Salaam Bombay!

India, United Kingdom, France

1988

113 Min

Color

1.85:1

English, Hindi

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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EXEC Gabriel Auer, Michael Nozik, Anil Tejani

SCR Mira Nair, Sooni Taraporevala

CAST Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar, Raghuvir Yadav, Irrfan Khan, Neil Gettlinger

SOUND Margaret Crimmins

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs): Caméra d'Or, Audience Award, Edinburgh, Locarno (Out of Competition), Telluride, New York, Toronto, London, Mill Valley, Melbourne (Opening Night)

Synopsis

From director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), this “brilliantly achieved, stunning and powerful” (Los Angeles Times) film “burst onto the Indian cinema scene with the force of a tornado” (Time Out London)! Winner of the Caméra d’Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar® in 1989, this riveting look at life on the hardened streets of Bombay went on to accumulate accolades and awards across the globe! Forced to leave his family at a very young age, Krishna lives on the streets with pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts and other homeless children. He earns very little money – but it’s more than most – delivering tea so he can return home to his family. But his honest plan is foiled when his hard-earned money is stolen by his closest friend, forcing Krishna to follow in the footsteps of so many street children of Bombay…by turning to a life of crime. –MGM

Director

Mira Nair

The highly acclaimed director from India, Mira Nair leapt into the world’s spotlight with her film Salaam, Bombay! This film is considered by many to be her best work although she may be better known for the controversial subject matter of her latest film Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love.

Mira Nair was born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa to a civil servant in 1957. She went on to attend the University of New Delhi where she studied Sociology and Theater. Dissatisfied with the quality of the education, she applied elsewhere. As result she came to Harvard in 1976 on full scholarship to continue studying Sociology. While at Harvard her focus drifted to documentary film. She describes documentary as “a marriage of my interests in the visual arts, theatre, and life as it is lived”.

Mira’s first film was Jama Masjid Street Journal which was also her Master’s thesis project. This film explores the life of a traditional Muslim community from the Western perspective… read more

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Sudipto Basu

29Sep12

Even though I like Salaam Bombay more than Ruchir Joshi does, his piece on "city films" (like Salaam Bombay and Slumdog Millionaire) is absolutely essential reading. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090322/jsp/opinion/story_10699906.jsp

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