I saw 15,Park Avenue today.And i was impressed, very impressed.I thought that was brilliant story-telling.Konkona was simply fabulous.Thats the National Award in her bag this year.dont u just love the way she 'acts' so normal?No theatrics at all.Just perfect.Especially coz its a sort of role where theres a lot of chance of going overboard.The film was mainly her and Shabana.Rest of the roles were pretty sidee.Rahul Bose was a little sad.Perhaps one expected too much.He was quite...i dont know....passive somehow.I really like the doctor-Dhritiman.He was good too.
A certain scene in the film made me think-about realities and how it differs from person to person.A schizophrenic (did i get it right?) has his/her own version of reality, which we who are normal(?) call delusions.Just because we dont see it that way.But she does, and does so very clearly.Who then are we to tell her that the thing she sees so absolutely is in reality, not there at all.How can we be so sure?Just because we dont see it?What if she is the normal one and we are the ones who are deprived of the sight of whatever it is that we can see?
Its a completely different world that they live in, these people.And i also agree that its dangerous, and needs to be treated.But i think a cure itself can be tragic for such a person.Imagine being told that all that you thought to be true, that you thought to be real, is actually not.Imagine the loneliness, the helplessness. being stranded in a completely new 'cured' world where they dont know anyone, and cant even find anyone they know because they have just been told that it doesnt exist.What could be more tragic than discovering, that your entire life as you had lived it so far was actually a figment of your imagination? What then would be the purpose of being cured? Perhaps its best to let such people be as they are, unless it gets life-threatening. Recognize them as special, different and privileged people with the power to see beyond what the ordinary person can. The little while that they live, they should be allowed to live like everyone and not have their entire past and present wiped out or be proved null and void.I dont think anyone deserves something quite as traumatic as that.
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It was a good movie, mainly due to Konkona's performance. It reminded me of a beautiful mind...or atleast your post did.
The other performances, were all just that...performances. Lines mouthed methodically, albeit very well. That's what i felt about the Dhritiman-Shabana relationship. It was well "acted" out. Afraid I can't say the same about Rahul Bose and Shefali Shah. If only their relationship was dealt with a bit better...and their dialogues weren't so inane.
Oh but the ending. Damn. It was brilliant. It makes me think, what if we were all mad, and Meethi was the only sane one?
It was good. Konkona superlative.
hvnt seen this movie...but really wud love to see it...ur post did remind me of other movies like beautiful mind,fight club...although fight club n BM were totally movies of diff genres both showd how devastating the mind can be in creating false identities or false worlds....its difficult to understand what these ppl think, but then on wht basis do we term ourselves as the sane ppl n them as the insane ones....i believe these "insane" ppl do hv sum kind of point to justify their madness.....
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