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?

Chef's Special | Short Film Nominee

The short video presents to you the personification of the Hindi language as a woman who sits dressed in all her finery. She enjoys the ornaments and clothes, feeling an innate sense of pride until voices begin to echo in the background. 

A large portion of Indian society still places the English language on a pedestal, allowing neocolonialism to get the better of us. This often also leads to the rejection of the vernacular language of Hindi, spoken by a sizeable population of the country. The video (which could have perhaps gained from a little more clarity in its visuals), shot within a single location in a room, raises the same issue, presenting the viewer with this specific moment in our cultural space.

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