Dove | Short Film Nominee

Short Film Nominee February 14, 2021

Dove

By Mani Kumar with 6.3

drama · Short Films · hindi

The story begins on a romantic note, making the viewer believe that it will come to preoccupy itself with the ideas of love for a mute girl who refuses to be defined by this particular characteristic of her life. However, the film soon develops to reveal the several others concerns it wants to invoke an engagement with.

Locating itself in a pandemic-ridden world where emotional and physical isolation is further coupled with financial difficulty, the narrative wants to take the viewer into the lived reality of its protagonist. Additionally, it wants to draw the viewer's attention to how, irrespective of the scale of tribulations, they can be overcome with the support of loved ones.

However, when our protagonist, after having faced rejection in love as well as a huge roadblock in her professional life, finds herself at the end of her rope, what would bring her back from this space of deep despair? It is in the answer to this question that the film's core message lies - about hope and second chances that we all need to give to life.
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