The film introduces us to a household of men, two sons, and their elderly father. As the story develops, we discover that perhaps a woman who had tied them all together left too soon, and now the fault lines have appeared within these relationships. 

There are disagreements, the frustration and worry of two sons, Jay and Aman, whose father refuses to cooperate with his medication or any of the care that his sons try to provide for him. There are backhanded comments about a household, that of Jay, that did not last. All of this develops with the constant presence of Tom and Jerry in the background due to the youngest of them all, little Kunal. 

A brief glimpse into Kunal’s relationship with his grandfather presents an unexpected moment of quiet and peace in all of these fraught equations. The resultant narrative becomes one defined by expert storytelling and narratorial construction. There is further an earnest exploration of loss, grief, and how they become nestled within the complexities and nuances of a familial unit.

Nirvaan  | Short Film of the Month

Shades of Gray is an attempt to engage with the conversation around mental health in the country. It draws attention to the importance of class structures when it comes to treating mental health problems. The film delineates two parallel narratives of women located at different positions in society. While one has access to mental healthcare, the other does not. Though the film is well-intentioned, it runs the danger of over-simplifying the conversation. The aim of the narrative is to talk about the lack of accessibility to healthcare in the country, but it finds itself unable to convey the same emphatically.

Shades Of Gray | Short Film Nominee

A girl wakes up in an unknown location and a strange man sits questioning her. As she tries to remember how she got there, a reality of a world where a strange virus is afflicting humans is conjrued. Using this as a premise, the film wants to bring in violence and elements of horror and sci-fi to tell its story. However, it could have benefited from smoothening of some wrinkles in the department of visuals and editing.

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