Wake Up Sid to Salaam Bombay, 5 Movies that send a love letter to Mumbai

Mumbai, the city that never sleeps, also never stops entertaining you with its unique attractions, glamour, and glamour. Mumbai is known as the “city of dreams.” As their backdrop, countless Bollywood movies over the years have written love letters to India’s most famous cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata.

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Bollywood has portrayed Mumbai in a variety of ways, sometimes romanticizing its slums, other times exalting its underworld, and still other times showing the gritty side of the predominately glitzy film business.

Here are five films from Bollywood that perfectly capture the essence of Mumbai’s small lanes and heritages.

Wake Up Sid

We see Bombay through the eyes of Aisha Banerjee (Konkona Sen Sharma), an aspiring writer from Kolkata who relocates to the city of dreams to pursue her career, and Sid (Ranbir Kapoor), a young spoilt brat who is born and raised in the city, in the 2009 Hindi drama film Wake Up Sid, a coming-of-age story. We catch a glimpse of a young and optimistic Bombay from the first rains to Aisha enjoying tea at Marine Drive by the sea. After watching Sid and Aisha’s friendship develop over the course of a stroll through the city’s alleyways, the movie depicts a metropolis that you will fall in love with right away.

Where to watch: Netflix

The Lunchbox

Mumbai’s two lifelines—the dabbawalas and the local trains—are beautifully portrayed in the movie The Lunchbox, starring Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur. The movie tells the tale of how a lovely and sincere friendship forms between the two when a lunchbox accidentally ends up with the incorrect person and how Khan discovers Shaikh (Nawazzuddin Siddiqui) among the villagers as a buddy and a protege.