April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day (sometimes called April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day) is celebrated every year on 1 April by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. The jokes and their victims are called April fools. People playing April Fool joke expose their prank shouting April Fool. Some newspapers, magazines, and other published media report fake stories, which are usually explained the next day or below the news section in small letters. Although popular since the 19th century, the day is not a public holiday in any country.

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1392) contains the first recorded association between 1 April and foolishness.

Origins

The custom of setting aside a day for the playing of harmless pranks upon one's neighbor is recognized everywhere. Some precursors of April Fools' Day include the Roman festival of Hilaria, the Holi festival of India, and the Medieval Feast of Fools.

In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392), the "Nun's Priest's Tale" is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. Modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, Syn March was gon. Thus the passage originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. 2 May, the anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, which took place in 1381. Readers apparently misunderstood this line to mean "32 March", i.e. 1 April. In Chaucer's tale, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox.

April Fool (song)

"April Fool" is the second single from Canadian band Chalk Circle and the first from their debut EP, The Great Lake.

The single was available on 7" and 12" singles. The 12" featured two remixes of the A-side as well as a remix of third single "Me, myself & I", which are still unavailable on CD.

Track listing

7": Duke Street / DSR 71024 (Canada)

12": Duke Street / DSR 12024 (Canada)

Credits

Personnel

Production

April Fool (2010 film)

April Fool is a 2010 Malayalam comedy film directed by Viji Thampi, scripted by Jagadish, and produced by Santosh Damodar. It stars Siddique , Jagadish and Navya Natarajan in lead roles.

While the film credits Jagadish as the script writer, it is in fact an uncredited remake (except for some regional adaptations in the dialogue) of the 2007 Bollywood film Bheja Fry, by Sagar Bellary which inturn was a remake of the 1998 French film Le Dîner de Cons (directed by Francis Veber), a cinema adaptation of the theatrical play of the same name written by Veber himself and an adapted remake of Dinner for Schmucks

The movie gave a poor performance in the box office.

Plot

Rakesh Menon (Siddique) is a music producer (a publisher in Veber's script) married to a singer (played by Navya Natarajan). Rakesh and his friends get together every Friday for a party. In this party, they invite idiots to ridicule them behind the scenes and calling them "talent". They enjoy doing it so much that they don't even mind missing out on family appointments.