Ennekum is a simple story that explores the relationship between a son and his mother who has
developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease. We see the son’s (Chetan) indifference, denial, guilt
and repentance.
We see the mother only smile twice, once during a phone call with her son, and the second time when she is holding an old picture of young Chetan, with his arms around her, and describing the story behind it to her neighbour. She only smiles in the past, memories, nostalgia, never in the present moment.
There is a poignant moment in the film when the mother cannot recognise her son anymore. He has to go to the other room and have her call him on the phone - the only way she remembers communicating with him. The way the plants in Chetan’s mother’s house glisten, put the ornamental lights and plants in the restaurant he visits, to shame.
The only concern, however, that the viewer may have is that the despair that is meant to unfold through the narrative, becomes continuing, and ongoing, and therefore, foiled.
Read LessWe see the mother only smile twice, once during a phone call with her son, and the second time when she is holding an old picture of young Chetan, with his arms around her, and describing the story behind it to her neighbour. She only smiles in the past, memories, nostalgia, never in the present moment.
There is a poignant moment in the film when the mother cannot recognise her son anymore. He has to go to the other room and have her call him on the phone - the only way she remembers communicating with him. The way the plants in Chetan’s mother’s house glisten, put the ornamental lights and plants in the restaurant he visits, to shame.
The only concern, however, that the viewer may have is that the despair that is meant to unfold through the narrative, becomes continuing, and ongoing, and therefore, foiled.
