Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Dharavi

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Jun 28, 2012, 5:14:54 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Dharavi

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+'''Dharavi'''
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+aka Quicksand
+1991 116’ col Hindi
+d/s Sudhir Mishra pc NFDC/Doordarshan
+dial Atul Tiwari, Pranay Singh c Rajesh Joshi
+m Rajat Dholakia
+lp Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Raghuvir Yadav,
+Chandu Parkhi, Virendra Saxena, Pramod Bala,
+Satish Khopkar, Mushtaq Khan, Shakti Singh,
+Madhuri Dixit
+
+
+Om Puri plays Rajkaran Yadav, an emigré taxi
+driver from U.P. living in Bombay’s notorious
+Dharavi slum. His wife Kusum (Azmi), living in
+a one-room tenement with his mother, works
+to contribute to her husband’s ambitious dream
+of owning a factory. However, the business
+enterprise is a disaster as the taxi driver gets
+embroiled with gangsters, forcing his wife to
+return to her first husband. The ending shows
+Yadav as boundlessly optimistic as he was at
+the outset. The film tries to transform the
+conventions of realism usually deployed for
+such stories (cf. Chakra, 1980) with surreal
+effects including the hero’s oscillations
+between fact and fantasy (the latter with Hindi
+superstar Madhuri Dixit). The opening
+sequence announces the film’s intentions as a
+Hindi movie being screened to slumdwellers in
+the open air is abruptly ended when the screen
+catches fire and the audience riots.
+
+[[Film]]