City Of Gold

Director: Mahesh Manjrekar
Producer: Arun Rangachari
Starring: Sachin Khedekar,Shivaji Satham,Reema Lagoo,Chetan Hansraj,Kashmira Shah,Ankush Chandhari,Siddharth Jadhav,Karan Patel
Release Date: 2011
Genre: Social
Language: HIndi
Country: india
Synopsis:City of Gold the story of these long forgotten masses not only explores the apathy of these mill workers narrated through the story of one such family, but is also a take no prisoners account of the birth of the true underbelly of organized crime in Mumbai.

The film traces the birth of the politics of greed in Mumbai and exposes the unholy collusion between the triumvirate of big business, the political establishment and the trade union leaders who ostensibly were charged with protecting the rights of the mill workers. In the two decades that followed, the entire landscape of Central Mumbai was changed forever.

Land became the currency of growth, and this began the systematic extinction of mills in Mumbai. In a matter of just a few years, hundreds of thousands of workers lost their means of livelihood. Having worked in these mills from generation to generation, this was the only vocation that they knew.

Many left Mumbai and went back to their ancestral homes, some others chose to stay back and fight what they soon realised was a losing battle, some took the extreme step of ending their miserable lives, and still some others took to a world of crime.