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{{Infobox film
| name = City of Gold - Mumbai 1982: Ek Ankahee Kahani
| image = City of Gold (2010 film) poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Mahesh Manjrekar]]
| producer = [[Arun Rangachari]] [[Om Raut]] (Executive Producer)
| screenplay = [[Mahesh Manjrekar]] [[Jayant Pawar]]
| story = [[Jayant Pawar]]
| starring = [[Ankush Choudhary]] [[Siddharth Jadhav]] [[Sachin Khedekar]] [[Sameer Dharmadhikari]] [[Karan Patel]]
| music= [[Ajit Parab]]
| cinematography = [[Ajit Reddy]] V. Ajith Reddy
| editing = [[Sarvesh Parab]]
| studio = [[DAR Motion Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2010|04|23}}
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Hindi, Marathi (as ''Lalbaug Parel'')
| budget =
}}

'''''City of Gold''''' ([[Marathi language|Marathi]]: '''''Lalbaug Parel''''') is a [[Bollywood films of 2010|2010]] Indian film released in both [[Hindi]] and [[Marathi language|Marathi]]. The film was [[Mahesh Manjrekar]]'s 17th film, having previously directed critically acclaimed films such as ''[[Astitva]]'' and ''[[Viruddh... Family Comes First]]''. It was adapted from Jayant Pawar's Marathi play, ''Adhantar'', with Pawar going on to co-write the film's screenplay.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-mill-workers-will-relive-1982-strike-on-silver-screen-1366784|title=Mill workers will relive 1982 strike on silver screen {{!}} Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis|date=2010-04-03|work=dna|access-date=2018-05-25|language=en-US}}</ref> The film explores the life of [[Mumbai]]'s mill workers after the [[Girangaon|Mumbai mills]] shut down in response to the [[Great Bombay Textile Strike]] of the early 1980s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/masand-city-of-gold-is-hardhitting/113865-8-66.html?from=tn|title=Masand: ''Lalbaug Parel'' is hard-hitting|last=Masand|first=Rajeev|date=24 April 2010|accessdate=24 April 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709070924/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/masand-city-of-gold-is-hardhitting/113865-8-66.html?from=tn|archive-date=2012-07-09|url-status=dead|publisher=[[CNN-IBN]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2010/04/24/6170/|title=Subhash K. Jha speaks about ''Lalbaug Parel'' |date=24 April 2010|publisher=Bollywood Hungama}}</ref> The film opened to mixed reviews, though it was commended for its themes, and acting.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/2010/04/23215858/Film-Review--City-of-Gold.html?h=B|title=Film Review: ''Lalbaug Parel''|date=24 April 2010|publisher=[[Live Mint]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_Review.aspx?id=507|title=Anupama Chopra's review: ''Lalbaug Parel''|date=23 April 2010|publisher=[[NDTV]]|access-date=24 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426104437/http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_Review.aspx?id=507|archive-date=26 April 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The name of the Marathi version of this film is '''''Lalbaug Parel''''', while the Hindi version was released as '''''City of Gold'''''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/i-dont-fear-failure-mahesh-manjrekar/112905-8.html|title=I don't fear failure: Mahesh Manjrekar|last=Parande|first=Shweta|date=8 April 2010|newspaper=IBN|accessdate=18 September 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711080333/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/i-dont-fear-failure-mahesh-manjrekar/112905-8.html|archive-date=11 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Plot==
The film is the story of a family of mill workers in [[Mumbai]]. It follows the workers as politics and greed rise in Mumbai and exposes the collusion between the ''[[triumvirate]]'' of big business, the political establishment and the trade union leaders who ostensibly were charged with protecting the rights of the mill workers.

Baba Dhudu narrates his story to his fiance. He is a son of a mill worker and has two brothers, Naru and Mohan and a sister Manju. Along with his parents, they stay in a congested locality of Parel.
Mohan has a regular job as an accountant, while Naru and Baba are jobless. Naru is a local strongman and bashes anyone who crosses him or his friends. Baba aspires to be a professional playwright and spends time in writing, which his family despises as this does not bring any income for the family. His father is retired from the mill and fighting for his retirement dues from the mill which is on the verge of closing down. The mill is managed by the son-in-law of the owner Mr Khaitan, who is a very hard-nosed selfish person. His aim is the close-down of the mill and establishing a real estate business over the mill land, which is worth gold in today's market. In order to convert the mill into a commercial complex, he needs a [[No Objection Certificate| NOC]] from the mill workers as well as their resignation letters.
Mill workers are adamant over their dues and are not willing to sacrifice their jobs. Rane and Govind are their leaders and Dr Sawant is the union leader and fights the legal battle for the mill workers. Govind is short-tempered and always willing to physically fight with the owners, while Rane is practical and feels legal recourse is the best way to get justice.
The mill workers are fighting for dues of six months and one fine day it is announced that the mill would be closed down. Mill workers go on strike and a local politician becomes involved.

Meanwhile, Naru gets involved with local don Parshya Bhai and starts running errands for him along with his friends. Mohan who is a hardcore cricket buff one fine day syphons off Rs. 25,000 from his company to bet on a match which he loses. Baba rescues him from the police after settling the dues by selling his kidney, unknown to his family. Manju becomes pregnant and is distraught when she comes to know that her lover is already married. Her father gets a paralytic attack due to this and is bedridden. He requests Rane to marry his daughter, which he accepts.

The local politician intervenes and mill workers agree to give NOC, but not resignation and it is decided that a part of the mill would be restored. But the very night when the mill is supposed to resume, it is blown away by an explosion, presumably by the owner. Now nothing in hand, the mill workers sit on a strike. Things go from bad to worse and they start selling off their personal possessions to survive. Some of the ladies get into prostitution, while kids get into mugging. There is a constant face-off between owners and mill workers. In a fit of rage one fine day, Govind assaults the brother-in-law of the owner. He is enraged at this action and hires Parshya Bhai to kill Govind. Parshya Bhai assigns the task to Naru but does not tell him who the target is. Naru shoots Govind dead, only to realise later that he has shot down the father of his best friend 'Speedbreaker'. Naru goes into hiding. Later his father dies out of the shock of the news. Naru later confronts Parshya Bhai who tricked him by not paying his share of the contract. He kills him with the help of his friends. Naru is in turn killed by Speedbreaker and he takes over the gang of Parshya Bhai.
The mill owner finally comes up with some cash and the mill workers give in and agree to sign required legal documents for a very small part of their original compensation.
Rane is distraught that just as the court is about to give its verdict, the owners have tricked them taking advantage of their desperate situation.

Sometime later Baba finally achieves his dream of a becoming a professional playwright and is about to take his mother to the first show of his play. His mother is overwhelmed by his success and after a long hard life, she finally sees some hope. When she reads his name in the newspaper she dies out of shock.

Baba finishes his narration and takes his finance to meet all the characters he had narrated in his story. Rane is still delusional that he will win the legal battle, the rest of them have got their lives back on track and Speedbreaker runs his gang along with his friends.

==Production==
The director of the film Mahesh Manjrekar writes in the director notes:<blockquote>"When I took a sabbatical from Hindi cinema close to four years ago, I promised myself that if and only if an exceptional subject came my way would I venture back to do a Hindi film. ''Lalbaug Parel'' is that subject."</blockquote>After completing the script in 2007, Manjrekar decided to wait until he could find a producer who would be willing to do a film without musical numbers. Eventually, [[DAR motion pictures|DAR Motion Pictures]] produced the film.

==Legal troubles==
After the film's release the family of [[Dutta Samant]] served Mahesh Manjrekar with legal notice, claiming that the film wrongly placed the blame for the mills' closure on Samant. They also objected to Manjrekar's portrayal of the mill workers' children, saying they were shown as "goons".<ref>{{cite news|title=Filmmaker Manjrekar Gets Notice on 'Lalbaug-Parel'|url=http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?679891|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711045841/http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?679891|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 July 2012|accessdate=18 September 2011|newspaper=Outlook India|date=20 April 2010}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Shashank Shende]] as Anna
* [[Seema Biswas]] as Aai
* [[Ankush Choudhary]] as Baba
* [[Anusha Dandekar]] as Manasi
* [[Vineet Kumar Singh]] as Mohan
* [[Veena Jamkar]] as Manju
* [[Karan Patel]] as Naru
* [[Siddharth Jadhav]] as Speedbreaker
* [[Satish Kaushik]] as Mama
* [[Kashmera Shah]] as Mami
* [[Sameer Dharmadhikari]] as Mahendra
* [[Ganesh Yadav]] as Parshya Bhai
* [[Sachin Khedekar]] as Arvind Rane
* [[Vinay Apte]] as Govind
* [[Kishore Pradhan]] as Khaitan Sheth
* [[Vaibhav Mangle]] as Doctor Saheb
* [[Sai Tamhankar]] as Shalu / Naru's girlfriend
* [[Resham Tipnis]] as Dancer in the Laavni Song Tuzya girnicha vajude bhonga

===Track listing===
{{Track listing
| title1 = Tuzya girnicha vajude bhonga – Laavani Dance
| extra1 =
| length1 = 3:07
}}

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.cityofgoldthefilm.com/ Official website]
* {{IMDb title|1608768|City of Gold}}
*[http://www.marathimirchi.com/marathi/categories.php?cat_id=182 Lalbaug Parel Movie Stills]

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[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:2010s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Marathi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films based on plays]]
[[Category:Films set in the 1980s]]
[[Category:Films set in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Films shot in India]]
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