Bollywood and medical disorders

KCK pulls in two medical terms to justify what is happening with the protagonist - Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). A little googling reveals that they are not one and the same thing, though many people do confuse the two. Schizophrenia - one is born with it, MPD - born due to abuse. The thought that KCK is confusing them further, is disturbing.

Are the makers of KCK claiming that Karthik was born with Schizophrenia (because of which he saw a "brother") and the abuse by that imaginary brother has caused MPD?! Talk of fiction! Well, the movie never did claim to be a true story after all..

Talking of true stories, while in a BEST bus recently, saw an ad for movie "THANKS MAA". It is apparently about an orphaned/abandoned child. The last line in the ad was "Based on 12.44 million true stories". And ya, that did catch my attention, in a very unsettling way.

Stories based on disorders seems to have caught on in a big way in Bollywood. "Black" was a small beginning, but it really became the trend since "Taare Zameen Par". How about "Ghajini", "Paa" and "MNIK"? And now, "KCK". If these movies intended to bring out the subtleties of the disorders or to generate awareness (as was in TZP), great move. But using them commercially just to create unusual fiction (and maybe more confusion) seems plain wrong.

PS: A fact about MPD -
The fact that you may sometimes be quiet, sometimes gregarious, sometimes "up" or sometimes "down", sometimes patient and other times irritable does not mean that you have multiple personalities.
- Marvin S. Beitner, Ph.D.