Director Dev Benegal (India/ USA 2009) Feature film.

Desperate to escape his destiny of inheriting his father’s hair oil business, Vishnu hits the road, finding a battered old truck as if by fate. Years ago it must have been a spectacular vehicle, ferrying projectors and an eclectic collection of films from village to town across Rajasthan. Now it barely sputters to life. But Vishnu, driven by wanderlust and a need to escape his fate back home, coaxes the green rattletrap along the highway, picking up passengers as he goes – a young runaway, a garrulous entertainer, a beautiful woman and, of course, a few corrupt villains. A poetic metaphor about the complex relationship between old rural India and contemporary globalised India.