Just another ordinary girl; reflecting the multiple emotional personalities she holds in her conscience. Stuck in a maze of her self reflections, can she figure out who she really is?
In Indian scriptures, a human is essentially divided into 9 significant Rasas, or emotions. This concept is evidently used in performing arts to tell stories through facial expressions in drama, dance and theatre. In order to sustain the cultural element, we picked this Indian craft to shape our story – wherein each of her emotions turn into a magnificent personality and she gets lost in her conscience before finding herself.
The mirror is a metaphor as during the pandemic, we all had the luxury of time to take a moment and look in the mirror and think, ‘Who are we for real?
‘Aina’ is a story of finding one’s own self through those multiple self-reflections of different self personalities.
Written, Directed & Produced by: Aashka Shah and Rachana Shete
Muse: Rakhee Sharma
DOP: Arushi Chugh
Camera Assistants: Charlotte Vernet and Ashfaq Azeem