Dhobi Ghat (Hindi)
Release Date:
January 21, 2011In the teeming metropolis of Mumbai, four people separated by class and language are drawn together in compelling relationships. Shai, an affluent investment banker on a sabbatical, strikes up an unusual friendship with Munna, a young and beautiful laundry boy with ambitions of being a Bollywood actor, and has a brief dalliance with Arun, a gifted painter. As they slip away from familiar moorings and drift closer together, the city finds its way into the crevices of their inner worlds
The story revolves around a multidimensional Munna (Prateik Babbar) whose profession changes with the season of the day – dhobi, rat killer, and gigolo – too much of talent. Munna cleans the linens of the painter Arun (Aamir Khan) and the New-York-return banker Shai (Monica Dogra) as a part of his job. One particular instance of underworked delivery at Shai’s turns into a friendship that runs into a photographically delightful journey with Munna, Shai and the city of Mumbai.