Mumbhai Connection
After travelling the globe, gracing several film festivals and garnering appreciations, ‘Mumbhai Connection’ is now gearing up for a theatrical release in India. The movie is an Indo-American flick that has well known actors from both the countries. The movie is about an Indian who gets trapped in the notorious world of gangsters and murderers. The movie is shot in Atlanta, one of the most awe inspiring places in US.After taking Kannada box office by storm with his two super hit films ‘Joke Falls’ and ‘Rambo’, ‘Mumbhai Connection’ is director Atlanta Nagendra’s first Hindi language venture. Nagendra felt that the subject matter needed to be shot in Hindi since the concept of "bhai" and "mafia" works better in Hindi.
Award-winning composer, Praveen Duth Stephen, scored the background track as well as the movie’s item number "Dance with me" sung by India’s top female playback singer Sunidhi Chauhan.
What happens when Office Space meets the Godfather? Mumbhai Connection! The first Hindi language feature film set and shot in Atlanta, GA is a dark comedy based on the brilliant insight that "Even the mafia run a business. Why will they not need IT services?" It explores various issues that are relevant today - immigration, unemployment, corporate struggle, recession - and does all this in a tongue-in-cheek Bollywood format that even includes an "item" dance number. The film is directed by Atlanta Nagendra.
The story is simple - when Faisal, a hard working and honest Indian IT salesman in Atlanta, is laid off from his job, his troubles seem never-ending. Just as he is ready to give up and go back to India, his fate changes. In a wild 70s themed Indian party, Faisal runs into an old childhood friend who just happens to be the recruiter for a hot new IT (Information Technology) startup called BA-IT. Over much drinking and partying, Faisal lands a job there. Ka-ching! However, things are not what they seem. Faisal is forced to sell IT services to the Atlanta mafia...and they are not buying! His life is in danger as he struggles to figure out what else he can sell to them and how. With no other way out, Faisal is forced to make his boldest sale yet - a sale that is going to require all the persuasion and creativity he can muster, an item number, and the courage to "go boldly where no salesman has gone before."
For the records, ‘Mumbhai Connection’ has been screened at a variety of international festivals in the US and India including Third World International Film Festival, Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, Atlanta Asian Film Festival, Bangalore International Film Festival, BronzeLens Film Festival, Dixie Film Festival and South Asian Film Festival. The film won the Best Feature award (Third World Independent Film Festival 2011), Best Feature award (Atlanta Asian Film Festival 2011), Best Feature Runner-up award (Urban Mediamakers Film Festival) and Best Key Art award (Urban Mediamakers Film Festival).
‘Mumbhai Connection’ is slated to release on 22nd August 2014.