Raj & DK reveal dark alternate ending of Shor in the City; how they almost cast Ethan Hawke | Bollywood News
It’s curious, and a little disheartening, how conversations about films set in Mumbai often drift past Shor in the City, that scrappy, restless indie from Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, made at a time when their instinct for marrying mischief with tenderness hadn’t yet found a wide audience. The film carries many lives within it. It moves like a web of intersecting stories, yes, but more than that, it listens closely to both the noise of the city but also to more private unrest each character bears within. There’s a kind of urgency to the way it unfolds, as though survival here is both a physical act and an emotional negotiation. And anchoring this chaos is an ensemble that feels deeply in tune with the world it inhabits: Tusshar Kapoor, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Preeti Desai, Girija Oak, Radhika Apte, Nikhil Dwivedi, Pitobash Tripathy, Sundeep Kishan, Zakir Hussain, and Amit Mistry, each of them meeting the film on its own terms. Time has only been kinder to Shor in the City. Fifteen years on, Raj and DK, …
