Anukul

 

‘Anukul’ is a short film directed by Sujoy Gosh written by Satyajit Ray which portrays how human job has been gobbled down by AI product. This film portrays the future which turned out to be partially true. During the course of the film, we see that the robot learns something new from Nikunj which is very different. 

The film starts on the note that Nikunj Chaturvedi buys a robot form Kolkata’s Chowringhee’ s Robot supply corporative on an EMI plan in order to keep him as a house helper. Anukul is very fond of reading books. Nikunj is informed that Anukul would function 24/7 without break nor sleep which sounds quite impossible for anyone be it a machine or a human being. The lady in charge of giving Anukul to Mr. Nikunj informs him that Anukul should not be hit otherwise the consequences would be brutal. There is a warning given to Mr. Nikunj but is cut in between and the story line begins from here.

 
Anukul is brought home and is shown the house where he would be spending time. When Anukul steps into the house he finds a room filled to the brim with just books. As he relishes reading  he sits in a corner and starts reading. As the clock ticks the bond between Mr. Nikunj and Anukul becomes different which is not between a house helper and a boss. Suddenly we see Nikunj’s cousin (Ratan) brother comes to his house and his eye pops out when a finds out that a robot has been hired by Nikunj which had made Ratan lose his job. He gives a nice hearing to Nikunj. Ratan is calmed down and made to sit. Ratan sees Anukul ironing and he asks Anukul to pick up a book from the table. In the meantime, Ratan due to anger boiling within him picks up the iron and smashes Anukul’s head and he drops dead. The lady comes to repair Anukul and gives a warning that something like this happens the next time Anukul will give back. As usual Nikunj goes to work but comes back early and disappointed. He mentions he has lost his job due to him being replaced by a robot.

The next morning Ratan comes back and is unhappy to Anukul still there. Ratan had come to give a piece of news which seemed to benefit only him which was that their uncle (Nibaran) was dead and all the wealth he possessed would be handed over to Ratan since he was the next heir. Nikunj wanted to attend the funeral so he went inside to get dressed and at the same time he heard a loud sound from the hall and when he went to see… he saw that Ratan was lying on the floor. When he asked Anukul he mentioned he  was about to be hit and gave a high voltage electric shock to Ratan. When the body was to be taken it was mentioned that due to the loud thunder sound Ratan suffered a heart attack and passed away. The lawyer came and mentioned that since Nikunj was the next heir he was given 11 crores of wealth and property from his uncle. Nikunj was shocked to hear that.

The story ends on the note saying that one should always listen to their heart (dil).