City Of Gold Movie Reviews


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  • Nikhat Kazmi

    4.0

    Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India

    The high point of the film is its ensemble cast that may boast of no stars. But Manjrekar evokes some of the finest performances in recent times from his actors. Seema Biswas is absolutely unforgettable as the doughty, never-say-die matriarch of the family who holds the family together even when there's nothing to keep them together. But its Naru and his group of urchins who walk away with all your applause as they create one of the most scary pictures of what hunger and hopelessness can do a generation of young people. We've heard a lot about the euphemistic `spirit of Mumbai'. Now, go and watch it come alive before your eyes in mesmeric form.
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  • Suparna Sharma

    4.0

    Suparna Sharma | The Asian Age

    Guns, Gore, and Super performances. Though COG shines brightest when there’s violence, sex, or both (there’s even a riveting montage of a savage beating and gawky making out), its strength lies in its spirited characters, quick dialogues and actors. But the film loves blood so much that every time it gets its gun out, it is unable to put it away. The killing sprees, though stylish, are exhausting and make it a lesser, longer film. COG is no Vaastav, but it would have been a superb film if it didn’t go on a rampage so often.
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  • Subhash K. Jha

    3.5

    Subhash K. Jha | santabanta.com

    Move aside. There is no room for artifice in Mahesh Manjrekar’s latest work. A raw guttural gritty intense edgy mordant and finally devastating look at the world of the damaged and the ravaged, City Of Gold is as powerful in portraying a bereft working class as Molly Maguires was about Irish mine-workers. Except for the fact that there is no room for pretty visuals in City Of Gold. Manjrekar portrays the opposite of the beau monde. That murky end of the spectrum where the shenanigans of the IPL brigade seem as distant as the promise of that pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow.
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  • Taran Adarsh

    3.0

    Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com

    CITY OF GOLD has several watchable moments and also the grip, so essential for a film that's about to tell you a story that you aren't aware of. But there's a flip side too. The story seems stretched. Ideally, the film should've ended the moment Karan Patel is shot dead and the subsequent portions could've been narrated in a matter of seconds, without delving into details. Yet, when you weigh the pros and cons, I'd say, the positives overweigh the minuses in this case. This Gold may not be 24 karat, but is 22 karat nonetheless.
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  • Gaurav Malani

    3.0

    Gaurav Malani | Indiatimes

    Mahesh Manjrekar’s City of Gold takes a neo-realistic look at the downfall of the textile mills and its workers that reigned supreme three decades ago in Lalbaug-Parel (that’s the title of the Marathi version of the film), the heart of Mumbai. But what could have been classic cinema ends up being commercial celluloid. While Manjrekar persuasively highlights the piteous and penniless plight of millworkers, he touches the politics of the plot only peripherally thereby losing on the immense potential of tapping the capitalist corruption that led to the collapse of an entire culture.
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    3.0

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    There’s a texture to films whose characters are completely in sync with their settings that can’t be faked. Every single character in `City Of Gold’ feels right, and while Manjrekar doesn’t go for too many subtleties in the way he portrays his people, he also shows a surprising delicacy of touch here and there: this is a film that grows on you.
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  • Rajeev Masand

    2.5

    Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com

    Manjrekar extracts credible performances from his actors, but sadly there is no one to rein in the director himself. So there are parts of the film that flit between exceedingly melodramatic and impossibly exaggerated, and after a point the director's grim, cynical and utterly despondent perspective fails to ring true.
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  • Martin D'Souza

    2.5

    Martin D'Souza | Glamsham

    Director Mahesh Manjrekar has thought out an interesting subject. He begins on track but somewhere along loses grip and instead of focusing on mill workers and their plight, he moves off, and takes cinematic liberties focusing more on crime and more crime. Yes, the movie is hard-hitting and thought provoking. But to an extent. However, it does not let you empathize with what the mill workers went through. Instead, what you get is a VAASTAV like situation. Son taking to crime. Of course, the mother does not shoot him.
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  • Anupama Chopra

    2.5

    Anupama Chopra | NDTV Movies

    Mahesh Manjrekar’s City of Gold is a frustratingly inconsistent movie. Some scenes have immense power. There are a few strong performances and at the film’s core, is a well-intentioned rage at the plight of Mumbai’s mill workers. City of Gold had the potential to be a far better film than it is. Manjrekar elicits fine performances from his largely unknown cast – Karan Patel as Naru, Veena Jamkar as Manju and Siddharth Jhadav as Speed breaker are especially good.
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    2.0

    Mayank Shekhar | Hindustan Times

    Never mind a generic trivialisation of an important mill workers’ issue, though that's disturbing enough. You’d imagine at least the family’s backdrop is essential to this plot. It isn’t. These angry young men, the ‘lukhas’ and Packiyas of the grimy world, playin’ carom, shootin’ the wind, could exist in any bombastic film such as this, without any burden of context. It’d still work. Violence and catharsis is essentially the point. The moment a worker lands a tight one across a blood-sucking capitalist’s face, you can tell, is the stuff of immediate applause.
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  • Preeti Arora

    2.0

    Preeti Arora | rediff.com

    It is the performances which make this film. Sachin Khedekar, Seema Biswas even the newbies especially Siddharth Jadav have delivered crisp performances. The dialogues are funny, witty and swell-suited to the milieu. Do watch this film if you enjoy slice-of-life films. Or you would like to know what debris is buried under the huge commercial complexes we find in Dadar-Parel-Lalbaugh area today. But if candy floss cinema is your cup of tea, then it's best you keep away.
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  • Komal Nahta

    NR

    Komal Nahta | Koimoi

    Star cast: Seema Biswas, Satish Kaushik, Sachin Khedekar, Ankush Choudhary, Karan Patel. What’s Good: The perfor...
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  • prakashreddy9

    1.5

    Shitty being sold…..

    prakashreddy9, 9 years ago
    This is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time.
  • filmifan45

    2.5

    City of some reality!

    filmifan45, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • thomas.richard

    3.0

    Gold is Gold…but no gold is 100% pure though…

    thomas.richard, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • rajverma67

    3.0

    Just because of some performances…

    rajverma67, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • rajverma67

    2.5

    city of gold

    rajverma67, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • prakashreddy9

    3.0

    Awesome director

    prakashreddy9, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • kailashmisra

    3.0

    Great movie

    kailashmisra, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • thomas.richard

    3.0

    An eye opener

    thomas.richard, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • rajverma67

    2.5

    Mahesh Manjrekar does it again

    rajverma67, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • rajesh93

    3.0

    CITY OF GOLD ROCKS

    rajesh93, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.

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