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Synopsis: India is a land of a billion people, 60 percent of whom are living in over 500,000 villages spread around the country. Despite the best efforts of the Indian Rural Department about 87,000 of these villages to this date do not have electricity. "Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost" takes place in one such village. The film deals with a month in the life of Kanji (Abhishek Bachchan) whose innocent gift to his grandfather's recently electrified village results in laugh out loud humor, which, then, sparks a power struggle and ends up with laugh out loud humor. The modern world takes over the lives of these villages, which had been alien to them so far. The film is about the old and the new, the rural and the post- modern. At the core of the film is a simple drama of the heart, enriched with acute observations of village psychology, an accurate portrayal of the little known aspects of Indian culture. Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost is shot in a fluid, visually dynamic emphasizing hand-held camera work, steady cam shots and rhythmic editing. Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost stars Abhishek Bachchan and Lara Dutta and marks the debut of Apurva Lakhiya as a director |