Movie review of an award winning short film "Selfie" - directed by Ramchandra Gaonkar

      

     On 26^th September, in the dailyschedule of Department of English, Komal Sahedadpuri has presented one short film named “Selfie” in the column of personal presentation. The title of the short film suggests that it should be about social media and how some of us are very conscious about their look and “selfies”

 Here is the short film "Selfie"

       

      An award winning short film “Selfie” is directed by Ramchandra Gaonkar and produced by Balasaheb Matre. The story is common as well as unique. We could say that seventy percent people judge everyone by their looks, clothes and shoes and also comments upon each other with that perspective.  In school, colleges and workplaces this kind of incidents do happens where people bully each other and insults. Even in the advertisements of washing powders and branded clothes, it can be observed that cloths and its whiteness is very much connected with character and personality but the fact is that all this is materialistic things which hides the reality rather than expressing the truth.

       

    Another fact that the short film expresses is importance of our love towards us. The person in the film has passed his whole day by feeling insulted and uncomfortable because an unknown person has commented badly about him and also tried to change his behaviour and appearance. What others are thinking about ourselves is their way of thinking we cannot change or control that and we don’t even need to do that. In the last scene when the victim (the person who has insulted by the man) has done the same thing with fellow young passenger and that young boy was laughing rather than being uncomfortable and the simple reason was,

“I have known myself from 21 years!”

     When we take selfie and upload it on social media we wait for likes and comments… and if we don’t get such things as per our expectations we feel bad and ignored, but the main thing is we know that what we are and what can we do. We should not give our remote controls in other people’s hand; if we know ourselves we don’t need anyone to make us happy or sad. This is the idea of existentialism that whatever we do is for our self and only we are responsible for that, we can’t blame anyone for our disaster or cannot credit anyone for our happiness. “selfie” is all about taking our photograph of our own, and it’s up to us how we take it because we are the controllers of our life.

   Only WE are responsible for WHAT we are, WHO we are and WHERE we are.