Lyrically Bleating Horns | Indian Truck Driver Faces Adversity

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A long haul truck driver battles a slow decay of life on a fast moving highway. A selection of Short of the Week, the web's leading curators of quality short films. SUBMIT A FILM: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/submit/ FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2021/07/21/lyrically-bleating-horns/ Subscribe to S/W on YouTube! Website: http://www.shortoftheweek.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ShortoftheWeek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shortoftheweek Twitter: https://twitter.com/shortoftheweek "Combining a poetically restrained narrative about the daily hardships of an Indian truck driver (Tapesh Sharma) with an unflinching look at the realities of his surroundings, Varun Chopra’s Lyrically Bleating Horns takes us on a journey through a version of India far beyond Bollywood aesthetics and Western news coverage. Unravelling with an almost meditative quality, Chopra’s 11-minute film follows its protagonist’s travels as he battles against obstacles large and small, all in the search of some kind of personal salvation. As we join the young truck driver on his route, the film’s attention switches between an intimate portrait of the lonely struggles of this poor man on the road and a distanced examination of the bureaucratic hoops he has to jump through. As the man is caught between the pressures of his job and the corrupt forces around him, he also has to face personal health issues and an off-screen woman who wants to take away his son. When a possible sexual

Published 2021-10-07 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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