I tend to talk a lot.. but not to all.. to people I like a lot..
I write.. not poems.. not fiction.. but just those stupid random thoughts of mine being written down when I feel that it is absolutely necessary..
But if you ask me something like "Then why should we read your posts which 'll be utter nonsense as you yourself has mentioned?? ".. I certainly will go speechless..
Hence, I decided..
It is better not to invite people to a world of boredom .. Or rather, drive them to madness.. Like how I am doing now..
Still.. I can argue that I can always exercise my freedom of expression..
You might tell me.. "Oh ya ?? Ok you can do that.. But why should I fall a prey to your meaningless; utter nonsensical perceptions of the world or may be the trivial personal issues of yours.. "
So I felt that it is better to tell you about some favourite topics of mine - movies and psychiatry; which I hope will be interesting to you..

THEME - PORTRAYAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN INDIAN FILMS

This blog is a platform to share your views on the portrayal of psychological disorders in films. However, the movies listed below are tamil and malayalam films. I hope you guys will list films from other languages also and make our discussions all the more lively.
Warm welcome to all movie freaks.
Express your views. Widen the horizon of knowledge. Bridge the gap between all movie lovers.

THE STUDENT'S PRAYER

Don’t impose on me what you know,

I want to explore the unknown

And be the source of my own discoveries.

Let the known be my liberation, not my slavery.

The world of your truth can be my limitation;

Your wisdom my negation.

Don’t instruct me; let’s walk together.

Let my richness begin where yours ends.

Show me so that I can stand

On your shoulders.

Reveal yourself so that I can be

Something different.

You believe that every human being

Can love and create.

I understand, then, your fear

When I ask you to live according to your wisdom.

You will not know who I am

By listening to yourself.

Don’t instruct me; let me be.

Your failure is that I be identical to you.”

Umberto Maturana

AZHAGIYA TAMIL MAGAN

LANGUAGE - Tamil

YEAR - 2007

DIRECTOR - Bharathan

PRODUCER - Appachan

SCREENPLAY - S. K. Jeeva

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER- Psychic extra sensory perception

CAST - Vijay, Shreya Saran, Namitha, Geetha

SYNOPSIS - Gurumoorthy(Vijay), an athlete meets Abhi (Shreya) and falls in love with her. Guru starts envisaging dangerous incidents in his mind and such incidents come true. In one such situation he sees himself killing Abhi. To avoid such a hazardous situation Guru exiles to Mumbai where he comes across his look-alike Prasad. He realizes it is Prasad who tries to kill Abhi. He crosses the road to meet him when he is knocked down by a vehicle and goes into coma. Rest of the story is how Guru recovers and prevents the murder of Abhi.

CHELLAME

LANGUAGE - Tamil
YEAR - 2007
DIRECTOR - Gandhi Krishna
PRODUCER - Velu Gnanavelu
SCREENPLAY - Ponkumaran
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER - Psychosis
CAST - Vishal, Bharath, Reema Sen
SYNOPSIS - The film is about a possessive youth Vishwa (Bharath)who plays spoilsport between a husband and wife(Raghu and Mythili). Vishwa is the only son of a rich businessman, who loses his mother at a young age. Mythili (Reema Sen) showers love on Vishwa as a younger brother but he mistakes it for love. When Mythili wants to marry Raghu (Vishal) , Vishwa hates the idea and kidnaps her. Her pleadings fall on deaf ear.However, finally Vishwa drowns and the couple are united.

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GUNA

LANGUAGE - Tamil
YEAR - 1992
DIRECTOR - Santhana Bharathi
PRODUCER - Alamelu Subramaniam
SCREENPLAY - Sabjaan
CAST - Kamal Hasan, Girish Karnad, Roshini,
MEDICAL THEME- Psycho neurotic illness
SYNOPSIS - Guna(Kamal Hassan) is a mad man who is told, by a fellow asylum- inmate, that Abhirami - the Goddess (Roshini) will marry him on a full moon day and will take him out of his miseries. He believes that he is God and wants to unite with Abhirami, the Goddess. So he kidnaps her; takes her along with him to a deserted Church on top of a hill and explains his love for her, and the film ends with the tragic death of the lovers.

ANNIYAN

LANGUAGE - Tamil
YEAR - 2005
DIRECTOR - S Shankar
PRODUCER - Oscar V Ravichandran
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER - Multiple Personality Disorder
CAST- Vikram, Sada, Prakash Raj, Vivek, Nedumudi Venu, Nassar
SYNOPSIS - The movie is about Ramanujam (Vikram) - an honest lawyer who is frustrated
about the lack of discipline in the society and tries to do something
about it, only to be mocked at and ridiculed by one and all. He
expresses his love to his neighbour Nandhini(Sada) ,who finds him uncool
and boring. All these factors result in a multiple personality
disorder out of which is born Anniyan and Remo. Anniyan the destroyer of evil and Remo, the cool lover boy.
Anniyan goes about killing people who break the law while Remo goes about
wooing Nandhini. The rest of the story is about how the police go on a hunt for Anniyan and how the three personalities are brought to the
surface and dealt with.

FLASH

LANGUAGE - Malayalam
YEAR - 2007
DIRECTOR - Siby Malayil
PRODUCER - Tomichan Mulakupadam
SCREENPLAY - S Bhasurachandran
CAST- Mohanlal, Indrajith, Parvathy, Ponvannan, Sai Kumar
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS- Delusion, Manic depression, Phobias and Falsification of memories
SYNOPSIS - The hero(Mohanlal) is a multifaceted genius, a psychiatrist doctor turned software specialist. The film opens with the introduction of bold and beautiful, Dhwany Sekharan(Parvathy), a hyperactive engineering student and daughter of Chennai based construction business man Shekharan Nair (Sai Kumar), who is left in their tharavadu with her grandfather, after the early death of her mother. Shekharan, on the other hand had a lot of resistance in his family itself in the form of his younger brother Bhadran and his cousin Arun, who don’t want him to head any of the family businesses. Dhwany, who share a special relation with her grandfather, gets all support on her endeavors from him, whether it is the issue of teasing her uncle Viswanathan Nair or in the issue of the secret relation between the home driver and her cousin Veena, which was brought to public by her. It was at this point, Dhwany started showing some kind of anomalies in her behavior. And immediately her Uncle's son Priyan, with whom Dhwany’s marriage has been talked off, takes note of this and entrusts his guide and employer Midhun Madhavan to treat her.
Priyan tries to bring Dhwany to the firm as an employee, but the idea backfires as she finds the pretense drama before her interview, too silly. After a number of clashes, Midhun somehow manages to get into the tharavaadu as a family friend and establishes good relation with her grandfather, who runs a Kalary even at the age of seventy. Dhwany, who never gets a hint about her illness, instantly falls for Midhun. Around this time missing of the driver is reported from the tharavadu to the police .And shortly afterwards Dhwany’s father is also found murdered. Police investigation points to Dhwany, as being the part both murders. Now Midhun is left in a critical situation in which he has to save his patient from the arms of the police and further mental breakdowns. How he manages to do so forms the rest of the story.

SWAYAMVARAPANTHAL

LANGUAGE - Malayalam
YEAR - 2000
DIRECTOR - Harikumar
PRODUCER - Sukumaran
SCREENPLAY- Sreenivasan
MEDICAL THEME- Mental Illness
CAST - Jayaram, Samyuktha Varma, KPC Lalitha, Lalu Alex, Sreenivasan
SYNOPSIS - Swayamvarapanthal tells the story of Deepu(Jayaram), the pet and indispensable brother of his five sisters. Deepu on his part is only too glad to be of help and thus has a special place in their hearts. His sisters start searching for a suitable girl and after a great deal of hunting the unanimous choice is Priya(Samyuktha Varma). Deepu too likes her and the marriage is conducted much ceremoniously. But, very soon he realizes that Priya is abnormal and he takes her to a psychiatrist(Lalu Alex). The second part of the story is made lively by the two lunatics Shankar Bhanu (Innocent) and Kandathil James (Sreenivasan). Priya is cured and the film has a happy ending.

VADAKKUMNATHAN

LANGUAGE - Malayalam
YEAR- 2006
DIRECTOR - Shajun Karyal
PRODUCER - Govindan Kutty
SCREENPLAY AND LYRICS- Girish Puthenchery
MEDICAL THEME- Depression
CAST - Mohanlal, Padmapriya, Biju Menon, Kavya Madhavan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma
SYNOPSIS - The film starts with a mother(Kaviyoor Ponnamma) and son (Biju Menon) coming to Haridwar to perform the last rites of her elder son who had run away from home and is believed to have died. But the mother sees her son on the banks of River Ganga and takes him back to the family. He is Bharatha Pisharody(Mohanlal) a brilliant Sanskrit professor who is respected and loved by everyone including his cousin and lover Meera(Padmapriya). But on his day of marriage he runs away leaving behind a heart-broken Meera and her father. Now Pisharody is different man and his family and friends believes that he is on drugs. But actually, the man is mentally disturbed as he suffers from deep depression. Soon his brother discover papers relating to his treatment for mental illness from his locked suitcase. Now everyone starts seeing him in a different way, which leads to the final twist. How Meera helps him come out of this difficult situation in life forms the rest of the gripping tale.

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BHRAMARAM

LANGUAGE - Malayalam
YEAR - 2009
DIRECTOR - Blessy
PRODUCERS - Raju Mallyath and Zulfikar
SCREENPLAY - Blessy
MEDICAL THEME- Psychosis
CAST - Mohanlal, Bhumika Chawla, Suresh Menon, Lakshmi Gopalaswami
SYNOPSIS- Bhramaram revolves around Jose (Mohanlal) who lands up at the doorstep of stock broker Unni's (Suresh Menon) in Coimbatore and claims to be his classmate. Unni is barely able to recognize him but Jose knows every childhood event and so Unni trusts him. The purpose of Jose's visit is shrouded in mystery. He refuses any financial help or employment offer; he just wishes to talk about something important in isolation. And the situation gets worse when Unni and his classmate and close pal Alex (Muralikrishnan), who is now a doctor, discover to their horror that the stranger is that man whose arrival they have been dreading for a long time now. This film was widely apprecited for Mohanlal's spectacular performance.

MANICHITHRATHAZHU

LANGUAGE - Malayalam
YEAR - 1993
DIRECTOR - Fazil
PRODUCER - Appachan
SCREENPLAY- Madhu Muttam
MEDICAL THEME- Multiple Personality Disorder
CAST - Mohanlal, Shobhana, Suresh Gopi, Nedumudi Venu, Innocent, Thilakan, Vinaya Prasad
SYNOPSIS - The plot involves a young couple, Ganga (Shobhana) and Nakulan (Suresh Gopi) arriving at the ancestral "Tharavadu" mansion of the latter. Ignoring the protests of their superstitious uncle Thampi (Nedumudi Venu), they move in to the mansion, when unusual and supernatural events begin to happen. Suspicion falls on Sreedevi (Vinaya Prasad), Nakulan's cousin, who is known to be suffering from depression after her marriage.
Dr. Sunny Joseph (Mohanlal), a frolicsome psychiatrist and Nakulan's close friend is called in to investigate. Soon it becomes evident that Ganga, affected by Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is behind the mystery, haunted by a troubled past.
The mansion that Nakulan and Ganga were living in was occupied in ancient times by a cruel Thampi chieftain, who had imprisoned a famous Bharatanatyam dancer, Nagavalli. There she pines away for her lover Ramanathan. Ganga who grew up listening to folklore and ghost stories from her grandmother identifies with the character Nagavalli. This empathy gradually leads to psychosis. When Ganga turns into Nagavalli the characters of the household turn into the characters of a bygone era in her eyes.
Sunny correctly identifies the source of the violent happenings at the mansion, and convinces Nagavalli to renounce Ganga's body once she is allowed to execute the cruel chieftain. He dresses up Nakulan as the ancient king, and at the crucial moment, replaces Nakulan with a dummy. Nagavalli in Ganga is fooled into believing that she has taken her revenge, and Ganga recovers from her illness.



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