Maya (2021)
- Directed by
- Ani I. V. Sasi
- Country
- India
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A screenwriter finds himself stuck after the success of his first short film. He tries to write a commercial feature but faces creative blocks. The story follows his struggle to move forward.
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What happens
Maya is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language short film written, directed and edited by Ani I. V. Sasi, starring Ashok Selvan and Priya Anand. It revolves around a screenwriter who, after directing a critically raved short film, struggles in scripting his next film intended to be a feature-length "commercial" one. The music is composed by Ron Ethan Yohann, whereas Divakar Mani handled the cinematography. The short film was pitched on the idea of his first script which Ani had written during his college period, got shelved to various reasons. Filmed within a single day, it was screened at various film festivals during 2017, while it had a release through YouTube on 11 June 2021. Gautham Vasudev Menon distributed the film through his Ondraga Entertainment banner. The short film is a culmination of the four-feature scripts which Ani had written, including his debut film Ninnila Ninnila. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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