![]() ![]() So, they had to listen to my instructions, emote in a certain way, operate their phone cameras in certain angles… I haven’t been to Sanskriti’s house. “Half the challenge was to figure out a way to work with poor internet. Making a screen-film might be inexpensive but, as Pranav and his crew found out while makingĬabin Fever, it’s a logistical nightmare. For instance, in the third, an apartment security guard watches news on a TV hanging from a balcony because its owner, knowing it’s China-made, tries to throw it away without unplugging it. Each episode reflects a different phase of the lockdown. The three episodes were written, shot and released across six months. So, I wanted the show to be a time-stamp of the strange times we live in.” After the pandemic is over, I don’t think we will be feeling the same way we are feeling now. “When the lockdown started, I was observing the people around me. Pranav reckons he wouldn't have conceived the story if it weren't for the pandemic. ![]() It’s easy to relate to their individual and interpersonal issues caused or complicated by the lockdown. After the first few minutes, you get used to the medium of the protagonists’ conversation the attention is more on the conversation itself. The story matters more than the format.” He’s right. “I would have preferred to tell the story in a more cinematic form. It wasn’t a gimmickry to hard-sell his story it was the only available narrative device during the pandemic. Pranav, however, de-emphasises the phone-screen format. It’s about the lockdown lives of an urban middle-class couple, Sanskriti (played by Sanskriti Shukla) and her man-child boyfriend Jounty (Arnav Bhasin - Pranav’s younger brother), which we get to witness through their video calls. But unlike the aforementioned films, which are either thriller or horror, Pranav’s three-episode series, co-produced by Ritviz and Jugaad Motion Pictures, is a romantic comedy. Unfolds through phone screens for the most part. Cabin Fever, released on music producer Ritviz’s YouTube channel,
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