This is the kind of logic where Haathi Mere Saathi lives! It feels like exactly the sort of story a little kid would tell you. But it is what made sense to my little 6 year old brain, because I couldn’t conceive of greed, of violence, of complex reasons that people might or might not choose to rebel. I went home and explained things to my parents, “This guy said ‘give me liberty or give me death’ and everyone listening thought ‘well, he’s a good speecher, we don’t want to lose him!’ so they gave him liberty.” This is not exactly how the American revolution happened. When I was in first grade, we learned about Patrick Henry and the American revolution. The feeling that everything can be explained by a few simple rules and everything always works out in the end. While Bahubali gives you the fantasies and magic and everything feeling possible, Haathi Mere Saathi gives you the simplicity. Haathi Mere Saathi does too, but a different kind of childhood. I said in my review that Bahubali gives you back your childhood. Although, on the other hand, the magical purity of the original is probably what will protect it, nothing new and dark and dangerous can ever break its power. But there is something so magical about that original, the purity of it, I really don’t want it to be spoiled by any kind of new take. I am stunned that I am the only one who reacted to Rana’s tweet with the first look for the new Haathi Mere Saathi by going “oh no! My CHILDHOOD!” Especially because I didn’t even see the original as a child, only as an adult who was feeling childish.
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