The short film opens with startling images of a bloody knife, a lifeless body and a wailing husband confessing his crime in a passionate outburst. However, as he proceeds to explore the misplaced reasons for his actions and drown in deep-seated guilt, a comedic subversion of events reveals the entire scene to be an audition. A voice from behind the camera challenges his acting skills, commenting on his inability to step into the character and shed tears, articulating dialogues and so on. 
They go through several takes for a perfectly delivered scene. However, did they really succeed or lose something essential in the process? Does the narrative suggest something deeper than otherwise visible to the eye at first glance? The final result raises all of these questions, while also attempting to use color to convey underpinnings of the plot, eventually offering its conclusion, and the answers, to the viewer.

Audition Room | Short Film Nominee

The short film deals with romance, relationships and fidelity. The film opens with a shot of a man, clearly dishevelled and deeply upset about something. The story unfolds to reveal the cause of his distress - his inability to get through to a woman's phone, clearly a lover or wife. She is soon revealed to be the latter as his absolute fixation with her, a twisted form of love, takes a murkier turn. Determined to kill both her and himself, he spends the night drinking and in the morning offers to take her on a long drive. It is finally during this car journey that the most revealing developments about their relationship will come to take place.

The Laws Of Maya | Short Film Nominee

The film aims to explore the relationship between a mother and her child. Through the story of a psycho killer who derives sadistic pleasure out of torturing his victims, it tries to invoke the same sentiment. His latest victim is given the choice of calling any one person from his phone. If the call gets answered, he will be killed, but if no one answers it, the killer would let him go. As the audience awaits the fate of this helpless man, the film makes a penultimate attempt to prove its point, finally concluding with another reminder of the importance of a mother’s love in a person’s life.

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