Modern Love Mumbai - Season 1
Modern Love Mumbai is an anthology of 6 diverse yet universal stories of multiple human emotions, all rooted in love. It explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as well as its effects on the human connection. Each episode of this Indian edition of the hugely popular original version brings to life a different story that has been inspired by the New York Times' beloved Modern Love column. It is the journey of 6 protagonists from different backgrounds, with different experiences and varied quests that put them on the path of love and self-discovery. These are 6 unique stories of modern love in all its glory. Love stories of not just romance but self-love, familial love, the love of partnerships, friendship, and the love that emerges out of kindness towards others but most importantly towards oneself. Modern is a characteristic here and does not refer to technology; it refers to something urban. How a cosmopolitan, emerging, developing city of the third world shapes and connects people, sometimes strangers. These 6 stories, driven by the vision of 6 eclectic front-running filmmakers of Indian cinema, also explore different textures, parts and faces of the city of dreams, Mumbai.
Modern Love Mumbai is an anthology of 6 diverse yet universal stories of multiple human emotions, all rooted in love. It explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as well as its effects on the human connection. Each episode of this Indian edition of the hugely popular original version brings to life a different story that has been inspired by the New York Times' beloved Modern Love column. It is the journey of 6 protagonists from different backgrounds, with different experiences and varied quests that put them on the path of love and self-discovery. These are 6 unique stories of modern love in all its glory. Love stories of not just romance but self-love, familial love, the love of partnerships, friendship, and the love that emerges out of kindness towards others but most importantly towards oneself. Modern is a characteristic here and does not refer to technology; it refers to something urban. How a cosmopolitan, emerging, developing city of the third world shapes and connects people, sometimes strangers. These 6 stories, driven by the vision of 6 eclectic front-running filmmakers of Indian cinema, also explore different textures, parts and faces of the city of dreams, Mumbai.
Executive Produced by
Pritish Nandy
Produced by
Pritish Nandy Communications
Directed by
Shonali Bose, Hansal Mehta, Alankrita Shrivastava, Dhruv Sehgal, Nupur Asthana, Vishal Bhardwaj
Cast
Fatima Sana Shaik
Bhupendra Jadawat
Dilip Prabhavalkar
Tanuja
Pratik Gandhi
Ranveer Brar
Sarika
Danesh Razvi
Yeo Yann Yann
Naseeruddin Shah
Meiyang Chang
Wamiqa Gabbi
Masaba Gupta
Ritwik Bhowmik
Prateik Babbar
Dolly Singh
Aadar Malik
Chitrangada Singh
Arshad Warsi
Lali is a cook, and her husband Lutfi a security guard, in an upscale apartment in Mumbai, far from their native Kashmir. Long days end with ice cream - one cup, two spoons - until suddenly he dumps her, breaking her heart and shattering her dreams. All he leaves behind is his old bicycle. Together, can Lali and her cycle cross the bridge to a better life?
Manzu, a gay man who grew up in a conservative household, is torn between the love for his partner and Baai, his ailing and ever doting grandmother. When he visits her in their ancestral home, the past catches up with him as the pain and pangs of his childhood take him back to a reality he had long left behind. After all these years, will Manzu find the strength to tell his truth to Baai?
Mumbai Dragon, set against the backdrop of the Indian Chinese community, tells the tale of Sui's overbearing love for her son which is threatened when he shares his portion of love with his girlfriend.
A young man in his late 20s confesses to a woman in her 60s, that he is sexually attracted to her. My Beautiful Wrinkles chronicles a few days in the life of Dilbar Sodhi, when she has to grapple with a young man’s declaration of sexual interest in her. She is rattled. But it sets her on a path of dealing with the baggage from her past, and re-discovering the joy of life. Wrinkles notwithstanding.
I Love Thane is Saiba's journey of finding the right modern man amidst the plethora of men on dating apps. However, life has other plans for her when she meets someone who isn't the 'modern man' she had set out to find and is instead, timeless! This is Saiba's Modern Love with not a Modern Man.
In her 40s, Latika is caught in the humdrum of marriage & motherhood and regrets not having fulfilled her dream of being a novelist. One eventful day she finds herself re-evaluating all her choices in life thus far, even her marriage. As bittersweet memories & 'what if' fantasies run parallel in her mind, she understands that questioning her past is futile, the answers all lie within her.
Executive Produced by
Pritish Nandy
Produced by
Pritish Nandy Communications
Directed by
Shonali Bose, Hansal Mehta, Alankrita Shrivastava, Dhruv Sehgal, Nupur Asthana, Vishal Bhardwaj
Cast
Fatima Sana Shaik
Bhupendra Jadawat
Dilip Prabhavalkar
Tanuja
Pratik Gandhi
Ranveer Brar
Sarika
Danesh Razvi
Yeo Yann Yann
Naseeruddin Shah
Meiyang Chang
Wamiqa Gabbi
Masaba Gupta
Ritwik Bhowmik
Prateik Babbar
Dolly Singh
Aadar Malik
Chitrangada Singh
Arshad Warsi