The other day, I was going through an interview when this thought struck me ,are Lies & Storytelling the same ?We lie to hide the truth from others, we lie because we cannot admit the truth ,We lie because we fear speaking out the truth as it will leave us alone,we might be hurting somebody if we speak up the truth .Ok that’s lying then what’s storytelling ? Storytelling is the power of telling stories that must have happened ,A piece of News that you have heard and you narrate it in a little dramatic way to get the attention of the listener .But Now if you actually see there is a thin line of a difference amongst the two in both forms we Lie to defend ourself even though we know we are wrong,guilty of taking the wrong side ,but again it might seem wrong to you ,but it might be the right thing for the speaker .At the same time stories we tell to entertain ,to make our imaginations run wild to impress how good we are at speaking ,Stories transform us to a magical place to a make believe world for us it might be dreaming while others laugh and say he is living with such a big lie.But for us its a fantasy a world that we create for ourself to be happy and defining the reality in others terms the truth that we know ,,but imagination is a lie for others ,but we are living by being hopeful for things to turnaround .
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Ahalya -Short film review
Watched Ahalya a short movie written &directed by Suyog ghosh the man behind the Famous “kahaani ” and the character Bob Biswas ,who has done quite a few films earlier too Aladdin ,jhankar beat Here comes a short film “Ahalya ” which has set the social media buzzing About the mystery .ahalaya opens with a police inspector (Roy ) ringing the bell ,and enetering a house to find out about a missing model But then meets (Radhika Apte ) who he is bestowed by and when he is inspecting the place ,he matches the photo with the creation of the artist and they are very identical .The story then moved to inspector explaining why he is visiting this house and the protagonist begins telling him the inspector the story of the stone ,first he (Roy ) finds it hard to believe him then he replies ok I believe you ,walks up to the room where Radhika Apte Is and looks into the mirror ,see the protagonist face in the room ,that’s the moment when you go oh …what just happened .And soon you realise he (Roy)too has turn into a creation .a gripping story ,based on the myth Hindu mythology of the ahalya a creation of Lord bharma,and the myth is believed to be Ahalya was the most beautiful women in the world ,but was cursed by her husband old sage Gautama for infidelity .This short film by sugoy ghosh is surely a must watch with unsolved mysteries and the idea of the story being based in Bengali and trying to showcase the myths of Kolkata .
Here the link of the short film :
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