Sampat’s Parsi accent is as dubious as the staging. Mrs Balsara may or may not be imagining a robbery attempt by a short man she had previously helped put away. Joining the “Revenge of the Aunties” sub-category in the anthology is Swaroop Sampat’s Parsi dowager in Rakesh Sain’s Nano So Phobia. The pacing is uneven and the twist doesn’t quite have the desired result, but Neena Gupta has tremendous fun. In Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s Pinni, flavour-of-the-season actor Neena Gupta plays a housewife and expert sweet maker from Mohali who is taken for granted by nearly everybody in her life. There are no narratives from the southern, eastern and north-east regions – unless a second anthology is in the works.Īll the stories end on a twist or two, some of them better realised than others. The aim, according to a press statement by Prakash Sikaria, Vice-President of Growth and Monetisation at Flipkart, is to empower “young talent by giving them the right platform to tell compelling stories that star an array of talent – from seasoned actors to digital sensations”. The spread, which has been produced by Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment for Flipkart Video, consists of slices of life that are mostly sweet with a touch of the savoury and the spicy. The emphasis in Zindagi inShort is on feel-good, even when the evidence suggests that this isn’t always possible.

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