The shots of Reading Architecture Practice Mumbai are set against sweeping aerial shots of city

Is a city its striking skyline or its ground realities - the chaotic lanes, the milling bazaars and the traffic coming to a grinding halt? It is both, would argue the filmmakers of a new documentary film that explores architecture practice in maximum city. "When we made the film, I was reminded of [Fritz] Lang’s Metropolis - you have this hazy kind of sense of floating through the city as well as the urban sprawl on the ground. We wanted to look at different scales of the city, the aerial and the micro," says architect Rajeev Thakker.