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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.
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.
- (10K)
- Crime, Drama
- Mira Nair
- 1988-10-07
“Salaam Bombay!” is one of the best films of the year. Syed plays its hero, a boy named Chaipau who works for a traveling circus. One day he is sent on an errand – to get some cigarettes from a neighboring village – and when he returns, the circus has packed up and disappeared.
Jun 18, 2021 · Salaam Bombay! opens on scenes of a travelling circus packing up somewhere in rural India, set to the atmospheric sitar drone of L. Subramaniam’s main theme. Eleven-year-old Krishna (Shafiq Syed), the troupe’s dogsbody, is sent on an errand; when he returns, the circus is gone.
The New York Times reviewed Salaam Bombay! after it premiered in Cannes in 1988, describing Bombay as “a city where life is just barely possible.” Irony reeks from this Western perspective— albeit Chaipau’s grim and longing realities only push him deeper into the metropolis’ oblivion, it is the promise of the Bombay Dream that drives ...
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...
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- Drama
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.
