Aditi Rao Hydari’s new short film is a hilarious spin on the Mahabharata

The Mahabharata has been open to multiple interpretations across centuries. A new short film, Mama’s Boys by LargeShortFilms, looks at the epic in modern context and the result is hilarious.
Aditi Rao Hydari?s new short film is a hilarious spin on the Mahabharata
Aditi Rao Hydari?s new short film is a hilarious spin on the Mahabharata
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It has an indomitable start cast starring the legendary actress Neena Gupta, Aditi Rao Hydari, Arunoday Singh, Vivaan Shah, Jim Sarbh and Late Razak Khan. 

Delhi Belly writer Akshat Verma directs this short film that transplants the complicated marital status of the Pandavas and Draupadi to 2016, with shattering effects. 

Here, Draupadi is allowed as little agency and free will in being apportioned in fifths to each brother as she was in mythology. But this Draupadi is no shrinking violet. Played by Aditi Rai Hydari, the choices she makes serve nobody but herself and she employs every feminine wile available to her to turn the situation she finds herself in to her own advantage. 

As Aditi Rao Hydari puts it in a tweet, Mama’s Boys turns things “upside down or right side up.” Watch this 16-minute long film and have fun! 

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