PVR Pictures will release Shanghai on 8th June, 2012.
“SHANGHAI”, is Directed by Dibakar Banerjee and is based on the book “Z” by Vassilis Vassilikos.
It is about a political activist, who meets with an accident in an Indian city gearing up for elections. A lone girl believes it to be a murder. A porn film maker claims to have proof that will bring the government down. A high ranking bureaucrat is brought in by the government to damage control. The three of them blow the lid off the Indian dream called Shanghai.
Cast and crew details
The film stars Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Kalki Koechlin, Supriya Pathak Kapur, Anant Jogue, Pitobash and Farooque Shaikh.
Costume designed by Manoshi Nath & Rushi Sharma. Sound design by Pritam Das. Background Music by Michael McCleary. Editing by Namrata Rao. Production Design by Vandana Kataria. Music by Vishal & Shekhar. Cinematography by Nikos Andritsakis. Executive Producer Wasim Khan. Screenplay Urmi Juvekar & Dibakar Banerjee. Produced by Ajay Bijli, Sanjeev K. Bijli, Dibakar Banerjee & Priya Sreedharan. It is Directed by Dibakar Banerjee.