She finds love in the form of Joydeep Roy ( Rahul Bose), who, despite her family's aggressive advice, gets engaged to Mithi. That triggered off the dormant symptoms already present, and she never recovered. We are told that Mithi, on a journalistic assignment, was gangraped. The viewer, quite in love with Mithi by now, wants to know how this disease overcame her once-functional life as a journalist. ![]() Like once when Anjali explains that she is only imagining things, Mithi throws back the question � 'How would you like it if I told you, you're not a professor, only imagining it?' This thought is further carried on in discussions between characters, exploring what is reality and what differentiates it from delusion. Her complaint is believed to be another of her fantastical stories.īut there are moments of endearing clarity. While Anjali copes with her emotional life, her mother must deal with ageing and the loss of control that comes with it, while the insensitive maid audaciously brings home a tantrik who mercilessly beats Mithi up. Divorced but in a relationship, she refuses her lover's offer to take a break and escape with him. With the responsibility of Mithi and her mother, it's interesting how Anjali's (a professor and writer) life is full of full stops and commas. The distant family relations tolerate Mithi, while the children are cruelly amused. Her family, also comprising an ageing mother (Waheeda Rehman ) and a maid, try to be patient and not lose their own minds. Then, whatever she sees on television or elsewhere - even Saddam Hussein - is lovingly incorporated into her imaginary world. This 27-year-old believes she has a husband and five children and they all live at 15 PA. We are then introduced to Mithi's life � a strange world within worlds, some that really exist and some that exist only in her head. The film begins with two sisters, Anjali ( Shabana Azmi) and Mitali ( Konkana Sen Sharma) looking for a place called 15 Park Avenue, that we realise is either inaccessible or doesn't exist. ![]() You'll quickly lose the habit, once you see Aparna Sen's new movie, 15 Park Avenue. It's used to describe everything from an audience taste (Indian viewers are schizophrenics - they accept everything from No Entry to Black), to even an ice cream (a friend remarked - 'the taste is bitter and sweet, an interesting schizo touch'). People who know the term schizophrenia, use it sloppily.
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