Dhobi Ghat

Dhobi Ghat (2010) is an Indian drama you can watch online on iFILM. Four strangers drift into each other's orbit across Mumbai: a withdrawn painter, an American banker on holiday, a teenage laundry boy from the slums, and a young wife whose video diaries end up in the wrong hands.

This is Kiran Rao's first film as director, and it stays deliberately quiet — none of the songs and dance numbers you might expect from Indian cinema. Aamir Khan plays the reclusive artist, Monica Dogra the visitor who grows obsessed with the city, and Prateik Babbar the young dhobi hoping to climb out of the washermen's world. Mumbai itself is the fifth character: monsoon rain, laundry strung across rooftops, stone steps down to the sea. A small, melancholy mood piece for anyone who likes a story built from coincidence and things left unsaid. Stream Dhobi Ghat online on iFILM.