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There’s one scene where Ghalib’s (Played powerfully by Suvinder Vicky) apartment block needs elevator repairing and chaos is surrounded by it, elderly people not able to use staircase blaming the repair guy for coming late and on top of that one cylinder guy refusing to carry the cylinder any further using staircase - in the midst of this small chaos Ghalib calmly takes the staircase (Even with backache), not uttering a word or blaming anybody. This one detailing of the character explains that this chaos in his apartment is nothing compared to his painful life filled with tragedy and grief. Then he allows pot painter to come inside and do his work just because he climbed the stairs to come to his flat. Ghalib is no stranger to pain and he understands it like no other. He’s so into his truck job that he doesn’t even know that being a hero in his field has cost him his true identity. People call him selfless but he doesn’t believe he’s and tells -  “those who read a man by his clothes, cannot be expected to read much”  This identity thing even comes in smaller scene where his boss points towards the newly joined guy and says “He’s from a drivers family”. Labourers are fighting for their wages but boss calls them “bunch of Criminals”. Without shouting much, director and writer shows this identity “Hierarchy” that is set in powerful moneybags’ minds. One of the fired workers rightfully says -  “nobody is there who will listen us. They are extinct. Soon everybody will act deaf”  The thing that haunted me the most about this Ghalib character is he’s great at what he does and been doing since so long but at the same time he hasn’t progressed much in his life and this he hasn’t realised all those years. Ghalib - “If you ask me, I do this job because it is who I am. My misery lies in the fact that this is all I am.”  His backache that starts in the beginning of the film works as a metaphor for his miserable life. Ending touched my heart as if the work cycle of Ghalib is complete. Character study at its best.