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Fantastic Short Films 6

Chewing Gum

Mihir FADNAVIS

India202119min b&w World Premiere

Synopsis

On an eerie full moon night, a man with ties to India’s fascist political party and loose morals boards a train to go on a date. Unbeknownst to him, there is a woman on the train with tentacles and a voracious appetite for fascist men with loose morals. A race against time ensues as a thunderstorm comes beating down, and the man runs for his life, chased by the monster who treats her prey like Chewing Gum and strips away his masculinity one layer at a time.

Diretor

Mihir FADNAVIS

Mihir Fadnavis is a former journalist and film critic - he has written cinema columns for a wide array of publications in India for ten years. He then dived into filmmaking as Head of Development of Horror at Phantom Films, following which he worked as a script consultant for the short film Bebaak(2019) which won numerous festival awards, and then produced the critically acclaimed Netflix show Ghoul. In 2020, he wrote and directed two films - the horror noir Chewing Gum and the Mumbai based pandemic documentary thriller Lords of Lockdown.