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Released
2007 · FILM

Life in a Metro

An ambitious call‑centre executive in Mumbai strives to climb the corporate ladder while juggling tangled romances and moral compromises, forcing him to choose between career triumph and personal integrity.

“One City. Countless Emotions.”

Directed by
Anurag Basu
Written by
Anurag Basu, Sanjeev Dutta
Runtime
132 min
Language
HI
ComedyDramaMusical
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

This ensemble drama follows a group of aspiring individuals in Mumbai as they navigate the challenges of love and the pursuit of success, with the story primarily centered on an ambitious young call centre executive.

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Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Akiv AliShot by Bobby SinghScored by Pritam ChakrabortyDesigned by Rajat Poddar

Box Office

2007 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.9M

Budget$1.1M
Worldwide gross$2.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $79K

Peak 35 theaters

Also known as

  • Metro: Die Liebe kommt nie zu spätde
  • Life in a... Metroen
  • Partir dans un... Metrofr

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