Imaging seeing a bottle of water and his immediate thinking is that his best friend would stumble upon her, hurt or die in a strange incident. Or when your hands overlook someone who feels like you, instead of feeling the emotion of attraction, you retire with horror: scared, panic, with crying eyes. While these may not be the regular reactions of someone with a healthy brain, many among us, who suffer from mental anguish and anxiety, this every day.
This World Mental Health Day, Sony Liv has eliminated a new anthology series with six independent stories about various mental anguish, such as obsessive compulsive disorder (TOC), schizophrenia, eating disorders, post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSP) And more.
What makes this program different from the typical ones that touch real life problems is that it abandons film dramatization and information overload for a realistic representation of how these problems affect the daily life of humans. The configuration is identifiable, and it feels that we have met these characters around us.
In these six different stories about mental health, we see a corporate employee worry about calories, a teenager who was intimidated in his village and a man cutting his friends after a ugly breakup. While some of the stories begin from distressing symptoms, others gradually relieve.
SHIVANI RAGHUVANSHI suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder in The Daily Puppet Show by Malika Kumar (Episode 6)
The program presses the community of such problems and how easily we undermine the numbers. Makes a careful decision to choose stories in economic strata, from families with financial and middle class dwelling to the upper middle class and accommodated clans. Although the program does not deepen the deepest details of the disorders, with each episode that covers approximately half an hour, gives a fair idea of what it is to live with a specific mental health disorder.
The story that I found the strongest was the Purple Duniya by Sahaan Hattangadi. Scripture and performances shine in this unpredictable story. Two minutes after the episode, we see a purple rubber duck floating in an apartment, flooded with water, vibrating delusional music. Well, Hattangadi, you have all my attention.
Then we met our real protagonist, Raag (Tanmay Dhanania), a 30 -year -old who lost his job and was abandoned by his fiance a few months ago. Since then, it has been isolated and does not collect the calls of your friends and family. Sounds dark? Well, here is the turn: it is happy, energetic and super cold. He sees the world around him in the color of purple (traffic lights, identification plates and even trucks) while approaching the roads on his bicycle at questionably high speeds and continues to zonify.
Purple Duniya of Tanmay Dhanania (Episode 2) is an interesting representation of mental health problems in modern times
Throughout the episode, I found myself looking in Google, trying to decode the problem with which I was dealing with the episode. The story kept me inverted at all times and surprised me towards the end. I wish I could say more, but anything I say would now be a spoiler.
My next favorite was the caged of Sumeet Vyas, directed by Danny Mamik along with Hattangadi. Here we see the improbable link between Vyas, the son of the city of the richest man in the village and a shy teenager played by Mohammad Samad Tumbbad. The latter is intimidated and is very misunderstood and alone. He wants to study literature, but his parents force him to assume medicine as a career.
Mohammad Samad has given one of the best performances in the program
Both characters are wrapped in their own inhibitions and find comfort in the company of the other. The whole episode is poetic and well written. Samad’s performance is one of the best in the entire series. Their emotions, internal struggles and suffocation resonate through the screen.
The next was the Swagatam of Shreyas Talpade, where he suffers from schizophrenia. He no longer has a job, is supported by his wife and lives in a constant paranoia of someone who pursues him. Its condition has not advanced so much that hallucinates, but it cannot be neglected and spends the day with an aid group during the day.
Sukriti Tyagi’s story offers careful representation of schizophrenic patients, treating them as humans. The condition is also portrayed through almost visual tricks. All scenes with Tapade have an opaque yellowish dye for them. As soon as the screen comes out, everything is brilliantly illuminated and animated. Swagatam also stands out in showing the struggles of families of schizophrenic patients, suffering from physical, emotional, social and financial tolls. And while the promotion of history continues to decrease, Tyagi’s treatment on the subject is entertaining and informative.
Shweta Basu Prasad has made an impressive representation of a PPEPT patient in Bhanwar by Aditya Sarpotdar (Episode 3)
The performances of Shweta Basu Prasad and Priya Bapat were the highlight of the anthology. Both women, one in one town and the other in the city, fear intimacy. They cry, tremble and even run out of breath to the touch of the opposite genre. They play women who suffer from post -traumatic stress disorder, and their interpretation is one of the best I’ve seen in recent films on the subject. I wish that his episode, Bhanwar, knew more about what to do with these incredible artists.
Zindaginama has good intentions, but cannot maintain the impulse. While some stories will speak effortlessly, others will not keep it inverted. The latter feel like an unfinished job, with a random portion of someone’s life. Despite addressing important issues and less known aspects of tact mental health problems, the show hesitates in execution. Films and television programs with social messages, especially such sensitive, need to walk a thin line, balance the facts and information with entertainment, so that preachers do not seem. This is how you keep the people stuck while you create awareness on a taboo subject. Because what is the point of an informative program if an ignorant person gets bored and turns it off?
And it does not help the quality of the six stories tone oscillates wildly with each episode. While I really want to recommend some anthology stories, the rest can be easily omitted. However, Zindaginama is a sincere attempt to normalize mental health problems and humanize the people who suffer from them, and deserve appreciation for the same.
General qualification: 6/10
Episodic qualification:
Purple Duniya: 3.5/5
Caged: 3/5
Swagatam: 2.5/5
Bhanwar: 2.5/5
Puppet show: 2/5
One more one: 2/5
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