Movie Name : Traffic Signal
Year of Release : 2007
Release Date : 2 February 2007
Genre : Drama
Banner : Percept Picture Company
Producer : Percept Picture Company
Executive Producer : Madhur Bhandarkar
Director : Madhur Bhandarkar
Cast : Kunal Khemu, Neetu Chandra, Ranveer Shorey, Raja Pandit, Upyendra Limaye, Manish Mehta, Naseer Abdullah, Sandeep Mehta, Sudhir Mishra
Special Appearance : Konkona Sen Sharma
Music Director : Raju Singh, Shamir Tandon, Kailash, Jagjit Singh, Hardeep Sidhu
Lyricist : Sameer, Kailash Kher, Jagjit Singh, Khilesh Sharma
Cinematographer : Mahesh Limaye
Story Writer : Sachin Yardi, Madhur Bhandarkar
Dialogue Writer : Sachin Yardi, Madhur Bhandarkar
Screenplay Writer : Sachin Yardi, Madhur Bhandarkar
Editor : Deven Murdeshwar
Art Director : Nitin Desai
Production Designer : Nitin Desai
Action Director : Harish Shetty
Costume Designer : Shefalina
Sound Designer : Resul Pookutty
Line Producer : Akhuri Sinha
Choreographer : Umesh Jadhav
Playback Singer : Bhupinder, Hariharan, Sangeet Haldipur, Kunal Ganjawala, Yogita Pathak, Vaishali Samant, Bhavika, Vinod Rathod, Baba Saigal, Neerja Pandit, Raj Pandit, Naveen Prabhakar, Kailash Kher, Jagjit Singh, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Sultan Khan, Chitra
Publicity Designer : P9 Integrated
Photographer : Mahesh Limaye
Associate Director : Niranjan Patwardhan
Synopsis : Take a walk down its mean streets and one gets the essence of Mumbai; pause a while at one of its Traffic Signal and one gets the essence of life. In a day scores of people go past multitudes of Traffic Signal's scattered all over the city. People sitting in their vehicles impatiently wait to get going. Though this waiting lasts but a few minutes it feels like a lifetime to them.
However unknown to them there thrives an industry that derives its livelihood from these people waiting at the Traffic Signals. The work force of this industry is not less than that of an average sized multinational. It comprises of a gamut of people thrown in together by fate or hunger. There are oddities to the likes of eunuchs, handicapped and impaired beggars, lepers, street kids, drug addicts, and prostitutes, vendors selling flowers, fruits, sunscreens to sunglasses.
Yet it doesn't end there. There is an intriguing world lurking behind all the poverty seen at these traffic signals. Each signal is said to have a manager who collects a certain percentage of the day's revenue from each of those working at the signal. The pecking order broadens further and each manager is supposed to hand over his weekly collection to the person who is in charge of the region that covers a dozen or more signals. The ladder is raised in its hierarchy and the collector of each region deposits the money with the local Mafioso, (a local king pin) who then ensures that it reaches offshore to his master.
Traffic Signal is a story of one such signal, which is representative of all other signals around the city. Silsila a young orphan, who was born and who took his first tiny step at the signal is now its manager. For him the Signal is his workplace and a home where he lived. He's a sensitive soul with a heart of gold who considers the people like his family. He loves all those working at the signal, which in a way is his family but would spare nobody when it comes to business. He has a mentor, named Jaffar, who also is the collector of his region. Both he and Jaffar work for the local Mafioso, Haji and would even lay down their lives for him. Inherent in the social structure, lies a nexus between the local Mafia and Politicians, though at that level Silsila is almost nonexistent. Yet by a force of circumstance Silsila gets drawn into the bigger game and finds himself to be responsible for the annihilation of his own world, something to which he's dedicated his life. His deeds are irreversible and he would most certainly not be able to get things back to normal.
What would Silsila do in such a situation? Someone who had never hurt anybody in his lifetime. A person with a heart of gold who was left to fend for himself and the future of those who'd been devastated because of him. Silsila being a practical person knows that he can never take on Haji who is too powerful and way beyond him. Yet no matter what and how he has to get his life and the lives of his family at the Traffic Signal back on track how he gets around to do it is the summing up of the film Traffic Signal.
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