Directed by Jaya Teacher
Voice by Jaya Teacher and Akhil Mathew
Animation by Jishnu Jobi
Produced by Akhil Mathew
Supported by Safa, Niba, Nyva, Noora and Afrin
Endscreen Voiceover by Jake Arun
For any enquiries, email me at maryjayageorge@gmail.com
Story
Dear Friends
Let's listen to a story today
Once upon a time in Kunnimoni forest, four friends lived happily together.
Do you want to know who they are? Chindan Rabbit, Sundari Deer, Meenu Tortoise, and Jibru Crow were the four friends.
Meenu Tortoise was playing in the Lotus Pond. After he took a good bath, he was resting in the sunlight when a Hunter with a big moustache came along. Meenu was fast asleep.
"Hai! What a big tortoise! Ha Ha ha Ha Ha!" The Hunter captured the tortoise. He put the tortoise in his big sack.
Poor Meenu Tortoise was so scared. He sat quietly in the big sack. Startled by seeing this, all of Meenu’s friends created a plan to rescue him.
Jibru Crow said, "Sundari Deer! Come fast! Come and dance under the gooseberry tree."
Sundari Deer agreed. Sundari Deer started dancing under the gooseberry tree. Jibru Crow perched quickly onto a branch of the gooseberry tree and started crowing loudly!
Hearing the crowing, the hunter went there and saw the beautiful Sundari Deer dancing.
"Oh! How lucky! How long it's been since I saw a deer up close! I am going to trap it right now!" Saying this, the hunter placed the big sack with the tortoise onto the forest floor.
Chindan Rabbit saw the hunter place his big sack on the floor. Chindan Rabbit shouted, "Meenu! Get out! Run away and save yourself! Run towards the Lotus Pond!"
Hearing this, Meenu quickly escaped from the sack, ran toward the lake, and jumped in it.
The hunter could not understand the animals' language. He aimed his bow towards Sundari Deer. Seeing this, Chindan Rabbit shouted, "Sundari Deer, run away! The hunter is aiming for you!"
Hearing this, Sundari Deer quickly ran and escaped. "Ho! The deer ran away. I will definitely catch it soon. I will use a trap to catch it. How dare it mess with me. For now, I will take the tortoise."
Saying this, he looked into the big sack. "Urgh! The tortoise also escaped??" The hunter was furious. He prepared a trap to capture the deer with a net.
Unaware of this, the poor Sundari Deer was walking in the forest when she suddenly fell into the hunter's trap! She was trapped in the net.
"Meenu! Chinda! Jibru! Somebody help me! I'm in danger, I'm caught in the trap! Please help me!"
Meenu and Chindan ran towards her and started ripping the net. The hunter was approaching the trap to see if he caught the deer. That is when Jibru Crow saw the hunter and started crowing loudly to call all of his friends.
Hearing Jibru crying, all the crows in the forest flew to him. "My friends, we have to chase the hunter away! Hurry!" said Jibru Crow.
All the crows flew towards the hunter. The crows started attacking the hunter with their beaks and hitting him with their feet and also started scratching him with their nails. The hunter was frightened and started running away. The crows chased him.
Just like that, Jibru and friends chased the hunter away from the forest. At that time, Meenu and Chindan started tearing the net by biting it and freed Sundari Deer from the trap.
"Ho! At last I'm free! Meenu! Chinda! Jibru! We are so lucky we are all safe," said Sundari Deer. And just like that, they lived together happily again.
Dear friends, we need good friends who will rescue us from danger. We should always help our friends when they are in danger.