Shefali Shah & Neerja Ghaywan’s Upcoming Short Film Is Going To Make You All Feel Terribly Guilty!

Large Short Films by Royal Stag Barrel Select at MAMI opened up with four new short films this year and one of the best films among them was Massan’s director Neeraj Ghaywan’s ‘Juice’.

An incredibly amazing concept by Neeraj stars Shefali Shah in the lead. She plays a housewife who quit her job to run the household, while her husband loves to hang out with his friends at home and host dinners. 

The story centres around the fact that women always stay in the kitchen without fan or coolers as they toil to cook tons of food for family dinners, while men happily sink in the couch and have conversations. 

While ‘Juice’ will release in November on the internet, Desimartini caught up for a quick chat at MAMI with Neeraj and Shefali to give us an insight into the concept of Juice. 

“Silence speaks louder than any of the words. She’s just sitting and claiming the position of male entitlement. She’s simmering inside. She’s our medium to observe the world. People think that it’s about a small town phenomena, it happens in progressive households,” explains Ghaywan who also told us that this story comes from his real life experiences with relatives and friends. 

How Shefali’s character stands up for herself is something to watch out for! She says, “It’s not about one upmanship. It’s just about being on the same plane. It’s not about feminism.” 

While Ghaywan insists that stories like ‘Juice' actually happen for real around us, he also says, “Women are themselves perpetrators of patriarchy.” which the short film reflects. 

Two concepts by LSF are definitely going to blow your mind this year because both Chhuri (starring Tisca Chorpa & Anurag Kashyap ) and Juice are a surreal representation of women and their much needed empowerment with an incredibly scintillate approach to direction.