Sunday, 10 November 2013

Mumbai Meri Jaan

(2008)

RATING:60%
FORMAT:DVD



[Mumbai My Life]

About any city in the world that has experienced terrorism at close hand.

The ironic title expresses love for a city riven with racial and religious tensions, along with endemic police corruption; while acknowledging that the 7/11/2006 can ultimately be seen as a uniting event.

Despite the fear of public transport resulting from shattered trains and the inevitable persecution of Muslims that results, the characters achieve emotional catharsis through realizing that everyone has the same fears: Redemptive in its limited way.

Structured around the lives of those affected by the bomb blasts, the parallel story strands do not cohere in any meaningfully-dramatic way. This conflicts with the film’s theme that citizens need to come together to beat not terrorists, as such, but their fear-of-terrorism in order to minimize the atomizing of the culture so threatened.


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