The 'Dimensions Mumbai' section at the 12th Mumbai Film Festival has provided a firm platform to young and aspiring filmmakers from the country's financial capital to convey visually, different aspects of the megapolis in five minutes.Over 100 entries were received out of which 24 short films in English, Hindi and Marathi were screened yesterday.Dahi Handi, a five-minute Marathi film is about a less educated 25-year-old boy who is the sole bread winner for his family. He takes on the responsibility of distributing newspapers in the morning and working at a fast food joint at night while he spends his days at his full time courier job.It is Krishnajanmashtami in Mumbai which is celebrated as dahi handi and as he wanders through the city delivering letters, he relates to the bustling crowd and the vibrant dahi handi breaking pyramid and believes that all will be ultimately well.Talking to PTI, writer Yuvraj Chilkhalkar said he and his group of seven youngsters did not want to attempt the cliched environmental issues in a short film.Dahi handi is one of the most celebrated festival after Ganesh Chaturti. The attempts made by youngsters to break the dahi handi forming pyramids, is actually a lesson to be learnt in life about trying hard to achieve success and not to be bogged down by failure, he said."We tried to project the story of a common man in Mumbai where unemployment is rampant and young people work hard to make two ends meet," he added.He said the film is directed by his friend Mayuresh Gawade and is made at a budget of Rs750. Yuvraj, who is a science graduate in information techology said cinema has been his passion since childhood and is all set to change profession from science to art and is awaiting a good break.Young Narayan Thakur has single handedly made Mumbai Retina, a four-minute-five-second film about a blind Mumbaikar who lives in a chawl with his old mother.The film captures one day in the blind man's life and how he goes about his his daily chores. This film has no visuals in order to depict a blind man's perspective accurately. The audience must live in the man's shoes and experience his life.Narayan said he has made the film at zero budget since it is only audio of 4.05 minutes. "I want the audience to understand how difficult is life as a blind person and experience the pain for some time," he said.Narayan said he got the idea of choosing this theme when he saw a blind man asking for help to get into the train as he had missed his footsteps.Neend, a two-minute-forty-three-second film by Nitesh Soni, Shilpa Hawaldar and Shramik Rajpurkar is about the city that never sleeps.Mumbaikars are hardworking and they go about their work with swollen eyes, puffy faces and dark circles dozing off whenever they can manage to catch a nap."They sleep in railway trains, if they are lucky to get a seat and in the buses," Nitesh said.Neend is based on the unique ways in which the city slumbers. This film captures the sleepy side of Mumbai. "When they sleep, there is child like innocence on their faces."According to Nitesh, Mumbai cannot be seen from one perspective. "It is a mini-India with all kinds of people here. There is no city like Mumbai in the country and we have to highlight the positive aspect through the visual media," he felt.

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