Why would she need a DD (dimaag ka doctor)? She’s not suffering from schizophrenia or experiencing suicidal thoughts or a victim of severe head trauma, all the mainstays of mental illness in Bollywood. She may be a pain, but to the Indian audience, she’s still normal. She’s impulsive, indecisive and sometimes a little mean. She blows up at her boyfriend for no reason and lets her insecurities get the better of her. She’s so full of flaws it’s almost annoying, but she’s still familiar to us all. She hasn’t been straightened out or sweetened up for the big screen. What we’re most grateful to this film for is the way it portrays its protagonist. In focusing her latest film on the mind and its challenges, Shinde has lifted the same clear mirror and it shows us this: psychological illnesses are not an aberration. Her stories mirror life with all its messiness without emphasising or excusing any part of it. She lifts relatable, quotidian elements from real life and recreates them in her films with a subtlety hitherto largely missing in mainstream Bollywood.
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