What does it mean to be different in this world where one is expected to behave the ‘same’? What happens when one tries being among the ‘same’? What if one belongs to the ‘same’ as it deems the ‘same’, and not the ‘same’ as prescribed by those around?
Nidhi Saxena urges us to feel, look and immerse ourselves into the world of Amol and leaves us with these questions, of which there seem to be no easy, linear answers. A gut-churning melancholy, running page after page, Chidiya Udd follows Amol and the difficulty he faces in his life. The difficulty is that Amol wants to fly since he doesn’t belong with the humans; he feels like a bird within. While the grandmother is able to understand Amol’s pain, she can’t do much. His father ignores Amol’s difficulty in accepting an identity that Amol does not relate to. Amol doesn’t feel human; he is a bird, he assures. But no one will let him be one.
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