A look into the human mind

Fear of death brings out the best and worst in a man. There are also rare instances when the fear of death could lead to unintentionally funny situations. Febin Sidharth reminisces about an incident like this. He then goes on to say, “In my neighbourhood, there was a man who was at the end of his life, he was breathing his last. Out of desperation and fear, he ended up confessing to his near and dear ones a whole lot of wrong doings he had committed in the past. This is one incident that came to my mind while I was penning the script for Anali.”

Febin’s short film Anali, which is out on YouTube, talks about one such incident, where a man bitten by a snake confesses to his wife the things he would never tell her otherwise. “I wanted to show the viewers that side of human nature, that vulnerable moment when the mask falls off to show the real person behind it. Those few minutes when a man stands facing death and the raw attitude that comes out at such a moment, that is what I tried her Directing the 20-minute-long film entirely in the dark was not easy for the crew.

A still from Anali.

“Most of the shooting was held at night. We had to face quite a few problems. And unlike a regular movie shoot, where the crew is equipped with proper lighting, our budget crunch prevented us from having proper lighting. The only way we could overcome that hassle was to use whatever little light we had with us. So two of the artists decided to use their mobile phone lights to light up the area. We also used two cars to light up the locations where shooting would take place.” Febin and the crew shot the entire film over one night. “We began our shoot in the evening at around 4 pm and it went on till the early morning the next day, till around 5 am,”says Febin, who works as a video editor for a TV channel at Thiruvananthapuram.

Directing the 20-minute-long film entirely in the dark was not easy for the crew. “Most of the shooting was held at night. We had to face quite a few problems. And unlike a regular movie shoot, where the crew is equipped with proper lighting, our budget crunch prevented us from having proper lighting. The only way we could overcome that hassle was to use whatever little light we had with us. So two of the artists decided to use their mobile phone lights to light up the area. We also used two cars to light up the locations where shooting would take place.” Febin and the crew shot the entire film over one night. “We began our shoot in the evening at around 4 pm and it went on till the early morning the next day, till around 5 am,”says Febin, who works as a video editor for a TV channel at Thiruvananthapuram.