Search results
Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 Indian Hindi -language drama film, directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair. The screenwriter was Nair's creative collaborator Sooni Taraporevala. This was the first feature film directed by Nair. The film depicts the daily lives of children living in slums in Bombay (now Mumbai ), India's largest city.
Oct 7, 1988 · Salaam Bombay!: Directed by Mira Nair. With Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma. Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.
One of the friends he makes is a pathetic 16-year-old girl who was sold or kidnapped away from her native village, and is being held captive by a rapacious madam who plans to sell her virginity to the highest bidder. The other characters in the neighborhood include a hopeless drunk and addict, who befriends the children as best he can.
Before Slumdog Millionaire came Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair's Oscar-nominated drama tells the moving story of life on the streets of Bombay as seen through the eyes of Chaipu, a twelve-year-old...
Salaam Bombay! Back from an errand for a seedy circus owner, urchin Krishna finds the troupe has packed up and disappeared, leaving him with barely enough money for a 3rd class ticket to Bombay. From here on, Krishna becomes a chaipau, constantly on the run.
Thrust into the life of the street children of Bombay, living among the pimps, hustlers, drug addicts, prostitutes, and throw away children that proliferate in India's urban settlements, a modern day jungle, Krishna struggles to survive. His resourcefulness holds him in good stead.
Nov 13, 2021 · The original trailer of Salaam Bombay! directed by Mira Nair. With Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma.AKA:Hello Bombay!Salaam Bombay!: Adiós Bom...
Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair. The screenwriter was Nair's creative collaborator Sooni...
After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna (Shafiq Syed) is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs...
- (30)
- Drama
The fantasy of Bollywood dreams hangs just out of reach in posters, movies, and radio tunes, momentary respites from the hard reality of a world ruled by brutal pimps and drug dealers. This is a...
