City Of Gold (2010)

Hindi 2 hrs 24 mins Social

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Review Summary: I genuinely feel that VAASTAV is Mahesh Manjrekar's most accomplished work to date [I am counting Hindi movies not the Marathi films he made]. He mad...

Average Critic Rating: (2.76)
Cast: Karan Patel , Sameer Dharmadhikari , Kashmera Shah , Satish Kaushik , Ganesh Yadav , Sachin Khedekar , Seema Biswas , Ankush Choudhary , Siddharth Jadhav , Shashank Shende , Vineet Kumar , Anousha Dandekar , Vinay Apte , Sai Tamhankar , Sham Mashalkar
Director: Mahesh Manjrekar
Release Date: 23 Apr 2010

Plot: The plot of the movie is based on the original script of Jayant Pawar, which highlights the consequences of the atrocities towards the mill workers, totally ignored by the Government. The film is a story of a family of mill workers in Mumbai. It traces the birth of the politics Read more

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Mumbai 1982. The famous mill workers' strike is at its peak as the mill owners try to surreptiously close down the mills and build the commercially more viable malls and high rises in their place. The film looks at the tumult in the industrial belt of Mum

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Nikhat Kazmi, Times of India

City Of Gold

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Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express

The film’s title is sarcastic.

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Sonia Chopra, SIFY

I genuinely feel that VAASTAV is Mahesh Manjrekar's most accomplished work to date [I am counting Hindi movies not the Marathi films he made]. He mad...

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Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama

I genuinely feel that Vaastav is Mahesh Manjrekar's most accomplished work to date (I am counting Hindi movies, not the Marathi films he made).

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Taran Adarsh, SIFY

Cast:Seema Biswas, Ankush Choudhary, Anousha DandekarDirector:Mahesh ManjrekarCity of Gold, directed by Mahesh Manjrekar, is one of those films that had the potential to be better than it ultimately is.Adapted from a play by Jayant Pawar, the film examine

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Rajeev Masand, IBN

Run of the mill

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Rajeev Masand, Rajeev Masand

City of Gold had the potential to be a far better film than it is. Manjrekar elicits fine performances from his largely unknown cast – Karan Patel as Naru, Veena Jamkar as Manju and Siddharth Jhadav as Speed breaker are especially good. But the director i

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Anupama Chopra, NDTV

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Hard hitting and impact creating, good!!

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Others supporting well include Sachin Khedekar, Vinay Apte, Ganesh Yadav, Satish Kaushik, Kashmira Shah, Sameer Dharmadhikari and Vineet Singh

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K N Gupta, Smash Hits

Imagine a Bollywood flick set during 1982 but without a single song during the gritty two hrs thirty minutes even after having all the ingredients, pathos of a Bollywood masala affair. Mahesh Manjrekar does this in 'City Of Gold', and he is smart and effective.

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Towards the end of the movie as the credits roll, Mahesh Manjrekar starts rapping to the lyrics of the title song.

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Tushar Joshi, Mid-Day

City of Gold (Lalbaug Parel in Marathi ) isn't an English film.

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Preeti Arora, Rediff

City Of Gold is as stark and real as a gash or an open wound. Of course, I am no one to comment on whether CIty Of Gold is a true and complete representation of the mill workers'' plight, but as a moviegoer, this film worked for me at several levels.City

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Watch the Bollywood Movie Review of Mahesh Manjrekar's - City of Gold also called Lalbaug Parel in Marathi, starring Vineet Kumar, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Kashmira Shah, Satish Kaushik, Ganesh Yadav, Sachin Khedekar, Seema Biswas, Ankush Choudhary, Siddhart

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Director : Music : Lyrics : Starring :Mahesh Manjrekar Ajit Parab Srirang Godbole Vineet Kumar, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Kashmira Shah, Satish Kaushik, Ganesh Yadav, Sachin Khedekar, Seema Biswas, Ankush Choudhary, Siddharth Jadhav,Veena Jamkar,Shashank S

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