Courtesy: Nitin Das
Nobody puts Mumbai in a corner. Maximum City is celebrated for its indomitable spirit, its resilience, its refusal to be knocked down no matter what. Do your worst, life.
In two-and-a-half minutes, this film - shot in that microcosm of life in Mumbai, the local trains - showcases what makes the city tick.
A typical day in Mumbai begins on a railway platform crowded with commuters running for the train, running for a seat, pushing to get on, pulling out those in the way and adjusting themselves to the press of people on-board. Once they've inserted themselves into the madding crowd, there's a compact little world to be discovered. Here, commuters sleep, sing, dream, eat, pray, love.
As the Mumbai local chugs through station after station, the business of life is conducted on the platforms that rush past. People work, sweat, serve. On the train and off it, they wait, watch, worry. Beyond the tracks, concrete giants occupied by the city's rich and well-heeled stand cheek-by-jowl with the meanest dwellings of the city's poor - tin-roofed slums criss-crossed by clotheslines.
And then, repeat. Life happens.
Struggle. Survive. Succeed. That's the Mumbai mantra.
Watch this inspiring video, made by Nitin Das and Amrita Singh of production house Filmkaar.
In two-and-a-half minutes, this film - shot in that microcosm of life in Mumbai, the local trains - showcases what makes the city tick.
A typical day in Mumbai begins on a railway platform crowded with commuters running for the train, running for a seat, pushing to get on, pulling out those in the way and adjusting themselves to the press of people on-board. Once they've inserted themselves into the madding crowd, there's a compact little world to be discovered. Here, commuters sleep, sing, dream, eat, pray, love.
As the Mumbai local chugs through station after station, the business of life is conducted on the platforms that rush past. People work, sweat, serve. On the train and off it, they wait, watch, worry. Beyond the tracks, concrete giants occupied by the city's rich and well-heeled stand cheek-by-jowl with the meanest dwellings of the city's poor - tin-roofed slums criss-crossed by clotheslines.
And then, repeat. Life happens.
Struggle. Survive. Succeed. That's the Mumbai mantra.
Watch this inspiring video, made by Nitin Das and Amrita Singh of production house Filmkaar.
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