Psychological reflection of movie Dear Zindagi

Pages: 874-877
Sudha Rathore and Kirti Maheshwari (Department of Psychology, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The current paper makes use of a commercially successful movie “Dear Zindagi” to introduce the concept of counselling and guidance to a large Indian population as a means of exposing the conductions of counselling sessions. This is a movie about Kaira (Bhatt), cinematographer by profession, who is going through a tumultuous period of life. For this she approaches Khan/Jug (Khan) who is a Psychologist /Counsellor/therapist by profession. This paper is an attempt to break the long held myth regarding professional counselling in the Indian society. It envisages the technical aspects of multiple therapies used at different stages of a counselling session. The movie is a beautiful attempt of how a client with the help of a psychologist/counsellor successfully copes with her emotional and behavioural problem, which has its roots in her childhood and this paper provide a psychological reflection of the same.