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Plot Summary

In the life of a traffic signal in Mumbai, there are the street beggars - they beg, they sell papers and flowers, they walk around naked. The street beggars have a traffic signal leader, Silsila (Kunal Khemu) who is paid a "protection fees". The traffic signal leader reports to an area leader, the area leader to the underworld don. The Don to someone in Dubai! The someone in Dubai has connections in Indian Politics who are financed by businessmen in Mumbai. This is a straight line. Then one day, a bureaucrat comes along who refuses to join this straight line and all hell breaks lose…

What Worked

The climax - In the sequence just before the climax, you wonder whether you are really expected to feel bad for the people who have been cheating other people in the last two hours. But, the climax is wonderful - no drama, no lectures. It is very clear that Silsila is doing the "right" thing only because it affected him directly, and not because he has turned good overnight. The best part is that they do not go overboard by showing the details of what the protagonist does or what happens to him.

What did not

• It isn't shown clearly whether the sex workers and the free-lance drug addict (Ranvir Shorey) also pay the "protection fees". If they do not, then what is the relevance to the story.
• The treatment given to the tele-sales people was rather crude. Especially considering that the movie is asking for sympathy for one section of the society. Aren't these salespeople living hard lives too?