Shilpa Shetty starrer ‘Metro’ releases to packed house
After a glitzy London premiere earlier this week, real-life drama ‘Life in a Metro’ on Friday released to a good response across India.
Inspired by real life situations, this slice-of-life drama is a tale of urban relationships.
“One city-countless emotions” reads the tagline of this saga about life in a modern day metropolis.
A concoction of mainstream and art cinema, the film received wonderful response from audience.
“The film is very good, it’s fantastic. It is going to be a big hit, I am quite sure about it. I really cried in the movie. The music is also very good,” said Nanda.
The film revolves around the life of several characters, as they grapple with their lives marked by ambition, greed, lust, despair, failure and hope in the dream city Mumbai.
Starring acclaimed actors like Kay Kay Menon, Irrfan Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Shiney Ahuja, fairly new Kangana Ranaut and Konkona Sen Sharma, the film deals with the complexity of human life and emotions.
Shikha played by Shilpa is married to Kay Kay Menon or Ranjeet and is mother to a six-year-old. Ranjeet is a workaholic, who is having an extra-marital affair with his colleague played by Kangana Ranaut. Shilpa’s sister played by Konkona is a radio jockey who is desperately on the lookout for a partner.
The film sheds light on the life of these characters, all trapped in a web of their own as they come face to face with real-life inspired situations.
“The world is coming closer through mails, telephones but people are becoming distant from each other. It is a common phenomenon in every big city. In the process of filling instalments for our materialistic needs like car, we also mortgage our lives. It (the film) is about how we start neglecting the little pleasures of life while living in a rat-race to make it big in the city,” said Anurag Basu, the film’s director.
“…Metro” is the first Indian film to be premiered at the coveted Leicester Square in London.
It is also Shilpa Shetty’s first film to be released after the controversial show ‘Big Brother’ catapulted Shetty to international fame.
“It (the premiere at Leicester Square) was fantastic. It will be a memory I will cherish for the rest of my life. It’s a great moment for the Indian film industry as well because even the Chinese films do not get the honour of premiering at the Leicester Square but an Indian film was premiered there and it is a great honour for our Indian film industry…I want the Indian audiences to go and see the movie and I am sure it will go down well with the people as it is a film straight from the heart,” said Shilpa.
Recently, Shilpa also incited public wrath for a controversial kissing episode involving her and U.S. actor Richard Gere during an AIDS fundraiser in New Delhi.
— ANI
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