Film Synopsis :: DEADBODY

Short Film (Fiction)::

DEADBODY

Where is the honour in being a common man?

Written and Directed by :: Ambrish & Pradeep

Production by :: Beyond Dreams Entertainment

Premise :: The idea of democracy

Genre: Drama, Satire

Synopsis: A middle class Mumbai youth Ashok starts to realize the irony of this democracy when his dying freedom fighter grandfather wishes to have a last look at a ‘Charkha’ – and desperately trying to get one for his grandfather he breaks into the Gandhi Museum...

The narrative of the film starts with a comment on today’s Indian middleclass which in a sense has failed this country with its excesses, corruption and ruined the cities. We have kind of lost the subtlety that has been such an integral part of the Indian ethos. We are so completely ‘Mind F**ked’ by the western culture that our own sense of right and wrong has just evaporated; our education is surprisingly directionless, our attitude has been brazen lately as if we are excreting on a Gandhi, an R N Tagore, an Ambedkar…!

We in fact buried the very idea of democracy that Gandhiji propagated and with it took the independence struggle to the doorsteps of millions of common men. The idea and symbolisms of Democracy were somehow snatched away from the psyche of the nation..!

We are ashamed to call ourselves ‘Aam Admi’! Isn’t this nation built as a democracy – a country of the people, by the people, for the people?.. Why then ‘aam admi’ is treated like a pest?  …What happened to the promises of a democracy?...Where is the honour in being a common man?

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The narrative ends with Ashok’s emotional outbursts..and then...he’s forced into this epilogue: ‘Did I miss something?... Don’t know, don’t care...!’