Another Slum Film shaping up after Slumdog's success
Posted by: jisha in slums, Slumdog Millionaire on
Mar 17, 2009
After the success of the Oscar winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”, another film is shaping up from the same slum area of Mumbai's 'Dharavi'. The film 'Barah Aana' is to show not the poverty pornography like in 'Slumdog', but it has casted on a theme, the same Dharavi slum as a place of the working class, where peons, clerks,watchmen and more live together, their lives intertwining like they never do anywhere else. The young, Raja Menon is the writer and director of the film 'Barah Aana'. The film shows the narrow lanes of the slum and a community huddled together.
Barah Aana is a comedy about three friends from Dharavi, a driver played by Naseeruddin Shah, a watchman by Vijay Raaz and a waiter by Arjun Mathur. Raaz’s character, boisterous and mischievous, finds himself in deep soup and stumbles into a crime. He goads his friends to join him and soon all three find their lives spinning out of control.
The 97-minute movie, which will be released on March 20, has done the domestic festival circuit, travelling to Goa, Kerala and Pune, and has been invited for screening at the Museum of Modern Arts, NewYork, in June. The attention Slumdog got after winning Oscars might help this film in a good way. After all this is a film produced by an Indian.
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