Mrugavadhe

The darkness of human mind, if left unchecked, can wreak limitless havoc. The short film explores the same concern and presents the viewer with different emotions, personalities and aspects of existence that get tied to it. The narrative is constituted by a story within a story. As a man stumbles across an untitled book authored anonymously, he shares a story with a friend, and the plot begins to unfold. The two parallel narratives, one of the protagonist, and the other of the book he has found, serve their own respective purpose. While the latter throws light on the various intricacies of consciousness, the former helps to understand and comprehend these in a coherent manner, at the same time, also raising questions that further lead to the viewer's engagement with the topic at hand.

The book the man finds opens with a murder. Investigation of the same by its characters leads to an unravelling perhaps beyond the point of no return. As the narrative reaches its climax, experimental visuals, camera techniques and editing is employed to delineate the plot better. Drawing from Ramayana, the rules of the animal kingdom and metaphors that come to be associated with it, the story is further enriched and told in an involvinh manner. There is also an attempted interaction with mental health and all that a disturbed mind can truly lead to.