Infection

Somewhere in the town there lives a Man who follows a Lady and has a wounded hand. He claims that he has followed several other people in the past and this wound arises of one of those following incidents. But why doe he follow a Lady in the town? He assures that the matter is not that simple, as it looks like.
The Lady has a boyfriend, who first notices the Man and makes her aware of that. It seems that the Lady knows the Man but she never discloses how. But soon it appears that she has some sort of phobia regarding this Man.
After a couple of days, the Man gets beaten by the boyfriend of the Lady. The Man in wounds fallen on the ground, erupts some old relational memory, suggesting that the Man was close to her, and long back used to be in her bed, where today her boyfriend is lying. On the other, the Man in his bizarre living place seems to rejoice the appearance of the new wounds on his body. It appears that he has a peculiar sort of fascination about his new wounds. But why?
The Lady once again notices the Man, following her with new wounds. She faces him and condemns him of this shameless act. The anxiety driven life of the Man in his bizarre hide out, boils up with a mild eccentric dance with a small iron rod.
The Man continues to follow her, until one day the Lady comes down to the spot where the Man was beaten up by her boyfriend. She, with some guilt in her eyes touches the place where there is still a blood patch on the ground. Just then she finds the Man standing at a distance, staring at her.
She takes him to her place. She keeps him waiting at the dining hall, while she masturbates inside the washroom; just to insult this ex-boyfriend of her. They have a little conversation where in the Man clarifies his purpose behind following her. The Man has come to know about the status of a secret, that the Lady wanted to hide from him at the time of their breakup; but the Man somehow came to know about it : her pregnancy. After almost a year the Man has come to see his child and he knows that the Lady is lying about the death of their child. The Man takes out the iron rod from his bag and keeps it on the table. The Lady feels utterly insecure and out of a blue hits the Man with the rod. The Man bleeds and before walking away with the rod, he caresses her helpless face with his hand tinted with blood.
The Lady gradually gets sank deep in guilt after this incident and her phobia about this Man turns into an Infection of guilt and remorse. Day by day she gets succumb to this infectious guilt through a morbid transmission of wounds. All the wounds of the Man gets cured and vanished and gets inflicted upon the Lady in increasing fatality, blood and pain.
Finally, one day there is news in the radio that a Lady has died mysteriously in the town. While listening to this news the Man abandons the iron rod and loads a new weapon in his bag...a hammer this time. He moves to his next target in the town who happens to be his ex-boss; stating that people should not take him as a mere psychopath who uses his weapons to kill his targets. But he uses his weapons to provoke his targets to hit him and through that action to kindle a guilt in them. He keeps on repeating this cycle until the target gets severely wounded mentally his or her guilt. That's the way he works to become a living manifestation of the guilt itself.
He starts following his next victim as he started following the Lady in the beginning.

  • Anirbaan Paul
    Director
  • Anirbaan Paul
    Writer
  • Rishank Tiwari
    Producer
    Raavan Films
  • Siddharth Dengre
    Producer
    Raavan Films
  • RAAVAN FILMS
    Producer
  • Rishank Tiwari
    Key Cast
  • Shivani RAI
    Key Cast
  • Suryansh Tiwari
    Key Cast
  • Adikesh Bhargava
    CInematographer
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    36 minutes 9 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 18, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    20,132 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English, Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital - Black magic
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Anirbaan Paul

Anirban Paul

D.O.B.: 6th April, 1982
City of Birth: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
Education From: University of Calcutta, Kolkata
Current City: Mumbai
Writer, Director
Some Previous and Current Projects:
Written, Directed the Short, Titled “Infection” Produced by Raavan Films. To be streamed by the OTT BIIGG BANG, very soon.
Written and Directed the Fashion Film, Titled “Absence”, Produced by Think Vision.
Line Produced the Inox Insignia Theatrical Commercial, featuring the ace fashion designer Arjun Khanna. Agency: Bang in the Middle, Delhi.
Worked as the production designer, in the short, Titled “Token”, Produced by Jar Pictures and Presented by Anurag Kashyap

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