"The second is a Bengali movie starring Mithun Chakraborty in the lead, which is expected to start filming at the end of this month.
MARATHI MOVIES ON MILL WOVIES SERIES
This film is the first in a series of three movies that Dar is doing with Manjrekar. City of Gold matches these standards," Arun Rangachari, chairman of the Dar Capital Group said. "My company was looking for content that differentiates itself by pushing the envelope and creating new creative benchmarks having international appeal. "The film is a tribute to my once wonderful city Mumbai," Manjrekar said.Ĭity of Gold is being produced by Dar Capital Group which has produced the film under its movie production banner Dar Motion Pictures. Though the entire film was wrapped up in less than three months, Manjrekar said that City of Gold was one of the most challenging and exciting projects he has ever worked on. It was then that a dream of making a film occurred to me," said Manjrekar who has also written the screenplay of the movie. The stark and true portrayal of struggling families of mill workers shocked every soul. "I was passionately involved in theatre those days. A nexus between the big businesses and politics emerged and in a few years, the working class in Mumbai lost its very means of livelihood," said Manjrekar. "In the 80s as the era of liberalisation took deep roots in Mumbai, the mill owners realised that they were sitting on a gold mine in form of several hundred acres of prime land. Manjrekar said that the film looks at one of the most tumultuous periods in Mumbai's history, when a nexus between the big businesses and politics led to the extinction of mills which in turn led to the spread of organised crime. Filming City of Gold was not just physically but emotionally draining experience as it tells true untold stories of manyfamilies that I have grown up with," he said. "Since childhood, I have closely observed the entire mill universe and the lives of the common mill worker within it. Manjrekar who grew up in Wadala, not far from Lalbaug and Parel which is still called "Girangaon" or the land of the mills by many in Mumbai, said that filming City of Gold was an emotional ride for him. The film stars Satish Kaushik, Seema Biswas, Sachin Khedekar and a host of Marathi film and stage actors. It has been adapted from Adhantar, a play written by journalist Jayant Pawar in the 90s," the filmmaker said. I have been toying with the idea of making this film for over three years. While the Hindi version would be released in April, Marathi version would be released some time later, he added.Ĭity of Gold is a hard-hitting film which portrays the story of the mill workers against the background of the changing socio-political atmosphere and the birth of organised crime in Mumbai, said Manjrekar. The film is being made simultaneously in Hindi and Marathi.
The story of City of Gold was with me for four years. "I did two Marathi movies, Mi Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy and Shikshanachya Aicha Gho which have done well. Talking to reporters in Mumbai today, Manjrekar said he took a break from Bollywood after Viruddh because he felt he was out of sync with the content.
Mahesh Manjrekar is set to direct his first Hindi film in four years, City of Gold which dwells into the textile strike in Mumbai during the 1980s which devastated lives of several mill workers and their families.
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