March 14, 2021 The personal but mercurial style, which indicates expanse and ambition, is intelligent enough to invite us to experience the bitterness and joys of being alive Reading the title of the film, one feels that Prateek Vats’s Eeb Allay Ooo! couldn’t have found a better slogan for itself. This spectacle is the fruit of avant-garde cinema – the same vision as the poets behind Nagarik and Vats is neither following in the vein of de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves nor emulating the romantic, fantastical situations of Pather Panchali. Instead, a slightly bizarre but mostly unassuming individual is put in situations where he is pitted against himself – he is looking for what interests him; he is struggling to get a job that he likes. The general tone is a conversation in metaphors on different issues in society, class and religious politics and the plight of migrant workers. But the starting point of this conversation is a monologue of the main character. The opening shots establish this with successive close-ups in which he is trying to pronounce the words