from planet 3 communications ltd

From the maverick director of Love Sex aur Dhokha comes a searing political drama – Shanghai. As an Indian adaptation of Vasillis Vassilikosís explosive and famed polemical novel Z, the film transforms and adapts the events of a political murder in Greece 50 years ago to a window into contemporary India and its obsession with “development”.

A small Indian town prepares to become the next “SHANGHAI” overnight as billions of dollars are poured into an infrastructure project backed by the ruling political party. On the eve of its launch, a drunken truck driver mows down a prominent social activist.

A bureaucrat, Abhay Deol, a pornographer, Emraan Hashmi and a desperate activist, Kalki Koechlin, get embroiled in an “official enquiry” into the incident. Justice, revenge and profit jostle for space in a city ruled by the mob, exposing the seamy layers beneath “Shining India’s” new economy

Press/Industry Screenings:
Thursday, September 6 @ 9:15 a.m – TIFF Bell Lightbox 4
Thursday, September 13 @ 12:45 p.m – Scotiabank 10

Public Screenings:
Friday, September 7 @ 6:00 p.m. – TIFF Bell Lightbox 2
Saturday, September 8 @ 9:30 a.m. – Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 7
Saturday, September 15 @ 6:00 p.m. – TIFF Bell Lightbox 2

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