JioCinema Film Festival Part 3 review: Guspaith, The Last Envelope, Armaand, Murak, and Coming Out with the help of a Time Machine talk about family and its complicated relationships in its varied aspects.
JioCinema Film Festival Part 3 review: The last part of the film festival with its five films went deeper with intense stories about exploring yourself with familial relationships. But this time these five films explore the core concept of family, home, and the complicated relationships that sum it up with their varied aspects. Ghuspaith explores the idea of home as a country and an intruder in it while Murak dives into a person's willingness to even become a terrorist for his family. Armaand talks about a complicated relationship between a father and son, The Last Envelope talks about a weird relationship that a set of parents share with their deceased son, and Coming Out with the help of a Time Machine explores the changing dynamics of a gay son with his parents.
These films star Amit Sadh, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Anu Kapoor, Sheeba Chaddha, Rajit Kapoor, and many more. And though these movies aren't as strong as the others that came out at the film festival before, they put forth an important conversation. Guspaith Between Borders needs to be watched though, it's that good!
Ghuspaith Between Borders - Mihir Lath
Tributed to the Pulitzer prize winner photojournalist, Danish Siddique who died in 2021 while covering a tussle between Taliban and Afghan Special Forces, the film talks about the dangerous lives of refugees who are living always on the verge of death. They have no place they can call their own and often are killed in the crossfire. It's a breathtaking journey of a journalist who captures the horrors of unnecessary wars through his lens while living in horror himself, though never losing touch with humanity.
The Last Envelope - Lalit Kumar Jha
It is a sweet but confusing tale about elderly parents who await the return of their beloved son who passed away. In thirteen minutes, the film tries to put forth the message about a rented family system which allows some people who are actors to take up jobs to portray deceased family members for some families who lost loved ones so that they can find hope and balance in their lives. A strong message is wrapped in an uninteresting film.
Armaand - Farhaan Colabawalla
A story about an aspiring boxer named Armaand which means one-man army, Armaand is also a son to his businessman father who doesn't want to accept his son's aspirations of being a professional boxer. Cut between a boxing match and a tough conversation with his father, the nine-minute film is a father-son story of both disappointing each other without meaning to.
Murak - Ruchi Joshi and Sriram Ganapathy
An idiot in love who has no other option but to find his missing wife in Australia, hijacks a plane and just happens to be a Muslim which is a big deal these days. He is accused of eating beef and is constantly asked which terrorist organisation he works for, while he just recounts how he is a small farmer in Ludhiana and has never been even out of his village once. It's a heart-touching yet eye-opening story about how much we read into the small details about someone and make an entire story without even realising it.
Coming Out with the help of a Time Machine - Naman Gupta
A futuristic tale set in America where a young guy keeps on reversing time to come out to his parents in the best way possible but realises that no amount of time reversal is going to feel right to 'come out'. It's a sweet tale about the dilemma and struggles of queer people to come out of the closet to their loved ones because of the fear of rejection. But the twist in the end was the cherry on the cake!
Each of these films are streaming on JioCinema!
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