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Bombay Velvet (2015)

Bombay Velvet poster
Original title
बॉम्बे वेलवेट
Directed by
Anurag Kashyap
Genre
drama film, crime thriller film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 29m
Rated
15
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 47 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1960s Bombay, a young street fighter rises through the city's underworld and gets caught up in a web of crime, jazz clubs, and power struggles. His ambition and a dangerous love affair lead to conflict with a ruthless newspaper tycoon.

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What happens

Bombay Velvet is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir period crime film directed and co-produced by Anurag Kashyap, based on historian Gyan Prakash's book Mumbai Fables. It stars Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Karan Johar in lead roles with Kay Kay Menon, Manish Choudhary, Vivaan Shah and Siddhartha Basu in supporting roles. The film was released on 15 May 2015. The film, made on a budget of ₹120 crore, grossed around ₹23 crore in the first week. It opened to mixed reviews and emerged as a commercial disaster. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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