Story behind Arneys and his friends and the World of Mr.OB
Arney – an 18 year old shy and a wise friendly human alligator lives in a swamp in a forest located 60 kms away from a residential town. His fairly big duplex cottage with a huge backyard and a kitchen garden is enclosed with a wooden fence. He has a well-equipped Kitchen with a triangular Larder fixed to the wall, a dining area, Nutri-Art & Craft Studio, edu-games corner, Reading Corner and a music corner.
Arney is a stickler for healthy living and believes in the goodness of a life well lived! He walks the talk and gives inputs on adopting healthy eating habits towards a positive food behaviour.
- Through Arney, nutritional inputs and healthy eating habits and awareness is being generated and inculcated among children. Arney’s Backyard, an edutainment series revolves around the main theme based on ARNEY’S FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID from which each of the basic food groups such as cereals, pulses, fruit and veggies, nuts and oils, candies and chocolates are dealt with through:
- Talking about the food group
- Procuring that food item from the kitchen garden
- Cooking/Baking
- Craft with Food items.
- Arney’s human friends are Akki and Aaru- healthy, fit, intelligent, playful kids who love Arney. They come to attend and are left with Arney by their parents for a week during their autumn break. Akki and Aaru are also joined by their other friends. They cook together, do kitchen gardening, craft activities etc together. All the kids along with the new kids learn nutrition, food, cooking basics, through mime, art and craft, music and a fun dance. Spread over a 12 episode is a packaged presentation of facts and instructions to a healthy future for kids in subtle and interesting way that would engross the viewers promoting natural learning of the same. All Episodes will be a perfect amalgamation of Humor, bonding between the Animals and Human, Learning, Art & Craft, Emotions, Singing, Mystery, Interactive games/quiz with the Viewers.
Let us now introduce the Characters
Arney-The Aligator
Arney is an 18 year old, friendly alligator with smiling big blue eyes. He strongly advocates the benefits of eating healthy food which he believes is a lifelong ticket to good health. Arney has a boyish yet a young adult charm on his face. Arney is still growing and his height is 11 feet but can be made to the scale of 7 feet as his tail can be curled outside. He is neat, has sparkling white teeth and a big smile. Since he is mischievous and meant to be funny, he must have the features supporting that look as well. Arney has small forelimbs and hind limbs true to its original look, the palm has the same original web digits -5 claws on each front foot and four on each rear foot. His body will be brighter olive on its back with scales and a dirty yellow underside.
Mr.OB from OBCity
Mr. OB is a sixty year old industrialist with a flourishing food processing industry. He has a big paunch and is greedy for money. OB robs the farmers off their fresh produce of potatoes, tomatoes, rice, corn, wheat, coconut oil, spices, fruits to process them into chips and juices. In order to lure the masses, especially children, he packs in attractive toys in the food packets. To fulfil the demand for processed food, he converts a small self-reliant village into a dirty polluted Industrial township. His mission is to Feed City Children with Junk Food, conserve fat cells emissions from children, ruin Arney's mission and Farmland. That's the only way OB can survive and stay rich and also keep his THREE monster pets alive by ensuring that children are Fed Unhealthy and processed food. These monsters are Junkie Monster, Faa and Thresha
Maayi
A brown and white spotted coat with clear blue eyes who is very motherly and caring is how children know of Maayi the cow. Contrary to how Arney instils healthy eating habits in a disciplined fashion, she is always in conflict with this theory as she feels children are at such a tender age and need a lot of love and freedom. She easily gets into the pampering mode which Arney is strictly against. She has a liking for chewing gum and blowing a bubble with that is what makes her extremely happy. Her love for chewing gums has been gauged by children who use this to trade each prank that they are not supposed to with buying her chewing gums to keep it from Arney's knowledge.
Henna
Henna the hen is a loving and obedient hen who is equally restless and anxiety prone. When encountered by a fearful situation she begins to stammer and quickly lays an egg. She loves human children dearly which makes her very caring and protective by nature. Hena when she is nervous she stammers. Hena is very protective for the children and so much concerned that sometimes makes a mountain out of a molehill.
BuzzBee
Mischievous combined with a subtle punkish look. Her big eyes and long gracious eye lashes are very expressive. She is a very busy character always short of time, laborious, street smart, is slightly punkish look. She is a mini dynamite. She is full of style. She is always at work and while at work she gathers a lot of information. Kids love her and likewise, and so she keeps flying in to meet them. But kids yearn for her and she is forever running against time. She is full of energy is agile, quick in her actions. She loves electronics and curiously wants to know more about the liquidizer making the same buzzzz sound, wants to know how to play a playstation. She is full of admiration for herself. Her catch phrase “I am very BUZZZZY”. She looks into the mirror glances at her own reflection and says ”Oh Hello gorgeous” her She will playfully carry a camera and catch us in the middle of our work in the closing credits.
Mr. O
Gray and Brown feathers with a white ring on his neck. Big expressive eyes. Alert agile and Intelligent. He is very wise and is revered as an old professor or Guru. Children and address him as Mr.O as a mark of respect. All of the children’s queries are addressed effortlessly by him. He is very articulate and precise in his selection of words and that is the reason why he is not too fond of Macaw. He feels Macaw is too noisy and repeats unnecessarily which irks Mr.O. Mr.O often visits Arney’s cottage/backyard and is always welcomed by Arney and the Children. MAC and Mr.O often end-up quarrelling and Arney/Kids have to intervene to sort out their differences.
