The Same Station (2008)

The film looks at the instant but necessary normalization of painfully significant events by a slum dweller who resides in an unauthorized shanty located right next to the railway track. The narrative revolves around a bomb blast at the Jogeshwari railway station, which was part of a series of seven terror explosions that took place over a period of eleven minutes on the Mumbai suburban line. In spite of missing death just by a whisker, the slum dweller reflexively imbibes apathy in him to carry on with his hapless existence. This also reflects the nerve and sinew of the city which stands on its legs the very next day, after such a vile atrocity, and roll back into position like nothing happened. The irony is that once a calamity occurs, people get used to it, irrespective of the magnitude. Bomb blasts become as mundane as power cuts for the survivors.