte the. That's an analogy for Communist Russia if there ever was one. Aur unhone chidiyon ka jaal kaat diya!
Now we are all comrades.

Still think I'm reading too much into it? Nevermind. Nothing can prepare you for the next scene: the dance. The choohe and the chidiyas get together for a synchronised dance that has to be seen to be believed. So see; believe.
What. The. Fuck.

At this point you're thinking, "it's all well and good that the chidiyas are safe, but what I really want to know is how to get mangoes off of a tree without falling down like the aam janta." Wonder no more. All you have to do is click ahead to the next page, and all will be revealed...

be the most irritating voice ever: To dekha... anek jab ek ho jaate hai, to kaisa mazaa aata hai!! Argh, it made me want to stab my eardrums with a compass. Check this, though: kid finally gets the idea:

Ho gaye ek! Ban gayi taakat!Ban gayi himmat!
The anek ungliyan have combined to form the fist in the air: international sign for resistance and revolution. Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! Religion is the opium of the masses! Engels, fetch me a sandwich!
And you know how quickly revolutionary ideas spread. Suddenly all the kids are asking: Didi, agar hum ek ho jaye, to bada kaam kar sakte hai?

Agar hum ek ho jaye...

To is ped ke aam bhi tod sakte hai?
Which brings us back to the mangoes. Didi says they can do it if they work together. Then she arranges some stones one on top of another, the kids get the hint and form a human frame around the tree. Quite unneccessary, because the kid brother scampers up the trunk like it ain't no thang, shorty.

But what's the use of all these mangoes, I ask you, if they're only going to be concentrated in the hands of a few? So the kids all line up, and Didi gives each of them a mango. Equitable distribution of wealth, see?
Mmmm.... the sweet taste of equality and cooperation! And as the kids eat the mangoes, they turn into these pink, rosy-cheeked versions of themselves:

Brings back old memories when life was much simpler

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