What I've Been Looking For.
Two of my brainstorming topics for my final project focused on the book, The Ramayana by R.K. Narayan which is why I would like to focus/change my final project idea to The Ramayana Told Your Way. When we are finally introduced to Ravana and Soorpanaka in the second part of the reading, I began to see a vision for a recreation of The Ramayana. The characters in The Ramayana reminded me of the main characters from the famous Disney Channel Movie, High School Musical. In High School Musical you have the protagonist Troy Bolten who falls in love for the beautiful Gabriella with the antagonist, the siblings Sharpay and Ryan. Sharpay seems to be the mastermind of the entire plan and has a crush on Troy throughout the whole movie. Recreating The Ramayana into a High School Musical, Indian culture style could be the theme for my final project.For the first story Rama could be the "king" of his high school, Koshala High. When one day a new girl arrives at the school, Sita. Rama is smitten by her beauty and must get to know her. This story would be like when they first saw each other and fell in love. The second story could be an introduction to the evil siblings Ravana and Soorpanaka. Soorpanaka has always been in love with Rama but he seemed too busy with his studies to have time to date, that was until this new girl showed up. Soorpanaka is angry and wants Rama for herself all she has to do is convince her brother to help get the new girl Sita out of the way. This story would brief introduce Ravana but mainly we would learn about how Soorpanaka loves Rama and wants to get rid of Sita. The third story will be about Rama with his two best friends Lakshmana and Hanuman discussing if this new girl is worth all of the trouble. The bully of the school Ravana seems to like Sita too, so is it worth the trouble of being on his hit list just to be with some "pretty girl." Rama will, of course, talk about how she is much more than beauty and would do anything to make Sita his girlfriend. This would be similar to when Hunuman wants to help Rama get Sita back and Lakshmana is always trying to help Rama.
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Image: Four main character from High School Musical. Source: flickr by holidaytoys
Hey Ashley!
ReplyDeleteI cannot tell you how many times I have watched High School Musical. That was the movie, while growing up. One of my closest friends still is so smitten over Zac, she loves him to the core. While I was reading this I was so excited when I came across how you planned on doing your StoryBook. I sent her a link to your blog so she follow your posts on this High School Musical take of the Ramayana. I cannot wait to read your narrative!