Gutter Boy(A Journey to Hell)

Gutter Boy
“Gutter, sewage - you hear the word the visuals of dirty, filthy water running through the tunnels, underground the big rich cities come to your mind. We don’t see the dirty water or smell the stench coming from it, it’s exactly like how we have demarcation between the expensive buildings and slums. Those worlds don’t collide. But for a few unfortunate people, those worlds do collide, because the dirt, the filth that we create, they clean it”.
Sandeep was no different, he belonged to a poor, lower status/caste family, where they struggled to meet the ends but like every other youngster he had the dream to be part of the world that creates the muck, not clean it. He goes to the big city with all the dreams to uplift him and his family from that grime life. His friend’s brother helps him in getting to the big city but the realization of how tough his life would be, cames crashing to Sandeep as he sees that in big cities as well, there are corners and areas for people like him to not live life but to merely survive and earn their living.
Instead of a desk job when Sandeep was told about how his caste and background makes him eligible for only one job, which is of a sewage cleaner. Sandeep understood that that it won’t be the kind of journey that he dreamt for himself. He did see people cleaning sewages but he never imagined him doing the same. His first day at work inside a gutter in a plush colony made him feel disgusted of himself as human being. He felt the human faeces on his body but the smell of it in his soul.
Gutter boy is a story of caste divide, societal segregation and life changing experience of a young man Sandeep. It speaks about how as a society we don’t consider the man cleaning our gutters human enough to even offer water. The film raises important point about the deaths that happens due to the toxic gases that develops in sewages and how these poor people just to earn money, risk their lives every day to feed their families. It’s an inspiring story of Sandeep’s never to die spirit, where he doesn’t surrender to the circumstance, instead he educates himself so he doesn’t have to spend his life in the gutter.

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