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The city was remade by the Dutta Samant-led textile strike. Many Bollywood film directors started making politically relevant films on textile strikes in Bombay, and textile mill strikes have become an important theme of modern day Indian films. Producer Sangeeta Ahir, daughter-in-law of Bombay’s underworld don-turned-politician Arun Gawli’s sister, is making a film on the Great Bombay Textile Strike worker movement of the city.
- City of Gold (2010 film) - directed by Mahesh Manjrekar
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