Arun Rangachari, the head honcho of Dar Motion Pictures, is one enterprising man. The entrepreneur-producer is making a splash in the movie industry by attempting varied genre films. It all began with the Mahesh Manjrekar-directed realistic film Lalbaug Parel/City Of Gold, followed by Vikram Bhatt's Haunted. Rangachari is now ready to unveil his ambitious plans, strengthening his grip in the industry. To start with, Rangachari has entered into a 3-film deal with Vikram Bhatt, to be made in 3D. Haunted has already been released, while the erotic thriller, Dangerous Ishq, will follow next. Besides these three films films, Rangachari is starting two Hindi films - a comedy called Rahul Kaun Hai, which will be directed by Nikhil Bhatt and a political drama, which is still in raw stages currently. The casting of both is underway. Besides, Rangachari has just completed a Marathi film and is all set...
- 5/10/2011
- by Taran Adarsh
- BollywoodHungama
All of you big fans of dimpled screen goddess Preity Zinta will be delighted to hear that she is planning her return to the silver screen. What may surprise you, though, is her choice of film and role.
“I can’t be doing the bubbly dimpled babe all my life,” said Preity on making her long-awaited comeback. The actress is reading scripts and reports say she is set to star in Mahesh Manjrekar’s film, White, a hard-hitting drama about a woman who goes through both dark and light experiences, right from her 20s to her 60s.
However, this is not a done deal because Preity tweeted just yesterday, "Just for the record I have not signed " White !" Just read the script."
We do hear that Preity was very pleased with the script upon reading it and told director Manjrekar as much. “At this stage of my career I need new challenges.
“I can’t be doing the bubbly dimpled babe all my life,” said Preity on making her long-awaited comeback. The actress is reading scripts and reports say she is set to star in Mahesh Manjrekar’s film, White, a hard-hitting drama about a woman who goes through both dark and light experiences, right from her 20s to her 60s.
However, this is not a done deal because Preity tweeted just yesterday, "Just for the record I have not signed " White !" Just read the script."
We do hear that Preity was very pleased with the script upon reading it and told director Manjrekar as much. “At this stage of my career I need new challenges.
- 2/22/2011
- Bollyspice
A feeling of foreboding and damnation builds up in the narration from the first frame itself. Here's a gloriously gutsy film exploring the underbelly of Mumbai through the lives of two slumkids who grow up in identical circumstances but with somewhat disparate values.
First-time director Faruk Kabir displays remarkable skill in creating a pastiche of mammoth crime and little punishment. The pace leaves meager space for grace. And yet Allah Ke Banday creates a world filled with acute aggression repression and damnation with a reasonable amount of paciness to the edgy narrative.
The world that Faruk Kabir's characters inhabit is reminiscent of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Irrfan Kamal's underrated Thanks, Maa, Mahesh Manjrekar's City Of Gold and Chandan Arora's Striker. Deriving its lingering study of juvenile delinquency from these sources Allah Ke Banday moves forward and acquires a life of its own.
The gripping narrative...
First-time director Faruk Kabir displays remarkable skill in creating a pastiche of mammoth crime and little punishment. The pace leaves meager space for grace. And yet Allah Ke Banday creates a world filled with acute aggression repression and damnation with a reasonable amount of paciness to the edgy narrative.
The world that Faruk Kabir's characters inhabit is reminiscent of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Irrfan Kamal's underrated Thanks, Maa, Mahesh Manjrekar's City Of Gold and Chandan Arora's Striker. Deriving its lingering study of juvenile delinquency from these sources Allah Ke Banday moves forward and acquires a life of its own.
The gripping narrative...
- 11/26/2010
- Bollyspice
Movie Review: Madholal…Keep Walking; Star cast: Subrat Dutta, Neela Gokhale, Pranay Narayan and Swara Bhaskara; Director: Jai Tank; Rating: 2 out of 5.
The ‘chawl’ culture of Mumbai has never been too far from Hindi cinema. From Basu Chatterjee’s ‘Piya Ka Ghar’ to Sanjay Jha’s ‘Pran Jaye Par Chawl Na Jaye’ to Mahesh Manjrekar’s ‘City Of Gold’ and Chandan Arora’s ‘Striker’, many gripping tales of resilience and kinship have been put on screen with no trace of self pity or anger in the underprivileged characters .
The ‘chawl’ culture of Mumbai has never been too far from Hindi cinema. From Basu Chatterjee’s ‘Piya Ka Ghar’ to Sanjay Jha’s ‘Pran Jaye Par Chawl Na Jaye’ to Mahesh Manjrekar’s ‘City Of Gold’ and Chandan Arora’s ‘Striker’, many gripping tales of resilience and kinship have been put on screen with no trace of self pity or anger in the underprivileged characters .
- 8/27/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Although Salman Khan has agreed to act in the Hindi version of director Mahesh Manjrekar.s Marathi film Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho, the director is finding it difficult to pin down the elusive star to show him the film. Manjrekar arranged for a special screening of the film only for Salman, but the star failed to turn up.Salman heard about this Marathi film, which caused uproar because of the pot shots it takes at the current education system, and jumped at the offer of starring in the Hindi version. Apparently, the film even made some schools revive some parts of their curriculum.Salman KhanWhile the powerful Marathi version was made on a shoestring budget, the Hindi version is expected to be made on a more lavish budget and will be more hard-hitting. Buzz is Salman wants the Hindi version of Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho to be the most definitive film highlighting...
- 5/2/2010
- Filmicafe
Move aside. There is no room for artifice in Mahesh Manjrekar's latest work. A raw, guttural, gritty, intense, edgy, mordant and finally devastating look at the world of the damaged and the ravaged, City Of Gold is as powerful in portraying a bereft working class as Molly Maguires was about Irish mine-workers. Except for the fact that there is no room for pretty visuals in City Of Gold.
Manjrekar portrays the opposite of the beau monde. That murky end of the spectrum where the shenanigans of the Ipl brigade seem as distant as the promise of that pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow.
Manjrekar's chawl-life, captured on camera with merciless frankness by Ajit Reddy, is a bleak world of dreamers and losers who are often the one and the same. His heroes (if we may call the young characters that) are offered no hope of solace or redemption.
Manjrekar portrays the opposite of the beau monde. That murky end of the spectrum where the shenanigans of the Ipl brigade seem as distant as the promise of that pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow.
Manjrekar's chawl-life, captured on camera with merciless frankness by Ajit Reddy, is a bleak world of dreamers and losers who are often the one and the same. His heroes (if we may call the young characters that) are offered no hope of solace or redemption.
- 4/28/2010
- Bollyspice
After the good reviews he got for playing a rebellious boy from the chawls in Mahesh Manjrekar.s City of Gold, Karan Patel was flooded with slum-boy roles which he has been firmly rejecting.Luckily for the Ekta Kapoor protégé, he has now been signed for another film by Manjrekar in which he.ll be playing a white-collar executive. The film is a Hindi remake of the 2006 Maatichya Chuli which Manjrekar wrote.Karan says he prepared for his role in City of Gold by completely disconnecting from his upper class lifestyle and living in slums. He says, .I don.t belong to the slums but to play Naru in City Of Gold I had to live for months in a real chawl before we shot the film. I had to work on my physique and language.When I took up the role, Mahesh warned me I.d have to completely change my lifestyle.
- 4/25/2010
- Filmicafe
City of Gold
The Mumbai of today boasts of several glitzy malls, multiplexes, bowling alleys and lounge bars with addresses that refer to these being earlier locations of cloth mills (for example, PVR Phoniex Mills, the address of one of the upscale multiplexes). Those who know the history of these mills would know how the great strike of the early 1980s by mill workers, protesting gradual closure of the ‘loss-making’ mills by their owners, had driven the death knell for not only these industrial structures but also the thousands who earned their livelihoods by working in them. Now, almost three decades later, that story of mill workers is almost forgotten, except for maybe those who are involved with a few court cases here and there still lingering on. In a economically-upward India where the cities are earning their brownie points through humongous, modern day structures that comprise residential properties, corporate offices and businesses mentioned above,...
The Mumbai of today boasts of several glitzy malls, multiplexes, bowling alleys and lounge bars with addresses that refer to these being earlier locations of cloth mills (for example, PVR Phoniex Mills, the address of one of the upscale multiplexes). Those who know the history of these mills would know how the great strike of the early 1980s by mill workers, protesting gradual closure of the ‘loss-making’ mills by their owners, had driven the death knell for not only these industrial structures but also the thousands who earned their livelihoods by working in them. Now, almost three decades later, that story of mill workers is almost forgotten, except for maybe those who are involved with a few court cases here and there still lingering on. In a economically-upward India where the cities are earning their brownie points through humongous, modern day structures that comprise residential properties, corporate offices and businesses mentioned above,...
- 4/25/2010
- by Runumi G
- DearCinema.com
Film: ‘City Of Gold’; Director: Mahesh Manjrekar; Cast: Seema Biswas, Karan Patel, Ankush Chowdhary, Satish Kaushik and Kashmira Shah; Rating: ***1/2
There is no room for artifice in Mahesh Manjrekar’s latest work. A raw, gritty look at the world of the ravaged, ‘City Of Gold’ is as powerful in portraying a bereft working class as ‘Molly Maguires’ was about Irish mine workers… Except for the fact that there is no room for pretty visuals in ‘City.
There is no room for artifice in Mahesh Manjrekar’s latest work. A raw, gritty look at the world of the ravaged, ‘City Of Gold’ is as powerful in portraying a bereft working class as ‘Molly Maguires’ was about Irish mine workers… Except for the fact that there is no room for pretty visuals in ‘City.
- 4/24/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Movie Review: City of Gold; Star cast: Ankush Choudhary, Siddharth Jadhav, Sachin Khedekar, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Karan Patel, Seema Biswas, Shashank Shende and Vinay Apte; Director: Mahesh Manjrekar; Rating: *** 1/2 – Manjrekar back in form!
Set in the early 80s, City of Gold narrates the tale of mill workers who lost their daily livelihood thanks to the greedy mill owners who were hand in glove with the government officials and Ministers.
Anna (Shashank Shende) and his wife (Seema Biswas) hit hard times after the closure of Khaitan Mill. They have four.
Set in the early 80s, City of Gold narrates the tale of mill workers who lost their daily livelihood thanks to the greedy mill owners who were hand in glove with the government officials and Ministers.
Anna (Shashank Shende) and his wife (Seema Biswas) hit hard times after the closure of Khaitan Mill. They have four.
- 4/23/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
She might be the face of many well know films that have been appreciated on the global scale. But, Seema Biswas, who will be seen in the upcoming film City Of Gold, feels that Bollywood has let her down in many ways. Seema dons a powerful character in the film City Of Gold. She says, "I have always wanted to do a film with Mahesh Manjrekar. When I heard about City Of Gold, I was simply elated to get a chance to work with this genius man. You cannot escape from the touching tale...
- 4/22/2010
- GlamSham
His 1999 debut Vaastav depicted the dark underbelly of Mumbai and brought him acclaim as filmmaker but Mahesh Manjrekar believes that his latest film City of Gold, about the condition of city's mill workers in 80s, deals with a much larger issue. "This film is 100ft ahead of Vaastav. I feel blessed to be a filmmaker now. I have no qualms or fears about how the audience is going to react to it. I have done my job," said Manjrekar, who was in the city to promote City Of Gold. Vaastav starring Sanjay Dutt highlighted the harsh ...
- 4/21/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Though he started off as a mainstream commercial filmmaker with Vaastav being a Mumbai boy, Mumbai never went out of his film making oeuvre and it continues to find reverberation from the time of Vaastav to Mee Shiavajirao Bolto and now with Lalbaug Parel in Marathi and City Of Gold in Hindi Mahesh Manjrekar has put into perspective one of the primary edifices...
- 4/10/2010
- GlamSham
Actress and Samajwadi party MP Jaya Bachchan has fallen ill, informs her husband and megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
‘Jaya has taken ill… suddenly… and I am with the doctors now investigating the problem. It’s never good to see her like this for she rarely gets in such condition,’ the 67-year-old posted on his blog.
‘And because of this she is most reticent to any doctor visit, and more tablet treatment. But we persist and they have done their bit and gone. The medications have been administered.’
Amitabh said he had to go to an event, but cancelled it.
‘Had to go to Mahesh Manjrekar’s audio release this evening, for his film (‘City Of Gold’) in Marathi.
‘Jaya has taken ill… suddenly… and I am with the doctors now investigating the problem. It’s never good to see her like this for she rarely gets in such condition,’ the 67-year-old posted on his blog.
‘And because of this she is most reticent to any doctor visit, and more tablet treatment. But we persist and they have done their bit and gone. The medications have been administered.’
Amitabh said he had to go to an event, but cancelled it.
‘Had to go to Mahesh Manjrekar’s audio release this evening, for his film (‘City Of Gold’) in Marathi.
- 4/9/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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