Some short films that became my all time favorite

As I type wildly away on my iPad with tutti fruity cake smell wafting from my oven,getting irritated at the keypad posing in middle..because of which I cannot see an ounce and need to do spell check later ( an eeks), I think of few all time favorite movies.

I love "shispens " or suspense to the uninitiated. And I love those movies that take care of this genre so well. Not karmchand style but more like layers and layers and slowly tying loose ends in the end making the movie a true treat to watch. Few recent movies like wazir and drishyam held my interest till the end, and now I watch them just to see awesome performances of Ajay Devgan and Tabu in Drishyam and big B in wazir.

Some other movies, of course the 12-20 minute intrigueor 20 minute rassi bomb as I would like to call them. These three movies simply held me spellbound and totally flummoxed in the end.

As you very well know my current  obsession with short films. Out of them two were of same actress and my all time favorite and a third one of known faces and unknown names.

The first one was called "kriti " directed by Shirish kunder (a flop director. Who remembers tees maar khan...me me me). But the actors were good or rather excellent. My favorites Radhika Apte and Manoj bajpai. The movie starts in usual pace. With Manoj bajpai playing the role of a person undergoing psychiatric treatment under Dr Mehek, a psychiatrist and also who is his childhood friend. Manoj's character makes imaginary girlfriends against which Dr Mehek warns him. They finally use extreme measures to get rid of his imaginary friend ( read murder) . The story proceeds ahead and with a sudden jerk we understand that...its Dr.Mehek who is imaginary..( sorry I can never keep "shispens ".

The second movie also has Radhika Apte in a sultry, sexy avtar in a silky white negligee and her husband is played by one of legendary actors of Bengali film industry called Soumitra chatterjee who is shown as sculptor and a suspect for disappearances of many people. We see that there are miniatures of those people on his showcase and one newly made falls down. As he is investigating the case, asking questions to the sculptor, he touches a stone which has some history. The next we see him in an embrace . Meanwhile we recover from it, we realize that all that was farce and he has also turned a minature like others.

The third movie has no suspense. A simple but sensitively made movie called "the afterglow".  The woman , a Parsi has lost her husband, and slowly comes in terms with it, how she does one act of defiance, on her husband's 10th day or "dusmoo" caring a damn for the guests who insist that she follow the orthodox Parsi traditions. It also shows a beautiful relationship between a middle aged Parsi couple, one of them ailing. Small scenes of past that flit in and out, seamlessly in the present. What I found the best was the last scene, where the widow sits wearily on the armchair, listening to her husband's favourite music, seeing the lighted diya, which is the embodiment of her husband's spirit, finally ready to let go. The diya slowly goes off.
Awesome performances by lead pair, Anahaita Uberoi and Sohrab ardeshir as Meher and Minocher respectively. Truly must see.

Coming up next ( ha ha in the filmy style) the library.