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Short film‘Makaram 20, 1194’ is a short fiction written and directed by Shyam Narayanan Tk. Tnm StaffStill from 'Makaram 20, 1194'When American filmmaker Robert Zemeckis made his famous film on time travel back in the 1980s, there was so much to tell that he ended up making a trilogy with the Back to the Future series. But then 35 years later, a Malayalam short filmmaker needed barely 10 minutes to tell another tale of time travel. Makaram 20, 1194 is a short fiction written and directed by Shyam Narayanan Tk which premiered five days ago on YouTube. The title refers to a date in the Malayalam calendar which in Gregorian becomes February 3, 2019. The film begins with a mischievous little boy playing with his toy car in the ancestral home. The year is 1948 and there are enough props to tell you this – the grandfather clock chiming in the background, the ‘naalukettu’ structure of big old houses, the...

Short film‘Makaram 20, 1194’ is a short fiction written and directed by Shyam Narayanan Tk. Tnm StaffStill from 'Makaram 20, 1194'When American filmmaker Robert Zemeckis made his famous film on time travel back in the 1980s, there was so much to tell that he ended up making a trilogy with the Back to the Future series. But then 35 years later, a Malayalam short filmmaker needed barely 10 minutes to tell another tale of time travel. Makaram 20, 1194 is a short fiction written and directed by Shyam Narayanan Tk which premiered five days ago on YouTube. The title refers to a date in the Malayalam calendar which in Gregorian becomes February 3, 2019. The film begins with a mischievous little boy playing with his toy car in the ancestral home. The year is 1948 and there are enough props to tell you this – the grandfather clock chiming in the background, the ‘naalukettu’ structure of big old houses, the...