The film aims to weave a poignant narrative about a couple which was deeply in love once, but now struggles with distance, indifference and apathy in their relationship. It does a notable job of bringing out this contrast by using a black and white palette juxtaposed against the colourful one of the happier times. It further attempts an engagement with the notions of fidelity and whether cheating can be reduced to the category of only a sexual act. The story is successful in conveying what it had set out to simply because it does not try to be anything it's not. It is simple and honest in the manner in which it shares its story. This is further supplemented by a convincing chemistry of its characters. The story and its execution progresses at an organic pace, and before you know it, colours have trickled again into a monochrome palette.

Tonight's Special | Short Film of the Day

The short film is a brave attempt to delve into love, heartache and the inexorable passage of time. It follows a non-linear narrative to present to the viewer three parallel storylines of couples trying to make sense of love and relationships. The first narrative is of Dev meeting a former lover, Arti after a couple of years, the second is of their past and the third is about Dev's romance with another girl before Arti came into his life. Kashish takes the viewer back into those years of their adolescence that brought with them perhaps the first introduction to heartache. It was followed by another phase when they would have just begun to make sense of what love and relationships could potentially mean, finall concluding with a realisation that while, much like the protagonist, they might have had refused to let go of the past, time and tide truly waits for none.

Kashish | Short Film Nominee

The film invokes a world of horrors and nightmares which a woman is unable to wake up from. There is a dangerous man, without face or identity, chasing her wherever she goes. When she does finally wake up from this terrifying realm, a far more sinister reality awaits her. 
The narrative employs metaphors of nightmares to locate itself in the real world which continues to normalize its own horrors, and more so for women. In the process, the plot invokes a pressing comment on gender dynamics, and patriarchy in a society which often chooses to shut its eyes to the evils that plague the existence of women on a daily basis.

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