Thanks

Cinematography
Editing
Music

Introduction
Food is great at engaging all five senses. Cooking is an art in itself. Yes, indeed. Food brings
people together, and cooking at home is a great way to bring families together around the
table. Finding time to prepare home-cooked meals can seem like a joyous task.
To cook, as a home cook, isn’t just to cook—it’s to plan, to shop, to store, to prep, to
combine, to heat, to serve. And this documentary focusses on TO SHOP, especially TO SHOP
VEGETABLES.
The Body
Most of the time we don’t cook what we want but cook what is available on the market. So,
what is eaten at home is mostly determined by the vegetables and groceries that consumers
put in their shopping cart at the supermarket. But have we ever thought of the vendors who
sell veggies from door to door? Have we ever thought of the lifestyle of the sellers who,
unlike the airconditioned supermarket, sweat and try to meet their ends meet?
The offers announced at the supermarket obscures the voice of the street vendor; the
convincing marketing strategies that the companies which sell unhealthy chocolates and the
hazardous snacks blinds the sight of kids to the wanderings of the street vendors, when they
are asked by their mom to buy vegetables. We as a team from XII B, Montfort School, Kattur,
thought about the reasons that made us to neglect the voice of those voiceless. Our attempts
to find a solution was in vain but that led us to track a day in the life of Ms. ____________,
from Thayanoor, a village in Tiruchirappalli.
Ms. ______________ day begins at 3 am; it is not a day in a month or a week, but all days
except Sundays. After cooking food for the members at home, she catches the bus at 4 am
which reaches the Gandhi market around 5 am. She buys the veggies that might interest her
regular customers, and begins to sell veggies in Shanmugar, Tiruchirappalli, between 6.30 am
and 11 am.
She never takes her breakfast until she finishes selling the veggies for the day. She takes tea
to wrap up her tiredness. She takes her water whenever she feels dehydrated.
She has her regular customers. She knows the needs of her regular customers; her purchase
list at the Gandhi market differs every day, based on her understanding of what her customers
would ask for.
By rule no one would bargain at a supermarket, but it is not the case with Ms. ____________;
Ms. _________ would speak for herself and decline when people bargain.
Conclusion:
It is time to open our ears to the sweet humming of the vegetable vendors who walk the
lengths of our streets; it is time for us to extend our concern on the needs of the vendors who
pass our houses.
It is time to unwind our blindness and to begin a connection with the vendors. Its time to
realise that those vendors too have a life of theirs to live. Though we were not the reasons for
the status of theirs who wander and sell it is our bounded duty to respect the fellow beings
and pledge to support their endeavours.