Current Status of the film : Under Pre ProductionIntro:
Inspired from the novel, 'The Binding Vine' by Shashi Deshpande, I wrote a very small script, taking some parts directly from the novel and mixing it with my own imagination, I came up with a story, named as 'Morichika', meaning 'the mirage'. The story depicts the life of women. With several themes like human relationships, women's bonding, death, fear and agony, Morichika is a story of many but mainly women related human feelings. Morichika, reveals the life of women, their hardship, it speaks about their fundamental rights. In one word it is a feminist story.
Mira's poem:
Desire, says the Buddha, is the cause of grief
but how escape this cord
this binding vine of love ? (p. 137, The Binding Vine)
The central theme of the story is human bonding. Human relationships are explored with all possible pros and cons, husband-wife, mother-daughter, male-female, mother-child, woman-woman, etc.
Relationships according to Shashi Deshpande should not be a trap. They must give sufficient freedom to the other to grow as an individual.
The story also raises some important issues concerning women, their suffering, their subordinate status and their inability to speak out. The story never claims that the men are to be blamed for this, nor does it claim that women are good and men are bad. It just shows the reality of women's life.
Male characters are almost absent in the story, as it is in the novel. where ever they are present they have a negligible role to play. But the men are not ineffective. They influence the thematic structure through the patriarchal system.
The main interest or focus, whatever it is, has been put into the story and script. Then it is the characters that comes under great concern, as because they will be the ones who will carry the effective flow and the theme of the story. The acting is the priority, that comes in the third position. There will be lots of emotions and also hard hitting dialogues. Hence the acting should be perfect and fluent.
Lots of people will join the journey this time, as in making the film, till it is competed. So the credit list may last a little longer as compared to last few.
