The scene is of a regular day when a housewife sits at home, watching a cooking show. After she learns the recipe, she decides to put her culinary skills to test, and cooks a seemingly palatable dish for herself. The narrative of Devour continues to develop in the most unexpected manner, catching the unsuspecting viewer completely by surprise with what it has in store for them. <br><br> The narrative is paced and structured intelligently with equally competent camerawork to supplement and enhance it further. The execution of the story thus becomes a complete success, engaging, shocking and horrifying the viewer in equal measure. However, the film loses brownie points in the department of performances where it could have gained much more from better chemistry and character portrayal.

Devour | Short Film of the Day

Nuttah traces the journey of a mother’s grief following the loss of her unborn child. Since the process of
grieving is not linear, neither is the film. The narrative uses dreams, nightmares, illusions and fantasy to explore
the many layers of emotion that the mother undergoes. Her journey from the domestic to the wild is
made sense of through symbolism. <br><br> As though the exploration couldn’t be fairly dealt with in one
domain, the film moves into the domain of fantasy, dark magic and even flashes of horror, to find a
visual language to best tell the story of a loss that was neither fully whole, nor fully realised.

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