Updated On: 19 September, 2021 07:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
The film solidly plays with diegetic/ambient sound, in a way that only The Great Indian Kitchen (2021) can match. Beyond the finishing touches, it’s really the way the film finishes up—ending scene, all the more vital in short format; the point of it all—that makes it worth the while. And lets it stand far apart from the rest

A still from Ankahi Kahaniya
If you’re wondering why certain short films’ anthologies appear on Netflix with episodes to click on separately (Ray), while others play out as a continuous film (Ajeeb Daastaans), I checked with someone within the OTT platform once. It’s got to do with internal teams that commissioned the said works.
Which is to say, those involved with green-lighting long-form series, get the short films’ anthology in the form of separately clickable episodes. Likewise, those entrusted with commissioning movies otherwise, play the anthology out on the platform as a continuous package. As if it was a feature length film—that, of course, it isn’t.