WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY

 







Mental health has surfaced, across platforms, as an issue that needs to be discussed and normalised NOW. 

Here are a few mainstream Bollywood films that attempt to do so.



Tamasha

One of the finest movies in the untapped genre, Tamasha shows how someone’s daily life can be affected and they begin to change when they suffer from borderline personality disorder. 

Ved is trying to discover his true personality and his girlfriend Tara tried to help him in discovering himself. 


Karthik Calling Karthik

The film talks about dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia that Farhan Akhtar’s character Karthik is suffering from. 

He is an introverted, underconfident corporate guy who has blamed himself for his brother’s death for years and sees a therapist. The best thing about the film is it shows mental disorder in the most sensible light.  



Taare Zameen Par

A film deals with dyslexia. The family has an authoritarian father who expects perfection from his children. Often there is a comparison between the  prodigal son and the protagonist –  Ishaan. The father refuses to believe that an underlying issue might exist other than a misdemeanour and the process of plain ‘not wanting to work hard and only play’ phase.Ishaan is sent off to a boarding school as a disciplinary action that does not bode well.The film delivers a very significant message thatparents need to be more accepting of their children the way they are. It shows how a kid who has difficulty even tying his shoes, is an extraordinary painter. These children should be taught to harness their other capabilities and talents rather than focusing solely on academics.


Dear Zindagi

This Alia Bhatt and Shah Rukh Khan-starrer shows how stress and unhappiness can result in insomnia. Alia character Kaira is a young cinematographer who wishes to make her own films someday. However, due to various circumstances in her life, she becomes disturbed until one day, when she chances upon psychologist Dr Jehangir Khan (Shah Rukh) and thereby decides to seek psychological help from him. Dear Zindagi showed us that it’s okay to not be okay.

The film also gives a glimpse into the stigma around mental illness and seeking its corresponding help in a desi household where it is either dismissed as something temporary or futile or receives heavy gasps and raised eyebrows.



Judgemental Hai Kya

The Kangana Ranaut-starrer was about a woman who had deep-seated traumas about her father being abusive to her mother, so much so that she started believing that all men are beasts. It portrayed her as someone who would hallucinate often as her trauma caused her to become schizophrenic. The title itself is a play on “mental hai kya?”, a disregarding phrase people often use to describe people who have mental illnesses or disorders.

  

Compiled by Hetika Kathuria

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