We can’t deny the fact that the Gap between Poverty and Richness is going to be neverending. And a lot of films have talked about the same in the past. Prateek Vats’ feature film ‘Eeb Allay Ooo’ uses elements metaphorically to spread across a message, well nothing morale but a honest portrayal of the society. Coming to the story, it revolves around Anjani (Shardul Bharadwaj), our protagonist who works as a monkey repeller in the national capital. Dealing with the hardships of the city, he starts off his job but couldn’t hold it off for more. Director Prateek Vats uses this as an element to deal with the theme, showing two sides of the society wherein the government on one side wants to get rid of the monkeys from the city and on the other side, there’s an executive who feed them as they are ‘Avatar of God’ and this is a metaphorical representation of the religious sentiments and how Politics cashes on it.
Continuing Anjani’s story, he is unable to produce sounds of ‘Langoor’ which is used as a tradition of working in the monkey business. Dealing with all these problems, he finds out a way, he dresses as Langoor in order to scare off the monkeys but ends up being in jail, gets fired from his job.
The scene which is surely hard-hitting is where after few days of being fired from the job, he sees a robotic Langoor outside the house of a lavish colony and feels betrayed. The film apart from it’s main plot also takes on the Unemployment of the country as our protagonist says, “30 million jobs in the country and I’m not able to find one in Delhi.” The film seems so real when it comes to performances and real locations. Depicting the miserable condition of the low-key workers, the film uses humour to spread the message.
Coming to the climax, well this is not a fancy story to have a happy ending. Prateek Vats tries to bring out the trauma at the end where we see Anjani dancing his heart out within the crowd as he knows, “Nothing Changed and Nothing will.”