Mumbai Diaries (2010)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 4
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Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries) is the story of four people from very different backgrounds, whose worlds intersect and leave them forever altered. As they find themselves drawn into compelling relationships, the city finds its way into the crevices of their lives, separating them even as it brings them closer... Fragments of their experience - seen through a naïve video diary, black and white photographic images and painting - form a portrait of Mumbai and its people, bound together as they journey
Cast
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Prateik Babbar
Munna -
Monica Dogra
Shai -
Kriti Malhotra
Yasmin -
Aamir Khan
Arun -
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The sex/class conflicts are way too twee.
Top CriticAn odd amalgam of soap opera and street-level realism, with, alas, the former trumping the latter.
[A] satisfying, well-acted drama.
Ms. Rao does have an ace up her sleeve, though: Prateik, who in his first lead role gives a nuanced, career-making performance.
With its key settings in a crowded, largely decrepit, congested yet beguiling, picturesque older portion of this city of 14 million inhabitants, the film is like a rich tapestry in which are interwoven the intersecting lives of three people.
Rao avoids high drama, and while there is humor, the film's tone is one of melancholy.
a refreshing, well-meaning entry in India's new brand of globally savvy cinema, [which] augurs exciting things from [director] Rao and her peers
Captured with the assuredness of a true auteur's vision and defying all known conventions of commercial Indian filmmaking, Dhobi Ghat will be a revelation to those that think sub-Continental cinema is just all song-and-dance.
What is undoubtedly a sincere attempt to present the contrasting lives in a roiling city unfortunately seems more of a facile vanity project for the principals involved.
Romance and regret woven in four strands of India's striving Muslims are slight against Mumbai's striking sights, but have poignant realism (especially Prateik's portrayal).
This is a wholly accessible story that most filmgoers will find pithy and generally well done.
Sleek, subtle, sensual, a very human time-capsule of now.
Rao's ultimate achievements are undercut by the arrangement of her characters into narrative castes that cross paths but can't quite connect.
An enthralling movie set in Bombay about the dreams and desires of four very different people.
Emotive and evocative, it's helped by Gustavo Santaolalla's (Babel) outstanding score.
A reflective portrait of contemporary Mumbai largely devoid of cliché or overt exoticism, the multiple storyline film presents its characters with a subtlety never seen in traditional Bollywood fare.
That Kiran Rao doesn't adequately interrogate her own relationship to her subjects means that Mumbai Diaries can't quite match its own ambitions
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Foreign Titles
- Bombay Diaries (DE)
- Dhobi Ghat (UK)
