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Loop is an upcoming 2012 short film directed by Divij Sonak and Vishal Shah. The movie stars MBA Students Neha Tolani and Shreyansh Mehta in the lead roles and is a thriller revolving around anterograde amnesia - a form of amnesia which impairs a person's ability to make new memories. The film was made as part of an inter-college short film competition in a period of about a week.

Plot
The movie begins with Aalia (Neha Tolani) running through a college campus. The girl bumps into a guy who, concerned at the girl's worried look inquires about her well-being. The guy introduces himself as Shrey (Shreyansh) and asks Aalia out for a walk to which Aalia agrees.

Shrey also unknowingly asks Aalia for her introduction and manages to annoy Aalia a bit with his one liners. The two then converse about Aalia's participation in a college event of which Aalia apparently has no idea. The two then proceed towards the Amphitheater to sit since Aalia gets tired of walking.

At the Amphitheater, Aalia questions the necessity of having to remember details of one's life and believes that its the experiences that matter more, something to which Shrey partially disagrees. She also recollects some recurring hazy visions of her crashing in a car. Shrey then asks Aalia for coffee to which Aalia agrees.

During the course of their conversation with Coffee, Aalia again expresses her struggle to remember things of late despite her being an intelligent girl. This leads Shrey to conclude that Aalia is most probably an amnesiac with severe memory issues.

Shrey then proceeds to drop Aalia to her room but notices a cut on Aalia's leg. Aalia brushes it off as not really remembering how she got the cut. Concerned, Shrey proposes to take Aalia to his room and get her leg patched up to which Aalia, reluctantly gives her consent.

While on the way to Shrey's room, Shrey discovers a room open and finds a dead guy lying on the floor with a pool of blood surrounding his head. Shrey also notices Aalia's bleeding feet and blood at Aalia's back and concludes that its Aalia who killed the guy which is why she was acting so strange in the first place. He proceeds to call the authorities. Aalia stops him and a tussle ensues killing Shrey. Aalia, on seeing the dead bodies on the floor, makes a run for it (in a scene reminiscent of the one at the movie's start) and bumps into another guy (Vishal Shah) who utters the same words that were uttered by Shrey when Aalia had bumped into him - "Watch It !!!".

Cast
Neha Tolani as Aalia Nanda: A college student who has recently suffered from an accident which has impaired her memory. Essentially, she is suffering from Anterograde Amnesia and is incapable of making new memories. She bumps into Shrey at the beginning of the movie and converses with him throughout the same. Neha Tolani was amongst Divij's initial few choices for the role of Aalia. As such, when Vishal suggested her name for the movie, Divij instantly agreed to cast her. She agreed to act in the movie on the day the movie was required to be shot.

Shreyansh Mehta as Shrey: A happy-go-lucky guy of a slightly flirtatious nature, Shrey encounters Aalia at the start of the movie and initially manages to annoy her with his wry sense of humor. Later on, while continuing to converse with Aalia, he deduces that she's an amnnesiac. Again, Vishal suggested Shreyansh's name to Divij and gave him the script to read. Shreyansh liked the script and gave his consent to star in the movie on the night the shooting was schedule to begin itself.

Development
The idea of making a movie based around the theme of memory loss had been floating in director Divij Sonak's mind for quite sometime. It was during an inter-college event hosted by his college of study - IMT Ghaziabad that he became serious about the idea. The event Se7en - a short film-making contest required a team of two people to make a short film based on a theme that would be shared to the participants 7 days before the film submission deadline. It was then that Divij approached his college friend Vishal Shah and narrated the idea to him. Vishal found the idea promising and agreed to participate. The script for the film was written by Divij in a novelization form in about two days.

Casting
Having finalized the script, two actors were required as part of the film. Vishal decided to conduct auditions at first but later on, realizing the difficulties involved in auditioning actors in such a short time, decided to rope in two of his classmates and good friends - Neha Tolani and Shreyansh Mehta - for the project. The two read the script and gave their consent to act in it.

Filming
Filming took place in the Campus of IMT Ghaziabad on two consecutive nights of October 05 and October 06, 2012. The scenes were filmed at a multitude of locations which included the college's mess area, the ground and the car parking area. The climax was shot at an empty room in the hostel. The blood effects were handled by Vishal Shah. Due to the unavailability of a professional camera for filming, the film was shot using a Samsung Galaxy I9100 S2 at 1080p. Filming wrapped up in early morning at October 06, 2012.

Post-Production
Work on editing the film commenced as soon as the first day of filming was complete i.e. on October 05, 2012. Post-production was done by Divij Sonak and was complete on October 08, 2012 on which day the movie was required to be submitted. The original cut of the movie ran at about 10.5 minutes but due to the 7 minute length restrictions of the contest for which the movie was made, the movie had to be trimmed down to an acceptable 7.5 minutes.

Release
While the film did not win the contest, Divij decided to release the film online with as full-fledged a digital promotional campaign as possible. The campaign began with the release of the movie's first poster on Divij's Facebook Profile on October 18, 2012. After this, three new stills have been released for the movie. A teaser trailer for the film was released on October 20. The movie itself was released online on Youtube on October 24 on the auspicious occasion of Dussherra.