Short Film: Awmi
Director: Samujjal Kashyap
Starring: Stuti Choudhary and Kamal Lochan
Production: Kadambari Creations Digital Films
A Review!
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
_Elie Weisel.”
Awmi is a stark representation of a woman at the most vulnerable of her times. She is one who hath lost way too much in her attempts to exist.
Her confidentiality was but to hide her pain within her wires of detaining thoughts.
However, there is an anomalous presence of an uncanny partner who is constantly reprimanded for being the reason of Awmi’s pain.
Kenji Miyazawa once said that we must embrace pain and use it as a fuel for our journey ahead and thus, Awmi too finds herself shaking her silhouette of sadness by trying to contain enough life for her ailing grandmother.
But, everytime she is snatched off the time because of her own unavailability, she calls out to the “Anomalous” and tries to negotiate with, her grandmothers’ life.
As death may take turns and ran over Awmi’s wish, she is at her final stand off with her very Own and you have to find out how!
Awmi stars Stuti Choudhury and Kamal Lochan in lead roles and what may have missed as an ambiguous story becomes an engaging unusual take of tales.
Stuti as Awmi personified the character as her own. She has a warm presence on screen which makes us, audience take plight in her pain.
Kamal is a masterstroke when he acts, always brilliant.
Samujjal Kashyap has made quite a mass of films that deals with simple yet poignant human emotions. He plays off the human dilemmas, paints them into engaging visual stories.
Ashutosh Kashyap has masterfully brought the director’s mind into them visuals as they were daunting, in a good way so is the editing by Gautam Mazumdar. Although a short film that too a psychological thriller, Awmi does not feel rushed thanks to the skillful visual chops!
The BG by Rex Media is haunting which sets the tone of the film perfectly.
Unlike Arranged, Awmi is a not so sweet story of life in all its shenanigans. Definitely not what it seems to be!
_Monroe.
