When life has been digitised, content for kids should multiply too. No, seriously, when even education has gone ‘online’, why not create something worth watching for children – something that wouldn’t make parents reach for the child lock?
Children, during their growing-up years, learn a lot from their surroundings. Friends, neighbours, teachers, strangers they meet on the road – everyone and everything contributes to shaping their understanding of the world. But today, their learning is no longer limited to what they see and experience around them. With the growing influence of digital platforms, especially YouTube, the content they watch has also become an important part of their learning. Most parents rely on YouTube to help their kids pick up nursery rhymes and learn the basics, such as the names of animals, places, etc.
Butter Chi Better Goshta is a moral science class gone digital. It’s based on a child’s daily life. Affectionately called Butter, the child takes us through experiences that are an essential part of growing up, such as school and picnics. The story revolves around the financial constraints parents face when fulfilling a child’s every demand. Unfortunately, kids do not understand the challenges parents face in making education accessible to them. And when they hear a ‘no’ at a time when a ‘yes’ matters the most, it can create a rift in the parent-child relationship.
How do you tackle such a rift? Mangesh Sawant has done a fantastic job here by keeping parents out of the equation. If kids watch this film, they learn the lesson all by themselves, without their parents having to justify their decisions.
What’s the story about? Butter is a school-going child who, when told that he cannot go on the school picnic because his parents cannot afford the fee, picks up some money lying on the street. Thinking it is money sent by God in response to his prayers, he uses it to pay for the picnic. Soon, he discovers that the money belonged to one of his schoolmates, who is now in trouble at home because she has lost it.
He now wants to return the money, but the school has already started making arrangements for the picnic using the collected amount, and the teacher refuses to return it to the boy. How Butter manages to arrange the money, begins to understand its value, and gradually realises the struggles his parents go through to educate him is heartwarming to watch.
That’s all I can tell you because I truly want you to watch this film – with your kids, of course. Whether you are a parent who struggles to make ends meet and fulfil your child’s every wish, or you have enough money to keep your kids smiling all the time, you must make your children watch this film – either to share a story that you might never be able to tell them yourself or simply to teach them a little humility.
Language: Marathi
Where To Watch? YouTube
