Shot in Bombay

A fastpaced featurelength documentary which goes beyond the tinselly glamour of Bollywood to expose the industrys rather less alluring underbelly The Mumbai film industry has long been rumoured to be associated with crime syndicates The connection was publicly established when in July 2007 one of Indias superstars Sanjay Dutt was convicted of possessing firearms which were linked to Indias 911 the day in 1993 when Mumbai suffered 13 terrorist bomb blasts in the space of two hours As full of sudden reversals as any thriller this documentary follows Sanjay Dutt as he makes Shootout In Lokhandwala his last film before being sentenced He plays a reallife Mumbai police officer AA Khan who became a local hero after a fatal shootout with criminals in which 1400 rounds of ammunition were fired The documentary subtly underlines the ironies of this situation and has as colourful a cast of its own as any Bollywood movie Storyville