Three recent films explore the class divide in Indian society Updated: Updated: Is middle-class India finally waking up to the reality of its other half? Share Article AAA In ‘The Lift Boy’, the story bridges the social distance between its characters with confidences exchanged in the privacy of a lift. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Is middle-class India finally waking up to the reality of its other half? It was my daughter actually, raised outside India, who pointed it out. “Mum,” she asked puzzled, while on a holiday in India, “Why do Indians never make eye-contact with poverty?” Of course, the average Indian’s indifference to the unpleasant underbelly of society is well documented. But if three recent films are anything to go by, middle-class India seems to be waking up and seeing its other, poorer half and even saying a weak hello.