Videsh

“Do our desires have such power that they can enter our lives in human form,” wonders the battered protagonist of Videsh at the movie’s end.

Reminds me of Hermann Hesse, the Nobel-winning author who, in a prologue to one of his books, muses about the challenge of writing about non-existent things: “The fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence…” Something like this happens to Chand ( Preity Zinta ) in Deepa Mehta’s film Videsh