{"id":5607,"date":"2014-05-30T01:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:43:16","slug":"movie-review-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2014\/05\/movie-review-shorts.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review : Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

[amazon_link id=”B00FK3VD08″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]\"Shorts[\/amazon_link]Rating : Above Average (3.5\/5)
\nGenre : Drama
\nYear : 2013
\nRunning time : 1 hour 35 minutes
\nDirector : Neeraj Ghayawan, Siddharth Gipt, Rohit Pandey, Anirban Roy, Shlok Sharma
\nCast : Huma Qureishi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vineet Singh, Pretti Singh, Aditi Khanna, Shweta Tripathi
\nKidwise : R<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hadn’t even heard of this film until the weekly movie review poll came along at the Bollywood Subreddit<\/a>. I’m guessing this was one of the films that got ignored under the “arty” tag. Anyway Shorts, as the name indicates is a compilation of 5 short films, and in that sense reminds me of Bombay Talkies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first story “Sujata”<\/strong> is based on blogger and author Annie Zaidi’s short story<\/a> (the script can be read here<\/a>). Huma Qureshi plays the lead character beautifully. I thought the film was very well done, and it left an impact; I felt for Sujata.<\/p>\n

The second story “Epilogue”<\/strong> portrays the relationship between a young man and his wife\/fiancee\/girlfriend\/significant other\/personal demons – I couldn’t quite tell which it was. Richa Chadda stars as the “wife”. This short was on the bizarre side with sudden spurts of action and randomness – probably to portray the nature of the rlationship. Interesting but not quite there.<\/p>\n

“Audacity”<\/strong> is the third story, told in Bengali (with subtitles) about a man, his wife and daughter (Shweta Tripathi). Superficially this is about the difference in thinking between a parent and child, but it also hints at the father’s double standards. An unexpected twist at the end rounds out this short. Nicely done!<\/p>\n

Nawazuddin Siddiqui stars in the 4th short “Mehfooz”<\/strong> as a poor man who burns corpses. He eyes a pretty woman at the neighboring pan shop, not realizing that he’ll come face to face with her later. Conceptually this was an interesting film, but I didn’t quite feel the emotional impact.<\/p>\n

The last and best short is “Shor”<\/strong>. This stars Vineet Singh (you might remember him from the short story “Murabba”) as a lazy, patriarchal slum-dweller who berates his hard-working wife (Preeti Singh). The wife finally decides that she’s had enough of him. The acting and direction was great – the characters and settings came through all beautifully nuanced. I enjoyed this very much.<\/p>\n

All in all, this was a good watch. Recommended. This film is available to watch from Spuul<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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