Tandoori

The film is the story of a man who scavenges dead animals in a junkyard, one marked by heaps and heaps of waste, and later sells them to restaurant owners who further sell them to unsuspecting customers as part of the food they offer.

The images of discarded items, and the manner in which they are utilised by the protagonist, are all comments on the decay of society itself. Additionally, as the story would have it, the characters endeavour to fight this malaise, both metaphorical and literal, by looking for ways out of it. There are some significant visuals that the film offers by way of zoomed out shots of the trash heaps with the character, already living on the margins of society and battling poverty, only a small speck against it, almost indistinguishable from it all.

The film has, at its core, a pertinent comment about the inescapability of fate. It reaches this point after traversing a long, meandering path that invokes ideas of poverty, survival, violence, dubious loyalties and the characters' attempts to fight these circumstances. Along the way, the inevitable presence of pain and grief is also tied with the narrative.