Starring: Aparshakti Khurana, Mallika Dua, Geetika Vaidya, Maria Gorreti
Run time: 9 Mins 36 Secs
Language: Hindi(w/English subtitles)
Year Made: 2019
Country: India
With: Global
Dumped unceremoniously by his wife, Nitin tries to figure what to do with his wife's dog while trying to figure his own depression and abandonment.
Director : Manasi Jain
Mansi is a writer-director who has made 4 very successful short films as
well as written multiple commissioned projects. She’s the writer of Made
in Heaven Season 2 along with Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, Alankrita
Shrivastava and others. She has also co-written Fallen for Reema Kagti
which stars Sonakshi Sinha as the lead and is currently in principal
photography. Both shows are Tiger Baby and Excel co-productions and
Amazon Originals. Mansi’s currently developing two feature films as writer
director with Excel Entertainment and Tiger Baby separately. She has
written a big budget thriller for Neeraj Pandey. Her most recent short film
Nawab stars Aparshakti Khurrana and Mallika Dua. Before Nawab, she
made Chhuri (2017), starring Anurag Kashyap, Tisca Chopra and Surveen
Chawla. Both films premiered at MAMI. Her previous short film is
Everything is Fine. All 3 shorts were nominated for Filmfare Short film
Awards. Everything is fine was awarded the $15000 Katharina Otto
Bernstein Grant, the Panavision Grant and the IFP Audience Award. The
film stars Seema Pahwa in the lead role. It won Best Short Film Award at
major festivals like the 21st Brussels Short Film and the 9th Jagran Film
Festival. In 2015, Mansi co-wrote and associate directed a noir feature
film called Moh Maya Money starring Neha Dhupia and Ranvir Shorey. The
film opened across India in 2016 and is currently on Netflix. In 2018,
Mansi started the FemFilm Collective in 2018 which has over 110 Indian
female film technicians like Leena Yadav, Guneet Monga, Alankrita
Shrivastava and more. She is also signed on to direct a family comedy for
an independent production company and is developing a supernatural
genre film being written by acclaimed writer, Vidhya Iyer.
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