City of Dreams Review

It's not uncommon to hear "Mumbai is a city, Bombay is an emotion," indeed high on emotions and drama, people of Bombay have a lot of diverse sentiments, some heartwarming others gut-wrenching. City of dreams explores the city beyond the glamour that lures millions in every year, while the city isn't fair to everyone it, everyone isn't fair to the city either.

Drunk with power, Ashish Rao Gaikwad (Siddharth Chandekar), is driven solely by self-interest. He is eager to emerge as the new face of the party after his father's attempted assassination but his sister Poornima Rao Gaikwad (Priya Bapat), actually becomes the one to face serious responsibility. The next character of interest is a conscientious cop whose resolute goodwill to uproot everything unjust in the city has gotten him only transfers to different branches in the past. Now he is on to decoding the mystery of the minister's attempted assassination but wait, there's more, the show also houses fairly interesting subplots of a salesman tired of the job and a sex worker whose wisdom and free spirit surpasses the walls of her profession.

'City of dreams' is a gripping enough tale of many lives that seem unrelated but tied together by the unforgiving city that they thrive in.