Suicide Vlog | Short Film Nominee

Short Film Nominee February 10, 2020

Suicide Vlog

By AB Chakravorty with 6.3

drama · Short Films · hindi

The film adopts autofiction to tell its story - one of a young artist who is driven by despair to take his own life. It is structured in the format of a vlog,or a video blog, where a twenty-seven-year-old man lists down the reasons that have led him to this decision. The story comes across as a plea to be understood and simply uses the monologue of its only character to make its case.

The angsty rant invokes a conversation around mental health as well as Assam floods of 2019 that ravaged the state and made headlines all over the country. It further tries to be the portrayal of an artist's struggle who found it difficult to relate with people who, in turn, could not connect with his art. While the film comes across as an honest and sincere attempt, a certain tautness of the narrative would have helped to iterate its message better.
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