# Debtor's Prison - Everyday life in Fort Kochi - based a work by BC Collective

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LIKE @ Facebook: facebook.com/oxlaey SUBSCRIBE on YouTube: youtube.com/user/oxlaey BC Collective's "Debtors' Prison" is a mural telling the story of everyday life in Fort Kochi (the Mattanchery neighborhood), India. This art collective depict the city as a modern-day debtors' prisons. From rats, cats and mosquitoes to dirty streets, monotonous professions and unrealized ambitions: Debtors' Prison captures a side of Kochi's city's life, which most tourists never see. "My name is Shando. I’m working with BC. Actually we are academic painters but we don’t like that so we are coming out and painting on the walls. This was our first work, Debtors’ Prison. Its all about Fort Kochi stories. He is a fruit seller. People don’t have much money to buy fruit, so they buy the dirty fruit. They get that and cut the piece where it is dirty, and he sells that. The second guy is Gallit. He runs a little shop and sells cigarettes things like that. He is actually a very good singer. This guy is basically a housepainter but he can’t see the red gradients. If anybody comes to Fort Kochi by boat, they first meet this lady because in front of the boat jetty is this shop. I think she is not happy much. These people are not happy, actually. Here people are living in small, small houses - in a rented house. They are living in a very congested area, that should make them a little unhappy. Rats and cats. Here there are many mosquitoes. That’s because of the canal, it is a…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2014
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Oxlaey
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Debtor%27s_Prison_-_Everyday_life_in_Fort_Kochi_-_based_a_work_by_BC_Collective.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Oxlaey
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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