![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The title song for example, shows our protagonist in different parts of the city, blending in and just being. Written and Directed by Shankar Nag (henceforth referred to as The Nag) a man known to everyone as the maker of the Malgudi Days TV series, the movie is a detailed but pleasing mural of the city from 1983. My own initiation into movies and Bengaluru (bengaLooru to us) started with a lovely relationship Drama/comedy called Nodiswamy Naavirodu Heege (Well Sir, We are like this only). As does Piku in the end, where an anal old man finds gastrointestinal catharsis in cycling through the lanes he once ran through as a kid and then smashing a half a dozen Kachoris. More recently Kahani takes the central character and with her us, through Kolkata. The world knows and fears bank robbers on superbikes thanks to that gripping docudrama Dhoom. Satya and the looming cityscape shots that punctuate it offer a cynical if typically Mumbai view of the city. A person walking in the rain on Marine Drive in Mumbai for example, would obviously remember Amitabh Bachchan and Moushumi Chatterjee doing the same. Closer home, while it isn’t as popular a style there have been notable outliers. Woody Allen’s love affair with New York is well known, European cinema of the neorealist kind relies heavily on the city as a backdrop to the various misfortunes of its characters. 1.2įilmmakers have often used a city or town as a canvas to narrate their story in, and in the process create works that become a snapshot of the life in them. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim used under GNU License Ver. ![]()
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