Review of ‘Ghode Ko Jalebi Khiladi Le Ja Riya Hoon’: Life in Sweatcity

Introducing Old . kaleidoscope view of DelhiAnamika Haksar’s poem Shahjahanabad captures the drama of real life in all its colours. Taking us beyond the romantic version of the Walled City, Anamika investigates and recreates the dreams and nightmares of the poor and downtrodden and finds that there is much to cherish, much to ponder over.

There are moments when you feel like you’ve walked into a museum of illusions, only to be nudged by a harsh reality, waiting for the next turn. A collage of different forms of storytelling that are hard to fit The horse has become a jalebi player. in a style. It is reminiscent of Kamal Swaroop’s imagination and Terrence Malik’s audacity, but Anamika aims to carve her own niche in the creative non-fiction realm. It wanders and wanders, but finds a way with audiences ready to lend both an eye and an ear to the experiment. There are strings that seem unconnected, but people’s lives are such that Thin layer speaks about.

Based on interviews with pickpockets, daily wage workers, rickshaw pullers, bandwagons, street vendors, drug addicts and rag pickers, Haksar, a seasoned theater practitioner, presents the narrative with the visuals and sounds that often permeate our cinema. I unheard, unheard.

Those who have visited Old Delhi only from a tourism point of view will find it astonishing; Those who have read about it as part of subaltern studies will call it real. But those who have smelled Khari Baoli, they will easily get a sense of what Anamika has understood in two hours.

The title may suggest a particular dialect, but the film reveals how Delhi is a melting pot of people with different accents and cultures. If we talk about Mirza Ghalib, then there is also a mention of Pandit Amarnath in it and there is a combination of the bigotry of Emperor Aurangzeb with the humility of the fakir Sarmad of the people. It refers to a tradition that is fading away. Where an Urdu speaker is not judged by his religion, where a plateful of food can still be bought for 10 bucks, and where life is rolling so that when you are at work, you can take your horse. Jalebiinstead of grass.

Anamika has attracted some of the best theater artistes to present the never losing spirit of the city. The plot revolves around pickpocketing Patru, who joins a wedding band (Ravindra Sahu), a street food vendor Chhadami (Raghubir Yadav), a tourist guide Akash Jain (Lokesh Jain), and daily wage earner Lal Bihari (N Gopalan). Works as a musician. She has found actors in real surroundings with real people and their annoyances.

All the fun and pranks about loose pockets and fooling unsuspecting tourists alternate with references to everyday sexual abuse and hunger in labyrinthine alleys where life and death live in close proximity. Where the dead are removed and beggars are transferred to find their way back to the streets. It raises pertinent questions on the exploitation of labor, unemployment and rampant discontent that often finds reflection in dreams, carefully designed by Saumitra Ranade.

The animation doesn’t attempt to seduce you; This only helps to take you closer to the reality behind these people’s fantasies where rats, snakes and zombies abound. Similarly, cinematographer Saumyanand Saha’s frames are artistic portraits of the common man immersed in everyday chaos.

Check it out to experience what lies under the facade of the national capital, what dreams about what isn’t. There is a scene where someone asks Patru what will he do if he finds Alauddin’s lamp. The pickpocket says that he will distribute the gifts equally. Perhaps, at that time his composer took over …