Natkhat (transl. The Brat) is a 2020 Indian short film directed by Shaan Vyas and written by Vyas and Annukampa Harsh. It stars Vidya Balan as a mother educating her young son about gender equality. It premiered on YouTube as part of the We Are One: A Global Film Festival.Natkhat 2021 Full Short Movie.
The film will be opening film of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne on October 23. The 2020 festival is being hosted virtually between October 23 and 30, due to the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic.Natkhat was filmed in Harda, Madhya Pradesh, and the interior scenes were filmed in Mumbai.[4] A majority of the cast members had no prior acting experience. Sanika Patel, a girl, was cast in the leading role of Sonu.Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express labelled Natkhat a “valuable addition to the films which call out patriarchy, and how utterly damaging it can be.”[5] Jyoti Sharma Bawa of Hindustan Times credited Vyas for effectively portraying a world in which “women are shorn of agency and men get their power from displaying naked machismo”; she praised Vidya for bringing “simplicity and nuance” to her role and Patel for matching her vulnerability.Vidya Balan has made strong, and sometimes silent, women her forte. After the recent Sherni where her Vidya Vincent speaks through her silences, it is time to meet the actor again in Natkhat. The short film captures how women are shorn of all agency as toxic masculinity rules over their lives. It is apt then that Vidya’s character is just called ‘maa’ or ‘bahu’ in this film. She may be suppressed but refuses to bow down when her 7-year-old son is encouraged to walk the same path of male entitlement.We are probably in a different situation than Surekha, my character in Natkhat. Yet, we’re trapped in this patriarchal mindset, sometimes unconsciously. When I first heard the story, my first question to the director Shaan Vyas was ‘how are you going to tell the story in 30 minutes?’ But once I watched the film, I said, ‘thank god it is a short film,’ because it is a kind of film that makes you uncomfortable.
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