I saw the movie Dr. Dolittle 4 - Tail to the Chief, a few days back on Star Movies Channel.
The film fantasizes about how animals helped a girl and the US President to enter into an agreement with an African Prince to save rain forests.
My OBSERVATIONS (You need not agree with me):
Fantasies are not new to history. The director, Craig Shapiro has used his creative imagination and unrestrained fancy fully creating a hilarious comedy. Hats off to him. Peter Coyote as the American President is also very impressive and charming.
We can say that the first fantasy in Indian literature, probably the world literature is the "Valmiki Ramayana". The epic fantasies:
1. existence of aircrafts which can accommodate infinite number of people. The plane was like a magic carpet. It can land anywhere, even in deep forests without landing strips or helipads.
2. monkeys helping the protagonist Shri Rama in tracing out his wife abducted by a demon. The monkeys also help him in building a bridge of about 1500 kms. across the Indian Ocean between India and Sri Lanka.
3. kites help Rama in searching for his wife. The kite Jatayu also lectures on how the Universe and the humans were created. The lecture includes the process of creating the four caste system which is ubiquitous in Indian society.
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