LETTY MARIAM ABRAHAM letty. abraham@ mid- day. com The past few weeks have gone by in a blur for Rohan Shah, who not only made his Bollywood debut with Vikram Bhattu2019s Hacked but also launched the one- minute series on Instagram, titled Firsts. The Dice Media series, starring Shah and Apoorva Arora, focuses on significant moments of a relationship in the course of 24 episodes.

u201c Itu2019s the first Instagram show. After reading the first two episodes, I gave my nod,u201d says Shah, evidently upbeat about the experimental nature of the outing. Drawing parallels with commercials that weave a narrative in 30 seconds, the youngster adds that brevity is an often overlooked aspect in filmmaking. u201c Since I have done over 300 ads, I understood when the director [ Nayana Shyam] would say that she doesnu2019t have time [ to delve deeper into an emotion]. It is quite tricky to shoot and script this series. You have to tell a story in one minute, and it has to hold as an episode.u201d The actor says that it may eventually feature on YouTube as a compilation of the video snippets.