Awake

I loved the subtle yet on-the-point performance of the leading lady, Ishika Motwane, who plays a talented photographer bogged down by what she considers to be her wifely duty of taking care of her comatose partner, and I loved the montages by Siddharth Diwan that gel perfectly with the melancholic score by Sagar Desai and Sashank Nalavadi, and I also liked the situation the central character falls in and its helplessness at a time when her body naturally demands more, but I got an overall mixed effect at the end of the 20 minutes of Awake that left me positively disturbed yet unsatisfied which may or may be the effect short films have on me. TN.

(Film #5. Watching and reviewed during its world premiere as part of the We Are One Global Film Festival on YouTube. Curated by the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.)