Cities of Sleep, the infamous \'sleep mafia\' in Delhi 2015
风萧萧_Frank (2026-02-03 05:01:03) 评论 (0)Cities of Sleep, the infamous 'sleep mafia' in Delhi 2015
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Director Shaunak Sen was born June 26 1987 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
He graduated in Mass Communication from A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Centre Jamia Milia, New Delhi, and obtained a Ph.D. from the School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
'Cities of Sleep' takes us into a heady world of insurgent sleeper's communities as well as the infamous 'sleep mafia' in Delhi where just securing a safe sleeping spot often becomes a question of life and death for a large number of people. The film trails the lives of two individuals, Shakeel and Ranjeet. Shakeel, a renegade homeless sleeper has for the last 7 years slept in a diverse range of improvised places like subways, under park benches, parking lots, abandoned cars and lately, at areas controlled by the sleep mafia. The film follows his attempts to secure a safe sleeping space just around the time the infamous winter rains of Delhi are due. Ranjeet runs the 'sleep-cinema' community in Loha Pul in Delhi, a huge double-story iron bridge straddling the banks of the river Yamuna. A thin strip of land under Loha Pul houses shanty cinemas where over 400 odd homeless come and sleep through the day for a nominal price. The flooding of the river Yamuna poses a threat to the people sleeping there every monsoon. The film looks at not only the tremendous social and political pressure that sleep exerts on the homeless in the city but is also a philosophical exploration of sleep at large.
This documentary follows people in Delhi who are trying to find a place to rest their heads and get some sleep for a couple of hours, if they are lucky. It places the people in the middle of an unforgiving landscape of concrete and noice, constant movement of cars, dogs and people. It is often night and the darkness surrounds the main characters as they try to convince the people who have the power over the possible sleeping places. Theese places allow people with little money to get some rest under a blanket either in a small shed or on a sort of bed outside. The people in power over theese places are a mix of help workers and dictators, making some money of the desperate tired people and at the same time offer them some relief. One of the places is under a bridge, where they have arranged a sort of cinema where people also can sleep. A film about class, poverty and what it means to be free.
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