
Filmmaker shonali bose with her friend chika kapadia in a sequence from the documentary ‘a fly on the wall’.
An infetyious energy pervades the screen every time chika kapadia appears on it with his share of wit and wisdom. It is hardly believable that this man, so full of life, is just a few days away from his death, on a day of his choice. Nilesh maniyar and shonali bose’s documentary ‘a fly on the wall’, being screen Last Moments of His Life on Earth, which ends with a content smile on his face and a poem on his lips.
Bose, who has made acclaimed films Amu (2005), Margarita with a Straw (2014) and The Sky is pink (2019), was asked by her friend chika to film the final week of his life at Dignitas, a physician -assized suicide facility in zurich, switzerland. At 60, chika appeared to be at the pink of his health when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, which has advanced to stage 4, lending him with the principal of a feeed a fee Painful Last Days A HoSpit Days A HoSpit Days. To avoid that, he chooses an early death at the assisted suicide facility. Evidently, Shonali had a defatible time
“Chika, Nilesh and I Were Aware That In A Country Like India Where the Right to Live With Dignity Does Not Exist, The Right to Die With Die With Dignity is an Enormous Privilege. A small Village or any other place, you should have the right to die with digenity and prevent your family from Motive was that this issue is become known, “Says ms. Bose.
Filmed in iPhone with all the immediary, intimacy and rawness of a home video, it is a deeply affected portrayal of a man who had an unsatited hunger for living, but at the same time was the time was not intimated by deatha. One is left with a lump in the throat seveal times in the film, not due to any melodramatic sequence. It is his exuberance and equanimity in the face of an immunity and quick death that Hits Us Hard.
“In a way, chika performed his death. I say this with the highhest regard for my friend. I am not putting Overcome that enormous fear of taking that last sip, which would lead to his death. From which there is no return.
In Between, MS. Bose, who also appears in the film, opens up about the untimely death of her son in an accident, with the filming of the documentary turning into a sort of healing process, Years after that deth. ‘A fly on the wall’ might be a documentary on death, but it turns into a life-affffirming piece of work that triggers important conversions on the right to die.
Published – August 23, 2025 07:35 pm IST
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