NAME OF THE MOVIE: Ghode ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon (Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis)


DIRECTED BY: Anamika Haksar



SYNOPSIS


DURATION 122 mins

YEAR 2018

COUNTRY India

LANGUAGE Hindi


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. The film portrays the lives lived by the people of Old Delhi — a pickpocket, a snacks vendor, a labourer-activist, and a conductor of heritage walks. Patru, the pickpocket, takes people on a walk to show them the underbelly of the city only to end up in trouble with merchants and the police. He decides to conduct his last ‘Dream Walk’, where we discover the subterranean consciousness of the city’s migrant population.


ABOUT THE DIRECTOR


Anamika Haksar is an Indian theatre director. Having first trained under Badal Sarcar and then with B.V. Karanth at the National School of Drama (NSD), she later went to the State Institute of Theatre Arts, Moscow. She won the Sanskriti Award for developing a new theater language in India in 1995. In 2016, she was invited to the Kochi Biennale to exhibit an acclaimed theatre installation.


PERSONNEL


Cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi

Editor Paresh Kamdar

Production Designer Archana Shastri

Sound Designer Gautam Nair

Colorist Sidharth Meer

Producer(s) Anamika Haksar