Mumbai Meri Jaan

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Mumbai Meri Jaan
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Poster
Directed byNishikanth Kamath
Written byYogesh Vinayak Joshi
Upendra Sidhaye
Produced byRonnie Screwvala
StarringMadhavan
Irfan Khan
Soha Ali Khan
Kay Kay Menon
Paresh Rawal
CinematographySanjay Jadhav
Edited byAmit Pawar
Distributed byUTV Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 22 August 2008 (2008-08-22)
Running time
135 minutes[1]
CountryIndia
LanguagesHindi
Urdu

Mumbai Meri Jaan (Hindi: मुम्बई मेरी जान, translation: Mumbai, My Life) is a 2008 Indian drama film directed by Nishikant Kamat and produced by Ronnie Screwvala. It stars Madhavan, Irrfan Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Paresh Rawal and Kay Kay Menon. It deals with the aftermath of the 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, where 209 people lost their lives and over 700 were injured.[2] It won multiple Filmfare Awards.

Plot[]

Rupali Joshi (Soha Ali Khan) is a successful reporter who is getting married in two months. Nikhil Agrawal (Madhavan) is an environmentally conscious executive who rides the train to work every day and is expecting his first child. Suresh (Kay Kay Menon) is a struggling computer tech who spends his time loafing at a local cafe and criticizing Muslims. Meanwhile, Sunil Kadam (Vijay Maurya) struggles with the corruption and inefficiency of the Mumbai police force and his boss, Tukaram Patil (Paresh Rawal), who is nearing retirement.

On 11 July Nikhil and Suresh are in the second class compartment of a train when a bomb goes off in the first class compartment. The two survive, but Nikhil is too afraid to take the train again and is diagnosed with acute stress disorder. Suresh becomes obsessed with punishing the city's Muslims and is only stopped from antagonising them by Kadam and Patil on patrol. Kadam and Patil abuse a street vendor named Thomas (Irrfan Khan) who begins calling in fake bomb scares at malls to relieve his feelings. After an elderly man suffers a heart attack while the police are evacuating one mall, Thomas feels guilty and decides to stop.

Rupali, who rushed to the scene of the bombings to cover the story, is devastated when she discovers that her fiancé died in the blasts. Her grief is augmented when the news channel she works for tries to exploit her story for ratings. Meanwhile, Suresh pursues a Muslim that he suspects of being a terrorist. However, after Patil stops him and lectures him on communal harmony, Suresh befriends the man.

After Nikhil's wife goes into labour, he is forced to take the train to get to the hospital. Mumbai stops for two minutes while the city observes a moment of silence for those killed in the bombings. Patil finally retires from the police force and Kadam forgives him for his corrupt actions. Nikhil overcomes his fear of trains and Thomas gives a rose to the elderly man whose heart attack he caused.

Cast[]

  • Madhavan as Nikhil Agarwal
  • Irrfan Khan as Thomas
  • Soha Ali Khan as Rupali Joshi
  • Paresh Rawal as Tukaram Patil
  • Kay Kay Menon as Suresh
  • Anand Goradia as Ashish
  • Rio Kapadia as Rensil
  • Ayesha Raza Mishra as Sejal Agarwal
  • Vijay Maurya as Sunil Kadam
  • Vibhavari Deshpande as Archana Kadam
  • Kamlesh Sawant as Police Station In-Charge
  • Sachin Pathak as Guddu
  • Santosh Juvekar as Ashok
  • Kavin Dave as Zandu
  • Syed Rizwan Ahmed as Tea-shop owner
  • Rajesh Bhosle as Manya
  • Saksham Dayama as Yusuf
  • Sameer Dharmadhikari as Ajay Pradhan
  • Gaurav Dheer as Newsreader
  • Sunil Kadam as Vijay Maurya
  • Vibhawari Deshpande as Archana Kadam
  • Vineet Sharma as Reporter
  • Sanjay as Paanwala
  • Harry Shah as Bakul Patel
  • Sameer Bapat as Sameer
  • Smita Jaykar as Sejal's mother
  • Deepak Shroff as Sejal's father
  • Anisha Prakash as Anandita
  • Punarvasu as Nasir
  • Vasanti Kuppuswamy as Priya
  • Deepak Dhadwal as Ajay Pradhan's father
  • Rahul Pethe as Rohan Joshi
  • Ashwini Apte as Ashish's wife
  • Sunita Shirole as Yusuf's mother
  • Kamlesh Sawant as Police Station-in-charge
  • Shri Vallabh Vyas as Drug addict girl's father
  • Divya Jagdale as Thomas's wife
  • Vanita Agwale as Thomas's daughter
  • Bhuvnesh Shetty as Shekhar
  • Paras Jethwa as Courier boy
  • Indumati Wairkar as Tukaram Patil's mother
  • Rajshree Manohar as Tukaram Patil's wife
  • Swapnil Khot as Tukaram Patil's son
  • Rakesh Vidua as Feroz
  • Prinal Oberoi as Anusha
  • Meenal Karpe as Anusha's mother
  • Megha Joshi as Newsreader
  • Praveena Deshpande as Rupali Joshi's mother
  • Smita Hai as Dr Sheela
  • Upendra Sidhaye as Mall receptionist
  • Sonal Khale as Newsreader
  • Mahesh Subhedar as Police Inspector
  • Aadam Sheikh as Shankar
  • Suhas Bhalekar as Suresh's father
  • Nishikant Kamat as Vinod
  • Narayani Shastri as Shweta
  • Alladin as Feroz's boss
  • Yashashri Upasani as TV reporter

Awards[]

  • Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie - Winner
  • Filmfare Best Screenplay Award - Winner
  • Filmfare Best Editing Award - Winner
  • National Film Award for Best Special Effects for Govardhan (Tata Elxsi) - Winner
  • Best Feature Film at the New Generation Cinema Lyon Film Festival - Winner
  • Best Screenplay award at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards[3] - Nomination

Music[]

The end titles are accompanied by the song "Aye Dil Hain Mushkil" (also known as "Bombay Meri Jaan") from the 1956 film C.I.D., performed by Mohammed Rafi and Geeta Dutt.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Mumbai Meri Jaan". British Board of Film Classification.
  2. ^ "Terror inspires Bollywood again". The Indian Express. 9 July 2008. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  3. ^ "Naseeruddin Shah, Anurag Kashyap Nominated for APSA". Outlook. 12 November 2009. Archived from the original on 31 January 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2009.

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