Harry Puttar aur Baba ka pathar

Once upon a time, in a far away village in Punjab, there was a small happy family - The Sandhus. They had one kid - named Harjeet Sandhu . Of course, as is usually the case with people having such names, he was nicknamed 'Harry'.

Our Harry was a dumbo ... I mean really ... he could not understand anything - not even simple things like The Special Theory of Relativity. He was also very forgetful. So forgetful that some people even thought that he was suffering from Alzheimer disease at such a tender age. Owing to his forgetfulness, his parents carved a tilted 'S' on his forehead - to denote that he was one of the 'Sandhus' so that if he ever gets lost, at least people know that he belongs to the 'Sandhus' and should drop him home.

His parents used to call him Harry Puttar where puttar stands for son. But dumb that he was, he started thinking that his name was Harry Puttar and not Harjeet Sandhu (he had no friends and did not roam out of the house. So not many people bothered to call him with his real name).

When he was 10 years old, his parents bought a new tractor. One year after they bought it, they went out to attend a wedding in another village. But they never came back. Investigations conducted by the local police station revealed that they were mysteriously killed when they had an accident with a tree on the road side. Most people couldn't find the mystery in it. But the headmaster of the only school in Harjeet's village - Ali Baba- knew it. A stone was found near the place where the tractor had rammed into the tree. Ali Baba instantly recognized the stone - it was a cursed stone, which belonged to the Baba 'Bholenath Dum-Dum Waale'. He only could do such powerful magic and curse a stone so that it mysteriously positioned itself in path of the tractor and made it crash in the tree.

Ali Baba tried to tell this to the villagers, but owing partly to the faith the people had in the Baba and partly to the fact that this was a ridiculous theory, the villagers ignored him. But he did not stop here. He went to Harjeet and told him his theory. Dumb as our Harry was, he immediately clung to this theory and made a woe to punish the Baba for his mysterious and evil deed. Of course there was no proof that this theory was true, but Harry was dumb you see.

The next time our Baba Bholenath Dum-Dum Waale made a trip to the village, Harry went to him at night, accompanied by the doddering headmaster Ali Baba. Baba Bholenath Dum-Dum Waale was aghast at their appearance at such odd hour - it was after all 9:30 PM and he was watching a repeat of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, along with his girl friend Pammi Anderson (you-know-who). Harry at once tried to strangle Baba. Dumb that he was - he didn't even ask him whether he had anything to do with the murder. But Ali Baba stopped him. He had other plans for Baba. He wanted him to die slowly and painfully.

Baba, intelligent that he was, tried to make the maximum out of this opportunity. He tried to strike a conversation. He at least wanted to know what he was being punished for. Harry told him everything. After listening to the story, Baba told him that he had sensed that Harjeet Sandhu's parents were in mortal danger at that time and so he enchanted the stone in question to save their lives. But he was too late. He could not place the stone there in time. He also told them that since the enchantments were not fully used, they could be used to make Harry a shade brighter.

And so, a-shade-brighter-Harjeet Sandhu emerged from the cottage of Baba Bholenath Dum-Dum Waale, who resumed watching the repeat of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. The question was, that if he did not kill Harry's parents, then who did? He was certain that they were murdered and the accident was not the fault of his father (after all he had been riding the tractor for nearly an year now and it had been almost 19 days since he had received a temporary driving license).

Seeing that he was confused, Ali Baba suggested the name of the Hawaldar of the village - Valminder Brar. He was a cunning and evil fellow after all and it must be him who killed there parents. But our Harry was a shade brighter now (remember?). So he asked the basis of such a theory. Ali Baba was taken aback. He had not expected this from Harry. So as randomly as he had suggested the name of Valminder (Vallu), he said 'Money'. Harry was convinced.

He went after Vallu alone this time. Vallu heard what he had to say and put him behind the bars for good. Also, he heard the next day that Ali Baba had mysteriously vanished - no one was able to locate him in the village. Now he was left alone - with no parents and the only other person he trusted more than his life - Ali Baba also gone. And he was alone ......