but far from the slums Mumbai is also a city of Dreams especially thanks to Bollywood its glamorous film industry which produces nearly 2 000 films a year [Applause] downtown trendy neighborhoods are booming such as bandra this is where Janita set herself up as a model and businesswoman to be honest Bombay is a city of Dreams amid the people of mumbai's thirst for success and the battle for survival the sprawling megalopolis is the symbol of the Indian dream the biggest slum in Asia can be found in the heart of Mumbai the dharavi slums [Music] one million people crammed into just under one square mile [Music] population density 20 times higher than that of Paris the electricity grid is precarious water is only available two hours per day [Music] and the sewage system is non-existent [Music] behind its obvious poverty the slum is packed with Enterprise it is home to thousands of businesses small auto repair shops where workers cut car parts [Music] or even make clothes [Music] Mahesh is 27 years old he grew up in dharavi this morning he received some Goods that are very valuable to him some plastic containers Mahesh has found a way to become rich by clearing Mumbai of its garbage foreign [Music] 25 employees for 200 rupees a day which is around three dollars the workers sought the plastic waste according to color and various other qualities another night [Music] one separated the plastic is crushed for six dollars a day these men stick their hands into this machine without any protection then the bags of pellets are sent off to wholesalers to be processed [Music] foreign [Music] 12 000 people work in the Plastics industry sixty percent of the city's plastic waste is sorted here um thanks to his work Mahesh earns 600 a month this is the average wage for those in Mumbai but 10 times higher than in the rest of India he lives near his Factory with his parents in this 54 square feet room yet Mahesh is content with these difficult living conditions [Music] foreign [Music] this entire house to climb to the first floor you have to climb a ladder with the help of a rope [Music] the second floor is also rented to workers [Music] finally a sewing Workshop is situated on the top floor these three rentals bring Mahesh 240 dollars a month [Music] the haravis informal economy generates over 800 million dollars each year this resourceful Spirit fascinates people across the world [Music] thank you this is where the movie Slumdog Millionaire was filmed since this success tourists come from all over the world to visit its Maze of garbage strewn alleys and some take the opportunity to do some shopping and experience the local color like in this leather shop at the end of this Alleyway it sells leather goods branded with the name of the slum [Music] this visitor from China is taken aback by the city normal commercial area looking at their face they are smiling I'm surprised by the ability of human being to survive in in really harsh environment it's a sweat it's 3500 Imran the 29 year old boss sells the bags himself and we accepted card dollar euro every type of money yeah I'm going to love it proud of his brand of leather that bears the name of his neighborhood Imran is full of ambition but it's a different type of Slum it's like a small scale industry people are not doing crime here people are doing struggling here it is looking for the success we also try same like that and we it's our goal if we see our brand also dharavi brand in future is a top of like Michael called Jimmy Choo top of them in total Imran employs around 40 members of staff to tan and color the leather [Music] imran's father wahas is the man behind this incredible success 40 years ago War has fled uttar Pradesh a poverty-stricken region in Northern India with dreams of a better life in Mumbai I said that um [Music] here they are hump Nick may not countries [Music] why has his life is like a fairy tale five years ago he and his family bought an apartment on the top floor of this modern high-rise Building located in the middle of a shanty town [Music] they paid 360 thousand dollars for this 750 square foot space with breathtaking views of the city this is a master bedroom for my father and my mother and we have one small bedroom for me here come I chose and you see the decoration I kept very honesty and very hard working on it to make this house today Imran his wife their three children and their parents make up the twenty percent of Mumbai residents with access to running water [Music] yes my dream come true the young entrepreneur from the slum is proud to have entered the exclusive circle of privileged Mumbai residents most of the celebrities and most of the politician are living in top floor mostly because they have lots of money so it is a sign of success people are like to live to and dream it is a dream of many people to live in a upset on top of the floor in Mumbai the Richer you are the higher you live [Music] down below the city is suffocated by pollution and the noise is constant life is much calmer at the top the most affluent residents can gain access to this Tranquility from their Upper Floor apartments in high-rise buildings one of the richest people in the city lives on the top floor of this skyscraper [Music] good morning [Music] is a successful real estate broker he lives in this lavish 2700 square foot apartment with his wife and two children every morning the servants prepare breakfast [Music] is originally from Rajasthan he moved to Mumbai around 20 years ago captivated by the city's dynamism my construction is my family business so my father my forefather this uh his I think we are we are in this business from last hundred years so if you will go in the Rajasthan you can see the big palaces so that built by my great great grandfathers and how and why did you decide yourself to come to Bombay Mumbai is a growing city and we all wants to grow and is uh I think the opportunity in Mumbai is huge in 2003 babulal built his first residential high-rise these days the property developer works on multiple projects across the city we are doing a lot of high-rise buildings I think you know as a group with my partners we are doing 35 building more than 50 story according to you is it a necessity to build a higher yeah it is unnecessary because we have no space in Mumbai I told you that the three sides of water so if you want to grow this city the population is increasing every day then you have no other than way to go up only [Music] and say for this lack of space babulal has a drastic solution demolish the hundreds of Acres of slums so we are just we have started demolishing this this is it is touching to the bridge if you will come after one year two year later there's a beautiful building will be here his ultimate goal is to tear down the taharavi neighborhood so I think uh we all knows about the dharavi Slumdog Millionaire it is hot in the city and if if your heart is little bit not proper and it looks like a dirty then you will not as a city it look doesn't look nice [Music] babulal is the head of omkar one of India's leading companies on what is known as slum Rehabilitation it employs more than 800 members of staff [Music] [Music] this morning the realtor summoned his management team to provide an update on one of their biggest projects before beginning this colossal construction work babulal and his team must convince the residents to leave we're clearing the slums that is 65 acre big slump cat is there and a mixtures project commercial office residence and uh retail um has already wiped out hundreds of Acres of slums [Applause] one of his biggest projects is in Malad in North Mumbai He is building four 820 feet high skyscrapers on the foundations of what was once a slum it will be a residential complex intended for the emerging middle class at the bottom of the buildings this showroom plays host to a constant stream of potential buyers [Music] Raj owns a printing business he has come here with his wife and daughter the visit starts with a promotional video they are sold an idyllic way of life a green Oasis a breath of fresh air that seems far from the hustle and bustle of the city [Music] [Music] Raj and his family are visiting a model apartment Raj appears to have been won over at the moment he is living in a two-room apartment his daughter has to sleep in the living room [Music] this is not a balcony obviously the apartment is 560 square feet three bedrooms three bathrooms and a fully fitted kitchen something of a novelty for this emerging middle-class family [Music] [Laughter] no it's all about money and I think he will compromise on that we are ready to move now also depend on him the family has fallen in love with it but there's just one small hiccup the price 780 000 although it is still possible to negotiate Raj is going to wait a bit before deciding in the showroom Bala dupa the CEO of the project has just struck a deal with another client on a one million dollar apartment so 36 is foreign [Laughter] these housing complexes that offer a life of privacy are all the rage in India surveying the slums at the foot of the buildings already thinking about the next step so what I'm looking at is how much of the area we have been able to clean up and how much is still left there's a lot left so with such a beautiful view you still have a lot of slim slums left to be cleared but in order to demolish the slums and build new housing the property developers have to relocate the residents they are required by law to do so basically it's a scheme whereby you basically want the slum people they get proper houses we build proper houses for them and rehabilitate them in those houses so what happens in the entire land you have some houses which you build for them and some houses you build and sell so that is how poor people get houses for free and whereas the remaining part of the land you're able to make houses and sell so what do the buildings that house the former slum dwellers look like poorly a central district of the city there is another one of omkar's Rehabilitation projects three 885-foot luxury high-rise buildings and Below apartment blocks built for former residents of the slums dilapidated they are only a few meters apart a relocated resident Talks To Us Furious [Music] a developer ation contrary to the property developers promises there is no school and the shops are still under construction our interview is cut short by omkar's public relations officer strictly forbids us from seeking the opinions of dissatisfied residents our filming continues inside the building under the close supervision of Suresh their public relations officer he has selected a family of six that live in this two-room space of 312 square feet which they were given for free we are now going to witness a true exercise in public relations thinking that we do not understand the language the public relations officer dictates his message to the father of the family um the man perfectly recites his speech um it ah engineering this family can consider themselves lucky because not everyone is entitled to new housing to be given a standard 95 square foot apartment you have to prove that you have lived in the slum for 20 years [Music] so what happens to the residents who do not meet these criteria [Music] they are moved to the outskirts of the city yeah in commuter towns such as lalubai compound 50 000 people are crammed into around 60 blocks of decrepit Apartments they were built just 10 years ago Wastewater is discharged in The Canal at the entrance of the neighborhood foreign these two buildings house 200 families originally from taharavi who were forced to relocate to lalubai eight years ago [Music] Abdul and his family of six live in this two-room apartment the plot of land he occupied in daravi was bulldozed by the authorities [Music] foreign these days he works as a delivery man and earns half as much [Music] his family of scrap iron workers also miss their old neighborhood three separate generations live together in this 312 square foot dwelling foreign [Music] foreign foreign Rehabilitation policy has displaced and verticalized poverty this shortage of space is only going to get worse as the population of Mumbai is expected to grow by 8 million residents in the next 15 years