Jarjar Ghar: Documentary on Mumbai's generational tenants underscores city's ethos, and its glaring housing crunch
FirstpostIn 2019, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority 14,207 south Mumbai buildings dilapidated. In Jarjar Ghar, Dilapidated Houses, the state of constant impermanence in India’s most expensive city and Mumbaikars who negotiate the reality of living under the traditional pagadi-kiraydar system find representation. Jarjar Ghar first found some form in 2017 when its editor and director, Geetanjali Gurlhosur, was tracking a story about the residents of a couple of south Mumbai buildings on the verge of collapse. Three years later, she sent in an application for the Nagari Short Film Competition 2020, organised by the Charles Correa Foundation, wherein the idea would come to life within the theme of ‘Urban Housing adequacy’. Jarjar Ghar not only brings to the fore the ‘possessiveness’ that residents have for their rented generational homes in Mumbai, but it also speaks to the fears of temporariness in a bustling metropolis.
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