I know no better way to put this than the simple statement, “Love is confusing.” There has been so much literature, films, music, and even reality tv shows trying to decipher what love means and yet most of us find ourselves stumbling through relationships trying to make sense of it all.
Just like love is complicated, so are the relationships we forge along the way, trying to feel all-consumed by this feeling of love. No one can say for certain what makes or breaks a relationship. There are some sure shot recipes for a disaster like cheating on your partner, being toxic, or neglecting your partner through the years. But I’m thinking more about those relationships that feel too good to be true, the ones that make sense but yet fade away with time or fizzle out. The ones where trying to understand ourselves as complex nuanced individuals means letting go of the relationship.
It is in this vein, that Mohit Tiwari directorial short film Amaya exists and explores the dynamics of a relationship, with Aaron Koul and Yashi Verma playing the protagonists in the short film and with poetry by Verma and Raqeeb Raza.
The poetic film plays out in the form of a monologue or rather a poem read out as a sequence of the relationship plays. It offers only one side of the story, the story of the person who decides to leave. No big fights happen, there are no big fractures in the relationship just small fragmentary moments that lead up to its eventual demise. Just a person trying to understand themselves.
There are is no dialogue in the short film to offer explanations, just a poem, a memory of a person, a wish to document the intimacies and the eventual fading away of the relationship. It is perhaps in this not-knowing the other side that the beauty of the film truly shines.
You can watch the short film here.
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