Eeb Allay Ooo!(HKAFF 2019)

For years, the New Delhi government employed captive langurs to keep smaller monkeys at bay. Due to outcry from animal rights activists, this practice was eventually banned. But something still has to be done about all those macaques now roaming free around government complexes and residences. Hence, the need for a new position: monkey repeller. Prateek Vats’s satirical comedy-drama follows young migrant Anjani, who lands this “government job” that essentially requires him to act as a human primate. Bolstered by Shardul Bharadwaj’s excellent performance and deft observations of life for India’s urban underclass, Eeb Allay Ooo! is as absurd and dynamic as its title.