Filmmaker Shonali Bose in a sequence from the documentary ‘A Fly on the Wall’ with his friend Chika Kapadia.
Every time an infectious energy appears on the screen when Chika Kapadia appears on her with her part of intelligence and knowledge. It is hardly reliable that this man, so full of life, is a few days away from his death, on a day of his selection. Nilesh Maniyar and Shonali Bose’s documentary ‘A Fly on the Wall’, 17th International Circle and Small Film Festival (IDSFK) are being screening in a long documentary category, which holds the last days of this man and the last moments of his life on earth, which ends with a material smile on his face and a poem on his face.
Bose, who has made acclaimed movies Amu (2005), Margita with a straw (2014) and The sky is pink At the age of 60, Chika appeared on her health pink, when she was detected a rare form of cancer, which proceeded in Stage 4, leaving her with the possibility of some painful last days in a hospital. To avoid this, he selects an initial death in aided suicide facility. Apparently, a close friend near Shonali near a close time was seen from a distance in front of his eyes, while he had to do the film.
“Chika, Nilesh and I knew a lot that in a country like India where the right to live with dignity, the right to die with dignity is a huge privilege. His dream was whether it is a small village or any other place, you should have the right to avoid dying with dignity. Bose.
Filmed in the iPhone with all immMDIACY, intimacy and rawness of a house video, it affects the portrayal of a person who had an unbalanced hunger to live, but was not afraid of death at the same time. One is left several times in the film with a lump around the neck, not due to any melodramatic sequence. It is his extreme excitement and similarity in front of a adjacent and quick death that barely kills us.
“In a way, Chika demonstrated her death. I say this with the most respect for my friend. I am not putting her down. I am not saying that it is a superficial thing, but by choosing the mechanism of performance, it helped him to overcome the huge fear to take that last sip, which went away from the people who went away from you.
In the middle, Ms. Bose, who also appears in the film, opens about the untimely death of her son in an accident, after years of death, the documentary turns into a type of treatment process. ‘A fly on the wall’ can be a documentary on death, but it turns into a piece of life-surety that triggers important conversations on the right to die with dignity.
Published – August 23, 2025 07:35 pm IST
