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Jewel is a 2019 Thriller film written and directed by Nithin Nandakumar. It is an adaptation of 1897 Bram Stoker's classic novel 'Dracula' with elements of magical realism told in a non-linear pattern. The short film was met with a generally positive critical response.

Plot
The plot is adapted from 1897 Bram Stoker's classic novel 'Dracula' with elements of magic realism. The storytelling adopts a non-linear narration of events, happening in two parallel worlds.

'Jewel', a beautiful young girl, lives in the normal world while Dracula reborn as 'Jacob Daniel' is in his deluxe mansion in a parallel world. Jacob gets attracted to Jewel and invites her fiance 'Zane Abraham' to stay for the night in his bungalow as they settle a business deal. A series of baffling and mysterious events at the mansion confuses Zane, eventually making him trip and fall while running for his life.When the dawn breaks, Zane finds himself back in the normal world with a gifted pocket watch that shows time moving backwards. Later Jewel gets attracted to this watch and asks Zane for it. Once she accepts the watch by her own will, Jacob Daniel starts possessing her mind. The recurring ghastly events in Jewel's sleep alarms her roommate 'Tania Collins' as Jewel doesn't remember any of those. Tania seeks help from her fiance 'Samuel Patrick' and senior psychiatrist 'Issac Thomas' who then notices the similarities in Jewel's case to that of another missing girl 'Sameera' and her fiance 'Charlie'. Before they could help, Jewel gets fully possessed by Jacob and is taken to his world. In this new world, Jewel meets Jacob and other princesses. Jacob assures her that her beauty would never fade there as time stays still ! In normal world Zane goes psychic like Charlie, and Jewel's case gets added to the list of other missing girls 'Sameera', 'Elaise' and 'Xiomi'. The cycle continues as Jacob starts possessing his new victim 'Lyssa Richard'.

Production
Jewel was written, directed, shot and edited by Nithin Nandakumar.

Reception
Jewel was met with generally positive reviews. Christopher Hooton of The Independent deemed it "a fairly unremarkable student film," but considered this to be a "great" thing since "