MUMBAI: Reliance Home Video and Games and PVR Home Entertainment has released the Blu-ray, DVD and VCD of Dibakar Banerjee?s critically-acclaimed film Shanghai.

The film is the story of a small town somewhere in India that is poised to become the next Shanghai. Billions of dollars are being poured into an upcoming International Business Park there.

On the eve of its launch, a drunk truck driver mows down a prominent social activist. A lone girl believes it to be a murder, supported by a porn filmmaker who claims to have the proof that will bring the government down. Following a lot of cry from the locals, a high ranking bureaucrat is brought in to investigate the accident.

"Shanghai is a political thriller that looks at how politics - the tools of power- is remote controlled by the governing class over the poor, uneducated masses in India. This is the background to the Indian adaptation of the story loosely adapted from the book Z, written in 1966 to reveal the facts behind the assassination of a prominent Greek Liberal MP in 1963.

It is the story of State oppression and collusion in crime - a theme I think very relevant to contemporary India. The protagonists of Shanghai, instead of being all good, or all bad are a mix of courage and cowardice, ego and desire, ambition and conscience - normal Indians, trying to get by with the bewildering challenges of modern India," says Banerjee.

The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol and Kalki Koechlin among others.

Shanghai will be available on Blu-ray (Rs 799), DVD (Rs 299) and VCD (Rs 115). All formats will be available across all major home entertainment stores in India.

Mumbai : Global Advertisers, India?s leading outdoor agency in its class, has been roped in to create outdoor buzz for the soon-to-be-released comedy movie Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai, starring Sunil Shetty, Rajpal Yadav and Udita Goswami. As part of the mandate, Global Advertisers is conducting a promotional campaign for the film through its premium hoardings across Mumbai.

Sanjeev Gupta, managing director, Global Advertisers, said, ?We have engaged best of our hoardings to promote this movie across Mumbai. The campaign has been tailored to tap audiences of all age groups. In our endevour to promote Bollywood, Global has introduced various attractive offers for the film industry for this monsoon season that have benefited several clients. We are glad to add Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai to our achievements.?

The agency had previously carried out OOH campaigns for Bollywood blockbusters such as ?Shanghai?, Tere Naal Love Ho gaya?, ?and ?Dirty Pictures? in 2011.

?Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai? will release on July 20, 2012. The movie is being promoted by Filmy Box Movies.