Mira Nair, who was born in a documentary, captures the dark side of life at the bottom of India with precision and ruthlessness. On the muddy streets, people are crowded with dust, surrounded by stalls flying with mosquitoes, rampant tricycles, and old colonial buildings. Consisting of drug dealers, drug addicts, pimps, prostitutes, prostitutes, and street children, under the background of religion and separation, the interlaced scenes of the bottom-level life video have obvious realism. Of course, the film is also expected to be questioned by "shooting the dark side of India to cater to Western audience stereotypes".
When the family and society have completely lost their protective role, how can street children who have been reduced to naked lives struggle to survive? Krishna, who lost his name, just wanted to go home from the beginning to the end.
At the end of the film, the black crowd carried the statue of Ganesh and took to the streets to revel. These inconspicuous little people were crowded and crazy, and soon they were all drowned in the crowd. Krishna, who suffered a lot in Mumbai, still did not collect 500 rupees to go home and give it to his mother. He held Manju's mother's hand and let go in the crowd. The two helpless people were scattered, and Krishna returned to isolation and helplessness again. in the state.
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