New Delhi: The latest Bollywood flick, ‘‘Life In A Metro’’, features the metro life in different hues. A similar attempt has been made by three students of Kirori Mal College (KMC) in a Hinglish movie, ‘‘Voice Of The Void’’, depicting the hollowness of life in metros.

The movie focuses on the journey of an 18-year-old for higher studies from a small town in south India to Delhi, who encounters biases at the new place. The film has been co-produced by Mrinal Chandra, B Sigi Manjunath and Abhinash Baghal. With 20 characters, the plot moves around Aryan who comes to Delhi to pursue English literature at DU and meets people from different backgrounds, including a girl. He falls in love with her but later realises that she has racist views.

‘‘If you live in a city, you spend much of your time presenting yourself to strangers. And in this process, newcomers to the city encounter harsh realities and hollowness of metro life, as suggested by the film’s name,’’ says Chandra, who is also the director. Chandra is a second-year Chemistry student. He is also an active member of Players — the theatre society of the college — which has produced Bollywood stalwarts like Amitabh Bachchan, Satish Kaushik and Shakti Kapur.

This 50-minute feature film moves with Aryan’s experience in a classroom, where his classmates laugh at one of their Bihari counterparts who speaks his mind in an unmistakable accent against the misuse of ‘‘feminism’’, and journeys into a new relationship the protagonist develops with a young Delhi girl, Porshia, who asks him about the colour of his skin while chatting on internet. Aryan comes across unpleasant things and city’s biases towards feminism, racism and regionalism.

‘‘It is a story that focuses on the struggle for existence of outsiders in a metro. The circumstances one go through make them form an opinion about the city. The protagonist finds it difficult to cope with the city’s mentality but carries on nevertheless in his quest to understand the city better,’’ says B Siji Manjunath, who plays the lead role and has graduated in English from the college this year. He adds: ‘‘The film is inspired by our experiences, as all of us are strangers to the city. Though we had been mulling the subject for long, we utilised this summer break to put it on film.’’ Baghal, a third-year Chemistry student, has composed music for the two songs which add a Bollywood flavour to the movie.

‘‘We have shot the film in PD-170, a professional camera, on the campus premises and in Connaught Place. We are planning to take it to international film festivals, including the upcoming Singapore Film Festival in August,’’ says Manjunath.