musings

Jalsa on Amazon prime , directed by Suresh Triveni makes you think a bit. Maya Menon( Vidya Balan), a celebrity journalist, runs over a teenager who runs in front of her car past midnight. Stuck by panic, fear and confusion she flees from the spot.  Maya later realises that the girl is daughter of her cook Rukhsana( Shefali shah), who is very close to her disabled son. Maya arranges for the best treatment for the girl, but  is tormented by guilt, fear and remorse. Ruksana's grief turns to anger when she finds out who is responsible for her daughter's accident.  Moral conflicts of various characters are palpable. Morality is something which  always weighs lighter in personal contexts, even for someone like Maya who laments about facing and exposing truth. But then, the inner torments are something which vary according to the structures of super ego( a Freudian construct where moral values are stored). The stronger the super ego, the stronger the internal c...

It's gripping. Watched it in 2 days..Based on a true story..The relentless search by two women detectives to find out a serial rapist, who mastered the art of wiping away all the evidences.. What struck me most is how different are the approaches of male and female officers  towards sexual violence.. Women obviously know better about the devastating damage such an act of violence inflicts upon the victim.. Loved the way the two women put pieces together to catch the rapist, with all feminine sensibilities intact.. Especially loved Merritt Wever as detective Karen Duvall and Kaitlyn Dever as Marie Adler, the young victim.. Preetha Raj