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A heart-warming moment from Mira Nair’s powerful, Oscar-nominated portrayal of child poverty on the streets of Mumbai - available on BFI Blu-ray from 21 June...
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Jun 18, 2021 · Salaam Bombay! ranks with the masterpieces of neo-realism. Mira Nair’s stunning debut exploring the lives of Indian street children carries the narrative’s rich ambiguity through to its final scene, as Alex Dudok de Wit wrote in this piece first published in our October 2017 issue. 18 June 2021. Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Chronicles the day-to-day life of children living on the streets of Bombay. It won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi, the National Board...
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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 him to see his dreams of stability be flushed in ...
The sad thing is that, more than 30 years later, there are still so many youngsters living in the same conditions as his on-screen alter ego. Tough, uncompromising, touching and so very moving, Salaam Bombay! remains an important film and has lost none of its impact. Performances 8. Direction 7. Screenplay 8. Soundtrack 8. Originality 7. Extras 6.
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Rated: 4/5 Jun 17, 2021 Full Review Ted Shen Chicago Reader Like Hector Babenco's Pixote the film is unsparingly gritty, but with a woman's ... (1988) Salaam Bombay! (1988) View more photos
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Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2021. A warm and lively film, made by Mira Nair with only a handful of professional actors. Full Review | Apr 9, 2019. Salaam Bombay! is an enormously ...
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