I never realized
how close to my own reality a movie could get till I watched the #Marathi #movie
#ASTU….as I sat through the 2-hour-5-minute film and watched small and big
events of my life playing on screen, I realized that the story writer (and/or
many others closely associated with the film) too would have probably lived
these moments in her life to be able to portray this disease so accurately. It
is true that #dementia / #Alzheimer never affects just one person, it affects the entire
family. It changes your life so completely that you can never be the same
person again – whether you are the patient or the #caregiver .
ASTU is actually
the narrative of a 24-hour day in the life of Dr.Shastri, who is a person with
dementia, and his immediate family and their experiences as he gets lost while
trying to follow an elephant through the crowded streets of Pune. The
screenplay seamlessly moves in and out of incidents in the past and present as
his daughter traces the journey of the discovery of her father having
Alzheimer’s disease and the subsequent ways in which the family, and she
particularly, has been dealing with it. The delicacy and vulnerability of human
relationships when challenged with a situation such as having a person with
Alzheimer’s disease in the family is very sensitivity handled in the film. The
manner in which Dr.Shastri connects with the mahout’s wife Chanamma is also
touching – no relationship, no identity and yet, he places as much faith in her
as a small child does in his own mother.
The performances
by the entire cast are good, but #IravatiHarshe , #AmrutaSubhash and #MilindSoman deserve special mention. Dr. #MohanAgashe , of course, is stunningly flawless
in his portrayal as a person with the dreaded dementia. And hats off to #SumitraBhave and #SunilSukhtankar for attempting to weave a film around this lesser
known and oft-misunderstood illness…as a caregiver, my personal thanks for
recognising and documenting the angst of a child who sees their parent lose
their memory and identity and living through the helplessness of it all.
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