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Ravi: A Short Film

Attempting to fix her life after a breakup, Ravi goes back to therapy – where she uncovers painful truths about herself, her relationship, and her childhood. Synopsis: Entirely based on monologues, this short film delves into the internal world of a seemingly average 23 year old, who has come back to therapy after a breakup. However, this sense of normalcy begins to crack as we slowly realise Ravi's unreliability as a narrator: having survived long-term emotional abuse, she blames herself for much of her partner's behaviours. Struggling with an immense fear of loss, Ravi's slow poison is her desperate need to cling to her partner, to prevent the painful feelings that accompany loss. The biggest moments in this film are the smallest, and perhaps, the most internal ones: while Ravi is having a word vomit of denial and self-blame, she lets slip some brief details about her relationship with her parents. Towards the end, we, along with our protagonist, realise how it's the details she neglects to mention that have impacted her deeply her whole life: as a child witnessing her parents fight, and as an adult re-enacting similar patterns in her own relationships. Director’s Statement: The conditions in which (both physical and emotional) child abandonment often occurs are rooted in societal structures such as wealth inequality, the nuclear family, and unplanned pregnancies. It is a widespread emotional and psychological phenomenon that cannot be separated from the material world, because it is a direct consequence of it. In a post-colonial country like Pakistan, these structures and their consequences are more prevalent than we often realize ourselves. Although it has been studied extensively, a lot of research and artistic expression around abandonment anxiety is based in Western cultures. Ravi aims to explore the unique lens of a young Pakistani woman experiencing abandonment anxiety in her romantic life, and prioritises emotion and ground reality above all else. Due to the immense fear of loss, experiencing an abandonment wound can make one more prone to entering and staying in abusive relationships, even if there is conscious awareness of how toxic the dynamic is. For Ravi, this toxicity is often internalised: one of the most common ways victims of abuse seek to make peace with it is by blaming themselves, as it allows them an illusion of control. Ravi believes if she can "fix" aspects about herself that she believes caused the abuse, she can prevent both the abuse and the abandonment. Eventually, she discovers how much she mirrors her mother's reactions to her father's abuse, and this is the epiphany that paves the road to her healing. She represents any Pakistani woman growing up in the current world, who is struggling to uphold her sense of self while being vulnerable to ideas of love she has internalised from caretakers who are in unhealthy relationships themselves. This is crucial to her journey, because – although societal structures are the root of a lot of unhealthy interpersonal relationships – it is by healing her relationship with her mother that she finally sets free the part of herself that she shames for "allowing" the abuse.