City Of Gold | Theatres List

Let's hear it for Mahesh Manjrekar. He's made a film with no star to speak of, but supremely able actors. He's looked back into history and unearthed the story of how private mill owners abused a generation of mill workers and sold the latter's souls to humiliating poverty. And he's made sure you never look at the malls that rose from the mills in Mumbai, the same way again.

This is not a popcorn weekend watch. It has elements of extreme disquiet - of how violence lurks deep and vicious in the mind of a 12-year-old. Of how it is so easy to kill a friend or hang a 6-year-old daughte....