Written by Ishita Sengupta |New Delhi |Updated: November 29, 2019 3:48:44 pm
Aise Hee: When liberation comes from a personal loss
Kislay's Aise Hee premiered at the Busan International Film Festival’s New Currents competition section this year.
In Kate Chopin’s The Story Of An Hour — an unsettling short story that remains crucially relevant— the protagonist is told of her husband’s death with utmost care. Mrs Mallard has a heart condition and the news of his accident could kill her. She survives the news but — to everyone’s horror — passes away moments later when she sees him standing at the door. Her fragile heart, the doctors believed, could not contain her happiness and the husband’s homecoming spells doom. Her joy turns out to be fatal. The newly widowed 72-year-old Mrs Sharma (Mohini Sharma) in Kislay’s Aise Hee (Just Like That) does not have any heart affliction but watching the film I was certain that she would suffer from a similar fate if her husband suddenly reappeared. Her children and neighbours, like Mrs Mallard’s friends, would believe that a blinding joy on seeing her partner killed her. And yet, in both instances, such a reading would merely spotlight on the surface.
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