Flop Show

Jaspal Bhatti self-financed ten standalone half-hours on a Doordarshan budget, shot entirely in Chandigarh, each episode taking one Indian bureaucratic archetype to its absurd logical end. The bribed clerk. The strike-happy union. The marriage broker. The electricity board. He directed, wrote, and starred. Savita Bhatti and Vivek Shauq filled the rest. 1989. The whole thing fits in five hours.