Ani IV Sasi’s short film ‘Maya’, about a writer’s inspiration, releases June 11
The Hindu
‘Maya’ had won the Best Short Fiction Award at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival
At first look, Ani IV Sasi’s Tamil short film Maya is about a script-writer (Ashok Selvan) struggling to write. He thinks of various threads, one of which has a couple of chefs (Priya Anand and Selvan). One of the chefs is called Maya, who dies; there is insomnia in the story too…That’s when you realise some of the references are to Ani’s directorial debut, the Telugu film Ninnila Ninnila, released in February this year. The short releases on Ondraga Entertainments YouTube channel on June 11. Ani laughs, “The film was made in 2017, the references are to four of my scripts, all of which were ready by then including Ninnila Ninnila. It is the first one that got made. However, it didn’t make sense to release it before one of my films released. Without that context, people wouldn’t get it. Now because Ninnila ... is out, the references are clear.” Maya was on festival circuit in 2017, it won the Best Short Fiction Award at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival that year.More Related News