The Pool (2007)

In "The Pool," a recurrent image that develops into a symbol of thegap between affluence and poverty shows the waiflike Indianprotagonist, Venkatesh (Venkatesh Chavan), perched in a tree, gazinglongingly at a private swimming pool on the other side of a hedge. Askinny, 18-year-old man-child who longs to dive into the water,Venkatesh ekes out a living cleaning hotel rooms and selling plasticbags on the street with his 11-year-old sidekick, Jhangir (JhangirBadshah). The shimmering pool, in which no one seems to swim, is awindow onto a world he can hardly imagine.