Kya Tum Ho
导演：Anish Sahebsingh Ahluwalia|
主演：Sulabha Arya|Jyoti Dogra|Jogi|Rajit Kapoor|Yatin Karyekar|
年份：(2006)
A young widow and young software engineer try to navigate through their eventless 'ordinary' lives in an attempt to exorcise scars of a violent past. The film explores how internet's virtual world is positioned in the lives of Indian lower middle class. Internet chat serves in the film as a platform for the protagonists, who live through half-truths, falsifying their gender, their lives cross paths in real and move towards a dramatic climax. Written by Anish S Ahluwalia 840 KYA TUM HO interweaves the story of three protagonists, Dr. Pande, an academician, Anita, a young widow and Amrit a young man, trying to navigate through their eventless solitude and bear the weight of being 'ordinary'. The narrative of the film flows in different times and spaces, from present to past and real to virtual. The plot becomes a collage of the protagonists' struggle to exorcise the scars of a violent past and attempts to belong to somebody meaningfully. Dr. Pande, struggles to overcome the accidental death of his wife and accusation of being a pedophile. Anita is haunted by betrayal in love and a violent marriage that ends in the death of her husband. Amrit, a semi trained computer engineer, manages an Internet café and pursues his love for a young woman suffering from schizophrenia. Unable to find a credible place in the real, Dr. Pande, Anita and Amrit seek refuge in the virtual world of Internet. The make believe world of the protagonists is set against their mundane life devoid of any larger than life grand actions or purpose. The story deals with contradictions in the lives of people who are vulnerable and strongly driven by their survival instincts. They seek to build layers of glamour and grandeur in their otherwise lack lustre lives in this make- believe world. They chat with each other on the net with false gender and glamorised identities. They play with eroticism, deceit and solitude. Internet chat serves in the film as a platform for multitude of non-dynamic ordinary people who live in a society that has so few opportunities for people to interact constructively outside family or professional spheres. As Dr. Pande, Anita and Amrit tease and cheat each other on the net; steadily these relationships become more serious. Eventually their lives cross each other's path. As the story moves on Pande, Anita and Amrit try to give their virtual relationship a real form, seek a believable future. They try to resolve their dilemmas in grey zones of morality. They lead their lives through half-truths at best and towards a dramatic climax. e8f Written by Anish S Ahluwalis
