The short film introduces us to two actors with diverse backgrounds and life experiences. Both of them wait in the green room, preparing for a scene crucial for their respective careers - a role with dialogues. Their contrasting personalities depict the different mindsets, opinions and ways of life the two generations have.
 

On the one hand, we have the calmer and humbler older artist who has made peace with his current place in the industry, he understands its inner workings and thus, radiates a positivity and gravity that accompanies maturity. On the other, there is the impulsive, motivated younger artist who is still trying to understand and perfect the art form, along with the work and the life that it constitutes. As they connect and discuss the nitty-gritty of their personal and professional lives as actors, a deep bond and understanding develops.

Green Room: Thehrav | Short Film Nominee

The film is about the struggles of an actor who has been trying to achieve fame and success for over a decade. However, with no such reward in sight, despite all his hard work and efforts, his domestic life is crumbling. Once a marriage of love, elopement and perhaps excitement, the household is now afflicted with poverty and the misery. Matters come to a head after a humiliating interaction with an arrogant director and his team. Things unravel one after another, leading the protagonist to respond in a way that will leave the viewer surprised, at the least. The film does not exhibit extraordinary camerawork or storytelling, but is taken several notches higher by Ashutosh Rana's skilled performance.

Test Drive | Ashutosh Rana | Short Film of the Day

Using elements of suspense and thrill, the short film conjures its narrative and leaves the viewer shocked as the events come to culminate. The story is simply of an actor trying to succeed at an audition. However, when things take a turn for the worse, what unexpected, fateful events would come to define the course of his life?

The Audition | Lockdown Film Challenge

A moment of unease is put into motion the moment the story opens. However, the swift camera movement soon reveals the circumstance of the plot to be a regular day at a shoot being carried out between two people. The scene that is being executed is marked by its high-intensity, and it is at this juncture that the opening sentiment of discomfort comes back into play. However would it adequately prepare you for the consequent developments, those that would come to be defined by violence and aggression?

The Perfect Take | Lockdown Film Challenge

Practical pursuits often become the most powerful adversary of dreams and expressions of creativity. The short film is an exploration of the same divide as well as the struggle to reconcile societal and familial expectations with an individual's true desires. However, even though the forever forward moving passage of time might force you to give up on the latter for the former, do dreams actually die or do they continue to exist within us, waiting to resurface following the slightest motivation?

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