"The Shanghai" Movie is an upcoming Hindi political thriller directed by
Dibakar Banerjee. It stars
Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi,
Kalki Koechlin,
Prosenjit Chatterjee and
Pitobash. The film is currently under production in
Maharashtra. The Shanghai movie is set to release on
June 8, 2012."The Shanghai"Movie is based on the
life of politicians and their
greed and has been inspired by the Costa Gavras directed movie
Z, released in 1969. The movie talks about the present roller coaster expose of big money politics and how the common man gets his revenge back.
Kalki Koechlin plays the role of a political activist student who is very
innocent,
passionate and
realistic about the world. She fights for the corruption in Indian politics today.
There hasn’t been much that one can go by to determine whether the movie would be a success or not. There still hasn’t been any official information or trailer to go by. But taking into consideration the past success of the star cast we can expect a fairly decent movie in the least. Although, now that the release date is fixed, we should be expecting the trailer soon.
We are expecting the
Shanghai movie rating to be fairly even in the least. It should not be anything less than 3 stars. With an excellent cast and a talented and unconventional director. The story line is bound to be interesting and loaded with a lot of twists.
Imagine watching Abhay Deol essaying the character of Krishnan, an IAS officer from Tamil Nadu posted in the North and Emraan Hashmi, flaunting a paunch, playing a street-smart small town guy out to make money. The film in question is Shanghai, helmed by Dibakar Banerjee, the man who gave us engaging films like Khosla ka Ghosla, Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye and Love Sex Aur Dhoka.
The film will also hold a mirror to present day Indian politics.
Says Dibakar, “
No film can divorce itself from real life situations. We've adapted the story of Z to the Indian context. The characters reflect Indian politics and democracy as we see it today.”
The unusual casting has added to the curiosity of the film, scheduled to release in June. Didn't Dibakar consider casting a
South Indian actor to essay the role of an IAS officer who hails from
Tamil Nadu? “Abhay Deol's character is that of an IAS officer who has spent 14 to 15 years in the North and is fluent in Hindi. There's only a faint Tamil accent. I wanted an actor who is fluent in Hindi. This role is not a caricature of South Indians that you normally see in Hindi films. Personally, I know many Punjabi
IAS officers who, because of being posted in the South for many years, are conversant with Tamil and Telugu. In Abhay's character, we've barely hinted the cultural difference,” explains
Dibakar.
More than
Abhay, it's
Emraan who is being talked about for flaunting a paunch. The script was enough to convince
Emraan to do the part. “He read the script, liked it and told me, ‘
I am on. Let's do it. You tell me how and when',” shares Dibakar and adds,
“Emraan has a colourful character. He is a small town videographer called Joginder Parmar who, according to the situation, will project himself as a filmmaker, fashion photographer or a press photographer.”
Shanghai narrates the story of what happens when these two polar characters cross each other's paths.
“In real life, these two unlikely men would have never met,” says
Dibakar. On the title
Shanghai, he says,
“People who live in dirty, fume-filled Indian cities dream of a glitzy city like Shanghai. In between this reality and aspiration lies a whole lot of darkness. The film explores this area.”
Dibakar is happy that the audience appreciated his previous projects that didn't tread the regular path.
“I finished Khosla ka Ghosla in 2004 and had to struggle till 2006 to release it. I felt vindicated when the film was accepted by people. It opened the floodgates for me. I feel delighted when films like Paan Singh Tomar and Kahaani are getting such good response,” he says, signing off.
So, We hope this movie will be very popular in history of
Bollywood film.Best of luck for this movie.
