Grafity's Wall Expanded Edition

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In terms of the obstacles, the closest to a main antagonist is the gangster Mario, who is at least a foil to Jayesh, who does seedy jobs to support himself and his grandmother. We see him move through the city, getting hassled by cops and criminals alike, and when he goes home, he shares a devastating moment with his father, one more devastating because his father isn’t a bad guy and does seem to be looking out for him. When an aspiring street artist by the name of 'Grafity' watches the tenements outside his home being razed, he finds an unlikely canvas at the one wall still left standing in the debris. The others have similar hopes – acting, writing, rapping – but in the meantime they're squeezed between their families telling them to get proper jobs, and an underworld which has more lucrative, more dangerous uses for them.

We are made privy to the lives of four young characters, then, who try to balance the need for survival and the human drive (or necessity) towards making our dreams come true. After I crossed 50, I had to go lay in bed and take a nap, as the whole thing consistently ran like a process in the back of my mind.The aforementioned ending and its related feeling of having been reading a series of stories that are just a drop in Mumbai’s tumultuous life manage to create a sense of closure which is, at the same time, the recognition that what we have in our hands are just shards of something bigger (I refer here to the very lives of our characters). There’s a constant air of tension, a pressure, like a weight pressing down and crushing the characters, even as they try to breathe through it. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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