In journalism, journalists often have a knack of giving name to any breaking news borrowing from a famous or popular cliché. So, when Partha De in Robinson street was accidentally discovered living with the skeletal remains of his sister , some journalists happily borrowed the term “ psycho” from Alfred Hickok’s famous movie of the same name where the paraphillic villain was also engaged in a make-believe world where his mother’s skeletal remains were kept in a secret lair, with an active fantasy of his mother killing( and thereby punishing) the luring females trying to deviate her son through voyeurism. But, in De household, the similarity ended quite early.
No signs of voyeurism, no murder, no thriller and suddenly the story was about to be collapsed. Hence a desperate need to stretch and fit the scene to Hickok’s Movie arose, else the TRPs might slip away, and a twist in the tale –…
