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Nawab
Director: Manasi Jain
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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