City Of Gold Review : City Of Gold Movie Review
Movie Review: City of Gold
Banner: Dar Motion Pictures
Producer: Arun Rangachari
Executive Producer / Co-Producer: Om Raut, Vivek Rangachari, Nikhil D’Rozario
Director: Mahesh Manjrekar
Lead Cast: Karan Patel, Vineet Kumar, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Kashmira Shah, Satish Kaushik, Ganesh Yadav, Sachin Khedekar, Seema Biswas, Ankush Choudhary, Siddharth Jadhav, Veena Jamkar, Shashank Shende and others.
Lyricist: Srirang Godbole
Music Director: Ajit Parab
Cinematography: Ajit Reddy
Action: Pradyuman Kumar
Art: Prashant Rane
Editor: Sarvesh Parab
Screenplay: Mahesh Manjrekar, Jayant Pawar
Dialogue: Jayant Pawar, Abhijit Deshpande
Costume: Laxman Gollar
Story Writer: Mahesh Manjrekar, Jayant Pawar
Review : The movie “City of Gold” shows the plight of mill workers who disappeared suddenly in 80s from the heart of Mumbai city. The city now appears lighted and bright but there were many incidents which brought Mumbai to this point. The movie is serious take on the life of the workers and their families, who fight the powerful owners of the cotton mills and they get nothing after years of expectations. The movie is also full of abusive scenes and coarse language –used to depict the so called dark realities. The movie shows the status of mill workers and political links that ruined these families.
The movie goes back to 1980s –shows a family living in the dark side of Mumbai where thousands of workers worked throughout the weekdays in the factories .A family is run by the female lead and father gets pension from the mill. The siblings are Manju, Naru and Mohan. The mill owner plans to close the mill and the workers will get jobless and the union leader wants to fight the injustice. Many mill workers get jobless, many return to their villages, some take to crime and women get into prostitution. Then the movie shows the political story linked to the cotton mills.
The movie should have shown limited subjects and not tried to get into the political arena as it reduces the focus on main issue and even makes the movie lengthy. The script by Jayant Pawar is impressive but as the script gets deep into the underworld and too many other issues, makes the script complex.
The strongest character is Naru which resembles Raghu of Vaastav and his stammering associate is also very impressive.The movie directed by Mahesh Manjrekar has his stamp effects at many points as it reminds of Vaastav.The movie has no output and the last sequences appears patched up in a immature bollywood style as it glorifies the underworld links of the hero, which ultimately glorifies wrong doing.
The movie has a good start but the last part was avoidable .Whatever happened to the mill workers –it has no solution in doing more wrong and underworld is worst thing that happened to Mumbai. The movie indirectly shows the millworkers turn into underworld men to fight injustice– which are absolutely illogical.
Performance of all the characters is very impressive and especially Karan Patel,who deserves to move to big screen after the small screen shows. Seema Biswas, Kashmira Shah, Ganesh Yadav, Vinay Apte, Siddharth Jadhav, Shashank Shende, Sachin Khedekar and all the other actors in the movie are just wonderful to watch. The film attract due to perfect star cast and real story but it is very intense and too deep, not for the movie watchers who want to see some fun this weekend.
Rating: 6/10
