The masks are off (almost) in the coronavirus pandemic-themed Amazon Prime Video anthology film Unpaused . The five entries in Unpaused pr...
The masks are off (almost) in the coronavirus pandemic-themed Amazon Prime Video anthology film Unpaused. The five entries in Unpaused propose that it is time to get back to the business of fairy tales. Enough moaning and groaning about the grim realities of death and illness, forced unemployment, disappearing incomes and lockdown-induced loneliness. Just reach out to the most easily available human being and a happy ending will follow. That’s what all but one of the five films suggest.
Unpaused is the second anthology film on Amazon Prime Video to be set and filmed during the pandemic. The Tamil-language Putham Pudhu Kaalai had a similar conceit – at a time of grave and unforeseen dangers, human touch is the only dependable element. Unpaused has a greater awareness of the horrors that have come in the wake of Covid-19 in India, but only just. The brief this time too is to be upbeat, comforting, apolitical and family-friendly (and therefore asexual). Only one of the directors sticks with the dark clouds rather than to reach for the rainbow.
The first entry is Raj & DK’s Glitch, set in a future in which Covid-19 has evolved to Covid-30. We are now way beyond WFH. Ahan (Gulshan Devaiah) does EFH (everything from home), including...
