Story, Synopsis, Trivia, Dialogues for Mahanagar@Kolkata (2010)

Mahanagar@Kolkata is a 2010 Indian Bengali drama,social film released on Jun 04, 2010. The film is directed by Suman Mukherjee, produced by Pawan Kanoria under banner named AVA. Films Productions Pvt. Ltd., music composed by Rupam Islam.

Megacity Kolkata hides many worlds inside it. This film explores several facets of life in the city, through three intertwining stories, documenting the loves, fears, joys, sorrows, insecurities, and confidences of people who, despite vast differences, seem to merge in one great long flow of humanity.

Manmatha belongs to the upper echelons of the new, burgeoning middle class. He is spending an entire night at the emergency ward of a state hospital. It is in the hospital that Manmatha meets Jagadish, a lower middle class man, whose son, a soccer goalkeeper, is fighting a deadly stomach injury. Manmatha is completely baffled by Jagadish’s unruffled, serene attitude. A violent street gang conflict near the hospital prompts Manmatha and Jagadish to retreat to Manmatha's car, where they see the outside world ……

Biren is jobless and lives in the borders of the city. Bombs are exploded and bullets fired near a construction site in the neighborhood when there is gang dispute over extortions. Biren begins to ask all and sundry: “I have nothing to fear. Do I?” He gets the same answer: “What do you have to fear?” And yet Biren cannot get over his fear. An unknown terror grips him. But, unfortunately, Biren’s worst fears come true. In the tumult of the city, it is impossible to discern when and from what source a bullet might arrive and pick a head from the crowd.

Rohit and Rongili are currently separated. Rohit is an America returned MBA who works for a multinational and makes loads of money. It was a dazzlingly packaged life that was empty at the core. But something strange happened to Rohit on the day of the lunar eclipse. He was drinking alone in his swanky, well-furnished high-rise apartment and sees a weird hallucination. A pyre had been set in the heart of the city for the inhuman medieval ritual of burning widows. Hours later Rohit was lying unconscious in the hospital.

Manmatha spends an entire night in the state hospital as a distant relative Rohit is admitted over there. He meets Jagadish, a lower middle man who strikes up a friendship with him. A violent street conflict makes both of them shift to Manmatha’s car where they spend the night.
Biren is a jobless, elderly man hailing from a lower middle man who is always suffering from a sense of insecurity maybe primarily because of his own failures. He lives on dole and is always seen asking the same question to everyone-‘I have nothing to fear. Do I?’. No matter whatever anyone tells him, his fear refuses to go. One day actually when some goons joke with him and ask him to hold their gun to his head and tell him to push the trigger though nothing would happen to him as all the bullets had been emptied, that is precisely that is when Biren’s fears turn into reality as a bullet had remained and that takes his life.

Rohit and Rongili are a well of couple, but their marriage is an unhappy one. Things don’t click and they separate.Rohit gets frustrated and starts drinking heavily one day and that damages his health and he has a blackout. He lands up in the hospital.

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