India, Aug. 11 -- Is there a right way of grieving? Momo Deal, the wonderful new short film directed by Dheeraj Jindal and now streaming on the YouTube channel of Royal Stag Barrel Select Shorts, offers this question within its 13-minute runtime. Grief outlines this story in a certain unflappable manner, providing a space for the jagged edges of pain to soften and heal. There is no two-way about it, and somehow that awareness is everything.

When Mahima (Anushka Kaushik) suddenly dies, Naman (Akashdeep Arora) is left with no sense of closure. The film opens with her carefully planned-out, eulogistic notes, in which Mahima demands that, in the aftermath of her death, someday, Naman has to cry the loudest. How can he not? He is the best fri...