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Stories Set in Mumbai
Maximum City: locals, slums, studios and sea links — Mumbai contains multitudes per square mile. These ten span Shantaram to Sacred Games; filter the city's stories by era on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 32 books, 250 movies, 4 TV shows and 3 games set in Mumbai.
Slumdog Millionaire
A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop…
Extraction
Tyler Rake a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord.
My Name Is Khan
Rizwan Khan a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother Mandira in San Francisco. After 9/11 Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a…
Hotel Mumbai
Mumbai India November 26 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives making unthinkable sacrifices to…
Sense8
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people…
The Lunchbox
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in…
Monkey Man
Kid an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where night after night wearing a gorilla mask he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage…
Om Shanti Om
Reincarnated 30 years after being killed in a suspicious on-set fire a small-time actor is determined to punish the person who ignited the blaze.
Gully Boy
A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.
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