MANASANAMAHA director Deepak Reddy talks about flashbacks, relationships and the universality of debating where to eat dinner
You might as well practice saying “Manasanamaha” now. An inspiring and original short film that’s been collecting awards, it’s set for expansion into a feature next. Literally meaning “Salutations to Mind,” it’s not quite as cerebral as all that, though the slightly unreliable narrator Surya (Viraj Aswin) may think it is. As he speaks directly to camera, he remembers failed relationships, assesses them, and attempts to demonstrate how they all began happily, even though in most cases there were plenty of red flags indicating how things would end.