The Medium (Part-1)
Genre: Thriller (Supernatural-History
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Logline: Attila,
a child born at midnight on Indian Independence becomes a Medium and calls the “dead”
to reveal the blood soaked power play and terror that ruined the unity of a
nation.
Synopsis
“The Medium” is woven on
a lucid concept that people born at midnight on Indian Independence had
supernatural powers. It depicts a cross section of India’s
pre-independence era and analyses the events of the day when India became
free. And scaling the past 67 years of Free India it develops through
political, cultural and socioeconomic scenario, the offspring of the Great
Partition that took thousands in its death toll.
Attila (justice) is a
girl born out of a down caste Hindu-Muslim wedlock, in a Mumbai suburban slum
at the midnight on August 14, 1947. When the clock strikes 12, amidst the
rampant violence, her parents are butchered by the leaving government
machinery, and she is ‘forced out of her dead mother’, marking the cry of Free
India. While the babe cries aloud into the ‘void’, struggling in the
shivering outstretched hands that took her from ‘the dead, but warm womb’,
Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister hoists the tri-colour flag at Red
Fort declaring India’s Independence.
Attila grows up under
the care of ill nourished, submissive slum dwellers consisting of scavengers
and other underdogs. She gets “contaminated” at the age of 13 and becomes
a medium to bring forth the apparitions of the "dead". Late rulers,
social reformers, god men, etc., appear before her in real forms to reveal
the other side of their eventful life…. For, the living tells lies, but the
dead does not!
While the rituals
continue blending Arabic, pagan and indigenous forms, she has a feeling that
these will not last and that the good shall perish soon. When people
assemble around her with esteem piety, to their astonishment, she pronounces
the spell, and ‘the actors’ of the 14th August drama appears
before her as apparitions. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru,
Lord Mountbatten and his wife are all crowding to make known ‘their other
side’ to the mass. What the dead tells now creates panic among the
people. They become confused and factions originate. Some go against her,
while others support. The enemies are strong and outrageous. Attila
resists, but they twist the situations in their favor.
And with the help of
Shiva, the god man, the rivals start to make her surrender. In spite of all
precautions, Shiva's telepathic impulses penetrate all resistance and reach
her. Unable to withstand the onslaught and fury, Attila succumbs and her
whole physical form blazes off in the engulfing fire, and her soul gets
liberated. Before leaving the burnt body, her soul takes a vow that it
would come back one day to avenge them.
Medium
(Part-2)
Logline:
The soul of Attila
revisits the world and induces ESP in a youth to avenge the antagonists for
their atrocities on her in the past life.
Shiva, with his magical
power wants to eliminate Attila forever. So, he waits for her return by
rejuvenating his body and power throughout the eventful years of free
India. During these years new boundaries and political equations come
into being. The international scenarios change and new allies take
form. Terrorism and anarchy become the flagship of social life. The
intra-socio-economic balance shatters. The country is in the grip of
stale brokers, gamblers and bootleggers. Political black sheep whistle
the tunes and the Indian society is metamorphosing.
And in a modern township
away from the city, Nathan, a 25 year old handsome youth is in fits. The mental
aberration and nightmares take the brain out of him. He has visions. Attila,
the dead, appears in his dreams and induces telepathic marvels. As if a
clairvoyant Nathan interacts with the ghostly form and becomes possessed.
Gradually he gains a psychic power equivalent to that of Attila and declares
himself her reincarnation. Now the disciples throng to be blessed and his
words acquire the magnetic beam which is potent to change even the rulers of
the country. The apparitions he brings forward uncover truths and it
quakes the nation. Idols and images collapse. Controversies follow. Violence
erupts.
And Liza, a young
journalist thinks that Nathan is a swindler. But later she finds that
Nathan has real sixth sense and becomes his follower. Meantime, some of
his disciples want to overpower him to amass wealth and fame. The murder of two of
his disciples creates problems and the police raid his camps. There are
attempts to kill him. Liza saves him. She develops a soft corner
towards him and tells of her love. But Nathan cannot accept it. To
her bewilderment he declares, “I am not a man at all….!” The
secret, thus revealed, and Shiva joins his allies to plot against Nathan.
The frequent nearness to Liza causes physical and mental changes in him.
To his bewilderment when the first menstrual vibrations hit ‘him’, ‘he’
collapses under its weight. The very moment ‘his’ supernatural power
fails ‘him’. Underworld Dons and political mafia attack ‘him’ and ‘he’ is
exhausted. But Liza inspires ‘him’ to regain the lost power by practicing
Egyptian black magic or Atharva. So, in the silence of the
night, Nathan, along with Liza and a few disciples, disappears into the dark,
unnoticed.
They reach a remote and
dense forest. The forest people provide shelter to them. With their
patronage Nathan and Liza start practicing severe occults. After a great
ordeal they acquire the power they craved for. But this time the power
they attained is negative. Nevertheless, they with the prowess and fury
of Mahakaali and Rudra, wait for the right moment to unleash their revenge….
And the ‘fusion of woman and man in one’ becomes the fire to win…
and to win means destroy… For, destruction is the only truth in
Nature...! Destroying to create…
(c) Punalur Chandrasekharan
