Music of Shanghai is composed by Vishal-Shekhar. The album has 8 tracks (including 2 remixes) among 8 tracks one is "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" which is satire on Indian system, One Item number "Important Kamariya" which is also an satire but not on India but people who come to India from foreign with typical mentality about India, one soulful sad song Duaa, one Sufi song Khudaya, and a song imagining a Prosperous India called Morcha
Music Album Information & Credits:
Movie/Album: Shanghai
Music Director: Vishal-Shekhar
Singers: Keerti Sagathia, Arun, Mandar, RN Iyer, Dibakar Mukherjee, Richa Sharma, Shekhar Ravjiani, Vishal Dadlani, Nandini Srikar, Arijit Singh, Raja Hasan, Srivatsa Krishna.
Lyricists: Dibakar Banerjee, Anvita Dutt Guptan, Neelesh Misra, Kumaar, Vishal Dadlani
Music on: T-Series
*Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Pitobash Tripathy, Farooq Sheikh, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Supriya Pathak, Anant Jog
Movie Release Date: 8th June, 2012
Lyrics List :
The film is set against the backdrop of the fictional bustling city of Bharat Nagar, which is hailed as an example of progress through infrastructure, with the backing of the local political party in coalition with the state government. State government is planning to build International Business Park, IBP, making the city a Shanghai.
The film opens with Bhaggu (Pitobash Tripathy) and Jaggu (Anant Jog) discussing petty matters before Bhaggu participates in the assault and tarring of a local bookstore owner who stocks the copies of Dr. Ahmadi's (Prosenjit Chatterjee) latest book, which criticises the local party Morcha for ignoring the plight of the poor in its quest for infrastructure. Ahmadi, a socialist academic based in New York, is scheduled to visit Bharat Nagar for a speech. Shalini (Kalki Koechlin), a former student of Ahmadi, lives in the area and is part of a small group that struggles to raise awareness about the underside of the local party's progress-related platform. Shalini's maid Gauri pleads with Shalini to stop Ahmadi from visiting, warning that he will not make it out alive. Shalini is alarmed but Gauri refuses to say more, and the visit remains as planned.
Jogi (Emraan Hashmi) works in a video shop of questionable repute with the owner Vinod. They have an assignment to shoot a promotional video with the local party leader Deshnayak (Kiran Karmarkar), but it is interrupted by an urgent phone call about a plan change. Deshnayak's men, headed by the intimidating Damle (Megh Pant), chase off the videographers but the camera keeps rolling. Elsewhere, TA Krishnan (Abhay Deol), an IAS officer and Vice Chairman of IBP, who is the favourite of the Chief Minister (Supriya Pathak), is assured by Principal Secretary Kaul (Farooq Sheikh) of a promotion and a trip to Stockholm. Kaul pesters Krishnan to quickly clear a file regarding a land acquisition tender for building a hospital.
Ahmadi arrives from New York and overcomes obstacles in the way of Morcha protesters and an apathetic police to deliver a scathing speech against the establishment. A mob gathers outside of the auditorium where he is speaking, and attacks his associates. As the speech finishes, Ahmadi heads out to confront the mob, only to find them quiet and under control. When he addresses them, he is suddenly run over by a Tempo driven by Jaggu (ostensibly an accident). One of Ahmadi's associates chases the Tempo and causes it to crash into a building, leading to the arrest of Jaggu, though Bhaggu is missing. Ahmadi survives but winds up comatose in a hospital. Shalini, confident that this was a planned attack and not an accident, notices that Jogi, who was on an assignment to capture the speech and its aftermath, has video footage of the event, but he doesn't seem to have found anything useful.
Back at the studio, Vinod informs Jogi that he has incriminating evidence against the IBP. He wants to set up a meeting with Shalini so he can sell her the tape. Dr. Ahmadi's wife Aruna (Tillotama Shome) arrives to take his body back to Delhi and seems to have no interest in his movement or getting to the bottom of the conspiracy, but relents and agrees to lead a media campaign demanding the truth. The pressure created by the campaign forces the CM's office to set up an inquiry commission headed by Krishnan. Krishnan finds that the police are obfuscating the facts and hiding evidence, so he summons SSP Chavan (Chinmay Mandlekar), but finds him no more co-operating than any other policeman. The inquiry is held in an open setting where viewers are allowed, but Shalini's sudden outburst on the first day gets her kicked out and banned. Jogi extends Vinod's offer to set up a meeting to Shalini, but she seems oblivious.
Eventually, Shalini relents and visits Jogi's studio, where Vinod confirms that he has a video that proves that Ahmadi's accident wasn't an accident but instead a conspiracy. Vinod explains that he can't give out the video for free and asks Shalini to make an offer but she leaves without making one. Later, Vinod is found dead in what looks like an accident involving his scooter and Jogi is forced to identify him. At a later Morcha rally where Jogi is filming, Damle approaches him and informs him that he knows about the tape while subtly threatening him. Jogi is about to pack up and leave town, but Shalini comes back to him and they discover many of the same faces in the mob after Ahmadi's speech and at the party rally, confirming the identity of the goons.
Meanwhile, Krishan gets conflicting statements from various police officers, and is convinced that they're hiding something. At the local police station, he determines that the relevant entries from the station diary are missing, and pulls rank to get to the truth – the entry in the diary was torn out at the behest of SSP Chavan. Secretary Kaul constantly nags him to finish up the inquiry (according to Kaul, it's a clear case of drunk driving and police miscommunication) and clear the land-acquisition proposal for the hospital. When examining the hospital file, Krishnan finds that there's only one tender and asks his aides to search for the other tenders.
Bhaggu keeps attending party rallies despite warnings from Damle to stay away and lay low. Damle bails Jaggu out of jail and tells him to stay at home and not move. After a brief altercation at a rally, Damle agrees to allow Bhaggu back at the rallies. Elsewhere, Shalini and her group get into Krishan's house to present him the CD of evidence linking IBP goons to the accident. Krishnan reluctantly accepts and after viewing the CD, sends out summons to several goons and the leader Deshnayak. In a public rally, Deshnayak rejects the summons, sparking up a riotous mob. Meanwhile, Jogi is ready to catch a train to return to his native Jodhpur (from where he ran away due to a caste dispute over a girl he loved) but is paid a visit by Shalini at the studio. Morcha thugs attack and ransack the studio, but Jogi and Shalini manage to escape and hide out on the roof until morning. In the chaos of the riots, Bhaggu is found dead, ostensibly from falling off a moving vehicle.
Shalini and Jogi manage to reach Shalini's home outside the town of Bharat Nagar, where she receives a panicked call from Gauri (her maid from earlier), claiming that Gauri's family's lives are in danger. Shalini and Jogi take advantage of a curfew (imposed due to the earlier rioting) to sneak into Bharat Nagar and to Gauri's place, where it is revealed that Jaggu is Gauri's husband. After an initial fit of rage, Shalini agrees to help them. Jogi suddenly remembers that Vinod kept the backup of the incriminating video on his hard disk, and sneaks back to the studio to get it. Meanwhile, Krishnan has a meeting set up with the Chief Minister about the growing scope of the inquiry. Krishnan is confident of unravelling the conspiracy if he is given more time. The Chief Minister, buoyant because of a national coalition (about to be announced the next day) that has opened a path for her to eventually ascend the ladder and become Prime Minister, offers to conduct an independent CBI inquiry and asks Krishan to hand over his interim reports. Krishnan is also presented with the approval of his trip to Stockholm and a position on the board of the multinational company responsible for the infrastructure boom in Bharat Nagar.
Jogi finds the CPU amid the wreckage of the studio and has a narrow escape from the thugs chasing him, Shalini, and Gauri's family. Eventually they all arrive at Krishnan's house, where they show him the incriminating video, which establishes beyond doubt that Deshnayak conspired to have Ahmadi killed and that the Chief Minister was complicit in this plan. Krishnan is dumbfounded by this new revelation. At a party for celebrating the new national coalition, Krishnan confronts Kaul with the truth. He vehemently denies involvement to start with, but then acknowledges it before threatening to ruin Krishnan's career. Undeterred, Krishnan blackmails Kaul with the information that he tried to pass the hospital land acquisition on a single tender despite having a clear conflict of interest. He makes it clear to Kaul that if Krishnan goes down, he will take Kaul down with him. Krishnan offers Kaul an out – inform the Home Minister's secretary of the plot, get the Governor to demand the CM's resignation, start a national investigation into the conspiracy, and save his own skin. He also approaches the Home Minister's secretary with news that Kaul has important evidence proving that Ahmadi was attacked and that the national party would have a PR disaster explaining why it entered into a coalition with a corrupt Chief Minister. He points out that action must be taken before the coalition is announced the next day. A disgusted Kaul, explaining that there was a real opportunity for progress under the Chief Minister (especially if she became the Prime Minister) that has now been wasted, asks Krishnan if this is the justice he wanted. Eventually Kaul leaves to talk to the Home Minister's secretary.
In the hospital, Ahmadi's family decide to take him off the ventilator.
An epilogue explains the fate of the major characters: Krishnan refused the chance to go to Stockholm to ensure that a national investigation is opened up as per his plan. Jogi escaped Bharat Nagar but as a pornographer wanted by the police, but is declared untraceable. Shalini wrote a book about the conspiracy, but it is banned in India. Aruna became a candidate for the upcoming election and her posters are being erected even as old housing is demolished to clear land for an infrastructure project.
The film opens with Bhaggu (Pitobash Tripathy) and Jaggu (Anant Jog) discussing petty matters before Bhaggu participates in the assault and tarring of a local bookstore owner who stocks the copies of Dr. Ahmadi's (Prosenjit Chatterjee) latest book, which criticises the local party Morcha for ignoring the plight of the poor in its quest for infrastructure. Ahmadi, a socialist academic based in New York, is scheduled to visit Bharat Nagar for a speech. Shalini (Kalki Koechlin), a former student of Ahmadi, lives in the area and is part of a small group that struggles to raise awareness about the underside of the local party's progress-related platform. Shalini's maid Gauri pleads with Shalini to stop Ahmadi from visiting, warning that he will not make it out alive. Shalini is alarmed but Gauri refuses to say more, and the visit remains as planned.
Jogi (Emraan Hashmi) works in a video shop of questionable repute with the owner Vinod. They have an assignment to shoot a promotional video with the local party leader Deshnayak (Kiran Karmarkar), but it is interrupted by an urgent phone call about a plan change. Deshnayak's men, headed by the intimidating Damle (Megh Pant), chase off the videographers but the camera keeps rolling. Elsewhere, TA Krishnan (Abhay Deol), an IAS officer and Vice Chairman of IBP, who is the favourite of the Chief Minister (Supriya Pathak), is assured by Principal Secretary Kaul (Farooq Sheikh) of a promotion and a trip to Stockholm. Kaul pesters Krishnan to quickly clear a file regarding a land acquisition tender for building a hospital.
Ahmadi arrives from New York and overcomes obstacles in the way of Morcha protesters and an apathetic police to deliver a scathing speech against the establishment. A mob gathers outside of the auditorium where he is speaking, and attacks his associates. As the speech finishes, Ahmadi heads out to confront the mob, only to find them quiet and under control. When he addresses them, he is suddenly run over by a Tempo driven by Jaggu (ostensibly an accident). One of Ahmadi's associates chases the Tempo and causes it to crash into a building, leading to the arrest of Jaggu, though Bhaggu is missing. Ahmadi survives but winds up comatose in a hospital. Shalini, confident that this was a planned attack and not an accident, notices that Jogi, who was on an assignment to capture the speech and its aftermath, has video footage of the event, but he doesn't seem to have found anything useful.
Back at the studio, Vinod informs Jogi that he has incriminating evidence against the IBP. He wants to set up a meeting with Shalini so he can sell her the tape. Dr. Ahmadi's wife Aruna (Tillotama Shome) arrives to take his body back to Delhi and seems to have no interest in his movement or getting to the bottom of the conspiracy, but relents and agrees to lead a media campaign demanding the truth. The pressure created by the campaign forces the CM's office to set up an inquiry commission headed by Krishnan. Krishnan finds that the police are obfuscating the facts and hiding evidence, so he summons SSP Chavan (Chinmay Mandlekar), but finds him no more co-operating than any other policeman. The inquiry is held in an open setting where viewers are allowed, but Shalini's sudden outburst on the first day gets her kicked out and banned. Jogi extends Vinod's offer to set up a meeting to Shalini, but she seems oblivious.
Eventually, Shalini relents and visits Jogi's studio, where Vinod confirms that he has a video that proves that Ahmadi's accident wasn't an accident but instead a conspiracy. Vinod explains that he can't give out the video for free and asks Shalini to make an offer but she leaves without making one. Later, Vinod is found dead in what looks like an accident involving his scooter and Jogi is forced to identify him. At a later Morcha rally where Jogi is filming, Damle approaches him and informs him that he knows about the tape while subtly threatening him. Jogi is about to pack up and leave town, but Shalini comes back to him and they discover many of the same faces in the mob after Ahmadi's speech and at the party rally, confirming the identity of the goons.
Meanwhile, Krishan gets conflicting statements from various police officers, and is convinced that they're hiding something. At the local police station, he determines that the relevant entries from the station diary are missing, and pulls rank to get to the truth – the entry in the diary was torn out at the behest of SSP Chavan. Secretary Kaul constantly nags him to finish up the inquiry (according to Kaul, it's a clear case of drunk driving and police miscommunication) and clear the land-acquisition proposal for the hospital. When examining the hospital file, Krishnan finds that there's only one tender and asks his aides to search for the other tenders.
Bhaggu keeps attending party rallies despite warnings from Damle to stay away and lay low. Damle bails Jaggu out of jail and tells him to stay at home and not move. After a brief altercation at a rally, Damle agrees to allow Bhaggu back at the rallies. Elsewhere, Shalini and her group get into Krishan's house to present him the CD of evidence linking IBP goons to the accident. Krishnan reluctantly accepts and after viewing the CD, sends out summons to several goons and the leader Deshnayak. In a public rally, Deshnayak rejects the summons, sparking up a riotous mob. Meanwhile, Jogi is ready to catch a train to return to his native Jodhpur (from where he ran away due to a caste dispute over a girl he loved) but is paid a visit by Shalini at the studio. Morcha thugs attack and ransack the studio, but Jogi and Shalini manage to escape and hide out on the roof until morning. In the chaos of the riots, Bhaggu is found dead, ostensibly from falling off a moving vehicle.
Shalini and Jogi manage to reach Shalini's home outside the town of Bharat Nagar, where she receives a panicked call from Gauri (her maid from earlier), claiming that Gauri's family's lives are in danger. Shalini and Jogi take advantage of a curfew (imposed due to the earlier rioting) to sneak into Bharat Nagar and to Gauri's place, where it is revealed that Jaggu is Gauri's husband. After an initial fit of rage, Shalini agrees to help them. Jogi suddenly remembers that Vinod kept the backup of the incriminating video on his hard disk, and sneaks back to the studio to get it. Meanwhile, Krishnan has a meeting set up with the Chief Minister about the growing scope of the inquiry. Krishnan is confident of unravelling the conspiracy if he is given more time. The Chief Minister, buoyant because of a national coalition (about to be announced the next day) that has opened a path for her to eventually ascend the ladder and become Prime Minister, offers to conduct an independent CBI inquiry and asks Krishan to hand over his interim reports. Krishnan is also presented with the approval of his trip to Stockholm and a position on the board of the multinational company responsible for the infrastructure boom in Bharat Nagar.
Jogi finds the CPU amid the wreckage of the studio and has a narrow escape from the thugs chasing him, Shalini, and Gauri's family. Eventually they all arrive at Krishnan's house, where they show him the incriminating video, which establishes beyond doubt that Deshnayak conspired to have Ahmadi killed and that the Chief Minister was complicit in this plan. Krishnan is dumbfounded by this new revelation. At a party for celebrating the new national coalition, Krishnan confronts Kaul with the truth. He vehemently denies involvement to start with, but then acknowledges it before threatening to ruin Krishnan's career. Undeterred, Krishnan blackmails Kaul with the information that he tried to pass the hospital land acquisition on a single tender despite having a clear conflict of interest. He makes it clear to Kaul that if Krishnan goes down, he will take Kaul down with him. Krishnan offers Kaul an out – inform the Home Minister's secretary of the plot, get the Governor to demand the CM's resignation, start a national investigation into the conspiracy, and save his own skin. He also approaches the Home Minister's secretary with news that Kaul has important evidence proving that Ahmadi was attacked and that the national party would have a PR disaster explaining why it entered into a coalition with a corrupt Chief Minister. He points out that action must be taken before the coalition is announced the next day. A disgusted Kaul, explaining that there was a real opportunity for progress under the Chief Minister (especially if she became the Prime Minister) that has now been wasted, asks Krishnan if this is the justice he wanted. Eventually Kaul leaves to talk to the Home Minister's secretary.
In the hospital, Ahmadi's family decide to take him off the ventilator.
An epilogue explains the fate of the major characters: Krishnan refused the chance to go to Stockholm to ensure that a national investigation is opened up as per his plan. Jogi escaped Bharat Nagar but as a pornographer wanted by the police, but is declared untraceable. Shalini wrote a book about the conspiracy, but it is banned in India. Aruna became a candidate for the upcoming election and her posters are being erected even as old housing is demolished to clear land for an infrastructure project.
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