टमाटर बड़ा मजे़दार (Tamatar Bada Mazedar) - EdukayFUN

**टमाटर बड़ा मजे़दार (Tamatar Bada Mazedar) - EdukayFUN** is part of a series of educational videos created by EdukayFUN.

## Plot

The story takes place over five acts.

The first act opens to a scene of a kitchen door. Papa enters the kitchen and places a paper bag full of tomatoes on the kitchen counter among various other staples. He then exits the kitchen to attend to other matters. Johnny enters the kitchen and, spying the bag of fresh tomatoes, begins to feast upon them, unable to resist the temptation. Johnny then appears to suffer an anaphylactic reaction as his face progressively reddens and swells. The reaction is revealed to be gravely serious as his head balloons to enormous proportions and his body completely withers away. His head consumes the full view of the camera and begins to slowly rotate. As the camera pans back we see that the premise of an allergic reaction was a red herring—in reality the tomato has imbued Johnny with its essence and transformed him into a Tomato Johnny.

Tomato Johnny begins rocking back and forth for a short while, then bounces his way across the kitchen floor. Once settled in front of the refrigerator, he begins cycling through a series of spasmodic convulsions. Suddenly, and without warning, Pussy arrives on the scene, racing through the kitchen with a mouse chasing after her in hot pursuit. Pussy quickly outmaneuvers the mouse, however, and with their roles now reversed, the mouse finds itself desperately trying to escape from Pussy.

In the second act, Tomato Johnny bounces on to the kitchen counter where the remaining tomatoes are revealed to have spilled out of the bag. Tomato Johnny conjures the tomatoes into an army of Tomato Johnny clones. The Tomato Johnnies bounce off the counter and onto the kitchen floor. Tomato Johnny's incantation is seen to have spilled over into the surrounding kitchen as green vines begin descending from the kitchen ceiling. The Tomato Johnnies bounce along the kitchen floor for a short distance when suddenly the entire kitchen undergoes a kaleidoscopic reconfiguration. Eight Tomato Johnny clones arrange themselves into a symmetric lattice and begin rotating around a ninth, central Tomato Johnny, while together they execute a sequence of precisely choreographed deformations. The green vines continue to grow in a spiral pattern in the background. Pussy once more appears, launching vertically through the air by means of a combustible propellant thrusting from her hindquarters. A mouse pursues close behind Pussy, driven by the rapid ambulation of its rear legs. The chase is cut short, however, as the mouse is seen scrambling back down towards the ground with Pussy quickly closing in, her descent controlled by a newly deployed parachute.

In the third act, the green vines have metastasized with new Tomato Johnny clones multiplying uncontrollably, consuming the entire kitchen. They engage in their now familiar routine of tightly choreographed distortions followed by bouncing around the kitchen. They then organize themselves into a large circle and begin rapidly orbiting around a central—and presumably the original—Giant Tomato Johnny. Pussy, now mysteriously colored green, reenters the kitchen, once again pursued by the mouse. Pussy's luck continues to hold as she once again manages to turn the tables on the mouse, who is forced to flee as Pussy hunts her down.

In the fourth act, the swarm of Tomato Johnny Clones have consumed every square inch of the kitchen. Papa manages to force the kitchen door open to discover the room has been overrun with Tomato Johnny Clones and green vines. In a surprising and uncharacteristic break from routine, he opts not to interrogate Johnny on his possible involvement in the tomato infestation, but instead takes immediate action. He dives into the seething mass of Tomato Johnnies, which by now have arranged themselves in a cylindrical pattern and coordinated their movements to auger a hole in spacetime. Papa dives into the hole and descends toward the bottom with his arms extended out in front of him, foreshadowing his intention to commit an act of sadistic physical abuse on Tomato Johnny. He discovers a Giant Tomato Johnny at the epicenter of the newly burrowed shaft. Giant Tomato Johnny endeavors to eat Papa, but Papa short circuits the attempt by brandishing some silverware that he had concealed behind his head. Papa approaches Giant Tomato Johnny, who is now behind the view of the camera. When Papa finally reaches his rival, the screen cuts to black. Off camera we can hear sounds of a knife slicing into a ripe vegetable, from which we are meant to infer the fate of Giant Tomato Johnny. The fate of the other Tomato Johnny Clones is unknown.

In the final act we see the story pick back up in the dining room. Johnny has resumed his original form and is seated at the dinner table with a freshly sliced tomato placed before him. Papa joins Johnny at the dinner table with his own plate of sliced tomatoes, which he proceeds to dine on with gusto. Johnny considers for some time eating his plate of tomatoes, but his attention becomes divided between the plate of tomatoes and Papa. Ultimately he rejects the tomatoes, pushing the plate off the table and onto the dining room floor. He then jumps up on his chair with his mouth gaping open and his arms positioned out in front of him, betraying his intention to dine not on tomatoes, but on Papa. Papa is not without his defenses, however, as we see a floor lamp positioned behind Johnny radiate an eerie red glow. A levitating Tomato Papa emerges from under the lampshade, sneaking up on Johnny and swallowing him whole. The Tomato Papa places itself upon Papa's now headless body, whereupon they (presumably) reunite back into the original Papa. In a twisted and disturbingly callous finale, Papa heartlessly burps out a green propeller-beanie hat towards the camera as the scene fades to black.

## Cast

* Johnny Johnny as himself and Tomato Johnny
* Papa as himself and Tomato Papa
* Pussy as herself
* Mouse as itself

## Production

Although the video has been generated using advanced computer graphic animation technologies, one group of researchers has calculated that the computing power required to render the myriad Tomato Johnnies that appear in the video outstrips by orders of magnitude the capabilities of even the world's most powerful supercomputers. Instead, they conclude that the video must incorporate additional inventive image manipulation techniques to achieve the video's sophisticated *mise-en-scène*. The kaleidoscopic imagery seen in the video is reminiscent of the work of Michel Gondry, who has produced similar visuals for The Chemical Brothers music video *Let Forever Be* and the feature-length film *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*. However, Michel Gondry has not confirmed his participation in this or any other EdukayFUN video.

## Themes and analysis

Unlike other videos in the series, this video concerns itself not with sugar, but with tomatoes. The unfamiliar subject matter has flummoxed researchers attempting to distill out its inner meaning. One group of investigators, noting the cryptic title of the video, employed advanced linguistic analysis in an attempt to identify clues as to the video's proper interpretation. They attribute the unusual script appearing in the title to a Devanagari variant of Sanskrit, translating to "Tomato Big Fun." Further investigation revealed the title to be part of a Hindi nursery-rhyme with the following lyrics:

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> आह ! टमाटर बड़े मजेदार, "Ahh! Tomato big fun,"
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> एक दिन इसको चूहे ने खाया, "one day it was eaten by the mouse,"
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> बिल्ली को भी मार भगाया | "even killed the cat."
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> आह ! टमाटर बड़े मजेदार, "Ahh! Tomato big fun,"
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> एक दिन इसको चींटी ने खाया, "one day it was eaten by an ant,"
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> हाथी को भी मार भगाया | "and also killed the elephant."
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> आह ! टमाटर बड़े मजेदार, "Ahh! Tomato big fun,"
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> एक दिन इसको पतलू ने खाया, "one day it was eaten by skinny,"
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> मोटू को भी मार भगाया | "also killed the fatty."
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Advanced natural language processing algorithms incorporating hidden Markov models showed that these lyrics are, in fact, the same lyrics sung in the soundtrack accompanying the video. The exciting chase scenes involving Pussy and the mouse coincide with the lyrics describing how the ingestion of tomatoes by animals and the emaciated endows them with lethal force. The investigators conclude that the video is a straightforward presentation of the classic children's nursery rhyme.

The conclusion, criticized as puerile and naive, has been overwhelmingly rejected by a majority of the research community. Most researchers agree the video depicts a depraved act of revenge committed by Papa against Johnny in retribution for his unrepentant sugar consumption. They speculate that Papa drugged the tomatoes with a strong psychoactive agent, and the video portrays Johnny's hallucinogenic adventure after having consumed one of the adulterated tomatoes. One research group performed an extensive series of experiments to investigate the possible identity of the specific hallucinogen used by Papa to poison the tomatoes. Using themselves as subjects, they ingested large doses of various psychedelics and compared their experiences to the surreal imagery depicted in the video. They found one drug in particular—*Tri-Osmium-Methyl-Alpha-Tryptamine-Oxalate—*imparted hallucinations containing intense tomato visuals that were strikingly similar to the imagery portrayed in the video.

## External Links

टमाटर बड़ा मजे़दार (Tamatar Bada Mazedar) - EdukayFUN