ZEE5 has something infinitely interesting up its sleeve. Considering that the whole of the country is cooped up at home in view of the Coronavirus lockdown, and with OTT entertainment people’s only saviour, ZEE5 knows it is the right time to grab maximum eyeballs for unique content. It is hence bringing for its viewers the ZEE5 Short Film Festival.
Slated to premiere on 15th April, the ZEE5 Short Film Festival will feature nine short films, spanning a gamut of genres. There’s a poignant, insightful film dealing with the sensitive topic of euthanasia. It is directed by Manu Chobe, and stars Rajeev Khandelwal and Anupriya Goenka. There’s a comedy titled Strawberry Shake, starring Sumeet Raghavan as a father who wants to be cool, and Hruta Durgule as his precocious daughter. It is directed by Shoneel Yallattikar.
The film festival also has a slow-burn movie directed by Karan Rawal, called Half Full, with Naseeruddin Shah and Vikrant Massey in the lead. Both men do not see eye to eye on many things, but look closely, and you find that they’re not much different from each other on what they want from life. A dramedy called Svaah, So Be It, is next on our list. It stars Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rajit Kapur and Shilpa Tulaskar, and is directed by Gauri Daswani.
Abhishek Banerjee and Parul Gulati’s Second Hand deals with infidelity in a marital relationship. It is directed by Navjot Gulati. How About A Kiss is from the edgier genre. It has Rajat Kapoor playing a professor, and Ritabhari Chakraborty his student, who falls in love with him. It is directed by Satarupa Sanyal.
Ramkamal Mukherjee’s Season’s Greetings stars Lillette Dubey and Celina Jaitley as mother and daughter, who are compelled by circumstances to see their relationship in a fresh light.
Food for Thought, by Tania Deohans stars Rashi Mal, Alka Amin and Usha Nadkarni. It tells the tale of the coming together of two families — one with a modern outlook, and the other with an orthodox one.
Boom Noom is a comedy directed by Sonam Nair, which stars Rhea Chakraborty and Manjot Singh as a just-married couple that isn’t a match for each other by a long shot.
The ZEE5 Short Film Festival premieres on ZEE5 on 15th April 2020.