Dharavi videorecording directed by Sudhir Mishra.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Cinemas of IndiaPublication details: Mumbai National Film Development Corporation. c1991Description: 1 videodisc (120min.) sd., col 4 3/4 inOther title:
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  • 791.4372 DH
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Dharavi is a 1992 Hindi film, directed and written by Sudhir Mishra. Raj Karan Yadav is a scrappy taxi driver, who somehow scrapes a living in the big metropolis of Bombay, driving a taxi every day. He lives in a one-room tenement with his wife in Dharavi, one of the world's largest slums, where the film is set. The film follows his fortunes as he tries to break out from the clutches of poverty, devising plans and investing all his money in a dubious schemes which eventually blow out on him, coming under the eye of unscrupulous politician and local goons, yet his dreams continue.
Awards:
  • Awards : National Award 1992 (Best editing, Best Feature Film, Best Music Director). "Cinemas of India".
Summary: Dharavi brings to life the squalid corruption and crime-ridden expanse of the largest slum in Asia. The fast paced plot brings us a buoyant and susceptible Rajkiran who hires rides as a cabbie and lives in a cubbyhole with his wife Kunda and son. Rajkiran is possessed with the desire to own a cloth factory and making his situation better; he pledges all his resources to this sole dream of making it big.
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Dharavi is a 1992 Hindi film, directed and written by Sudhir Mishra. Raj Karan Yadav is a scrappy taxi driver, who somehow scrapes a living in the big metropolis of Bombay, driving a taxi every day. He lives in a one-room tenement with his wife in Dharavi, one of the world's largest slums, where the film is set. The film follows his fortunes as he tries to break out from the clutches of poverty, devising plans and investing all his money in a dubious schemes which eventually blow out on him, coming under the eye of unscrupulous politician and local goons, yet his dreams continue.

Dharavi brings to life the squalid corruption and crime-ridden expanse of the largest slum in Asia. The fast paced plot brings us a buoyant and susceptible Rajkiran who hires rides as a cabbie and lives in a cubbyhole with his wife Kunda and son. Rajkiran is possessed with the desire to own a cloth factory and making his situation better; he pledges all his resources to this sole dream of making it big.

DVD; NTSC all regions.

In Hindi with English subtitles.

Awards : National Award 1992 (Best editing, Best Feature Film, Best Music Director).
"Cinemas of India".

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