Taak explores surveillance, technology, and human dignity in Delhi’s nightlife. When smartwatches are enforced on the nightclub staff, promising efficiency but raising safety concerns, Shalini and her colleagues face dehumanisation. They’re reduced to data points.
The smartwatch becomes a symbol of control, and Shalini must fight to retain her and her colleagues’ humanity. Rooted in observations of women in patriarchal systems, “Taak” questions the normalisation of surveillance and its ethical costs.
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