| Sukhaant: The Final Wish (2009) Also Known As: Sukhant Country: India Language: Marathi Year: 2009 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description When fiercely independent, self-made, single mother Sitabai (Jyoti Chandekar) meets with an accident that deems her quadriplegic, her life changes forever. Her son, Pratap (Atul Kulkarni), a successful lawyer, makes it his life to take care of his bed-ridden mother. Even as her dear ones surround her with much love and attention, unable to live at other's mercy, Sitabai awaits death everyday. Everyday, she pleads her son to not tie her down with his love and relieve her of her suffering. Pratap, unable and unwilling to grant her this peculiar wish, struggles to do the right thing as his mother shows no signs of recovery.
Days drag on; adamant Sitabai has given up food and her condition deteriorates further. When he can no longer bear to watch his helpless mother suffer, Pratap decides to move the court to grant his mother her wish to end her life.
Does one have the right over one's death? The film raises the ultimate question and examines what it means to be alive. It asks under what condition could euthanasia be considered humane and thus a better option than being forced to live on?
Cast: Atul Kulkarni, Jyoti Chandekar, Kavita Medhekar, Tushar Dalvi, Vignesh Joshi, Pratibha Date, Pravin Tarde, Nitin Dhanduke, Snehal Ghayal |
