Story 1 (Short film) – The Beard
Story line: The idea is to show what the perception of our
society and the world has become ever since 9/11.
The story is about a well educated man who follows a good
set of morals and also gives time to his religion, Islam. He follows the laws
laid by his religion and keeps a beard. The story line is that where ever he
goes and what he does is not properly understood by the public.
We show that in the short film, he is at a shopping mart and
that when he brings the grocery towards the counter, the cashier perceives him
as a terrorist. He hallucinates the customer, holding a gun/bomb and
threatening to kill. And in fear takes out all the money from the cash register
and begs the bearded man to take it. The man in confusion tries to talk to the
cashier but the cashier still in fear only asks the man to take all the money.
The man leaves his grocery lying on the counter and goes home.
Similarly, when he is at the bus station, a lady standing
next to him drops a few belongings and leans over to pick them up. The man
picks up the lady’s possessions and hands them over to her. While doing so, the
lady too hallucinates the man as a terrorist and screams in fright, thinking
that the man will take out a knife or a gun. The man gets scared runs away
thinking that people around might arrest him for no reason.
Later that day, he’s
at a gathering and all the guests pass him strange looks. The man feels nervous
and uncomfortable and by mistake he drops a glass and as soon it breaks the
guests panic and scream that the bearded man is a terrorist. The man in rage
yells that he’s not a terrorist and explains that he’s not a terrorist, and
that they are the ones who are the terrorists by their actions and speech.
Genre – Comedy – Serious Drama
Story 2 - Short film
Story line: 5-6 people who don't know each other, use the same lift to go to their own destinations.
Cast: 1 young couple (Aged 18-19years), A mother (Holding her divorce papers) carrying her child (Aged 1-3years), An old asthmatic man, a business man, and a young boy (Aged 13-15).
Moving on, all these passengers use the same lift and as it stops at a certain floor, the young boy(Aged 13-15) walks out. The lift door shuts and moves up again. At this point, the lift gets stuck due to power shortage and the lights flicker a bit. The passengers are trapped with no mobile signals till help arrives. Each person has her/his own story/problem. At first all the passengers give each other consolation that there's nothing to worry about and keep each other busy with their own life tales, meanwhile the young girl (Couple) tries to call the helpline, hoping to get signals. But as time passes by they all begin to get agitated. The business man gets paranoid as he's getting late for his appointment. The young couple begin to fight over their problems and the baby starts crying. The business man starts to quarrel with the mother to quiet down the baby. With so much going on the old man gets a panic attack and sits down. The young girl tries to diffuse the situation and yells at everyone to be quiet and helps out the old man. The business man and the mother join in.
Minutes later, help arrives and the lift is back on power. Everyone exists in their own way while the old man gets up on his own and exists in the end. The lift door closes.
Genre: Drama
Audience: 12 And Up
Media Institution: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Myspace etc.
Ideology: Such situations are common in our life when we are always in a rush to go somewhere, yet people don't know how to deal with them. Rage, Anger, Impatience, Lack Of Tolerance are typical emotions that tend to show.
The Motive is to tell the viewers that in such situations, whether life threatening, all should be dealt calmly rather in panic.
