15 PARK AVENUE

A beautiful day in the city beautiful…that’s how I would describe my last twenty odd hours…it rained incessantly in the morning and the rain gods are pouring their heart out even at this hour…it was the first day of my last semester in the college…and I didn’t find anything better than to spend the whole day chatting with friends after a month long vacation…the chit-chat ranged from last month expeditions to plans for the last few months in the college and included my blogs as well…and then came the icing on the top…after conversing the whole day about everything there was and would be I decided to go for an evening show of 15 PARK AVENUE…and I’m still subconsciously trying to figure out where the hell did Konkana Sen Sharma disappear in the end…all I can say is “what an ending…”

I believe most of you would have ignored this movie…and I can’t be more certain that this one ain’t meant for the masses…this is abstract film making…15 PARK AVENUE is an altogether different genre…and if I say that the performances were impressive then that would be an understatement…I hadn’t seen a Shabana Azmi movie before this one…and I can’t regret more…there was an aura of self-reliance surrounding her whenever she came on screen…and Konkana leaves behind all the performances in Mr. & Mrs. Aiyer n Page 3…playing a schizophrenic and epileptic girl here she comes up with one of her career-best roles…Rahul Bose’ expressions were a mix of regret and sympathy throughout…but the climax…I donno what to say…well, apart from some awkward English here and there, the movie had some moving dialogues…there’s a scene when Konkana goes to Shabana (completing her college work where she’s a prof…)and talks about a tantrik who had been to their house and beaten her earlier in the day…Shabana rejects all her statements taking them as delusions of her mind…to which she replies “if I say that you were imagining that you were a professor, and in reality you weren’t…then…” and another conversation between the psychiatrist and Shabana…where they debate about delusions and reality…

The most touching one is when Rahul narrates to her wife Sheffali Chhaya, the agony of Konkana…he says “poor baby, she’s looking for something which doesn’t even exist…” and then comes the most significant dialogue of the movie- “aren’t we all”…

Well, this bug of abstract ending seems to have bitten me as well. Wait for my next blog…

P.S.-and if you aren't still convinced...Watch this movie for the picteresque locations in Bhutan which have been beautifully photographed in the movie...simply gorgeous...