Kshay - The thin line between faith and obsession

Recently watched kshay's trailer it seems to be the most promising independent film in the recent times

The basic story of Kshay is about a woman’s (Chhaya) obsession with a Goddess Laksmi sculpture and how a simple sweet life of the couple goes haywire when Chhaya’s simple need becomes an ugly obsession. Then why doesn’t she buy the sculpture. She cannot because they are poor and cannot afford daily life needs and an Rs.15 thousand sculpture is out of question. But then why Chhaya does needs the sculpture and why can’t she just suppress her need, well to know all this we will have to see the movie.

Seriously the basic premise of the movie just moves you psychologically, the trailer itself shows what kind of obsession Chhaya has towards the sculpture. The movie is shot in Black and White, and it kind of captures something what a color picture wouldn’t have captured; and what is that it is sadness, the madness in Chhaya’s eyes.

Kshay revolves around the personification of an obsession, fueled by nothing more than intangible desires. Chhaya is a simple housewife who has an artistic bent of mind and a seemingly happy life with her husband Arvind. Money trickles in every month and life goes on for an unassuming Chhaya, until her eyes catch hold of an unfinished sculpture of the Hindu Goddess, Lakshmi.

Her values and relationships as she knows them begin to decay day by day, surrendering to the clutches of an ugly obsession that feeds on her weaknesses and past disappointments. She must have the “Lakshmi”, as if to make up for all that she has yearned for in her life.

Kshay takes an unforgiving look at obsession; how it infects the frailty of our minds, corroding reasoning, reality and emotional fullfillment.

Kshay is an independent and a very brave venture by Karan Gour, who has written, directed and produced the movie. The movie is in Black and White, well it doesn’t hampers the movie but it is surely helping the movie look better and more realistic. The movie is based on the theme of human obsession and what that obsession can do to you.

Check more on the movie at http://www.kshay-thefilm.com/