Poltical games
Dibakar Banerjee's film Shanghai focusses on the promises made by political leaders in India to turn poor towns in to bustling megapolises such as Shanghai. The development brings jobs and aspirations are met but there is a cost. It is based on the Vassilis Vassilikos' novel `Z',. The film is set in the town of Bharat Nagar. An ambitious development is expected to turn around the fortunes of the town. The leftist Dr Ahmadi( Prosenjit) realizes that it would lead to the displacement of a lot of people and tries to warn them becoming a thorn in the sides of chief minister ( Supriya Pathak) and her coalition partner ( Kiran Karmarkar) He is met with an accident and a committee is set up to investigate the case, headed by T.A. Krishnan headed by Abhay Deol. Jogi Parmar ( Emraan Hashmi) a porn film maker has some footage that will be damning for the government but the fight is not that easy.
The film is extremely slow but to see major stars in such a movie is a treat, the last 20...
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