The wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

This short film based on a story by Roald Dahl is like a gift to wrapped in layers and layers of paper because you don’t want to expose how tiny the gift is. 

But the film available in Netflix has many positive reviews, may be it IS good. 

The short film begins with the writer - Roald Dahl sitting on his writing desk. telling a story of a super rich, spoilt miser called Henry Sugar. 

He inherited large wealth and would not part with it. He didn’t even marry as he doesn’t want to share his wealth with his wife. He never does any honest day’s work.

One day he comes across a book in a friend’s library. He does not like any book here as he only reads detective stories. But he opens this particular book only because it was thin and it was slightly pulled out. It  looked like an exercise notebook of a child. It had a title - the story of Imdad  Khan who could see without his eyes.

This Imdad Khan was part of circus group. One day he meets a sage who has mystic powers and could levitate above ground. Khan asks and begs him. And the sage reluctantly teaches him. So Khan learns how to concentrate on any object without any other thought. He sits in front of a candle and concentrates on his brother. Everyday he practices this. One day he realises he can see things without the help of his eyes. 

Still part of the circus group, he goes to different towns. There he goes to largest hospital and asks the doctors there to completely bandage his eyes. Then in his show he will correctly identify things put in front of him, even read books with his eyes completely bandaged. 

Once our Henry reads this book, he wants to learn this meditation technique. He too practices and concentrates. On his own photo. 

One day finally he is ready and he can see things not visible to the eyes.

Guess where he heads? He goes to a casino, and with his power wins 30000 pounds. 

But once he is home, he is not at all satisfied with the money. So he throws all of it from his first floor balcony and shouts out to people to take the money. A cop comes and scolds Henry Sugar for almost causing a riot and advises him to donate his money in proper legal way. 

Henry sugar keeps travelling to different cities and different countries and using disguises wins large amounts of money in casinos with his power and donates this money to various hospitals and orphanages. 

Do such transformation’s really happen? Or have I become a total cynic, unwilling to believe in goodness?