Marma (film)

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Marma
Directed by	Sunil Kumar Desai
Starring	Prema, Anand
Cinematography	H.C. Venu
Release date(s)	2002
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Marma (Kannada: ಮರ್ಮ) is a 2002 Kannada movie directed by Sunil Kumar Desai. The movie mainly deals with sensitive issues such as schizophrenia and hallucination. It is a story of a woman who suffers from a split personality and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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The story begins with Sudha (Prema) and Anand (Anand) getting engaged. To celebrate, Anand decides to throw a party and promises Sudha he will pick her up. Anand doesn't pick her up and Sudha drives to his estate. She gets stuck in the rain and knocks on the door of a nearby house. There she discovers the body of a girl. Suddenly she senses that she is being attacked. In the struggle, she falls from the roof. While unconscious, she is admitted to a hospital. When she reaches her home, she describes what she experienced that night, but no one believes her. She never recovers from that traumatic experience. Later, she starts a fight with someone in her imagination and tries to kill her. A psychiatrist fails to bring Sudha out of her mental state. Her fiancée also tries to bring her to a normal condition.

Sudha is clear about what she saw that night. She saw the body of a girl. She has the button of a dress as evidence. When Sudha is taken back to the house, she does not find the body. She finds that the person who attacked her on that night is deaf and blind. The remainder of the movie revolves around the killer and if Sudha overcomes the trauma.

This film won the State Award for Best Sound-Editing.