Updated On: 09 October, 2018 08:47 AM IST | Mumbai | Shunashir Sen
India Film Project, purportedly Asia's largest content creation festival, returns this weekend for its eighth edition

Dia Mirza and Neha Dhupia at last year's edition of India Film Project
Bas Paanch Minute is a short film that's roughly as long as its title. It's a hilarious takedown of the Indian sense of punctuality, or lack thereof, where a chaiwallah brewing a pot of tea asks his customer to wait for five minutes before being served. This sets off a chain of events where multiple people request each other for "bas paanch minute" to get a job done, with the whole sequence coming full circle when the last person told to wait accidentally knocks that initial chaiwallah's pot down with his bike, a second before he was about to take it off the hob. And the film ends with the tea seller looking at his customer with a pathetically apologetic face, and pleading, "Bas paanch minute aur."

Ad guru Prahlad Kakkar delivers a talk at the same edition