CinemaOSMovie · 2006 · 1h 40m

Seven Islands and a Metro

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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.

Directed byMadhusree Dutta

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 40m
Language
HI
Released
January 1, 2006

Featuring

Cast & crew

3 credited
Starring
Vibha Chibber

Vibha Chibber

Ismat Chugatai

Harish Khanna

Harish Khanna

Sadat Hasan Manto

Om Prakash

Creative team
Directed by
Madhusree Dutta
Madhusree Dutta
Written by
Madhusree Dutta
Madhusree Dutta

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