Loneliness kills and some even suffer that sinking feeling at a very early age in life.
Loosely based on the haunted house in Kolkata’s Behala where the body of an elderly woman Bina Majumdar was recovered from a freezer, Adyaant talks of the psyche of a lonely boy who is grappling with the loss of a mother.
Adyaant refers to the recent happenings in Kolkata’s Behala on the paranormal front where the buzzword is the woman was killed due to paranormal activity of the son, but the truth remains that the death was due to cardiac arrest.
The film sees the protagonist living inside the four walls of a dimly lit room where existence for him is turning psychologically taxing. At a tender age, the boy is increasingly living with the guilt of having forced his mother to die. As a means to recreate that gaping void, he tries creating a parallel universe for himself with his own shadow as his best friend. Come the ruthless rain or the stormy days it is his shadow that gives him company.
Picking elements of haunted activity it is a fluctuating tungsten filament that adds to the thrill of a psychological narrative. The protagonist left all alone, is basking in tranquility.
Karan Sharma as the lead manages to create just the kind of psychological impact that one desires from a thriller. Kodaline’s – If you love me why did you leave me fills that musical needgap only to compliment Karan as he plays a mental recluse. The scriptwriter brings out the mother son bond of the protagonist well with the line- If I love, live and breathe million times it is because of Ma.
Adyaant refers to the Bina Majumdar story who reportedly had died on 7 April 2015 when she was 84 years old. Her son, a leather technology graduate, is suspected to have removed her intestines and mummified the body with chemicals before keeping it in the fridge.
The references made in the film also bring back memories of the bizarre Robinson Street case in Kolkata’s Theatre Road in 2015. Partha De, a 46-year-old software engineer, spent months with the decomposed bodies of his sister and two pet dogs.
A similar incident came to light from Simhat village of Haringhata at Nadia district in September, 2016 where two brothers were found to be living in the same house with their mother’s body for nine months.
A recent Lancet report shows burden of mental illness is likely to increase rapidly in India than in China over the next decade. India, China reportedly account for one third of the global burden of mental illnesses greater than all developed countries put together.
Despite rising figures about one in 10 with mental health disorders get evidence-based treatment.
The protagonist of Adyaant is played by Karan Sharma. The short film has been scripted by Syeda Laraib Fatima Warsi, directed edited and shot by Soban Ahmad Khan under the guidance of Amity Assistant Professor, Asha Adhikari.
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