A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Featuring:
Ravindra Sahu, Raghubir Yadav, Gopalan
Written by:
Anamika Haksar
Lokesh Jain
Directed by:
Anamika Haksar
Release Date:
June 10, 2022
Original Title:
Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
GUDSHO
Gutterati Productions
Production Countries:
India
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 122
Fusing documentary-realism with magic-realism, and true and fictionalised stories with poetry and dreams, Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon is a love letter to the syncretic culture of Old Delhi, to its history which is slowly losing itself amid concrete and smog
Ghode Ko - follows four main characters: a pickpocket, a vendor of sweet and savoury snacks, a labourer-activist, and a conductor of 'Heritage Walks'. We see Old Delhi through their eyes - their lives, hopes, aspirations, dreams - and hear it through their various languages and dialects. Patru, the pickpocket, decides to take people on alternative walks, showing them the underbelly of the city they think they know, but this lands him in trouble with local merchants and the police. That's when he finally decides to conduct one last 'Dream Walk'. It is here that we enter the subterranean consciousness of the city's migrant population. Together, these walks create a visual and aural history of Old Delhi from different points of view. And when Lali, the labourer-activist, too joins the fray, giving a speech urging workers to unite, he lands them all in jail.
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