Radhika Apte’s Sister Midnight shreds the ideal of the Indian arranged marriage to pieces
“Why do you still rumble like a teacher?” Ask the husband, defeated.
“It is the voice of a frustrated woman,” replied the woman suddenly.
In Midnight sister, It is clear that Uma (Radhika Apt) and Gopal (Ashok Pathak) love each other. An extraordinarily chaotic couple, they embody the concept of the “launch” of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. This idea suggests that humans are “thrown” into the world without saying in their existence and must now understand it. Uma and Gopal are also thrown into the bowels of Mumbai with distinct life ideas: him, measured and controlled; She, leaving a trace of destruction in her wake.
It is not conventional Indian marriage where women initially succeeds before gradually finding a means in the world. Uma is honest not to know how to make life but with a facade of wisdom. “Uma East Mumbai, ”said Apt of London, joined by director Karan Kandhari on Zoom. “His journey is the trip of Mumbai – once beautiful and innocent, now invaded by people, chaos and expectations. Like Mumbai, Uma continues until she lost who she is. »»
Do not know how to make life in a city like Mumbai can be intimidating. Even more when you are married and you live in the middle of a band of huts near the sea, your shoe box of a house maintained not by an urban privilege but by rusty tarpaulins collapse. For the first director Kandhari, the objective was not to enlarge the lowering geographic space but life inside. “This is how people are therefore hoped simply to capture it,” he said, explaining that Indian films reflecting the fate of economically disadvantaged often fail to see them beyond their financial situation-like people who can be just as confused, neurotic and complicated as anyone else.
