Dhobi Ghat (Hindi Movie)

Release Date
January 21, 2011


Genre
Social

Shooting Locations
Mumbai

Shooting Studios
Filmcity

Banner / Distributor
Aamir Khan Productions

Music Label
T-Series

Cast:-

Prateik Babbar  as Munna
Aamir Khan as Arun
Monica Dogra as Shai
Kriti Malhotra as Yasmin
Danish Hussain as Salim
Jehan Manekshaw as Pesi
Kitu Gidwani as Vatsala
Ashok Varma as Yasmin's Husban
Sanjivani Oagle as Neighbouring blank lady
Aasha Pawar as Latabai
Jyoti Pawar as Vanitha
Babita Sehgal as Munna's Client
Jitendra Shinde as Karim
Nafisa Amin Khan as Amma
Rohit Tiwari as Rakesh
Norma Lobo as Agnes

Crew:-

Director
Kiran Rao

Producer
Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao

Executive Producer
B. Shrinivas Rao

Story / Writer
Kiran Rao

Screenplay
Kiran Rao

Music Director
Gustavo Santaolalla

Cinematography
Tushar Kanti Ray

Action
Javed Eijaz

Editor
Nishant Radhakrishnan

Costume
Isha Ahluwalia, Darshan Jalan

Production Designer
Manisha Khandelwal

Hair Designer
Joyce Luize Margaret

Make-up Designer
Jogendra Gupta, Kamlesh Shinde

Line Producer
Sunitha Ram, Kishor Sawant

Still Photographer
Jyotika Jain

First Assistant Director
Advait Chandan

Casting
Nazneen Bhatia, Advait Chandan, Kiran Rao, Gayatri Sapru

Publicity Designer
Sukanya Ghosh, Marching Ants

Media Relations
Spice

Dhobi Ghat Movie

Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries) is the quiet and stirring story of four disparate characters who slip away from the comforts of familiar moorings and are inexorably drawn into compelling relationships. Fragments of their experience seen through a naive video diary, black and white photographic images, and painting form a portrait of a city and its people, bound together as they journey through longing, loneliness, love and loss.

Plot

'Dhobi Ghat' movie is shot entirely in Mumbai during Monsoon season on real locations of Mumbai city. The movie stars four characters in lead role. Aamir Khan (Arun) plays role of seclusive modern art painter. Monica Dogra (Shai) as Indian American banker who is on visit to Mumbai. Prateek Babbar (Munna) as washerboy. Kriti Malhotra (Yasmin). The movie is about these four characters from different class of society and how the lives of four characters are interwined.

Production

The film was shot in Mumbai using  "guerilla" techniques.  Due to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, shooting was delayed when, citing safety concerns, the government denied Rao permission to shoot scenes at a railway station.  According to Director of movie, Mumbai is the Fifth Character in Dhobi Ghat. The movie was shot at skycrapers under construction, Mohammed Ali markets, sea facing bunglows at Worli, Dhobi Ghat at Mahalaxmi, Chowpatty and Marine Drive. No special sets were constructed to shoot the movie.  The movie will be released in 2 versions. The original version has around 40% of the dialogues in English. The second version has all the dialogues dubbed in hindi.