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Mumbai Saga, which will be soon released, is a powerful story revolving around the events that led to the transformation of Bombay into Mumbai. Based on the events that transpired between the 1980s and 1990s are dunked in politics, grime, crime, filth, blood, and bullets. The makers announced the commencement with the string of men who would take the Saga to the final conclusion. It’s time to meet the men that hold the fort of Mumbai Saga.

John Abraham and Emraan Hashmi play as Amartya Rao and officer Vijay Savarka respectively who are pitted against each other, Mahesh Manjrekar plays Bhau, who culled out of the political atmosphere that existed in the Bombay of yore. Amole Gupte as Gaitonde, Prateik Babbar as Amar’s brother Arjun, Rohit Bose Roy as Baba, Shaad Randhawa as Jagannath, Vivaan Parashar as Sadashiv, Suniel Shetty as Sada Anna, Gulshan Grover as Nari Khan...

An idealistic teacher starting in a new school and changing the conventional way of teaching to completely shatter the expectations of parents and teachers about some students in one way or the other has been a popular subject for films. From the 1989 Hollywood film “Dead Poets Society” to the 2018 Bollywood film “Hichki” there are a lot of such instances. A sub-section of this type of films are the films in which the school will be in a remote village where education isn’t given a lot of importance and this new teacher, with their great wisdom and kindness, change the lives of students. “Bardo” is the latest entry into these type of films from the Marathi language.

“Bardo” screened at Mumbai Film Festival

“Bardo” tries to be different from these films by making the new teacher more naive and still trying to cope with her failures while trying to live up to everyone’s expectations.