This documentary short documents the lives of the inhabitants from a little village on the outskirts of Mumbai. They earn their daily wages picking trash from garbage dumps situated near their homes; and often struggle against the excavators, brought in by the same people that pay them for a day’s ‘pickings’.
Simple Visuals feature prominently in this short film, and coupled with simplistic, factual information provided by the same people whose lives are documented here, provides a poignant insight into the lives whose jobs society would deem ‘unworthy / lowly’. The music used in the film has a Minimalist style to it; thus rendering a portrait of a people that’s equally stark and sensitive... since it lets the words and idiosyncrasies of the people themselves tell their story.
By Rohan