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Jul 17, 1994 · Street Musicians of Bombay: Directed by Richard Robbins. With Trevor Nichols, Rosemary Martin, Richard Robbins. Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay.
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- Documentary, Music
- Richard Robbins
- 1994-07-17
Richard Robbins's film documentary, Street Musicians of Bombay, came about as the result of an incident that occurred while he was staying at the Taj Mahal hotel in the cosmopolitan center of Bombay.
Mumbai street musicians hit the right notes. Group seeks to reclaim public spaces for arts by performing at railway stations and entertaining hassled commuters.
Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source, and discovers a caste of street performers, eking out a modest living.
Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source, and discovers a caste of street performers, eking out a modest living. We see individuals and groups, old and young, snake charmers and those hired to sing at family celebrations.
- Richard Robbins
- Merchant Ivory Productions
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With Street Musicians of Bombay, Richard Robbins examines the life and art of street performers in the Indian city who literaly sing and play their hearts out for not much more than pennies a day, from a mostly uncaring populace.
