Mohalla Assi (Hindi: मोहल्ला अस्सी) is an upcoming 2015 Bollywood satirical film starring Sunny Deol,[1] and directed by Chandra Prakash Dwivedi [2]
The film is loosely based on Dr. Kashinath Singh’s popular Hindi novel Kashi Ka Assi, a satire on the commercialisation of the pilgrimage city, and fake gurus who lure the foreign tourists. Assi Ghat is a ghat in Varanasi (Banaras) on the banks of Ganges River, and the film is based in a famous and historical ‘Mohalla’ (locality) by the ghat, on the southern end of Banaras. Also starring Ravi Kishen and Sakshi Tanwar, the film is set in the post-independence period.
