Arun is a reclusive and lonely modern art painter. Shai is an American banker who is on a visit to Mumbai. Munna is a washerboy also living near Arun and Yasmin. The movie is about these four characters from different class of society and how the lives of four characters are intertwined.
Cinematography
Mumbai shot like a living, breathing watercolor.
Writing
Four voices, zero hand-holding, maximum emotional precision.
Direction
Kiran Rao's debut that makes most veterans look clumsy.
Director
Kiran Rao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kiran Rao wrote this while Aamir Khan filmed Lagaan; she refused to cast him until every other option failed. He worked for scale.
The dhobi ghat itself was demolished shortly after filming — the movie is now an accidental elegy to a vanished Mumbai.
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