简 介 本片是一部反映印度市井生活的影片,着重描写了印度商业和娱乐中心孟买低级庸俗的一面,影片中的角色包括暴徒、扒手、皮条客、易装癖者以及妓女等。 该片由一些生活片断组成,在孟买的主要街道拍摄60了个人物,这些人物你在每天的任何交通讯号灯前都能看得到,影片将显示他们的生活、他们的想法以及他们的沉浮。 而孟买是一个内容丰富的城市,既有印度最富有最迷人的名人,也有最贫穷的人,包括数百万想到这个城市实现从暴怒到暴富的梦想的移民。孟买的下层社会由黑手党老大、下三流的暴徒以及廉价的夜生活控制着。所谓夜生活,主要就是酒吧里面的生活,年轻的妇女穿着传统的印度服装为顾客跳舞,要么能跳进宝莱坞,要么就会被赶走……Silsila is the "manager" of one traffic signal, that is he collects the "hafta" (protection tax) from each signal squatter plying his trade. There's Tsunami, a little scavenger boy, there's Rani - a Gujrati girl selling ethnic clothes on the sidewalk, and there's Dominic - a drug addict and the prostitute who feels for him. Then there's Silsila himself, who's an orphan, and reports to Jaffer bhai the local goon. Jaffer bhai in turn reports to Haji the leader of the local mafia. And the hafta, from each traffic signal and territory Haji controls, seeps upward to the politicians. Life is routine, until Silsila and Jaffer bhai get caught up in a chain of events which threatens the very source of their livelihood - the traffic signal itself, and Silsila must either remain mute with fear or protest . . .