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The Avatar ReviewOn Lord Krishna's birthday, a miracle baby is born into THE prominent Hindu family in Mangalam, a village on the southwest coast of India. The general consensus among family members is that the infant must certainly be the avatar, or reincarnation of Krishna. Except Babli, the logical science student in the family, challenges everyone's leap of faith about her tiny cousin. When she catches a glimpse of his long dark hair and sideburns, she quips that he could just as well be Elvis. Neeli, her older sister and aspiring journalist, writes an article about the miracle baby and includes Babli's "Elvis" comment. But the school newspaper editor rejects her story. So to show him she gives the article to her cousin Raji's brand new husband who is the computer specialist for the Memphis Tattler. After the wedding he returns to Tennessee, and passes the article to the editor who is always eager to publish anything "Elvis". The editor changes the article so that it implies that the miracle baby of Mangalam is the reincarnation of Elvis and publishes it. Maggie Duckworth, a filthy rich Elvis fan and certified nut case, reads the article and decides she must go to India, find this child King and return him to his rightful throne at Graceland.
When Maggie-the-oil-magnate arrives in Mangalam with Alonzo-the-Tattler-reporter in tow, a collision of culture, politics, religion, and espionage ignites an hilarious group insanity that reverberates all the way up to the Prime Minister in New Delhi, reducing government officials to what they do best -- pulling solutions out of their collective butts.
"The Avatar" is a movie waiting to be put on film. Oozing with irony, this tale contains the small town political hi-jinks of "Fuse", the blind faith of "Waiting for Guffman", the family feuds of "Cold Comfort Farm", and the baby antics of "Raising Arizona" -- all in one wacky satire. Tabrizi has a whimsical way of lampooning cultural differences to make us laugh at how very much alike we all are on this planet.
Copyright (c) 2005 by Peggy TibbettsThe Avatar Overview The story is based on the alleged discovery of Elvis Presley's reincarnation in Mangalam, a small village set amidst the backwaters of the Malabar Coast in India. The subsequent events when an Elvis-mad matron from Memphis, Tennessee comes to claim the child as her very own make for a very hilarious reading. The events start unfolding when the astrologer called into cast the child's birth horoscope declares the child to be an avatar, a great reincarnation. Everybody assumes the reincarnation to be that of Lord Krishna, the deity worshipped in the village. But the two precocious daughters of Sunita, the neighbour and a distant relation of the child's parents, create, without meaning to, a feeling that the child is actually a reincarnation of Elvis Presley. Neeli, the eldest of the two, editor of her college magazine and an aspiring journalist, manages to publish an article about the phenomenon in the "Memphis Tattler". Maggie Duckworth, a rich widow and fanatic in her devotion to Elvis, reads the article and lands in India to claim the child. She has Alonzo Bosworthy, a novice reporter from the tabloid, in tow to cover what she thinks will be a scoop. Besides, her ulterior motive is to chase out the present guardians of the Presley Foundation, with whom she had a long series of run-ins, and install the true heir to the throne of Graceland Mansions. The Mangalam villagers meanwhile have come to very different conclusions about the impending visit of the Americans. The village barber, a fanatic Maoist, is convinced that the Americans are actually CIA agents coming to take over what he imagines to be the oil wealth hidden under the village. He organizes the farm workers to protest against the visit. Meanwhile, a defrocked priest and his small coterie of Christian followers in the village maintain that the child is actually the second Christ come to redeem the world, and maintain a vigil outside the reincarnation's house. They are there to prevent the child being spirited away to the West. The barber's wild imagination had also infected the staid householders of the village and they want their cut of the oil wealth lying under their feet. Of course there is the village yokel suddenly transformed by a series of misunderstandings into a Greek scholar whose wild oratory is listened to by the villagers avidly but without understanding. By the time Maggie Duckworth arrives at the village she is met by all these forces, which she cannot fathom. Things are not helped by the avaricious nature of the reincarnation's father, Mr. Keshavan, who dreams of inheriting Presley's Graceland on behalf of his son. As if these things were not enough for Maggie Duckworth, Bosworthy manages to get himself arrested as a spy with designs on India's cultural heritage when he wanders into the village temple. The story goes on to its ultimate denouement as the Indian papers, slow on the uptake, now create a country- wide furor making the incident take on an international flavour with formal protests being lodged with the American Ambassador in India and nearly bringing the Indian Government down for kowtowing to the Americans. Sunita's two daughters though central to the theme are just onlookers and as bewildered as Maggie by the course of events they have unleashed. Babli, the younger one, is the agnostic with a healthy disrespect for the superstitions surrounding the village life. But she triggers off events leading to the acceptance of the child to be a reincarnation of Elvis.

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