29/02/2020
Text by sreedevi s kartha
Between one shore and several others' is an exploration into protozoan lives, immersed in their selves and adrift in the mighty waters of reality. Unveiling as a visual poem, it treads on the precarious shore that separates the real from the unreal. Obliquely intriguing in its layering of the magical and the mysterious with the mundane. Hailing from a provincial fishing community, Salman is a man who lives and breathes the sea.
Kayyavi is an imaginary or imaginable promise in his life, who presents an intriguing life force into his world.
They share this perfect space until Salman's life is suddenly rebooted and he is forced to embrace the enigma that is 'Kayyavi' herself. It is then that she begins to unfold like the haze that envelopes all of perception.
Evolving along unchosen ways, life invariably finds itself at the starting point as if in a looping dream. As Salman grapples with the heaviness of this realisation, relentless monitoring by the agencies of state and religion have their own conformist agenda on their lives. Thus driven by the anguish to make an onward thrust for any kind of respite, salman knows he needs to yield. The sea lies wide open and beckoning ...harbinger of a certain life and death..What choice will he make? Will they survive? And if they do, in which realm? Between the gross, the profane, the mundane and the ineffable? Will man find his true moorings?
Before the lights go up, these are some of the questions this movie tries to pose.
