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Our Metropolis

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True Story · Capitalism · Urbanization  

  • CountryIndia
  • Production Year2014
  • Running Time91min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
There have been ambitious efforts to see Bangalore, India, reborn as an international metropolis. Politicians and businessmen ignore the law and move forward with plans to build mega shopping malls and subway systems without negotiating with the residents. The film depicts the violence that destroys a city’s history and banishes residents and nature to pursue urban glamour. In order to expose the violence in this development, the film takes us back to when it all began in 2008. We see new buildings rising on one side, while on the other a house passed down through generations is split in half and destroyed, hundreds of trees are uprooted and a university campus is ruined. When we return to 2013, the cutting edge appearance of the city looks different. The purpose of this journey back in time is not to return the city to 2008. Rather, it is to bring awareness to the violence hidden behind the glamour, and to remember the resistance of citizens and activists. Their fight will not be in vain as long as their memory remains. (CHO Hyeyoung)
Director
Director
Gautam SONTI
After years of being a slave to commissioned work, Sonti decided he′d had enough and went independent. His short film series Coding Culture is a critical examination of the experience of globalization in a hi-tech Bangalore workplace. Our Metropolis, his first feature-length documentary film, extends this theme to the entire city.
Director
Usha RAO
Usha Rao is an anthropologist. For over a decade she has wandered through Bangalore′s maze of neighborhood, streets and by-lanes, trying to make sense of the changes that have transformed the city.
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Credit
  • Director Gautam SONTI 과탐 손티, Usha RAO 우사 라오
  • Producer Gautam SONTI, Usha RAO
  • Cast Malini SRIRAMA, Vanaja K. A. SHANMUGAM, Nuthan D., Girija MISRA, Ram Chandra SHARMA, Hanumanthappa KATTIMANE, Zameer SYED
  • Cinematography Gautam SONTI
  • Editor Abhro BANERJEE
  • Music Ananth MENON, Snehal PINTO
  • Production Company Gautam Sonti and Usha Rao
    India 003 Savoy Apartments, 3 Coles Road, Frazer Town, Bangalore 560005
    gsonti@gmail.com

  • World Sales Gautam Sonti and Usha Rao
    India 003 Savoy Apartments, 3 Coles Road, Frazer Town, Bangalore 560005
    gsonti@gmail.com