Film: Nocturnal Burger
Cast: Bebo Madiwal, Millo Sunka,Trupti Khamkar, Pushpendra Singh, Viraj Selot, Somnath Mandal, Vicky Shinde, Shrikant Mohan Yadav, Mukesh Pachode
Director/Writer/Co-editor : Reema Maya
Co-editor: Rohan Kapoor
Producer: Michael Y. Chow
Cinematographer: Harshvir Oberai
Rating: 4/5
Runtime: 28 mins

After having its World premiere at Sundance Film Festival and winning 34 awards, Reema Maya’s internationally acclaimed short Nocturnal Burger about child abuse is now in consideration for Best Live Action Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards®

The film is about a 13-year-old girl Minu (Bebo Madiwal) and a 30-something man, Sanu (Somnath Mondal) a school teacher, who are brought to a typically dysfunctional police station in Mumbai in the middle of the night by Simi (Millo Sunka) and another man who want to lodge a sexual abuse complaint against Sanu. The two had ostensibly, intercepted the auto which was privy to the shady going-on, and relate their versions of what happened. As Simi begins to narrate what she witnessed to the local male cop (Shrikant Yadav) and his junior female constable (Trupti Khamkar), we become privy to the systemic indifference linked to patriarchal leanings. The female constable, initially unwilling to stretch her case load, eventually gives in and tries to investigate what happened that night, or what could’ve happened?