Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon () is a 2018 Indian film produced by Gutterati Productions.
This film is a result of seven years of documentation of the lives of street people of Old Delhi – beggars, pickpockets, loaders, small-scale factory workers, street singers, street vendors, etc. The film was directed by Anamika Haksar.
The film was described as a "masterpiece of contemporary Indian cinema" by Kinoscope It has won awards both internationally and nationally and has been screened at numerous film festivals
Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon first premiered at the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) festival in 2018. It was also the only film to be selected to Sundance New Frontier Festival in the year 2019.
Anamika Haksar's debut feature film, Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon, which released in selected theatres on 10 June 2022. Two years after it was selected to be screened in The New Frontiers section of the Sundance Film Festival, the only Indian film in that category.
Plot
Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon follows four main characters: a pickpocket, a vendor of sweet and savoury snacks, a labourer-activist, and a conductor of 'Heritage Walks'.
Patru, the pickpocket, decides to take people on alternative walks, showing them the underbelly of the city but this causes trouble with local merchants and the police. He decides to conduct one last 'Dream Walk'When Lali, the labourer-activist, too joins the fray, giving a speech urging workers to unite, he lands them all in jail.