'Tell me a movie that blew your mind, in recent times?'
A friend of mine had asked me this question recently, and despite some serious thinking, I couldn't come up with an answer. I knew the emotion he was referring: that excitement, with pure adrenaline gushing through your blood stream. You long for someone whom you can discuss the film with. And, I re-discovered this carnal joy, watching
#BhaskarHazarika's
#Aamis.
It's tough to define a film like Aamis. It is hard to say you liked it or not. It's a complex, but exciting experience that leaves an aftertaste; one you keep mulling over, just exclaiming 'what did I just see!'
Together with some incredible writing and staggeringly nuanced performances, Bhaskar sells an insane story of clandestine desires, taboos, abnormal love, and the ills of gluttony. But Bhaskar's strong tool in his arsenal is how he foreshadows his tale, slowly leaving us hints, easing us into the dark alley he wants us to take.
Aamis is the kind of film I missed watching. The ones that don't let you sleep as the mind just reels in the million things that film has left behind. Such films, whether you 'like it or not', spark of conversations with the self; ones that take you to unexplored places of your own psyche. And at the end of it, you know yourself a tad better. What more can a film give for its audience?