Updated On: 08 September, 2013 11:03 AM IST | | Deepali Dhingra
Mumbai's sprawling chawls have often been fodder for films and television shows and now, a mobile game as well. But can certain inspirations have negative social implications? Deepali Dhingra opens the debate
When one watches Sai Paranjai’s masterpiece, Katha, made in 1983, the one aspect of the film that rises above the beautifulperformances by Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval and Farooque Shaikh, is the turmoil of the chawl and its various inhabitants. In Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, Shah Rukh Khan arrives in thecity to settle in a chawl, from where he rises up to become, well, ‘a gentleman’.

A screengrab of the new mobile game Fighter Lukkha