Dehumanizing power dynamics underscore Prateek Vats’ enjoyable debut about a guy ill-suited to his new job as monkey chaser in Delhi.
By Jay Weissberg It’s a truism that satire is the sharpest way of critiquing society’s problems. Make an audience laugh as well as think, and you’ve hit your mark.
The trick is knowing how deep to dig while finding that perfect balance of sly humor with unforced, sharp-eyed commentary. Prateek Vats’ unpretentious debut “Eeb Allay Ooo!” largely gets the equation right, using the amusing antics of a guy hired to shoo away New Delhi’s pesky monkeys to address the capital’s toxic power dynamics.
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