Adhiraj Bose’s latest short film Interior Café Nasserudin Shah & Shernaz Patel

Bangalore: After the resounding success of Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Ahalya’ and Jaydeep Sarkar’s ‘Nayantara’s necklace’, Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films is back again with a light hearted film by Adhiraj Bose titled Interior Café, starring the legend of parallel cinema,
Naseeruddin Shah and distinguished theatre personality, Shernaz Patel.

Themed on the objective of “keep perfecting”, the Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films is a platform for aspiring directors to feature
along with mainstream Bollywood directors and chase their creative energy to establish themselves in the industry. The platform gives a
stage to storytellers to showcase their artistic creativity and reach out to their target audience through the online world.

The new release by Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films is directed by Adhiraj Bose. With short films like ‘Last Day’ and ‘Goonj’ to
his credit, Adhiraj Bose has explored the nuances of human relationships in a 12 minute time frame where both the lives of the characters
revolve around love, loss and reunion. Set in an old school café in Mumbai, the characters of Naseeruddin Shah and Shernaz Patel are
shown conversing with each other, thereby signifying the lost love and longing which they have treasured amongst themselves. It is a
perfectly told love tale which resonates with the idea of youthful love which had faded away and has come back to find itself again.

Commenting on the release, Raja Banerji, Assistant Vice President, Marketing, Pernod Ricard India, said “Today the approach of
filmmaking has transformed completely and being digitally connected has opened up various suitable outlets for filmmakers to express
themselves in their own style to the audiences they want to connect to. Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films has built its credibility
by collaborating with top Bollywood directors regularly. It is also the most inspiring platform for aspiring directors to showcase their
creativity. Resonating with the core philosophy of Royal Stag Barrel Select, the platform is meant to help them keep perfecting their skills
and establish themselves in the market. We are very excited to associate ourselves with the relentless creative spirit of Adhiraj Bose’s
new film – Interior Café”.

Talking about his film, director, Adhiraj Bose said, “The story of Interior Cafe is an amalgamation of human emotions and what we as
humans deal with in some point in our life. As a story, I approached it in a very realistic way, as every short film you see nowadays
concludes with a social cause but what excited me to do this project was the opposite. With the legendary Naseeruddin Shah and Shernaz
Patel on board I was pretty convinced of the choices I made in this film. As a filmmaker it is very important to have an outlet to showcase
your creativity and Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films has truly made this a great experience for me and helped me connect to the
audience. I was also excited to work with my long time best friend Shweta Basu Prasad as an actor and producer and my
cinematographer Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran who executed his brilliant camera skills in this film”.

Royal stag Barrel Select Large Short Films (LSF) is a portal that is the hub of Indian short films. It gives the audience the window to
enjoy short films made by large directors. It gives budding film makers a platform to showcase their short films with large ideas. It is a
vehicle to submit Indian short film makers to the international festival circuit. LSF is a parallel platform for indie films that can take co-
creation with social media to the next level.

The platform Pioneered under the aegis of Royal Stag Mega Movies, and Royal Stag Large short Film gains the first mover advantage in a
medium that will be the future of entertainment. LSF has released films of well-known Bollywood directors and gives opportunity to
upcoming directors. The platform has also released India’s First Collaborative film with 12 aspiring directors. In recent times, Platform
has been built on identified core attribute of RSBS - ‘Keep Perfecting’ and hence now targeting a more refined and evolved RSBS
audience. Adhiraj Bose is the face of the platform and platform already showcased a digital film on how to make “perfect films”.