Chef's Special | Short Film Nominee

Short Film Nominee June 8, 2022

Chef's Special

By Abhishek Prakash Khankriyal with 6.5

drama · Short Films · hindi

When two strangers, completely opposite of each other, meet as a result of a chance encounter, new realisations and a fresh awareness of the self awaits the protagonist. Nidhi is a busy woman who runs her own cafe along a hilly road. One day, a vagrant biker, Samarth, arrives at the bistro. Impressed by the special chai, he ends up writing a little note to the chef, and thus begins their story, confined simply to handwritten notes.

Through their conversation, a discussion about desires as well as the way someone chooses to live their life is invoked, leading Nidhi to understand something about her choices she perhaps had never understood before. The film is mellow and soft, and maintains the same tone throughout, first introducing the viewer to Nidhi's world, and then locating her within the several rejected and denied desires that constitute it. However, now that someone may have given her a glimpse of another way of life, is an unknown sense of happiness around the corner for her?
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