If you are on filmmaker Rishi Chandna’s WhatsApp log, you might want to think your profile picture through. Playing to his strengths — a quirk in this case — he notices every circular thumbnail in earnest. And during one such fancy, Chandna homed in on his washerman’s display picture. Rajesh, his dhobi, was posing next to a poster that already sported his face. That’s how documentary short Party Poster was born — of a click and a long-running fascination for ordinary posters.

As Chandna conducts his camera into a hidden Dhobi Ghat in Bandra West, he finds faces from a community wreathed in tall aspirations. The swoosh, thump and bang — aural markers of their day jobs — are the only interjecting corridors in their creation of an identity.