Andhadhun - Made in India

A lot has been said about 'Andhadhun' and how brilliant the movie is and I feel almost everything has been covered in the discussion. What I am trying to do here is not review the film or appreciate film but rather talk about the power of cinema through the world of 'Andhadhun'. It might have SPOILERS because it is an interpretation and might ruin the movie experience. IT HAS SPOILERS.

Andhadhun in the true sense questions our understanding of the word 'Truth'. What is 'Truth'? Is it something that we comprehend? Is it something that we believe in? Is it a perspective? Does it even exist?
In one of the famous Murakami novels, I read a line that goes like - "Do we believe in the truth or just in the things that we wish were true?" Andhadhun presents us with the same question.
It is a deep study of human psychology and philosophy. It talks about a character who pretends to be blind because people tend to shed their inhibitions in front of him. Thus, he can find the inspiration. He can see them naked on a psychological level or physically. Artists leave their home in the morning to find an inspiration and come back to their house again in the evening only to leave again, the next morning. This is what Ayushmann does throughout the film. He sees a rabbit stick and probably creates a story around it. He can focus on things that are important rather than varying his vision to inculcate unnecessary details. He can make people believe in the most unusual story. Everything is happening by chance yet everything is believable.

If one asks a psychologist about extracting information from the subconscious, the probable answer would be that it is not possible today but even if we could, it would just be pure chaos. To bring a meaning to that chaos, one would need a deeper understanding to solve those equations and this is where Raghavan comes in. This is a chaotic movie told with an orderly approach. Raghavan talks about manipulation, our incapability to overcome our emotions, our search for finding a solution and being content with it and above all, our inability to look beyond our own little world. This is where an artist like Akash comes in and weaves a story or a tune despite their blindness (that we perceive). We tend to feel that an artist is socially blind and confined to their own whims but what we don't understand is those whims are a byproduct of the dimension they notice within the human structure. Andhadhun is a prime example of 'What we see might not be the truth' or 'Every entity has its own truth'.
I still feel Raghavan was Akash and the audience was Apte. What I also felt was Akash was as much a musician as he was a storyteller. He found a sense of entropy around and gave them a form of a 'Tune' or a 'Story'. I wonder if he sometimes sits alone and laughs at the world and its mediocrity while an old lady, out of deep respect for God, hands him a note of a higher denomination believing it will reconcile her with the ultimate truth.
This is the part that differentiates the artist from a common man. They know how to keep the commoners, commoners. An artist has an ego to satisfy. An artist has the power to display. And they will. What we do is, unknowingly give in to those mediums and then when left awestruck try to polish our egos by giving it a boundary via our answers.

Also, I loved the film and if it does make it to international circuits, it should have an addition to its title for people who despise Indian cinema without knowing that a guy like Sriram Raghavan exists. Andhadhun - Made in India.