![]() Courtesy Sikhya Entertainment/Flipkart Video. Shafin Patel in Thappad from the Zindagi inShort anthology. ![]() Smartly lensed to reflect Babloo’s knee-high view of the world, Thappad skilfully brings Babloo’s comic book fantasies to life. The delightful Shafin Patel is the pint-sized Babloo, who stands to a group of boys stalking his sister Bani (Vedika Nawani). Manjot Singh and Aisha Ahmed play inter-faith Tinder users who take a swipe at love.Īnother kind of love, less treacherous and more touching, is on display in Vinay Chhawal’s Thappad. Gautam Govind Sharma’s Chajju Ke Dahi Bhalle is an awful lot like Sachin Garg’s short film Tinder – Ek Prem Katha, only with better production values. Given the pressures, where is the room for personal happiness? As a patient reminds Kavya, “Everybody needs this only. Oncologist Kavya’s day is filled with drudgery and drama – the hours at the hospital are long and unending, she doesn’t really want to marry her long-term boyfriend, and a domestic crisis is brewing. The female worldview is also the focus of Vijayeta Kumar’s Sunny Side Upar, starring the talented Malayalam actor Rima Kallingal. Divya Dutta in Sleeping Partner from the Zindagi inShort anthology. Yet, Dutta is affecting as the bruised wife, and Sanjay Kapoor is turning out to be a fine cameo artist in small but well-written parts. The feminist lite treatment ensures a conclusion that nobody saw coming. Things get more serious in Punarvasu Naik’s Sleeping Partner, starring Divya Dutta as a victim of marital rape, Sanjay Kapoor as her cruel partner, and Jitin Gulati as her distraction. Sampat’s Parsi accent is as dubious as the staging. Mrs Balsara may or may not be imagining a robbery attempt by a short man she had previously helped put away. Joining the “Revenge of the Aunties” sub-category in the anthology is Swaroop Sampat’s Parsi dowager in Rakesh Sain’s Nano So Phobia. The pacing is uneven and the twist doesn’t quite have the desired result, but Neena Gupta has tremendous fun. In Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s Pinni, flavour-of-the-season actor Neena Gupta plays a housewife and expert sweet maker from Mohali who is taken for granted by nearly everybody in her life. There are no narratives from the southern, eastern and north-east regions – unless a second anthology is in the works.Īll the stories end on a twist or two, some of them better realised than others. The aim, according to a press statement by Prakash Sikaria, Vice-President of Growth and Monetisation at Flipkart, is to empower “young talent by giving them the right platform to tell compelling stories that star an array of talent – from seasoned actors to digital sensations”. The spread, which has been produced by Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment for Flipkart Video, consists of slices of life that are mostly sweet with a touch of the savoury and the spicy. The emphasis in Zindagi inShort is on feel-good, even when the evidence suggests that this isn’t always possible. Restless women of all ages both in front of the camera and behind it, concise and sharp storytelling, and a showcase of future talent mark the anthology of short films being streamed on Flipkart’s video streaming platform. Explained: Why some North Eastern states are opposing the Uniform Civil Code.World Test Championship standings: India consolidate second spot with comfortable win in Nagpur.Gurugram couple sacked from their jobs for allegedly torturing minor domestic worker.Jean Dreze interview: The main purpose of central welfare schemes today is to promote Modi.Moody’s downgrades outlook for four Adani Group firms to negative.Three generations of the brightest Carnatic violinists have trained under this one legend.Explosives are found outside Asia’s richest man’s home.Grant permission to RSS march in Tamil Nadu, Madras High Court tells state police.Afraid of arrest, Assam’s pregnant teens skip hospitals, turn to home births and abortion pills.‘Victory City’ lays bare the dangers of re-writing history, especially when sponsored by the state.How Alexander the Great became Iskandar Zulkarnain, the legendary ancestor of Malay kings.
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