Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai out on home video

Reliance Home Video and Games and PVR Home Entertainment has released the Blu-ray, DVD and VCD of Dibakar Banerjee’s critically-acclaimed film Shanghai. The film is the story of a small town somewhere in India that is poised to become the next Shanghai. Billions of dollars are being poured into an upcoming International Business Park there. On the eve of its launch, a drunk truck driver mows down a prominent social activist (Prosenjit Chatterjee). A lone girl (Kalki Koechilin) believes it to be a murder, supported by a porn filmmaker (Emraan Hashmi) who claims to have the proof that will bring the government down. Following a lot of cry from the locals, a high ranking bureaucrat is brought in to investigate the accident. “Shanghai is a political thriller that looks at how politics – the tools of power- is remote controlled by the governing class over the poor, uneducated masses in India. This is the background to the Indian adaptation of the story loosely adapted from the book Z, written in 1966 to reveal the facts behind the assassination of a prominent Greek Liberal MP in 1963.” “It is the story of State oppression and collusion in crime – a theme I think very relevant to contemporary India. The protagonists of Shanghai, instead of being all good, or all bad are a mix of courage and cowardice, ego and desire, ambition and conscience – normal Indians, trying to get by with the bewildering challenges of modern India,” said Banerjee about the movie. The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol and Kalki Koechlin among others. Shanghai will be available on Blu-ray (Rs 799), DVD (Rs 299) and VCD (115).