City of God (2011 film)

City of God
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lijo Jose Pellissery
Written by	Babu Janardhanan
Produced by	Anitha Anil Mathew
Starring	Prithviraj Sukumaran Indrajith Sukumaran Rohini Raghuvaran Parvathy Thiruvothu Rajeev Pillai Rima Kallingal Swetha Menon
Narrated by	Prithviraj Sukumaran
Cinematography	Sujith Vasudev
Edited by	Manoj
Music by	Prashant Pillai
Production company	Mary Matha Creations
Distributed by	AP International
Release date	23 April 2011 (2011-04-23) (India)
Running time	145 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

City of God is a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery and written by Babu Janardhanan. It tells the story of Tamil migrant workers and a team of land mafia gangsters in the city of Cochin, Kerala. It stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indrajith Sukumaran, Rajeev Pillai, Rohini, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Rima Kallingal and Swetha Menon.

The film uses the hyperlink cinema format as its narrative structure, a technique first used by Satyajit Ray in his film Kanchenjungha (1962). City of God is not a remake and shares no resemblance to the 2002 Brazilian film of the same name, although both use non-linear narrative structure. The film was subsequently dubbed and released in Hindi under the same name by Wide Angle Media in 2014.

City of God was one of the first among the "Malayalam New Wave" films, although the trend was just becoming recognised during 2011. Despite getting critical acclaim, the film was an average venture at the box office.^[1]