The film lurks on the river’s edge seeking to explore how the inhabitants of the Yamuna relate to its degraded presence, the fragile nostalgia of its unknowable past and the horror of its unthinkable future.

Who pays the cost for the rapid and uneven development of metropolitan cities? To answer this, Jamnapaar heads to the banks of the heavily-polluted Yamuna river in Delhi to tell a fascinating, sordid story about unequal consumption and of people pushed to the peripheries of civilization.