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Shunyata I Jackie Shroff I Chintan Sarda I Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films
An original short film based on a gangster's life, played by the king of streets Jackie Shroff. Watch Shunayata only on #BarrelSelect #LargeShortFilms #MakeItPerfect
Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films released their latest short film, ‘Shunyata’, starring Bollywood’s spunky, spirited and versatile actor Jackie Shroff and national award winning actor Machindra Gadkar.
The most remarkable about Chintan Sarda’s 21-minute short, Shunyata, is its completeness. The “void” looks whole. I feel like I’ve seen a lot – and sensed an entire life and full-blooded sub-culture and dimension of a city – in its limited duration. And yet, this is an intimate story. The entire film is shot at night. The quiet score, too, sounds like one that wouldn’t occupy a world of daylight. This suggests the mindscape of a jaded Mumbai gangster (Jackie Shroff, as Madhur) far more than is depicted. It suggests every dramatic and tragic backstory possible, without getting into the mechanics of it.
He sees better in the dark. Even as a hired killer, he has begun to see more than just blind targets. He now sees humans inside them – those with children, families and responsibilities. He has begun to acquire the illness of empathy. As have we, for a machine gradually turning into a damaged man who lives with the ghosts of the many households he has ruined. But he is too programmed to simply retire. He needs a purpose.
Most satiated adults invariably identify with the innocence of children to rescue themselves. Not just in the movies. We often identify them as a device to turn back time and unmake our mistakes. It becomes a chance to remake our own film, but this time as a director instead of the star.
Similarly, when Madhur speaks to Tinu , the hotheaded tea-selling kid and part-time drug dealer, it feels like he is speaking to his own teenaged self – mentoring, advising, observing, bantering and protecting. Their friendship is filmy, but likely. And understandable.
Shunyata is moving in a full-length feature sort of way. It has pauses, silences, time and reflection, much like the protagonist it accommodates