26. Traffic Signal
The powerful element at a road crossing in a city with the power to stop hundreds of vehicles or let them go, synchronizing the movement in the fast paced life; the pacemaker powering the city and ensuring the smooth flow of everflowing river of traffic.
A traffic signal - A wonderful ecological system in itself. Like parasites or weaklings in any ecosystem; there are scores of people leading their daily life at the signal, depending on the "strong" ones. From an infant who has not yet understood the hardships of the life, to law enforcement agents like the traffic policemen who breathe in Carbons trying to manage the traffic; from the migrants who setup their small scale business stalls alongside at a signal to the night-lifers of the society who seek "material" to satisfy their physical needs - who know they would find what they need - at the Traffic Signal; everyone plays a part in this ecosystem.
The movie revolves around a traffic signal spot, where everyday as the traffic signal starts swtiching between red orange and green colours; transactions of probably lakhs or rupees take place; by means of beg, borrow, steal, or sell !! The side of society probably unknown to many reading this blog, mostly composed of poor people, chasing their dreams - lead their lives by hook or crook, managing their needs. And even when the traffic signal just flashes orange light during night, vehicles stop at signals; often picking up and dropping the people in the flesh business.
And one day when there is a threat to one of the many traffic signals in a city; when it is to be replaced with a flyover to meet the fast movement needs of the traffic and to help some powerful builders and politicians meet their business goals; the whole system of these poor people is disrupted. Hundreds of dreams are shattered, hundreds small scale business lost, and a small piece of the 200 crore business of the country makes way to a piece of thousands of crores of business.
This movie is more of a documentary, trying to pack in maximum possible characters of this ecosystem, from the stall owners, beggars, street hawkers, enunchs, goons (or the project managers of this system), aimless youth who are daydreaming, aged people who had seen the "true" life, people polocing the traffic and of course the poeple who pass the traffic signal daily, unknowingly writing a chapter in the life of the signal.
Madhur Bhandarkar has again brought in some new faces to fit in as the characters of this movie, and some known faces too in roles never seen before like Konkana SenSharma who sells herself to live, Ranveer Shourie in probably the most serious role of his career so far - cheating the people for money to meet his drug needs.
A traffic signal - A wonderful ecological system in itself. Like parasites or weaklings in any ecosystem; there are scores of people leading their daily life at the signal, depending on the "strong" ones. From an infant who has not yet understood the hardships of the life, to law enforcement agents like the traffic policemen who breathe in Carbons trying to manage the traffic; from the migrants who setup their small scale business stalls alongside at a signal to the night-lifers of the society who seek "material" to satisfy their physical needs - who know they would find what they need - at the Traffic Signal; everyone plays a part in this ecosystem.
The movie revolves around a traffic signal spot, where everyday as the traffic signal starts swtiching between red orange and green colours; transactions of probably lakhs or rupees take place; by means of beg, borrow, steal, or sell !! The side of society probably unknown to many reading this blog, mostly composed of poor people, chasing their dreams - lead their lives by hook or crook, managing their needs. And even when the traffic signal just flashes orange light during night, vehicles stop at signals; often picking up and dropping the people in the flesh business.
And one day when there is a threat to one of the many traffic signals in a city; when it is to be replaced with a flyover to meet the fast movement needs of the traffic and to help some powerful builders and politicians meet their business goals; the whole system of these poor people is disrupted. Hundreds of dreams are shattered, hundreds small scale business lost, and a small piece of the 200 crore business of the country makes way to a piece of thousands of crores of business.
This movie is more of a documentary, trying to pack in maximum possible characters of this ecosystem, from the stall owners, beggars, street hawkers, enunchs, goons (or the project managers of this system), aimless youth who are daydreaming, aged people who had seen the "true" life, people polocing the traffic and of course the poeple who pass the traffic signal daily, unknowingly writing a chapter in the life of the signal.
Madhur Bhandarkar has again brought in some new faces to fit in as the characters of this movie, and some known faces too in roles never seen before like Konkana SenSharma who sells herself to live, Ranveer Shourie in probably the most serious role of his career so far - cheating the people for money to meet his drug needs.
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