Dhobi Ghat

Category: Drama

Sub Category: Social, Romance, Poverty, Politics, Corruption

Language: Hindi

Time Duration: 02:11 Hours

Year of Release: 2011

Color: Colored

Director: Kiran Rao

Studio: Aamir Khan Productions

Starring: Aamir Khan, Prateik Babbar, Monica Dogra, Kitu Gidwani, Nafisa Khan

Dhobi Ghat is a Hindi film produced and directed by Kiran Rao in her directorial debut. The film is scheduled for release in cinemas on 21 January 2011. The film stars Aamir Khan and Prateek Babbar and is produced under the banner of Aamir Khan Productions. Aamir Khan is said to have a lead role in the movie as a painter. Gustavo Santaolalla was signed it to compose the score and soundtrack of the film.

Dhobi Ghat had its world premiere in September 2010 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Inside a taxi in the pouring rain of Mumbai, an amateur video camera is shooting the grey city through the misted windows. The cab driver strikes up a conversation with the shy girl behind the camera, and they find out that they are from neighboring towns back home in U.P. The brief encounter creates a small space of belonging.

Shai (Monica Dogra), an affluent investment banker on a sabbatical in Mumbai meets Arun (Aamir Khan), a gifted painter at the opening of his new show. Arun and Shai spend a night together, which later Arun cannot explain and Shai cannot forget. The very next morning they part ways, almost sure they will never meet again.

Munna (Prateik), the young and beautiful laundry boy (dhobi) who delivers clothes to Shai's house, aspires to be a film actor. When he learns of Shai's hobby of photography he agrees to show her the 'real' city in exchange for her shooting his portfolio. Shai discovers the city through his eyes and her lens, and an unlikely friendship develops as Munna can't stop himself from falling in love with her.

Meanwhile Arun finds a new apartment where he can resume his silent, reclusive life. In the process of settling in, he stumbles upon a secret that at first he is ready to dismiss, but later finds more and more absorbing; a secret that will find its way into his heart.

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