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India 2021
produced by Sweta Chhabria Kripalani, Aditya Kripalani for Mumba Devi Motion Pictures
directed by Aditya Kripalani
starring Rucha Inamdar, Harsh Chhaya, Vibhawari Deshpande, Madhuri Gawali, Nadi Palshikar, Kiran D Patil, Anuradha Karnik, Jaimini Pathak, Aarti Desai, Insiyah Burmawalla, Tanseem Rupawalla, Rahul Gupta, Ashwin Mahawar, Kashmira Gupta, Shobit Kumar, Ketan Adhia, Nikhilesh Singh
written by Aditya Kripalani, songs by Jhallih, Aditi Ramesh, Babah Bulleh Shah, Aditiya Kripalani
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's Aliah's (Rucha Inamdar) first day on the job as a suicide
prevention counsellor, work that means a whole lot to her because she
feels the urge to help people. Her first caller is Ashwin (Harsh Chhaya),
a man who tells her he wants to jump off a building, and who seems to be
pretty resistant to all the usual methods employed by Aliah to talk him
down, mainly because he has once been a suicide counsellor himself. But
Aliah's unwilling to give up on Ashwin, to the point really where she
breaks company policies. Her superior (Vibhawari Deshpande) sees how
emotionally invested Aliah gets and forces her to give up the caller to a
senior counsellor. But Aliah is unwilling to give up on Ashwin, so she
leaves the suicide prevention center and calls him from her private phone,
and by the by, the two start a drawn out conversation where Aliah gives up
as much about her life as Ashwin does about his, and the more they talk,
the more they realize they're just two sides of the same coin. But given
his tragic story, is this epiphany enough for Ashwin to give up his
intention to kill himself? Centered pretty much entirely around
the phone call between Aliah and Ashwin, this film basically gives its two
leads plenty opportunity to prove themselves as actors, a task they're
more than up to, giving strong and emotional performances and creating
some sort of chemistry between them without actually ever sharing the same
frame. And a tightly written script sure helps them to bring their
characters to life and at the same time the audience glued to the screen,
while a subtle directorial effort steeped in realism adds extra urgency,
to make this a rather powerful watch.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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