“Goodbye everyone,” a Facebook status update flashes on the screen — Suicide: Ek Koshish begins in this morbid manner, giving you the wrong idea of what’s to come in the next three minutes. But then, Yam Raj ‘likes’ that status and the light-hearted mood is set.

Although short filmmakers have touched upon suicide before, no one has taken a light-hearted stance on the topic, claims 25 year-old Sanat Prabhu. “I decided to make this film because everyone else seemed to be taking suicide too seriously. There were very serious films, which talked about the statistics of suicides and the like,” says Prabhu, who is a computer engineer-turned-filmmaker based in Mumbai.