Seven Islands and a Metro

Seven Islands and a Metro (2006)

1h 40m · 2 podcast episodes about this movie

The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed textile mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. It is a chronicle of the journey of a scattered bunch of insignificant fishing hamlets to the coveted stature of a prime metropolis. The narrative is structured around fictional exchanges between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities.

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7 Islands and a Metro with Director Madhusree Dutta100%
Feb 27, 2017 · 45m
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7 Islands and a Metro with Director Madhusree Dutta100%
Feb 27, 2017 · 45m