Eeeb Allay OOO! | RSFF

“Monkey business” has a very literal meaning for the denizens of New Delhi. Considered holy, and therefore protected, monkeys populate the streets and freely intermingle the daily life of India’s chaotic capital. Sometimes intrusive, even aggressive, they need to be non-violently controlled. Enter human wranglers, who ape the guttural sounds – see the film’s title – of langur monkeys, the simian horde’s natural enemies. Aimless young migrant Anjani (Shardul Bharadwaj) is hired but struggles to make the right noises, resorting to increasingly desperate, if imaginative, schemes – slingshots, a full-size langur costume – to keep his job. Director Prateek Vats’ debut feature deftly mixes farcical comedy with telling social commentary. Luckless Anjani is just one of many marginalized workers – his pregnant sister, her harried, traffic cop husband – dependent on capricious officials and precarious employment. Vats imbues a documentary-like view of New Delhi’s restless ebb and flow with haunting surrealist visuals, to evoke a warped social order, where man is more disposable than monkey.”

Director: PRATEEK VATS

Producer: SHWETAABH SINGH, PRATEEK VATS

Country: INDIA

Running time: 1H 38M

Rating: PG

Screening time:

March 14, 2020 at 18:00

March 16, 2020 at 21:15

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