City of Gold

City of Gold

Drama, Crime | April 23, 2010

Today, there is hardly anyone who hasn't visited the swanky shopping malls, nightclubs, lounge bars, clubs and other such lifestyle destinations that sprung up across the centre of Mumbai. However, very few know that buried deep below these glittering edifices to consumerism lies the dark, dirty and painful reality of many thousands of mill workers who once worked the cotton mills in this very same area. Rising and toiling to the wail of the mill sirens each and every day, seven days a week, these workers embodied the true unbridled zeal and unflagging spirit of the city and played a pivotal role in the evolution of Mumbai as the modern day business capital of India. And then it suddenly was as if they never existed. Following the mill workers strike in the mid-80s, these mills began closing down rapidly and the mill-workers mysteriously disappeared...

City of Gold

Drama, Crime | April 23, 2010

City of Gold
Today, there is hardly anyone who hasn't visited the swanky shopping malls, nightclubs, lounge bars, clubs and other such lifestyle destinations that sprung up across the centre of Mumbai. However, very few know that buried deep below these glittering edifices to consumerism lies the dark, dirty and painful reality of many thousands of mill workers who once worked the cotton mills in this very same area. Rising and toiling to the wail of the mill sirens each and every day, seven days a week, these workers embodied the true unbridled zeal and unflagging spirit of the city and played a pivotal role in the evolution of Mumbai as the modern day business capital of India. And then it suddenly was as if they never existed. Following the mill workers strike in the mid-80s, these mills began closing down rapidly and the mill-workers mysteriously disappeared...
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers DAR Motion Pictures
Original title City of Gold
Directors Mahesh Manjrekar
Writers Jayant Pawar, Mahesh Manjrekar

Cast

Shashank Shende

as Anna

Seema Biswas

as Lakshmi G. Dhuri / Aai

Anusha Dandekar

as Manasi

Karan Patel

as Naru

Siddharth Jadhav

as Speedbreaker

Satish Kaushik

as Mama

Kashmera Shah

as Mami

Sameer Dharmadhikari

as Mahendra

Sachin Khedekar

as Arvind Rane

Vinay Apte

as Govind

Kishore Pradhan

as Khaitan Sheth

Vaibhav Mangale

as Doctor Saheb

Sai Tamhankar

as Shalu / Naru's girlfriend

Resham Tipnis

as Dancer