

12 minutes that'll make you feel guilty about sleeping in.
An insightful documentary on the lives of hardworking Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) workers in Bangalore.
Direction
Joanna Ann Daniel lets workers speak, never preachy.
Cinematography
Bangalore before sunrise — haunting and beautiful.
Director
Joanna Ann Daniel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
BBMP workers are often migrants from rural Karnataka, invisible despite keeping India's 'Silicon Valley' functional.
The title's parenthetical wordplay mirrors how these workers are simultaneously essential and ignored — known by function, unknown as humans.