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Paap

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Paap
suman verma@keatsmadeline
Oct 17, 2005 03:48 PM, 5584 Views
(Updated Feb 24, 2009)
PaaP - 'The Experimental Plot'

Paap is a story of a girl named Kaya, brought up under the constraints of her father. She lived a life surrounded by Buddhist Lamas who taught her how to count the beads five times a day. Later in her life she is to be sent to a monastery to serve the senior Lamas. Her father dictates her to never get entangled in the human relationships. He thinks that such chains are fake and cause pains to one’s heart when broken. After she reaches adolescence, she meets Shiven who is not indifferent to love. His caring attitude and irrevocable solidness attracts Kaya. She learns versatility and how one should be mutable to face the positive changes or negative changes in life. Kaya falls in love with Shiven. This agitates girl’s father and he sends Kaya to the monastery. But in the end, he comes to understand that love brings joys and happiness and prospers in every moment of it irrespective of what could happen next. To love one is not a ‘Paap’ or ‘Sin’, is the moral of the movie. In the experimental plot of ‘Paap’ there have been attempts to interpret the psychical process in terms of a stream of consciousness to explain the absurd and the impossible as existentialist realities. ‘Paap’ brings us in touch with fantasy offering an insight of cumulative effects. The ultimate appeal of the plot to the audience is through symbolism or allegory. ‘You need to fly for you are a bird. You don’t have to creep on the earth’, Shiven’s words try to trigger Kaya’s numb mind. Such scenes of dissimilar images, names and dialogues can also trigger off many associations in the mind of the audience. Ordinary and everyday situations slowly turn into a series of improbable incidents. Kaya sees not herself in a mirror hidden below a stone-sill but a colourful medley of images. Kaya’s recital of a poem to Shiven suggests a metamorphosis to take place. Such presentation of an imaginative human behaviour, which is undeniably truthful and absorbing, is able to transform illusion into a felt experience. Atmosphere sets the time frame – past, present or future; creates the psychological mood and establishes the locale. ‘Paap’ deals with the present, the recent past and the imaginary future at different places. The most important feature of the experimental story is the ‘open-ended narrative.’ Such stories challenge the precise expectations of a close ending. It changes the perception of things – variable or invariable.

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