{"id":793,"date":"2021-01-11T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/?post_type=films&#038;p=793"},"modified":"2021-03-28T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T09:54:00","slug":"eeb-allay-ooo","status":"publish","type":"films","link":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/films\/eeb-allay-ooo\/","title":{"rendered":"Eeb Allay Ooo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMonkey business\u201d 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\u2019s chaotic capital. Sometimes intrusive, even aggressive, they need to be non-violently controlled. Enter human wranglers, who ape the guttural sounds \u2013 see the film\u2019s title \u2013 of langur monkeys, the simian horde\u2019s natural enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Aimless young migrant Anjani (Shardul Bharadwaj) is hired but struggles to make the right noises, resorting to increasingly desperate, if imaginative, schemes \u2013 slingshots, a full-size langur costume \u2013 to keep his job.<\/p>\n<p>Director Prateek Vats\u2019 debut feature deftly mixes farcical comedy with telling social commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Luckless Anjani is just one of many marginalized workers \u2013 his pregnant sister, her harried, traffic cop husband \u2013 dependent on capricious officials and precarious employment. Vats imbues a documentary-like view of New Delhi\u2019s restless ebb and flow with haunting surrealist visuals, to evoke a warped social order, where man is more disposable than monkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMonkey business\u201d 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\u2019s chaotic capital. Sometimes intrusive, even aggressive, they need to be non-violently controlled. Enter human wranglers, who ape the guttural sounds \u2013 see the film\u2019s title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","country":[36],"duration":[37],"rating":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-793","films","type-films","status-publish","hentry","country-india","duration-1h-38m"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/films"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redseafilmfest.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}