孟买护士普拉芭突然收到分居的丈夫送来的礼物，这打乱了她的日常生活。她的年轻室友阿努想与男友共度亲密时光，艰难地在城市里寻找一席之地。一天，她们踏上一趟海滨小镇之旅，并在那里找到了可以实现愿望的空间。本片于第77届戛纳电影节竞赛单元举行首映，成为首部获得评审团大奖的印度影片。

该剧改编自格里高利·大卫·罗伯茨2003年的同名畅销小说，讲述银行抢匪Lin Ford（查理·汉纳姆 饰）自澳洲越狱后逃往印度孟买，一场救赎之旅就此开启。
Shantaram在印地语代表“和平之人”。

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“新闻叙事佳作，堪称近年来描绘印度且出自印度的最优秀纪实文学。梅塔精准把握住了‘城市丛林’——时局动荡的孟买之鲜活脉搏。”——《纽约时报》
“笔歌墨舞、扣人心弦、极富感染力、惊才绝艳。”——《洛杉矶时报》
“苏科图•梅塔之于孟买，有如查尔斯•狄更斯之于伦敦、约瑟夫•米切尔之于纽约。梅塔直抒胸臆，他笔下的孟买仿如徐徐展开的画卷，既恢宏壮阔又妙趣横生。”——《圣地亚哥联合论坛报》
“梅塔绘声绘色、一波三折的记述将孟买之内情表露无遗，《孟买》一书也因此达成了看似不可能完成的任务：将无限广大、丰富之孟买浓缩于有限的书页之间。”——《西雅图时报》
作为土生土长的孟买人，梅塔对这座奇幻之城如数家珍。他以罕见的洞察力、惊人的细节和独特的切入点描绘与孟买的无限亲密。书中的故事次第展开，我们得以走入暗昧地带，见识穆斯林和印度教派面对孟买错综复杂的政商体系，为谁执牛耳不惜流血冲突。我们得以跟随酒吧舞女，看她从备受凌虐、食难果腹的孩童成长为不得不向现实妥协的青年。我们也得以推开宝莱坞的大门，一窥其中的五光十色和森严等级。我们更得以认识那一张张渴盼的面孔，怀揣对美好生活的希望从乡村来到孟买，却未能被孟买温柔以待。坦诚、激昂、幽默与哀恸，无不交织书中。翻开它，便能走进那个古老而历久弥新的世界。

五月号的《国家地理杂誌》报导了印度孟买 (Mumbai) 的「城中之城」、号称亚洲最大的贫民窟达拉维 (Dharavi)。这块面积仅 2.5 平方公里的地方住著 100 万人，其中很多房子经常断水断电，卫生条件也很差劣。吊诡的是，达拉维就位於孟买的中央地区，旁边有两条铁路经过，正是这个印度商业金融之都的市中心黄金地段。而在达拉维的北面，便是所谓的「班德拉－－喀尔拉商圈 (Bandra-Kurla Complex)」，即孟买的高级商业中心，还有一片红树林沼泽。
The Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" put India's largest slum, Dharavi, on the map. Much more than a slum, this mini-city bustles with industry, culture and dreams. See the day-to-day activities and hear real-life accounts from its inhabitants, who have goals and aspirations -- people who are struggling to survive in a community that defies expectation.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. Town planners, financiers, and property developers joined forces to secure the city as a space for commerce and encoded shelter types as legitimate or illegitimate. By the early twentieth century, the slum emerged as a particularly useful category of stigmatization that would animate city-making projects in subsequent decades.
Sheetal Chhabria locates the origins of Bombay’s now infamous “slum problem” in the broader histories of colonialism and capitalism. She not only challenges assumptions about colonial urbanization and cities in the global south, but also provides a new analytical approach to urban history. Making the Modern Slum shows how the wellbeing of the city–rather than of its people–became an increasingly urgent goal of government, positioning agrarian distress, famished migrants, and the laboring poor as threats to be contained or excluded.