EABS: Screening of short film ‘Embrace’ held

The plot revolves around three layers, firstly a personal layer which is the family; second, the subjects wife who gets a doubt regarding his behavior and third is the negotiation part where she talks to the subjects colleague regarding his strange behavior who in fact tells the subjects wife that he has been fired from the job as he was not performing well. The subject later on is shown to take some monologues on screen. The climax of the movie very nicely shows the same monologues of the subject, but the subject is actually playing a prank on himself which implies to the audiences, in a way that the subject has come out of it. Venkat said that he has taken valuable feedback from Kranti, a media person in the Marathi movie entertainment industry regarding the sound, editing etc. Venkat also shared his experience about the making of the movie, how difficult it was to get the actors and deciding on the location. He said, editing the movie was a challenge for him and that he contacted many reputed editors, but finally got the editing done from a small studio.

This was followed by an interactive session in which Zensar Technologies CFO, Mr Balasubramanyiam, who also was starred in this film, spoke about how medical treatment has a profound effect on such individuals, and how harsh it is for people who stay with the schizophrenic patient. He said that he himself has witnessed this condition with one of his close associates. He gave a message that the purpose of screening this film was give a message to the management as to how they can effectively deal with schizophrenic employees. He also told the audience that nothing can stop people if they have a passion to do something, be it a movie, or singing or any other art.

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