2010 sees the return of Mahesh V Manjrekar as a director with ‘City of Gold’. The film is a take-no-prisoners account of the birth of the true underbelly and organized crime in Mumbai. Ripping apart the façade of the swanky malls and glittering multiplexes that dot the landscape of Central Mumbai, ‘City Of Gold’ takes the viewer through a heart-wrenching and violent journey of the trials and tribulations of those who had to sacrifice their all so that these monuments to consumerism could be built – The thousands of mill workers of the area.
Mahesh, who had taken a long (by industry standards) sabbatical from directing comes back with this hard-hitting movie that doesn’t just tell the story of these mill workers whose lives were changed forever as more and more mills closed down, it actually features some of their family members in their very first on screen appearances ever.
