<span class=normal>Hide & Seek: <BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Hide & Seek is a difficult murder mystery. Its a young film with a lot of youthfulness. Its not a teenage story though. The film starts off from a party when the six friends are shown as seventeen year olds. They all are family friends and things go terribly wrong between them. Then after twelve years, the six of them are brought back together to play the same game they played at that party - Hide & Seek. There are two types of suspense in this film - What happened at that party? and Who is that someone whos trying to get rid of them? The film is not very long. Its a two hour film and Ive seen the first cut of it already. After seeing it, I didnt expect it to be so spooky. It was very exciting and made me laugh at myself. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Shawn Aranha - the director: <BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Shawn is making his directorial debut with Hide & Seek. He has been Apoorva Lakhias assistant for a few years. He is quite a loved boy in the industry it seems. Ive been meeting many of my friends from the industry and have heard quite a lot about Shawn. They all were surprised to know that Shawn is making his launch with this film. He is like Mohit Suri. He started assisting from a very young age of sixteen years. He is now thirty and has directed his first film. Shawn is completely involved and enthusiastic about what he does. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Claustrophobic technique: <BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>The name claustrophobic because all the characters are brought in together and trapped inside one closed down mall. The style of the shoot was more constrained and tight. So on the psychological aspect, the word does work and then after you see the film you finally get to know why Shawn has used such kind of a word to describe the technique of his film. The six characters are all trapped and cant get out and are thus forced to play a game called Hide & Seek which is something that they dont want to necessarily do as they dont want to be next to each other. The technique will grip you for sure. </span>