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Step out of your Khidkee | Khidkee Short Film Review

Still frames, pensive silences and two open windows constitute the soul of Khidkee ,  a masterful short film by Mumbai based director, Rohan Kanawade. If you have lived in a crowded city, you are very familiar with spaces that are not exactly private - homes that awkwardly peek into one another, offering enough glimpses to spark your imagination about the people who might live there, but never enough to offer any insight - personal or real. This voyeuristic side of Mumbai's urban middle class lifestyle builds  Khidkee's tense narrative that teases, and tempts the characters and audience alike. Who are these men that visit her so often? Why does a scruffy young man drink all day? What are silhouettes telling you and what are they hiding? The characters yearn and the audience learns. As a viewer, you hear both sides of the story and wish you could step in and clarify, or help. The tension, the anxiety, the uneasiness, engulfs you to a very potent climax ably held toget