Release Date

01 Jan, 2006

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed textile mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. It is a chronicle of the journey of a scattered bunch of insignificant fishing hamlets to the coveted stature of a prime metropolis. The narrative is structured around fictional exchanges between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities.

Original Title

Seven Islands and a Metro

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Actors

Vibha Chibber

Harish Khanna

Om Prakash

Crew

Arjun Sen

Reena Mohan

Shyamal Karmakar

Avijit Mukul Kishore

Madhusree Dutta

Madhusree Dutta