The Department of Human Excellence conducted a review of the film ”Meri Awaaz Suno” for the first-year UG Science and Arts students on December 19, 2023. The movie’s premise is that a radio jockey loses his voice due to excessive smoking and embarks on a challenging journey to regain it by correcting his mistakes.
The hero of the movie, Sankar, is a chain-smoking popular radio jockey running the prime Meri Avas Suno FM show. He is popular with his colleagues and empathetic to his callers, managing to prevent a young girl caller from jumping off a rooftop. However, at an awards show, he suddenly finds that he has lost his voice. A medical check-up leads to an emergency procedure and the removal of his larynx. Shankar’s
life as an RJ is virtually over, and he is desolate, unable to come to terms with his situation. With the encouragement of his wife, his doctor, and his radio station boss Moorthy, he starts personal speech rehabilitation with effervescent Dr. Reshmi. Reshmi tells him upfront that he will not get his voice back but introduces him to others who are in a similar larynx-less situation who have learned to use voice stimuli to gain some sort of speech function. With Reshmi’s intensive training, encouragement, and friendship, Shankar also gradually learns how to use these devices to the point that he can manage to accomplish an electronic-sounding voice. In the process of his rehabilitation, Reshmi and Shankar become very close, albeit in a platonic manner. However, Meryl is very unhappy and suspicious. Once Shankar manages to master the stimulation device, Meryl asks Reshmi to step back and leave Shankar to her care only going forward. In the meantime, Moorthy has come up with a new kids’ radio show helmed by a robot voice … ideal for Shankar. Shankar is not entirely confident that the success of the first program has set the tone for future success, and there is no looking back. Reshmi is shown on a flight to Kashmir, where her husband is based.
