comeundone

i saw this gem of a movie without any pretensions.i am presently an university student,and a mute spectator to the slogans and rallies of my politically and socially conscious ''contemporaries''.a few days back we could not attend lectures in peace because of these people ''concerned'' with ''betterment''.i honestly felt like tying them up and gagging their big mouths and force them to watch ''Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi''.i have had my fill of political ''fancies'' way back in high school,when Marx seemed right and M.K.Gandhi totally wrong.but things changed, and like Kay Kay Menon's character i realised in college what it means and feels just to SURVIVE.i know that most of my politically active mates would be working in MNCs or at least more ironically under the wings of the same govt. by the year 2010, that they are up against today.only a few will really head towards the villages as teachers or social workers.perhaps no one by that time.all the young desires boiling our blood today,will be frozen when we face the world alone only with the feeble support of degrees.this movie moves me more towards realism than reading today's newspaper.recommended for people whose favourite movie is NOT ''Kuch Kuch Hota Hain''(a college movie.no doubt) or even the breakthrough flick ''Dil Chahta Hain''.

i went to watch this film with my family who were expecting a neatly conclusive story like ''mr.& mrs.iyer''.and they returned home thoroughly disappointed.so,this is a warning to all ''conclusive story lovers'' to stay away.15 park avenue does not seek to answer questions or provide moral solutions on how to treat the mentally challenged.rather its intention is loud and clear.it questions every human being's,sane or not,sense of reality.in fact for me it even arouses doubts about my taken-for-granted sense of sanity.the security,bondage,satisfaction that i find in my present,is it really what i am or does it really create an illusion that all of us desperately and sometimes ignorantly cling on to just to falsely console the neglected 'meethi' which exists in all of us in some way or the other? so,why does anjali so maniacally makes it a point to show off her strength of mind when she is really harrowed by the realization that she is becoming a monster?aren't we all who think we are ''normal'' ,really monstrous and helplessly vulnerable about it deep down inside? is it not better to be happy even insanely,than to create the impression of 'normalcy' while suppressing one's fragility? meethi bravely,madly,sincerely does that.and society labels her as ''schizophrenic''.the ending did confound me at first,but then you realise that meethi bravery and sincere belief took her where she wanted to go.she found what she was searching for,not caring what society had to comment upon her search. and it is the seemingly 'real' people - anjali,the psychiatrist,and jojo- who never reach anywhere.my family thinks that i am schizophrenic too in trying to make sense of a film that is largely 'insane' to the rest of the world.anyone else willing to believe in my sense of reality...........?