Thesocratespot: The Art of Story telling - Part 6.0077_Who's _Who_And the Plot
Listen, we are basically artists, graduates of fine art who are naturally drawn to all of forms of art , including performing arts.
Phantom was a choreographer, story board artist and a comic cartoon animator working for a Mumbai based content production company but his fascination towards Hindu spirituality was deep and over a period of time that soon became his alter ego.
Tarzan too was into Story boarding but was a contractual comic story board artist under temporary contract with an animation company that was contracted by the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the makers of Tarzan.
Phantom, whose actual name was Stanley, was from a very poor lower middle class background, his Father was some kind of a junior level Officer in the Indian Railways. Right from his childhood his interest was into arts and drawing and performing arts but his Father, Mother and almost all his struggling Christian kin in the church suggested that he take up Engineering, he did try and miserably failed, for years he was stuck trying to get himself that elusive Engineering degree but it remained stoically out of his reach, and as the years went by his family started ridiculing him for his failures - it was virtually a free for all, everyone and anyone would walk up to Stanley and chide him for being a loser and this included quite a few young nieces whom he liked and desired, stanley's hurt was much more when his nieces came and chided him and that one day became so hard to insulate that Stanley became a run away kid at the age of 16 and reached Mumbai.
Once he reached Mumbai he somehow managed to get himslef a job with a production company where he was initally just a runner boy but soon graduated to being a story board artist and a choreographer - it is here that he came across a number of Tamil & Malayalam speaking Brahmin and Namboodiri boys & girls who were from extremely aristocratic families, very well read and educated and they were all from his native state and that's when Stanley slowly transformed himself into being a Hindu Guru - he took to reading the Vedas and the Upanishads, learnt Hindu rituals and practices and over a period of time people forgot he was actually a Christian and started taking his alter ego as a hindu preacher seriously.
By the age of 19 Stanley took up a pseudonym as Vasudevan Iyer ( which later became Jesudasan) and soon started travelling to places in South India as a preacher of Hindu culture and Hindu wisdom - which in turn opened doors that were once forbidden for him due to his image as a loser, his alter ego as a Hindu Guru put him in a league so high, it soon became heady and full of pleasures that he had never experienced.
Annie, was a brat, born with a silver spoon, daughter of a Zamindar Grandfather who doted on her and a Father who was a Professor of Literature, Contemporary World Poetry, World History and Philosophy teaching at the Prestigious Central University of Hyderabad - she was the last of the children born in the family ( her mother was 48 when she delivered Annie ) - Annie had 11 sibblings, 4 brothers, 5 Sisters; And over 15 nieces and nephews famed for being complete iconoclasts, despite being born in a very conservative family.
Annie's family were brahmins who later adopted Christianity - Annie's family were vegetarians and so only very rarely indulged eating meat.
Among the reasons why Annie could get along with her Brahmin boy friends, they were all from the same village, they had grown up as one since childhood.
Tarzan, was born with an inferiority complex, while he was good at a number of things he was poor at math, poor at physics and the sciences - his interest was always being outdoors, climbing, jumping, running, participating in school dramas or disrupting serious sessions by clowning.
All three of our protagonists came from a very ordinary rural back drop before becoming very young, very urban charlatans, but each one were so adept in their art and deception that each wanted to outdo the other with their alter egos - needless to say Stanley was in love with Annie, Annie too liked Stanley but then Tarzan too loved Annie and Annie loved tarzan a little more than Stanley.
Which was perfect - since they were all 19 and all of them loved being cheats. So while Stanley dated Annie, Annie dated Tarzan and all of them were quite comformtable in the knowledge that they were all in it for one common cause - they all wanted a double life.
Soon they had managed to create a reasonably successful secret club of like minded boys and girls who were all committed to live that exciting double life, so they started building a secret society made of brahmin boys and girls living like Christians and Muslims and vice versa, the group virtually had members from every religion & faith wanting to live the life of the other - and it soon became a highly secret cult with a vast network.
As the cult grew, the founder members basically Phantom, Tarzan & Annie started taking their alter egos so seriously that it soon started a vicious kind of rivalry that wanted only one alter ego to lead the cult which in turn meant that all three wanted the other dead - Phantom wanted to kill Tarzan through Annie and Tarzan wanted to kill Annie through Phantom and Annie wanted Tarzan to kill Phantom.
Remember all of this was happening among people who were just about in their 20's.
Listen, we are basically artists, graduates of fine art who are naturally drawn to all of forms of art , including performing arts.
Phantom was a choreographer, story board artist and a comic cartoon animator working for a Mumbai based content production company but his fascination towards Hindu spirituality was deep and over a period of time that soon became his alter ego.
Tarzan too was into Story boarding but was a contractual comic story board artist under temporary contract with an animation company that was contracted by the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the makers of Tarzan.
Phantom, whose actual name was Stanley, was from a very poor lower middle class background, his Father was some kind of a junior level Officer in the Indian Railways. Right from his childhood his interest was into arts and drawing and performing arts but his Father, Mother and almost all his struggling Christian kin in the church suggested that he take up Engineering, he did try and miserably failed, for years he was stuck trying to get himself that elusive Engineering degree but it remained stoically out of his reach, and as the years went by his family started ridiculing him for his failures - it was virtually a free for all, everyone and anyone would walk up to Stanley and chide him for being a loser and this included quite a few young nieces whom he liked and desired, stanley's hurt was much more when his nieces came and chided him and that one day became so hard to insulate that Stanley became a run away kid at the age of 16 and reached Mumbai.
Once he reached Mumbai he somehow managed to get himslef a job with a production company where he was initally just a runner boy but soon graduated to being a story board artist and a choreographer - it is here that he came across a number of Tamil & Malayalam speaking Brahmin and Namboodiri boys & girls who were from extremely aristocratic families, very well read and educated and they were all from his native state and that's when Stanley slowly transformed himself into being a Hindu Guru - he took to reading the Vedas and the Upanishads, learnt Hindu rituals and practices and over a period of time people forgot he was actually a Christian and started taking his alter ego as a hindu preacher seriously.
By the age of 19 Stanley took up a pseudonym as Vasudevan Iyer ( which later became Jesudasan) and soon started travelling to places in South India as a preacher of Hindu culture and Hindu wisdom - which in turn opened doors that were once forbidden for him due to his image as a loser, his alter ego as a Hindu Guru put him in a league so high, it soon became heady and full of pleasures that he had never experienced.
Annie, was a brat, born with a silver spoon, daughter of a Zamindar Grandfather who doted on her and a Father who was a Professor of Literature, Contemporary World Poetry, World History and Philosophy teaching at the Prestigious Central University of Hyderabad - she was the last of the children born in the family ( her mother was 48 when she delivered Annie ) - Annie had 11 sibblings, 4 brothers, 5 Sisters; And over 15 nieces and nephews famed for being complete iconoclasts, despite being born in a very conservative family.
Annie's family were brahmins who later adopted Christianity - Annie's family were vegetarians and so only very rarely indulged eating meat.
Among the reasons why Annie could get along with her Brahmin boy friends, they were all from the same village, they had grown up as one since childhood.
Tarzan, was born with an inferiority complex, while he was good at a number of things he was poor at math, poor at physics and the sciences - his interest was always being outdoors, climbing, jumping, running, participating in school dramas or disrupting serious sessions by clowning.
All three of our protagonists came from a very ordinary rural back drop before becoming very young, very urban charlatans, but each one were so adept in their art and deception that each wanted to outdo the other with their alter egos - needless to say Stanley was in love with Annie, Annie too liked Stanley but then Tarzan too loved Annie and Annie loved tarzan a little more than Stanley.
Which was perfect - since they were all 19 and all of them loved being cheats. So while Stanley dated Annie, Annie dated Tarzan and all of them were quite comformtable in the knowledge that they were all in it for one common cause - they all wanted a double life.
Soon they had managed to create a reasonably successful secret club of like minded boys and girls who were all committed to live that exciting double life, so they started building a secret society made of brahmin boys and girls living like Christians and Muslims and vice versa, the group virtually had members from every religion & faith wanting to live the life of the other - and it soon became a highly secret cult with a vast network.
As the cult grew, the founder members basically Phantom, Tarzan & Annie started taking their alter egos so seriously that it soon started a vicious kind of rivalry that wanted only one alter ego to lead the cult which in turn meant that all three wanted the other dead - Phantom wanted to kill Tarzan through Annie and Tarzan wanted to kill Annie through Phantom and Annie wanted Tarzan to kill Phantom.
Remember all of this was happening among people who were just about in their 20's.
