Dharavi (film)

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Movie
Original title Dharavi
धारावी
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 1991
length 112 minutes
Rod
Director Sudhir Mishra
script Sudhir Mishra
production National Film Development Corporation and Doordarshan
music Rajat Dholakia
camera Rajesh Joshi
cut Renu Saluja
occupation

Dharavi ( Hindi धारावी Dhārāvī ) is a 1991 Indian feature film by Sudhir Mishra .

action

In a makeshift cinema, slum dwellers are watching the film “Shahar Ka Shahanshah” with Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit when the screen goes up in flames and the cinema is attacked.

Rajkaran Yadav makes a living as a taxi driver in Bombay . He lives with his girlfriend Kumud, who works as a seamstress, and their ten-year-old son Rajan in a room in the Dharavi slum . Rajkaran has big dreams to buy and build his own textile dye factory without the help of the local gangsters but with financial help from friends of Razak Miya. In the evening he sits in the pub with his friends Chandu and Chaurasia and dreams of his business plans and, in the ensuing alcohol frenzy, of Madhuri Dixit.

The next day Rajkaran's mother arrives from Unnao and moves in with her son. After a chase, Kumud's brother Chaskar, who had interfered as a social worker in an undesirable manner, rushes in. Violence and murder are daily companions in Dharavi, carried out by rival gangs.

Rajkaran is depressed because he lacks some money to buy Razak Miya's factory. He finally lets Pareshan persuade him to borrow the missing 30,000 rupees from brothers Dada and Munna Sarkar, the leaders of a criminal gang in the slum. Rajkaran and his friends celebrate the acquisition of the factory in an exuberant and alcoholic way; in his dream his star Madhuri Dixit appears again. Chaskar warns Kumud of the addiction Rajkaran has become. Kumud then briefly visits her first husband Shankar, who lost his job after a stroke and is now dependent on the help of friends like Chaskar.

The dye works started well, but after two months Rajkaran and Chandu had an argument about his lack of contribution to the company. Rajkaran is called to the Sarkar brothers via the messenger Pareshan, so that he can drive them in his taxi to a meeting of the local gang bosses at a local politician. Chaskar also arrives there with some supporters to petition about the inaction of the police in all crimes in the slum.

Munna Sarkar urges Chandu to leave the company, and Chaskar is stabbed to death that same evening. Kudum takes care of Shankar in his place. The dye works are torn down by the police. The next day, Rajkaran is there as a driver when Munna Sarkar shoots a man in the street. The experience makes him deeply shocked, angry, and desperate; he insults the gangster brothers. He was later beaten up in front of his relatives in his home. His taxi is still in the courtyard of the brothers, who no longer give it to him, so that he is completely without income. Without the dye works, Chaurasia is forced to offer his services to the Sarkar brothers.

Rajkaran manages to hire a taxi company. But after Rajkaran ambushed and robbed a passenger, he was taken into police custody. At the urging of Rajkaran's mother, Kudum goes to the Sarkar brothers, who get Rajkaran released. When he learns of the humiliating circumstances, he reproaches his mother seriously because the gangsters also murdered Kudum's brother. Immediately after visiting the gangsters, Kudum left Rajkaran and moved back to Shankar.

In an act of revenge, the men of another gang boss, armed with iron bars, storm the Sarkar brothers' property and beat everything up, Rajkaran's taxi is also torched. Munna Sarkar, Chaurasia, Dada Sarkar and other gang members die. Some time later, Rajkaran is optimistic again and plans to set up a textile dye factory again.

Awards

literature

  • Dharavi . In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1999 revised edition, ISBN 0-85170-669-X , p. 502

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Playing time of the NFDC DVD
  2. ↑ Note: a fictional film