Why Avinash Arun's Killa is as beautiful as Disney's Inside Out
In Disney's new highly-acclaimed animation film Inside Out, an 11-year old girl is disoriented and unhappy when she had to relocate from Minnesota to San Francisco. In debutant director Avinash Arun's Marathi film Killa, an 11-year old boy is disturbed, distraught and disenchanted when his mother relocates from the citified bustle of Pune to the Konkan rural scape where quietude is a compelling way to look inwards. Both the highly-acclaimed films tend to loop the mind of an 11-year old into a spindle of self-introspection when displaced from a large city into relative wilderness. The director Peter Docter says Inside Out is based on his own problematic relationship with his daughter. Likewise Avinash Arun has delved deep into his own psyche to mine memories of a displaced childhood. His is a parable of a childhood lost in translation when a boy barely into his teens is persuaded to question his identity. Excited by the amazing reviews, Raja Sen has called a "beau
