Indian Boy Reincarnation of US Scientist - Say What?

A couple years ago the 14 year old Rajesh Kumar from the town of Rampur started spouting english to huge effect, according to the Indian superstitious news wires and IBNLive.com:

The boy talks gibberish with a few words of science thrown in here and there. And the people in his village Rampur claim that “Rajesh Kumar is explaining scientific formulas and concepts,” although he has never studied science or has been overseas.

Watch the video of his garble here. Anyways, it turns out that he’s nothing near a reincarnation of some American egghead. Doubts surfaced when his many grammatical errors came to light (which, if you watch the video is a generous way of describing his blathering) and he appeared incapable of understanding the language himself.

After Zee News grilled the poor teen for five hours (no one devotes the airtime to live interrogations anymore - clearly a very effective means of cutting through the bull) he finally confessed. “It was a Hollywood movie, Total Recall, and the constant exposure to Western culture that gave him a cursory knowledge of English,” Zee News triumphantly reported. And yes, the irony of that movie title is not lost on me. Here’s the 411:

In 2005 on the eve of 26th January, Rajesh was insulted by his teacher when he failed to read out a speech in English. The incident left a scar on his mind, and a humiliated Rajesh vowed revenge. He took up this challenge, and set out on a spree of watching English movies and listening to English songs.