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Dhobi Ghat

Mumbai Dairies

2010 · 1h 42m · N/A Drama
Directed by Kiran Rao

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Overview

Arun is a reclusive and lonely modern art painter. Shai is an American banker who is on a visit to Mumbai. Munna is a washerboy also living near Arun and Yasmin. The movie is about these four characters from different class of society and how the lives of four characters are intertwined.

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68%
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Rotten

The sex/class conflicts are way too twee.

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten

An odd amalgam of soap opera and street-level realism, with, alas, the former trumping the latter.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh

[A] satisfying, well-acted drama.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh

Ms. Rao does have an ace up her sleeve, though: Prateik, who in his first lead role gives a nuanced, career-making performance.

Rachel Saltz, New York Times
Fresh

With its key settings in a crowded, largely decrepit, congested yet beguiling, picturesque older portion of this city of 14 million inhabitants, the film is like a rich tapestry in which are interwoven the intersecting lives of three people.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

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