Shanghai (2012 film)

Shanghai is a 2012 Indian political thriller film directed by Dibakar Banerjee, starring Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee, and based on the French film Z and a novel by the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos. OnJune 2012, the high court refused stay on the release of the film. It received critical acclaim upon its release onJune 2012 with 1200 prints.

Bhaggu Pitobash Tripathy participates in the assault of a local bookstore owner who stocked the copies of Dr. Ahmadis Prosenjit Chatterjee latest book, which criticises the local political party Morcha for ignoring the plight of the poor in its quest for infrastructure. Ahmadi, a socialist academic, is scheduled to visit Bharat Nagar for a speech. Shalini Kalki Koechlin, a former student of Ahmadi, is part of a small group that struggles to raise awareness about the underside of the local partys platform. Jogi Emraan Hashmi works in a video shop of questionable repute with the owner Vinod. Krishnan Abhay Deol, an IAS officer and Vice Chairman of IBP, who is the favourite of the Chief Minister Supriya Pathak, is assured by Principal Secretary Kaul Farooq Sheikh of a promotion and a trip to Stockholm.Ahmadi arrives from New York and delivers a scathing speech against the establishment. A mob gathers and attacks his associates. Ahmadi is run over by a Tempo driven by Jaggu Anant Jog, who is arrested. Ahmadi winds up comatose in a hospital. Shalini is confident that this was a planned attack. Vinod informs Jogi that he has incriminating evidence against the IBP and wants to sell Shalini the tape. Dr. Ahmadis wife Aruna Tillotama Shome agrees to lead a media campaign demanding the truth, though she seems uninterested. The campaign forces the CMs office to set up an inquiry commission headed by Krishnan. Krishnan finds that the police are hiding evidence, so he summons SSP Chavan Chinmay Mandlekar, who is also uncooperative. ........

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