How does Demented represent social issues?
''Demented is a movie based on inner turmoil'', claims Yusra Farooq. It represents the depressive and a psychotic state of a person. She claims that in this era it is absolutely essential that mental illness should be viewed as something serious and should be brought light to. ''The main goal of this movie is to bring awareness amongst people, to check up on their loved ones, even though on the outside they may appear okay, but you never know the conflicts they are facing within themselves''., said Yusra Farooq.
The goal of this movie is to break the stigma surrounding mental illness, to show that everyone suffers from something, to raise awareness and empathy in people. For people to recognize the cries of help a person commotes and to help them rather than brushing it off by saying ''its all in your head'' or that ''mental illness is just a state of mind''