On Sunday, the annual Toronto International Film Festival came to a close after 11 days of screenings, meetings and, of course, parties. It’s become an important place to kick off the fall film season. But this year, the festival wasn’t only looking west to Hollywood — it was also sharpening its focus on the East, and the rise of new cinema from India, in particular.
One of the films at this year’s Toronto festival was called Shanghai; it comes from Mumbai, and was directed by Dibakar Banerjee.
“One often-repeated refrain that you hear in India is that this city is going to be like Shanghai, and that city is going to be like Singapore, and that city is going to be like London,” says Banerjee. “And it’s usually a promise made by a politician who is holding up the carrot of progress to his constituency.”
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