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VIVARTHA SHORT MOVIE is a 2021 Indian Kannada language period drama fiction film written and directed by Chethan Shetty, and produced by Chethan Shetty under the banner of Reel Real Cinemas. The film features debut actors like Nikkil as Surya, in the lead role, Rithvaan Shrinivas features as Ravi and Sneha Gowda. The film was shot in Kannada on a budget of ₹1.5 lakhs, making was shot in very few places and some of Bengaluru streets. It narrates as - Surya, a writer who falls in love with Apoorva and due to some reasons their relationship ends and Surya couldn’t accept the reality and starts drug abuse and struggles to differentiate between reality and illusion. Surya being a person who believes in love, empathy, and is full of hope was in love with a bold, liberated, jovial but stubborn girl (Apoorva), she became the root and soul of his life which brought up the best version of himself.

Due to some reasons their relationship comes to an end and Surya being so much in love with her, couldn’t assimilate the fact that she’s no more in his life and starts to live in denial and a life that is full of fantasy and make-believe. Surya creates a version of himself, rather you could call it an Imaginary friend (Ravi) who inherits the qualities full of hope, positivity, and practicality. In Short, an Imaginary Friend who constantly feeds him with positive thoughts and hope. Surya, being devastated about his love life, starts to use drugs to evade the thoughts of Apoorva and ends up accelerating his psychological breakdown. He starts speaking to his imaginary friend more often and starts to hear voices. As he doesn’t realize that he has been talking to his imaginary friend but the people around him see it as he is talking to himself and they see him as a fool which annoyed and irritated him a lot. Surya gets flashbacks now and then when he was high on drugs which made him happy but his imaginary friend always tries to tell him it’s a bad habit and he should move on with his life, Surya gets frustrated about his friend pushing him to his limits and yells at him a little and goes to the local canteen to eat lunch, where he feels people around him are laughing at him and his paranoia gets more and more and he asks Ravi “Why people are staring at him and laughing?” Ravi replies no one is laughing or staring at you and tells him to stop imagining things and Surya in a confused state of mind, leaves the canteen. Surya starts to hallucinate about suicide and finds it very strange that he has been thinking all this, and his imaginary friend explaining why she left him and why he has to move on, but Surya explains how much he loved her and wanted to show her his point of view, and how they could lead the life and failed to understand her perspective and Ravi advises him to move on and asks him to stop living in an illusion.

The word “illusion” makes him realize he has been living in a fantasy and make-believe world and after a few seconds his imaginary friend fades away as he quickly realizes that all this time it was an illusion rather than the reality which hits him hard and he tries to understand what’s happening to him and finally realizes and grasp about the thought that drugs were playing a major role in his fantasy, accelerating things and making it very difficult to differentiate between reality and illusion. Surya starts to recover from his breakdown phase and accepts the reality which turns out to be fruitful as he works through his love life and Surya and Apoorva get married and live happily ever after.

The end.

Movie crew details : Written and Directed By: Chethan Shetty Produced By: Chethan Shetty Starring: Nikkil | Rithvaan Shrinivas | Sneha Gowda

Production House: REEL REAL CINEMAS Creative Partner: COUNTER CUT MEDIA

DOP: Abhishek Gowda (AG) Second Unit DOP: Manjunath K Music & Background Score: Varun Raghavendra & Sunil Kumar P Singer: Sunil Gujagonda (SaReGaMaPa season 13 Winner) Mixing & Mastering: Alocious Fernandez (Robin) Executive Producer: Gowtham Setty Editing & VFX: Chethan Shetty DI: Abhishek Gowda (AG) Creative Partner: Hari Prasad (COUNTER CUT MEDIA) Choreographer: Mani Kanta N Costume Designer: Niveditha Gowda Makeup artist : Sahana Gowda Recorded at: Sri Sai Swara Recording Studio Poster Design: Nikkil (Craftman)