‘Unpaused: Naya Safar’: Neena Kulkarni and director Shikha Makan on the upcoming anthology
The Hindu
The actor-director duo from ‘Gond Ke Laddu,’ one of the five short films in the Amazon Prime anthology, speak about their learning during the lockdown, the challenges they faced, and more
All trauma faced by humankind — the plagues and the wars — has been fictionalised and made immortal through art. The time of dread, as the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison puts it, “is precisely the time when artists go to work.”
COVID-19 has been an unprecedented event in the history of humankind, and artists, over the past two years, have found a way to merge these realities into art, ranging from poetry to novels to cinema.
The pandemic and the myriads of restrictions that accompany it might have been a difficult time for big-budget features, many of which have seen multiple postponements. However, this period has been a boon for short films and anthologies that have seen revivals on various streaming platforms.