A Pleasurable Act of Enjoying a Psychopath in The Other: Animal, Kabir Singh, Bhakshak, Dahad, Mirzapur, Darlings, and many more in the infinite order…………….

 The society of India has been worshipping the act of enjoying a Psychopath in the Other. The trends and patterns of the success achieved by some of the recent films indicate such a paradigm. Society today worships and enjoys the act of seeing a Psychopath in the other. When such a Psychopath takes a larger-than-life measurable form in the shape of a character in the films – “Animal”, “Kabir Singh”, the bonhomie reaches a new pinnacle.

The booming box office numbers, whistling in various cinematic frames, and clapping, and jeering crowds within the cinema halls are a testimony to this worshipping of the Psychopath in the other. The most disturbing and astonishing element of this worship lies in the following statement – “While the family members of the Psychopath are disturbed and struggling to deal with the Psychopath in the film, the audience is cheering fully to the phenomenon and clapping to the Psychopath”.

This was a statement by Konkana Sen Sharma in the latest interview. Then why does the audience clap and whistle and create a box office hit while the family of the Psychopath in the cinematic frame struggles in a film called – “Animal”. This is because, in a way, the audience is celebrating the psychopath in the other on the visual frame by escaping his/her/their internal psychopath lying within the psychoanalytic zone. As a society, we tend not to do our Psychoanalysis and identify the innate one while we celebrate the same when we see the Psychopath in the other.

The other in the characters of various films, and web series in recent periods has only strengthened this hypothesis of – “Society Celebrating the Psychopath” in the “Other” while escaping the own inner one. This is also happening in most of the celebratory content of all the audio-visual medium web series on the Web. The society also in a way has started to believe that to come out of the inner ills of psychopathy within individuals and in society a larger Psychopath might be needed.  When that Psychopath and the Psychopathy are visually projected on screen, the mass escapes from their psychopathic self; and celebrates the rescue of a psychopathic society by a psychopath while the actual character in the film or the audiovisual medium struggles or troubles the characters around him/her/they in the communication medium. The infinite chain of such a psychopathic order has been already established and it will continue in the infinite loop in the future.