Dhobi Ghat Special Screening

Aamir Khan's latest film Dhobi Ghat is to release without an interval.

The Kiran Rao-directed project defies Indian cinema conventions in not having a break midway through the film, reports Hindustan Times.

Siddharth Roy Kapur of UTV outlined: "Aamir spoke to all the multiplexes and they agreed to no interval.

"Dhobi Ghat is only 95 minutes long and structured to be watched in one sitting without an interval, so yes, the multiplexes have seen the wisdom of his logic."

Rang De Basanti filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra supported this change in screening tradition, stating: "Intervals are an unnatural break applied in the middle of a film to sell samosas."

The production, which follows the lives of four individuals across Mumbai, releases worldwide on January 21.



Written and directed by Aamir Khan's wife, Kiran Rao, the Aamir Khan produced movie follows four different characters who all live and work in the washer area known as Dhobi Ghat near Mahalaxmi Station on the Western Railway in Mumbai. The washers, who are called dhobis, work with local hotels and hospitals and their job consists of washing clothes in the open air. This 'outdoor laundry' has even become a tourist attraction in Mumbai.
Dhobi Ghat stars Prateik Babbar, Aamir Khan, Monica Dogra and Kriti Malhotra. Aamir Khan plays a painter named Arun, Prateik Babbar portrays Munna, a washer in the dhobi area, Kriti Malhotra plays a Muslim girl called Yasmin and Monica Dogra portrays a banker named Shai who is only in India on holiday.
The dramatic movie follows these four individuals and shows how their lives are intertwined and changed by random encounters. "Dhobi Ghat is my homage to Mumbai and its people - people on the trains, in the boats, stuck in traffic, perched on the construction sites, sitting by the sea, thinking of tomorrow," director Kiran Rao told reporters. "What started five years ago as a vague idea is now a 100-minute reality and I am most excited and very nervous."
Shai and Arun meet during the opening of Arun's new art show. They end up spending the night together but in the morning they part ways thinking they will probably never meet again. Munna, a young dhobi whose job it is to wash Shai's clothes, dreams of becoming an actor. He convinces Shai to help him with his portfolio and in return he promises the banker to show her the real city of Mumbai. They become friends but Munna soon falls in love with Shai.