Short Film Nominee September 6, 2020
By Maaz Kazmi with 6.4
documentary · Short Films · hindi
Vidya has just gone through a break-up. Like any average person, she takes a trip with her friends to get past her
feelings of hurt and heartbreak. To help elevate her self-esteem, she posts pictures on social media.
The video presents a comment on this behaviour where individuals today choose to flee feelings
through distraction rather than do the hard work of honest self-introspection. Vidya posts images of her
wide grins with captions that boast of joy and delight, when she is actually deeply unhappy and miserable. Her former lover,
on the other end, who is equally miserable, is stalking her and inflicting self-harm on himself, but wouldn’t dare to let her
know of his true condition.
The film neither judges nor shames either, but with due commitment observes the hopeless and
widening gap between our virtual and real lives.
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