Dharavi (film)

Dharavi (City of Dreams) is a critically acclaimed 1991 Hindi film, directed and written by Sudhir Mishra.

The film was a joint NFDC-Doordarshan production and went on to winning many awards in the following year, including the 1992 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. The film was also invited at the London Film Festival, Mannheim International Film Festival and Festival 3 Continents Nantes in 1992.

The film stars Shabana Azmi and Om Puri in lead roles, and is set amidst the backdrop of India's largest slums, Dharavi.

Plot

Raj Karan Yadav (Om Puri) is a scrappy taxi driver, who somehow scraps a living in the big metropolis of Bombay (now Mumbai), driving a taxi every day. He lives in one room tenement with his wife (Shabana Azmi) in Dharavi, one of the world’s largest slums, where the film is set.

The film follows his fortunes: as he tries to breakout from the clutches of poverty, devising plans and investing all his money in a dubious schemes which eventually blow out on him, coming under the eye of unscrupulous politician and local goons, yet his dreams continue…

Dharavi

Dharavi is a locality in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It houses one of the largest slums in the world.

Dharavi slum was founded in 1882 during the British colonial era. The slum grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government, and from rural poor migrating into urban Mumbai (then called Bombay). It is currently a multi-religious, multi-ethnic, diverse settlement. Estimates of Dharavi's total population vary between 700,000 to about 1 million.

Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous household enterprises employ many of the slum residents. It exports goods around the world. Leather, textiles and pottery products are among the goods made inside Dharavi by the slum residents. The total annual turnover has been estimated at over US$500 million.

Dharavi has suffered from many epidemics and other disasters. It currently covers an area of 217 hectares (535 acres).

History

In the 18th century, Dharavi was an island with predominantly mangrove swamp .Daravi is a historical spelling of the area. It was a sparsely populated village before the late 19th century, inhabited by Koli fishermen. Dharavi was then referred to as the village of Koliwadas.

Dharavi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Dharavi Vidhan Sabha constituency (Marathi: धारावी विधानसभा मतदारसंघ) is one of the ten constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha located in the Mumbai City district.

It is a part of the Mumbai South Central (Lok Sabha constituency) along with five other assembly constituencies, viz Sion Koliwada, Wadala, Mahim, from Mumbai City district and Chembur and Anushakti Nagar from Mumbai Suburban district.

Members of Legislative Assembly

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Election results

Assembly Elections 2004

Assembly Elections 2009

Assembly Elections 2014

Dharavi (disambiguation)

Dharavi may refer to: