AK vs AK: In Vikramaditya Motwane’s film, Anurag Kashyap and Anil Kapoor throw down exaggerated versions of themselves. The meta-film is about Anurag filming Anil as he searches for his lost daughter.
Fahadh Faasil’s CU Soon was the first Malayalam film conceived and shot after the pandemic. With only a minimal crew, director Mahesh Narayanan had to find a way to execute the 'Screen Life' format.Arati Kadav’s Cargo found creative solutions to the low-budget sci-fi films. Unlike other such films, whose ambitions often overshoot their budgets, Vikrant Massey's film keeps itself firmly in check.Actor Santhosh Nambirajan of ToLet fame has turned director with the film Akandan, which has been shot entirely on iPhone. Made during lockdown, the film follows the story of a road-side eatery owner.Drama, starring Kishore, is a one-shot film, is striving hard to meet the light of the day. Director Aju Kizhumala, told CE that Drama is the longest Indian film to have been made in a single take.Another Malayalam film, Kalla Nottam, a 75-min coming-of-age drama, was shot by director Rahul Riji Nair with a GoPro camera in a week. What would be a limitation turned out to be a blessing for RahulStreaming platform ZEE5 devised a unique release pattern for Bijoy Nambiar's Taish. The revenge-thriller was chopped up, by turn, into a 2.5-hour feature film and a six-episode web series.