Director: Pankaj Advani
Producer: Moserbaer and Seven Entertainment
Music: Ranjit Barot
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Rimi Sen, Anupam Kher, Chunkey Pandey and Dilip Prabhawalkar.
Guru and Ganpat are small-time car theives and partners in crime.Guru steals cars while Ganpat gives them a makeover in order to sell them for tidy profits. Once while returning home Guru steals a Mercedes parked outside a brothel not knowing that the car belongs to a gangster, Faujdaar. Along with the car they also find Rs 1 crore in the boot. When Guru attempts to sell the Mercedes to Suleman Supari, his plans rebound when Supari recognises the car. He informs Faujdaar who confronts Guru for the money. Guru and Ganpat fall into trouble when the latter meets with an accident and loses his memory. Ganpat has no clue about where he has hidden the money. Meanwhile, Guru, who almost resigns himself to death, bumps into Mona, a con-woman who had teamed up with him in a small con-job a few years ago. Both of them manage to raise the required amount but end up losing the money. The film chronicles a series of hilarious events amd nerve-wracking moments.
The film started off as Hungama Mumbai Ishtyle, got revised as Currytown and finally developed into Sankat City. Somehow, from its inception, I instinctively felt that the city wouldn’t be just the backdrop for this comic caper, it would be somewhat like a character. A city gone mad, a few of its desperate neurotic inhabitants, where could it culminate? Sankat City is a wild roller-coaster romp through the underbelly of a teeming metropolis, featuring an assortment of zany characters – a car-thief, a con-woman, gangster, godman, film producer, builder, actor, his duplicate, mechanic, prostitute, chauffeur, hitman, cabbie etc; desperate men and women shadow-boxing with the vagaries of chance and fate, whose madcap antics result in their lives getting inextricably entwined with each other, leading to madness and mayhem.Money, murder, revenge, greed, fear, deceit, not to mention fun-’n’-frolic and last but not the least, romance, form the ingredients of this fast-paced masala comic thriller.
THE BUZZ
A major portion of the film was shot at a garbage dump in Gorai, Mumbai. The cast and crew not only shot for the scene there but also had breakfast, lunch and dinner on location. Some of the cast members even fell into the slush while filming.
