The most common types are exposure therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). People with specific phobias like autophobia are often treated with psychotherapy. Talk with your doctor about any other fears you have. It’s possible that you’re dealing with more than one phobia, which could be making your autophobia even more challenging to cope with. In some cases, people have more than one phobia at a time. To be diagnosed with autophobia, your fear of being alone causes you so much anxiety that it interferes with your daily routine. This means that the situation of being alone or loneliness causes extreme distress. This involves asking lots of questions about your daily activities and feelings.Īutophobia is considered a situational phobia. After that, they’ll perform a psychological evaluation. They’ll ask for your medical history to see if a physical problem is affecting your mental health. When you see a mental health specialist, they’ll perform a psychological evaluation. They can refer you to a mental health care specialist. If you suspect you have autophobia, you should talk with a doctor. Her histrionics alone is worth the price of the ticket.Īll-in-all, Phobia makes for an engaging weekend watch.Autophobia is a phobia, or fear-based disorder. Her face, her personality changes from one mood swing to the other. Her reactions to the visions she experiences are genuine, as is her helplessness about not being able to get out of her flat. The dusky beauty is in control of every scene. But everything aside, it’s Radhika Apte’s film all the way. Satyadeep Mishra is good as the guy who is ‘friendzoned’ and wants to get out of it, Ankur Vikal makes an impact as the creepy next-door-neighbour, as does Yashaswini Dayama, the chirpy girl who believes in Mehak and helps her find closure. The twist ending is both unusual and intelligent.Īll the technical finesse in the world can’t save a film if the performers fall short. Deft editing and cinematography lift the film’s narration.
Then, the horror movie trope of a corpse rising out of a bloodied bathtub is utilised intelligently as well. In one sequence, a drill bit almost pokes out Radhika Apte’s eye. Empty houses are the perfect setting for all kinds of creepy noises and quirky jump cuts and Phobia has plenty of that as well as some supernatural elements to send a shiver down your spine. Kripalani made a name for himself with the psycho-horror Ragini MMS and he remains true to the elements of the genre. How she fluctuates between the real and the imaginary and how she conquers her phobia forms the crux of the story… It doesn’t help when she finds out that the airhostess’ architect boyfriend living next door has anger issues. She begins having visions about the airhostess. There, she finds a diary belonging to the earlier tenant, an airhostess, who has mysteriously gone missing. A family friend, Satyadeep Mishra, suggests that perhaps Mehak would be better off facing her phobia alone and shifts her to another flat. Now, she can’t get herself to even cross the front door of her house, much to the chagrin of her elder sister played by Nivedita Bhattacharya, a single mother whose young son is traumatised by this change in his aunt.
Radhika Apte plays Mehak, a reclusive artist whose agoraphobia is triggered when she’s molested by a taxi driver one lonely night.
Director Pawan Kripalani has taken the template of Repulsion and woven a film about a woman suffering from agoraphobia who begins to hallucinate about a murder she believes happened in the rented house that she’s newly settled in. You watch in horrid fascination as the actor’s mental equilibrium disintegrates when she suffers one hallucination after another. It was Catherine’s supremely sublime acting that drew the audiences then and manages to draw you in still. Apart from Polanski’s masterful direction, it also rested on the shoulders of its lead actor Catherine Deneuve.
Some critics have even called it his finest film. It was only his second feature film and went a long way towards cementing his reputation as an avant-garde filmmaker. Repulsion (1965) was director Roman Polanski’s highly acclaimed psychological thriller. Cast: Radhika Apte, Satyadeep Mishra, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Ankur Vikal and Yashaswini Dayama