Someday (2021 film)

Someday
Directed by	Shefali Shah
Written by	Shefali Shah
Starring	Shefali Shah
Cinematography	Eeshit Narain
Edited by	Antara Lahiri
Music by	Prasad S.
Release dates	April 2021 (2021-04) (51st USA Film Festival July 2021 (18th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart)
Running time	10 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Someday is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language drama short film written and directed by Shefali Shah, who stars in the lead role.

Plot

A frontline healthcare worker who returns home for a seven-day quarantine due to the COVID pandemic and spends time interacting through a door with her elderly mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.[1][2]

Production

In 2020, Shah decided to experiment with writing and directing in two self-starring COVID-19-based short films, Someday and Happy Birthday Mummy Ji.[3][4] Someday marked her directorial debut, and Shah conceived the story based on memories from her mother who had turned caregiver to her grandmother, and shot the film with a five-member crew at her residence over a period of two days.[1][5]

Themes

Release

The film premiered at the 51st USA Film Festival and was later screened at the 18th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart in Germany.[6][7][8][9] In September 2021, it was screened at the Bollywood Festival in Norway.[10]

Reception

Critical response

A critic from Cinestaan wrote that "As the sole artiste in the film, Shah poignantly portrays the pain, grief and emotional turmoil of seeing one's parent slip slowly away into dementia".[11]

References

1. "Wasn't sure if I had it in me to direct a film: Shefali Shah on 'Someday'". The New Indian Express. 21 June 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
2. "Shefali Shah's maiden directorial project 'Someday' to be officially screened at the 18th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart 2021". Indulg Express. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
3. Shah, Shefali (17 December 2020). "Everything I consumed on screen as an escape from 2020 helped me evolve into a filmmaker, writes Shefali Shah". Firstpost. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
4. Cyril, Grace (23 July 2021). "Shefali Shah says Happy Birthday Mummy Ji is inspired by her own life. Interview". India Today. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
5. Suri, Rishabh (3 July 2021). "Shefali Shah on her debut directorial short film: I shot in my house with a unit of five people". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
6. Roy Chowdhury, Rishita (7 April 2021). "Shefali Shah's directorial debut Someday selected for 51st USA Film Festival". India Today. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
7. "Shefali Shah's directorial debut Someday to be screened at the 18th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart". Firstpost. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
8. "Shefali Shah's directorial debut Someday makes it to final selection of USA Film Festival". Mid-day. 8 April 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
9. BKD (16 June 2021). "Shefali Shah's directorial debut 'Someday' to be screened at 18th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart 2021". National Herald. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
10. Mukherjee, Shreya (12 September 2021). "Shefali Shah's 'Someday' will now screen at Bollywood Festival Norway". Yahoo. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
11. "Someday review: Loving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship in pandemic times". Archived from the original on 7 September 2021.

External links

• Someday at the 2021 Indian Film Festival Stuttgart