15 park avenue is one of those mainstream movies marketed as parallel cinema just because its likely to flop. There is nothing novel in the story, it tackles the same old debate of what reality is - merely what your senses tell you what it is. Useually there is some perversion over the control of these senses, it was the machines in the matrix, the studio and the act in the Truman show, and in this movie, it is Schizophernia. That is basically the story, the crux of the movie being in the Discussion between Shabana Azmi and a Doctor called Kunal, who argue the same side of the coin... basically Konkana is living a parallel life with her husband, Bose, and behaves crazy in the "real" world. The relationship between Shabana Azmi and her Mother, Waheeda Rehman is one of the most beautiful portrayals of a relationship I have ever seen in any movie. You sympathize with both, even when both are in a heated argument, something almost impossible to pull off. The ending is a little weird with Konkana just disappearing into her parallel life, have a crude guess about what they are trying to say here... must watch.
There are movies based on Aliens, and although there is not a shred of evidence to prove their existence, the movie is watched as being a believable possibility. When someone makes a movie on a guy who can produce electricity from his body, people suddenly question the credibility of the concept, when in fact, there are reported cases in the tabloids of such things happening. Sadly, Alag took an untouched movie concept and messed it up big time... the story is only that a boy born out of the womb of a dead mother, killed by lightning, has no hair on his body and is locked in a basement till his father dies, is then rescued by Dia Mirza, A psychologist, whose mother he cures with his electric touch and Tom Alter, a scientist, experiments opn him, but Dia, Her father, and a random security guard rescue him. Crappy ending, stupid story, amazing idea.
Also must watch for kicks.
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