Madhulagna Halder

Rituparno Ghosh’s untimely and sudden demise in 2013 took away a safe space, that one could fall back to through watching his films. Most of his viewers often speak of deep connection and comfort in watching his work. His films are mostly enriched with a certain sense of lyricism and poignant style of conversation, that delves into complex human relationships.

In the recent Netflix documentary Unsolved Mysteries, there is an episode on supernatural encounters in post-tsunami hit Japan. The priest explains that the “Japanese people don’t separate the dead from the living.” He uses the metaphor of shoji, a sliding door made of very thin paper, as an analogy of how the country’s culture views death. What is interesting in his explanation is the coexistence of the spiritual world and that of the living, which inspires our curiosity about it.

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