Short Film Diary

A tea spoon! What is it that  comes to your mind, when you discern a teaspoon? Morsel of salt,  sugar  etc ? Or a pastiche  of all? Here it refers as a metaphor based  on relationships. Propinquities run smoothly with the addition of a teaspoon of happiness, bicker and feuds. These are the beautiful emotions of our everyday life. But in Teaspoon, these emotions blow up into a  disastrous end. It reflects two scenarios, the first is, how a woman is been trapped between desires and responsibilities within the four walls of her house. She is  not a bad daughter-in-law, it’s just that she is  frustrated and tired. Her husband could pull her out atleast for a weekend. A woman, comparatively is very strong creature of god, as she  monikers every hook and nook of house. The second, it talks about the increasing unconcerned attitude of children towards their  parents. Children of present generation fail to take up the responsibilities of their parents, who have sacrificed their whole life for ...

In  the  present culture of India, a new vogue has been started called ‘live in’ consanguinity. Where, we experience a mixture of different feelings which isn’t so much calumniating. This kinship can be a successful one or a sad rift- this  phase of life isn’t so pleasant as it is healing one’s scars to  move on, which doesn’t give rad vibes for the people involved in it,  also reluctantly reflects  a scenario that reality is  gyrating into memories. Here’s the short film “ White Shirt” directed by Sumit Aroraa, starring  Kritika Kamra and Kunal Kapoor, where  Kunal is acting as her live-in boyfriend. The plenary melodrama attached to Kamra’s  fettered hearts remarkably makes herself  strong. We can witness that she never sheds a tear and makes herself a stalwart woman with  a nitty gritty of self respect in her eyes. She does covet  for him silently by feeling all the  memories she had, which were connected to white shirt. It also reflects soft, sheeply, wicked and sly face of kunal w...

A silent night, where mosquitoes burble, owls hoot, you switch off the lights before you just go to sleep, you suddenly see somebody’s shadow  and hear rampant footsteps, it will make your mind go crazy, sweating all over and you just freak out. Your worse childhood scares of a dark night haunts you. To make you confront this feeling, David .F. Sandberg, co-producer, director, writer, has brought you  a Swedish supernatural horror short film called “LIGHTS OUT”. This movie starring Lotta Losten was released on 30 th of December 2013 on both Vimeo and YouTube, which was later turned into a whole-hog movie in 2016. The short film was the basis of an agnomenous 2016 film adaption. If your  watching this short film alone on a dark night, you will surely think twice  before you switch off the lights.

There’s   a  saying  that Silence speaks more than words and Action speaks louder. Strolling, Sprinting and Scampering around, two strangers strike at one blotch crossing each others mind frequently. Which forges them  abaft to think which note is precious in this world, Is it a currency note? Is the money a real cognition for change? So here’s the short film “The Right Note” starring Tiku Tulsania and Swara  Bhaskar which has apportioned beautiful  emotions among different personalities that will connect our hearts without articulating a word.

A woman is a mixture of all the condiments just like a “chutney”. She capers all the roles in any situation to bulwark her Family, Love , Respect and Integrity. So here’s the story from model town that depicts Tisca Chopra who’s feining as a passé wife of Adil Hussain, where her spouse  has an affair with Dugal. Dugal makes friendly prelude to Chopra at a neighbourhood get-together. The next day, Dugal makes her way to Chopra’s home. At the beginning hesitantly, anticipatorily enjoying the chutney and pakoras auscultates towards  Chopra’s husband ,shares a story of love and betrayal leaving behind a sleezy end, making her go patrified, abscond trail a question what secrets she might know? The story “Chutney”, by the name itself  describes, as a mixture of spice, tangy, sweet and little sour just that makes our taste buds Charleston on its own kaput that leaves us aghast, thirsty and  agog to know it more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0krwKbsQscw

The Guest is a rumpling  and mysterious journey in valleys with warm music abutting ears, Sounds fine until you reach  your destiny. A road trip that will flagerbast by the time you reach  the end. A small breakdown, and a good Samaritan to help in the middle of the night in the unknown hamlet with no inhabitants in sight; and when you just thought everything was fine, you are in big surprise. ‘The Guest’ is a strange and inscrutable short film that keeps us baffled with his trip. This short film directed by Ayappa K.M,  impressed the jury and became the winning film under the Large Short Films category at the Mumbai Film Festival 2016.

https://youtu.be/KhIGSqneM0M Kathakaar is a story of a man who has lost his job for Innovation. Piyush Mishra the veteran actor plays a character of a man who was working in the Theatre as a projectionist. The Mall and Multiplex culture had made him lose his job like many who lost the battle to keep up the pace with innovation and resisted change. The story however revolves around rediscovering Passion of a man who, after losing the job, comes back to his village only to find a new passion. Struggling with what to do with his life, he one day narrates a story for a crying kid. Slowly he becomes the favorite story teller in the village and re-discovers his passion. Awards and Accolades   –   Semi-Finalist in the Foreign Narrative category of the  43 rd  annual Student Academy Awards .  Out of 1,749 submitted to the Student Academy, the advancement puts Kathakaar in roughly the top 5% of all films submitted. –   Finalist in the  Jio Filmfare Short Film Awards , 2017 –   Best Internation...