THE BIG SHORTS

Before 2020, Tamil filmmaker Gautham Vasudev Menon had never made a short film in his two-decade-long career. He ended up making three this year alone, all part of anthologies for OTT platforms. The first, (part of an anthology titled released on Amazon Prime in October; (or Sin, part of ), shot just before the lockdown, streams on Netflix from. Menon picked the [emotion] of love. “It was liberating filmmaking,” he says. “These are stories which you can’t narrate for a feature format or with actors who have to be convinced or with producers who are mostly looking to make money.” With its duration of under 40 minutes, writing it is less of a headache as there are “no second half or interval issues”. “I think I’m getting good at it,” he adds.