Homeward bound - cinematic take on the invisible lives of migrant workers

Beyond the workers' labour, these films ventured to underline their personhood - their ideas, habits, sexual appetites, fears, and capacity for feeling

Geetu Mohandas’s debut feature, Liar’s Dice (2013), was dedicated to the “vast multitude of nameless people who are recognised only as a mere statistic”. One migrant worker, who goes missing from the big city, forms the subject of the search in her film. And while he is given a name, Harud, he remains faceless. Instead, Mohandas shows us the longing, uncertainty and anxiety that mark the lives of the ones he leaves behind — his wife Kamala (Geetanjali Thapa) and three-year-old daughter Manya.  

Everything that the viewer knows about Harud and his life, which amounts to very little, is pieced together