Sumanth Bhat’s ‘Mithya’ is a superb series of insights into the mind of a troubled boy

This Kannada feature is not exactly a coming-of-age movie. It’s more like a bunch of X-rays that lay bare the workings of a mind grappling with the aftermath of a tragedy. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

The opening shot of Mithya is that of a boy standing by the doorway of a train compartment. Outside this doorway, scenes of untamed Nature fly by. Inside the doorway is the comfort of berths and other people. The boy is neither here, nor there. As we will see later, this boy is the Mithya of the title. His given name is Mithun, and he’s played by Atish S Shetty. There’s been a horrible tragedy. Mithun aka Mithya is being taken from his home in Mumbai to the home of his aunt and uncle in Udupi. The physical displacement brings with it mental displacement. The Marathi-speaking boy is being taken to a place that speaks Kannada. He will get a room of his own, but his younger sister Vandana will sleep with their aunt and uncle. Except for one older chap, very few local boys seem to want to be around him, and sullen loneliness becomes a default state.

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