15 Park Avenue

For all its prosaic sounding dialogue, and sometimes exaggerated acting by most of the cast during the introductory scenes, 15 Park Avenue makes bleeding cuts in your sensibility when the intensity sets in. The script so brilliantly broaches every aspect of schizophrenia, that the all-consuming nature of the scenes depicted yanks up the performance of the entire cast, by default. It is a clear case of script winning over all else, and the actors seem like they cannot help but rise to the challenge.

Aparna Sen has been clever. With an audience widely ignorant about schizophrenia,....