The web-series is an exploration of familial ties, and marked by the coming together of humour, gravity, efforts to fit in and belong, and the one thing that keeps it all together - love. What the Folks is a validation of the unease and the underlying tension that constitutes most domestic equations. It is a reminder for the viewer that if you are still negotiating your place in your family, you're not alone. Here are a bunch of different and unique characters attempting to achieve the same in a fictive space onscreen.

What The Folks | Web Series | Dice Media | Eisha Chopra, Shishir Sharma, Kriti Vij

Dice Media | What The Folks | Web Series | S01E01 - Arranged Family

EP 01 - Arranged Family

Dice Media | What The Folks | Web Series | S01E02 - The Mad House

EP 02 - The Mad House

Dice Media | What The Folks | Web Series | S01E03 - Conditions Apply

EP 03 - Conditions Apply

Dice Media | What The Folks | Web Series | S01E04 - Stuck In The Middle

EP 04 - Stuck In The Middle

Dice Media | What The Folks | Web Series | S01E05 - Home (Season 1 Finale)

EP 05 - Home

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S02E01 - Welcome Home

EP 01 - Welcome Home

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S02E02 - Surprise, Surprise!

EP 02 - Surprise, Surprise!

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S02E03 - Spilling the Beans

EP 03 - Spilling the Beans

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S02E04 - Something's Missing

EP 04 - Something's Missing

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S02E05 - House of Cards

EP 05 - House of Cards

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S02E06 - Home (Season 2 Finale)

EP 06 - Home

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) Season 3 | Web Series | S03E01 - Circle Of Life

EP 01 - Circle Of Life

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S03E02 - Not Kidding

EP 02 - Not Kidding

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S03E03 - Here We Go Again

EP 03 - Here We Go Again

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S03E04 - Zor Se Bolo

EP 04 - Zor Se Bolo

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S03E05 - That's All Folks | Season Finale

EP 05 - Zor Se Bolo

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Season 4 | Web Series | Episode 1 - Truth Bombs

Ep 01 - Truth Bombs

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S04 E02 - The Damaad Test

Ep 02 - The Damaad Test

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | S04 E03 - Ladkiwale vs. Ladkewale

Ep 03 - Ladkiwale vs. Ladkewale

E04 - Are we ready?

Ep 04 - Are we ready?

Dice Media | What The Folks (WTF) | Web Series | Series Finale - What The Future?

E05 - What The Future?

What The Folks | Dice Media

The film presents a story of harassment and stalking, but does so with uniqueness in storytelling. The freshness in its approach ensures that the viewer is glued to the narrative right till the very end, as the protagonist, Megh, takes them deeper and deeper into his world. 

Megh is a writer who, one night, stumbles upon a strange man with a strange query. The film moves back and forth in time as Megh recounts his ordeal to three other characters, each with their own approach to the encounters he describes. 

The film’s biggest strength is what it achieves at the level of thought. It presents a fluidity of roles, and that they can be quite different for the same person depending on the context they are placed in. The story further presents the internal journey that the protagonist goes on as a result of this harrowing experience, and what all of it entails for his identity as a writer. 

The title is explored and engaged with, alongside the life of a city which can sometimes be as forgiving as Mumbai. There is an interaction with the ideas of justice as well. Though there is a slight lack of seamlessness when it comes to the film’s sound department, it is easy to overlook it in the face of the performances, writing, and narratorial progression that the film offers. The ideas thus presented are seeds of thoughts that should definitely be allowed to grow in more projects.

Out of Context | Short Film of the Month

Our introduction to the primary characters in the film is marked by the struggle to survive in a world where a man and a woman somehow manage to make ends meet. When they come home, it is an image of domestic bliss, despite all the obstacles they have to overcome to secure it. Together with their little daughter, they share a meal, play a game of ball and ensure an environment of love and positivity. However, before you realize it, the film brutally undercuts the tone established so far.

 The family of working-class parents makes an honest living by day, but by night, it runs a business of
deception that the film calls a transaction in compassion. There is a challenging of the moral compass, as
notions of truth and reality are thrown off. The thing is that once a sense of mistrust seeps into the
narrative through one opening, it can easily breed distrust in the whole body. 

The long hours at work and the constant undercurrent about having made enough money acquires a distinct identity of its own, revealing to you a world that harbours some extremely unpalatable circumstances. Guilt, discomfort, compulsions and responsibilities of being parents, are all weaved together for the narrative to come into its own. 
Unsettling and disturbing, Dayalu is a complex film to unpack. The narrative remains as inward looking as it is reflective of the outside world.
With a cast of fine actors, there is no shortage of intense performances either. Additionally, there is thought, commitment and a demand on the viewer to engage. The questions that the
plot asks of the audience are all extremely crucial, presenting a loud and resounding comment on society that will stay with them long after they are done watching it.

Dayalu | Vipin Sharma | Short Film of the Month

'What got into us back then', laments one of the characters of Dhund, looking back at the Partition eleven years later. Much like other Shlok Sharma films, this one too questions the pointlessness of communal conflict and the ugly sides of the human nature it reveals. The short film by Sudeep Kanwal starts on a high and maintains the poignancy all through it's first half. However, in the second half, it dips to not recover again. Had the film been shorter and tauter, perhaps it would have sustained the depth it had set its horizon of expectation for. Despite its flaws, Dhund will leave you with a moving glimpse of a conflict that destroyed many lives, irrespective of the side of the border.

Dhund | Short Film of the Day

The festive season inevitably ushers in a sense of positivity and general cheer all around every year, won't you agree? This ad film is one such example of it. A young boy is late in paying his rent and his landlord is unimpressed about it. The boy is also away from home around Diwali time; what is the festive cheer that awaits him amidst all this?

Is Diwali Kuch Badal Ke Dekhiye! | Short Film of the Day

Vipin Sharma  - Short Films | Shorted

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