With its thrilling action sequences and endearing characters, Kung Fu Panda 4 enthrals viewers and provides an incredible cinematic experience.

Po must train a new warrior when he’s chosen to become the spiritual leader of the Valley of Peace. However, when a formidable shape-shifting sorceress sets her eyes on his Staff of Wisdom, he suddenly realises he’s going to need some help to confront the threat.

While the film maintains its signature humour and heart-warming messages of friendship and self-discovery along the way, it struggles with a recycled plot that feels less innovative than its predecessors. Jack Black and the voice cast deliver solid performances, infusing all the characters with charm and energy.

Overall, Kung Fu Panda 4 may not reach the heights of the earlier films, but it still delivers enough excitement and laughs to satisfy both fans of the series and new viewers.

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In order to maintain fine health, it is important to have perfect synchronisation between the mind, body and spirit. Shakespeare remarked, “Laugh away your blues”, hence humour and comedy is essential for a wonderful life which is short and momentary. It is believed that laughter is the best medicine to cure all illnesses, particularly psychosomatic ailments, and also enhances complete blood circulation in the body. Here I would like to draw your attention to India’s most funny man, Raju Srivastav, who left for his heavenly abode after battling for his life for more than a month at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. Raju suffered a heart attack on 10 August while he was at the gym; he underwent an angioplasty and was kept on a ventilator for a long time, and did not regain consciousness. While he entertained the whole world with his reality-based humour, it is sad he had to make an early exit at the age of 58.

Satya Prakash Srivastava, popularly known as Raju Srivastav, was an acclaimed comedian, actor and politician. Born on 25 December 1963 in Kanpur to Ramesh Chandra and Saraswati Srivastav, Raju developed a passion for acting and mimicry at an early age, often imitating his friends and relatives with a comic touch. During his formative days, while in school, he used to wonder why a particular guy would attract the attention of girls. With his humorous anecdotes, he felt that he too was capable of this. He started imitating his teachers, especially a teacher who was a goiter patient who could hardly move his head. A complaint reached the principal and Raju was summoned to his office. The young Raju imitated the teacher again in the presence of the principal. He was pardoned for his act and let off. But Raju’s parents were disgusted with their son as he was not serious about anything. His friends suggested that he try to act in films in the city of dreams — Mumbai.

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The classic comedy scenario involves a man, preferably fat and pompous-looking, walking down the street, stepping on a banana peel and falling on his well-padded bottom. A spectator would find this comic because the prosperous, self-satisfied air of the fallen one has been so easily and so incongruously deflated by so humble a piece of refuse as a discarded banana skin. The episode which sums up the old moral science lesson that pride goes before a fall has about it an elegant symmetry.

What is humour?

A sense of humour is the dancing of a happy stream down a wooded mountainside, laughing around boulders, giggling gleefully in downward bounce, bubbling all the while it is cool, refreshing, soothing to the head, throat and feet.

True humour is natural, spontaneous and has a childlike quality about it. Mencius said, “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart”. A child’s heart is full of fun and frolic, full of humour and laughter — the child on a swing, the child singing and dancing, the child making sand worlds on the beach. This childlike quality of fun, frolic and light-heartedness is disappearing from our society. Rarely do we hear spontaneous, uproarious laughter. We pay large amounts of money to get professional comics to make us laugh. We love clowns in weird attire, they perform outrageous and hilarious antics to make us laugh, to help us see the simple truth about our human frailties, and fragilities. Deep down we are clowns; some of us more polished, sophisticated clowns, performing our strange antics in the theatre of this world.

The sense of nonsense

Nonsense is very often loaded with a lot of sense. Aristotle, the great philosopher, said: “There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man”. Some degree of nonsense is relished by the best of men. One who dares to be a fool may be taking the first step in the direction of wisdom. An erudite, scholarly fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool. The fool in Shakespeare’s King Lear is much wiser than the king himself. The foolish man who is happy and gay is superior to the cynical, bored intellectual. The sadness and inertia of the bored person may be educated, sophisticated and intellectual, but they cannot possibly be such good things in themselves as the great purpose, the high idealism, the starry enthusiasm and the imaginary delights and exploits of a Don Quixote. It is a far superior thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to sail in the troubled waters of thought, speculation and confusion.

Newton was so fond of a cat he had that he cut a hole in one of the walls of his house to make it convenient for its entry and exit. One day he saw that she had kittens and in his usual philosophic absent-mindedness, cut out a neat little hole (a much smaller one) for the kittens!

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