ANUKUL

Film Anukul is short film based on Artificial Intelligence. It highlights on the importance of using technology in daily lives of the people. It also goes on to say that robots are as good as humans. The makers did not want Anukul to be addressed as “this” to highlight as a human. It also hints at the selfish needs of the humans. 
The film opens show casing big and tall buildings giving an impression that the film is based out of city. An agreement was being made between the makers of the robot the Chowrangee Robot Supply Corporation and a Hindi teacher, Nikunj. They discuss on how different Anukul is from other robots and the mode of payment to be made by the Hindi teacher.trying to buy a technological product and inquiring about its functionality. The audience is slowly let into this universe and we’re told that the product he’s buying is actually a human-Robort  who can be employed as a house-keeper. We are told that there are no overtime charges and he doesn’t even take any weekends off. Who wouldn’t want a robot of this nature? The film is set in a dystopian future that maintains its realism by way of showcasing the surroundings as we know them today, but futuristic it is. The android-humans are starting to take over all kinds of jobs that earlier employed humans. Of course, they are robots who don’t take any weekends off. Who wouldn’t hire them? The social unrest against the robots is rising. There are protests being held against them by the humans but it feels like an inevitable change that is taking over the society. In many ways, this feels like the beginning of the industrial revolution. 
The change that was here to stay but wasn’t welcomed by our kind.Anukul, the android, (played by Parambrata Chattopadhyay) is an innocent looking ‘man’, who loves to read and is fascinated by the collection of books at his employer’s house. His machine doesn’t sleep and so he spends all his free time reading. But his reading isn’t just mechanical, he knows how to interpret and that makes him better than most humans. Anukul and Nikunj’s conversations feel like a student-teacher relationship. Their discussion over The Gita and Dharma is well-utilised and serves the larger plot as well.The film’s core lies in the constant battle between man and machine. The unavoidable changes that are beyond one’s control can either be accepted whole-heartedly because, in the end, only one can emerge as the winner. The android machines can be manipulated because a man’s capacity to think, interpret and feel will exceed the robot’s, or that’s what we think right now, but resisting a change that is much larger than all of us is like living in a fool’s paradise. This short film is the expression of the feelings of the robort and how people on those days will behave with the robot even it respects human the humans show that difference between the feelings and ethics of robot and humans.
 Sujoy Ghosh’s cinema has always had nuggets of Satyajit Ray’s work hidden in them. Several parts of the film are extremely faithful to Ray’s story, including fine details such as Anukuls costume . Ghosh’s primary addition to the story is the typical humans-against-machines trope prevalent in science fiction.Anukul by Satyajit Ray: Satyajit Ray’s short story is a brilliant take on how human beings manipulate everything according to their need. The novel centres around a simple school teacher who buys a robot for his daily needs, named Anukul. Written during the time when machines were replacing humans in factories and at different jobs, the story is a comment on rampant industrialization. But being a fan of science-fiction himself, Ray actually wanted to show how machines cannot be inherently evil and that they are only programmed to compute the way they behave. I personally felt painful because of the behavior of the people towards the robot in the past. And the best comparison I noticed is now a days every human wanted a robot because of their laziness. 

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