Kahaani

Sometimes, I find myself tangled in numerous thoughts. I watched the movie, Kahaani, completely admiring Vidya Balan’s impeccable performance and appreciating the captivating balance the movie strikes between a claustrophobic backdrop and a liberating deception. It created on aura titillating me to reckon on the different moods evoked in me and the different emotions each character must have been left with by the end. But, beyond the script and the plot I found something more intriguing – Something which is very effortlessly accepted in the world (something which wasn’t possibly conveyed intentionally.).

I had been contemplating on how the cycle of life works - the food cycle which is an illustration of feeding connection in ecology. It depicts that the living beings placed higher up in the chain (symbolizing power) live on the ones placed lower than them. Always, the more powerful chooses to customize the lesser ones to accomplish their objectives. Survival is the ultimate aim. This is the most tangible and the most acceptable truth. It forms the basis of existence and evolution of human civilization. Emotion, on the other hand is most intangible. It is an illusion. Its manifestation could be perceptible. Being merely guided by emotions makes things claustrophobic.

The biggest irony is that humans ruthlessly use others, (considering them lesser than one’s own self) completely following something as definite as the nature’s law of existence, to attain their higher motives which most times than not are completely driven by something as abstract as emotional needs. This, I saw through the movie too. Isn’t this a way of looking at the plot that Vidya Bagchi very mercilessly victimizes people to revenge her husband’s death!

Emotion is perhaps the most intricate form of deception laid on us by god.