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Gurgaon: Respires Anaerobically To The Point Of Asphyxiation Chilling, disturbing and suffocating yet cathartic For a person who has lived in the excruciating heat and humidity of Bombay, the sub-zero temperatures are as good as the first world luxuries to an African tribal. But every once in a while, you are teleported from reality to the world where there are no rules, a world which is grim & sombre to disturbing proportions and that day, was something similar. That was the day when I witnessed Shanker Raman’s directorial debut  Gurgaon  on ‘big screen’.  The reason I stress on the term ‘big screen ‘, is because unlike our mass audience that finds intellectual solace in films like  Mubarakan  or  Tubelight , there were few people who had nothing to do on a weekend. Hence, they turned up for a movie at a hall where the seats told the stories of human existence: empty, rigid and stuck at one place. After the ritualistic...