Hubba haunts the hunter and the hunted

Basu’s story, after all, is about predators and their prey and how tenuous the lines are between the two and how blurry. As the camera zooms in, the view of the river becomes clearer – it is that of a sooty city canal, the banks of which are crammed with congested slums. “We have grown up drinking the dirty waters of this filthy river,” says the voiceover in Bengali.