Surya Vasishta directs and stars alongside Sruthi Hariharan and Deepak Subramanya in a film that ruminates about one’s identity and end goal in a philosophical tone.
In a brilliant scene in Surya Vasishta’s Saramsha (Summary), a publisher, Raksha (Shweta Gupta), tells the protagonist, Tejas (Deepak Subramanya), about how she wants people to see her as a Kannadiga, even if she doesn’t speak the language fluently. “But psychologically, culturally… this (Karnataka) is my home. It (Kannada) is my literature and identity. Anywhere else, I will feel out of place,” she says.
A Bengaluru Kannadiga, who is well aware of Kannada’s legacy, yet finds it comfortable thinking in English, battles with the same identity crisis. The film, too, is about who you are and who people see you as, and has several gentle moments that make you smile..
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