Director: Mahesh Manjrekar; Writer: Vidyadhar Bhave, Abhijeet Deshpande, Mahesh Manjrekar, Jayant Pawar, Guru Thakur; Producer: Nikhil D'Rozario, Arun Rangachari, Vivek Rangachari, Om Raut; Cinematographer: V. Ajith Reddy; Editor: Sarvesh Parab; Cast: Sachin Khedekar, Seema Biswas, Ankush Chaudhari, Satish Kaushik, Siddarth Jadhav, Shashank Shende, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Karan Patel, Veena Jamkar, Kashmira Shah, Vineet Kumar Singh, Vinay Apte, Nitin Jadhav, Ganesh Yadav, Kishore Pradhan, Dhananjay Mandrekar, Sunil Ranade, Amol Shetge, Anusha Dhandekar, Neesha Parulekar, Sai Tamhankar, Vaibhav Mangale, Anshu, Arun Badsavle, Mitesh Bawkar, Nikhil D'Rozario, Ramdas Jadhav, Girish Joshi, Sachin Kote, Deepak Kulkarni, Sham Mhasalkar, Sudesh Mhashalkar, Jagruti More, Ranjeet More, Jayraj Nayar, Mayur Padwal, Vaibhav Padwal, Sarvesh Parab, Kuldeep Patkar, Prashant Rane, Ganesh Revadekar, Kamlakar Satputhe, Kamlesh Sawant, Shashant Sawant, Ramesh Vani
Duration: 02:24:33; Aspect Ratio: 2.210:1; Hue: 42.537; Saturation: 0.213; Lightness: 0.225; Volume: 0.156; Cuts per Minute: 19.716
Summary: Today, there is hardly anyone who hasn't visited the swanky shopping malls, nightclubs, lounge bars, clubs and other such lifestyle destinations that sprung up across the centre of Mumbai. However, very few know that buried deep below these glittering edifices to consumerism lies the dark, dirty and painful reality of many thousands of mill workers who once worked the cotton mills in this very same area. Rising and toiling to the wail of the mill sirens each and every day, seven days a week, these workers embodied the true unbridled zeal and unflagging spirit of the city and played a pivotal role in the evolution of Mumbai as the modern day business capital of India. And then it suddenly was as if they never existed. Following the mill workers strike in the mid-80s, these mills began closing down rapidly and the mill-workers mysteriously disappeared. What happened to them, and where they went is one of the most shameful secrets that the city of Mumbai will have to bear for generations, one that until now has always been spoken about in hushed whispers. 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. Truth... as is said, is stranger than fiction. But the truth that the film uncovers is not just stranger but darker and dirtier than any mind has ever imagined.
"Tamasgirs—as those associated with Tamasha are called in Marathi, and whom I refer to as Tamasha people and Tamasha women—have disproportionately come from Dalit communities, and Meena was troubled by the centuries-old performing art that cast her, even beyond the stage, as a “dirty,” denigrated, salacious “vamp,” nothing less than a “prostitute.” She was the opposite of the stereotypical “good,” “respectable” caste Hindu woman, who was construed
as chaste, modest, protected, and dependent on men. Tamasha was rooted in the critical labor of the sex-gender-caste complex, which, on the one hand, reduced women to their biological functions and social roles as wives and
mothers to produce and reproduce the economy of caste and, on the other, assigned to women different sexual statuses according to their position in the caste hierarchy."
-The Vulgarity of Caste by Shailaja Paik.
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