A man paints the face of his beloved who he has invited to his house for the first time. Nothing is as it seems remains the driving idea of the narrative which offers characters and circumstances far from the truth. 

When left by herself at his house, the woman busies herself cooking an elaborate dish. However, curiosity gets the better of her, and she ends up unlocking doors that should have remained shut for her own good. 

As she comes face to face with her lover’s violent secrets, a similarly gory and bloody fate awaits her. The film offers a sincere endeavor of giving its own individual twist to the story of a serial killer, supported by its actors, while the conclusion harbors some more unexpected developments within its core.

Wedding Ring | Short Film Nominee

The story is of a single afternoon and how matters come to a head after a particular phone call. A mother, after sending her daughter to school, goes about her daily chores when suddenly she gets a call about her daughter's abduction. The kidnapper leaves a little present of the child's dolls at her doorstep to drive the message home. The narrative tries hard to sustain a sense of unease and tension, but doesn't manage to go all the way through with it. The writing and the story are its strongest parts and just when the viewer is made to believe the climax is over, another unexpected twist awaits them, making the film come a full circle.

The Phonecall | Short Film Nominee

Attempting an engagement with the ideas of identity, gender, reflection and how one chooses to see oneself, the film invokes a narrative that is constituted by suspense and violence. The story unfolds gradually to come into its own and leaves the viewer with the protagonist's struggle to free himself from his own confinements.

Magic Mirror | Lockdown Film Challenge

A little girl cries in darkness while a homeless man devours food he has procured by means unknown to the viewer. While the former becomes an image of turmoil and innocence, the latter carries with it a sense of something being deeply amiss. 

 The girl longs for her father after the recent divorce of her parents, and in her agony, slips out of the house looking for him in the loneliness of the night. The world is often very unkind to the weak and unprotected as is proven true in the case of the child as well. 

 The film aims to conjure a story of abduction, assault and violence inflicted on children by a grown man, all the while reminding the viewer that reality might not always be what it seems. The predator may lurk in a corner we might have dismissed as one marked by safety, while a saviour and protector might be someone you least expected to be thus at first glance, underlines the plot.

Theera Nisi | Short Film Nominee

The setting is of a lonely street at night where a man is busy on his phone, completely oblivious of another malicious man who observes and tails him. The situation soon ends in an abduction. However, despite the grimness of the tone set so far, the narrative turns out to be marked by humor, confusion, insecurities about one's skills as a criminal and the utter chaos the abduction results in. The film is a sweet story of two unlikely men ending up sharing their work troubles with each other, and tries to bring in uniqueness in the portrayal of the same. It would have, however, benefited from a better control on its lighting and sound.

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