Do we really know....what we want in life?...what do we aim?...which is our world?...which is not?...who is our own?....these are the questions that ANTAHEEN will raise. Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury's 2nd venture is a perfect poetry.... painting one after another canvases depicting these faults or falsified or juxtaposed identity of human beings....where people lives a life loving an unknown person......
Rahul Bose is a cop, Radhika is an upcoming journalist....they meet....heated debate follows....and there starts an animosity.....but none of them knows that they already know each other...not knowing each others name....they have met virtually...via an instant messenger and have become real good friends. How interesting it is....the person whom you try to avoid in your real life is the same person you have endeared so much in the virtual world.....after all what this virtual existence is all about?...is it all deceiving?...or is it true?...can that really become a good substitute for our real being if not a reality in itself?...Or is it that necessary distance that is required to assess the true depth, the actual vivacity, the real charm of one relationship?.....Distance not necessarily makes you forget....it rather sweetens the past....make you realize how you feel for the other person......and even if a revival seem impossible, then try to be a good friend....after all a distant yet healthy friendship is better than a rotten conjugal life.....probably that's why when Rahul comes to know about Radhika's identity, she has ceased to live...or Radhika had no more cause to live after getting to know the man whom she loved.....what if unknowingly a known person...
But once known, the charm is over, distance is marred...and creeps in the mundane day to day brutal reality.....a far cry from the somewhat make-belief internet world...
Probably even that is the reason, Sharmila Tagore's pisimoni lives.....she loved a man hearing his voice over the phone...that man never came...she never married....she is alone....but she lives her life alone...but as someone says in the film..."there is a difference between a loner and loneliness"...she has mixed up her both existence..and she becomes the only character who overcomes the "shadow lines"...blurring all the bianaries of reality-virtual....married-unmarried....or anything
She is probably the only happy person in the film.....
But what about the wait?....for that right person?...that right moment?....that moment when the virtual existence and the real one will become one.....and man becomes happy.... Reality is brutal indeed.....it never allows intrusion of anything into its domain...and so when virtual comes to meet real........it is clipped suddenly....it pains, it hurts.....we cry....but it goes on.....we suffer, but do we really learn?....the wait is far from over....pisimoni waited, Rahul waited before he was cruelly turned down....Aparna and her husband could not reunite even getting a seemingly another chance....
The distance is needed........give it to time...if it heals....its true...otherwise it was never so......and this is an endless process.....
It will be over confidence on my part...to judge the powerhouse performances ny Aparna Sen, Sharmila Tagore, Rahul Bose, Radhika Apte and a surprising Kalyan Roy.....
it is the message....we devote too much time pondering over the trivial.....and when we realise, its too late.....but the fact is...we know...but our mistakes becomes an endless process before life itself decides to stop....finally....
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