Packed with commuters heading home, surviving the squeeze in the compartment of a rush hour local from V.T. is less about withstanding the crush with your might than it is about being oblivious to it.
While there's no
"physical" escape from the crowded confines of train cars bearing
Mumbai's burdened, there's however an escape for the mind.
Here, in an area where two
commuters would be hard pressed to find comfort for their legs, four are
plugged into their smartphones, each watching a Bollywood movie of their choice
without moving their legs; to do so would upset the equilibrium of ‘settled’
space. To still your legs, still your mind and what better medicine to achieve
the latter than Bollywood's bombed films.
Oblivious to waves of commuters
entering and exiting the train car, they're immersed in Bollywood plots, most
of which bombed at the box office but nevertheless live on in little devices
offering much succour to harried office goers seeking to shut out their
everyday realities in 4-odd inch screens.
1 comment:
True that! In the maddening crowd of the Mumbai locals, one has to find out ways to pass time and distract one's mind, otherwise one may lose patience and be irritable if one has nothing to do in those overcrowded trains.
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