Hindi Tv Serial The Stone Boy

The Stone Boy is an Indian television series, mainly for children. It was telecasted on DD National, an Indian television channel, in 1991. It is an Indo-Mauritius short film and its shooting was done in Mauritius. T. S. Nagabharana has done the direction of the show. The whole story was wrapped up in 10 episodes. The story revolves around the misfortune of a poor farmer who gets cursed by the fairy angels. Archana and his brother Ajit takes admission in a new school as they were shifted to a new place because their father’s job was transferred to a new country. It was difficult for both the children to make new friends in the beginning so they had fights with many of them. After a due course of time, they heard about a mountain called Stone Boy which had its unique story. There was a poor farmer who was suffering from severe poverty. His only source of income was the goat’s milk. He used to sell it and earn some livelihood.

One day he observed an unbelievable sight of fairies landing on earth. They were dancing and singing and were in full enjoyment. He hid behind a large stone and watched them dancing and enjoying. However, a fairy caught him hiding and got angry and began to curse him. But he requested them to forgive him. One fairy felt sympathy towards him and asked him to keep this as a secret by promising them. She says “From this instant, all your poverty will get converted into prosperity. There will be no hurdles in your life. But you have to keep this secret that we fairies visit earth. If it is revealed to anyone, then you will again become poor and will get converted into a stone on that high mountain. You will appear as a normal human being once in fifty years and for just three days. This will only happen when someone will call you from the bottom of his heart by climbing that mountain.

And after three days, you will again become a stone for another fifty years. This would be your punishment if you did not keep our secret”. And then the fairies disappeared. Ultimately, all those words became real for that poor farmer. He was becoming rich due to the profit in his business. But the villagers were becoming jealous and forced him to tell the secret behind this. The boy tried hard not to tell them anything about the fairies, but he did not hide it for a long time. As soon as he reveals the truth, he was transformed into a stone and was shifted to the peak of the mountain. Since then, the mountain came to be called as the Stone Boy. Ajit and Archana on hearing this story decided to call back the Stone Boy. They climbed the mountain and tried to call him, but the Stone Boy did not appear. They got busy in their lives again. After some days, they both decided to call him again since they were deprived of good friends in the new place. This time, they called him with the bottom of their hearts and so they succeeded in bringing the stone boy to life. He helped both in making new friends. And finally, the series ended with the emotional scene of the boy transforming back to a stone.