Island City (2015) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2015 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description Island City follows three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai. The first one is about a middle-aged man who wins the office 'Fun Committee Award', which entitles him to a whole day full of fun. He is most reluctant to leave the safety of his cubicle but he has to. Prescribed fun modules have to be completed and non-compliance is not an option.
The second story begins with a domineering pater familias, Anil, who is on life support. Seeking some relief, his family decides to buy a TV, which Anil had banned; now every night the family plugs into a popular soap whose hero is a man ideal in every way..
The third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. Deep inside ferments a disconnect and unease that she is unable to articulate to anyone. Then one day there arrives a most intimate letter and everything changes.
Cast: Vinay Pathak, Amruta Subhash, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Ashwin Mushran, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Sameer Kochhar, Uttara Baokar, Sana Sheikh, Mithun Rodwittiya, Bhushan Vikas, Naman Banthia, Jaswinder Singh, Jyoti Subhash, Mukul Chadda, Anshul Khandelwal, Daisy Khatri, Gagan Nimesh, Manoj Raghubir Sharma |