Hariprasath Rajan, 28, is a Dubai-based filmmaker who participated at the yearly ‘We Create Drama’ challenge that Paramount Hotels organises for filmmakers in the city. Paramount selects short film scripts through a submission process and the selected scripts become films that are shot at a Paramount hotel within 24 hours. Rajan’s debut short film, Vision, went on to be among the top three films last year. It has been screened at the Paramount Film Festival, which screens the best films that emerge from the challenge.

Vision unfolds over a gripping arc — and within its short running time (10 minutes and 40 seconds), the filmmaker-writer’s grasp over filmmaking craft is obvious — in the way he builds up momentum for a climactic twist within the four walls of a swank hotel. The film has terrific production value and the cinematography by Umesh Chandra Javagi is an additional propeller to the overall bite of the narrative.

A Chennai-born filmmaker who was more attuned to Hollywood time travel films after watching Robert Zemeckis’ classic Back........

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