While watching the movie 'Swati Mutthina Male Haniye' there is a story if you look at the meaning and a story if you look at the implication - because of the genius of the director.
Who is saying 'You are strong' to whom?
The counselor who works in the care center says to herself daily that 'You are strong'.
for what
Her marriage was close to death.
At the care center there are those who are really close to death. But there is a dead husband at home. He was nothing to her. She won't let him do anything. He has a relationship with someone else. Technically staying at home. He uses a condom to keep his distance from her while being nice and polite and where closeness is created by uninhibited muscle friction.
There will be a scene - the way she looks at the condom packet when he puts it on the bed.
If the marriage dies, the partners die to each other - this is where the director makes a great statement - the woman finally finds love even in a man who is fighting death. Will have to find. Need to find out.
He knows he will die - but he falls in love. 'How beautiful your saree is. Can you touch and see'.. It's a small word. He who crawls towards the window every day, looks towards the door and crawls when she comes. A small gesture.
Reports and tests tell when a person will die. But if you can recognize when the relationship in marriage is dead, the husband and wife will know immediately. If not recognized then the period of recognition will come. She is a doctor, a counsellor... she who gives courage to those who are dying... she does not counsel a husband of a cause who is a wife of a cause who is merely a woman. Not given. 'You can survive as a husband' does not remind us of what it means to be a husband.
Only the patient dies in the care center. But if the relationship dies at home, the wife, husband, (if any) children all die... mentally. By the time the movie starts, her life is so routine that she pours dosas and sprinkles flowers on the porch. Atleast no thought to make another tiffin.
Who killed her to be like this... who brought her close to death? In how many homes are women close to death? Looking up and smiling... Walking around in good clothes in wedding ceremonies.
The most difficult scene in 'Swati Mutthina Male Haniye' is when the heroine's mother (her primary teacher in the story) comes to see her daughter. Seeing her daughter and son-in-law living as if they were dead in the same house, she politely goes back in two days. Here too, the director's trick is that she does not ask anything from her daughter or son-in-law as to what she will have to hear. Is it necessary at this age? Who is responsible for whose death?
'Swati Mutthina Male Haniye' is supposed to be a love story that takes place in a nursing home for terminally ill patients.
Time for each other, love for each other, interest in each other, responsibility for each other, the necessary competence to be with each other... Those without these, those who have lost the sense of life... Spouses... After feeling sorry for someone dying... This movie is about feeling sorry for knowing that you are gone.
There are many similar stories in 'Beyond Coffee' and 'Metro Stories'. We do not have it. Taken in Kannada. That's the difference.