Dharavi (1992)
Directed by Sudhir Mishra
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
Rajkaran is an ambitious man with no way of accomplishing his goals. He is in debt to moneylenders in a big way, and his dream of owning his own cab (he's a cabdriver) is as far away as it ever was, despite his penchant for pinching pennies. He lives with a woman who is as ambitious as he is, a woman who has run away from her husband to be with him. He learns of a scheme to put up an illegal factory which dyes textiles, and he borrows even more money from a local bigwig. When the factory is destroyed by authorities, he is forced into choosing sides in some of Bombay's gang wars, and things go from really bad to genuinely harrowing.